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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Hey Andy, I think my previous comment is stuck in the moderation queue.
Looking forward to watching the game tonight!
I hope youtube will step up and fix that copyright thing. Also andy I enjoyed this site and looking forward to seeing the game tonight. I hope Amy closes out the new year with a win to start off 2022. So sorry to hear that a commentator is trying to ruin your hard work.
Really is unfortunate that someone is trying to pass off your work as their own. Unfortunately it happens everywhere and hopefully it will work out for you in the end.
The clue does give a reference that would indicate that the explorer did not survive which made this final jeopardy easy for me.
My wife says I’m too serious but here goes……although I am a huge Ken fan, I was bothered that when he said to a contestant who had a DD opportunity “Amy’s running away with it, you can do something about that”. I’m not sure he should cheerlead against a champion. Thoughts anyone.
To be quite honest, Alex would say very similar things.
NOT to imply that you are not the expert, but what you said is exactly what immediately came to my mind, too. Sometimes he would be saying it in reference to the other non-champion who happens to have the biggest lead at the time. Or if the current (probably short-term) champion is the one behind and the one with the DD, he’d say something like that to them (perhaps referring to it as a chance for a comeback). I think it maybe just sounded a bit anti-champ because there has not been a lot of times in the past few months [year?] when a non-champ was close enough that even a “true DD” wager could put them very close to the current champ, so we are out of the habit of hearing it.
Alex quite often would say “You can see the score”. This was more direct and I agree with you that he shouldn’t be coaching. Neverless, he probably didn’t have any influence on her bet.
Well, Amy has now convinced me that she is among the top of “Jeopardy!” champions.
I truly thought this was a very hard question but, like Amy, I first thought Shackleton and then realized it was Scott, so, since great minds think alike 🤣, my opinion of her has skyrocketed! (I am serious about what I said about her, despite the joking comment.)
Going on just for a second, I want to mention I am a stamp collector, and I am a particular enthusiast of stamps from the British Antarctic Territory -yes, it exists, and stamps are still being produced for it-so that’s why I knew it couldn’t be Shackleton. From being familiar with those stamps, I could recall that he was around long after Scott had died on his quest: HMS Endurance is featured on a one- pound stamp from BAT, and is a very desirable stamp for collectors.
This might not be publishable, because I’m advocating a hobby, but anybody who is a trivia enthusiast would really enjoy stamp collecting, in my opinion. From following up on one small piece of paper, you can learn about world geography (a common Jeopardy! category, of course), history of all sorts, political figures, celebrities, novels and authors, flora and fauna, and just about anything else.
Andy, whether or not this is publishable, I want to say what a great job you do. I’m an attorney, and, although I’m not at all experienced in copyright law, it seems to me you have a legal claim against this person who is, in essence, stealing from your copyrighted creativity. I think that a complaint to Google-YouTube could very well result in this stolen material, broadly defined, being removed.
I just now reread your comment, Andy, about YouTube dragging its feet in regard to removing the stolen information that you created.
Obviously, at this point, you need a lawyer to contact Google and/ or YouTube about the matter. I’m sure one can be found who has the necessary expertise, and who would do it pro bono for you, because he or she is a Jeopardy! fan. Perhaps somebody who comments off and on here would have an idea as to whom.
It’s hard to fathom YouTube’s dillydallying, because it is so quick to remove any kind of political material that somebody complains about.
Something’s going on here. Going back to the second week of the Professors Tournament, I was 0 for 5 in Finals but guessed a contestant wrong answer 4 out of 5 days. This week, so far, I’m 1 for 4 in Finals and guessed a contestant wrong answer twice. I read with interest the post of one of the commenters on here (can’t find it now) about the difference between “rote intelligence” and some other kind of more profound intelligence. I’ve noticed over the years that many of the Finals are written where two possible responses might fit the clue. Amy obviously went to a different School of Trivia than most of us. She’s phenomenal! I probably fall into the “rote intelligence” category, but does that mean my thinking is second rate? It’s almost like the writers are intentionally trying to trick us to make it more challenging, but Amy is smart enough to read between the lines and figure it all out . . .