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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 20th Century America) for Tuesday, September 24, 2024 (Season 41, Game 12):
In a state of shock, on November 27, 1978, she announced that “both Mayor Moscone & Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot & killed”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Carter Scott, an outdoor guide & educator from Suwanee, Georgia
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Rachael Crawley, a described video writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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David Erb, a puzzle designer from Seattle, Washington (1-day total: $17,655)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
David Erb played the Daily Doubles incredibly well in last night’s episode, picking up a combined $15,000 on the three of them. I am hopeful that he can get another couple of wins under his belt as I think that he is one of the strongest players that we’ve seen in the past year and a half. Today, he faces Ontario’s Rachel Crawley and Georgia’s Carter Scott.
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Correct response: Who is Dianne Feinstein?
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Prior to her three-decade career as U.S. Senator, Dianne Feinstein had a lengthy term serving in San Francisco local politics. As President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (the local legislative body), she became Acting Mayor upon the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk by the homophobic Dan White, who had served alongside Moscone, Milk, and Feinstein on the Board of Supervisors. It was in her role as Acting Mayor and President of the Board of Supervisors that saw Feinstein report the assassinations to the world.
This might be a more difficult clue for a player who hasn’t seen Milk; I’m hopeful that our contestants remember enough about the event to get this clue correct.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, September 24, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: History; I’m Looking For A Man In Finance; 3-Letter Words With 2 Syllables; Herbs & Spices; Brit Lit Sits; Bespectacled Animated Characters)
David got off to an early lead on the back of five correct responses; at the break, David had $3,600 to Carter’s $2,400 and Rachael’s $2,000.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
David 5 correct 0 incorrect
Carter 4 correct 0 incorrect
Rachael 3 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Carter got The Call on his birthday and rearranged his Japan trip to be on the show.
Rachael dressed up as Alex Trebek for a “Famous Canadians” project in Grade 5.
David is married to Bonnie Garmus.
Although Carter found the Daily Double, he only bet $1,000 on it, which meant that David still lead at commercial number two.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
David 11 correct 0 incorrect
Carter 9 correct 1 incorrect
Rachael 6 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
David $5,800
Carter $5,400
Rachael $2,800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: A Season In Helsinki; This & That; Ancient Science; Giving It Your “All”; People In Poems; Walt, Wit Man)
David only needed one DD today; after the game turned on a $2,000 neg of Carter’s rebounded by David, David picked up $10,000 on DD2. While Carter found DD3, an incorrect response ended Carter’s comeback attempt. David cruised to a runaway on the strength of 12 correct in Double Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
David 23 correct 0 incorrect
Rachael 14 correct 2 incorrect
Carter 16 correct 4 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
David $30,600
Rachael $10,800
Carter $3,800
Both Rachael and David were correct in Final Jeopardy; David got his 2-day total up to $57,143! He’ll go for win #3 tomorrow.
Tonight’s results:
Carter $3,800 – $800 = $3,000 (Who is Ferraro?)
Rachael $10,800 + $2,500 = $13,300 (Who is Feinstein)
David $30,600 + $8,888 = $39,488 (Who is Feinstein? Hi BZ+S) (2-day total: $57,143)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) BRIT LIT SITS $1000 (clue #19)
Carter 3800 +1000 (David 3600 Rachael 2600)
2) GIVING IT YOUR “ALL” $1200 (clue #11)
David 16200 +10000 (Rachael 5600 Carter 4200)
3) PEOPLE IN POEMS $2000 (clue #18, $8400 left on board)
Carter 8200 -6000 (David 27400 Rachael 7200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 15
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
David 3 4 5 2 4 5 3
Rachael 2 4 3 3 3
Carter 5 5 3 5 4 4 5*
DJ! Round:
David 3 4 3 5 4 3* 4 2 5
Rachael 3 4 2 3
Carter 5 5 5 4 5*
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
David 3.69
Rachael 3.00
Carter 4.58
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:
David $21,800 Coryat, 23 correct, 0 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Rachael $10,800 Coryat, 14 correct, 2 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Carter $9,800 Coryat, 16 correct, 4 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: $42,400
Lach Trash: $5,400 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,200
Lead Changes: 7
Times Tied: 3
Player Statistics:
David Erb, career statistics:
46 correct, 3 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
34.21% in first on buzzer (39/114)
4/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $25,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,800
Rachael Crawley, career statistics:
15 correct, 2 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,800
Carter Scott, career statistics:
16 correct, 5 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$5,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,800
David Erb, to win:
3 games: 71.890%
4: 51.682%
5: 37.154%
6: 26.710%
7: 19.202%
Avg. streak: 4.557 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- For those who don’t remember, I no longer provide wagering suggestions in double runaways.
- I feel as though David’s Final Jeopardy wager should be part of the banned wager list, for the same reason that the two-digit version of that wager is banned.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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Didn’t need to see Milk to know it (as write up claimed). Many LGBTQ+ over a certain age remember it only too well.
Also, Feinstein only died just under a year ago and that incident was noted in many [most?] of the news segments about her despite how much she’d done since then.
I had just turned seven (as I stated in my comment below), but it was significant to me even then, even before I realized I was LGBTQ+, because of the famous first that went with it; the first female mayor of a major US city.
Californians of a certain age don’t need to have seen a movie to remember this horrific incident.
It depends on your definition of “Californian”. I imagine there are people currently of that certain age who have lived in California long enough to be called Californians, but had moved there well since 1980. Many of them will be aware of it regardless (though maybe not “remember”, just “have heard of”), but I would venture a guess that many of them are not even aware of it.
This is actually one of those that I knew as opposed to making an educated guess, though I think that if I didn’t know, I would have been able to make the educated guess. I could see people also guessing Nancy Pelosi given her time frame in California politics.
Indeed. Nancy Pelosi is who first came to my mind because I most knew that it was someone who had gone long and far in national politics, but I also knew that it was someone who had died last year, so not Pelosi. However, I could not think of Dianne F’s name within 30 seconds.
Got this quickly. D.F.
Well, being that I live in the SF Bay Area, I got this one before I finished reading the FJ clue. This was certainly a sad time for the SF Bay area, not to mention a very sad time for San Francisco. That day I felt the same way I did when JFK was shot!
*Well, being that I live in the SF Bay Area, I got this one before I finished reading the FJ clue. *
Same here.
I feel as though David’s Final Jeopardy wager should be part of the banned wager list, for the same reason that the two-digit version of that wager is banned.
Given that the number 8 is auspicious in Chinese culture (remember 8/8/2008?) , banning all combinations of 8 is culturally insensitive.
I am not calling for the banning of all combinations of 8; I am calling for the banning of all combinations of 88, and I am offended that you would classify my statement as culturally insensitive.
After looking up the possible implications of the number 88 I agree with Andy.
Leo, maybe you should have said 88 instead of saying 8, but I still get your point (and 88 is IN “all combinations of 8” at least once since the digit itself is not a combination) and basically agree that such a ban SEEMS culturally insensitive [which had occurred to me when I first read ‘Andy’s Thoughts’], but I also feel that INTENT is key and I was sure that Andy did not intend to be culturally insensitive (even though as smart and well-informed as he is, I’m sure he knew that the number 8 is auspicious in Chinese and Japanese culture).
But I also feel it is a slippery slope. Do they need to ban any innocuous wager that would result in having an 88 in the final total be their response correct or incorrect [i.e. by getting that wager added to or subtracted from their prior total]? And what about all the other numbers that have been mentioned in this category (with 14 being the only one I am aware of due to the recent extensive ‘Pillow Guy’ negative publicity)? And speaking of the ‘Pillow Guy’, many news outlets had ‘man on the street’ interviews and the vast majority of people had no idea that there was anything wrong with those numbers, much less why — so aren’t we spreading hate rhetoric when providing exposure to new people who will probably look up what it means? [Thinking bans get more publicity than ignoring coincidences.]
Because they are often referenced obliquely, I may have gotten the wrong impression that there are many such misappropriated numbers, but if there ARE many, then if contestants cannot write down any of them as wagers and cannot write any wager that could result in a total containing any of them, then they need to be given even more time to come up with their wager. Remember that even without these restrictions players fairly often get discombobulated and make a wager that ends with $1 when it needed to be $99 or subtracts when they needed to add or whatever. It was already proposed to limit wagers to very plain numbers (and ending with $1, $2, or $99 if strategically desirable), but I feel banning oddity numbers goes against wanting the players to have personality and not mentally upsetting players who have a strong desire to commemorate family dates or who just find comfort or luck in interesting numbers – plus maybe one great at math gaining an edge over others who are not.
Lisa,
Thank you. I didn’t mean Andy; I wanted to say that such a ban explicitly mentioning 8s, be it any number of them greater than one, or just an even number of them, could be considered insensitive from the part of the producers.
so aren’t we spreading hate rhetoric when providing exposure to new people who will probably look up what it means? [Thinking bans get more publicity than ignoring coincidences.]
That’s my thoughts as well. The Streisand effect must not be discounted.
I had just turned seven a couple of weeks before this. I remember seeing the video of DiFi making the statement to the press, and hearing the national news anchor saying that with the death of Mayor Moscone she would become the mayor of San Francisco, and would be the first female mayor in the city’s history. This stood out to me, as I recalled Jane Byrne being elected in Chicago a few months later and the distinction that was made between Feinstein being the first female mayor of a major US city and Byrne being the first female elected mayor of a major US city; both pretty significant firsts for women in the country.
I consider David’s wager today to reinforce the conjecture I commented yesterday about why he wagered $12345 that day.
I hope Andy’s desire that David “can get another couple of wins under his belt as I think that he is one of the strongest players that we’ve seen in the past year and a half” comes true as I am curious if/how he will maintain his streak of interesting numbers for his wagers.
I remember it as if it was yesterday. Cleve Jones called me fifteen minutes after he found Harvey’s Body. The San Francisco Police were wearing “Free Dan White” shirts before dusk. When Feinstein made it clear white was not welcome to live in San Francisco after his brief prison sentence “I ate Twinkies and other junk food! I’m not responsible for what I did!” Also known as “Twinkie Madness,” Dan White committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Nobody in the LGBTQQ+ Community who was alive then will ever forget.
I remember the murder of Harvey Milk, didn’t know the mayor of San Francsisco was killed at the same time.
As the Final Jeopardy “answer” clue was being shown, read by Ken, somehow I believed the correct response would be (Who is [was] Diane Feinstein (?). Yes, I saw I missspelled her first name, but I don’t think spelling will count in this situation. Why I thought the late Sen. Feinstein would be the correct response was unclear to me, maybe because she was a prominent California politician. Did not even think of Rep. Pelosi.
I agree, David is one of the strongest, most entertaining players Jeopardy has had in a while. His playing, wagering style reminds me of James Holzhauer. It would be nice if David had a run of wins exceeding the 5 win minimum for automatically qualifying for the Tournamnet of Champions.
I’m absolutely sure that David was unaware of the connotations that 8 and 88 have, and I don’t blame him at all for making the wager he did…
But in hindsight, would it have killed the guy to bet $8,765?
Apologies if I’m not aware of the rule or precedent, but I believe the contestant should not have been given the opportunity to be more specific when responding “What is a bath?” when the correct response was “What is a sauna?”.
Webster’s definition of sauna starts with “A Finnish steam bath”, so I think Ken’s prompt for more specificity was spot on.
Of the three female politicians from California of the right age group I thought of Boxer and Pelosi, didn’t even consider Feinstein. Oops.