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Here’s the Pop Culture Jeopardy Final Jeopardy (in the category No. 1 Hit Songs) for Wednesday, December 18, 2024 (Season 1, Game 8):
The last Billboard No. 1 hit of the ’90s, this collaboration had been at the top spot since October
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Mission: Impopsicle, Stan, Abigail, and Simon
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Set & A Run, Sarah, Devon, and Mary
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Mojo Casa Housemates, Anna, Anthony, and Amy
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Week 3 of Pop Culture Jeopardy continues with this matchup between Mojo Casa Housemates, Set & A Run, and Mission: Impopsicle.
One thing that I’m sure other viewers have noticed: the clue text in this has a bit of a blue-to-purple gradient to it. Being used to the deeper blue of the mothership clues, it makes me feel like I’m viewing the gameboard at an unusual angle—but I also acknowledge that I am likely just so used to the main series so as to find it unusual.
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Correct response: What is “Smooth”?
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The Santana–Rob Thomas collaboration “Smooth” spent 12 weeks at #1—10 in 1999 and 2 in 2000—before being replaced in the top spot by Christina Aguilera’s “What A Girl Wants”.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Here’s the recap for Season 1, Episode 8:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Keeping Up With The Kardashians & Jenners; Dynamic Duos; Don’t Call Them Nepo Babies!; Herr Doktor Braun’s Thoughts On Movie Science; It Was All A Dream; I Used To Read Word Up! Magazine)
In a score swing not usually seen so early on in a game, Mission: Impopsicle swept a bottom-row Triple Play and then got 5,000 on the Daiily Double to go from 4,600 to 12,600 in a matter of seconds. After 15 clues, things were really going Impopsicle’s way, with them at 14,000, the Mojo Casa Housemates at 1,200, and Set & A Run at -1,000.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Mission: Impopsicle 12 correct 0 incorrect
Mojo Casa Housemates 4 correct 1 incorrect
Set & A Run 0 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Mission: Impopsicle is a team named by Stan’s wife as they’re all “MI” franchise fans.
Set & A Run is named after a family card game.
Mojo Casa Housemates saw the “Barbie” movie for Anna’s birthday.
Mission: Impopsicle picked up another six correct to extend their big lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Mission: Impopsicle 18 correct 0 incorrect
Mojo Casa Housemates 9 correct 1 incorrect
Set & A Run 3 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Mission: Impopsicle 17,600
Mojo Casa Housemates 3,000
Set & A Run -1,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Funny People; Fictional Bands; Voice Acting; Big-Screen Dedications; TV Theme Songs; The VMA For Video Of The Year)
Another Triple Play, another sweep from Mission: Impopsicle—this team is going places. They then picked up a pair of 4,000 Daily Doubles on the way to an absolute romp and literally one of the highest Coryat scores ever seen on any iteration of the program.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Mission: Impopsicle 37 correct 0 incorrect
Mojo Casa Housemates 14 correct 1 incorrect
Set & A Run 8 correct 2 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
Mission: Impopsicle 46,800
Mojo Casa Housemates 6,600
Set & A Run 3,800
Impopsicle put the exclamation mark on one of the most dominant performances ever by getting this clue correct. They’re advancing to the next round.
Tonight’s results:
Set & A Run 3,800 – 3,000 = 800 (What Ebony & Ivory?)
Mojo Casa Housemates 6,600 – 1,001 = 5,599 (What Missing You)
Mission: Impopsicle 46,800 + 0 = 46,800 (What is Smooth?) (Quarter-Finalist)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) DON’T CALL THEM NEPO BABIES! 800 (clue #13)
Mission: Impopsicle 7600 +5000 (Mojo Casa Housemates 2200 Set & A Run -1000)
2) BIG-SCREEN DEDICATIONS 1600 (clue #12)
Mission: Impopsicle 29200 +4000 (Mojo Casa Housemates 4200 Set & A Run -1000)
3) TV THEME SONGS 1600 (clue #14, 15600 left on board)
Mission: Impopsicle 34400 +4000 (Mojo Casa Housemates 4200 Set & A Run -1000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 91
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Mojo Casa Housemates 3 4 3 2 2
Set & A Run
Mission: Impopsicle 5 4 3 5 4 3 5 4*
DJ! Round:
Mojo Casa Housemates 2 3 4*
Set & A Run 2
Mission: Impopsicle 5 5 4 4 3 5 4 3 3 4*
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Mission: Impopsicle 4.06
Mojo Casa Housemates 2.88
Set & A Run 2.00
Game Stats:
Mission: Impopsicle 37,800 Coryat, 33 correct, 0 incorrect, 47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Mojo Casa Housemates 6,600 Coryat, 14 correct, 1 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Set & A Run 3,800 Coryat, 8 correct, 2 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: 48,200
Lach Trash: 6,400 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Lead Changes: 1
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Mojo Casa Housemates, 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
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 6,600
Set & A Run, career statistics:
8 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 3,800
Mission: Impopsicle, career statistics:
38 correct, 0 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: 13,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 37,800
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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Just to provide a point of reference for the commenters – only Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, and Matt Amodio have ever matched or beaten a single-game Coryat of $37,800. And collectively, they only matched or beat that number six times.
Well done to Mission: Impopsicle on an absolutely UNBELIEVABLE performance today.
This gives rise to a question that Andy is best equipped to answer: for Coryat scoring purposes, how is the Triple Play handled?
It has occurred to me that it might be necessary to adjust the total of Mission: Impopsicle downward for proper comparison with standard game Coryats, as the maximum possible Coryat in a PCJ game may be higher than 54,000. (This is much the same as doubling the Coryats of original-dollar-value games.) It has also caught my attention that the “Coryat lost to incorrect responses” line in other recaps is absent from PCJ ones.
As a related aside: might it be worthwhile to include the Triple Plays as other miscellaneous statistics? Like Daily Doubles, they have different mechanics than regular clues.
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