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Here’s the Pop Culture Jeopardy Final Jeopardy (in the category Television) for Wednesday, February 5, 2025 (Season 1, Game 29):
Inspired by a joke in a 2004 movie, it debuted on August 8, 2017 with programming that included darts & disc golf
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Pop Culture Jeopardy! contestants:
Personality Hires, Emily, Zach, and Miranda
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On The Bubble, Jacoby, Paul, and Nick
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The Stage Names, Ryan, Rocky, and Kemie
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Quarterfinal #2 today is contested between The Stage Names (Episode 5), On The Bubble (Episode 7), and Personality Hires (Episode 3). Personality Hires were dominant in the knockout round, and considering their own Jeopardy! experience, it would not surprise me if that domination continues in this round.
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Correct response: What is ESPN8 The Ocho?
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Now a full-time FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channel in Canada and the U.S., The Ocho was originally a joke in the 2004 movie Dodgeball. When ESPN debuted it as a way to fill programming time during the summer on ESPNU in 2017, it proved to be very popular with viewers.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Here’s the recap for Season 1, Episode 29:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Cartoon Reboots; Say The Sound; Celebrity Booze; Clear “I”s; Full Arts; Can’t Lose)
On The Bubble picked up a True Daily Double and a swept Triple Play in the opening segment. At the interviews, the scores were Bubble 6,600 Personality 6,200 Stage Names 2,400.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
On The Bubble 7 correct 0 incorrect
Personality Hires 7 correct 0 incorrect
The Stage Names 3 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Personality Hires thinks the best part of competing was the friendship, even though Zach went on one 6/10 date with someone who was a fan of his on the show.
On The Bubble thinks the missed Daily Double in the knockout round was able to focus them.
The Stage Names are Colin Jost’s favorite love triangle.
The Personality Hires picked up 8 correct responses after the break to re-take the lead.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Personality Hires 15 correct 1 incorrect
On The Bubble 8 correct 0 incorrect
The Stage Names 9 correct 0 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Personality Hires 8,200
On The Bubble 7,200
The Stage Names 4,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Small-Screen Insults; Poetry In Music; Mind Your Manors; Unalived In Film; A Real Funny Guy; It’s A Bar Or Bat Mitzvah!)
Personality Hires started out by picking up 6,000 on a second swept Triple Play. After getting DD2 incorrect, the search began for DD3, with The Stage Names and On The Bubble making a number of clue selection errors. (Seriously, not going to be in the category of the first one, nor is it likely to be at the 400 level). As it turned out, Personality Hires found DD3 and got it correct to lead going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Personality Hires 29 correct 3 incorrect
On The Bubble 17 correct 0 incorrect
The Stage Names 17 correct 0 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
Personality Hires 23,000
On The Bubble 18,800
The Stage Names 15,800
Every team got Final Jeopardy correct; this makes the Personality Hires semifinalists!
Tonight’s results:
The Stage Names 15,800 + 15,795 = 31,595 (What is ESPN 8 “The Ocho”?)
On The Bubble 18,800 + 18,798 = 37,598 (What is ESPN 8 The Ocho?)
Personality Hires 23,000 + 14,601 = 37,601 (What is ESPN 8: The Ocho?) (Semi-Finalist)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) SAY THE SOUND 800 (clue #7)
On The Bubble 1400 +1400 (The Stage Names 800 Personality Hires 2400)
2) UNALIVED IN FILM 1600 (clue #5)
Personality Hires 17000 -4000 (The Stage Names 5800 On The Bubble 7200)
3) A REAL FUNNY GUY 800 (clue #24, 2800 left on board)
Personality Hires 15400 +5600 (The Stage Names 15800 On The Bubble 18000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 113
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
The Stage Names 4 4
On The Bubble 5 4*
Personality Hires 3 3 4
DJ! Round:
The Stage Names 5 3 4 4 2 4 5 3† 2 1
On The Bubble 4 3 5 2† 5 5† 2
Personality Hires 3 4* 3 3 4 5 2*
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Personality Hires 3.40
On The Bubble 3.89
The Stage Names 3.42
Game Stats:
Personality Hires 22,200 Coryat, 29 correct, 3 incorrect, 49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
On The Bubble 18,200 Coryat, 17 correct, 0 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
The Stage Names 15,800 Coryat, 17 correct, 0 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: 56,200
Lach Trash: 0 (on 0 Triple Stumpers)
Lead Changes: 8
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
The Stage Names, career statistics:
47 correct, 4 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
39.47% in first on buzzer (45/114)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: 3,000)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 18,000
On The Bubble, career statistics:
41 correct, 4 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (34/114)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: 3,200)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 16,000
Personality Hires, career statistics:
63 correct, 7 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
51.75% in first on buzzer (59/114)
3/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: 7,800)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: 24,300
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Obviously the Triple Play has something to do with this, but the Combined Coryat of 56,200 is a record.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Personality Hires 23,000 On The Bubble 18,800 The Stage Names 15,800)
The Stage Names: With where the scores are, you should bet between 7,201 (just in case Personality Hires bet 0, as rare as that would be) and 7,400 (staying ahead in case of a Triple Stumper). (Actual bet: 15,795)
On The Bubble: You can’t both cover Stage Names and win a Triple Stumper. Bet at least 12,801—but you might as well go all in to force Personality Hires to get the math right. (Actual bet: 18,798)
Personality Hires: Standard cover bet is 14,601. (Actual bet: 14,601)
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The Triple Play doesn’t “[have] something to do with this”; it’s the proximate cause of a Combined Coryat exceeding 54,000. As I mentioned in one of the knockout round recaps, it would seem appropriate to scale down PCJ Coryats for comparison with main show and Celebrity ones. In this case, as both Triple Plays appeared in the bottom row, the maximum Combined Coryat is 60,000; thus, 56,200 × 0.9 = 50,580, which has been surpassed in the syndicated series. If your judgment is that such a downscaling isn’t warranted, I’d be interested to know why.
I believe that the 66 total correct responses would then also be a record.
Also, I try to refrain from copy-editing, but this one is sticking out to me: “In Our Jeopardy! Era” has an extra exclamation point at the end; this error is propagated across all five of today’s recaps.
It was funny to me that despite no interest in the vast majority of sports and never having watched ESPN (nor really paying any attention to ads for ESPN), my guess of ‘ESPN2’ was “in the ballpark” [as in the clue actually WAS about a further instance of ESPN, but I’d only been aware of the existence of the one original]. Even though I guessed ‘ESPN2’, I actually assumed that ESPN has some competitors and the clue pertained to [part of?] one of those.