New Jeopardy! champion Emily Croke revealed her astonishing connection to the Final Jeopardy! clue that she answered correctly to win the June 23 game.
In a Jeopardy! Reddit thread, Emily shared that she’s related to the subjects of the Final Jeopardy! clue from the June 23 episode. She stated, “Seeing the clue revealed was completely surreal. Emily and Henry Folger are my 3x great aunt and uncle. This fact has had very little material impact on my life but has been sort of ever-present.”
Emily continued, “I think about Emily fairly often because her jewelry boxes are sitting on my dresser (I joked with my mom that I should wear something of Emily’s for good luck on a Shakespeare clue). I actually have a copy of a speech she gave—at Vassar!—about whether or not Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.”
A Jeopardy! Instagram post showed a behind-the-scenes moment in which Emily shared with host Ken Jennings that Emily Folger is her great-great-great aunt Emily, and she’s named after her.
Sources: Jeopardy!/Reddit, Jeopardy!/Instagram
