Welcome to Tuesday, March 23, 2021! Today the schedule goes back to normal, as the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament on CBS isn’t causing the show to not air at its normal time in a bunch of markets. Many of you have also reminded me that your objections with Dr. Oz are more than just his endorsement of conversion therapy (which is my personal biggest issue), but also that he has endorsed many alternative medicines with dubious efficacy, as well as making statements regarding COVID-19 that would have led to many more deaths than have even occurred. Now that this is out of the way, here is today’s Final Jeopardy! clue:
The Olympics: The “City of Angels” hosted the Olympics twice, the second time this many years after the first
(correct response beneath the contestants)
The Jeopardy! community is mourning the loss of Brayden Smith, who passed away on February 5. The Brayden Smith Memorial Fund has been established, dedicated to furthering the educational aspirations of Southern Nevada students.
Today’s contestants:
Amal Dorai, a product manager originally from Lexington, Massachusetts
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Claire Nieman, a registered nurse from Seattle, Washington
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Kathryn Peters, a research center executive director from Carrboro, North Carolina (1-day total: $20,001)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Kathryn rode a strong knowledge base to a win yesterday, pulling away quite strongly in Double Jeopardy. If she can get just a little bit better on the signalling device, she could go on a run. However, the taping days are longer these days, as many contestants have reported on Reddit. That might prove to make things a little bit more difficult for Kathryn. I’d love to see her win a bunch of games, though!
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Correct response: What is 52?
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Los Angeles, the “City of Angels”, has hosted the Olympics in 1932 and 1984; they are also scheduled to host in 2028. (From knowing the years, it becomes a simple task to subtract 1932 from 1984.) L.A. will join London (1908, 1948, 2012) and Paris (1900, 1924, 2024) as the only cities to host three times.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Amal $19,600
Claire $6,000
Kathryn $5,400
Tonight’s results:
Kathryn $5,400 – $4,270 = $1,130 (What is Los Angeles?)
Claire $6,000 – $5,999 = $1 (What is 64 years?)
Amal $19,600 – $5,000 = $14,600 (What is 28) (1-day total: $14,600)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Claire $5,600
Kathryn $5,000
Amal $2,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) SPACE-Y SAYINGS $1000 (clue #30)
Kathryn 4000 +1000 (Claire 5600 Amal 2200)
2) CRASS WARFARE $1600 (clue #13)
Amal 4600 +3000 (Kathryn 5400 Claire 8400)
3) BORDER TOWNS $1600 (clue #19, $15600 left on board)
Amal 12800 +2800 (Kathryn 6200 Claire 8400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 112
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: NO. 1 LYRICS $2000 BOOKS OF THE 1980s $2000
Total Left On Board: $4,000
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 167 (1.31 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Amal $17,000 Coryat, 22 correct, 3 incorrect, 40.00% in first on buzzer (22/55), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Kathryn $5,400 Coryat, 14 correct, 4 incorrect, 30.91% in first on buzzer (17/55), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Claire $6,000 Coryat, 14 correct, 4 incorrect, 25.45% in first on buzzer (14/55), 3/4 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $28,400
Lach Trash: $11,000 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,600
Kathryn Peters, career statistics:
32 correct, 8 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 12 rebound opportunities)
28.57% in first on buzzer (32/112)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,700
Claire Nieman, career statistics:
14 correct, 5 incorrect
3/4 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
25.45% in first on buzzer (14/55)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,000
Amal Dorai, career statistics:
22 correct, 4 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
40.00% in first on buzzer (22/55)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5,800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,000
Amal Dorai, to win:
2 games: 56.937%
3: 32.418%
4: 18.458%
5: 10.509%
6: 5.984%
Avg. streak: 2.322 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I wouldn’t blame our host for the two unplayed clues today; Amal was playing at a very methodical pace, and I’m surprised that only two clues were uncovered.
- I’m honestly not surprised that both somebody misread the clue, and that this was a Triple Stumper.
- Thus far, $40,601 has been donated to Healthcorps, Inc.
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I have to read the entire answer before jumping to an answer. At first I thought they were looking for the city; then I read the entire answer and realized they were looking for a number.
You have to be very careful answering a clue and even more so in Final because of more time. Reading the entire clue often gives additional insight into getting the answer in Final. On Friday, Nick tried to name the men rather than the job in one clue.
This one was very “you either know it or you don’t” for a FJ. No real ways to problem-solve/educated guess to the correct response. Will be interesting to see how the contestants fared.
At least the guesses were multiples of 4 which gives them a chance. I remember a question involving year of summer Olympics, and one of the answers was not a multiple of 4. And if you remember that 1936 was Berlin (where Jesse Owens reigned on Hitler’s parade and that there weren’t in 1940 and 1944, you can start to eliminate possibilities.
After next year’s winter Olympics, Beijing will be the only city to have hosted the summer and winter games.
What a silly and pointless FJ. I mean, there is zero significance to either the dates themselves or to the time period between them. No special anniversary. Furthermore, did TPTB think a Jeopardy contestant might not know the city?!
I can’t disagree, though I realized after-the-fact there is a bit of tease-out significance to the L.A. Olympics. I remembered L.A. hosted the Olympics prior to the Hitler-hosted games in Berlin, so 1932 for #1. L.A. also hosted the first Olympics held after the U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow games. If I had linked it correctly with Carter’s term, I would have answered 52 instead of 48. But the clue is prone to pure guesswork in 30 seconds.
Or…you just know it. I still see nothing wrong with such clues.
I agree with the sentiment that this isn’t a great FJ. Fair to ask about Olympic years and host cities, and it’s not a bad piece of trivia per se, but it’s still just trivia.
I couldn’t remember when the first LA Olympics were and guessed 60. Only two Olympiads off, which isn’t too bad, I guess.
I don’t get all the fuss about this final and am surprised by the 0 for 3. Knowing the host cities for the Olympics by year is one of those things an aspiring contestant should learn. It comes up a lot. I’d put Oscar winners by year in that category too.
Jim, I can only speak for myself, but I like my FJs to:
1) Be on a meaningful topic
2) Offer avenues to the solution beyond simply recall
3) Be structurally unambiguous
(I also think the show should avoid solutions that take a while to write, but that’s a more minor quibble that obviously didn’t apply here.)
This FJ definitely passes the first test. As you said, it’s fully reasonable to expect Jeopardy contestants to memorize years and host cities of the Olympics. But aside from knowing those cold, there really isn’t much you can do to puzzle the answer out. As Kevin noted above, maybe you can eliminate a few guesses in your 30 seconds, but this feels like one you kind of just have to know.
As for criterion 3, the “City of Angels” bit felt like a needless red herring, and it seems to have tripped up one contestant. As Denise noted, knowing that Los Angeles is the City of Angels is 200-level clue stuff.
As I said above, it’s not a great clue, but I wouldn’t necessarily call it a bad one. Certainly better than that awful Netanyahu clue a couple weeks ago. But the world’s greatest game show can do better. (As they did just yesterday with that great clue from Richard III.)
Fair enough. I agree with you on 1, and 3 especially…it should have been worded better. 2 doesn’t bother me though. (Of course, that might be because I knew it right away., 🙂)
Well said Matt–except that I’d say that it fails the first test. If the clue were something about the Olympic cities, I could consider that clue and answer meaningful. But the number “52” appears to have no real meaning, other than to demonstrate that you know two numbers which aren’t really related to each other, and that you can do third grade math.
If they wanted to do a clue based on the “City of Angels” nickname, a better option would have been something like, “The English translation of Bangkok’s Thai name is also this Olympic host city’s nickname.” (Bangkok’s Thai name, Krung Thep, translates to “City of Angels”.)
I am surprised that no one got the host cities for the olympics. This comes up a lot even during the past seasons of jeopardy. Although it isn’t a great final but still the answer was a dead giveaway.
Lou, I think your response proved the point of Matt W and others. 🙂 The clue wasn’t about the host cities–it was about the years. Which appears to have tripped up you, Kathryn (contestant today), and I suspect many, many others.
Imagine you know all the facts and correctly write 52, yet still lose from second place. After the game is over and the leader has won, that person then tells you he thought it was 1928 and 1980. I don’t care for clues when someone with knowledge can be beat with dumb luck.
It was a runaway, so even if either of the other two got it right, there’s no way they can win unless Amal does something stupid with his wager.
I believe it was a ‘what if’ and not specific to today – one in which it would be better to get both years wrong and have a chance of getting it correct than to get one year correct and one year incorrect.
hey, I got one that the contestants went 0 for 3…… I haven’t got too many FJs in last couple of weeks.
not a great FJ Q I agree….. you either “know” it or you don’t………….. yesterday’s “winter of our discontent” was impossible to “know” as a fact as the Q combined info from 2 different subjects. it wasn’t a fact, per se.
I see a lot of grumbling about Dr. Oz online….. as host, I thought he was ok… as per his IRL persona, I don’t know him very well… is he CNN’s medical expert? or is that Sanjay Gupta? probably answered my own question. for the people who dislike him, he is a professor at Columbia. that must say something, although I know tenure is an issue… Andy, plz delete if not proper discussion
Can we expect hating on Dr Oz every day for the next two weeks ? Yawn
Maybe not. I didn’t see any here today among the comments–so far anyway.
My thoughts on the current host have been on this site since the announcement; this should not be a surprise to anyone.
Thank goodness Amal had a runaway. I wouldn’t want him to have lost the game after having that nice double jeopardy round. Such an odd FJ. I agree with other comments in objection.
I actually liked this one given the high number of local contestants this season. LA area residents should be able to know this about their own city! Not solvable any other way, except that to know it’s a multiple of 4, less than 100 if you know 1984, and can’t be too close to 0.