Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Authors) for Wednesday, September 15, 2021 (Season 38, Game 3):
In addition to knowing many languages & making up his own, he also taught language at the Universities of Leeds & Oxford
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Nick Auricchio, a social studies teacher from Mission Viejo, California
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Maureen Skehan, a research associate from Baltimore, Maryland
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Matt Amodio, a Ph.D student from New Haven, Connecticut (20-day total: $678,801)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Yesterday, Matt Amodio tied Julia Collins by winning his 20th game. Will his streak continue today? He still had a runaway game yesterday in spite of finding neither Daily Double in Double Jeopardy. I figure that the best chances of beating Matt will come if Matt is in first on the signalling device fewer than 25 times, if he does not find all of the Daily Doubles, and if he doesn’t get Final Jeopardy! correct. It’s a lot, but it’s possible.
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Correct response: Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
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J.R.R. Tolkien, best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, taught at Leeds early in his academic career and Oxford later. Tolkien also translated Beowulf into Modern English; it was completed in the 1920s but not published in 2014. For The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien constructed fantasy languages within the Middle-earth setting of those novels, including Elvish, Dwarvish, and Entish.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Matt $41,200
Nick $8,000
Maureen $7,600
Tonight’s results:
Maureen $7,600 + $7,600 = $15,200 (Who is Tolkein?)
Nick $8,000 – $0 = $8,000 (Who is ?????)
Matt $41,200 + $20,000 = $61,200 (Who is Tolkein?) (21-day total: $740,001)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt $11,200
Maureen $7,200
Nick $2,400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) ACTION & SUSPENSE NOVELS $600 (clue #13)
Matt 5400 +5400 (Maureen 4200 Nick 0)
2) ACROSS THE USA $1600 (clue #3)
Matt 14800 +6000 (Maureen 7200 Nick 2400)
3) FAMOUS FAMILIES $2000 (clue #13, $16800 left on board)
Matt 26400 +4000 (Maureen 7200 Nick 3200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 156
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 0 (0.00 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Matt $30,000 Coryat, 33 correct, 3 incorrect, 56.14% in first on buzzer (32/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Maureen $7,600 Coryat, 15 correct, 1 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Nick $8,000 Coryat, 9 correct, 0 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $45,600
Lach Trash: $4,600 (on 3 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $3,800
Matt Amodio, career statistics:
671 correct, 69 incorrect
34/38 on rebound attempts (on 75 rebound opportunities)
53.51% in first on buzzer (633/1183)
42/47 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $160,400)
15/21 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,724
Maureen Skehan, career statistics:
16 correct, 1 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,600
Nick Auricchio, career statistics:
9 correct, 1 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,000
Matt Amodio, to win:
22 games: 92.394%
23: 85.366%
24: 78.873%
25: 72.874%
26: 67.331%
Avg. streak: 33.147 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- $61,200 is the 28th-highest one-day total of all time and the 7th-highest that does not belong to James Holzhauer. Matt also becomes only the 2nd player to surpass the $60,000 mark three different times.
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Interesting: The two contestants who got FJ correct both reversed the “e” and the “i” in their answers.
As did Lou, above, a self-proclaimed “huge fan”. 🙂
So both Matt and Maureen actually both misspelled Tolkien as “Tolkein? (Not able to watch it here). A very odd misspelling, if so.
It’s actually a pretty common misspelling, so not all that odd.
Amodio didn’t give a correct answer tonight. He responded “Hunt for Red October” as the book title. It’s actually “The Hunt for Red October”. They gave him a pass, unless I misheard his response.
Bernie:
Leading articles of titles are allowed to be added, changed, or removed without penalty unless ambiguity is created. Thus, “The Hunt for Red October”, “A Hunt for Red October”, and “Hunt for Red October” are considered by the show to be equally correct.
Andy, a request for clarification on your understanding this rule: Does it apply only to “leading articles” at the start of the response? Or does it also apply to “leading articles” elsewhere in the response? For example, per the rule, would “The Hunt for a Red October” have been accepted today?
Bill:
By definition, a leading article can only appear at the beginning. Other articles are considered internal; internal articles must be exact.
Thanks Andy. I wasn’t sure if, in this case, “leading” meant “leading the phrase”, or “leading the noun” (which, grammatically speaking, could also be “by definition”.)
In terms of a ‘weaker’ player upsetting the champ, it boggles my mind why the people trying to catch up choose the $400 clue in DJ. To beat Matt you must get the DD’s before he does, so choose clues with the best probability of being a DD. Also, in Double Jeopardy, if a DD is revealed in category “X”, then don’t pick that category again. Having said all that, the way Matt will go down is the same way Ken went down, and that is when someone has more than half his total, and they get FJ right and he gets it wrong. It’s as simple as that.
What’s Rudyard Kipling?
I loved Matt’s expression when they came to his FJ answer. Normally he’s good at keeping a poker face pre-reveal, but not this time!
Also went with Burgess.
I am very much NOT a fan of Tolkien-type Fantasy Lit., so have not read.