Happy Friday! Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category International Landmarks) for Friday, December 24, 2021 (Season 38, Game 75):
In December 2020 an international agreement added nearly 3 feet to this; one surveyor lost half a toe in the effort
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Chris O’Malley, an executive director from New York, New York
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David Carpman, an attorney from Seattle, Washington
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Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California (17-day total: $687,400)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, except if you’re a content thief. Coal in your stocking for you.
Meanwhile, Amy Schneider goes for win #18 today, having passed Larissa Kelly as Jeopardy!’s top-earning woman ever with her 17th win yesterday. Will David or Chris be able to stop her?
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Correct response: What is Mt. Everest?
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After disagreeing for years on the height of Mt. Everest, Nepal and China agreed in December 2020 that the world’s tallest mountain was 29,032 feet in height. The world previously believed it was 29,029 feet, whereas China’s measurements did not take into account the snow on top of the mountain (just taking into account the rock height, 29,017 feet). The new survey was completed in 2020; Nepal’s lead surveyor, Khimlal Gautam, lost his toe due to frostbite on the climb up Everest to place important surveying equipment. Meanwhile, I’ve also found that a user on YouTube has been copying and pasting this information wholesale from thejeopardyfan.com and posting them as comments on Jeopardy’s videos. This behaviour is unacceptable.
The BBC has an article about the agreement.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Amy $21,400
Chris $8,600
David $4,400
Tonight’s results:
David $4,400 + $4,300 = $8,700 (What is Mt. Everest?)
Chris $8,600 – $201 = $8,399 (What is the Int’l Date Line?)
Amy $21,400 – $2,000 = $19,400 (What is the DMZ?) (18-day total: $706,800)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Amy $18,600
Chris $1,800
David $800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $800 (clue #18)
Amy 8000 +6000 (David 600 Chris 0)
2) “K” 9 $1600 (clue #2)
Amy 19800 -2000 (David 800 Chris 1800)
3) NOVELS & NOVELISTS $800 (clue #14, $18400 left on board)
Amy 19000 -2000 (David 4800 Chris 3800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 54
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 11 (0.15 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Amy $20,200 Coryat, 29 correct, 3 incorrect, 47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
David $4,400 Coryat, 10 correct, 3 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Chris $8,600 Coryat, 13 correct, 3 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $33,200
Lach Trash: $8,000 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,800
Amy Schneider, career statistics:
565 correct, 34 incorrect
31/35 on rebound attempts (on 70 rebound opportunities)
50.20% in first on buzzer (513/1022)
28/33 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $95,200)
15/18 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $25,422
David Carpman, career statistics:
11 correct, 3 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $4,400
Chris O’Malley, career statistics:
13 correct, 4 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,600
Amy Schneider, to win:
19 games: 91.919%
20: 84.491%
21: 77.663%
22: 71.387%
23: 65.618%
Avg. streak: 29.374 games.
Today’s interviews:
Chris has five brothers, three sisters, and 20 nieces and nephews.
David taught his dog to press buttons when he wants to go out and eat.
Amy once had to take a remedial handwriting course.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- $18,600 after the Jeopardy! round is tied for the 7th-best Jeopardy! round score of all time, tied with Matt Amodio (Sept. 21) and Andrew He (Nov. 11) for the best Jeopardy! round score not belonging to James Holzhauer.
- At 565, Amy moves to #7 all-time in terms of number of correct responses on the show, passing David Madden. Julia Collins sits #6 at 584.
- Good on Ken for noticing that David said “Northwest Territory” and not “Northwest Territories” on ALL AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 and properly ruling David incorrect.
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One note about your comments Andy. While Everest is often said to be the “world’s tallest mountain,” technically the Hawaiian and Mariana islands are underwater mountains. They are taller than Everest when measured from their base on the ocean floor. Everest is the tallest above sea level, but not the world’s tallest mountain.
Everest is the farthest terrestrial point from the center of the Earth.
I commend your point (pun unintentional — no, really!)
No, it is not; it the summit of mount Chimborazo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo#Farthest_point_from_Earth's_center
Ohhh. When I saw landmark, I thought man-made.
A huge THANK YOU for all you do here to maintain this site! Coal in the stockings of those who lack integrity (and authenticity) and copy your work as if it is theirs! If it’s any consolation, they want to be as great as you – so in a way, it’s a compliment, Andy.
You make my J! experience so much better… especially during these “runs” of multi-day champs. Kudos! (I’ll send you money when I can. Promise!)
…interesting name you got there.
Multiple people in this comment section have used that name. I think we’re up to 3 now.
lol what on earth? I just started using this name 3 months ago, weird.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I agree with you bliss. I have run across that poster and have reported him and make sure those in the comment section know where the original content came from. Kudos to you Andy.
I vaguely remembered a news story about the new survey around the beginning of the year, and I also figured frostbite as a likely cause to lose a toe, so I improved my FJ win streak to 2😅
Oh, well… bad games are going to happen, so it was god that Amy came out on fire in the first round!
Mount Everest was the first landmark that came to my mind as I remembered Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay also climbed this mountain many years ago. I heard about the news story about one guy losing a toe due to frostbite. Still though glad that David got this final. But international date line? That’s not a man made structure. That is aviation from the usa to overseas countries, no one ever lost a toe flying over that dateline. Still though happy amy won again.
There is nothing in the category or clue that says that it is anything manmade. Just people that don’t understand the meaning of the word “landmark”. And it would be possible to lose a toe in any number of ways while surveying the International Date Line
Totally agree — shark bite, infection from just about anything encountered, or even frostbite if one had to “survey” the far ends of the International Date Line could cause one to lose a toe. However, WOULD it ever be surveyed? I thought it was determined via celestial navigation. Well, regardless, at least “That is aviation” isn’t very applicable since such a dateline was predicted, then confirmed prior to 1600. I bet its location was picked due to being pretty much out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean SO THAT one would have to be on a long slow trip for it to have an effect.
As for surveying it, it does officially wiggle a bit through some islands, but any change would be a matter of “moving” it, not “adding to” it.
I was illogically pleased to have immediately figured out what the correct response was most likely to be when Amy didn’t, but for her to not realize it was Mt. Everest, I think she came up with a more likely response than “the International Date Line” — though I’d think if there were any recent attempt to change any DMZ [is there only the one in Korea?], it would be to subtract from it rather than to add to it (thus with the desired result of adding to land that is not DMZ).
Many of us thank Andy for the fantastic job maintaining this website. I hope when possible you can support Andy as well. Thank you for allowing me to share. No offense to anyone. Very Respectfully. Chet
A Christmas present to me is knowing a FJ that Amy did not. Best wishes to you, Andy, for maintaining this great site. Candy, nuts and oranges in your Christmas stocking, and nasty old coal lumps for that Internet thief.
Whenever I quote a stat or anything else from this website, I provide the source and link so people can come here and read it for themselves if they want and then hopefully realizes what a great website this is.
Andy, I wish you well for the rest of this year and really hope that 2022 treats you in the way that it should, since you deserve the best.
“Landmark” is a deceptive word. I always think of a structure first, too. I felt lucky to get tonight’s Final.
Here’s part of a Merriam-Webster definition: structure (such as a building) of unusual historical and usually aesthetic interest.
I may be wrong of course but I counted 4 incorrect responses for Amy tonight, Andy. Are you not counting FJ responses?
So, the Coryat/IFOB/etc. area only counts the main game, similarly to J! Archive. The running total does count Final.
“Not belonging to James Holzhauer” says it all.
Thank you for all you do on this site, Andy! We check it often.
In the answer of “The Canadiens,” my Canadian husband said, “The Habs.” We wonder if that would have been ruled as correct as well?
The show’s head writer graduated from McGill—it would have definitely been accepted.