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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Brand Names) for Thursday, June 5, 2025 (Season 41, Game 194):
Founded in 1972, this company got its name from a term meaning “hit the target” in the board game Go
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Nikhil Joshi, a veterinarian originally from Montville, New Jersey
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Sarah Fuller, a special education teacher from Athens, Ohio
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Joey Quismorio, a product manager originally from San Antonio, Texas (1-day total: $17,201)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
With primetime’s Jeopardy! Masters concluding last night, we now begin a seven-and-a-half week run to the end of the season of just one game per day. That run begins with Joey Quismorio of San Antonio as your defending champion, who took a come-from-behind victory on yesterday’s episode, unseating a very strong champion in Stella Trout. Today’s challengers are New Jersey veterinarian Nikhil Joshi and Ohio teacher Sarah Fuller.
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Correct response: What is Atari?
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As a longtime video game player, I find today’s Final Jeopardy to be incredibly ironic, being that today is the launch date for the Switch 2 console from Nintendo. Atari was a pioneering company at the forefront of the video game and arcade industry of the 1970s and early 1980s, who rode the wave of the popularity of “Pong” to reach the top of the industry. However, the early 1980s video game crash saw Atari lose much of its market share as Nintendo became the major player in the video game space of the late 1980s. It was at that point when Nintendo and Atari became bitter rivals, reaching a point where Atari’s subsidiary Tengen developed a workaround to the “lockout chip” inside officially licensed Nintendo Entertainment System games to release NES classics such as “Gauntlet” and the “RBI Baseball” series, as well as ports of its arcade classics to the NES, outside of Nintendo’s licensing. This led to a protracted legal battle between the two companies.
When naming the company, founders Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney considered many different terms from Go, eventually settling on “Atari”, Japanese for “hit the target”.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, June 5, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: American Authors; Rhyming Expressions In Other Words; Deep-Sea Diving; Sevens; The Winning Shot; Onions)
All three players got off to a good start; the Daily Double stayed hidden early. After 15 clues, your scores were Nikhil $3,000 Sarah $1,400 Joey $1,200.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Nikhil 6 correct 1 incorrect
Sarah 3 correct 2 incorrect
Joey 3 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Nikhil got talked into climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Sarah went on an ice cream tour in Vermont where she heard a bad joke.
Joey had a radio show titled “Bobo The Evil Cat”.
Sarah went for a True Daily Double, but fell back to $0. Nikhil led after 30.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Nikhil 10 correct 1 incorrect
Joey 5 correct 1 incorrect
Sarah 7 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Nikhil $4,200
Joey $1,600
Sarah $1,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Spired Up; Smooth Singers; Women On Stamps; Weird Science; French History; Meet Me In The “A.M.”)
The Daily Doubles stayed out extremely late; Joey found them, dropping a combined $3,000 on them. His conservative bets were a good idea in hindsight as it meant he led going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Joey 15 correct 4 incorrect
Nikhil 14 correct 2 incorrect
Sarah 9 correct 5 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 37 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Joey $7,400
Nikhil $5,400
Sarah $1,400
Final Jeopardy was a Triple Stumper; Nikhil went for the $0 wager and is your new champion! He’ll be back tomorrow to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Sarah $1,400 – $0 = $1,400 (What is H+R Block? (sorry Ken))
Nikhil $5,400 – $0 = $5,400 (What is Nintendo? (Please be kind to Animals!)) (1-day total: $5,400)
Joey $7,400 – $3,401 = $3,999 (What… Samsung LOL)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) AMERICAN AUTHORS $600 (clue #21)
Sarah 2800 -2800 (Joey 1200 Nikhil 3600)
2) WOMEN ON STAMPS $2000 (clue #26)
Joey 10400 -2000 (Sarah 1400 Nikhil 5400)
3) FRENCH HISTORY $1600 (clue #29, $2000 left on board)
Joey 8400 -1000 (Sarah 1400 Nikhil 5400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -131
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Joey 2 3 3 2 2
Sarah 1 3 2 4 1 3*
Nikhil 5 5 4 3 4 3 5 4 2 5
DJ! Round:
Joey 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 5 4 5* 4 5 4*
Sarah 1 3 4
Nikhil 5 5 4 3 4 3 2 3
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Nikhil 3.83
Joey 2.61
Sarah 2.44
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 37 (0.19 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Nikhil $5,400 Coryat, 14 correct, 2 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Joey $10,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 4 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Sarah $4,200 Coryat, 9 correct, 5 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $20,000
Lach Trash: $22,800 (on 19 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,200
Lead Changes: 4
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Joey Quismorio, career statistics:
31 correct, 7 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 13 rebound opportunities)
27.19% in first on buzzer (31/114)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,900
Sarah Fuller, career statistics:
9 correct, 6 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $4,200
Nikhil Joshi, career statistics:
14 correct, 3 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,400
Nikhil Joshi, to win:
2 games: 30.931%
3: 9.567%
4: 2.959%
5: 0.915%
6: 0.283%
Avg. streak: 1.448 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Joey $7,400 Nikhil $5,400 Sarah $1,400)
Joey: Standard cover bet is $3,401. If you have a really good inkling that Nikhil might go small, you could consider betting between $2 and $598—but your read of his strategy would need to be perfect. (Actual bet: $3,401)
Sarah: You can’t win, and even Nikhil’s less-than-ideal bets keep you locked out. Bet whatever you like. (Actual bet: $0)
Nikhil: Bet no more than $1,400 for your best chance of victory. (Actual bet: $0)
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Contestants will have 30 seconds to go through Japanese (considering the origins of “go”) electronics (from 1972) companies in their head and see if they settle on Atari. For me, I knew I had known this before and needed about 10-15 seconds to pull it, but pull it I did. This might play harder for the trio in the game or for the general public, though, since old-school video games like this feels like a niche subject. (That said, Gen-X rise up — it’s our turn to shine!)
Heading to Japan was actually my mistake. I went through Japanese companies that seemed plausible for the era. Sony felt off–I thought it was older than 72, and the pre-Playstation company didn’t really fit with the game component of the clue. Nintendo fit with the game angle, but the fact Nintendo started selling playing cards in the 1800s is a pretty common trivia factoid. Running out of time, I settled on Sega, even though I was also reasonably certain it was older than 72 and had a relatively complicated ownership history–figured maybe there was a rebranding or something. Was the least worst option I could think of.
Atari didn’t enter into my consideration process within the time limit. I recall watching a documentary at some point that framed Atari as one of the OG Silicon Valley Cinderella stories, so I was pretty sure it was American. (Guess I was grabbing popcorn during the part detailing how they came up with the name, lol).
I think approaching this from a gaming angle is probably the most reliable way to get to the right answer in 30 seconds. 1972 leads to Pong, which leads to Atari, which definitely sounds pretty Japanese when you think about it.
1972 and the phrase “Hit the target”…from that “Pong” became very popular and I was one of the many that got addicted. Then eight or nine years later, then I became very addicted to ‘PAC MAN’.
I loved playing Pong and I was also very addicted to playing Pac-Man. We all memorized the pattern through the 8th key. Could play for 30 minutes on 1 quarter. Never got past the dreaded 9th key! Made it all the way to the 9th key once without losing a Pac-Man. Thought for sure I’d clear that one, but nope. Also, remember the song Pac-Man Fever? 🙂
Congrats Nikhil! Smart FJ wager. Really liked all 3 contestants. Thank you for the rundown!
But why did they choose the board game Go for where to pick a term to use for their company name?
From what I read, Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell was very fond of the board game; there’s even a clip on YouTube where he outright called it his favorite game of all time. Atari wasn’t the first choice for the company name; at first, he and co-founder Ted Dabney went with Syzygy, but when they tried to incorporate their new firm, they found out that the name was already used by another company, so they had to change it.
I had an Aunt that taught me to play Go. What a fun game!
As one of my grown children is a manager of a GameStop, I was well aware that today was the launch date for the Nintendo Switch 2. In fact, he had to be there to open at midnight. With Nintendo on my mind and the year 1972 in the clue, it was fairly easy to get to Atari as I vividly recall those early Pong days. John has it exactly right, “1972 leads to Pong, which leads to Atari…” For confirmation, “Go” means it’s going to be a Japanese word which gives you another way into Atari.
Having visited the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum, I knew it.
Interesting game tonight! And Sarah’s answer of H & R Block was pretty hilarious! 😉
Have a great Friday everyone! 🙂