Warning: There may be spoilers in the post below at any point after 8:00 PM Eastern.
Tonight’s the night for Match #3 of the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time! Here’s tonight’s game recap (for Thursday, January 9, 2020):
Today’s contestants:
Brad Rutter, currently on 0 wins
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Ken Jennings, currently on 1 win
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James Holzhauer, currently on 1 win
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This is currently a placeholder post which will be updated with Final Jeopardy! information and a game recap once it is known.
Preview: James and Ken have both run very evenly through two matches so far; both of them are very close on the buzzer and have split the first two games. Brad will have had a chance to regroup before this third match; it felt as though his confidence is shot after two games, but a good match tonight and a win will mean he’s back on level pegging after a disaster of a start. James is still slightly stronger than Ken in Final Jeopardy, which is one reason why the prediction model still shows James as a favourite to take this.
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Part 1, Final Jeopardy! category: U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY
Part 1, Final Jeopardy! clue: These 2 now-defunct parties each gave the U.S. 4 presidents in the 19th century
Part 1, Final Jeopardy! correct response: What is Democratic-Republican & Whig?
Part 2, Final Jeopardy! category: 21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS
Part 2, Final Jeopardy! clue: These 2 foreign-born directors have each won 2 Best Director Oscars, but none of their films has won Best Picture
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Part 2, Final Jeopardy! correct response: Who are Alfonso Cuarón and Ang Lee?
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Game 1 results:
Brad 8,800 + 8,800 = 17,600
James 13,600 + 13,600 = 27,200
Ken 25,600 + 25,600 = 51,200
Game 2 results:
James 7,400 – 908 = 6,492 + 27,200 = 33,692 (Who is the GHOST? (Greatest Host of Syndicated TV) Pat Saj Alex Trebek)
Brad 10,000 – 4,133 = 5,867 + 17,600 = 23,467 (Ken es el Hombre Eagles Super Bowl LII Champs)
Ken 17,600 – 1,200 = 16,400 + 51,200 = 67,600 (Winner) (Who are Lee and Gonzalez-Inarritu)
Daily Double locations:
1) THE ALPS 1000 (7th pick)
James 1400 +1400 (Ken 3000 Brad 0)
2) WORD ORIGINS 1600 (1st pick)
Brad 3400 -3400 (James 7600 Ken 6000)
3) GOVERNMENT IN CRISIS 1600 (6th pick)
Ken 9200 +9200 (James 9600 Brad 1600)
4) GEMSTONES! MEET THE GEMSTONES! 600 (7th pick)
James 5000 -5000 (Ken 0 Brad 0)
5) THE DAM BILL 2000 (12th pick)
Brad 1000 +2000 (Ken 12400 James 5400)
6) MUSIC & LEGEND 1600 (14th pick)
Brad 3000 +3000 (Ken 12400 James 5400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this match: 200
Unplayed clues:
Game 1, J! round: None!
Game 1, DJ! round: None!
Game 2, J! round: None!
Game 2, DJ! round: None!
Total Points Left On Board: 0
Game Stats:
Ken 35,600 Coryat, 43 correct, 3 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer, 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
James 25,600 Coryat, 46 correct, 7 incorrect, 42.11% in first on buzzer, 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Brad 20,800 Coryat, 21 correct, 2 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: 82,000
Lach Trash: 11,000(on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): 15,000
Cumulative Tournament Stats:
Ken 108,600 Coryat, 135 correct, 10 incorrect, 38.01% in first on buzzer, 9/11 on rebound attempts (on 18 rebound opportunities)
James 93,600 Coryat, 134 correct, 13 incorrect, 40.06% in first on buzzer, 5/6 on rebound attempts (on 15 rebound opportunities)
Brad 53,200 Coryat, 67 correct, 12 incorrect, 18.71% in first on buzzer, 6/6 on rebound attempts (on 19 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: 255,400
Lach Trash: 24,800(on 17 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): 43,800
James Holzhauer, stats to date:
1,447 correct, 59 incorrect
43/47 on rebound attempts (on 91 rebound opportunities)
54.54% in first on buzzer (1327/2433)
82/89 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $696,388)
40/43 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $27,991
James Holzhauer, to win (per the prediction model):
Wins in 3: 0.000% of the time.
Wins in 4: 0.000% of the time.
Wins in 5: 23.143% of the time.
Wins in 6: 10.281% of the time.
Wins in 7: 3.434% of the time.
Overall: 36.858% of the time.
Ken Jennings, stats to date:
3,072 correct, 306 incorrect
116/144 on rebound attempts
57.62% in first on buzzer (2968/5151)
147/177 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $482,999)
58/89 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,022
Ken Jennings, to win (per the prediction model):
Wins in 3: 0.000% of the time.
Wins in 4: 29.584% of the time.
Wins in 5: 20.892% of the time.
Wins in 6: 7.819% of the time.
Wins in 7: 2.100% of the time.
Overall: 60.395% of the time.
Brad Rutter, stats to date:
763 correct, 90 incorrect
44/47 on rebound attempts
38.34% in first on buzzer (720/1878)
46/57 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $61,100)
18/30 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,661
Brad Rutter, to win (per the prediction model):
Wins in 3: 0.000% of the time.
Wins in 4: 0.000% of the time.
Wins in 5: 0.000% of the time.
Wins in 6: 1.132% of the time.
Wins in 7: 1.615% of the time.
Overall: 2.747% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Brad found a Daily Double on the first clue of Double Jeopardy in 4 games. He missed all four.
- Ken absolutely put himself in this tournament’s driver’s seat by both his True Daily Double and True Final Jeopardy. He has absolutely come to play this week.
- Kudos to all three players for their levity in the last Final Jeopardy with everything all decided.
- This is also the Ken Jennings that a lot of people were expecting to see in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions final in 2005.
- All 18 Daily Doubles have had the maximum amount bet on them this tournament.
- Game 4 is scheduled for Tuesday, January 14, 8:00 PM Eastern (7:00 PM Central).
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I hear people talk about buzzer speed and listening to the cadence of Alex’s voice, but I believe reading ability plays a great part in answering clues and ringing in. If you can finish reading the clue in your head before Alex gets done reading it out loud, that gives you an advantage over whether to ring in or not, if you know the answer. Yes, this does also involve relying on his cadence. I never knew about the “enable” lights until I went to my first audition and, truthfully, I can’t recall that I ever even noticed them when I was on the set. Contestants read the clues in their actual locations on the board, not enlarged on a monitor, like the clues are displayed when watching at home. So, you also have to have good enough distance vision to read something about 20 feet away. but again, I was usually focused on reading the clue, and listening to Alex, to not notice the lights that run down each side of the board and indicate when contestants can ring in.
That said, I would be interested to know how much reading is a factor for Brad, James or Ken. Is one of them a slightly faster speed reader than the others? Maybe after the tournament they might share a few more of their secrets that helped them through this tourney. Everybody talks about their different techniques for holding and clicking the buzzer, but no one has ever said that they can outread Alex.
Also interesting, the first time I saw a live show, I smiled because Final Jeopardy! is displayed in the studio the same way it was way back on the Art Fleming version. The info is displayed in the fourth column from the left, and the subject is in the the third screen down, and the clue is below it, in the fourth screen. Again, the contestants do not get an enlarged version of the clue, like we seem to get watching at home. I think that the reading also helps with this, as Alex noted in a show last week (I think one of the regulars) that two of the contestants were on the answer “like a shot”, writing down their responses almost as soon as he was done reading the clue. So, again, if they were able to read the clue internally before he got done reading it out loud, they have those few extra seconds to think more about the correct answer. every so often, they will show the board in the Final set-up during the Think! music for Final.
And friends have also asked me how I know so much, but the real trick for Jeopardy! is not how much do you know, but how quickly can you recall it. Some other shows seem to give contestants a seeming eternity to answer a question, but Jeopardy! has always maintained strict standards about time limits, which is one of the things that has made the show a classic, and all the contestants have adapted that discipline as they practice to get on the show. I have noticed in the Greatest tournament that it does not seem like there is as strict of a time limit on the contestants, although the lights on the top front of each podium are supposed to act as a timer, but I have not heard Alex caution the players of how much time is left in a round, and they have cleared every board. But again, these guys are very good at using shorthand when calling for clues and avoiding any small talk that eats up seconds and slows down play.
Interested to see what happens tonight in Game 4. My DVR still has the show listed at 7 pm from tonight through Friday, but that could be a small programming red herring from ABC, but it has brought them good ratings so far.