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Created: 2025-06-29 01:39:35 UTC

Jeopardy contestant gets emotional as she reveals that the Final Jeopardy answer was her great, great, great-aunt, the woman she was named after.
 
This is insane. 
 
Fans were shocked when contestant Emily Croke revealed that the Final Jeopardy answer, Emily Folger, was her distant relative.

"In 1895, the Vassar-educated wife of this man wrote, 'Thousands of dollars may be paid for a copy of Shakespeare,'" the Final Jeopardy clue read.

Croke was the only contestant to get the answer right.

"Emily Folger, the one we mentioned in the clue is the person you, Emily Croke, are named after?" said a stunned Ken Jennings.

"Yes," Croke said, who ended up winning a total of $XXXXXX.

Emily Folger was the co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, "the world’s largest collection of the playwright’s works," according to the New York Post.

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