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Jeopardy! is all set to return with a new episode on Friday, June 6, 2025, bringing back another exciting round from the popular game show's 41st season. In this upcoming episode, yet another new contestant will take over. Nikhil Joshi won his previous game with conviction and will now hope to build on it in the upcoming round of the show.
In the upcoming round of the popular American game show, Nikhil Joshi, a veterinarian from New Jersey, will face off against newcomers Elizabeth Hawkins, a software engineer from Oakland, California, and Brian O’Heron, a graduate student from St. Louis, Missouri. Joshi will hope to add to his succesful streak while the other two will aim to stop him and take his place.
Jeopardy!, one of the oldest and best-known shows, started in the early 1960s and has remained one of the most popular shows of all time. One of the primary reasons for its incredible popularity is its final round, which, coupled with its offbeat format and engaging nature, makes the show a standout.
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The final round's biggest appeal is viewer participation. Viewers are required to guess the correct answer to the final question ahead of the episode, in order to participate. As this can sometimes be complicated, we have compiled the question answer, and other details in the sections below.
June 6, 2025, Friday: Today's Final Jeopardy! question
The final question for the upcoming round of the show reads:
"This word first appears in English in a letter explaining that Candide is meant to ridicule the philosopher Leibniz."
This question is from the category "Name That “-Ism”." This is certainly a very offbeat topic, which don't come up often on the show.
In the final round, participants are provided with a clue in the form of a solution, and they have to figure out the question.
Jeopardy! final solution: Friday, June 6, 2025
The final question and its solution for the upcoming round of the game show read as follows.
Clue: “This word first appears in English in a letter explaining that Candide is meant to ridicule the philosopher Leibniz.”
Solution: What is optimism?
This clue is a reference to Voltaire's novella Candide (1759). Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz proposed the concept of philosophical optimism, and the English word first appeared in a letter explaining Candide, which was a satire of Leibniz’s optimism.
Jeopardy! contestants today: Friday, June 6, 2025
The three contestants for the upcoming round of the game show, as mentioned before, are Nikhil Joshi, a veterinarian from New Jersey, Elizabeth Hawkins, a software engineer from Oakland, California, and Brian O’Heron, a graduate student from St. Louis, Missouri.
Catch them in action on the upcoming round of Jeopardy!
