Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Rock Legends) for Monday, September 27, 2021 (Season 38, Game 11):
A new studio album in 2020 gave him a top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Angélica Wilcox, an AV service support team lead from Kansas City, Kansas
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Justin Stanley, a data scientist from Vancouver, Washington
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Matt Amodio, a Ph.D student from New Haven, Connecticut (28-day total: $1,004,001)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: 28-day champion Matt Amodio goes for Win #29 today, having surpassed the $1 million mark after Friday’s big win. Amazingly, this is the first time that Matt has started a week with the same host that he had the previous week, with this being Mayim Bialik’s second week as host. Meanwhile, the Jeopardy! website has started having the same problems that it had in the James Holzhauer run. For some reason that I certainly can’t explain, the Jeopardy! web site only seems to be able to store six significant digits when it comes to a champion’s winnings, which means that a champion’s winnings somehow get rounded on their website once it passes the $1 million mark. While it’s a longstanding unfixed bug on their website, it’s another mark on their web team that also had difficulty earlier this season with contestant photographs.
For the benefit of new viewers who are just starting to become invested in Matt Amodio’s run, his choice to phrase every response with “What’s…” is perfectly acceptable per the rules of the show, and this also hasn’t been a relaxing of standards since the death of Alex Trebek. As I wrote about in 2016 (while Alex still was very much alive), the show has never cared about whether the phrasing is grammatically correct, even under Art Fleming in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Correct response: Who is Bruce Springsteen?
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When Letter to You was released in 2020 and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, rock legend Bruce Springsteen earned his 21st Top 5 album (17 of these were studio albums, 2 were compilation albums, and 2 were live albums) on that chart; Springsteen’s first Top 5 album was 1975’s Born to Run.
One thing that amused me about this Final Jeopardy! clue: both Christopher and Paula from last Wednesday’s game have spoken on Twitter about being Bruce Springsteen fans. I’m sure they’ll be wishing they got today’s Final instead of the one they got in their game!
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Matt $28,000
Justin $7,600
Angélica $2,800
Tonight’s results:
Angélica $2,800 – $2,787 = $13 (Who is Dylan?)
Justin $7,600 – $1,701 = $5,899 (Who is Bowie?)
Matt $28,000 + $5,000 = $33,000 (Who is Springsteen?) (29-day total: $1,037,001)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt $7,000
Justin $3,200
Angélica $0
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) MOVIE TAGLINES $400 (clue #21)
Justin 1400 +1400 (Matt 7000 Angélica -600)
2) ELECTORAL COLLEGE COLLAGE $1600 (clue #1)
Angélica 0 +2000 (Matt 7000 Justin 3200)
3) IT’S A SAIL-EBRATION $1600 (clue #13, $16400 left on board)
Matt 15400 +5000 (Justin 3200 Angélica 0)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 232
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 0 (0.00 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Matt $24,600 Coryat, 30 correct, 4 incorrect, 56.14% in first on buzzer (32/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Justin $6,600 Coryat, 10 correct, 1 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Angélica $2,400 Coryat, 9 correct, 3 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $33,600
Lach Trash: $11,400 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,000
Matt Amodio, career statistics:
930 correct, 94 incorrect
47/54 on rebound attempts (on 103 rebound opportunities)
53.51% in first on buzzer (877/1639)
54/63 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $206,000)
21/29 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,786
Justin Stanley, career statistics:
10 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,400)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,600
Angélica Wilcox, career statistics:
9 correct, 4 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $2,400
Matt Amodio, to win:
30 games: 91.570%
31: 85.459%
32: 78.607%
33: 72.512%
34: 67.062%
Avg streak: 41.573 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Regarding the Neuchâtel clue, only “Neuchâtel” fit the category of A 9-LETTER “N”OUN. “Neufchâtel” is 10 letters and is therefore incorrect (and correctly ruled incorrect by the judges.
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huge sprinsteen fan 1975 was born to run. his more recent album is more obscure.
Sad to say I didn’t get this one, despite being a fan. Hope Matt is able to get the runaway here, as we know he’s not a big pop culture guy. (Although Justin seems like a cool guy and I’m sure Angelica is a great human as well!)
What’s everyone’s favourite Springsteen song? I’m a Local Hero fan myself, probably my favourite song of all time by any artist.
My favorite Springsteen song is “Fire”, which he wrote in 1977. It’s on one of his live albums.
I’m not sure I like this Final Jeopardy! clue. It seems there’s more than one correct response.
For instance, I believe that Paul McCartney also qualifies.
McCartney – #1, 1970
McCartney II – #3, 1980
Flaming Pie – #2, 1997
Memory Almost Full – #3, 2007
Kisses On The Bottom – #5, 2012
McCartney III – #2, 2020
Jim:
The clue specifically says “his first in 1975”; as you illustrate, McCartney’s first was 1970, not 1975.
The clue only has one correct response, and that is Springsteen.
Yes, you’re correct.
Jeopardy rule #1: read the entire clue carefully before you respond.
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Credit where it’s due, the Jeopardy writers are usually pretty good at pinning FJs to one response. They often tie themselves in grammatical knots to get there, though not in this case.
Nice guess with McCartney, though–certainly no shame in putting that down.
I was afraid to guess Springsteen as recently there was another rock band FJ! and I swore the answer was him and the E St band but was Journey..
Fave song…Born in the USA. no, not a deep track but I like it!
Rock on, Matt Amodio!
A few decades back there was a final jeopardy clue, “the last day of the 20th century”, and the correct answer was December 31st, 2000. So, given that, I would have to argue that having an album in 2020 wouldn’t be in a 6th consecutive decade, it would have to be in 2021 – 2030 to meet that criteria.
@Mark0, you make an excellent point (although Billboard considers 2020 a separate decade), but it would not have made a difference in the final results because of Matt’s lead. So even if the contestants who lost complained to the producers that the question was not technically correct, they would not be allowed to come back
for a different episode because they lost regardless. Matt had four times as much money as Justin going into FJ, so the final results didn’t matter…except for Matt’s bank account!
I concur – definitely not arguable especially since they gave the year of the first and the latest. I just wanted to play devil’s advocate and say that it’s not technically six different decades.
Most places consider a decade to be a period of 10 years beginning in 0 and ending in 9.
And others consider a decade to be any consecutive period of 10 years. Not necessarily starting with a year beginning with either 0 or 1, and not even necessarily beginning on a January 1. By this definition, the clue is also correct.
Bruce Springsteen was my response as I am a huge fan of him since Born to Run was my favorite song from him. The E Street band also made lots of other great albums.
Go Matt! Keep rocking on. You are almost at James Holzhauer’s 32 game record
I had to facepalm when I saw the answer…WOW, having a hit album in 6 decades…that’s incredible! The only name clicked to me within 30 seconds was Sir Elton John, but I should’ve known he’s more of a pop star than a rocker, as specified by the category.
Enjoying every one of your wins Matt
Keep it up.
Just the kind of game I like- no tense moments.
How could Bruce have top-5 albums over “six decades” if his first top-5 album was in 1975? The clue makes no sense.
Decade 1: 1970s
Decade 2: 1980s
Decade 3: 1990s
Decade 4: 2000s
Decade 5: 2010s
Decade 6: 2020s
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No one seemed to notice that Justin had an impish expression on his face when his final wager was announced, $1,701. 1701 is the registry number of the star ship Enterprise, from Star Trek, NCC1701.