Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category The Music Biz) for Tuesday, September 15, 2020 (Season 36, Game 2):
In 2019, at a 60th anniversary event in Detroit, this producer announced his retirement saying he had “come full circle”
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Today’s contestants:
Betsy Reisz, a test prep tutor from Sherman Oaks, California
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Ted Fruchtman, a supply chain manager from Los Angeles, California
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Cory Barger, an orchestra musician from Riverside, California (1-day total: $23,800)
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Correct response: Who is Berry Gordy?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Berry Gordy is best known for founding the Motown record label. Gordy invested his profits from being a successful late-’50s songwriter into the label after discovering Smokey Robinson’s band, the Miracles. Motown’s best-known acts include the Jackson 5, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Temptations, the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie, and Boyz II Men.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Cory $13,600
Ted $6,400
Betsy $2,000
Tonight’s results:
Betsy $2,000 – $800 = $1,200 (Who is Barry Gordy?)
Ted $6,400 – $0 = $6,400 (Who is ???)
Cory $13,600 – $0 = $13,600 (Who is no idea :() (2-day total: $37,400)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Cory $8,400
Ted $4,000
Betsy $400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) KNOW YOUR RIGHTS $600 (clue #28)
Cory 6400 +2000 (Ted 4000 Betsy -400)
2) THE SULTANS $1600 (clue #19)
Ted 7600 -3600 (Cory 12400 Betsy 2000)
3) HELLO & GOODBYE $1200 (clue #23)
Ted 6800 -4000 (Cory 12400 Betsy 2400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -75
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS $1000
DJ! Round: OF STING $800
Total Left On Board: $1,800
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 4 (2.00 per episode average)
Game Stats:
Cory $12,200 Coryat, 17 correct, 2 incorrect, 30.91% in first on buzzer (17/55), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Ted $14,000 Coryat, 19 correct, 5 incorrect, 36.36% in first on buzzer (20/55), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Betsy $2,000 Coryat, 11 correct, 4 incorrect, 27.27% in first on buzzer (15/55), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $28,200
Lach Trash: $11,600 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,400
Cory Barger, career statistics:
34 correct, 7 incorrect
2/4 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
30.00% in first on buzzer (33/110)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,500)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,800
Ted Fruchtman, career statistics:
19 correct, 6 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
36.36% in first on buzzer (20/55)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$7,600)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,000
Betsy Reisz, career statistics:
11 correct, 5 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
27.27% in first on buzzer (15/55)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $2,000
Cory Barger, to win:
3 games: 40.506%
4: 16.407%
5: 6.646%
6: 2.692%
7: 1.090%
Avg. streak: 2.681 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- In my opinion, this was easily the worst ruling that the judges have made on the show in a great many seasons. To my ear, there is such an insignificant difference between “Barry” and “Berry” that the judges deserve to receive every single last complaint the show gets tonight on social media. Thankfully, this was immaterial to the outcome of the game and she won’t be returned, but still. Betsy should have received credit and this was 100% a terrible ruling by the judges.
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Please enough of Ken Jennings! How about Jeopardy James? At least he has some humility and personality. I vote for James to take over as host 🙂
I think your opinion is definitely not universally held, Donna.
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It’s not a matter of pronunciation, the man’s name is Berry, not Barry and the ruling was 100% correct in my opinion. If she had just said Gordy with no first name I believe she would have been ruled correct. And to address someone else’s immaterial comment, his son who had a hit song is named Kennedy Gordy, after JFK. And also, anyone who admits to never having heard of Berry Gordy must have spent the past 50 years under a rock!
It is a matter of pronunciation. The ruling directly contradicts this, from the show’s own website.
terrible terrible ruling… barry is materially different than berry?….. i guess berry is almost exclusively last name….. BUT i thought the whole idea is phonetics.
jeopardy rules strike me as pretty arbitrary anyway. …….. ken jennings night 1 of his huge run: who is jones?……. LOL that they allowed that and NOT berry gordy. (i realize there is significant time lag)_
I think you probably meant Barry Gordy.
I agree about the ruling; that is what brought me to this site in the first place!
Thanks to the Mary-marry-merry merger, over half the US pronounces these sounds the same.
The judges absolutely got this one wrong. Glad to see that I am not the only fan to think so. Spelling is not supposed to count in Final Jeopardy. No difference in pronunciation of Berry and Barry.
Ken Jennings is a very nice guy, but this use of him is just too corny. Sooner or later, IMHO, he will be replacing Alex as host.
I feel that Betsy should have gotten the answer correct. I thought that spelling did not count.
I feel that Betsy’s answer in FJ was correct. Mispelled words in FJ are overlooked. Barry and Berry sound the same! The judges got this one wrong.
I have watched Jeopardy for decades The rule that ‘spelling doesn’t matter’ has always been prominent in Final Jeopardy on the show. Now tonight we see a player lose in Final Jeopardy because she spelled ‘Berry’ as ‘Barry’. This is ridiculous. The Jeopardy judges and Alex need to admit their mistake and bring this lady back to the stage.
David:
I disagree with your assertion that she should be brought back. She was in third place and had zero opportunity to improve her position. That has never been grounds to return a player.
Andy, in answer to your question, I liked Ken’s first category. I thought it was interesting to point out winning streaks in other fields besides sports and game shows, and just challenging enough for a Jeopardy! round (first round) category…not too easy or hard. Ken’s new presence on the show is very welcome to me, always has been. I frankly don’t get all the negativity towards him in tonight’s comments. He seems like a perfect fit, and he’s definitely earned it. And I really don’t get the “no personality” comments, I think he’s always been pretty witty. (Maybe witty’s not everybody’s cup of tea!) Definitely looking forward to future categories from him!
I agree – well said
The “judges” (whoever they are) have nearly always gotten it right. This was an egregiously wrong decision. Ridiculously wrong. They should apologize and announce that they’ve corrected her score for the record. It won’t make a difference to the outcome, but at least she could say that she was the only one of the three who got it right. And she did. Nobody’s perfect and they aren’t either. This is the best evidence of that I’ve ever seen.
I think you are all wrong. The man’s name is Berry, not Barry. Berry is pronounced with a short e, Barry with a short a. Do you call a blueberry a barry, no I didn’t think so, it’s a berry! Do you eat a strawbarry?
Tell me about it, but judging from the comments all around us, we’re crazy! What I still don’t get is though, are people pronouncing Barry like Berry, or are they pronouncing Berry like Barry? Or both…WHO KNOWS?!! We’re right though Richard!! 🙂
It’s a regional dialect issue. In most of the US, Berry and Barry are pronounced exactly the same; in some areas they are pronounced differently. Since California is in the “same” category, I think it should have been an accepted answer.
Just curious—in parts of the country where “berry” and “Barry” are pronounced differently, how are they pronounced? Not only have I never heard them pronounced differently, I can’t even imagine how they would be pronounced differently. Which one is pronounced berry/Barry, and how is the other one pronounced??
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