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Here’s the Pop Culture Jeopardy Final Jeopardy (in the category Retrospectives) for Wednesday, January 29, 2025 (Season 1, Game 27):
A 2023 museum exhibit dedicated to this man includes an exploding wig, a barf bag & a dress printed with roaches
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Pop Culture Jeopardy! contestants:
The Bullpen, George, Eric, and Tom
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Queerly Benevolent, Anya, Dana, and Scott
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The Wickedly Talented, Ellen, Diana, and Marissa
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Our final game of the knockout round features The Wickedly Talented, Queerly Benevolent, and The Bullpen. I believe Ellen from The Wickedly Talented was on the show many years ago, but my rooting interest in this game is easily The Bullpen. I’ve spoken a few times over the past couple of months about having hosted pub quizzes professionally over an 8-year span—two members of The Bullpen, Tom and George, were among my most faithful regulars during my time hosting, and I am 100% cheering for them to advance out of this phase of the competition.
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Correct response: Who is John Waters?
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The exploding wig and cockroach dress both came from John Waters’s Hairspray, and the barf bags from his Pink Flamingos. The 2023 retrospective was titled “Pope of Trash” and was at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Here’s the recap for Season 1, Episode 27:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: We Stan A Queen; Hat’s Entertainment; First You Need An “In”; Pop Culture Across America; Music Fandom Nicknames; Hope You Studied Youtubers)
The Wickedly Talented led at the interviews on the strength of six correct responses. After 15 clues, the scores were Wickedly Talented 4,200 Queerly Benevolent 3,400 The Bullpen 1,600.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
The Wickedly Talented 6 correct 1 incorrect
Queerly Benevolent 7 correct 2 incorrect
The Bullpen 3 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
The Bullpen are a self-described terrible softball team.
Queerly Benevolent all work in the non-profit space.
The Wickedly Talented are all fans of the musical “Wicked”; Diana is a nationally-ranked speed jigsaw puzzler.
The Bullpen found the Daily Double and bet exactly like we hoped, doubling their score and jumping into the lead. While both Wickedly Talented and Queerly Benevolent retook the lead, everyone was within 600 after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Queerly Benevolent 11 correct 2 incorrect
The Wickedly Talented 10 correct 3 incorrect
The Bullpen 7 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Queerly Benevolent 4,800
The Wickedly Talented 4,800
The Bullpen 4,200
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Late Night TV Types; Road Warriors; It’s Manga! It’s Anime! It’s Both; I Quit!; Songwriters Hall Of Fame; 3 Actors, 1 Role)
The Bullpen found—but missed—both Daily Doubles. Fortunately for them, they lost just 2,000 points apiece on them. Queerly Benevolent swept the Triple Play—with good strategy, too, leaving the easiest one on the board for last—to seal a lead going into Final.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Queerly Benevolent 22 correct 2 incorrect
The Bullpen 17 correct 4 incorrect
The Wickedly Talented 13 correct 5 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
Queerly Benevolent 14,400
The Bullpen 11,400
The Wickedly Talented 6,400
All three teams got Final Jeopardy correct as Queerly Benevolent advances despite a non-cover wager.
Tonight’s results:
The Wickedly Talented 6,400 + 6,400 = 12,800 (Who is John Waters?)
The Bullpen 11,400 + 3,001 = 14,401 (Who is jon waters)
Queerly Benevolent 14,400 + 2,700 = 17,100 (Who is John Waters?) (Quarter-Finalist)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) HAT’S ENTERTAINMENT 800 (clue #18)
The Bullpen 2200 +2200 (The Wickedly Talented 3600 Queerly Benevolent 3600)
2) I QUIT! 1200 (clue #8)
The Bullpen 8600 -2000 (The Wickedly Talented 6400 Queerly Benevolent 6800)
3) SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME 1200 (clue #17, 11600 left on board)
The Bullpen 9800 -2000 (The Wickedly Talented 5600 Queerly Benevolent 10000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 56
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
The Wickedly Talented 3 4 3 4 5 5 5 3
Queerly Benevolent 5 1 3 4 1 3
The Bullpen 2 5 4 4*
DJ! Round:
The Wickedly Talented 3 4
Queerly Benevolent 4 2 2 3
The Bullpen 4 5 3 5 3* 4 4 5 3 4 3*
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Queerly Benevolent 2.80
The Bullpen 3.87
The Wickedly Talented 3.90
Game Stats:
Queerly Benevolent 14,400 Coryat, 22 correct, 2 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
The Bullpen 14,000 Coryat, 17 correct, 4 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
The Wickedly Talented 6,400 Coryat, 13 correct, 5 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: 34,800
Lach Trash: 13,000 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Lead Changes: 9
Times Tied: 3
Player Statistics:
The Wickedly Talented, career statistics:
14 correct, 5 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 6,400
Queerly Benevolent, career statistics:
23 correct, 2 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 14,400
The Bullpen, career statistics:
18 correct, 4 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
1/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -1,800)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 14,000
Andy’s Thoughts:
- While that Final Jeopardy wager might affect other opposing strategy going forward–assuming those other quarterfinalists were paying attention—there was some strategic merit to Queerly Benevolent’s wager, as it does still beat all of The Bullpen’s small range. And, unfortunately for The Bullpen, with the scores between three-quarters and four-fifths, the bet of “twice the difference in scores” isn’t a particularly viable one for the situation here—even though it would have won in this case. If this bet from Queerly Benevolent actually was a strategic one and not just a random number that worked, though, I think would have rather seen a bet up to 16,801 and not a bet up to 17,100.
- Quarterfinal #1 will be between “Beauty and the Beasts”, “South Shore Squad”, and “Glazed and Confused”.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Queerly Benevolent 14,400 The Bullpen 11,400 The Wickedly Talented 6,400)
The Wickedly Talented: You can’t both win a Triple Stumper and defend against a small bet from The Bullpen. If you think The Bullpen is going to make a big bet, then bet 400 or less and hope for a cover bet from Queerly Benevolent. If you think The Bullpen will make a small bet, you’ll need to be correct to have a chance, and you should go all in. (Actual bet: 6,400)
Queerly Benevolent: Standard cover bet here is 8,401. If you aren’t going to make the cover bet here, you probably should keep The Wickedly Talented out of contention—and a bet of 1,599 or less does that. (Actual bet: 2,700)
The Bullpen: If you think The Wickedly Talented is going to play for a Triple Stumper and go small, I would bet just 1,401 here—but anything up to 4,599 works. If you think they will go big, then you might have a little bit more room to play with; you could probably could go up to 5,399. (Actual bet: 3,001)
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Hey Andy, thanks for the shout-out! We still have yet to find a pub trivia that rivals yours from back in the day.
And the wagering breakdown is greatly appreciated. I’ve been a little haunted by knowing we could have won with a sub-optimal wager, so thanks for providing some solace.
One thing that I haven’t seen discussed much with PCJ! is that the team-based element makes FJ wagering a discussion. Perhaps Queerly Benevolent could hear our wagering plans and knew they didn’t need to cover? In any case, best of luck to them in the quarter-finals!
Andy, your “printed in red” Final Jeopardy clue says ‘bar bag’ instead of ‘barf bag’. Anyone coming here should have seen it on Amazon Prime and already know the correct word, but I think you like to repair typos.
Dana from Queerly Benevolent here! Honestly, I barely remember if we had a wagering strategy, our adrenaline was running so high! Tom, I can def say we DID NOT hear you guys, we were truly in a world of our own. You’re only given 5 mins to wager and it seems like a lot of time but it goes by so quickly in that atmosphere. I definitely thought we had wagered more in FJ, but the day we shot is SUCH a blur now.
Fair enough! And I agree, everything about that day is such a blur.
Looking forward to watching you in the next round, and best of retroactive luck!
Kind of weird to suggest we may have cheated 😕
I’ll shed some light – we couldn’t hear anyone else. Could you hear us?
I wanted to be an aggressive wagerer, my teammates were more conservative in their wagering strategies and trying to balance three opinions in five minutes under all that pressure is a LOT. It’s called Jeopardy for a reason and playing it safe IS a strategy (though I never want to, oops), even if some viewers hate it. 🤷
With all due respect, Anya, a lot of non-winning contestants on the Alex Trebek Stage, in coming to terms with not winning, have the thoughts of “is there anything differently I/we could have done to prevent this?” And I think Tom’s statement comes from a place of trying to come to terms with that grief and not actually any accusations of malfeasance.
I understand coming to terms with the grief of losing, but suggesting such a thing and in doing so casting doubt on the credibility of the winner feels extremely in poor taste. If he didn’t want to come off as making accusations of wrongdoing on Queerly Benevolent’s part, he could have not said it at all. I thought Queerly Benevolent had a lot of great energy that made the episode fun to watch and I’m excited to see how they do next.
For what it’s worth, I’d like to hope that any sort of beef has come to its conclusion at this point.
Best of retroactive luck to Queerly Benevolent in the quarterfinals.
Absolutely! So leave it at your betting strategy instead of coming for your opponents. Despite a not very exciting Final Jeopardy wager, our numbers throughout the game speak for themselves. Fans may not like to hear this, but we competed in this tournament as three people who just love pop culture – we’re not big pub quiz people, we didn’t discuss much strategy beforehand. It was exciting to win – on our own merits.
Anya, I’m so sorry I didn’t intend for my comment to come off as accusatory and certainly not of cheating. Your team won fair and square in impressive fashion.
What I was trying to articulate was that one of the differences with the team format is that there is a verbal discussion of wagering which doesn’t happen in the main show and wondering if that might have played a role. Clearly I was wrong.
Apologies again for my comment, I don’t want to take anything away from your victory. Our whole team will certainly be rooting for you in your next match.
And the 27 teams advancing to the quarterfinals are the following:
1. Match 8: Mission: Impopsicle: 46,800
2. Match 11: For Queso The Cat: 41,600
3. Match 14: Only Winners In The Building: 36,801
4. Match 21: Buggsy Mogues: 34,801
5. Match 9: Glazed and Confused: 34,401
6. Match 3: Personality Hires: 30,461
7. Match 10: The Bay Hive: 28,200
8. Match 13: Twisted Misters: 27,800
9. Match 16: ‘Nother Scorcher: 27,601
10. Match 2: Little Pocket Monsters: 27,601
11. Match 7: On The Bubble: 27,200
12. Match 18: In Our Jeopardy! Era: 25,601
13. Match 25: Orange Juice No Pulp: 25,400
14. Match 4: South Shore Squad: 24,001
15. Match 15: Married With A Third Wheel: 22,200
16. Match 5: The Stage Names: 22,200
17. Match 24: Game Night Rules!: 20,999
18. Match 22: Three Almost Dads: 20,997
19. Match 12: Running Up That Chili: 20,401
20. Match 20: Trivia Tuesdays: 20,000
21. Match 1: Queen City Kidz: 18,600
22. Match 23: Those Darn Etruscans: 18,001
23. Match 27: Queerly Benevolent: 17,100
24. Match 19: A Tribe Called Quiz: 16,000
25. Match 6: Beauty and the Beasts: 15,800
26. Match 17: O’Trivia Rodrigo: 15,201
27. Match 26: Equizabeth Moss: 13,600
Question for Queerly Anya. It looked like you pushed Dana back away from the podium in order to hug Scott. What happened because my wife and I were cracking up when we saw it 😂