Fun & Games (11-6-25) – Fikkle Fame

The Final Jeopardy query (11/6/2025) within the class “Fun & Games” was:

A 2022 article titled this “at 50: the video game ‘that changed the world’” additionally stated “It may be ‘the most boring…game of all time’”

New champ Allegra Kuney, a Ph.D. candidate from New Brunswick, NJ, gained $26,600 yesterday. In Game 2, her opponents are: Molly Murray, a communications director orig. from Middletown, CT; and Alan Pyke, a professor from New York, NY.

Round 1 Categories: What a Pleasure – TV Characters – Suiting You to a Middle T – Travels by Twain – Following the Equator – Roughing It

Allegra discovered the Jeopardy! spherical Daily Double in “Following the Equator” underneath the $600 clue on the twentieth choose of the spherical. She was in second place with $4,000 now, $200 lower than Molly’s lead. Allegra wager $2,000 and took a shot at it with Popocatepetl. That was WRONG.

Uhuru is the summit of this peak that’s about 200 miles south of the Equator present

WHAT IS KILIMANJARO?

Molly completed within the lead with $5,400. Alan was second with $3,800 and Allegra was final with $3,400. All clues have been proven.

Round 2 Categories: Great Brits – Nineteen Forties Literature – You’re Ruining the Ruins – Go for “Gold” – Stories Behind the Songs – A Little Alliteration

Molly discovered the primary Daily Double in “Great Brits” underneath the $1,200 clue on the tenth choose. She was within the lead with $11,000 now, $1,200 greater than Allegra in second place. Molly wager $1,200 and he or she was RIGHT.

Watching the ceremony from London by way of TV, this 88-year-old was made an honorary U.S. citizen in 1963 present

WHO IS WINSTON CHURCHILL?

4 clues later, Molly acquired the final Daily Double in “1940s Literature” underneath the $1,600 clue. In the lead with $14,200, she had $4,400 greater than Allegra in second place. Molly wager $5,000 this time, and he or she was RIGHT once more.

The title of this Mexico-set Malcolm Lowry novel refers to each Popocatepetl & Iztaccihuatl present

WHAT IS “UNDER THE VOLCANO”?

Allegra completed within the lead with $21,400. Molly was subsequent with $19,200 and Alan was in third place with $4,400. All clues have been proven.

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TWO of the contestants acquired Final Jeopardy! proper.

WHAT IS PONG?

theweek.com’s article “Pong at 50” is mainly a retelling of the creation of Atari’s 1972 digital desk tennis sport from numerous sources. The phrase ‘that changed the world’ comes from The Guardian’s fiftieth anniversary article. The ‘most boring’ description comes IEEE Spectrum journal’s article “Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It”.

All the articles quoted describe Pong’s creation, its immediate reputation, and the way it ushered within the profitable online game trade. Also included are the varied methods it’s used right this moment, resembling educating kids to code and coaching AI algorithms.

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Alan had Pong however he crossed it out and didn’t give an entire response after that. He misplaced $3,581 and completed with $819.

Molly acquired it proper. She wager $8,000 and completed with $27,200.

Allegra acquired it proper, too. She wager $17,001 and gained the sport with $17,001 and gained the sport with $38,401. Allegra’s 2-day whole is $65,001. Wundebar!

A triple stumper from every spherical:

ROUGHING IT ($800) A non-profit-organization devoted to this 3-word practice contains as one in every of its core ideas “dispose of waste properly”

Nineteen Forties LITERATURE ($2000) A story of affection & independence in Paris, “Gigi” by this French novelist ultimately got here to the large display screen with Leslie Caron

More clues on Page 2

2 years in the past: TWO of the gamers acquired this FJ in “AMERICAN AUTHORS”

In 1950 the Swedish Academy stated this Nobel Prize winner “is a regional writer” however referred to as “his regionalism universal” present

WHO IS WILLIAM FAULKNER?

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