Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Countries of the World) for Monday, October 11, 2021 (Season 38, Game 21):
Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Jonathan Fisher, an actor originally from Coral Gables, Florida
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Jessica Stephens, a statistical research specialist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Matt Amodio, a Ph.D student from New Haven, Connecticut (38-day total: $1,518,601)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: The Mike Richards era of Jeopardy! has been brought to an end, with Friday’s episode being the final taping where Mike served as Executive Producer. Now, the show can move forward, with Matt Amodio returning to the studio as a 38-day champion. One of the joys of Jeopardy! is that (much like baseball, in fact) there’s just enough randomness built into the game such that you never really know at the start of the game just what’s going to happen. With how Matt’s been playing, today could be the day where he catches every break and wins over $100,000. Or, on the flip side, he could catch some unlucky breaks and today could be the day he loses. And that’s what makes things so exciting.
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Correct response: What is Austria?
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Much like post-World War II Germany, post-World War II Austria (and Vienna) was partitioned into American, British, French, and Soviet occupation sections; Austria was famously annexed by the Nazis in 1938, in what was known as the Anschluss. From 1942 to 1945, the area was known as “Alpine and Danube Reichsgaue”. For many years following World War II, Austria portrayed itself as “the Nazis’ first victim” which completely failed to acknowledge the country’s contribution to the Nazi regime; it was not until nearly the turn of the century before Austria began reckoning with its past (its President, Nazi intelligence officer Kurt Waldheim, was seen as persona non grata in much of the world during his Presidency in the late ’80s and early ’90s).
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Jonathan $14,600
Jessica $14,400
Matt $10,600
Tonight’s results:
Matt $10,600 – $5,000 = $5,600 (What is Poland?)
Jessica $14,400 + $14,399 = $28,799 (What is Austria?)
Jonathan $14,600 + $14,600 = $29,200 (What is Austria?) (1-day total: $29,200)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt $9,800
Jonathan $4,000
Jessica $2,400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) THIS ONE GOES TO 2011 $600 (clue #19)
Jonathan 1600 +1600 (Matt 7400 Jessica 2200)
2) GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT $1200 (clue #22)
Jonathan 12800 -2000 (Matt 8600 Jessica 13600)
3) NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES $800 (clue #23, $3600 left on board)
Jonathan 10800 +3000 (Matt 8600 Jessica 13600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 112
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:
Jonathan $13,400 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Jessica $14,400 Coryat, 14 correct, 0 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Matt $10,600 Coryat, 23 correct, 5 incorrect, 47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: $38,400
Lach Trash: $6,200 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,400
Matt Amodio, career statistics:
1305 correct, 122 incorrect
55/64 on rebound attempts (on 125 rebound opportunities)
56.00% in first on buzzer (1237/2209)
76/86 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $304,200)
29/39 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $27,913
Jessica Stephens, career statistics:
15 correct, 0 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,400
Jonathan Fisher, career statistics:
17 correct, 2 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,600)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,400
Jonathan Fisher, to win:
2 games: 46.990%
3: 22.081%
4: 10.376%
5: 4.875%
6: 2.291%
Avg. streak: 1.886 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- This is a reminder that Jeopardy! airs as early as noon Eastern on some stations.
- After James’ and Ken’s losses leaked in advance, I am genuinely surprised that no advance video of today’s game leaked. This is one instance where I don’t at all mind being wrong, though.
- Obviously, finding both Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy! helped Jonathan’s victory chances significantly, but what I think really hurt Matt was only scoring a net $800 in Double Jeopardy, only getting in first on the signalling device 9 times and giving 4 incorrect responses.
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A fairly easy FJ clue I think. “Danube” is kind of a dead giveaway. In the 1949 film “The Third Man,” the Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles characters meet in the Riesenrad (Giant Wheel), which was in the Russian sector of Vienna.
So easy I was questioning myself thinking I’m missing something.
Austria was my first guess. I imagine all the contestants will know it, it’s now a matter of how much Matt bets
Matt is so good with geography I could see him betting a lot on this category. You never know, though. I thought he might bet more than he did on some of the FJs last week. When it’s a runaway, you stay within your comfort level.
A giant killer, as Alex would put it.
It was bound to happen one day or another. Ah well.
Hopefully Jonathan has a decent run. It is always sad when a giant killer gets knocked out quickly.
If precedent is any guide, he will definitely need two more wins to make it to the TOC
I’m just very sad.
Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on who you are) we’re probably gonna be seeing a lot more of Matt Amodio!
Congrats to Jonathan, and I hope the people who were “sick” of Matt enjoy the next 17 years of (relative) mediocrity.
Yes! All the “haters” can now watch 1 or 2 day champions.
Austria was the answer I got because of the song the blue danube and the Movie the Third Man. But well, Matt played well for 38 games which is a impressive record. John is our new giant killer so hopefully he can score a few runaway games himself. We welcome matt to the tournament of champions now
I much appreciate you noting the footage not being leaked; as this episode ended, I did have thoughts along the line of: “look at this petard, and note the lovely embroidery: ‘A.S.’ You have a TAKE to answer for, Andy (namely, last Wednesday’s editorial).” Your remarks here suffice to answer for it to me.
To fellow commenters: any suggestion that any player’s signaling device, especially Matt’s, was tampered with is an accusation of the show of breaking United States Federal law; see link below.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/509
Good thing Mike Richards isn’t the executive producer of todays show. You can best bet the mob would be demanding a Grand Jury.
A very surprising result! Matt has probably not traveled in Europe, otherwise how could he think that the Alps and Danube could possibly pertain to Poland? Perhaps he had absolutely no idea and was just repeating the FJ answer from the last day of the recent Tournament of Champions. Clearly he had an “off day,” which is all it takes to lose at Jeopardy!
He has plenty of money to travel Europe now!
I was really shocked that he missed this final jeopardy. Only Czechoslovakia and Austria as possible answers with Austria the obvious choice as Russia occupied Czechoslovakia.
Fantastic run Matt! Thoroughly enjoyed seeing you every day. I look forward to seeing you again in TOC!
I’m sad. Matt had an awesome run and is a great guy.