Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Advertising) for Thursday, April 30, 2020 (Season 36, Episode 169):
Copywriter Keith Goldberg wrote this question in 1999 for a financial services company; they’re still using it
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Jesse Laymon, a public policy director from Long Island City, New York
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Kevin Curran, an attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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Sarah Jett Rayburn, a writer & stay-at-home mom from Hutto, Texas (4-day total: $89,300)
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Correct response: What is “What’s in your wallet?”
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Capital One was still a relatively unknown player in the financial services market in 1999 when Keith Goldberg, working for D’Arcy Advertising, was given the assignment of working with Capital One on their marketing campaign. In order to try to provoke doubt in consumers’ minds about “legacy” card offerers like Chase and Citi, “What’s in your wallet?” and its surrounding ad campaign was born. The phrase became well-known enough that Goldberg and the phrase ended up on New York’s Advertising Walk of Fame, and by 2016, Capital One had become the United States’ 5th-largest credit card issuer by purchase volume.
This is also a rare Final Jeopardy! whose correct response is already in the form of a question; however, I personally doubt I’d take the chance on answering without the initial “What is” if I were playing it. Would you?
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Kevin $13,000
Sarah $12,500
Jesse $11,200
Tonight’s results:
Jesse $11,200 + $1,800 = $13,000 (What is What’s in your wallet?) (1-day total: $13,000)
Sarah $12,500 – $12,499 = $1 (What is Have you done)
Kevin $13,000 – $12,501 = $499 (What is What ca)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Sarah $6,800
Jesse $6,000
Kevin $3,400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ORIGINS $600 (clue #14)
Jesse 1800 +1000 (Sarah 2800 Kevin 400)
2) WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS $1200 (clue #12)
Jesse 5600 +5600 (Sarah 10000 Kevin 7000)
3) TOOT SUITE $2000 (clue #30)
Sarah 12800 -300 (Kevin 13000 Jesse 11200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 153
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 362 (2.14 per episode average), 5 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Jesse $6,400 Coryat, 20 correct, 5 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Kevin $13,000 Coryat, 16 correct, 3 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Sarah $12,800 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $32,200
Lach Trash: $9,800 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,000
Sarah Jett Rayburn, career statistics:
81 correct, 13 incorrect
11/11 on rebound attempts (on 27 rebound opportunities)
27.54% in first on buzzer (76/276)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,700)
3/5 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,600
Kevin Curran, career statistics:
16 correct, 4 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,000
Jesse Laymon, career statistics:
21 correct, 5 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $6,600)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,400
Jesse Laymon, to win:
2 games: 37.399%
3: 13.987%
4: 5.231%
5: 1.956%
6: 0.732%
Avg. streak: 1.597 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Yes, Fred and Wilma were originally called The Flagstones. No, Jeopardy! did not screw up. In my opinion, there are too many viewers who rush to assume that Jeopardy! is wrong, fail to question their own assumptions, and miss out on learning a new fact.
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Jennifer Garner is VERY big on Jeopardy! commercials here in Kansas City.
I agree with Mark above, about her Birdman answer. His nickname was Bird. I thought for sure they would announce a scoring change right before FJ. Ironically, this same thing happened in 2003! I found that out googling for this issue, tonight.
She had his actual first and last names correct, so I think it was the right call to accept it. Too bad she couldn’t pull it out in Final. She also seemed not to be the best at the buzzer, which might have prevented her from getting some runaways.