Happy Thursday! Today is Day 4 of LeVar Burton’s hosting stint; $102,400 has been donated thus far to Reading is Fundamental. Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category World Cities) for Thursday, July 29, 2021 (Season 37, Game 219):
This Colombian port of 1 million people gets its name from Phoenician for “New Town”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Bryan Cracchiolo, an assistant registrar from White Plains, New York
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Dana Rosner, a sales manager from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Matt Amodio, a Ph.D student from New Haven, Connecticut (6-day total: $194,800)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Matt has found and hit his stride, for sure. Yesterday was a very dominant performance, and if not for the six incorrect responses it would have been even more dominant. Averaging 4.5 incorrect responses per game, though, leaves him at least partly vulnerable to one of those incorrect responses coming at an unlucky time for him.
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Correct response: What is Cartagena?
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Cartagena, Colombia gets its name from the Spanish city of the same name, which was founded by the Phoenicians as “Qart Hadasht”, or “New Town”; the more famous Phoenician city of Carthage has the same general etymology. The Colombian Cartagena is a major Caribbean port of the country and has existed since the 1500s.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Matt $44,000
Dana $4,400
Bryan -$1,200
Tonight’s results:
Bryan -$1,200 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Dana $4,400 – $0 = $4,400 (What is Bogota?)
Matt $44,000 + $30,000 = $74,000 (What is Cartagena?) (7-day total: $268,800)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt $15,200
Dana $1,200
Bryan -$400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE $800 (clue #10)
Matt 5000 +5000 (Dana 0 Bryan -1000)
2) A NOBEL LAUREATE WROTE THAT $1600 (clue #2)
Matt 15600 +2000 (Dana 1200 Bryan -400)
3) IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD & HANDS $1600 (clue #6, $28000 left on board)
Matt 20400 +2000 (Dana 2800 Bryan -400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 123
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 209 (0.95 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Matt $39,000 Coryat, 43 correct, 3 incorrect, 73.68% in first on buzzer (42/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Dana $4,400 Coryat, 7 correct, 1 incorrect, 12.28% in first on buzzer (7/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Bryan -$1,200 Coryat, 4 correct, 2 incorrect, 8.77% in first on buzzer (5/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $42,200
Lach Trash: $5,600 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,200
Matt Amodio, career statistics:
211 correct, 30 incorrect
8/10 on rebound attempts (on 25 rebound opportunities)
53.61% in first on buzzer (208/388)
14/16 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $49,200)
6/7 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $23,229
Dana Rosner, career statistics:
7 correct, 2 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
12.28% in first on buzzer (7/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $4,400
Bryan Cracchiolo, career statistics:
4 correct, 2 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
8.77% in first on buzzer (5/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/0 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: -$1,200
Matt Amodio, to win:
8 games: 85.654%
9: 73.366%
10: 62.841%
11: 53.826%
12: 46.104%
Avg. streak: 12.971 games.
Matt Amodio, to win:
8 games: 85.654%
9: 73.366%
10: 62.841%
11: 53.826%
12: 46.104%
Avg. streak: 12.971 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- $179,400 has been donated thus far to Reading is Fundamental; $2,635,226 has been donated on behalf of all hosts.
- $74,000 is the 21st-highest one-day total of all time on Jeopardy! and the 3rd-highest of anyone not named James Holzhauer.
- $39,000 is the second-best Coryat Score of all time. It’s $200 short of Ken Jennings’ record of $39,200, set in Ken’s 7th game on June 10, 2004.
- Including Final Jeopardy!, Matt’s performance of 44 correct is 1 short of the known record for correct responses in a single game (Ken Jennings had 45 correct in a game on multiple occasions.)
- Ken Jennings’ best “in first on buzzer” performance was 46/56, in his 35th game on July 20, 2004
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Little things mean a lot. The Jeopardy G.O.A.T., Ken Jennings, nearly didn’t win his very first Final Jeopardy. If they had disallowed his response, “Jones”, we would probably never have heard about him again.