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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Composers) for Friday, October 6, 2023 (Season 40, Game 20):
He was given piano lessons by Madame Maute de Fleurville, the mother-in-law of Paul Verlaine, whose poetry he would later set to music
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Jamie Logan, a freelancer from Augusta, Maine |
Matt Glassman, a bar owner from Los Angeles, California |
Daniel Nguyen, a high school math teacher & doctoral student from San Jose, California |
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Today is the middle quarterfinal in the first Champions Wildcard bracket of this fall’s competition; one of Jamie Logan, Matt Glassman, and Daniel Nguyen will get to join Dane Reighard (Monday), Lawrence Long (Tuesday), Kendra Blanchette (Wednesday), and Joe Feldmann (yesterday) in the semifinals. This is an interesting matchup; I think that Jamie and Daniel are probably the favorites—Jamie had good stats and won about $50,000 in her two games, while Daniel led superchampion Ryan Long going into Final Jeopardy.
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Correct response: Who is Claude Debussy?
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This week of Jeopardy! shows finishes on a clue about the famed French composer Claude Debussy. Many of Claude Debussy’s most famous works were set to the poetry of Paul Verlaine, most famously “Clair de lune”, the third movement of his Suite bergamasque. “Clair de lune” was also included in Debussy’s Fêtes Galantes collection; Debussy also composed his Ariettes oubliées to Verlaine poems. Needless to say, Debussy considered Paul Verlaine to be a major influence.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, October 6, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Canadian Cities; The Gene Pool; Dead Scientists Society; Pick A Number Between 5 & 477; The Virtues; 2 Words In One)
Daniel and Matt got off to a slow start, but Daniel battled back to tie matters at the first break! Matt pulled out a small lead by the end of the opening round.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Matt 5 correct 0 incorrect
Daniel 5 correct 3 incorrect
Jamie 1 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Jamie picked up an out-of-state phone call—and it was Jeopardy.
Matt is now a father—but gave no explanation for his glowering at the top of the show.
Daniel gave a shout out to his high school last time in Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Matt 13 correct 0 incorrect
Daniel 9 correct 3 incorrect
Jamie 4 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt $5,600
Daniel $4,600
Jamie $1,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: The Crimean War; Literary Pop; This Or That; Swords; If At First You Don’t Secede…; Try “Tri” Again)
Double Jeopardy! came down to the Daily Doubles. Daniel went all in on his, while Matt did not; Daniel ended up having a slim $1,600 lead going into Final.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Daniel 20 correct 4 incorrect
Matt 23 correct 0 incorrect
Jamie 11 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Daniel $20,800
Matt $19,200
Jamie $9,200
Jamie was the only player correct in Final—which would normally be good news for her. Unfortunately for her, Daniel pulled a $0 wager out of his hat, and is a semifinalist because of it!
Tonight’s results:
Jamie $9,200 + $9,200 = $18,400 (Who is Debussy?)
Matt $19,200 – $1,601 = $17,599 (Who Beethoven)
Daniel $20,800 – $0 = $20,800 (Who is Radu Toma?) (Semi-Finalist)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $600 (clue #13)
Daniel 1000 +1000 (Matt 1800 Jamie 0)
2) THE CRIMEAN WAR $1200 (clue #5)
Daniel 5400 +5400 (Matt 6000 Jamie 2400)
3) IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SECEDE… $1200 (clue #8, $26800 left on board)
Matt 9200 +4000 (Daniel 10800 Jamie 2400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 243
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Daniel 4 3 2 5 1 5 3*
Matt 3 4 3 4 4
Jamie 5
DJ! Round:
Daniel 4 3* 4
Matt 2 4 3*
Jamie 1 2
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Daniel 3.40
Jamie 2.67
Matt 3.38
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:
Daniel $16,200 Coryat, 20 correct, 4 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Jamie $9,200 Coryat, 11 correct, 2 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Matt $16,400 Coryat, 23 correct, 0 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $41,800
Lach Trash: $6,600 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,600
Lead Changes: 5
Times Tied: 2
Player Statistics:
Daniel Nguyen, career statistics:
80 correct, 13 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 17 rebound opportunities)
34.36% in first on buzzer (78/227)
5/7 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $11,600)
1/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,900
Matt Glassman, career statistics:
62 correct, 8 incorrect
4/5 on rebound attempts (on 18 rebound opportunities)
35.71% in first on buzzer (60/168)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,500)
1/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,933
Jamie Logan, career statistics:
82 correct, 11 incorrect
5/5 on rebound attempts (on 12 rebound opportunities)
34.67% in first on buzzer (78/225)
5/6 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $8,200)
2/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,150
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Before anyone starts thinking that Radu Toma is an incredibly obscure composer, it appears as though Radu Toma would be a shoutout. (Which tracks with a $0 bet; “If you bet $0 in Final, don’t attempt the clue, go for a shoutout” has been advice given to contestants dating back to Michael Dupée and the mid-90s.)
- Today’s box score: October 6, 2023 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Daniel $20,800 Matt $19,200 Jamie $9,200)
Daniel: Standard cover bet over Matt is $17,601. If you really think that Matt is going to bet small and keep Jamie locked out, bet between $2 and $799. (Actual bet: $0)
Matt: Limit your bet to $799 to keep Jamie locked out. (Actual bet: $1,601)
Jamie: Limit your bet to $6,000 to stay ahead of Daniel in case he makes a cover bet and is incorrect. (Actual bet: $9,200)
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I’m usually good with this category, but this was obscure to me. I’m familiar with most of Debussy’s music, but not its inspiration and it’s the first I’ve heard of Verlaine. Back to the drawing board next week!
I thought, who is a poetic French piano player?—and came up with Frédéric Chopin! Close, but as Frank Robinson said about baseball: “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades”. I didn’t even think of Claude Debussy. (I wonder if anyone else will fall into the same trap?)
P.S. To everybody: For those who have the time and the interest, I recommend going back to previous days’ Comments sections to get a complete list of those days’ comments. People post things at all hours and sometimes even the next day. For example, doing this, I went back to Tuesday, Sept. 26 and Tuesday, Oct. 3, and found not one, but two (!) thank-you’s from Judith P.—who was replying to a comment I had posted several days ago that SHE had gone back to read! I appreciate the efforts of everyone who posts a comment, and I want to read them all!
I fell into the Chopin trap. First French composer to come to mind. And I go back and look at previous day comments the next day.
Frederic Chopin was actually Polish. After he moved from Warsaw to Paris when he was 21, he changed the spelling of his name from the Polish spelling to the French spelling.
https://www.britannica.com/summary/Frederic-Chopin
Thanks. Yeah, Chopin was Polish. I’ve actually said, “When the clue asks for a Polish composer, it’s always Chopin” (A Hungarian composer is always Liszt). I was kind of amazed that a contestant would guess Beethoven. Did he not know that Beethoven was German, or does he just not know any other composers?
With all due respect, nowhere in the clue did it specify the composer was French.
Hi RedRose, I’m so glad that you went back a few days to the previous comments and read my 2 thank-you notes to you! I was afraid that you might never see my comments. Yes, for today’s Final! I briefly thought of Chopin first, but then settled upon Debussy. I have loved “Claire de Lune” since I was 3 years old. My grandmother was a concert pianist with the Philadelphia Orchestra back in the 1930s, so I was “forced” into the constant listening of classical music records by my Mom since birth. It paid off today. Judith P.
Loved the call back to SNL celebrity jeopardy today… at least I hope that was the intent lol
I spent half the round hoping someone would make that exact shout-out, so I was quite frighten when it happened. It seemed Ken was not prepared for it (although the audience was), but he recovered in time for the last clue on the round.
Darn autocorrect – I was delighted that someone made the shout-out, not frightened.
I thought it [what Jim referred to] was additionally funny for the last clue picked in the game when Matt just said “SWORDS for $400” that Ken replied “or ‘S’ words”, then the correct response to it WAS an ‘S’ word (Samurai).
I can’t help but think since Ken did not seem prepared for when Matt had said it originally, that Ken also didn’t think hard enough about saying it that time when complaints COULD be made (by those too full of themselves) that he had given an extra hint to the actual clue.
As a classical music buff myself, I usually will listen to a few pieces by Debussy especially Verlaine though I do need to find a CD with the best of Debussy and hopefully to find some of his other works maybe played on a clarinet or a violin perhaps. Happy to see Daniel making it to the semifinals
What a fantastically played game by all three contestants. Always a pleasure to watch one like this.
The wagering so far this season, compared to prior seasons, makes me think that a) wagering strategy doesn’t come particularly naturally to many of the contestants; b) a large percentage of players typically try to cram at least some wagering strategy before they go on the show (at least FJ strategy); c) with the shorter prep time the players have had this season most of those who were able to devote time to preparation chose to focus on material rather than strategy.
I think this is probably a smart decision for most players given how little time they had to prepare. It’s easy (and frustrating, for some) to see wagering errors which cost a player a game they might have otherwise won with a more strategic wager, but we can’t discern which correct response they gave as a result of their studying.
Could Matt’s scowl during the opening beena homage to James Holzhauer, who during his appearance in last years Masters, embraced his Chase persona, as being a “game show villain.
Did Ken delibertly, or, accidentially, give out some extra information about the Final Jeopardy category, Composers, by mentioning classical music, leading into the break, while the players made their wagers? After all, unless specifically mentioned in the name of a category, composers could be from any genre of music.
Not that it made much difference for me. I don’t readily know a lot of composers in ANY genre. So I had no response?
I do not think Ken should have said that deliberately or even accidentally, but I don’t think it would help anyone as I believe the name “Madame Maute de Fleurville” is going to influence anyone to think of classical music whether they had ever heard of her or Paul Verlaine or not.