Warning: This page contains spoilers for the December 5, 2023, game of Jeopardy! — please do not scroll down if you wish to avoid being spoiled. Please note that the game airs as early as noon Eastern in some U.S. television markets.
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 2020s Television) for Tuesday, December 5, 2023 (Season 40, Game 62):
The title locale of this series is really the Belnord, dating to 1908 & located at 86th & Broadway on NYC’s Upper West Side
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Matt Mierswa, an attorney from River Edge, New Jersey
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Andrew Chaikin, a musician & teacher from San Francisco, California
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Laura Portwood-Stacer, an editor & author originally from Livonia, Michigan
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Today’s game—quarterfinal #5—is between Laura Portwood-Stacer, Andrew Chaikin, and Matt Mierswa. Looking at the stats from regular play from these three players, I referred to this game in my preview as “the fireworks quarterfinal”—I’m expecting this game to be very hotly contested. I would not be surprised to see two players with more than $20,000 going into Final, or all three players well over $10,000. I’d also be very surprised if we didn’t see a finalist out of this group of three players.
A great amount of Jeopardy-related news broke yesterday; by surprising many 3-time champions with invitations to the Tournament of Champions yesterday on various local talk shows, the show has effectively confirmed that there will be a 27-player field for the next Tournament of Champions, likely to begin airing this coming February. It will be preceded by four weeks of Second Chance beginning December 19, followed by a pair of Champions Wildcard brackets featuring 1- and 2-day champions from Season 39, likely beginning January 16.
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Correct response: What is Only Murders in the Building?
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Only Murders in the Building, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, depicts three strangers, enthralled with true crime podcasts, who suddenly find themselves investigating—and documenting in their own podcast—a murder mystery in their own Upper West Side building. It has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards and is Hulu’s most-watched original comedy series to date.
As I said the last time the show aired a television Final, television clues have trended much more difficult in the 2020s due to the increasingly fractured broadcast landscape. This should make for an even more interesting conclusion to today’s game.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, December 5, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Purple Prose & Poetry; A Paranormal Category; To “L” With Science; Sports Stuff; Also A Superhero; Feedback: Sandwich)
While Andrew doubled up through the Daily Double, some $1000 incorrect responses kept the scores down and close going into the first break. After the interviews, Laura had an excellent time, picking up 5 correct to take the lead!
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Andrew 5 correct 2 incorrect
Matt 4 correct 1 incorrect
Laura 2 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Matt wore a suit to “spiff up” the fashion a bit.
Andrew is Kid Beyond…and he beatboxed the Think music.
Laura received a signed copy of Art Garfunkel’s book.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Laura 7 correct 0 incorrect
Andrew 9 correct 3 incorrect
Matt 9 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Laura $4,400
Andrew $3,600
Matt $2,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Rome Is Where The Art Is; A Song In That Movie; Almost Assassinated; They Come In Threes; Flags; From Dawn ‘Til Dusk)
Matt found the Daily Double immediately, but an incorrect True Daily Double brought him back to zero. Further incorrect responses from him stunted his ability to make a comeback, as Andrew found, and converted, the last Daily Double en route to a runaway game!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Andrew 19 correct 6 incorrect
Matt 19 correct 6 incorrect
Laura 10 correct 0 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Andrew $18,200
Matt $7,200
Laura $6,400
In what might come as a surprise to many of the commenters here, this Final was a triple get! Andrew is a semifinalist!
Tonight’s results:
Laura $6,400 + $6,300 = $12,700 (What is Only Murders in the Building?)
Matt $7,200 + $444 = $7,644 (What is Only Murders in the Building?)
Andrew $18,200 + $42 = $18,242 (What is Only Murders in the Building?) (Semi-Finalist)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) TO “L” WITH SCIENCE $600 (clue #10)
Andrew 1400 +1400 (Laura 600 Matt 1200)
2) FLAGS $1600 (clue #1)
Matt 2600 -2600 (Laura 4400 Andrew 3600)
3) ROME IS WHERE THE ART IS $2000 (clue #7, $24800 left on board)
Andrew 10000 +5000 (Laura 4400 Matt 1200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 50
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Laura 2 4
Andrew 4 4 5 3*
Matt 3 5 4 3
DJ! Round:
Laura
Andrew 4 3 3 5*
Matt 4* 5† 4
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Andrew 3.88
Laura 3.00
Matt 4.00
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:
Andrew $14,400 Coryat, 19 correct, 6 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Laura $6,400 Coryat, 10 correct, 0 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
Matt $9,800 Coryat, 19 correct, 6 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $30,600
Lach Trash: $11,000 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,400
Lead Changes: 5
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Laura Portwood-Stacer, career statistics:
61 correct, 3 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 23 rebound opportunities)
23.45% in first on buzzer (53/226)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,000)
2/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,850
Andrew Chaikin, career statistics:
74 correct, 7 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
42.11% in first on buzzer (72/171)
4/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $10,400)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,800
Matt Mierswa, career statistics:
104 correct, 14 incorrect
5/6 on rebound attempts (on 17 rebound opportunities)
43.86% in first on buzzer (100/228)
3/8 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,800)
3/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,350
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I wasn’t expecting to see as many incorrect responses, but sometimes that happens on the show.
- Today’s box score: December 5, 2023 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Andrew $18,200 Matt $7,200 Laura $6,400)
Laura: Limit your bet to $4,799. (Actual bet: $6,300)
Andrew: Limit your bet to $3,799. (Actual bet: $42)
Matt: Standard cover bet is $5,601. (Actual bet: $444)
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“fractured”… yeah😒 I’ve heard of the series and I know who is in it. That is all I know.
How anyone could keep up with all the different streamed programs is beyond me. Even the nominations for awards are on tv channels that I don’t pay for…I used to think I knew pop culture material, not so much anymore…
I love this show, have seen all three seasons, but had no clue. #embarrassed
Same here. Because so many shows are filmed in entirely different cities than the ones they are supposedly set in, I assumed it referred to one of those, so didn’t even try to think of shows set in NYC.
In the past, it was very easy to keep up with tv shows and who/what might be featured, the plot lines and such with only ABC, CBS and NBC, then later Fox. It was easy to keep up with TV back in the day. Not anymore.
This is the second or third Final Jeopardy having to do with streaming in the last 2 or 3 weeks. I’m hoping they can spread out the topics a little more moving forward but this is probably the way it’s going to be.
Am I the only one that sees this FJ clue as rather unfair? I, for one, do not subscribe to (pay for) Hulu and didn’t have a clue. I feel FJ clues should come from bodies of knowledge available to the general public, not from exclusive streaming services. IMHO
I personally cannot afford these services.
I got Hulu a couple of years ago on Cyber Monday for 99 cents per month for a year.
Kathy, it rubs me the wrong way too. I’d rather not see these clues at all but at the very least the category should be narrowed down to Streaming Television so players can take that into account when wagering.
What you’re suggesting is the equivalent of saying “I don’t pay for ESPN, therefore there should be no sports questions.”
I’m not sure that is a convincing analogy. I can get all my sports news on the internet all day long. I’m sure a lot of TV owners have a cable or satellite service and can get ESPN just fine at no added cost. I’m complaining about having to pay extra for a streaming service just to be able to answer FJ clues. Just sayin….
That’s an inapt analogy. I can get plenty of sports over the air as well as highlights uploaded to streaming services by the leagues themselves. All knowledge is fair game on this show, but this emphasis is a barrier to viewers of lower socioeconomic status.
Dunno, Glenn. The clue writers have made such pivots often enough that it seems like it is considered fair game [to go from a broad category that players might feel comfortable with to a narrow specialty that some of them might be disadvantaged by]. As Matt’s reply below shows, it is possible to have picked up enough information from the pop-cultural zeitgeist to be able to make a successful guess.
What is some show set in NYC?
Heh, “Clavinesque”. Nice😁
Surprised? ME?? 🙃
Well, I would never have predicted a triple get for that clue, so… a bit.
I have not seen Only murders in the building yet but still though I don’t even use hulu that much. Never have predicted a triple solve today
That’s a lot more than I know. With 500 or more shows to watch these days 2020’s TV is probably my worst category
I have never seen Only Murders in the Building. Before reading the blurb here, I didn’t know who was in it or anything about it beyond the title. I got this Final clue — most likely, it easily came to mind because of the Saturday editorial here mentioning that CJ! would precede it on Tuesdays in the new year. The only streaming service I have, beyond my cable subscription, is Paramount+. My television oeuvre basically consists of Jeopardy!, Star Trek, and sports. That doesn’t preclude me from knowing some of the titles of shows that air elsewhere. Wikipedia is readily available. I think the analogy with ESPN is on target.
As far as the suggestion to separate out “Streaming”: there was a time when I would have agreed, but no longer. It’s now been a decade since the Television Academy expanded Emmy eligibility to streaming/web-only series. Many years ago, there was a TELEVISION Final Jeopardy! clue that had Orange is the New Black as the correct response. (#6974, 2015-01-01.) I thought then that the clue didn’t fit the category; this was back when The Final Wager was still putting out daily videos, and I recall Keith Williams having a similar sentiment. The facts have changed, and so I’ve changed my mind. There are still holdouts who perceive a difference between linear and streaming (I recall Robert K S doing so on JBoard when the recent Succession clue came up) but for many, including the body that gives the awards for excellence in television, it no longer exists. Jeopardy! need not make such a distinction.
Jeopardy!, Star Trek, and sports. Your and my TV watching habits are identical at this point.
I subsribe to “basic” Hulu through the Disney Bundle, so I’m not sure if Hulu originals are available to me. Doesn’t matter, until the announcement that the finals weeks of this years Celebrity Jeopardy would serve as a lead in for this program come January, I never heard of it.
And, I won’t complain that a Final Jeopardy was based on something I (possibly) I can’t see. There have many Final Jeopardys based on things I never knew of, but plenty of others have. I don’t consider that to be unfair, so I why should I consider a program from a streaming service being used as a Final Jeopardy unfair?
I was surprised they didn’t get Gerald Ford considering he survived both Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore trying to kill him three weeks apart in 1975. And in a connection to another clue that had the answer Harvey Milk – Harvey Milk outed Oliver Sipple who saved Ford’s life in that second attempt on his life (against Sipple’s wishes) thinking it would be good for America to see a gay hero.
There are now a large number of people who do not watch network TV since the government switched TV signals to digital. This is not from spite because ahead of time they gave us all $20 coupons that were supposed to completely cover the cost of $20 converters, but then before the signals were really going to change, the converter prices went up to a minimum of $40. It is because the digital signals do not cover as large an area as the old analog signals, leaving a lot of people who cannot watch without cable, which is expensive and not always available in very rural areas. I lived within the county that contained all that state capital’s TV stations’ antennas and over-air I could not receive the digital signal for UPN or CW and could only get ABC in winter when the leaves were off the trees! Where I am now (100 miles away, but the same place the grandparents had perfectly fine analog TV signals) the only over-the-air (digital) signals we can get are from the local PBS affiliate, but during some bad weather (and, I think, sunspot activity), that will go to black.
In the case that one cannot get over-the-air TV signals, if one is lucky enough to have relatively inexpensive internet service, any streaming service that allows you to stream all TV networks live is very expensive. So, saying not everyone can view streaming shows is true but not that different nowadays than saying not everyone can watch network TV shows.
In the past people would sometimes take a superior air saying they are unfamiliar with shows and actors because “they never watch TV”. Nowadays a similar statement would be “I never read clickbait even if it is just about TV shows and actors (rather than just ignoring politics and conspiracy theories)”. On the other hand, I am not sure how they avoid seeing the online ads for both Network and Streaming TV shows.
I don’t see anything unfair about including TV shows that are on streaming services. There are many different categories on Jeopardy! that aren’t enjoyed universally. Do you realize there are some people who never go to an opera as well as some who never watch sports? It is also interesting to note that there are even dozens of people who don’t live in the United States as well as a few people who have never been to Europe.
I subscribe to Hulu but have watched only movies. I wouldn’t have guessed FJ! correctly in a hundred years.
I think it was a gimcrack clue, just hope it’s not a precursor to “all streaming all the time” questions. Moving on.
My biggest issue, though, was not that it was not the “streaming” thing, it was the wording of the clue: The answer called for a “title locale.” To me, “building” is Not a “title locale.” The Savoy, the Hilton, MOMA, Tiffany’s, etc., are potential “title locales,” but a generic term like “building” is most definitely not.
I had a similar issue. The wording indicated to me that there was a a proper name in the title that was different from the real name of filming location.
That said, the fact that all three contestants weren’t fazed makes me think this is more of a me problem.
The series’ building’s name is the Arconia” and they SAY it ALL THE TIME in the episodes (especially in the first two seasons), so I think the “important facts” in the clue were its real name and NYC location as the conglomeration of facts beyond “title location” clearly indicated they were referring to a building.
And for a further comment concerning people having a chance to know about it if they don’t pay for Hulu, less than 18 months ago the New York Times published an interesting article about the Belnord and its history. (Some of the characters and circumstances, other than murders, in this series relate pretty directly to actual past residents’ personalities, etc.)
I also kind of agree with you concerning an actual building name/location (like 1600 Pennsylvania Ave or the Boston Airport Marriott), but it seems that often the more vague part of a clue is, the more REALLY OBVIOUS the response would be had they not been vague, so you just have to expect that in Jeopardy!
The only thing I thought was unfair about the final was the length of it. If you don’t have it right away, they’re asking for a Harriet Tubma situation.
Good point and smooth delivery.
I wasn’t going to get this in a million years and I’m good with that. I subscribe to 2 pay for streaming services. ESPN+ and NFL+. So if it’s not streaming on those or it’s not Better Call Saul or Jeopardy, I am likely to be lost. All good! I didn’t expect a runaway today. It’s always kind of cool to see an “upset” when the 1 day champ takes down the 2 day champs.
On to Quarterfinal #6 tomorrow. 🙂
The clue about the assassination attempt on John Paul II is wrong. It occurred on May 13 in the Vatican. Not in Portugal. It was the feast of Our Lady of Fatima but wasn’t in Fatima. How does Jeopardy make such mistake.
Thanks for your comment. However:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-john-paul-injured-in-1982-knife-attack-says-aide-1.694776
“The late Pope John Paul II was wounded in a 1982 knife attack a year after an assassination attempt, but kept the injury secret, a top aide to the pontiff has revealed in a new documentary film. The attack occurred on May 12, 1982, when Juan Fernandez Krohn lunged at John Paul with a bayonet during a ceremony in the shrine of Fatima in Portugal. John Paul went to the shrine to give thanks for surviving a gunshot wound from Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981.”
It appears as though you conflated the two different attacks. Interestingly, it is possible to attempt assassination on someone more than once.
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Thanks for the correction. I tried to research a separate assassination attempt but couldn’t find anything before making the post. I do find it interesting that they’d have a clue about something that was kept so secret for more than 25 years and may not be within general knowledge of a lot of people.
Kev:
This was not a secret. It was above-the-fold front page news across America the next day. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/136367904/
I agree “locale” is not quite the right term in the FJ clue. Location is 86th and Broadway, and locale really depends on context but I would consider it here to be Upper West Side. The most precise term would be “building,” but that’s too much of a giveaway. This is another example of trying to get the response by figuring out what word or phrase the writers appear to be avoiding.
After six straight correct FJ gets, I had no clue on this one even though I actually watched the first episode a while back.