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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Entertainers) for Monday, June 19, 2023 (Season 39, Game 201):
In 2022 Jeff Bezos awarded her $100 million to give to charitable causes because “she gives with her heart”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Jonathan Belford, a television researcher originally from Garland, Texas |
Mary Kate Gleidt, a nonprofit director from Kansas City, Missouri |
Ben Goldstein, a content marketing specialist from Dexter, Michigan (1-day total: $6,198) |
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
After making a smart wager on a Triple Stumper Final Jeopardy clue on Friday, Ben Goldstein is your defending champion today. Today’s challengers are nonprofit director Mary Kate Gleidt and television researcher Jonathan Belford.
Tonight’s opening round features a category titled “On The State’s Longest Western Border”; that’s the sort of U.S. geography category that often invites viewer feedback from those who tune in late and miss the full explanation of the category; thus, if you’re confused, that category will be “pinned” by its category title—namely, the state on the given state’s longest western border. (I’ll be happy if this section keeps even one viewer from being confused.)
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Correct response: Who is Dolly Parton?
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Jeff Bezos’ 2022 Courage and Civility Award recipient was famed entertainer Dolly Parton, whose philanthropy in recent years has become incredibly well-known. Parton’s efforts included a $1 million donation to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for coronavirus research to aid in developing a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as her Imagination Library, which can gift books, free of charge, to children under the age of 5 in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Republic of Ireland.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, June 19, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: It’s A Special Day; TV; “F”ive Letter Words; The Animal Kingdom; On The State’s Longest Western Border; Getting An Eyeful)
A missed Daily Double early on didn’t interrupt Ben’s momentum; he had a good-sized lead at both commercial breaks!
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Ben 8 correct 1 incorrect
Mary Kate 2 correct 0 incorrect
Jonathan 2 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Jonathan tried out in Houston for the very first Teen Tournament in the ’80s.
Mary Kate is the director of the Kansas City Irish Center.
Ben is a lifelong martial arts fan.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Ben 11 correct 1 incorrect
Jonathan 8 correct 4 incorrect
Mary Kate 3 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Ben $4,000
Jonathan $2,200
Mary Kate $400
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: First Speeches In Shakespeare; Random Facts; What An Idiom!; General Assembly; Weights & Measures; Let’s Make A Movie Crossover!)
It was Mary Kate who got to play both Daily Double; unfortunately, in a round where our players combined for 11 incorrect responses, she got them both incorrect. However, she kept enough money around to play Final! Unfortunately for Jonathan, he took one too many incorrect responses, and his score meant that he wouldn’t be around for Final.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Ben 18 correct 3 incorrect
Mary Kate 9 correct 6 incorrect
Jonathan 11 correct 8 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 34 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Ben $10,000
Mary Kate $100
Jonathan -$600
Neither player in Final got it correct today, but Ben is now a 2-day champion! He’ll return in an attempt to get win #3 tomorrow!
Tonight’s results:
Jonathan -$600 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Mary Kate $100 – $100 = $0 (Who is Oprah?)
Ben $10,000 – $1,000 = $9,000 (Who is Lady Gaga?) (2-day total: $15,198)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) “F”IVE LETTER WORDS $1000 (clue #3)
Ben 800 -800 (Mary Kate 600 Jonathan -600)
2) FIRST SPEECHES IN SHAKESPEARE $1200 (clue #7)
Mary Kate -800 -1000 (Ben 4800 Jonathan 2200)
3) GENERAL ASSEMBLY $1200 (clue #27, $5600 left on board)
Mary Kate 600 -500 (Ben 8400 Jonathan -600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -155
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Ben 3 5*
Mary Kate 4
Jonathan
DJ! Round:
Ben 2 3 4 2 1 2 1 1 3
Mary Kate 2 3* 4† 3 3 4 5 5† 1 2 4 5 2 1 3*
Jonathan 1 4 5
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Ben 2.45
Mary Kate 3.19
Jonathan 3.33
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 34 (0.17 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Ben $10,800 Coryat, 18 correct, 3 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 12 rebound opportunities)
Mary Kate $1,600 Coryat, 9 correct, 6 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
Jonathan -$600 Coryat, 11 correct, 8 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $11,800
Lach Trash: $23,800 (on 19 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $18,400
Player Statistics:
Ben Goldstein, career statistics:
39 correct, 9 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 16 rebound opportunities)
35.96% in first on buzzer (41/114)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,800)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,700
Mary Kate Gleidt, career statistics:
9 correct, 7 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,500)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $1,600
Jonathan Belford, career statistics:
11 correct, 8 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/0 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: -$600
Ben Goldstein, to win:
3 games: 30.406%
4: 9.245%
5: 2.811%
6: 0.855%
7: 0.260%
Avg. streak: 2.437 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- A reminder that the known record for incorrect responses among all three players in a game is 28, and the known record for Triple Stumpers in a game is 24.
- Today’s box score: June 19, 2023 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Ben $10,000 Mary Kate $100 Jonathan -$600)
Ben: Limit your bet to $9,799. (Actual bet: $1,000)
Mary Kate: Bet whatever you like. (Actual bet: $100)
Jonathan: (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
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At first, I was MacKenzie, but simply wasn’t convinced. My mind raced to Dolly. I really don’t know why. May have read it somewhere long time ago.
I thought of her, also. She gave my city’s WMCA $2 million as they set up a daycare center for children of first responders and nurses. And we’re just a small town of 10,000.
I don’t think you read it somewhere a long time ago as it only happened 6 months ago. However, I believe you probably did read or hear a “headline” about it without reading or listening any more than that, so barely had the knowledge in the back of your mind. As for me, I guessed correctly (because I felt she fit the description), but then began to vaguely remember having heard about it at the time.
Since the Writer’s strike, has that affected who is writing the questions?
All questions are being written by the same people that have always written them.
I presume you meant that all question were being written by the regular Jeopardy writers UNTIL the WGA went on strike. I don’t know how true it, but stories I have seens at least suggest that the strike so far has only effected the last tapings of the current season. Mayim honored the WGA picket line, Ken did not. No criticism from me about either choice. Each made their choices for their own reasons.
Even clues that were played after the beginning of the strike were written by the same team as before the strike. The game boards were finalized before the strike began.
Good, straightforward question. Why can’t the writers do this more often?
It wasn’t that long ago… I still remembered it with my sometimes sieve-like recall🙂
Deja Vu for ‘Dolly Parton’ for me. Maybe my reporting my June 1st premature response slightly reinforced any Dolly Parton facts already in your brain 😉.
Canon, as far as I’m concerned… And nobody can definitively say otherwise😤
🙂
Always good to find Final Jeopardy here when the official Jeopardy website can be so catch-as-catch-can.
To be fair, the show’s web team is only human—mistakes can be made.
I went with Oprah.
Dolly Parton is the first female philanthropic entertainer that came to mind, and I’m happy to be correct!
Instant-get! Been a while since the last time I got a Final Jeopardy right in less than a second, and it feels good 🙂
While I know that neither 17 combined incorrect responses nor 19 Triple Stumpers are records for individual games, what I’m curious to know is, when was the last time the combined Coryat was less than $11,800?
We might have to go back all the way to the Kristin Sausville single player FJ episode to find a combined Coryat lower than today’s show… in that March 12, 2015 show, the combined Coryat was a mere $4,800, with Kristin the only player left above zero after the DJ round.
I think you’re right about that, Christopher.
I also think it’s worth noting that the record for combined incorrect responses in the two main rounds, excluding Season 1, is 23^ — which today’s game doesn’t remotely approach. (Recall that Season 1 was played under significantly different buzzer rules.)
Finally, it might be worthwhile for MasterDoge to review the Weekly Thoughts for June 5-9, particularly the section “On ‘Negative Records’.”
^ December 1, 1988
I must be missing some important clue. Why not simply “2022 Jeff Bezos awarded her $100 million to give to charitable causes “?
She specifically said she gives from the heart.
Like I said…I missed that clue. Didn’t realize it was a famous quote.
Ron, to get FJ! correct if the clue only said what you suggested would require that someone outright KNOW specifically about the Jeff Bezos 2022 Courage and Civility Award. They seem to mostly like to have FJ! clues that contain “clues” that can be thought about, not just one specific fact to have to know.
I was in studio during this taping in April. And I could not remember two months later what the correct response was. But Ben won this low scoring game. Good for him.
That Final Jeopardy was SOOOOOO easy for me. Dolly is the best. I know folks whose kids get Dolly’s free books and they love them. (Oh, and Dolly’s coconut cake mix by Duncan Hines is good!)
My gut reaction was Oprah (glad to see I’m not alone). But then I figured she is not really an entertainer. After that I was stumped.
My immediate response was Dolly Parton and I felt sure that would be it, but who also came to mind was Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres, Angelina Jolie, Rihanna, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.
I found the “Crossover” category very confusing. It seemed in some clues they gave the connective words they wanted in quotes, and in other clues they didn’t.
I agree Eric. I felt like I had the two elements of the answer, but wasn’t sure how to connect the two.
I agree. It was clear in the first few clues that if the ampersand was in quotes, it meant it actually was in one of the two movie names, otherwise you would have to just throw it in. But then on the 3rd clue it switched from having both parts of the response coming from movie titles and part just being a character, then for the last one the connector wasn’t “and” at all. I know “takes on” was in a Jason title (and I got the Mrs Doubtfire, too), but how did Ben get the correct “meets” from “takes on”? [I’m thinking perhaps they didn’t exactly have a specific connector in mind and would have accepted anything halfway reasonable, like “fights” or “confronts” or “vs” or even “dates” (or maybe even just “and”).]
A negative thing I see about this category is that there has been controversy for a couple of years now about players not starting at the top and going down (or at least not doing a top one before jumping down much further) because that way the nature of the category is not exposed before opening up a pricey clue, then today if the players had done that, they would have been more likely to be thrown off than helped.
As an aside, why did Mary Kate say ‘Beethoven’ who was a Saint Bernard? I thought Marmaduke or maybe Hamlet (as a play on words clue). If it had occurred to me to think of an animated Great Dane [not out of the question considering the first clue was about animated Snow White], I would have thought of Astro from the Jetsons before thinking of Scooby-Do. As it turns out Astro was 12 years too soon and Marmaduke 8 years too late to be correct, but Hamlet was only two years off. It would have been funny if Hamlet had been in 2002 instead of 2000.
Unfortunately for me, I obviously missed the news story about Bezos giving Dolly (or, specifically,her foundation presumably,) all that money. So, I had nothing when it came to this Final Jeopardy.