Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Long-Running TV Show Characters) for Thursday, February 17, 2022 (Season 38, Game 114):
This character who has been on the air for more than 50 years is only 6 1/2 years old
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Linda Sellars, a retired archivist from Durham, North Carolina
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Matt Takimoto, an elementary school teacher from Moraga, California
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Charles Fogelman, a geographer from Champaign, Illinois (1-day total: $10,500)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: The very popular Dave Rapp lost yesterday after three victories. Champaign, Illinois geographer Charles Fogelman is your new champion after a strong game on the signalling device; Matt Takimoto and Linda Sellars are your two challengers today.
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Correct response: Who is Big Bird?
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Big Bird is the famed 8’2″-tall yellow bird from Sesame Street, first appearing on November 10, 1969. He is canonically six and a half years old, as evidenced by this tweet. Big Bird was inexplicably in the news in 2021 as he found himself in the cross-hairs of Republican Senator Ted Cruz (and others) for having the audacity to promote COVID vaccines for children.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Charles $14,400
Matt $11,400
Linda $10,600
Tonight’s results:
Linda $10,600 – $1,000 = $9,600 (Who is Charlie Brown?)
Matt $11,400 + $10,000 = $21,400 (Who… is Big Bird?) (1-day total: $21,400)
Charles $14,400 – $8,403 = $5,997 (Who is Daniel Tiger?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Linda $3,200
Charles $2,400
Matt $1,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) DESSERT $1000 (clue #18)
Matt 4000 -4000 (Charles 1200 Linda 1600)
2) BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES $1600 (clue #15)
Linda 9600 -3000 (Charles 10400 Matt 2200)
3) A HARD CATEGORY $1200 (clue #21, $10800 left on board)
Matt 4600 +4000 (Charles 12800 Linda 6600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -44
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: MIDAS $200 $400 $1000
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $1,600
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 24 (0.21 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Matt $12,600 Coryat, 18 correct, 3 incorrect, 35.19% in first on buzzer (19/54), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Linda $13,600 Coryat, 12 correct, 1 incorrect, 22.22% in first on buzzer (12/54), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Charles $14,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 2 incorrect, 37.04% in first on buzzer (20/54), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $40,600
Lach Trash: $6,200 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,600
Charles Fogelman, career statistics:
39 correct, 7 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
36.04% in first on buzzer (40/111)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,700)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,400
Matt Takimoto, career statistics:
19 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
35.19% in first on buzzer (19/54)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,600
Linda Sellars, career statistics:
12 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
22.22% in first on buzzer (12/54)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,600
Matt Takimoto, to win:
2 games: 37.633%
3: 14.162%
4: 5.330%
5: 2.006%
6: 0.755%
Avg. streak: 1.603 games.
Today’s interviews:
Linda plays the J!6 clues with her grandkids.
Matt had to get a tuba for a bandmate’s wedding.
Charles had a mother that was a seventh-grade teacher.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I enjoyed that the PLUS $400 clue was a clue about plus-fours pants.
- Viewers who enjoy finding new things to complain to Jeopardy! about are reminded that sponsored categories have existed on Jeopardy! for at least twenty years. This is not a new phenomenon and complaints otherwise are completely out of order.
Link to the box score: February 17, 2022 Box Score
Contestant photo credit: jeopardy.com
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Well, I blew this one! I thought it was “Dennis the Menace” who was always aged about 6-1/2 (?) and was first on TV in 1959. But his appearances have been sporadic at best over the years, and I don’t think his age was ever disclosed exactly.
I figured it had to have been someone from Sesame Street (it debuted the same year I did 🙂 ), but picked Kermit the Frog instead. What IS Kermie’s age, anyway?
I guessed Big Bird just because that character is the one I think people most associate with Sesame Street. Kermit appeared a few years before SS but his speech patterns mark him as older, unlike the childish speech of BB.
Whack-a-Mole Jeopardy is back in full. Not to disparage any of these competitors, who deserve applause for their perseverance and achievement, but I miss the sheer exhilaration of watching this game played by masterly players.
From things my papa taught me-
When a remark is preceded by “not to(fill in the blank)… what’s being conveyed is (fill in the blank).
No. They’re there, and that’s a terrific accomplishment. But it’s not in the same universe as Ken, James, Matt, Amy.
Look, AAA players are highly accomplished. But they pale in comparison to the ‘27 Yankees.
I much prefer the games we’ve seen over the last two days with close 5-digit scores to runaways by one contestant.
I’m so with you Sara… a competitive game with 3 excellent scores going into final is way more interesting to me too!
Amen! Competitive games are so much more enjoyable than only one person monopolizing the entire half hour with the other 2 just standing there.
That’s your opinion.
In mine: If one person is significantly better than the other two, I enjoy watching the excellence.
At the end of Double Jeopardy, Ken expressed his appreciation to the 3 players for each getting into 5 digits. This is both good instruction to the audience and a reflection of Ken’s authentic enthusiasm for the game. I liked it.
Love Ken. He is just as good a host as he was a player.
The other Ken plus is; when he gives the answer, we believe Ken knew the answer before it was given to him.
Charlie brown is only two years younger than big bird. I watched sesame street since i was little but peanuts comic was on the air for 70 years so that was a good guess but daniel tiger? That only has been on the air since 2012 so that was like 10 years? Not even close.
Daniel tiger, isn’t that a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood puppet?
I don’t think it was a bad guess. Daniel Tiger has only had is own show for a few years, but the character originated on Mister Roger’s Neighborhood in the 1960s.
“Peanuts” was a newspaper comic strip beginning in 1950 but it never a regular TV series. It was adapted into TV specials, movies and a stage production beginning in 1965.
Two days in a row the center rostrum has emerged victorious. The streak has ended.
I thought someone might go for Bart Simpson, but he premiered in 1989.
I was thinking along the same lines but Bart is older than 6 1/2 and the show, as you noted, hasn’t been on for that many years. Whiffed the answer…
I don’t know how I got that FJ right, but I did. I knew instantly it had to be Sesame Street but spent the rest of the time debating which character to put. I simply went with the most massive one, and lo and behold. I think the clue could have been a little more specific, such as adding “Despite his appearance” to preface it. Other characters on the show could be 6.5 y/o as well (and probably are) so it ended up being a shot in the dark between Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Count von Count, and Grover. I found Elmo doubtful as he’s clearly a kid (“only” would not apply) and didn’t think they’d do one of Bert or Ernie without discreetly referencing the other.
Second day in a row with a fun, contested match, so I enjoyed it. I also need to catch up on the primetime games…
Oscar too grouchy to be young. Count is hundreds of years old, being a vampire. Bert and Ernie are independent adults. Elmo was introduced in the 90s. Kermit drives a car. Grover… maybe.
What I’m saying is that it would be a surprising bit of trivia if one of the others was the answer – just as surprising as Big Bird, but for the reasons you stated. (Except Bert/Ernie and Kermit. Which were ones I didn’t consider.)
Did not know Elmo was a more recent addition. That surprises me.
I knew it had to be someone from Sesame Street but I guessed Ernie. I guess Bert and Oscar the Grouch would be ticked at me.
I don’t mind the occasional sponsored category.
but I do think that any of those “guest reader” categories have a drawback of taking more airtime than a normal category, thus an increased probability of clues being left on the board due to running short on time. (hence today’s 3 unrevealed clues that round)