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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category TV Props) for Thursday, December 12, 2024 (Season 41, Game 69):
A prop central to the title character on this ’60s sitcom began as a special Christmas edition whiskey decanter
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Alex Cousins, a writer & editor from Buffalo, New York
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Ashley Chan, a publicist from Lewisville, Texas
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Bill McKinney, a VP of restaurants & bars originally from Boston, Massachusetts (3-day total: $46,800)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Bill McKinney has won all three of this week’s games after a runaway victory yesterday, and goes for win #4 today against Lewisville, Texas’s Ashley Chan and Buffalo, New York’s Alex Cousins. Regardless of what happens, he’s already positioned reasonably well for the 2026 postseason at this point—but a fourth victory would certainly help matters.
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Correct response: What is I Dream of Jeannie?
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The prop bottle, which held the title genie (Jeannie) in I Dream of Jeannie, is in the Smithsonian, and is described as a “repurposed 1964 Jim Beam Christmas edition glass whiskey decanter painted with Middle Eastern design motifs on a purple base paint layer”.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, December 12, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: America Before 1800; Bridges; Dodgepodge; Part Of A 7 Ancient Wonders Name; Stocks; Blondes)
Alex found the Daily Double and fell back to $0 with an incorrect response. Ashley had some good gets to sit second. Bill led with six correct after 15 clues. At the break, the scores were Bill $3,400, Ashley $1,800, Alex $200.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Bill 6 correct 0 incorrect
Ashley 3 correct 0 incorrect
Alex 3 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Alex was mistaken for an Irish terrorist—at the age of about 10.
Ashley studied abroad in Amsterdam.
Bill is described as cross-dominant.
Ashley continued her strong play, picking up 7 correct responses and holding the lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Ashley 10 correct 0 incorrect
Bill 9 correct 1 incorrect
Alex 5 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Ashley $6,000
Bill $4,000
Alex $600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: National Birds; Poetry Fill In The Blank; Abbreviated Magazines; Top Row Of The Keyboard Words; Georgia On Our Minds; Columbia 100th Anniversary)
Alex found DD2 immediately, and then DD3 took a long time to find. Ashley, who had played well and was in a strong position, eventually found DD3 and bet enough to make sure she had a runaway going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Ashley 19 correct 1 incorrect
Bill 14 correct 3 incorrect
Alex 11 correct 4 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 17 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Ashley $15,600
Bill $6,400
Alex $5,800
Nobody got this Final Jeopardy correct, but Ashley is your new champion on the strength of her runaway! She’ll be back tomorrow to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Alex $5,800 – $601 = $5,199 (What is ?)
Bill $6,400 – $4,000 = $2,400 (What is Dick van Dyke? Jeanie?)
Ashley $15,600 – $0 = $15,600 (What is Dick Van Dyke?) (1-day total: $15,600)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) AMERICA BEFORE 1800 $600 (clue #8)
Alex 1000 -1000 (Bill 1800 Ashley 800)
2) ABBREVIATED MAGAZINES $2000 (clue #1)
Alex 600 +2000 (Bill 4000 Ashley 6000)
3) NATIONAL BIRDS $800 (clue #26, $4800 left on board)
Ashley 15200 +2000 (Bill 6800 Alex 5800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 13
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Bill 4 5 4
Ashley 1
Alex 4 5 5 3*
DJ! Round:
Bill 3 4 4 5 3 2
Ashley 2 5 3 4 5 1 2 1 1 2*
Alex 5* 4† 2 1 3 3† 1 5 4 3
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Ashley 2.45
Alex 3.43
Bill 3.78
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 17 (0.25 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Ashley $14,400 Coryat, 19 correct, 1 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Alex $6,800 Coryat, 11 correct, 4 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Bill $6,400 Coryat, 14 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $27,600
Lach Trash: $18,000 (on 15 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,400
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 2
Player Statistics:
Bill McKinney, career statistics:
73 correct, 15 incorrect
9/12 on rebound attempts (on 23 rebound opportunities)
29.65% in first on buzzer (67/226)
4/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $10,000)
1/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,550
Ashley Chan, career statistics:
19 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,400
Alex Cousins, career statistics:
11 correct, 5 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,800
Ashley Chan, to win:
2 games: 52.322%
3: 27.376%
4: 14.324%
5: 7.494%
6: 3.921%
Avg. streak: 2.097 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Ashley $15,600 Bill $6,400 Alex $5,800)
Bill: Standard cover bet over Alex is $5,201. (Actual bet: $4,000)
Ashley: Bet no more than $2,799. (Actual bet: $0)
Alex: Bet between $1,201 and $4,600 and you may get second if Bill is incorrect in Final. (Actual bet: $601)
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Wow. Tough TV trivia. I guessed “Sanford and Son,” thinking that Fred may have taken a swig from a whiskey bottle on occasion.
Gregory, I said the same thing because I remembered Fred taking a drink from time to time. I was fixated on a liquid coming out of a whiskey decanter. I know now “Sanford and Son” was a 70s sitcom, but the decades blend together a little for me that far back.
That was my first thought, too, but also thinking that he likely had favorite junk items and a special Christmas edition whiskey decanter would make a good “decor” item for him to be pleased with.
However, I almost immediately then thought of the bottle found by Major Nelson, so said “What is I Dream of Jeannie”.
I wonder if the ones putting Dick Van Dyke guessed that because he was frequently falling, particularly in the opening (which is still frequently seen during references to him or his show). [BTW, Dick Van Dyke will be 99 years old tomorrow — Friday the 13th.]
If you haven’t done this before, watch Dick Van Dyke’s fall over the hassock in slo-mo, and you’ll see how skillfully he choreographed it.
I knew this because I’d only heard it several times before. I don’t think I could have figured it out if I didn’t know it.
Wish I had. I didn’t translate decanter to bottle. If I had, I might’ve come up with Jeannie, falling into the same trap as Bill who played the game on stage in Culver City. The answer clue refers to a “prop essential to the title character of this 60’s sitcom.”
In other words, if you know what the prop is, who is it critical to, then you’ll know the show from the 60’s. Which is the correct response.
That was one of my favorite shows as a kid, but I never would have equated the bottle with a whiskey decanter, nope.
Andy, if this makes you feel any better, I would guess about 99% of your readers don’t read Reddit. I don’t even know (or care) what it is.
I kind of know what Reddit is but only read something on it if I search a subject and one of the hits is in Reddit and sounds reasonable. ‘Jeopardy!’ or ‘Andy Saunders’ is not something I would search on anyway, but surely everyone knows that almost everything on Reddit is just opinions and lots of people express ridiculous opinions (though I agree that it is very annoying when they do).
Rhetorical question: Who cares what people on Reddit think, say or write?
I wouldn’t really let any of that bother me.