Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Art) for Monday, December 18, 2017 (Season 34, Episode 71):
Perhaps bought from a Sears catalog, a window for an 1880s farmhouse inspired the name of this 1930 painting
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Kate O’Connor, an insurance salesperson from Florence, New Jersey |
Ben Cosman, a research consultant from Rochester, New York |
Denise Littlejohn, a project manager from West Hollywood, California (1-day total: $21,601) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Final Jeopardy! Correct Response/Question’]What is “American Gothic”?[/spoiler]
The house in Grant Wood’s famous painting “American Gothic” is known as “Dibble House” and is also on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
From a 2012 article in the Los Angeles Times:
It was the big gothic window on the second story that struck Wood in 1930, when he was driving through Eldon with a friend. The intricate window, ordered from a Sears catalog, looked out of place in the modest house on the prairie. Wood immediately wanted to paint the plain house and its fancy frill.
“He saw it as humorous,” said R. Tripp Evans, author of “Grant Wood: A Life.” “It embodied everything that was both comical and endearing about Midwestern culture.”
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Ben $12,200
Kate $11,200
Denise $10,600
Tonight’s results:
Denise $10,600 + 7,000 = $17,600
Kate $11,200 + $9,800 = $21,000 (1-day total: $21,000)
Ben $12,200 – $0 = $12,200 (What is Guernica?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Denise $4,200
Kate $2,600
Ben $1,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) THE PERKS OF BEING A WILDFLOWER $600 (26th pick)
Denise 4000 – 600 (Kate 2600 Ben 1800)
2) STATE FLAGS $1600 (8th pick)
Kate 5400 +3000 (Denise 5000 Ben 200)
3) PHILIP K. DICK $1600 (17th pick)
Ben 2200 +800 (Kate 10000 Denise 7000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 77
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: CAMERAS $2000
Total $ Left On Board: $2,000
Game Stats:
Kate $9,800 Coryat, 11 correct, 1 incorrect, 17.86% in first on buzzer
Denise $11,200 Coryat, 17 correct, 1 incorrect, 25.00% in first on buzzer
Ben $13,000 Coryat, 20 correct, 6 incorrect, 44.64% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $34,000
Lach Trash: $11,600 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,400
Denise Littlejohn, final stats:
34 correct, 4 incorrect
27.03% in first on buzzer (30/111)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $600)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,100
Kate O’Connor, stats to date:
12 correct, 1 incorrect
17.86% in first on buzzer
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,800
Kate O’Connor, to win:
2 games: 37.69%
3: 14.21%
4: 5.36%
5: 2.02%
6: 0.76%
Avg. streak: 1.605 games.
(Note: This model has been adjusted to take pre-Final Jeopardy! score into account instead of Coryat Score.)
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The Jeopardy! writers must like “American Gothic” a lot. It’s my impression it’s been the correct FJ! response more than a couple of times.
yeah, first I had no idea but when I googled the painting it looked really familiar. I think it was even not to long ago that they had it as a clue.
The only result returned for Final Jeopardy! is the one that I remembered when the clue was revealed – the second semifinal of the 2016 Teachers Tournament.
Grant Wood was a Final response earlier this season, during Austin Rogers’s run.
Here’s a bit of trivia: American Gothic by Wood and Nighthawks by Edward Hopper were both shown at the 1938 American Exposition at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Strange bet by Kate. Why not bet $10,001 to assure a win over Denise if she bets it all. The $9800 bet was not risky enough to cover Denise. I understand the contestants take as much time as needed to do the math, right?
You call out a contestant for betting short here from 2nd, yet you suggested last month that Austin do the same thing in the ToC final.
Yes, 3 different stakes in TOC.
Only W/L here.
Three different stakes in this game as well. Second and third have cash prizes.
The difference in amounts is significant in TOC, not in a regular game.
Question. I had 4 years of German in school and that never did me a bit of good in life and it never helped on jeopardy because jeopardy is always asking about french and latin words and phrases. What is the best way to study french and latin phrases? Should I sign up for a class or is there an easier way?