Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Europe) for Friday, December 6, 2019 (Season 36, Episode 65):
A tourism website for this country noted its colorful history “filled with barbarians”, royalty, “& even a movie star”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Katie Kunamneni, a physician from Holmdel, New Jersey
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Randy Hassell, Jr.,, a software engineer from Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Jennifer Quail, a wine tasting consultant from Dowagiac, Michigan (2-day total: $74,800)
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Correct response: What is Monaco?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
In the 13th century, in amongst the battles of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines in Italy, Francesco Grimaldi (a Guelph), captured the Rock of Monaco (an important Mediterranean defense post); the Grimaldi house has ruled Monaco since. In the early 17th century, its then-leader, Lord Honore II decided himself worthy of a new title, Prince (explaining why Monaco is a principality). With most of the principality’s natural resources ceded to France in the 1860s, Prince Charles III determined that tourism and gambling were the best ways of revitalizing the Monegasque economy. It worked and is a world-renowned tourist destination. Today, Prince Albert II rules over the principality; his mother was famous movie star Grace Kelly, who married Prince Rainier III in 1956. The principality is also well-known for hosting the crown jewel in the Formula One auto racing schedule, the Monaco Grand Prix, each May.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Jennifer $22,000
Katie $6,400
Randy $4,600
Tonight’s results:
Randy $4,600 + $1,900 = $6,500
Katie $6,400 – $2,801 = $3,599 (What is Germany?)
Jennifer $22,000 – $6,500 = $15,500 (3-day total: $90,300) (What is Germany?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jennifer $10,600
Katie $2,000
Randy $1,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) RETIRED NUMBERS IN SPORTS $600 (29th pick)
Katie 4000 -3000 (Jennifer 10600 Randy 1000)
2) BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $800 (6th pick)
Randy 600 +2000 (Jennifer 10200 Katie 800)
3) ADJECTIVES $1600 (19th pick)
Jennifer 18600 +3000 (Randy 6600 Katie 800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 41
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 102 (1.57 per episode average), 1 Daily Double
Game Stats:
Jennifer $20,600 Coryat, 28 correct, 4 incorrect, 45.61% in first on buzzer, 3/5 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Randy $3,400 Coryat, 11 correct, 6 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer, 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Katie $9,400 Coryat, 14 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $33,400
Lach Trash: $6,800 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $13,800
Jennifer Quail, stats to date:
87 correct, 15 incorrect
4/8 on rebound attempts (on 15 rebound opportunities)
49.12% in first on buzzer (84/171)
7/7 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $17,500)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,533
Jennifer Quail, to win:
4 games: 78.195%
5: 61.145%
6: 47.812%
7: 37.387%
8: 29.235%
Avg. streak: 6.586 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- As was demonstrated in IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE today, the writers want contestants to start categories at the top, and contestants deviate from that at their peril.
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Movie star was the best clue for me.
same here. the fact it was singular.
Grace Kelly was wonderful, as an actress and as a human being (just saw her in Rear Window)!! But…she’s dead!?!
Ok, they do say stress its “colorful HISTORY”…
I suspect I will not be the only person who thought the movie star was Arnold Schwarzenegger.
You’re not. I guessed Austria too.
Katie and Jennifer may have been with you…I know more than one person who thinks Schwarzenegger is German.
Germany had way more than one film star…..!!! From Marlene Dietrich to Curd Juergens and dozens more.
Have a nice weekend everybody and shop early!!🎄
Right.
Klaus Kinski!! haha
If either young lady was thinking of Curd Jürgens or Klaus Kinski I’ll eat a ladybug.🐞
Sometimes I feel that I know the clue because I’m old enough to have seen the event live. Grace Kelly’s wedding was broadcast live on TV.
With her breadth of knowledge on so many topics, I was hoping “royalty” and “movie star” would have clued in Jennifer and given her the confidence to bet enough to top $100K.
Oh well. Maybe Monday.
Oops. My bad. Even betting all she had would’ve left her short of $100 grand.
My hopes are on Monday.
She would have hit $100k, had she been correct, she would have finished with $28,500 which added to her $74,800 totals $103,300.
Thank You, Alex. I see that now!
Don’t know WHAT I was thinking. 🤔
You’re welcome. 🙂
I thought it was easy, but was probably just showing my age, like Kathy. Though I wasn’t old enough to see Grace Kelly’s wedding, I do remember her tragic death.
I also saw Queen Elisabeth’s coronation live. I was 5 years old and I thought she wasn’t smiling because the crown she wore was very heavy.
That’s what threw me off–I was trying to think of somebody LIVING…
I hope she wins tomorrow, that way she can hit the $100,000 mark which would at least put her in the running for the next TOC
Oops I mean Monday 😳
it was one of those FJ’s where it’s “really easy” unless it’s wrong (i.e. a trick). couldn’t really think of a singular famous movie star from an obscure country (zsa zsa gabor – hungary LOL)….
as for the contestant seeing “movie star” and having confidence to bet alot… don’t they bet before the clue is shown? i.e. all they saw was EUROPE as category
i feel like either the person making that comment or me is very confused.
You’re not confused…
I was also distracted by “filled with Barbarians”–did you give this much thought? Of course, where haven’t there been Barbarians in Europe, so it certainly didn’t point me toward Monaco–I even thought of “Barbarians At The Gate” (ex post facto)–wasn’t that about high-risk financial schemers (mergers?) so I was thinking maybe they were using it in that modern sense, knowing the “makeup” of a large part of the population in Monaco…
Sorry if I’m off-topic here, but this has to do with the Andy’s Thoughts commentary…There’s an easy way to get players to start categories at the top and work their way down. Why not incentivize game play by awarding an extra sum (perhaps an extra $1000, or $2000 for DJ) each time a player “runs” a category?
As I’ve said the last half-dozen times that’s been suggested here, I feel like the implementation of that would be too open to interpretation to be fair and/or too difficult to understand for viewers. (Plus, the number of times the show has given applause for a contestant going for the last four 4 out of 5 in a category, or missing the applause entirely when someone does go 5-for-5, leads me to believe they would have difficulty in properly handling this).
I recall Alex specifically asking the contestants to go in order for a particular category on at least one occasion. If it were truly important to them, they could simply make it a rule that you must select the lowest value clue in a category (this might also speed the game up because contestants wouldn’t need to say the value). I think this would make the game less interesting though because it would take some strategy away from the contestants who hunt DDs, risk leaving the higher value and often more interesting clues unrevealed, and potentially make the high value clues unavailable to a contestant trying to make a comeback late in DJ.
I’m with Kathy on this one. The combination of “royalty” and “a movie star” made this a slam-dunk for me. I too remember when this wedding happened and Miss Kelly forever became “Princess Grace”.