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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category New York Movies) for Thursday, September 19, 2024 (Season 41, Game 9):
Frank Sinatra got upset that a photo of him caught fire in a Brooklyn pizzeria in this film
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Fr. Steve Jakubowski, a Catholic priest originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Jen Feldman, a high school teacher from Brooklyn, New York
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Chris Lindsay, an attorney from Carmel, California (1-day total: $11,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Chris Lindsay is your new Jeopardy champion after his come-from-behind victory in last night’s game. Today, he faces off against New York teacher Jen Feldman and Father Steve Jakubowski, who I believe is only the second player to be introduced with the title Father on the show—and the first since Father Greg Coiro all the way back in November 1984.
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Correct response: What is Do The Right Thing?
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In the 1989 film Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee included a scene where Sal’s Pizzeria in Brooklyn burned down because there were customers upset at Sal the proprietor. Sinatra, whose picture was on that wall in the scene, was offended at the fact that Lee had chosen to burn the photograph of Sinatra, and rebuffed Lee a few years later when Lee was looking to talk to Sinatra during the production of Lee’s Jungle Fever.
Spike Lee recounted the story of how he found out that the Chairman of the Board was mad at him at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.
As far as movie-related Final Jeopardy clues go, I think that this is an excellent one that certainly has the potential to teach many viewers something that they may or may not have known about Sinatra.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, September 19, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Birthstones; Art & Artists; Bugging Out; Fix The Proverb; Memory; Cats’ Songs)
All three players got off to a good start; Chris led at the break with $3,800, while Father Steve had $2,400 and Jen $1,200.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Chris 5 correct 0 incorrect
Fr. Steve 5 correct 0 incorrect
Jen 3 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Fr. Steve is a recently-ordained priest.
Jen got a cat who lived under the set of “Blue Bloods”.
Chris participated in a pumpkin roll in Carmel.
In the second half of the round, Jen found the Daily Double, but she was incorrect. At the second commercial break, Father Steve led on the strength of 13 correct responses in the round overall.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Fr. Steve 13 correct 0 incorrect
Chris 6 correct 1 incorrect
Jen 6 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Fr. Steve $7,400
Chris $3,800
Jen $1,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: U.S. Political History; From The TV Show’s Theme Song; Literary Epitaphs; Does Anybody Have Any Change?; U.K. Cities; Tough Vocab)
Double Jeopardy saw both Chris and Father Steve get Daily Doubles incorrect; thus, Jen found herself going from third to first on the strength of seven correct responses in this round.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Jen 13 correct 3 incorrect
Chris 14 correct 2 incorrect
Fr. Steve 17 correct 3 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Jen $9,800
Chris $9,200
Fr. Steve $5,400
Both Jen and Chris were correct in Final; Jen predicted correctly that Chris was going to bet small, making a small bet herself that worked out for her as she became the new champion! She’ll be back tomorrow to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Fr. Steve $5,400 – $5,301 = $99 (What is The Godfather Pt II?)
Chris $9,200 + $1,601 = $10,801 (What is Do the Right Thing?)
Jen $9,800 + $4,000 = $13,800 (What is “Do The Right Thing”?) (1-day total: $13,800)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) BIRTHSTONES $600 (clue #21)
Jen 2400 -600 (Chris 3800 Fr. Steve 5400)
2) DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY CHANGE? $1200 (clue #10)
Chris 8200 -1000 (Jen 4600 Fr. Steve 7400)
3) U.K. CITIES $1200 (clue #12, $20400 left on board)
Fr. Steve 9000 -4000 (Chris 7200 Jen 4600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -82
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Chris 2 4 3 3 2 4 5
Jen 4 3 5 2 2 3*
Fr. Steve 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 4
DJ! Round:
Chris 3 4 5 3* 4†
Jen 3 4 2 5 2 1
Fr. Steve 3*
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Jen 3.00
Chris 3.50
Fr. Steve 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:
Jen $10,400 Coryat, 13 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Chris $10,200 Coryat, 14 correct, 2 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Fr. Steve $9,400 Coryat, 17 correct, 3 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $30,000
Lach Trash: $16,400 (on 13 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,600
Lead Changes: 9
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Chris Lindsay, career statistics:
25 correct, 5 incorrect
1/3 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (24/114)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,000)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,000
Jen Feldman, career statistics:
14 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$600)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,400
Fr. Steve Jakubowski, career statistics:
17 correct, 4 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,400
Jen Feldman, to win:
2 games: 29.571%
3: 8.744%
4: 2.586%
5: 0.765%
6: 0.226%
Avg. streak: 1.420 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Jen $9,800 Chris $9,200 Fr. Steve $5,400)
Chris: Standard cover bet over Fr. Steve is $1,601. (Actual bet: $1,601)
Jen: Standard cover bet over Chris is $8,601. (Actual bet: $4,000)
Fr. Steve: Bet between $2,201 (making sure you’re ahead of Chris if he bets his minimum and is incorrect) and $4,199 (staying ahead of Jen if she makes a cover bet and is incorrect.) (Actual bet: $5,301)
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Jen may have correctly guessed Chris would wager small (enough for Chris to cover third place), but she didn’t wager to win a double stumper with him. Seems her wager was more in line with forcing third place to correct if she wasn’t. As for the clue, I guessed The Towering Inferno because I had no clue, and pretty sure that movie had a fire.
With a title like that, I’d be shocked if there wasn’t a fire!
Oh there was most definitely a fire! In a big tall building in San Francisco. It and Earthquake were disaster films from the mid-1970’s. Earthquake hits too close to home, as it destroys my city of Los Angeles.
Because we’ve only seen 10 correct responses on Daily Doubles out of the 27 this season, I decided to look at the first two weeks of every modern season (modern in this case = post-doubling of dollar values) to compare the Daily Double record in those seasons to this one…
And long story short, this is going to be the first season in over 20 years, if not ever, to have more Daily Doubles answered incorrectly than correctly in the first two weeks. Even if the players tomorrow sweep all three DDs, it’ll still only bring the rate up to 13/30, or 43.3% – by far the lowest % in the modern era.
Some more numbers from my findings…
Season 19, shockingly, had the highest rate of DD conversion in the first two weeks (25/30, or 83.3%).
Seasons 22, 27, 36, and 38 are all tied at 23 Daily Doubles correct, partly due to the champions in at least the first week (David Madden, Roger Craig, Jason Zuffranieri, and Matt Amodio, respectively). Of these, Season 27 had the highest conversion rate (79.3%) because it was the only one of the four to have a Daily Double be unplayed.
On the flip side, Season 26 had the least correct Daily Doubles, with just fifteen; the only reason that isn’t the lowest % is because only 27 Daily Doubles were played in the first two weeks, marking a conversion rate of 55.6%.
What is the lowest %? Seasons 20, 24, 29, and 37 all had just 16 correct responses; however, by virtue of it being the only season to NOT have an unplayed Daily Double, Season 24 takes the crown, with an anemic 53.3% conversion rate. Seasons 20, 29, and 37 are in a three-way tie for second, with 16/29 (55.2%).
The first two weeks of regular play of Season 40 produced a joint-third-highest get rate of 23/30 (76.7%), while the first two weeks of Season 40 produced a get rate of 63.3%.
Nearly half of the correct Daily Doubles in the first two regular-play weeks of Season 40 were courtesy of Alison Betts… or, as I like to call her, Miss Daily Double Magnet. (All in good fun, of course!)
Shockingly, the first two weeks of Season 21 produced a get rate of “just” 21/30, or 70%. I say “shockingly” because, well, Ken Jennings.
I will see all of you with potentially more useless numbers tomorrow! 🙂
Note to self:
Do not try to make bulleted lists in comments.
They will not work.
I only wish you had broken it down by dollar value on the board where the DD was found 🙂
That seems dumb on Sinatra’s part, since showing that the picture burned would more likely intend to indicate the reverence in which it was held by the owners and patrons [i.e., implying their upset at seeing it burn] than showing lack of respect for him [which ignoring the picture would imply].
Semi-rhetorically: I wonder what will happen if every (newly-minted) M.D. or Ph.D. now asks to be called “Doctor”.
Because “Do The Right Thing” is one of my favorite movies, and one that I try to watch at least once a year, this one was a simple get for me.
Where did they get ‘an idle brain is the devil’s workshop”? I thought it was idle hands.
Searching for the phrase with your favorite internet search engine is likely to yield an acceptable answer.
Watched all of Jeopardy tonight, only for my TV to time out just as Ken was about to read the FJ clue. Noooooooo!!!!! I got it to come back on just as they were revealing the answers from the players. Coming here just now, I see that I would have had no clue.
0 for 4 for the week and 2 for 9 for Season 41. Hopefully I can end the week with a win like I did last Friday! Have a great Friday everyone! I liked all the DD stats MasterDoge!
When today’s Final Jeopardy was shown, somehow by brain just clicked on (Spike Lee’s) Do The Right Thing. But, I don’t recall ever watching ANY of Spike Lee’s films. Yet somehow “a fire at a Brooklyn pizza shop” took me right there. So, with that I’m .500 for the week.