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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Vocabulary) for Monday, September 15, 2025 (Season 42, Game 6):
Today it’s used as a verb on social media; in previous centuries its meanings included an enemy & not a Quaker
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Ryan Sharpe, a student from Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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Kelsi Tyler, a nonprofit program director from Austin, Texas
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Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (3-day total: $79,741)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Puzzle writer Paolo Pasco ended last week as a 3-day champion; today, he goes for victory #4 against Ryan Sharpe of Oakville, Ontario and Kelsi Tyler of Austin, Texas. As Paolo has already passed Bryce Wargin’s monetary total (in 3 games, compared to Bryce’s 4), a victory today would qualify Paolo for the Tournament of Champions (of course, assuming an identical format to last season.) This is because there wouldn’t be enough games remaining in the qualification cycle for enough players to possibly win enough to pass him.
One thing that I think I’m excited about is a Sesame Street category; if it’s presented by the characters themselves, I think it’ll be a great category. Certainly, I’m excited like Elmo about that possibility—though I’m sure that elsewhere on the Internet, there will be people grouchy like Oscar about it.
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Correct response: What is unfriend?
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Prior to its resurrection in the 21st century as a verb, chiefly meaning to remove as a friend on social media, particularly Facebook, the word “unfriend” had a long and storied history. The earliest surviving citations date back to the Middle English poem Brut, written c.1200; in Brut, the word gains traction as “one who is not a friend” or “an enemy”. Later, 19th-century Quakers (the Society of Friends) would refer to non-members as “unfriends”.
As someone who hosted pub quizzes in the era when the word “unfriend” was at its heyday (even being given Word of the Year titles), I have written questions about the etymology of “unfriend”; thus, this was a very simple Final for me. I do want to say, though, that I think that the ability to tease out a correct response to this clue is there, especially if one remembers that the Quakers are the Society of Friends. I also expect that this might be a clue that plays easier when read out loud instead of on a screen, as Ken can strategically pause between the “an enemy” and “not a Quaker” clauses to separate them out better.
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I guessed troll.