Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Foreign Newspapers) for Thursday, March 11, 2021 (Season 37, Game 119):
Representing its outspoken tone, this newspaper founded in the 19th century has the name of a free-spirited opera character
(correct response beneath the contestants)
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Today’s contestants:
Dave Pai, a field application scientist originally from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
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Emily Hogg, a consultant from Washington, D.C.
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Lori White, a fiction & part-time science writer originally from Grangeville, Idaho (1-day total: $18,801)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Proving how important Final Jeopardy! is, Lori picked up a win yesterday after the leader James missed Final. She’ll need to figure out the signalling device, though, as she was 3rd of 3 in that stat yesterday. That generally doesn’t bode well for a long-term run.
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Correct response: What is Le Figaro?
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Le Figaro, France’s oldest daily newspaper, was founded in 1826 and bears the name of opera’s famed Barber of Seville. Today, the newspaper is the most conservative-leaning of France’s major newspapers.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Dave $25,800
Lori $11,600
Emily $8,200
Tonight’s results:
Emily $8,200 – $8,000 = $200 (What is Charlie Hebdo?)
Lori $11,600 – $11,600 = $0 (What is Punch?)
Dave $25,800 + $2,500 = $28,300 (What is Le Figaro?) (1-day total: $28,300)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Dave $4,600
Emily $4,600
Lori $3,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) IT’S ALL ONIONS $800 (clue #25)
Emily 5400 -1000 (Lori 400 Dave 4600)
2) RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES $1200 (clue #11)
Lori 4400 +2000 (Emily 6200 Dave 8600)
3) THE “OVER”/”UNDER” $2000 (clue #13, $20800 left on board)
Dave 10200 +3200 (Lori 6400 Emily 6200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 58
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 159 (1.34 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Dave $24,600 Coryat, 24 correct, 2 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Emily $9,200 Coryat, 14 correct, 1 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Lori $10,800 Coryat, 16 correct, 5 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: $44,600
Lach Trash: $3,200 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,200
Lori White, career statistics:
31 correct, 7 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
27.68% in first on buzzer (31/112)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,100
Emily Hogg, career statistics:
14 correct, 2 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,200
Dave Pai, career statistics:
25 correct, 2 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,200)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $24,600
Dave Pai, to win:
2 games: 72.779%
3: 52.967%
4: 38.549%
5: 28.055%
6: 20.418%
Avg. streak: 3.674 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- So far, $105,103 has been donated by the show to pancreatic cancer research as a result of Katie Couric’s guest hosting stint. The contestants’ winnings are being matched.
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Somehow I didn’t know there was a newspaper called Le Figaro. If I had, I figure this would have been an easy final for me. As it was, I had not a clue. I wonder if someone randomly guesses ‘Figaro’ if they’ll get credit.
Who knows…if the rule about adding or deleting articles to titles extends to foreign titles I’d guess so.
I saw the opera in Aurora IL and in the final act, he came onstage riding a tricycle.
A good FJ clue in that precisely one contestant knew it. It helps if you’ve been to Paris.
Having lived in Virginia, I remember Katie’s sister Emily, who was a State Senator there. There was talk of her running for Lieutenant Governor before she became ill with pancreatic cancer. Katie is doing a fine job of hosting, but I don’t see her being interested in the job on a permanent basis.
I knew the answer but I feel that the clue stresses both the newspaper AND the character that i wonder if just “Figaro” would be acceptable. Since Dave was the only one with the correct name/character we may never know. Be interesting to hear Katie’s comments.
Regarding Andy’s comments about the clicker, i wonder if those stats are available from 3 years ago, to see how i did on ringing in when i was on. Sometimes i was first, but i felt like i did ‘clean-up’ a fair amount too, after other responses were incorrect.
Best advice i can give (and almost everyone else, too) to future contestants is to practice by holding something like a ball-point pen, when playing at home, and ‘ringing’ in for the responses; this develops muscle memory. Maggie, a former producer on the show, even counseled players in the green room about holding the clicker in your non-dominant hand (and always showed a poster of Ken Jennings playing Watson to prove her point). I did that myself, and it somehow felt more natural.
Of course, the other thing that may contribute more to recent buzzer issues may be cadence. So many of us cued off of Alex’s rhythms(and i never even watched the ‘enable’ lights on the board) that we rang in based on his speech patterns. With guest hosts filling in for two-week periods (one week’s worth of taping, over two days), the contestants who don’t play until the end of each week may do better, from just having listened to the guest host more as the earlier episodes were recorded. With enough guest hosts coming up, and definitely a lot of different cadences, it will be interesting to see how contestants do with the buzzer.
You held your own on the buzzer, and you were doing a bit better until your final game when Frank was very strong on the buzzer. Andy didn’t publish rebounds back then, but it looks like you attempted 15 (90 + 13 – 75 -9 – 4). According to The Jeopardy! Fan:
Marty Cunningham, final stats:
90 correct, 13 incorrect
34.09% in first on buzzer (75/220)
5/9 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,800)
3/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,250
Marty Cunningham, stats to date:
73 correct, 9 incorrect
35.93% in first on buzzer (60/167)
5/6 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $9,800)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,333
Not specific to today’s game—but I wanted to share the following link to a news story about a video of Alex from a few years ago getting some attention now…
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/woman-shares-old-footage-alex-223018526.html
I would’ve said Sulfur too, but I’m struggling to figure out how come they didn’t give Lori credit for her answer of Carbon for the Jeopardy round’s Daily Double. The lachrymators in onions contain both sulfur and carbon, and charcoal is a major component of gunpowder. Am I missing something?
The carbon is not the cause of the eye-watering. The sulfur is.
I believe Emily had an incorrect answer that was missed by the judges. She identified the New Orleans basketball team as the falcons it’s actually the pelicans. Did I miss something?
She clearly said Pelicans; the closed captioning made a really big mistake there.
I believe Emily gave an answer that was incorrect and missed by the judges. she identified the New Orleans basketball team as the falcons I believe it’s the pelicans. Am I missing something?
Thank you for your response. I wasn’t listening very well but I was reading the closed caption.
What was the clue in the dbl J round with the answer “Minnesota”? (Please)
To Bruce Hanson:
Double J! round, $1600 clue
in the category “VETO”:
“Gov. Tim Pawlenty once
vetoed giving this state a
poet laureate, saying, “We
could also see requests for
a state mime”
Emily Hogg buzzed in first
and responded correctly:
“Minnesota”.
Shout-out to ex-governor
Pawlenty: It’s never too
late to atone for a mis-
take. There’s a native
Minnesotan (born in Duluth,
grew up in Hibbing) who’s
done quite a bit of lyric
poetry. He’s got a Nobel
Prize for Literature sit-
ting on his mantle. His
name is Robert Zimmerman.
He’s almost as good as that
Welsh poet guy, Mr. Thomas.
If you called Mr. Zimmerman
and asked him in a respect-
ful manner, I’m sure he’d
be willing to toss off some
verses in honor of his
beautiful native state.
Maybe he’d write 10,000
poems for you, one for each
lake. And best of all,
Mr. Pawlenty, you could
take all the credit for
signing him up.
Minnesota doesn’t have 10,000 lakes. We have 11,842 lakes of 10 acres or more.. If all basins over 2.5 acres were counted (the criteria used by several other states), Minnesota would have 21,871 lakes.
I think it was something about a proposed state symbol, which Governor Pawlenty vetoed.
Took French in high school. Easy peasy.
Would argue for requiring the definite article. Nothing worse than bad French, and let’s not provoke Alex in his repose.