Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category International Sports) for Wednesday, February 19, 2020 (Season 36, Episode 118):
It’s the only country that has played in every FIFA World Cup tournament, winning 5 times
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Sam Leon, an international trade specialist from Washington, D.C.
|
Adam Greenfield, a client escalations manager from Astoria, New York
|
MacKenzie Jones, a program development director from Tulsa, Oklahoma (2-day total: $38,800)
|
Looking for the J!6 clues for February 2020? You can find them here!
You can take the Jeopardy! contestant test anytime through April 30! Looking to practice beforehand? You can find questions and answers to all 3 of the January 2020 online tests here!
Are you going on the show and looking for information about how to bet in Final Jeopardy? Check out my new Betting Strategy 101 page!
(Content continues below)
Correct response: What is Brazil?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Brazil is the only team to have competed in every single FIFA World Cup (21 on the men’s side, 8 on the women’s), having won the men’s tournament in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, and 2002. They also finished second in 1950 (losing to Uruguay), 1998 (losing to France), and on the women’s side in 2007 (losing to Germany).
Since Alex Trebek’s diagnosis of stage 4 pancreatic cancer, many community members have been raising money. The Jeopardy! Fan Online Store is as well! All proceeds from any “Keep The Faith And We’ll Win” shirt sold will be donated to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. To date, nearly $500 has been raised.)
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
MacKenzie $30,200
Sam $23,400
Adam $3,600
Tonight’s results:
Adam $3,600 – $3,500 = $100 (What is France?)
Sam $23,400 + $23,400 = $46,800
MacKenzie $30,200 + $16,601 = $46,801 (3-day total: $85,601)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Sam $7,200
MacKenzie $5,000
Adam $2,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) AROUND THE WORLD $400 (5th pick)
Sam 1800 +1800 (MacKenzie 800 Adam -200)
2) A DISASTER AREA $800 (7th pick)
Sam 10400 +7000 (MacKenzie 6600 Adam 2400)
3) MYTHICAL CREATURES $1200 (16th pick)
MacKenzie 11400 +8000 (Sam 20200 Adam 2400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 237
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 245 (2.08 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
MacKenzie $23,400 Coryat, 25 correct, 2 incorrect, 45.61% in first on buzzer, 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Sam $15,800 Coryat, 18 correct, 0 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Adam $3,600 Coryat, 9 correct, 2 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer, 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $42,800
Lach Trash: $8,800 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $2,400
MacKenzie Jones, stats to date:
66 correct, 10 incorrect
5/5 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
39.88% in first on buzzer (65/163)
3/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $21,000)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,067
MacKenzie Jones, to win:
4 games: 78.853%
5: 62.178%
6: 49.029%
7: 38.661%
8: 30.486%
Avg. streak: 6.729 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- While I generally don’t think such a record should be hailed (as obtaining this record usually means that a contestant has made a suboptimal Final Jeopardy! wager), $46,800 is the second-highest known non-winning regular play Jeopardy! score of all time (second only to Adam Levin with $53,999 on April 29, 2019.). $23,400 going into Final Jeopardy! is only tied for the 10th-highest known regular-play score going into Final Jeopardy! of all time (that record is $27,000, also set by Levin).
Become a Supporter now! Make a monthly contribution to the site on Patreon!
Contestant photo credit: jeopardy.com
When commenting, please note that all comments on The Jeopardy! Fan must be in compliance with the Site Comment Policy.
If you are going to quote any statistics from this page or this website, attribution is required.
I have a Brasil jersey with the five stars on it. I’m guessing all three get it correct.
I don’t really follow soccer but I always think of Pele from Brazil.
Adam’s $46,800 makes him the 2nd best second place finisher in J! History named Adam, including everyone else not named Adam! The number 1 Adam is Adam Levin, who famously scored $53,999 in challenging James’ $54,017 on 4/29/19. But he exceeds the “non-Adam” scores of $44,400 by Michael Cudahy on 5/25/04 and the pre-doubled $23,000 of Steve Hettinger 3/10/98.
My apologies, confused Sam with Adam!
Adam didn’t finish 2nd. Sam did. Also, using score after Final Jeopardy! to measure such a record encourages suboptimal wagering, and I am loath to do so on principle.
Can’t wait until 7 p.m. to watch Sam and MacKenzie duke it out!
AND, she has a 78.8% chance for a 4th win!
Me too, Kathy! Only one that popped into my mind.
THAT’S a FJ! clue??? Surely you jest. Football (it is really called football, not soccer, soccer is the American expression) is the most popular sport in terms of active players and spectators, leave alone the amount of money that is moved. And still Adam (a guy!!) said France. Well, at least he was a little in the area, France being the reigning champ (won in Moscow 2018) and have a second title, when they won in their own country 1998, beating – out of all countries !!- Brazil 3:0…
Sad PS: the referee for the final in Paris in 1990 was Said Belqola from Morocco, then 42 years old, who died 3 years later from cancer at the age of 45…..
Sorry, 1998, typo in the PS line.
You do realize the Brits called it soccer first. After the Americans adopted the term, too, the Brits started calling it football.
The first game between england and scotland in 1872 was called FOOTBALL. “Soccer” is a nickname, mostly used in the U.S. If you say “soccer in England, they draw and quarter you…..😀
And, yet…
https://time.com/5335799/soccer-word-origin-england/
Why does it matter that Adam is a guy?
Because a lot more men are playing and watching football (soccer). So you would think a guy would be more informed about it, statistically speaking.
Such sexism has no place here.
Why does Adam’s gender matter?
If soccer is the American expression, then it really is called that too. My nephews all played soccer and football in high school, in America (Connecticut!). Pretty simple.
1200 clue in “a disaster area”: Shouldn’t the answer USSR or Soviet Union also be accepted ? 1957 there was no Russia yet.Kind of ambiguous clue: do they want the name of TODAY’S country or the name when the disaster occurred ?
If I’m not mistaken, doesn’t a score of 46,801 give MacKenzie a tie with Emma Boettcher for the 1-day record for a woman.
Donna Brown came close with $45,600.
Fun fact – my brother Johnny Leon lost to Donna Brown. Both beaten by two impressive performances!
Yes she ties Emma’s record. Maria Wenglinsky also came close with $46,600.