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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Notable American Women) for Friday, June 28, 2024 (Season 40, Game 210):
In her autobiography she tells of a rather “singular coincidence”, that one of her Swiss ancestors was a teacher of the deaf
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Cat Pisacano, a nurse from New York, New York
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Andrew Fox, a clinical psychologist from Robbinsdale, Minnesota
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Drew Basile, a graduate student from Birmingham, Michigan (7-day total: $129,601)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
After winning 3 games last week (the May 8 tape day), Drew Basile has the opportunity to run the May 14 tape day and end the week again as Jeopardy! champion. However, Andrew Fox from Minnesota and Cat Pisacano from New York are both hoping that Drew’s win streak ends at seven games.
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Correct response: Who is Helen Keller?
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In Helen Keller’s biography, The Story of My Life, she wrote that one of her Swiss ancestors was Zurich’s first teacher of the deaf who wrote a book on the subject of their education.
I think that the most difficult part of this Final Jeopardy clue is knowing to stay with Helen Keller as a response, and not decide to go for Anne Sullivan—Helen Keller’s teacher and companion—instead.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, June 28, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Literary Geography; Alliteration; TV Catchphrases; College Newspapers; “B” Wear; The Dogs)
Our opening segment tonight combined for 7 incorrect responses, 6 Triple Stumpers, and a combined score of $0. Cat led with $1,400, Andrew had -$600, and Drew had -$800.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Cat 3 correct 1 incorrect
Andrew 2 correct 2 incorrect
Drew 3 correct 4 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Cat encountered a monkey on a table when volunteering in Ecuador.
Andrew can count Leon Trotsky among his ancestors.
Drew met his girlfriend at a frat party pre-COVID and then moved to Philly.
Drew managed to get himself out of the hole, but went back into it before the end fof the round. Cat led after 30 with Andrew second.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Cat 9 correct 1 incorrect
Andrew 5 correct 3 incorrect
Drew 5 correct 7 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Cat $3,400
Andrew $200
Drew -$1,400
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Ancient Names; Stuff About States; Greek Myth: Women & Goddesses; Internet Celebrities; AFI’s Greatest Villains; Teen-Letter Words)
Drew had a much better Double Jeopardy round, picking up 14 correct; unfortunately, he also got both Daily Doubles incorrect. This meant that, while he led going into Final, it wasn’t a runaway.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Drew 19 correct 9 incorrect
Cat 13 correct 3 incorrect
Andrew 9 correct 5 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 20 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Drew $9,600
Cat $5,800
Andrew $600
Andrew and Cat got Final correct—but Drew went for Gallaudet, which means that we have a new champion in Cat Pisacano! She’ll be back on Monday to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Andrew $600 + $600 = $1,200 (Who is Helen Keller?)
Cat $5,800 + $5,700 = $11,500 (Who is Hellen Keller?) (1-day total: $11,500)
Drew $9,600 – $8,399 = $1,201 (Who is Gallaudet? :()
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) ALLITERATION $600 (clue #4)
Drew 200 -1000 (Andrew -600 Cat -600)
2) ANCIENT NAMES $1200 (clue #17)
Drew 8600 -3000 (Andrew -1800 Cat 3800)
3) STUFF ABOUT STATES $1200 (clue #20, $8400 left on board)
Drew 9200 -2000 (Andrew -1800 Cat 3800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -157
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Drew 3 4 5 3*
Andrew
Cat
DJ! Round:
Drew 3 4 3 4 5 5 3 4 5 3 4 5 3* 4† 5† 3*
Andrew 2
Cat 1 2 1
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Cat 1.33
Drew 3.90
Andrew 2.00
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 20 (0.10 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Cat $5,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 3 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
Drew $15,600 Coryat, 19 correct, 9 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Andrew $600 Coryat, 9 correct, 5 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $22,000
Lach Trash: $17,000 (on 16 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $15,000
Lead Changes: 3
Times Tied: 6
Player Statistics:
Drew Basile, career statistics:
184 correct, 40 incorrect
9/13 on rebound attempts (on 40 rebound opportunities)
41.36% in first on buzzer (189/457)
9/14 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $26,000)
3/8 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,800
Andrew Fox, career statistics:
10 correct, 5 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $600
Cat Pisacano, career statistics:
14 correct, 3 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,800
Cat Pisacano, to win:
2 games: 28.421%
3: 8.078%
4: 2.296%
5: 0.652%
6: 0.185%
Avg. streak: 1.397 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Drew $9,600 Cat $5,800 Andrew $600)
Drew: Standard cover bet over Cat is $2,001. (Actual bet: $8,399)
Andrew: Bet whatever you’d like. (Actual bet: $600)
Cat: Bet between $1,800 (thereby passing Drew on a cover bet) and $4,599 (thereby keeping Andrew locked out for second). (Actual bet: $5,700)
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Immediately thought it would’ve been Helen Keller’s teacher, but I could not for the life of me remember her name. I wonder if any of our contestants will have the same problem and just put Keller. Or wholehearted believe it’s not Keller and leave it blank. Wish we had a good way to find out what was happening in their heads after the game.
Cat told me in the green room after the game the Swiss part pointed her to Keller.
Thank you for the insight here Alan. 🙂 Always nice to hear it from the inside.
This exactly. Deaf pointed me to Helen Keller and, then, I tried to think of her teacher’s name. Failing to come up with the teacher’s name, I just went with Helen Keller. Turned out to be the right choice, by default. 🙂
They are who I immediately thought of, but “Keller” sounded Swiss and “Sullivan” sounded Irish, so that’s what I based my correct response on (whether I was correct about the names or not).
Same here. I was thinking Anne Bancroft, but didn’t sound right. So I probably would have gone with Helen Keller.
“Who is Helen Keller?” I knew that Helen Keller had written an autobiography. I do not believe that Anne Sullivan did so.
To be fair—especially in the moment—one might convince oneself that The Miracle Worker might be an autobiography.
And Patty Duke played both roles – Helen Keller in the 1962 version and Anne Sullivan in the 1979 version.
I was astounded to read that Patty Duke “played both roles.” I was about to declare that to be impossible. Then, I saw that she played the two roles 17 years apart and was greatly relieved. LOL at the thought of playing both roles at the same time. She was a great actress and I do miss her.
Well, she did play “identical cousins” at the same time!
I was thinking Miracle Worker, which I didn’t know was a play based on Keller’s 1903 autobiography.
I fell into the Anne Sullivan trap.
Same here.
Me, too.
I got this one right away. To be honest, I can’t say I knew that Helen Keller wrote an autobiography but through context clues I figured it could be no one else.
We shall see if Drew can continue his run and make it 8 in a row
I couldn’t get the name of Helen Keller’s teacher ‘Anne Sullivan’, so I stuck with Keller 🙂
I did the same. I can only hope that if I had remembered the name Sullivan, I would have figured out that Keller is the Germanic one out of two.
Same guys. Glad that I didn’t know Helen’s teacher’s name. Though I did almost go off course and go with The Miracle Worker and then quickly remembered we were looking for a person, not a book.
I almost fell into the Sullivan trap until I realized Keller sounded more Swiss(Germanic) than Sullivan(British). This is a cleverly written clue. The Swiss reference, at first class, seems insignificant but is actually quite relevant.
Sorry…I meant at first glance
I thought about the response and in 29 seconds I responded with Helen Keller. I was almost late. I am proud of myself in getting this response correct.
As for Drew, he is averaging in these 7 games $18,515 per game. Nonetheless he is our 7 day champion…and perhaps an 8 day champion after today….
I once rented a room in my house to a hearing impaired person. It was from him that I learned about the school Gallaudet where deaf students attend.
Now I will say goodbye to Drew and congratulations to Cat. We will see Drew in the next TOC.
I have heard of Gallaudet so many times in so many ways (including in books) that I have no idea what the first time was.
I remember in the 2000 movie The Replacements that the football team (the fictional Washington Sentinels, based on the Redskins) had a deaf player from Gallaudet and that’s how I learned about that University.
Interesting wagers. Drew had a crush game, and could’ve secured a double stumper win with Cat, but didn’t wager as such. But then she over wagered, too. As it was, moot points.
I would have guessed Helen Keller and not Annie Sullivan based on the movie alone. Swedish. Inga Swenson played Helen’s mother and Anne Bancroft had a delightful and very heavy Irish accent.
Yesterday (6/27) was Helen Keller’s birthday.
This is why it was an instant get for me, seeing as she was referenced in The Writer’s Almanac email I get daily. I put Helen Keller down, thought if it might’ve been Sullivan instead, but stuck with Keller because of her last name.
No idea why Drew put down somebody a large portion of the audience would’ve never heard of.
Being that Gallaudet University is the US’s major university for the deaf, I think your last sentence is out of line here.
Apologies if that sounded bad! I admit I could’ve worded it better. I’ve never heard that name before. And I’d think a lot of viewers – the kinds who’d never be able to be on the show – would be in the same boat, and there would be irrelevant tabloid articles saying the clue was “too hard” just the same. I think Gallaudet would be a TOC-level FJ response accordingly.
And by “large portion” I simply meant a larger number than normal. I have heard of like 97% of regular play FJ answers. The actual ones. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
But hey, you learn something new every day, right?
I’m thinking maybe “Gallaudet” was a strategic guess (based on the thought that “Helen Kellar” was too easy).
There are often FJ clues about people, places, or things that a large portion of the audience have never heard of. [I don’t take “a large portion” to necessarily meant “over 33%”, but rather “many more than a few”.]
And Gallaudet was male so he doesn’t fit the “Notable American Women” category.
That would be cruel to expect as a response even on a Masters Tournament, but there was one Sophia Fowler Gallaudet (1798–1877), American activist for the deaf, wife of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet who would fit the category.
I simply went on the odds. I toggled for exactly 13 seconds between Keller and Sullivan and finally decided that odds were Helen Keller is the more popular or well known individual. The odds gave me a good Friday!
Though the correct response to FJ is often NOT the more popular or well known individual (nor the more popular or well known city).