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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Letters of the Artists) for Thursday, October 17, 2024 (Season 41, Game 29):
In 1896 he wrote, “My prices are 2000, 3000 & 4000 dollars for head & shoulders, 3/4 length & full-length respectively”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Aaron Brown, an entrepreneur & trivia host from London, Ontario, Canada
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Angel Poe, an educational consultant from Navarre, Florida
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Rishabh Wuppalapati, an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania from Vernon Hills, Illinois (2-day total: $42,402)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Rishabh Wuppalapati is now a 2-day champion on Jeopardy! after his last-second change to his Final Jeopardy response gave him the victory. Today, he faces off against Florida’s Angel Poe and Ontario’s Aaron Brown—who, much like Nam Nguyen back in April, prepared for the show by facing off against much of the same Toronto-area trivia crew (because apparently it’s noteworthy when I use the term “luminaries” instead?). I’d say that might bode well for us having another Canadian champion—but as we all know, absolutely anything can happen on the Alex Trebek Stage.
I was also very disappointed in a great deal of the discourse surrounding last night’s outcome. I know that I feel as though nobody is actually going to listen to what I have to say in this paragraph, but I think it would certainly help if people exhibited some semblance of empathy towards others. How would you feel if you were one of Rishabh’s friends, after putting on the performance that he did yesterday, and the Internet was littered with comments saying that he shouldn’t have won? How would that make you feel? I doubt that you’d feel particularly happy. As I’ve always said, you don’t have to put every single thought from your head onto the Internet for the world to read. That should definitely happen when it comes to Jeopardy! discourse.
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Correct response: Who is John Singer Sargent?
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Expatriate American artist John Singer Sargent was the most important portraitist of the late Victorian–Edwardian era; invoices from the mid-1890s showed that important clients, such as the Harvard Club of New York, were willing to pay the $4,000 asking price for a full-length portrait (a sum worth over $150,000 today). One President’s official portrait was also painted by Sargent: Theodore Roosevelt in 1903.
To me, any viewer at home who can get this correct, or any contestant in-studio who does the same, can give themselves a pat on the back. While I was able to use “dollars” to pinpoint my response to an American, my own art knowledge was insufficient to be able to name an American portrait artist from that time period.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, October 17, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Picture The Hit Song; Planted By; Around The U.S.; The App & Website Us”er”; Recent Slang; That Blows!)
Angel got the Daily Double incorrect, while Aaron picked up 8 correct to jump out to a big lead. At the break, Aaron had $6,200 to Rishabh’s $0 and Angel’s -$2,000.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Aaron 8 correct 0 incorrect
Rishabh 2 correct 2 incorrect
Angel 1 correct 3 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Aaron has a bunch of “Canadian trivia minions”.
Angel is a very avid birdwatcher and does “The Big Day”.
Rishabh asked his boss an uncomfortable question and won $100.
Rishabh got on a bit of a roll after the break, but the fact that Aaron had picked off most of the high-value clues early meant that he still led after 30.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Aaron 11 correct 1 incorrect
Rishabh 10 correct 3 incorrect
Angel 3 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Aaron $6,800
Rishabh $1,800
Angel -$1,200
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Historic Slogans & Mottoes; The Books Of Mormons; Women’s Organizations; Biopic Subjects; Horsing Around; “I_I_I”)
The turning point came exactly midway through Double Jeopardy, when Aaron attempted a True Daily Double on DD3. An incorrect response allowed Rishabh to cruise to a runaway, while Angel was unable to get out of the red and couldn’t play Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Rishabh 20 correct 3 incorrect
Aaron 18 correct 4 incorrect
Angel 7 correct 4 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 2 (1 today).
Scores going into Final:
Rishabh $15,400
Aaron $1,600
Angel -$400
Neither Rishabh nor Aaron were correct in Final; Rishabh is now a 3-day champion, going for win #4 tomorrow.
Tonight’s results:
Angel -$400 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Aaron $1,600 – $912 = $688 (Who is Rodin? W. <3 L.)
Rishabh $15,400 – $5,000 = $10,400 (Who is Degas? Go Quakers!) (3-day total: $52,802)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) PLANTED BY $800 (clue #10)
Angel -1000 -1000 (Rishabh 600 Aaron 3600)
2) WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS $1200 (clue #13)
Aaron 10800 -2000 (Rishabh 10200 Angel -2800)
3) THE BOOKS OF MORMONS $1200 (clue #15, $12000 left on board)
Aaron 10400 -10400 (Rishabh 10200 Angel -2800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -219
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Rishabh 4 5 3 4
Angel 4*
Aaron 5 5 5 5 5
DJ! Round:
Rishabh 5 5 5 5 4 3 4
Angel 4
Aaron 5 4 3 3 3* 4 3*
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Rishabh 4.27
Aaron 4.17
Angel 4.00
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: HISTORIC SLOGANS & MOTTOES $400
Total Left On Board: $400
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 2 (0.07 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Rishabh $15,400 Coryat, 20 correct, 3 incorrect, 37.50% in first on buzzer (21/56), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Aaron $14,000 Coryat, 18 correct, 4 incorrect, 32.14% in first on buzzer (18/56), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Angel $600 Coryat, 7 correct, 4 incorrect, 16.07% in first on buzzer (9/56), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $30,000
Lach Trash: $13,200 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,400
Lead Changes: 7
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Rishabh Wuppalapati, career statistics:
57 correct, 13 incorrect
1/4 on rebound attempts (on 12 rebound opportunities)
35.88% in first on buzzer (61/170)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,867
Angel Poe, career statistics:
7 correct, 4 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
16.07% in first on buzzer (9/56)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,000)
0/0 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $600
Aaron Brown, career statistics:
18 correct, 5 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
32.14% in first on buzzer (18/56)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$12,400)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,000
Rishabh Wuppalapati, to win:
4 games: 44.568%
5: 19.863%
6: 8.853%
7: 3.945%
8: 1.758%
Avg. streak: 3.804 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
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I got this FJ right only because several years ago the National Gallery of Art in Washington hosted a fairly large exhibition of Sargent’s portraits. Otherwise, I agree, this is a tough one and likely a triple-stumper.
By the way, the the written response of Rishabh in yesterday’s FJ, I followed his writing and lo and behold, he did write down the correct response. Just thought I would share that with all of you.
The dollar sign said it was an American or I might have guessed Klimt. That left it between Sargent and Whistler, both of whom did portraits. But Sargent did many more, so I guessed him.
Re: yesterday’s FJ, I’ve always assumed that the judges can see the responses as the contestants write them and can let Ken if the answer is considered correct.
That’s exactly what happens! They don’t care if your response is as neat as Andrew He’s handwriting or a completely unintelligible mess of gibberish – as long as they can see each letter of your response being written out and the response isn’t misspelled in a way that changes the pronunciation (and is correct, of course), they will consider it to be correct.
My knowledge of painters, and, their works, is pratcally none existent, so obviously this was a loss for me.
I looked at Rishabh screen yesterday as his Final jeopardy response was revealed. I admit I could barely make out what he wrote. (My hamdwriting seems to be as bad sometimes.) But as Masterdodge confirmed, the people at the judges table have ways to decipher the players handwriting, and, obviously can tell Ken when something not obvious is acceptable.
The clickbait sites didn’t just go after Ken yesterday. I saw the lead of a story that at least implied Ryan Seacrest on Wheel “interfered” with a player, costing that player money. I din’t open either of them. Usually they seem to be biased against the way the shows conduct themselves, and/or. the hosts.
I was totally the same as Andy about the “dollars” (which, based on his response, I’m doubting Rishabh thought about) and the lack of detailed art knowledge, but I had an additional assumed parameter — that it was referring to a painter rather than a sculptor (which is also an artist) just because I thought there would likely be a bigger price differential for statues of the given proportions rather than for paintings. I could not recall who it might be, but thought it would be someone I’d heard of plenty (including painter of at least one president) but just couldn’t think of anyone fast enough. I was at least correct about it being someone I HAD heard of plenty, though probably not including dates. [Well, I WAS able to think of Gilbert Stuart but did realize he would have been long dead. Actually, now I wonder if all the ‘S’s of Stuart/Singer/Sargent makes me get them subconsciously mixed up.]
I am also wondering if Aaron was NOT thinking like I was about why it might be unlikely to be a sculptor since he said Rodin. Now I know that Rodin also did a lot of portraits, but he is more widely known as a sculptor and I am thinking that someone who was aware that Rodin also did portraits would likely know enough about painters to think of John Singer Sargent. Of course Rodin was French so was also unlikely to have priced his paintings in dollars.
The only way I could ever have gotten today’s final was if it were multiple choice. Then, I would have recognized Sargent but, otherwise, it would have taken me way longer than 30 seconds to come up with that.
I don’t really understand how anyone could say that Rishabh didn’t deserve to win yesterday’s game. I thought he played a great nip and tuck game. Sure, it could have gone either way but he deserved to win just as much as Rachel.
When I saw tonight’s FJ category, I wasn’t confident and when I saw the clue, I knew I had no idea. 1 for 4 on the week and 5 for 29 for Season 41. .172 Batting Average
Retro congrats to Rishabh on win #3 and we’ll see if he can get #4 tomorrow!
Have a great Friday everyone! 🙂
Art is definitely not one of my strong suits, and I had no clue on this one.
I SHOULD HAVE gotten it, but more based on American History than on Art (because he painted so many famous people, such as Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and some of the Vanderbilts). I really think if I had seen this FJ when I was 10 years younger I could have remembered him (and in time).