Good morning! Today is Thursday, April 1, 2021. April Fool’s Day. You never know what the show is going to have up its sleeve. Anyway, here’s today’s Final Jeopardy:
Antidisestablishmentarianism: A real-life antidisestablishmentarian, William Bridgeman opposed the 1920 disestablishment of this in Wales
(correct response beneath the contestants)
The Jeopardy! community is mourning the loss of Brayden Smith, who passed away on February 5. The Brayden Smith Memorial Fund has been established, dedicated to furthering the educational aspirations of Southern Nevada students.
Today’s contestants:
Scott Shewfelt, a writer originally from Tavistock, Ontario, Canada
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KT Lowe, a librarian from St. Clair Shores, Michigan
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Emily Seaman, a law clerk from Houston, Texas (1-day total: $8,400)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Emily won last night with an excellent wager in Final Jeopardy, continuing the hex that has somehow been placed on the set preventing us from having a three-day champion. A little bit of improvement on last night’s stats (Emily was only in first on 28% of clues yesterday) would go a long way to helping defend her title. But, if this Final Jeopardy! clues trips people up, Emily has demonstrated a strategic knowledge that will help her chances.
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Correct response: What is (the) Church (of England)?
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Antidisestablishmentarianism is the believe that a church (most specifically, the Anglican church) should continue to receive state sanctioning (as opposed to those who believe that church and state should be separated). In this specific case, the 1914 Welsh Church Act was enacted in response to those who objected to Wales having a state-sponsored church that paid money to the Church of England. In the aftermath of this, the Church of Wales was permitted to keep its property, but no longer received tithe money from the government.
As a disclaimer: “the Church of England” feels like the most correct response to me; it would not surprise me if alternatives were accepted by the judges here.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Scott $20,600
Emily $12,000
KT $7,800
Tonight’s results:
KT $7,800 – $7,000 = $800 (What is the United Kingdom?)
Emily $12,000 – $11,997 = $3 (What is Fed Ex?)
Scott $20,600 – $3,401 = $17,199 (What is Cro) (1-day total: $17,199)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Emily $7,600
KT $3,400
Scott $800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400 (clue #23)
Scott 1800 -1000 (Emily 6200 KT 3000)
2) EXPLORING AUSTRALIA $1600 (clue #8)
Scott 3600 +3600 (Emily 8800 KT 5400)
3) IMMORAL LINE $800 (clue #26, $2800 left on board)
Scott 13600 +5000 (Emily 12000 KT 7400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 81
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 169 (1.26 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Scott $15,400 Coryat, 17 correct, 4 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
KT $7,800 Coryat, 14 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Emily $12,000 Coryat, 18 correct, 1 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 2/4 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $35,200
Lach Trash: $13,200 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,600
Emily Seaman, career statistics:
35 correct, 4 incorrect
3/5 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (32/114)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,800
KT Lowe, career statistics:
14 correct, 4 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,800
Scott Shewfelt, career statistics:
17 correct, 5 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,600)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,400
Scott Shewfelt, to win:
2 games: 59.858%
3: 35.829%
4: 21.447%
5: 12.837%
6: 7.684%
Avg. streak: 2.491 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Dr. Oz did just say “church”; so, if you just said “church” at home, give yourself credit!
- The show has always considered “true daily double” to be immediately converted to the equivalent dollar value at the time of utterance; later scoring changes do not alter that number. You as a viewer may not agree with this, and it’s certainly not mathematically perfect, but those are the rules that the show chooses to play under (and today’s refund which took place after an intervening Daily Double is certainly an extreme edge case to normal policy).
- Thus far, $236,100 has been donated to Healthcorps, Inc.
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I got the triple stumper two days in a row!
Toronto is the capital of Ontario, and Ottawa is the capital of Canada.
Maybe this is just me, but if a clue could have (at least) three acceptable responses, shouldn’t that clue get thrown out before the taping for being too ambiguous? Or could this possibly be another consequence of not having all the writers together?
On a less important note, it bugs me that they said there was a “Three Corners” with UT, AZ, and NV. Nevada’s border is definitely a straight line at the UT/AZ corners.
I don’t know if we’ll ever have antidisestablishmentarianism as a FJ category again. Probably not.