Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Explorers) for Thursday, December 30, 2021 (Season 38, Game 79):
Confirming a theory, fossils found with this explorer in 1912 included a plant from more than 250 million years ago
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Sarah Wrase, a certified public accountant from Monroe, Michigan
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Nate Levy, a script coordinator from Los Angeles, California
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Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California (21-day total: $806,000)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Amy Schneider, yesterday, won her 21st game, now the 4th-longest win streak of all time. The next two questions: At $806,000, will she get to $1 million, and will Amy see out 2021 as champion? Nate and Sarah will have something to say about that, I’m sure.
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Correct response: Who is Robert Falcon Scott?
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Amy $19,600
Sarah $12,400
Nate $11,400
Tonight’s results:
Nate $11,400 – $4,399 = $7,001 (Who is Leake?)
Sarah $12,400 – $12,399 = $1 (Who is Amundson?)
Amy $19,600 + $6,000 = $25,600 (Who is Shack Scott) (22-day total: $831,600)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Amy $10,000
Nate $5,800
Sarah $1,600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) PANTS $400 (clue #2)
Sarah 200 +1000 (Amy 0 Nate 0)
2) QUICK HISTORY $1600 (clue #4)
Amy 11600 +4000 (Nate 6600 Sarah 1600)
3) WORD OF MOUTH $1600 (clue #15, $18800 left on board)
Sarah 6800 +6000 (Amy 15200 Nate 6200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 223
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 11 (0.14 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Amy $17,200 Coryat, 28 correct, 3 incorrect, 49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Nate $11,400 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Sarah $7,400 Coryat, 11 correct, 3 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $36,000
Lach Trash: $7,400 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,600
Amy Schneider, career statistics:
693 correct, 42 incorrect
37/42 on rebound attempts (on 84 rebound opportunities)
50.40% in first on buzzer (630/1250)
35/41 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $108,600)
19/22 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $24,964
Nate Levy, career statistics:
16 correct, 3 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,400
Sarah Wrase, career statistics:
11 correct, 4 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,400
Amy Schneider, to win:
23 games: 90.608%
24: 82.098%
25: 74.388%
26: 67.402%
27: 61.071%
Avg. streak: 31.648 games.
Today’s interviews:
Sarah got The Call on her birthday.
Nate is part of a fantasy awards season league.
Amy got a perfect 1600 on the SATs. (Ken did not.)
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Once again, I think it’s important that Ken does say that players can bet up to $1,000 on Daily Doubles if they don’t have that much. Yes, the contestants know the rules, but it’s stressful on stage.
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Andy, your fans support you in the copyright infringement problem.
what is going on?
Andy runs a good website with good information (probably why you’re here and will return). Lazy and unethical people will copy and paste information from the website without giving him (or the website) credit. Someone on YouTube is currently doing this.
Upsetting that someone would try to ruin a good website like this one. Keep up the good work you do Andy.
Ditto to Kathy and Greg’s comments!
Sorry that someone cannot even muster the energy for a small write-up and has to copy your work Andy. Many thanks for your continuing daily sneak preview.
The key to answering this FJ is the phrase “found with this explorer” (with the year “1912” clinching it). Otherwise, a long-winded connection with Antarctica and continental drift.
This is a fun final, requiring you first to hone in on Antarctic (either by the year or the scientific theory hinted at) and then picking the correct explorer between Scott and Amundsen. Rarely does a preposition carry so much significance in a clue: the fact that they use “with” instead of “by” indicates that the fossils were re-discovered with the deceased Scott.
good luck with infringement. love your page here
I fully support you Andy, and hope YouTube steps up and does the right thing soon. I promote TJF every chance I get, I count on you and it always being here.
tch I couldn’t remember Scott ;p
Amy didn’t quite get her buzzer mojo back, and she still missed a few… BUT, she played up to a Crush game against a pair of good challengers, made a good FJ wager and had the only correct response. Hoping for her to close out 2021 with the last win of the year tomorrow!
No disrespect, Andy, but as frustrating as I’m sure the plagiarism situation is, some random YouTube commenter isn’t worth your time.
So, really interesting betting on this game. I think Matt Amodio would have doubled up here on DD2 and gotten the lock, and I think that’s the percentage play for him. With her extremely high FJ solve rate, I’m sympathetic to Amy’s smaller bet here.
If Amy had gotten DD2 wrong and the remainder of the game played out as it did (a naive assumption, but bear with me), she would have been sitting in second at $11,600–a weak position, though she still would have won with the sole solve. If she’d bet it all and gotten it wrong, and everything else had played out the same way, she would have been locked out in Final given rational betting by Nate. So Amy traded upside potential for less downside risk and given her player profile, I think she made the right decision.
I do think Amy is more likely to lose to an aggressive DD hunter and bettor putting her behind going into Final rather than a trailing contestant picking her off on a missed Final or, heaven forbid, the dreaded strategic Final trailing bet from a non-crush. But of course there are lots of ways to lose, as we saw with Matt.
Wow, I’m confused. I see Brad Rutter’s name #1 on all winnings but not in the top 20 regular play only. Andy, can you enlighten me. Many thanks, chet
Back when Brad played, champions were only allowed to win up to 5 games (upon which they would be retired, with the upside of guaranteed spot in the ToC). However, they changed that at the start of season 20, which was the direct cause of you-know-who turning up that year.
Brad competed on the show when champs “termed out” at five wins.
Hope YouTube does their job! I really enjoy your site
If the challengers can’t win over Amy when she has three incorrect, you wonder when she can be caught?