Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Films of the 1960s) for Wednesday, March 21, 2018 (Season 34, Episode 138):
Bernard Herrmann scored this 1960 black & white thriller using only the string section of an orchestra
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Chris Frantz, an on-call office administrator from Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania |
Rebecca Zoshak, a language specialist from State College, Pennsylvania |
Lisa Mueller, a technical services librarian from Naperville, Illinois (2-day total: $33,200) |
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Correct response: What is Psycho?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Bernard Herrmann scored a number of Alfred Hitchcock films, including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, and The Birds, but his score for Psycho is particularly well known. Hitchcock even said that “33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music”.
Because the film had a lower budget, Herrmann wrote the score for a string orchestra only, instead of a full symphony. For most of the film, the strings play muted, with the exception of the famous shower scene of the film. Originally, Hitchcock wanted no score for the shower scene, but when he heard the cue Herrmann had provided, he recanted on his earlier suggestion.
Since the release of Psycho, there have been symphonies that have taken a print of the film with the soundtrack removed and performed the soundtrack live.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Rebecca $7,400
Lisa $7,200
Chris $6,600
Tonight’s results:
Chris $6,600 + $6,000 = $12,600
Lisa $7,200 + $6,001 = $13,201
Rebecca $7,400 + $7,007 = $14,407 (1-day total: $14,407)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Lisa $5,800
Rebecca $2,200
Chris $1,600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) SENIOR MOMENTS $800 (10th pick)
Lisa 2600 +2600 (Rebecca 0 Chris 0)
2) ETHNI-CITIES $2000 (12th pick)
Chris 4400 -3000 (Rebecca 5400 Lisa 4600)
3) DEUS EX MACHINA $2000 (23rd pick)
Lisa 8200 -1000 (Rebecca 5400 Chris 5400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 20
Unplayed clues:
J! round: SENIOR MOMENTS $200, NEWSPAPERS $200, MIX -OLOGY $800 & $1000
DJ! Round: TRIPLE RHYME TIME $1600 & $2000, ETHNI-CITIES $400, DEUS EX MACHINA $400
Total $ Left On Board: $6,600
Game Stats:
Rebecca $7,400 Coryat, 10 correct, 2 incorrect, 22.45% in first on buzzer
Lisa $6,400 Coryat, 16 correct, 6 incorrect, 40.82% in first on buzzer
Chris $9,600 Coryat, 14 correct, 2 incorrect, 24.49% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $23,400
Lach Trash: $12,400 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,600
Lisa Mueller, final stats:
51 correct, 11 incorrect
33.33% in first on buzzer (51/153)
3/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $9,800)
3/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,333
Rebecca Zoshak, stats to date:
23 correct, 5 incorrect
21.57% in first on buzzer (22/102)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,500
Rebecca Zoshak, to win:
2 games: 23.11%
3: 5.34%
4: 1.23%
5: 0.29%
6: 0.07%
Avg. streak: 1.301 games.
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One advantage of making a film in black and white is that you can use chocolate syrup for the blood.
Kathy, are you positive? 😉
I saw her comment earlier and Googled a bit. Came across this article: http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/191164%7C0/Behind-the-Camera-Psycho.html
Specifically (a little over half-way down the article): “Hitchcock has said that one reason he shot Psycho in black-and-white was because he thought the bloody murder might be too much for audiences. He used chocolate syrup as the blood swirling down the drain. Nevertheless, some audience members swore the scene was in color and that they saw red blood.”
I haven’t seen the episode yet today (hopefully we’ll still have power at our snowed-in location in NJ when it airs at 730 pm this evening in NYC and Philly), but I see from a Jeopardy! posting on Facebook that Rebecca is a returning contestant from the “poorly-worded” FJ clue on Jan 11 (Gilbert Collins’ second game).
oops – I missed your mention of Rebecca’s return above.
Yes. Kind of funny to think about it.
I guess perhaps you all missed my “Are you positive?” comment as referring to blood type, i.e. O +.
Again 6.600 left on the board.(21.200 total combined only) Well, they brought Rebecca back and she won, albeit in an easy FJ, all 3 got it right.Congrats nevertheless.
@Kathy & George
Ketchup works as well……:):)
With the 21.200 I meant the total of all 3 players before FJ. I guess the money lost in the DDs and the triple stumpers did not help much either, as well as the clues left on the board. I wonder if there was a video category or such to slow things down again. Gotta wait till 10:30 p.m. EDT.That’s the disadvantage of living in Hawaii. Thu and Fri J will be preempted again, not even aired at a later or earlier time. Thank goodness for youtube.
Lisa’s pronunciation of Ishiguro was not wrong.
She clearly said “Ishuguro”. That’s never been accepted on the show.
Tough way to lose, nonetheless
I thought mispronunciation of foreign words was not penalized as long as the contestant did not add or subtract syllables. Does that not apply to names?
In her first game, one of Lisa’s opponents was negged for saying Frido Kahla.
I’m not sure how this situation differs.
How wad rebecca affected on the 1 11 18 final jeopardy but not Gilbert? Rebecca did not have an answer yet was invited back. Gilbert wrote a wrong answer and is not invited back. I don’t understand.
Gilbert won the game, so he wasn’t disadvantaged.