Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Books of the 1960s) for Friday, June 23, 2017:
Wherever I sat… I would be sitting under the same glass this, the title of the author’s only novel
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Brittany Franckowiak, a high school biology teacher from Laurel, Maryland |
Pat McNamee, a CPA from McLean, Virginia |
Lisa Evans, an office manager from Easthampton, Massachusetts (2-day total: $62,402) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Final Jeopardy! Correct Response/Question’]What is The Bell Jar?[/spoiler]
Sylvia Plath’s only novel, The Bell Jar, was semi-autobiographical. In a letter to her mother, she described it as “I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown…. I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar”. The novel was published about a month before her February 1963 suicide.
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Scores going into Final:
Lisa $13,300
Pat $12,600
Brittany $8,800
Final results:
Brittany $8,800 – $8,800 = $0 (What is The Glass Cage?)
Pat $12,600 – $5,001 = $7,599 (What is I’ve been sucking) [in his stomach the whole show] (1-day total: $7,599)
Lisa $13,300 – $11,910 = $1,390 (What is To Kill A Mockingbird?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Lisa $6,900
Pat $5,000
Brittany $2,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) SCARY READING $600 (3rd pick)
Lisa 600 +500 (Pat 0 Brittany 0)
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2) AMERICAN ART $1200 (16th pick)
Brittany 3600 +2000 (Lisa 6500 Pat 11400)
3) THE KOREAN WAR $1600 (29th pick, $2,000 left on board)
Lisa 13300 -2000 (Pat 12600 Britany 8800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 91
Unplayed clues:
J! round: QUICK GEOGRAPHY $1000
DJ! round: None!
$ Left On Board: $1,000
Game Stats:
Pat $12,600 Coryat, 16 correct, 0 incorrect, 23.21% in first on buzzer
Lisa $15,400 Coryat, 25 correct, 5 incorrect, 48.21% in first on buzzer
Brittany $8,000 Coryat, 14 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.79% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $4,600 (on 3 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,400
Lisa Evans, final stats:
75 correct
13 incorrect
3/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $700)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
45.18% in first on buzzer (48/166)
Average Coryat: $17,733
Pat McNamee, stats to date:
16 correct
1 incorrect
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
23.21% in first on buzzer (13/56)
Average Coryat: $12,600
Pat McNamee, to win:
2 games: 41.59%
3: 17.30%
4: 7.19%
5: 2.99%
6: 1.24%
Avg. streak: 1.712 games.
With a projected 45 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 1.558 5+-time champions (standard deviation 0.97192).
An average of 2.4645 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.1716).
An early cutoff took place 2.526% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Pat McNamee qualified 6.305% of the time.
Tim Kutz qualified 73.077% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 30.623% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 5.214% of the time.
It has been another bit of up and down week on Jeopardy!
Monday. Worst game this week.
Tuesday. Much better.
Wednesday. The third Wednesday in a row with a big payday of over $30,000.
Thursday. Another big win.
Friday. A bit of a setback.
What will next week and the rest of the 33rd season hold?
Monday was one of the worst games this season, with Peter messing all 3 Daily Doubles. When Lisa missed FJ!, I couldn’t believe she gave such a terrible answer.
Indeed. How do you sit under a glass mockingbird, everything else in the novel notwithstanding. Lisa must have just concentrated on the category and forgot the clue, otherwise I can’t think of an explanation. Maybe she thought the category WAS the clue? Seeing her previous performances and then that question? She must have misunderstood the clue or something like that. Guess it can happen to the best.
Or she had no veritable clue (like me) and decided that any answer was better than no answer.
Agree because of bitter experience that “any answer is better than no answer”! As a result, I had to put down “ceiling” as the best bad response I could come up with. The answer made sense — once it was revealed.
TKM is a great book (even better movie), and that’s what I said prior to the commercial break. When the clue was revealed, I knew that was a no-go, and I had no idea of the correct response.
I mentioned this in Jboard, but…I’ll tell anyway.
It’s always hard when you have to refer to an FJ! clue dealing with an “object”. Normally, with clues like this, you gotta think on books. Which would come to mind in a title dealing with objects that could possibly proceed glass? This kind of FJ! should be more towards “How many stupid guesses can you think of the word ‘glass’ to proceed with a book title to not make sense?” kind of a deal. Here’s where I inspire:
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling (Not even there.)
Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (Fascinating, but no.)
Farmer Boy by L.I.W. (Weird, and still no.)
Holes by Louis Sachar (Funny, but no.)
Treasure Island by R.L.S. (Interesting, but not there.)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (Cool, but no.)
The Glass Menagerie by T.W. (Doesn’t count because title of book has “The” in it already)
Deerslayer by J.F.C. (Definitely a big no.)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Love the idea, but no.)
Honestly, I think Lisa misread the clue and came up with a response that didn’t make sense at all. Let’s face it, Pat’s response, please correct me if I’m being crude and unrefined, but I thought he was going for something dirty and inappropriate there. With Brittany, I never heard of Glass Cage as a book.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! 0/5 this week in FJ! and it hasn’t been my kind of week. ><;
Thank you SOOOO much for this site!!!
Wait……..The Bell Jar does not have the word Glass in it!!
Alex misspoke. He corrected himself.
That’s what I was thinking, too! I had to Google it because I knew he was wrong! Except I didn’t hear him admit it 😁
I have never heard of the Bell Jar.
Triple Stumper Final for me! Two for five this week; one last week. No brag, just fact. Pretty good, considerin’. A cloche by any other name…
The final clue for 6/23/17 was incorrect.
(Accusation of impropriety removed by Admin as it is against the Site Comment Policy.)
No it wasn’t. The FJ clue was a literal direct quote from the novel.
When he said “glass”, Alex simply misspoke and immediately corrected himself. No impropriety whatsoever.
J Archive.com website is not working. What happened?
And also what happened to the Hometown Howdies?
J Archive.com has been down for a few hours, now it is working now!
And what happened to the Hometown Howdies?
It’s always hard when you have to refer to an FJ! clue dealing with an “object”. Normally, with clues like this, you gotta think on books. Which would come to mind in a title dealing with objects that could possibly proceed glass? This kind of FJ! should be more towards “How many stupid guesses can you think of the word ‘glass’ to proceed with a book title to not make sense?” kind of a deal. Here’s where I inspire:
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling (Not even there.)
Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (Fascinating, but no.)
Farmer Boy by L.I.W. (Weird, and still no.)
Holes by Louis Sachar (Funny, but no.)
Treasure Island by R.L.S. (Interesting, but not there.)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (Cool, but no.)
The Glass Menagerie by T.W. (Doesn’t count because title of book has “The” in it already)
Deerslayer by J.F.C. (Definitely a big no.)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Love the idea, but no.)
Face it, Pat’s response almost seemed like it was gonna be something inappropriate there.