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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Famous Buildings) for Wednesday, July 23, 2025 (Season 41, Game 228):
Opened in 1902, it’s 87 feet in width on the 22nd Street side & less than 7 feet wide at its narrowest point on 23rd Street
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Andrew Crowley, a freelance writer from Henderson, Nevada
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Gerri Budd, an adjunct professor & small business owner from Nutley, New Jersey
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Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (14-day total: $390,902)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Scott Riccardi enters the antepenultimate game of Season 41 as a 14-day champion; today, he goes for win #15 against Gerri Budd and Andrew Crowley. An interesting stat from Scott’s run: His last seven games have seen him go exactly 2-for-2 on Daily Doubles.
I would also like to remind Jeopardy!, especially after the closed captioning issues in last night’s game (most specifically, referring to “Happy birthday, Alice” instead of “Happy birthday, Alex” at the end of the show), that Canada has incredibly stringent broadcast requirements when it comes to closed captioning, specifically that any captioning mistake in pre-recorded television is in violation of Canadian broadcasting regulations. Since you distribute the program in Canada, you are causing your Canadian affiliates to be in violation of Canadian regulations due to the imperfect closed captions. This should be at the top of your “fix this” list for Season 42.
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Correct response: What is the Flatiron Building?
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Named because it looks like a cast-iron clothes iron when viewed from above, the Flatiron Building (originally known as the Fuller Building) is a triangle-shaped building located between Fifth Avenue, Broadway, 22nd Street, and 23rd Street in Manhattan. It’s one of the more iconic buildings in Manhattan, and it has spent much of the 2020s in a high-profile renovation and auction dispute; the building is currently being renovated into 38 condominiums.
Honestly, this feels like a relatively straightforward Final Jeopardy clue and one that I think we need to see a few more of in Season 42.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Try Me A River; Blank Canvas; No Longer In Print; Potpourri; Word & Phrase Origins; A Javier Bardem Retrospective)
Gerri struggled early, but nearly got back into the black thanks to the Daily Double. Both Andrew and Scott had 6 correct responses and were tied at the interviews. After 15 clues, your scores were Scott $4,000 Andrew $4,000 Gerri -$400.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Andrew 6 correct 1 incorrect
Scott 6 correct 0 incorrect
Gerri 3 correct 3 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Andrew freelances in music journalism.
Gerri got out of a distracted driving ticket because of The Call.
Scott spilled dried beans on a band room floor in high school trying to play a makeshift rainstick.
Scott had the better second half of the round, picking up a number of high-value correct responses to take an $1,800 lead into halftime.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Scott 12 correct 2 incorrect
Andrew 11 correct 3 incorrect
Gerri 4 correct 4 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Scott $7,600
Andrew $5,800
Gerri -$800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Russian History; Great Literature Before 2000; All About Animals; Here Comes Truffle; Not Our Wedding Song; 3 “O”s)
While Andrew took 18 clues to get in on the buzzer, Scott got 9 of the first 17 clues of the round—including both Daily Doubles. This was more than enough to let Scott run away with this one.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Scott 29 correct 2 incorrect
Andrew 15 correct 3 incorrect
Gerri 8 correct 5 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 40 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Scott $32,200
Andrew $9,400
Gerri $3,200
The two New Jerseyans picked up Final Jeopardy, with Scott getting his total over $430,000. He’ll go for win #16 tomorrow.
Tonight’s results:
Gerri $3,200 + $3,100 = $6,300 (What is is the Flatiron Bldg)
Andrew $9,400 – $400 = $9,000 (What is the TriBeca Building?)
Scott $32,200 + $7,808 = $40,008 (What is the Flatiron?) (15-day total: $430,910)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $800 (clue #12)
Gerri -1400 +1000 (Scott 3000 Andrew 2800)
2) GREAT LITERATURE BEFORE 2000 $1600 (clue #5)
Scott 12000 +5000 (Gerri 800 Andrew 5800)
3) ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1200 (clue #9, $22400 left on board)
Scott 18600 +4000 (Gerri 2000 Andrew 5800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 163
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Scott 3 4 5 3 4 3
Gerri 2 4*
Andrew 1 1 5 1
DJ! Round:
Scott 3 3 4* 3 5 3*
Gerri 4 5 4
Andrew
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Scott 3.58
Andrew 2.00
Gerri 3.80
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 40 (0.18 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Scott $26,000 Coryat, 29 correct, 2 incorrect, 42.11% in first on buzzer (24/57), 5/5 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Andrew $9,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 3 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Gerri $3,000 Coryat, 8 correct, 5 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $38,400
Lach Trash: $10,200 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,400
Lead Changes: 4
Times Tied: 2
Player Statistics:
Scott Riccardi, career statistics:
407 correct, 29 incorrect
24/24 on rebound attempts (on 64 rebound opportunities)
43.27% in first on buzzer (370/855)
21/27 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $58,000)
11/15 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $23,067
Gerri Budd, career statistics:
9 correct, 5 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $3,000
Andrew Crowley, career statistics:
15 correct, 4 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,400
Scott Riccardi, to win:
16 games: 76.152%
17: 57.991%
18: 44.162%
19: 33.630%
20: 25.610%
Avg. streak: 18.193 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Scott moves to #8 in all-time regular play winnings and #24 in all-time winnings including tournaments. He also moves into 25th place in terms of number of correct responses given on the show.
- Today’s runaway game means that no wagering suggestions will be posted.
- Scott has now gone exactly 2-for-2 on Daily Doubles for his last eight games.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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Oh, I know this one! I can see the building in my head! Yeah, it’s…
…it’s…
……….it’s………
I FORGOT THE NAME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Thankfully it happened here and not on the show; this clue is such a layup.
Thinking of non traditionally shaped buildings, I went with Transamerica in San Francisco.
Whenever I see the word Flatiron, I want to read it as if it were natively French.
I am among what I imagine will be a group of people who immediately know the building and can visualize it, but could not for the life of me know its name. I went with a Triangle factory as that was the only building shape name I could remember.
I went with Triangle building, would have never guessed Flatiron!
Interesting to note Scott’s correct to incorrect ratio.
Currently 407 to 29 (about a 14 to 1 ratio). It is pretty rare to have better than 10 to 1. I looked through some notables (and I might not have the most current – I just searched the site and found an article that mentioned them). Here are the top 3 in regular season winnings:
Ken J 1400 – 126 (about 11-1)
James H 1186 – 36 (almost 33 – 1 amazingly)
Matt A (1791 – 216) (just over 8 – 1)
I think there’s a couple of errors in your data – James’ numbers are correct, but Matt’s numbers include ALL of his postseason appearances (given that the numbers perfectly match his numbers after his last game of Masters 3) and Ken’s numbers only go up to his first 39 games. Matt’s true ratio (1,305 correct, 122 incorrect) work out to about 11 to 1 (91.45%), while Ken’s ratio (2,693 correct, 263 incorrect) roughly matches your numbers at 11 to 1, albeit with an accuracy rate slightly lower than Matt’s (91.10%).
Thanks for that. Using regular season is apples to apples but I didn’t know how to find them. I just searched the site for the newest post that showed some statistics for each player. Not surprising that tournament questions lower players ratio – they are definitely tougher questions.
I always look at the ratio for those that have won a few games to see if I think they will stick around for a while. If a player has won 2 games but has a ratio under 10-1 I figure they won’t be around for so long. I was surprised that Scott is 14-1 but blown away at James being 33-1.
Well, I finally got my 150th FJ correct response for the season today. Took three attempts, though. It’s because I’m at slightly under 2/3 correct on FJ that I don’t feel like I ready for the show.
Don’t count postseason in that stat for yourself. It’s misleading.
I didn’t keep the numbers separately for postseason, so I have no idea how excluding that would impact my numbers. But as someone who would hope to potentially make postseason, and who compares themselves against the top of the lists, including the postseason numbers makes sense to me.
Being a NYC resident, I immediately pictured the building they were asking about. Obviously I knew that it’s not SoHo, Tribeca or the Village. Different neighborhood further up. Then finally remembered the neighborhood, the Flatiron District. Couldn’t remember the building’s name & just went with The Flatiron Building not exactly knowing that it was it’s actual name lol. All that went through my head in those few seconds, crazy.
I got it pretty quickly, though not knowing the streets, I was not confident that I wouldn’t be wrong since it could have been some alternate building I’d never heard of.
I’ve never been to NYC, but heard about that building A LONG time ago and have seen pictures (or on film) an oddly high number of times since, which no doubt reinforced my memory of the name of it whether mentioned each time or not. I’m sure that is also due to having seen actual cast-iron flatirons even before seeing the building (and afterwards). I am not old enough to have seen them being used to iron clothes, but since that time, they were often used as doorstops and bookends.
The dimensions given in the clue were a dead giveaway for anyone familiar with the Flatiron Building. I kind of expected this to be a triple get so I think a lot of people will get this one.
Did you know, though, that the one in New York is not the oldest Flatiron Building? I’m pretty sure Andy will know this. When I was visiting Toronto, Ontario, Canada, I happened upon what I immediately recognized as a Flatiron Building. The Gooderham Building aka the Flatiron Building is located at 49 Wellington Street East in Toronto. That Flatiron Building was completed in 1892, so, significantly older than the one in New York in today’s clue.
Was surprised to hear Ken state during Final Jeopardy that the Flatiron Bldg. is near Union Square. Union Square is at E 14th St. Madison Square is at 23rd Street. Perhaps he misspoke. Note that the current Madison Square Garden is nowhere near Madison Square.
Yes! I caught that. Union Square? Nope.
Yay! Go Scott!
I could only guess The Empire State Building, as to throw out something. Living on the West Coast my whole life did me no favors on this one!
Retro congrats to Scott on win #15 and his 6th in a row in Runaway fashion. He just seems to be getting better and better at this game.
We’ll see if tomorrow he can match one of my faves, Ryan Long, at a 16 game winning streak. I hope that he does! 🙂