Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Food & Drink in the Bible) for Thursday, September 23, 2021 (Season 38, Game 9):
In the King James Version, these creatures are a plague in Exodus 10, but deemed okay to eat in Leviticus 11
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Guhan Venkatesan, an undergrad student and EMT from New Providence, New Jersey
|
Caroline Minkus, an ophthalmologist from Minneapolis, Minnesota
|
Matt Amodio, a Ph.D student from New Haven, Connecticut (26-day total: $929,401)
|
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Matt Amodio has dropped significant amounts of money on a missed Daily Double two games running, but he’s managed to survive both of these games, with runaways to boot. Whether Matt gets to $1 million today, tomorrow, Monday, or even at all will definitely depend on how he does on the four major betting clues a game.
Meanwhile: I think that Mayim Bialik’s hosting style this week is being unfairly criticized in a number of spaces online. A number of the actions that some viewers are choosing to criticize are things that Alex Trebek would do all the time when he hosted. It feels to me as though these viewers are using this criticism as a proxy for their own biases.
PSA: The best way to keep COVID-19 at bay (and keep Jeopardy! producing new episodes) is for everybody to get their vaccinations as soon as they are able to. When wearing a mask, ensure that your mask covers both your nose and your mouth.
Are you going on the show and looking for information about how to bet in Final Jeopardy? Check out my new Betting Strategy 101 page!
(Content continues below)
Correct response: What are locusts?
More information about Final Jeopardy: (The following write-up is original content and is copyright 2021 The Jeopardy! Fan. It may not be copied without linked attribution back to this page.)
In the King James Version: Exodus 10 talks about the well-known plague of locusts brought upon Egypt, the eighth of ten disasters brought upon Egypt in order to convince the Pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery. Further on in the Bible, Leviticus 11:21-23 reads: “Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.”
We have many new offerings at The Jeopardy! Fan Online Store! Proceeds from the sale of the “Doctor Oz’s Fast-Acting Snake Oil Elixir” T-shirt are being donated to The Trevor Project:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Matt $26,800
Guhan $11,500
Caroline $9,200
Tonight’s results:
Caroline $9,200 + $8,000 = $17,200 (What are locusts?)
Guhan $11,500 + $11,493 = $22,993 (What are locusts?)
Matt $26,800 – $1,000 = $25,800 (What are frogs locusts?) (27-day total: $955,201)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt $6,400
Guhan $5,500
Caroline $2,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) SPORTS VENUE NICKNAMES $600 (clue #25)
Guhan 3400 +1500 (Matt 5800 Caroline 2200)
2) SUPERLATIVES $800 (clue #12)
Caroline 2800 +2800 (Matt 10000 Guhan 9500)
3) REVIVAL $1600 (clue #15, $19200 left on board)
Matt 10400 +10400 (Caroline 4800 Guhan 9500)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 244
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 $18,000 Coryat, 24 correct, 3 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Guhan $10,600 Coryat, 17 correct, 5 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Caroline $7,200 Coryat, 13 correct, 4 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 2/4 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $35,800
Lach Trash: $6,600 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,600
Matt Amodio, career statistics:
860 correct, 88 incorrect
46/53 on rebound attempts (on 98 rebound opportunities)
52.92% in first on buzzer (807/1525)
52/60 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $198,800)
19/27 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,719
Caroline Minkus, career statistics:
14 correct, 4 incorrect
2/4 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,800)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,200
Guhan Venkatesan, career statistics:
18 correct, 5 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,500)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,600
Matt Amodio, to win:
28 games: 90.754%
29: 84.526%
30: 77.401%
31: 72.235%
32: 66.444%
Avg. streak: 39.560 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Especially with Matt ending the previous season as an 18-day champion, contestants absolutely need to have prepared themselves to play Matt’s game in order to have the best chance of beating him. To me, it is a gross failure in preparation to play a more “normal” game (i.e. selecting first-row clues with Daily Doubles still unseen and failing to take full advantage of Daily Doubles) when there is a very good chance that you’ll be facing a defending champion that’s won nearly $1 million. The $1,900 that Guhan left on the table on the first Daily Double cost Guhan today’s win by the end of it.
Contestant photo credit: jeopardy.com
When commenting, please note that all comments on The Jeopardy! Fan must be in compliance with the Site Comment Policy.
If you are going to quote any information from this page or this website, attribution is required.
Andy, totally agree with your “Andy’s Thought” on challengers going to the top row clues. I came on here to say the same thing. I will add that another strategic error was made today when Caroline got the first DD in DJ, and then stayed in the same category. A champion player like Matt would never do that. The second DD is not going to be in that category. Sure enough Matt got control of the board and two clues later found the second DD, and basically put the game away.
As good as Matt is, I think I have to give James the slight edge because Matt has admitted he is weak in pop culture (I noticed it as well), whereas it seemed like there was simply no weakness in James’s knowledge base.
If Matt can survive the tomorrow (the last taping of the day) that’s a huge step towards catching James’s streak.
Judging by numbers of incorrect responses alone, James was a stronger player than Matt. James was, I believe, just under 3% incorrect responses over all, and Matt is around 9%.
I liked James. I love Matt. But that’s a pretty stark difference. I think it was Claire McNear in her recent Ringer article who said that James never appeared to be guessing. Matt does seem to guess more often.
I’m crossing my fingers that Matt overtakes not just James but Ken as well. In a head-to-head competition between James and Matt, the buzzer would obviously be key. Still, that’s a pretty big disparity in incorrect responses.
Completely agree with Andy’s Thoughts. Right after Guhan’s DD I said to myself that he might come to regret leaving money on the table. Now he’s on the list of players who had a chance to dethrone Matt but couldn’t quite put all the pieces together.
I would have said cows, but though they were part of a plague, they weren’t a plague themselves. I think that plague on Egypt’s livestock is in Deut. chapter 9, not 10. But they were allowed to eat them in Leviticus chapter 11.
Hoping someone can clear something up for me. In the game there was a category talking about college venues. Matt answered Florida to one question and it was deemed correct. Then Mayim said University of Florida. But there is also a Florida State University. Did I just completely miss that the category just wanted the state name and not the college?
“Florida” unqualified, especially in the world of college sports, refers to the University of Florida. Even CBS in its coverage uses just “Florida” to refer to the school.
Moreover, the show has accepted just “Florida” in the past to refer to the school. This is nothing new.
Thanks. Clearly it’s new to me. 🙂 Seems very sloppy, though, since there’s no way to know if the contestant actually knew the right answer. Suppose that shouldn’t surprise me, though. It seems to me that in the past Jeopardy required contestants to be more precise in their answers. Oh well. Again, thanks for the quick answer.
I’m not sure where you’re getting your “in the past” sentence from. “Florida” unqualified was explicitly accepted in Final Jeopardy back in 2007. It’s always been this way.
Speaking of this category, I thought Matt had exhibited enough of an interest in sports for knowing the “Carrier Dome” was the venue at Syracuse U.–Plus, its a venue that has almost gone beyond the sports realm in terms of recognition…
How many people still buy Pledge for their “dust-fighting” jobs? Not these three, obviously…