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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Hollywood History) for Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (Season 39, Game 163):
Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of “The Jazz Singer” because a 4th of that name had died hours before
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Jesse Matheny, a customer success implementation manager originally from Huntington, Indiana |
Liz Everhart, a subrogation analyst & science teacher from Louisville, Kentucky |
Johanna Stoberock, a fiction writer & adjunct professor from Walla Walla, Washington (1-day total: $6,999) |
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Last night’s Jeopardy! saw Johanna Stoberock win just $6,999—but she gets to play again, and that’s the more important prize. Today’s challengers are Jesse Matheny & Liz Everhart.
We’re less than two weeks from the start of Jeopardy! Masters and the hinted-at gameplay tweaks have still yet to be announced publicly by anyone. I beg the show to let the viewers know in advance. So much of the show’s audience has difficulty with change and does not like surprises—please, give your audience a chance to digest the changes before they air.
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Correct response: What is Warner?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
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Sam Warner, who obtained the technology for the Warner Brothers movie studio to be able to put sound and video on one film (Vitaphone) that led to the production of the groundbreaking 1927 film The Jazz Singer, died of pneumonia the night before the film’s premiere; his three brothers returned to California from New York for Sam’s funeral. However, the premiere was a rousing success, with Robert E. Sherwood of Life magazine writing “I for one suddenly realized that the end of the silent drama is in sight”. The success of the film revitalized the Warner Brothers studio.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, April 26, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Rihanna; Historical Potpourri; Confidence; Brit Lit; Top To Bottom; A Nation Of Vodka Brands)
Jesse got out to an early lead, but went back to $0 on the Daily Double. Liz, however, had a strong Rihanna category—eventually running it—to lead after 15 clues; Jesse did claw back to take a very slim lead, but it was still anyone’s game, with just $600 separating the three players.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Liz 6 correct 1 incorrect
Jesse 4 correct 1 incorrect
Johanna 0 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Jesse married his work sweetheart and became close over Jeopardy!
Liz bartended one year on Mardi Gras.
Johanna is an avid player of duplicate bridge.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Jesse 9 correct 1 incorrect
Johanna 8 correct 0 incorrect
Liz 8 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jesse $4,200
Johanna $4,000
Liz $3,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: The New Capital; 4-Syllable Words; Whistleblowers; Comedians; Ungulates; The Parent Company)
Double Jeopardy! saw Jesse miss another Daily Double—this one for $3,000, while Liz picked up $3,000 on hers. Neither challenger led, though, as Johanna skillfully avoided incorrect responses to take a slim lead going into Final!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Johanna 14 correct 0 incorrect
Liz 13 correct 2 incorrect
Jesse 19 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 26 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Johanna $12,000
Liz $11,000
Jesse $10,800
Final Jeopardy! today was another Triple Stumper, and it came down to the wagers! Jesse survived with just $2,600 to take the championship! He’ll be back tomorrow.
Tonight’s results:
Jesse $10,800 – $8,200 = $2,600 (What is Marx?) (1-day total: $2,600)
Liz $11,000 – $10,000 = $1,000 (What is Marx?)
Johanna $12,000 – $10,001 = $1,999 (What is Jolsen?)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) HISTORICAL POTPOURRI $1000 (clue #8)
Jesse 1200 -1200 (Johanna 0 Liz 400)
2) THE NEW CAPITAL $1600 (clue #2)
Jesse 5400 -3000 (Johanna 4000 Liz 3600)
3) 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600 (clue #21, $12000 left on board)
Liz 7600 +3000 (Johanna 9200 Jesse 6800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -116
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Johanna 5 4
Liz 3 4 5 2
Jesse 1 5*
DJ! Round:
Johanna 2† 1 1 3
Liz 3 1† 5 4*
Jesse 4* 5† 3† 4 3 2 3 2 4 2 1 5 2
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Jesse 3.07
Johanna 2.67
Liz 3.38
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 26 (0.16 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Jesse $15,000 Coryat, 19 correct, 2 incorrect, 33.93% in first on buzzer (19/56), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Johanna $12,000 Coryat, 14 correct, 0 incorrect, 23.21% in first on buzzer (13/56), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Liz $9,600 Coryat, 13 correct, 2 incorrect, 25.00% in first on buzzer (14/56), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $36,600
Lach Trash: $12,800 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $3,400
Player Statistics:
Johanna Stoberock, career statistics:
32 correct, 4 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
28.32% in first on buzzer (32/113)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,100
Liz Everhart, career statistics:
13 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
25.00% in first on buzzer (14/56)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,600
Jesse Matheny, career statistics:
19 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
33.93% in first on buzzer (19/56)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,200)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,000
Jesse Matheny, to win:
2 games: 37.044%
3: 13.723%
4: 5.083%
5: 1.883%
6: 0.698%
Avg. streak: 1.588 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Johanna $12,000 Liz $11,000 Jesse $10,800)
Johanna: Standard cover bet over Johanna is $10,001. (Actual bet: $10,001)
Liz: You can’t both cover Jesse and win a Double Stumper with Johanna. Either make the cover bet—$10,601—or bet no more than $199, forcing Jesse to at least be correct to bet you. ((Actual bet: $10,000)
Jesse: Limit your bet to $8,799 in order to stay ahead of Johanna if you both miss Final. (Actual bet: $8,200)
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Has got to be a 3 get.
I feel the opposite. I’m old and I had no idea.
Who are three men who have never been in my kitchen?
Seriously, though, I thought of Jolson, Marx and Howard. None of which were correct, of course.
Only guess I had was Warner.
My first guess was Marx, but I IMMEDIATELY switched to Warner. Since the category was [already] Hollywood History I felt like the clue saying the 1927 premiere of “The Jazz Singer” was primarily in service of identifying the general lifetime period of some really famous brothers in Hollywood without really expecting people to know WHO is connected with that movie in particular (nor who died then).
Obviously actually knowing who was connected to the specified movie (and/or about the death) would have helped, but clearly 3 out of 3 contestants good enough to even get onto Jeopardy! did not (and I didn’t know),so just thinking of famous brothers of that time period in Hollywood was all it took to think of Warner Bros. [As it turns out the Marx brothers’ time in the limelight began about then (whereas I had thought it was about a decade later), so knowing “The Jazz Singer” was not a comedy should have helped steer away from them.]
While 4 of the 5 Marx brothers were involved with the act at one time, none had died as of 1927, and, to my knowledge, none had anything to do the the original Jazz Singer.
So 4 men, Hollywood history, had to be the Warner Brothers. (I didn’t know how many Warners there were, it just fit.)
I knew that Warner was the producer of The Jazz Singer, but I never knew anything else about the company itself and would not have come up with the solution. I spent the whole time thinking of people associated with the film or time who might have had three brothers and discarding them because I knew they lived longer than that😅
Snapping a nice five game win streak –
Current FJ streak: 1L
I thought perhaps it was a brother of Al Jolson, the star of the Jazz Singer, who had died. Obviously I was wrong, but it made sense to me because I associate him with that movie more than the studio.
That was my guess as well. 🙁
So you are saying that you KNEW that ‘Warner’ was the producer of The Jazz Singer but you didn’t know that the company name was (and still is) actually WARNER BROS.?
No, I know Warner Bros., I was being lazy. The name just did not occur to me as a possible solution. It was when I read Andy’s “More information” that I realized that I had overlooked an obvious choice.
I guessed Howard, thinking of the Three Stooges. Doh.
I guessed Jolson for the same reason also. Couldn’t think of anything else. 🙁
I just arrived back home from being at a new customer’s house. As we chatted, he said that his career was as a projectionist and setting up all of the cinemas in Washington DC back in the day. Many interesting stories.
If anyone wants to see a great documentary, check out “The Making of a Legend, Gone With the
Fascinating and very well done. 👍
Sorry, Gone with the Wind.
As we all have seen in the past, those that have wanted a triple get, in the end we get a triple loss. But who knows…??
I can’t say I’m surprised by this triple stumper. It seems kind of arcane. Heck, I felt like I could have guessed it just because I happened to know the Production company, but I don’t even remember where or why I learned that and didn’t think of it as being a possible solution😅
As soon as I read the clue, I was pretty sure it was Warner. The winner only got 600 more than the second place standard award. Has any winner ever come away with less than 2,000?
Devin Lohman won just $1,200 in his sole victory last week. Besides that, the ones I can remember off the top of my head (in no particular order) are…
Megan Wachspress (S38) – $401
Jean Cui (S25) and Susan Mitchell (S23) – $599
Colby Potter (S31) – $200
Andrew King (S34) – $1,198
Justin Bender (S33) – $1,199
Darryl Scott (S9) and Manny Abell (S34) – $1 (yes, really.)
Andy West (S37) – $1,999
Lanny Timan and Liz Greenwood (S28 co-champions) – $1,599
Of course, there’s probably hundreds more, but those are just the ones I can remember at first glance.
Yes, I, too, thought of the Marx brothers, the Jolson brothers???, and even the Gershwin brothers. Sadly, the Warner brothers did not come to mind. Drat!
Concerning [that for the Jeopardy! Masters] “the hinted-at gameplay tweaks have still yet to be announced publicly by anyone”, the TV listings are out calling the first airing “episode 1” but saying it includes Game 1 and 2, so that format COULD BE the only tweaks and they are just coasting on the hype.
I just have a feeling that maybe they are not announcing the tweaks ahead of time because these will be fairly minor in effect but boring to describe, so they get more publicity out of the anticipation.
Actually, we do already know a couple of tweaks for the Jeopardy! Masters tournament. We know it will be 10 episodes with two games each episode for a total of 20 games. We also know that the overall winner will not be determined by total dollars or points but, instead, will be determined by number of games won. Those tweaks have already been publicized but I’m not aware of others.
I like the “number of games won” criteria rather than total dollars or points, but IMHO as a “tweak” doesn’t live up to the hype/anticipation. I’d guess the biggest possible surprise tweak would be if they had more than three players playing at once, but that seems HIGHLY unlikely [not really workable or enjoyable] and unnecessary since six contestants is an exact fit to two games of three contestants each.
It would only be fair to rearrange the contestants for each episode, so maybe the last tweak to be revealed is how they go about doing that [the explanation of which would be necessary, but kind of boring].
There was a tribute to 100 years of Warner Brothers at the Oscars, but this would’ve been taped beforehand.
This fits in with my previous mention that the Jeopardy! writers almost seem prescient of things like that, making me wonder if they have tipsters(?) in the industry like TMZ does, but for a different sort of information.
Oh well, my only guess was Barrymore as I knew there were a bunch of them back then. Warner makes sense, but I was thinking actors. That was a tough game for wagering, 1 out of 6. I don’t think I have ever seen no one get a daily double followed by a triple stumper.
The contestants went 0 for 6 on the betting clues on April 3rd of this year. I believe that’s the only time it’s happened this season.
To evoke another famous Warner Bros. movie, I was shocked–shocked! that all three missed.
Of course there’s a Jolson connection with Casablanca 😉