Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 20th Century Novels) for Wednesday, June 30, 2021 (Season 37, Game 198):
British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane’s essay on ectogenesis, birth outside the womb, helped inspire this 1932 novel
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Abby Furnish, a government analyst from Washington, D.C.
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S.A. Shenoy, a student originally from Newark, Delaware
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Courtney Shah, a community college instructor from Portland, Oregon (2-day total: $39,100)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Courtney is now a 2-day champion; both days, she has been the only player to get Final Jeopardy! correct (though, yesterday, it happened from first and not third.) She also improved considerably on the signalling device. If that keeps up, we may have another 3-day champion.
When it comes to the contestant area of the Jeopardy! website, though, the show really needs to improve on that front. Punctuation is often missing—and that punctuation is, frankly, important to showing respect for contestants. (Though, that is par for the course for a show that often lets fans say terrible things about contestants with impunity on their own Facebook page, which the show itself promotes as “a lively exchange of information”. Lively exchange, my foot.) It’s impossible to determine in advance whether the middle contestant played as “Sa”, “SA”, or “S.A.”, and that sort of thing is important. Two thumbs down, Jeopardy!
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Correct response: What is Brave New World?
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Children being engineered through artificial wombs is a major part of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World. Outraged at parts of life in the 1920s after a visit to the United States, Huxley sought to provide a frightening view of the future, in which institutions such as families and marriage were seen as “savage”, and children were incubated artificially.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
S.A. $12,605
Courtney $10,200
Abby $9,400
Tonight’s results:
Abby $9,400 – $5,600 = $3,800 (What is Metamorphosis)
Courtney $10,200 + $8,800 = $19,000 (What is Brave New World) (3-day total: $58,100)
S.A. $12,605 – $8,000 = $4,605 (What is Steppenwolfe?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Abby $7,400
Courtney $4,600
S.A. $3,400
Opening break taken after: 14 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) AWARDS & HONORS $1000 (clue #29)
Abby 5200 +2000 (Courtney 4600 S.A. 3400)
2) MAPPING THE MIDWEST $1600 (clue #5)
Abby 9800 -2000 (Courtney 4600 S.A. 7000)
3) ARIA GRANDE $1600 (clue #29, $2000 left on board)
S.A. 10600 +5 (Courtney 10200 Abby 9400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 18
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 197 (0.99 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Courtney $10,200 Coryat, 14 correct, 1 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
S.A. $14,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Abby $10,400 Coryat, 20 correct, 4 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $34,800
Lach Trash: $11,200 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,000
Courtney Shah, career statistics:
55 correct, 5 incorrect
2/4 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
30.18% in first on buzzer (51/169)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $600)
3/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,667
S.A. Shenoy, career statistics:
16 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,200
Abby Furnish, career statistics:
20 correct, 5 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,400
Courtney Shah, to win:
4 games: 35.699%
5: 12.744%
6: 4.549%
7: 1.624%
8: 0.580%
Avg. streak: 3.555 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Through 3 days, $67,100 has been donated to Odyssey Atlanta. $1,980,061 has been donated to all charities.
- It’s clear that S.A. thought he had a less than 50% chance of getting that final Daily Double correct, and a better chance on Final Jeopardy. From that perspective, he did make the correct wager. He may have misread his own chances on the respective clues, but he made the best strategic choice with the information that he had. I can’t fault the wager he made.
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Hope the “booyah!” Champ continues her streak! Loved how she replied with that, even though she beat out the cutie patootie pediatrician 😄😄😉😉hope this is allowed Mr. Andy
Could Courtney be the one to break the curse?
Also, I know the show will never add this, but breaking a three or four game curse should get you an invite to the ToC no matter what.
My “armchair” take on a $5. wager on a DD, with 1 clue left on the board: sometimes ya just gotta be gutsy, and DARE to be great. Why not bet enough on the DD to make yourself untouchable, and then bet $0 on FJ.
Am I thinking too much like “Jeopardy James”?
That said, congratulations and all the best to Courtney. I’m trying not to get too excited here – we’ve seen enough “3 wins and you’re out” already.
Gotta hand it to Courtney. Thought she would be one and done but she hangs around and then is a beast in final.
Possible hot take, but we need MORE personality-driven contestants on the show.
I applaud S.A. for making the wager he thought was strategically best despite what others viewing at home might make of that decision. If he didn’t feel comfortable with the clues he had already seen in that category, given the tightness of the game on Clue 29, his decision was clearly optimal.
I think the reason he reacted so strongly is because he knew he had the chance to lock it up right at the end but didn’t.
It’s certainly an unenviable position to be in, and a rather unique scenario. You don’t see that many games that are that close three ways, much less with a Daily Double on the last two clues.
The value of the Final, and the art of knowing when to bet nothing in Final Jeopardy. Courtney has now gotten all three of her Finals, which has allowed her to twice come from behind to win. Can she avoid the Thursday curse that seems to hit so many who have won on Mon/Tues/Wed. If she gets the Final again, she just might. For Abby, betting zero in Final would seem to have been the logical move. Her only realistic chance was if the other two missed, which would almost certainly have put them below what she had. As it turned out, they bet about what you would expect them to, but Abby’s bet put her below what you had to figure S.A. would end up with if he made the logical bet and missed, which he did. She didn’t have to do the math, though. Just bet nothing.
Regarding Andy’s comment above; Facebook is a cesspool and my decision to delete the App looks better and better each day. We are very lucky to have a guy like Andy controlling this ship.
Dr. Gupta is doing fine, but I am pining for a permanent host. The revolving door is growing tiresome.