Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category World Geography) for Wednesday, January 13, 2021 (Season 37, Game 78):
The Oyapock river forms part of Brazil’s 400-mile border with the territory of this European country
(correct response beneath the contestants)
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Today’s contestants:
Cameron Whiteside, a real estate agent from Mesa, Arizona
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Josiah Jenkins, a risk management professional originally from Rugby, North Dakota
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Lucy Ricketts, an illustrator originally from Atlanta, Georgia (1-day total: $33,100)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Lucy showed she wasn’t afraid to play aggressively when she needed to, parlaying a $9,000 True Daily Double into a big win yesterday. With a 71.7% chance of winning today per the prediction model, the chances are good of us seeing the post-Trebek era’s first multi-day winner.
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Correct response: What is France?
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Yes, France does still have territory in South America; French Guiana is an overseas department of France; as recently as 2010 its voters voted for full integration into the French state. It’s the only territory in the Americas to be fully integrated into a European country. A large part of the French Guiana economy is due to the fact that the Guiana Space Center is located there; it serves as the European Space Agency’s primary launch site near the equator. (Launch sites as close to the equator as possible are preferable because it takes less energy to maneuver a spacecraft into orbit from the equator.)
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Scores going into Final:
Lucy $31,400
Josiah $9,400
Cameron $2,300
Tonight’s results:
Cameron $2,300 + $2,103 = $4,403 (What is France?)
Josiah $9,400 + $8 = $9,408 (What is France?)
Lucy $31,400 – $1 = $31,399 (What is Suriname?) (2-day total: $64,499)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Lucy $6,600
Josiah $4,200
Cameron -$900
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS $1000 (clue #15)
Cameron -200 -500 (Lucy 2400 Josiah 3000)
2) COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $1200 (clue #23)
Lucy 18200 +4000 (Josiah 9400 Cameron 300)
3) CHOREOGRAPHERS $1600 (clue #29, $2000 left on board)
Lucy 25400 +4000 (Josiah 9400 Cameron 2300)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -12
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 142 (1.82 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Lucy $26,200 Coryat, 28 correct, 1 incorrect, 43.86% in first on buzzer (25/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Josiah $9,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 1 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Cameron $2,800 Coryat, 7 correct, 5 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $38,400
Lach Trash: $10,000 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,600
Lucy Ricketts, career statistics:
51 correct, 4 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
39.47% in first on buzzer (45/114)
4/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $19,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,800
Josiah Jenkins, career statistics:
16 correct, 1 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,400
Cameron Whiteside, career statistics:
8 correct, 5 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$500)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $2,800
Lucy Ricketts, to win:
3 games: 81.945%
4: 67.150%
5: 55.026%
6: 45.091%
7: 36.950%
Avg. streak: 6.539 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Thank you to Mark Barrett and Jay Johnson for their assistance in providing the information for this game.
- Yes, Cameron is the first horse to compete on Jeopardy!. (If you don’t get why I’m saying this, watch the contestant interviews.)
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I would love to see John Hodgman as the next host.
Thank you very much Andy for reminding us that impeachment proceedings may cause delays or preemptions and that bringing the culprits of that awful assault on our democracy to justice is of utmost importance.
Ellen degeneres would be a good host too
It’s incredible that this came up as a Final Jeopardy. It’s even more incredible that Lucy missed it considering her performance so far. Obviously Suriname and Guyana are independent countries, as well as the other ten entities on South America’s mainland, leaving French Guiana as the only one of Brazil’s neighbors that is not an independent country, and obviously the “French ” in the name implies that it belongs to France.