Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category History of the 19-Teens) for Friday, September 24, 2021 (Season 38, Game 10):
Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British Admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship’s last captain in 1915
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Rebecca Fox, an administrative assistant from Pasadena, California
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Troy Pozirekides, a written communications specialist from Santa Monica, California
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Matt Amodio, a Ph.D student from New Haven, Connecticut (27-day total: $955,201)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Matt Amodio comes into today needing $44,799 to surpass the $1 million mark. I’d be surprised if he got there today; this seems to have been a more tiring week for him. Friday is also Matt’s weakest day of the week.
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Correct response: What is the (RMS) Lusitania?
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The Cunard ship RMS Lusitania was travelling from New York to England when it was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland. Knowing that merchant ships had been sunk in the area, the Admiralty had warned captain William Turner to take an unpredictable course; however, Turner ignored the advice and was sunk on May 7, 1915. Nearly 1,200 people drowned. Turner, incredibly, did not go down with the ship. Moreover, Turner helmed the SS Ivernia which was also sunk by a U-Boat in 1917 (Turner did not go down with the Ivernia either.)
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Scores going into Final:
Matt $31,800
Troy $7,200
Rebecca -$4,000
Tonight’s results:
Rebecca -$4,000 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Troy $7,200 + $7,200 = $14,400 (What is the Luisitania?)
Matt $31,800 + $17,000 = $48,800 (What is Lusitania Titanic?) (28-day total: $1,004,001)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt $6,600
Troy $5,600
Rebecca $400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) GET-TOGETHERS $1000 (clue #5)
Matt 3800 -3800 (Troy 0 Rebecca 0)
2) NOVELS BY QUOTE $1600 (clue #1)
Rebecca 400 -2000 (Matt 6600 Troy 5600)
3) NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICANS $1200 (clue #8, $23600 left on board)
Matt 12600 +6000 (Troy 4000 Rebecca -3200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -152
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 $30,800 Coryat, 38 correct, 2 incorrect, 66.67% in first on buzzer (38/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Troy $7,200 Coryat, 12 correct, 1 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Rebecca -$2,000 Coryat, 2 correct, 3 incorrect, 5.26% in first on buzzer (3/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $36,000
Lach Trash: $8,600 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,400
Matt Amodio, career statistics:
899 correct, 90 incorrect
46/53 on rebound attempts (on 100 rebound opportunities)
53.41% in first on buzzer (845/1582)
53/62 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $201,000)
20/28 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,864
Troy Pozirekides, career statistics:
13 correct, 1 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,200
Rebecca Fox, career statistics:
2 correct, 3 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
5.26% in first on buzzer (3/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,000)
0/0 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: -$2,000
Matt Amodio, to win:
29 games: 93.138%
30: 85.286%
31: 79.594%
32: 73.213%
33: 67.536%
Avg streak: 39.750 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Mayim clearly explained why the judges accepted Troy’s misspelling of Lusitania. (the “ui” can be pronounced like in “cruise”.)
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To Lou, that’s what they told us in school, but now it’s known that the ship was indeed carrying munitions, which apparently the Germans already knew. Maybe if the captain had been tipped off, he would have taken evasive action.
Has a contestant ever gotten zero correct responses?
I don’t believe so, but Andy can likely access the J! Archive to confirm.
I simply cannot believe, given the well-known Jeopardy! vetting process that Rebecca was both unable to come up with many answers or unable to figure out how to use the buzzer. My guess (it’s only a guess) is that she just became so dispirited as DJ wore on that she quit trying.
Turner actually did go “down with the ship” — he stayed at his post until she sank and was rescued from the water.
He went down with SS Ivernia, too.
Regardless of the amounts that Matt is wagering (i.e. not enough to surpass Holzhauer in the same number of regular season games), there’s a really good chance of him becoming the number #2 all-time regular season winner by next Friday. Next week is going to be fun to watch!
Also next week Matt can join Ken & James as the third member of the over 1000 correct responses club!
Diana, I think your math is fuzzy. Matt has taken 28 games to get to $1M in winnings. How is he going to win $1.4 M in just the next 5 or 10 games?
David:
James only won 32 games. Matt only needs 5 to pass that.
I liked the way Mayim handled the explanation of the decision to accept Troy’s answer. It was clever.
Has spelling always counted on Final Jeopardy? I see why there has to be some rule, but I don’t remember it being a “thing” in the past.
Spelling does not count as long as the misspelling can still be pronounced the same way as the proper spelling.
There was a Tournament of Champions participant fairly recently who misspelled three or four different Final Jeopardy answers during their original run, but was not penalized for any of them.
Why do they not penalize contestants for answering with “what is Jane Doe?” instead of “who is Jane Doe?” I can understand that occasional slip, but the constant use of it is driving me nuts.
Because Merv Griffin, the original executive producer, didn’t think that doing so was a good idea.
I can’t understand why people are so wedded to the “who is”/“what is” response format. No matter which of those you use, the question you ask is virtually never responsive to the actual clue.
Take today’s Final Jeopardy. The clue was, “Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British Admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship’s last captain in 1915.”
Now, how is, “What is the Lusitania?” responsive to that clue? It’s not. A clue that could properly be answered, “What is [was] the Lusitania?” would be something like, “A British ship that was sunk in 1915 in a wartime disaster that killed nearly 1,200 people.”
The Jeopardy question format is the gimmick that gives the show its hook. That’s all it is. It was never meant to be accurate. (As I recall, Merv Griffin originally wanted question responses to be appropriate to the clues, but was quickly persuaded that enforcing that would be terribly unwieldy and would slow the program to a painful crawl.)
All this being the case, I can’t fathom why people care if Matt uses “who is” or “what’s” to formulate his responses.
It’s possible that Rebecca got caught up watching Matt rather than playing against him. She’s certainly not the first to freeze the last few weeks.
There were golfers who watched Tiger Woods and basketball players who watched Michael Jordan.