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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Artwork) for Thursday, May 23, 2024 (Season 40, Game 184):
Rembrandt’s only seascape is set here, where the main figure once said, “Why are ye fearful, o ye of little faith?”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Liz Capouch, a knowledgebase specialist from Blaine, Minnesota
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Brendan Gilfillan, a consultant from Alexandria, Virginia
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Amar Kakirde, a graduate student from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey (1-day total: $16,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Amar Kakirde is your new Jeopardy! champion, picking up just over $16,000 in last night’s game. Today, he faces off against Virginia’s Brendan Gilfillan and Minnesota’s Liz Capouch. Amar might be someone to watch out for, as he did get a relatively difficult Final Jeopardy clue correct in yesterday’s game. Or, he could be a 1-and-done—there were some times yesterday where it seemed like defending champion Chris D’Amico could signal at will. It’ll be interesting to see what happens!
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Correct response: What is the Sea of Galilee?
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Rembrandt’s only seascape was 1633’s “Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee”, depicting the miracle how Jesus calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee, as described in Matthew, Mark, or Luke. “O ye of little faith” comes from Matthew 8:26.
I should point out that these sorts of clues are why I—decidedly not a Christian, as the only “religious” events I have ever attended are weddings and funerals—always make the case for the importance of the Bible in a trivia context, as it is the inspiration for significant amounts of Western art and literature over the years—the subject of today’s Final Jeopardy included.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, May 23, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Lit Titles By The Numbers; It’s A Plane; The Real Taglines Of The Real Housewives; “Stop” The Presses!; One For The Money; 2 For The Show)
Amar got off to a good start, but fell back to $0 after a missed True Daily Double. After 14 clues, Brendan led with $2,800, while Liz had $1,400 and Amar $0.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Brendan 4 correct 0 incorrect
Liz 3 correct 0 incorrect
Amar 5 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Liz got stuck in a very small Italian elevator.
Brendan met his fiancée during a job interview.
Amar lost his phone—twice—while hiking in Switzerland.
While Brendan picked up 6 correct to extend his lead, he also had 2 incorrect—keeping it close. Brendan led after 30, while Liz sat second and Amar third.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Brendan 10 correct 2 incorrect
Liz 5 correct 0 incorrect
Amar 6 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Brendan $3,800
Liz $1,800
Amar $400
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Congress Acted Up; Men Of Science; Name, The Expression; Signature Songs; Mistaken Identity; Where In “The” World?)
In a Double Jeopardy! round that saw two incorrect Daily Doubles, two players at $0 or worse, and the leader at $1,000 10 clues into the round, Amar rebounded well to take the lead; it wasn’t a runaway, though. Liz sat within striking distance going into Final.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Amar 16 correct 4 incorrect
Liz 11 correct 1 incorrect
Brendan 14 correct 5 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 18 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Amar $9,200
Liz $5,200
Brendan $3,000
Liz was the only player correct in Final—but an inexplicable wager of $0 from Liz means that Amar is now a 2-day champion!
Tonight’s results:
Brendan $3,000 – $2,900 = $100 (What is the Red Sea?)
Liz $5,200 + $0 = $5,200 (What is the Sea of Galilee?)
Amar $9,200 – $1,201 = $7,999 (What is the Red Sea?) (2-day total: $24,599)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) ONE FOR THE MONEY $1000 (clue #13)
Amar 2800 -2800 (Brendan 2800 Liz 1400)
2) NAME, THE EXPRESSION $1200 (clue #7)
Liz 3000 -3000 (Amar -1200 Brendan 3000)
3) CONGRESS ACTED UP $1600 (clue #9, $22800 left on board)
Amar 800 -1200 (Brendan 3000 Liz 0)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -260
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Amar 2 4 2 3 5*
Brendan 3 3 4 3
Liz 3 4 3 4
DJ! Round:
Amar 3 4 5 4 3 4*
Brendan
Liz 2 3* 5
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Amar 3.55
Liz 3.43
Brendan 3.25
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 18 (0.10 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Amar $13,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 4 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Liz $8,200 Coryat, 11 correct, 1 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Brendan $3,000 Coryat, 14 correct, 5 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $24,400
Lach Trash: $18,000 (on 16 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,600
Lead Changes: 4
Times Tied: 2
Player Statistics:
Amar Kakirde, career statistics:
35 correct, 7 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 12 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (34/114)
1/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,000
Brendan Gilfillan, career statistics:
14 correct, 6 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $3,000
Liz Capouch, career statistics:
12 correct, 1 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,200
Amar Kakirde, to win:
3 games: 34.086%
4: 11.619%
5: 3.960%
6: 1.350%
7: 0.460%
Avg. streak: 2.517 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- A reminder that the rules of the show on this point are clear: Incomplete song titles (“Da Club” instead of “In Da Club”) are considered incorrect, while overfull song titles that contain a correct lyric (“I’m A Loser” instead of “Loser”) are considered correct.
- Learning Final Jeopardy betting strategy is not a difficult proposition. I beg future contestants to learn this.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Amar $9,200 Liz $5,200 Brendan $3,000)
Amar: Standard cover bet over Liz is $1,201. (Actual bet: $1,201)
Brendan: Bet no more than $599; this gives you the best hope of second place, as Liz should be betting for the win. (Actual bet: $2,900)
Liz: If Amar bets to cover and is incorrect in Final Jeopardy, he’ll fall to $7,999. Thus, you need to bet at least $2,800 to have any chance of victory. (Actual bet: $0)
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“What is the Sea of Galilee?” I didn’t know that Rembrandt had painted it. I got it from the Bible quote.
Me too.
I’m joing the club as well. I didn’t know of the painting either. But I remembered the Bible quote. So with a bit of Biblical geography, I knew teh corrext response had to be “What is the Sea of Galilee?” (My Sunday School teachers would be proud.)
Sort of “Ditto”. I am pretty sure that I vaguely recall the painting from Andy’s explanation, but I just got the correct ‘Sea of Galilee’ response from the Bible quote (though, admittedly, I did not even remember the “occasion” represented by the painting, just associated the Sea of Galilee with Jesus, who was quoted in the clue).
It is one of the paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. It remains missing.
Ah, that’s why I kind of remembered it after Andy’s description.
I knew the correct response solely because of the Gardner Museum robbery. Around a dozen pieces were stolen, with current values between $500 Mil – $1 Billion. Some theories suggests the thieves had a “shopping list” of specific artworks, because some other priceless gems were left untouched despite being even more valuable.
I didnt know that
Pretty straightforward from the Bible quote for anyone with some familiarity.
Got it. The quotation took me to Jesus and the Sea of Galilee. As they say, “It’s easy if you know it.”
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Fatal and incomprehensible lack of a wager by Liz. How do people who are so smart and know so much not take the 10 minutes to learn Final Jeoparday wagering strategy? It’s pretty intuitive – be sure to bet enough to win if you are right and the leader is wrong.
I chalk it uo to the stress of having only x number of seconds to decide on a wager, plus, being under the lights, with the people in the studio audience, plus all those that will be watching at home.
Unless I could find away to block out those distractions, I would more than likely goof up my wagering, IF I was in that position. An unlikely happening.
I thought they are given as much time as needed to make the wager (within reason). Maybe she just had somewhere else she need to be later that day. Who knows.
It could be that she generally does very poorly with ‘Artwork’ clues, but would have bet had the category been ‘Biblical Settings’.
Lisa I agree with you and that’s what I was thinking. they place bets after hearing the category alone for a reason. While it seems pretty obvious that she’s within striking distance, and I was very surprised she bet 0, maybe she just had 0 confidence in the Art category.
…that being said, she literally had nothing to lose by betting more; only to gain. Amar was obv not going to bet more than 1201. Who knows, maybe she got overwhelmed in the moment like Bill said, and just focused on not being sure of the category.
As the “Bible Answer Man” at my church, this final was too easy.
Much more astounding is trying to figure out a zero wager when the game is right there for the taking. The simplest thing to do is just wager enough to take the lead if the leader gets it wrong. In this case, $4001 would do the trick. Not even difficult arithmetic to do in your head.
Even if you thought you were going to miss it, you should use some kind of strategy. If it is a triple get, she falls into 3rd place. If it is a triple miss she stays in second. Playing from second isn’t always easy, but she didn’t even lock down second place. Amar had a good run at the end, but they seemed to miss a lot of questions. Maybe I am just used to watching Jeopardy Masters where they know seemingly everything.
As someone who helped Liz get ready for this, I can attest she absolutely knew the proper betting strategy. I think that after seeing the category (which is generally a big weakness for her) there was just a horribly timed lapse in confidence, leading to a bid that didn’t make sense. Sometimes your brain doesn’t react in logical ways under pressure.
It really is a brutal way to miss out on a win, but Liz is a brilliant and wonderful person, and this doesn’t change that. I wish people would keep that in mind before jumping to conclusions.
The conclusion I jumped to was pretty much the key aspect you said, that the category was generally a big weakness for her. Any thoughts on my additional thinking — that she would have been more comfortable betting on a category noted as Bible-related?
Either way, my thoughts were empathetic and sympathetic, not critical. [And my post now has no intention of being critical of your post.]
I have forgotten most of what I learned of the Bible and don’t know much about Rembrandt. Therefore FJ didn’t come to me. What’s kind of annoying though is that I was on a boat on the Sea of Galilee in May 1980 as a 12 year old! Doh!
As for Liz’s wager….I about fell over when I saw her wager and Ken probably did too. Being that I’ve seen 6 Jeopardy shows taped, you actually get a good amount of time to wager. Much more time than you do to answer the question. I feel bad for her. 🙁
Based on ‘TeamLiz’s comment, I don’t think this was actually the case for Liz, but in THIS situation at the end of THIS game, a person in Liz’s place could have been expecting both Amar and Brendan to overbet AND to not come up with the correct response. If so, pseudo-Liz would have been 75% correct as both other contestants gave an incorrect FJ! and one of them did overbet.
So even if $0 was not the generally advisable best bet, it was not totally bereft of logic.
Lisa, I’m glad to hear that there was probably some logic behind it. It was baffling to me.
But sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and it can be very hard to know or understand what you (or especially someone else) would do in a situation.
I believe I’ve seen Andy say that those contestants who bet $0 on Final Jeopardy should not make a guess. Had Liz not made a guess, there wouldn’t be nearly as much criticism. But not making a guess where the reply was obviously a body of water mentioned in the Bible would have seemed odd.
Yeah at least don’t put down the right answer 😂
😂