This post has been updated with new information. Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Diplomacy) for Tuesday, September 22, 2020 (Season 37, Game 7):
The book “The Eagle & the Elephant” is about the relationship between the U.S. & this Asian country beginning in 1833
(correct response beneath the contestants)
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Today’s contestants:
Reshima Wilkinson, a researcher from Venice, California
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Tyler Brill, a freelance writer from Simi Valley, California
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Dana Hill, a book dealer & stay-at-home mom from Simi Valley, California (1-day total: $25,200)
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Correct response: What is Thailand? (Though “What is India?” should have also been accepted, as a book with the same title also deals with US-India relations).
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Seven episodes into the Mike Richards era and we’re already at two Final Jeopardy! controversies. Mike, you’ve got to be better with this.
Not to be at all confused with an Ohio-based group who don’t care about the health and safety of their fellow citizens in the midst of a global pandemic that has already killed hundreds of thousands of people, there are apparently two diplomacy books regarding U.S. relations with Asian countries with titles of “The Eagle and The Elephant”. The Thai book talks about US-Thailand relations since the 1833 Treaty of Amity and Commerce.
The Eagle & The Elephant is also a Raymond E. Vickery, Jr. book about the cooperation between the United States and India. Vickery, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, also served as a former US Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Trade Development under Clinton. Reviews of the book consider it to be very important for understanding how to do business in (or with) India.
Meanwhile, I’m left to wonder here at The Jeopardy! Fan: does anyone at the show actually know how to use a search engine? I feel like there are going to be a lot of unexpected eyeballs on a group that doesn’t deserve them after this clue today. Especially amongst the aging, vulnerable viewership that comprises Jeopardy!’s majority audience.
This Final Jeopardy! clue should have never made it out of the writer’s room; coming on the heels after last week’s Berry Gordy debacle, it seems like the show has let its guard down a bit in Season 37 with the “gotcha” moments. This is, in my opinion, completely unacceptable.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Dana $21,600
Tyler $11,200
Reshima $5,600
Tonight’s results:
Reshima $5,600 – $5,000 = $600 (What is Th?)
Tyler $11,200 – $11,195 = $5 (What is India?)
Dana $21,600 – $2,000 = $19,600 (What is Korea?) (2-day total: $44,800)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Dana $9,000
Tyler $3,600
Reshima $0
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) THE LANGUAGE OF LIKE $800 (clue #17)
Dana 3400 +2000 (Tyler 1400 Reshima 0)
2) THE MAN, THE POETRY $1600 (clue #11)
Dana 14600 +5000 (Tyler 6800 Reshima 0)
3) AMERICANS IN PARIS $1600 (clue #23)
Tyler 11200 -4000 (Dana 23600 Reshima 3600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 57
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: WESTWARD HO! $800 $1000
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $1,800
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 18 (2.57 per episode average), 1 Daily Double
Game Stats:
Dana $17,000 Coryat, 23 correct, 2 incorrect, 40.00% in first on buzzer (22/55), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Reshima $5,600 Coryat, 7 correct, 1 incorrect, 9.09% in first on buzzer (5/55), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Tyler $15,200 Coryat, 21 correct, 4 incorrect, 43.64% in first on buzzer (24/55), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $37,800
Lach Trash: $7,000 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,400
Dana Hill, career statistics:
41 correct, 5 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
36.36% in first on buzzer (40/110)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,800
Tyler Brill, career statistics:
21 correct, 5 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
43.64% in first on buzzer (24/55)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,200
Reshima Wilkinson, career statistics:
7 correct, 2 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
9.09% in first on buzzer (5/55)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,600
Dana Hill, to win:
3 games: 55.268%
4: 30.545%
5: 16.882%
6: 9.330%
7: 5.156%
Avg. streak: 3.236 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I firmly believe that Tyler has given a response which is sufficiently correct—especially considering that there exists a book on U.S.-India relations with that title—that he should seriously consider protesting this judge’s ruling and ask to be invited back onto the program. Had he been given credit, he would be the winner of this game. Even so, simply the existence of another work by this exact title, referring to a different, plausible country, should have been enough to keep this clue in the writer’s room.
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I agree with other posters that the 1833 date is key: It makes Thailand strictly right and India at best much less right. I also agree that the wording of the question could have been better. It I were in charge of making the decision about whether or not to bring Tyler back, I would need to give it a lot of thought. Fortunately, it’s not my call.
It’s a call that I could see going either way. This incident from 2016 means it’s certainly not a slam dunk, as Mike Drummond was not brought back, but it’s certainly worth contacting the show.
Contestants from the Washington DC market were either 1st or 2nd in almost every statistical category last season. I expect better gameplay once the pool is no longer West-Coast only.
If you really want to be persnickety, Siam is the correct answer, and Thailand should be deemed incorrect, given the time period specified. BTW, Siam became Thailand in 1939. Amazing how the world has changed in 2020…First Covid, then record fires in my home state of California, now the powers that be are messing with Jeopardy! What is the world coming to?
I did well in this game – got 2/3 Daily Doubles right and 4/5 in the “The Man, The Poetry” category.
“Persnickety” is an anachronism . . .
“Persnickety” is an anachronism . . .” is a non sequitir.
How sesquipedalian PFF and GKW. 😜
That is another non sequitir. A word can’t be an anachronism.
An artifact that belongs to another time . . .
At best, obsolescent . . .
That happens to be from my favorite Twilight Zone episode, but you’re obviously playing the role of the totalitarian dictator that declares someone or something obsolete for no good reason. That is much worse than being persnickety, a perfectly good word, and also one of my favorites.
I believe the contestant that wrote “Th” was unsure of the spelling if Thailand and therefore did not finish it.
I think that it is much more likely that the contestant only thought of their answer too late and only had time to write ‘Th’.
Considering the exact wording of the question, it doesn’t seem persnickety to me that India was considered a wrong answer. Since India didn’t become a nation until 1947 which is over 100 years after the date referenced in the clue, it couldn’t be a correct answer. Also, it is actually quite frequent that you find the same title by different authors covering different information.
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