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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Literary Geography) for Friday, October 18, 2024 (Season 41, Game 30):
A N.Y. Times article recognized Sands Point & Kings Point as the real “old-money” & “nouveau riche” settings in this novel
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Kelly Gates, a librarian from Medford, Massachusetts
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Kyle Compton-Troesch, a civil engineer from Cincinnati, Ohio
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Rishabh Wuppalapati, an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania from Vernon Hills, Illinois (3-day total: $52,802)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
19-year-old Rishabh Wuppalapati is up to three victories now; today, he goes for victory #4 over Cincinnati’s Kyle Compton-Troesch and Medford’s Kelly Gates.
I’ve been working on a couple of longer-form pieces about things both Jeopardy and not; depending on when I finish them, at least one of them might see the light of day this weekend!
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Correct response: What is The Great Gatsby?
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, he used the real-life Long Island communities of Sands Point and Kings Point as East Egg (old money) and West Egg (nouveau riche)—the two main settings of the novel. The 2011 New York Times article “Adieu, Sweet Life of ’20s Luxury” specifically notes the connection: “In truth, many homes in both Sands Point and Kings Point — the first Fitzgerald’s old-money East Egg, the second his nouveau riche West Egg — inspired “Gatsby” during the period from 1922 to 1924, when Fitzgerald lived in what his wife, Zelda, described as “our nifty little Babbitt-home at Great Neck.” Fitzgerald spent the time drinking himself blind, spending money he didn’t have, and oh, yes, writing much of what is still the prime contender for the Great American Novel.”
This should be a relatively straightforward clue to end the week, and I hope many of my regulars here pick up a correct response to end the week on a good note.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, October 18, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Peak Experiences; Lighter Verse; Soccer In The USA; Exercising; Too Little; “OO” Late)
After finding the Daily Double immediately, Rishabh picked up 7 correct and jumped out to a big lead. After 15 clues, he had $5,800 to Kelly’s $2,000 and Kyle’s $600.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Rishabh 7 correct 0 incorrect
Kelly 3 correct 0 incorrect
Kyle 1 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Kelly won pub trivia against Maureen O’Neil.
Kyle volunteers for a temporary animal shelter.
Rishabh owes his father after a missed Daily Double when playing at home.
Rishabh only gave 1 correct response in the second segment as both challengers had very strong performances. Rishabh still led after 30, though.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Rishabh 8 correct 0 incorrect
Kelly 10 correct 1 incorrect
Kyle 7 correct 0 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Rishabh $6,400
Kelly $4,000
Kyle $3,800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: 19th Century Photos; Twinning; 12-Letter Words; Biology; Choreographers; A Bit Of Culture Shark)
Kelly found both Daily Doubles, splitting them with a pair of $4,000 wagers. Other than those, she picked up 7 other correct responses as she held a $1,600 lead going into the final question of the week.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Kelly 18 correct 2 incorrect
Rishabh 15 correct 1 incorrect
Kyle 13 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 2 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Kelly $13,200
Rishabh $11,600
Kyle $5,800
Everyone got Final Jeopardy correct; Kelly made the cover bet and she’s the new champion! She’ll be back on Monday to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Kyle $5,800 + $5,600 = $11,400 (What The Great Gatsby)
Rishabh $11,600 + $11,600 = $23,200 (What is the Great Gatsby?)
Kelly $13,200 + $10,001 = $23,201 (What is Great Gatsby?) (1-day total: $23,201)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) PEAK EXPERIENCES $800 (clue #1)
Rishabh 0 +1000 (Kyle 0 Kelly 0)
2) BIOLOGY $800 (clue #13)
Kelly 10800 +4000 (Rishabh 8400 Kyle 4600)
3) TWINNING $1600 (clue #19, $10400 left on board)
Kelly 15200 -4000 (Rishabh 9600 Kyle 3800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 111
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Rishabh 4*
Kyle
Kelly
DJ! Round:
Rishabh 4 3 3 4 4 4 2
Kyle 1 5 2 3 1
Kelly 5 4 5 2* 5 3 4*
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Kelly 4.00
Rishabh 3.50
Kyle 2.40
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 2 (0.07 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Kelly $14,000 Coryat, 18 correct, 2 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Rishabh $11,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 1 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Kyle $5,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $31,200
Lach Trash: $16,400 (on 13 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,400
Lead Changes: 1
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Rishabh Wuppalapati, career statistics:
73 correct, 14 incorrect
1/4 on rebound attempts (on 15 rebound opportunities)
33.48% in first on buzzer (76/227)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5,000)
3/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,500
Kyle Compton-Troesch, career statistics:
14 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,800
Kelly Gates, career statistics:
19 correct, 2 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,000
Kelly Gates, to win:
2 games: 46.183%
3: 21.329%
4: 9.850%
5: 4.549%
6: 2.101%
Avg. streak: 1.858 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Kelly $13,200 Rishabh $11,600 Kyle $5,800)
Rishabh: Betting $1 is a good cover bet over Kyle. If you really want to, you can bet between $3,201 and $5,799, but I’d prefer the $1 bet here myself. (Actual bet: $11,600)
Kyle: If you think Rishabh will make a small bet, you have to go all in. If you think he’ll make a bigger bet, bet exactly $2,600. (Actual bet: $5,600)
Kelly: Standard cover bet over Rishabh is $10,001. (Actual bet: $10,001)
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I had this one figured out before I got to the end of the clue, but I don’t believe I would have been able to come up with it if I hadn’t read the book. And, yes, it is nice to end the week with a correct response.
I had not read the book nor seen a movie of it, but I guessed it right away. Then when I read what Andy wrote about “East Egg (old money) and West Egg (nouveau riche)”, that sounded quite familiar. [I suspect that I’d heard about that on some PBS show.]
This one was a pretty quick-and-easy get for me. One of the books that we read for American Lit in high school, and probably the one that most left an impression on me (though “Of Mice and Men” comes close, followed by “Billy Budd”).
This one was almost too easy. To those books that left an impression on you, for me, I’d add to that list “The Grapes of Wrath,” “The Old Man And The Sea,” “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “Animal Farm,” “1984,” and “The Scarlet Letter.”
“To Kill A Mockingbird” would have probably left more of an impression if I hadn’t seen the film when I was younger, and “The Scarlet Letter” left a negative impression on me for being overly verbose. Of course, “Animal Farm” and “1984” wouldn’t have been covered in my American Lit class, and I didn’t take Brit Lit (when they would have been) because my experience in American Lit had burned me out on the lit class experience until I got to college.
Easy get for someone who grew up on LI and had to read the book for HS.
Even after rereading the Final Jeopardy answer clue, the correct response just didn’t come to me.
Andy’s “Furthur information’ made it clear as to why The Great Gatsby was the correct response.
Don’t understand how Great Gatsby can be considered a correct answer when the correct title is The Great Gatsby.
Susan:
You’re not the first viewer to be confused by this.
I actually thought about explaining this rule in my Andy’s Thoughts section today—and maybe I should have—but, per the rules of Jeopardy, unless it is required to disambiguate between separate works (like Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” vs. H.G. Wells’s “The Invisible Man”), leading articles can be dropped, or replaced with another leading article, without rendering a response incorrect. Thus, “The Great Gatsby”, “A Great Gatsby”, and “Great Gatsby” are all considered equivalently correct by the show.
Well, I read this book or was supposed to read this book in either 8th or 9th grade. I have a hunch that I didn’t actually read it, like I was supposed to.
Either way, I got FJ wrong….or simply couldn’t even come up with a guess. 1 for 5 on the week and 5 for 30 for Season 41.
Retro congrats to Kelly on win #1! I really love the pub trivia story with Maureen O’Neil being there. Maureen was one of my favorite contestants from March 2022.
Have a great weekend everyone! 🙂
Why was my comment removed?
Because it appeared that you failed to read the rest of the page & comment section.
Had you done so, you would have seen an explanation for why the ruling was made the way it was—specifically, unless there is another work to confuse it with, leading articles are not required as per the rules of the show.