Final Jeopardy: 21st Century Television (4-2-25)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/2/2025) in the category “21st Century Television” was:
The creator of this series that premiered in 2018 pitched it as “The Godfather in Montana”
2x champ Bryce Wargin, a post market surveillance coordinator from Kansas City, MO, has won $39,200 so far. In Game 3, he takes on these two players: Lee Henry, a high school teacher from Arab, AL; and Brina Ratangee, a graduate student from Nashville, TN.
Round 1 Categories: Let’s Get Pact – Common Bond Cuisine – 7-letter Words – Placing the Song – I Love You – To the Moon & Back
Brina found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Let’s Get Pact” under the $600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,800, $800 more than Bryce in second place. Brina bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
On New Year’s Day in 1994, this western hemisphere trade pact came into effect show
Brina finished in the lead with $3,800. Bryce was second with $3,600 and Lee was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: World Geography – Punctuation – Farewell to France – Without a Paddle – British Monarchs on Film – The Dead Never Sleep
Bryce found the first Daily Double in “World Geography” under the $1,600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,400, $200 more than Brina in second place. Bryce made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The Grand Est region of France includes this hyphenated region that was briefly ceded to Germany in the 1940s show
Brina found the last Daily Double in “Punctuation” under the $2,000 clue with 4 clues left after it. She was in last place with $1,000, $14,200 less than Bryce’s lead. Lee was docked $4,000 on a reversal (see below) before Ken read the clue. Brina bet $916 and she was RIGHT.
Where Americans say, “You’re not going, period”, Brits say, “You’re not going”, these 2 words show
Bryce finished in the lead with $15,600. Lee was second with $10,000 and Brina was last with $2,316. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “YELLOWSTONE”?
In a June 2023 Hollywood Reporter article, Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of the popular TV series “Yellowstone”, told Hollywood Reporter how he pitched his script to HBO as “The Godfather in Montana”. When things didn’t work out at HBO, Sheridan shopped around. “Yellowstone” ended up at with Paramount and the rest is history. Sheridan also created a prequel”1883″, and a sequel “1923”, as well as “The Madison”, a spinoff with a possible release in late 2025.
The article does not go into the parallels drawn between “Yellowstone” and “The Godfather”. It’s all in the family structure: John Dutton = Vito Corleone; Kayce Dutton = Michael; adopted son Jamie = Tom Hagen; Beth Dutton = Connie; Rip Wheeler, John’s foreman and enforcer = Sonny. Where’s Fredo? The third Dutton son, Lee, only appears in S1E1. Unlike Fredo, Lee is the oldest son.
Brina bet $1,600 and finished with $3,916.
Lee bet $10,000 and finished with $19,999.
Bryce bet $4,600 and won the game with $20,200. Bryce’s 3-day total is $59,400.
Reversal ($2000) Napoleon III wanted to die in battle in this war, but instead was captured in 1870 & lived out his days in England – Lee gave the right response– the Franco-Prussian War– but failed to phrase it in the form of a question to the judges’ satisfaction.
2 triple stumpers from BRITISH MONARCHS ON FILM:
($1200) 30 years apart, Timothée Chalamet & Kenneth Branagh both took the throne as this warrior king
($2000) In “Braveheart” Patrick McGoohan as this king may not have taken their freedom, but he did “hammer” he Scots pretty good
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “MOVIES OF THE ’80s”
Based on an off-Broadway play with just 3 characters, it won the Best Picture Oscar & the actors in all 3 roles were nominated show
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Lee sure didn’t look like he had been in the contestant pool for over 20 years. The reversal came after he didn’t phrase “Robert the Bruce” as a question, either. And, I recall something from 40 years ago, in the county spelling bee – the word was “tenure”, and the person said “tnure”. He got really agitated, but there was a person with a reel to reel tape machine, and I could see them rolling it back several times. His not enunciated “t-e” stayed wrong. Likewise, even if Lee mumbled it, or rushed it, there was no time, even, for him to do that (as it takes about 1/10th to 1/5 of a second to say “what is”), and, the subtitlist didn’t catch it, either. So, I am not surprised that the judges didn’t hear it, either (and, to be a wag, I’ll say, “because it weren’t there!:”).
3/3 on DD, and got FJ. What else could it be? There was a show on ABC that was on 2020-2023 called “Big Sky”. It was theoretically possible for a book-smart Jeopardy! contestant could have said that.
Regardless, I, also, have never seen any of Yellowstone, but my sister and her husband LOVE it. She always exhorts me to watch it whenever I visit (about 4 times a year).
FJ pretty much a no-brainer. (And I’ve never seen it or its spinoffs once.) What else could it have been? It’s a pop culture phenomenon. Got the first 2 DDs, 3rd one mystified me.
I was pretty sure Lee failed to put that response in question form, but I miss those mumbled answers a lot, so wasn’t certain. He was on a good roll, too, but ultimately was not going to win anyway. Brina started nicely but faded like a cheap suit.
Got the “Family Guy” vehicle (never saw that show either). Shocked no one knew the 7-letter name from French for a gold brick.
It seemed to me that Lee was going so fast, he just thought he said what’s.
At least now we know for sure that the judges check these incidents closely.
As for the gold, they probably thought the right word was spelled like the broth maker.
It was another competitive game, and the clues were almost too easy. Anyways, I flubbed the FJ as I just do not tune into the newer TV shows. I mean, some of them remind me of home movies.
why was lee docked 4k when it was a 2k clue? cost him the game i think.
$2K for the $$ he earned, and another $2K for not putting it in question form. Standard procedure when a correct response is reversed.
Well, $2k for the $$ he earned, then lost the $2k from getting the question wrong (by not putting it in question form). Just for clarity.