Good morning, and Happy Monday! Today is Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s first day as guest host. He’ll be hosting for two weeks. This week’s and next week’s winnings will be matched and donated to Odyssey Atlanta. Now: here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Monarchies) for Monday, June 28, 2021 (Season 37, Game 196):
The future Charles I suddenly became next in line to the throne of Austria in this year
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Spencer Pace, a store operations associate originally from Boston, Massachusetts
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Courtney Shah, a community college instructor from Portland, Oregon
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Austin Weiss, a pediatrician from San Diego, California (1-day total: $12,900)
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Correct response: What is 1914?
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Charles I (of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine) became heir presumptive in Austria-Hungary due to the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand—the event that also precipitated the start of World War I. Charles ascended to the throne himself in 1916 after the death of Franz Joseph I. His attempts to negotiate Austria-Hungary’s exit from the war was unsuccessful and was dethroned following the war, with the Austria-Hungary empire disintegrating. He died while exiled in Madeira in 1922.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Austin $20,400
Spencer $15,000
Courtney $11,400
Tonight’s results:
Courtney $11,400 + $4,000 = $15,400 (What is 1914?) (1-day total: $15,400)
Spencer $15,000 – $14,999 = $1 (What is 1500?)
Austin $20,400 – $9,700 = $10,700 (What is 1945?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Spencer $6,600
Courtney $3,000
Austin $2,600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) JOURNEY $800 (clue #19)
Courtney 2200 -1400 (Austin 400 Spencer 5200)
2) JAMES BEARD CHEF OF THE YEAR $1600 (clue #2)
Austin 3800 +3800 (Courtney 3000 Spencer 6600)
3) SCIENCE $2000 (clue #25, $5200 left on board)
Austin 14400 +4000 (Courtney 9000 Spencer 15000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 64
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 195 (0.99 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Courtney $12,800 Coryat, 16 correct, 1 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Austin $16,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
Spencer $15,000 Coryat, 18 correct, 0 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $44,000
Lach Trash: $7,000 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $3,000
Austin Weiss, career statistics:
35 correct, 4 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
28.95% in first on buzzer (33/114)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,800)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,900
Courtney Shah, career statistics:
17 correct, 1 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,400)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,800
Spencer Pace, career statistics:
18 correct, 1 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,000
Courtney Shah, to win:
2 games: 38.940%
3: 15.163%
4: 5.905%
5: 2.299%
6: 0.895%
Avg. streak: 1.638 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Through 1 day, $18,400 has been donated to Odyssey Atlanta. $1,931,361 has been donated to all charities.
- Even though Sanjay seemed to be reading slower, it felt like he kept the game moving well.
- Going to $400 clues with higher-value clues on the board late in the game and a Daily Double still out is a surefire way to give your opponents a much better chance of landing that Daily Double. This would have been a much different endgame had Courtney gone from $1600 to $2000 in SCIENCE instead of $400 (and thereby yielding control of the board to Austin when Austin got the $400 clue.)
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I knew the assassination and that it was just before WWI, but I didn’t know the exact year.
This FJ is tough!
I just know the assassination but not the year though.
Feel bad for Austin and Spencer. Both played such clean games.
I was focusing on the wrong Charles I. If you figured it was Austria and the successor to Franz Joseph it was pretty straightforward. 1914 – 1918 are easy dates for WWI. The staring dates for WWII, Korea and Viet Nam are harder for Americans as we weren’t in WWII at the start (1939), Korea and Viet Nam have less obvious starting dates.
America did not join WWI until 1917. They joined the Korean War right away.
Great game up until the final. Wish they could all be like that. Three good players today. Totally agree with what you said Andy about the last DD. I also thought it was curious when Spencer did nearly the same thing in Jeopardy. In the second half of that round, they started the “Journey” category with the $400 clue. Then they went to the $600, which Spencer answered correctly. With a DD still out, instead of continuing down the category, he jumped back to the $200. Courtney got it, went to the $800 and it was the DD.
I’m wondering about the final jeopardy – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, was known as Charles I (as the king of Spain), was born in 1500. But I think he would have only become heir to the archduchy of Austria in 1506 when his father died, so Spencer would have been wrong anyways. But I’m wondering what about the clue would prevent 1506 from being a correct answer? Did the archduchy of Austria not have a “throne” (and the Emperor would be technically elected and inherited, even if it was in practice)?
A little curious why it was stated as the throne of “Austria” and not “Austria-Hungary”? Did they think “Austria-Hungary” would be too much of a “giveaway?” If so it seems it was done at the cost of a portion of accuracy, although technically it WAS the throne of Austria in question…I hope it wasn’t because “Austria-Hungary” sounded too pedantic, or “stuffy…”
Kind of amusing when Austin responded with the more common two-syllabled “Pie-erre” (or did I mis-hear) when the clue stressed that the inhabitants of the South Dakota capital pronounce it to rhyme with “ear.” Should it have counted?:))
It was pronounced to rhyme with “ear”.
So I did mis-hear his response as “Pie-erre”…?
I know only of Charles I of England!
That’s not on the writers; the clue clearly said Austria.
It was no accident that this Final
Jeopardy! question appeared on
Monday’s show– Monday was the 107th
anniversary of the assassination of
Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo (June
28th, 1914).