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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Historic Americans) for Tuesday, September 16, 2025 (Season 42, Game 7):
Upon this man’s re-election, Karl Marx called him “the single-minded son of the working class”
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Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Susan Harris, a professor from Chicago, Illinois
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Alex Rossell Hayes, a political scientist originally from Baltimore, Maryland
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Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (4-day total: $107,342)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Since September 1984, 473 people have won 4 or more games of Jeopardy! in the United States. Paolo Pasco, originally from San Diego, hopes to become the 288th to win their fifth. While Paolo has already mathematically taken a Tournament of Champions place (assuming no format changes), that 5th win has always been seen as the important one for players and fans alike. Hoping to stop Paolo from getting to the important milestone are a pair of academics in political scientist Alex Rossell Hayes (originally of Baltimore) and professor Susan Harris (of Chicago).
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Correct response: Who is Abraham Lincoln?
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In a congratulatory letter written by Karl Marx to Abraham Lincoln on behalf of the International Working Men’s Association in Europe following the 1864 election, Marx and the organization described the 16th President of the United States as “the single-minded son of the working class”, as they were very pleased with the progressive policies being enacted in the United States by Lincoln, especially the elimination of slavery. Marx and the organization wrote, “They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.“
The letter was presented to U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams in January 1865 and can still be found at the Marxists Internet Archive.
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Good clue! Knowing the communist manifesto was published in 1848, I genuinely was unable to guess anyone other than Lincoln.