Good morning, and happy Friday! Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Cemeteries & Memorials) for Friday, January 14, 2022 (Season 38, Game 90):
60,000 are at rest in a National Memorial Cemetery opened in 1949 in the crater of an extinct volcano in this state
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Rachel Ostrow, a full-time parent from Arlington, Massachusetts
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Luis Soto, a financial analyst from San Gabriel, California
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Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California (32-day total: $1,101,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Amy Schneider tied James Holzhauer yesterday for #3 on the all-time winning streak list. During yesterday’s game, Amy still held a nearly 3-to-2 advantage in attempts to buzz in (specifically, 47 for her, 32 apiece for Cory and Clark.) I’m still extremely excited about the daily box scores that Jeopardy! will be putting out.
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Correct response: What is Hawaii?
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Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu, Hawaii is the location for the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, established in 1949 as a memorial for those who have served in the United States Armed Forces. Since its establishment, numerous World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War veterans have been interred there, and the location is one of Honolulu’s most-visited tourist locations.
Interestingly, Punchbowl Crater’s first known use was as an altar where the indigenous Hawaiian population offered human sacrifices to their gods. The site had been recommended as a cemetery nearly 50 years prior to the establishment of the National Memorial Cemetery, but it was originally rejected; it was not until during World War II that the Hawaiian territorial government offered the site to the federal government and not until 1948 that construction began, after pressure to find a permanent burial site increased. (Previously, thousands of servicemen had been interred on the island of Guam.)
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Amy $30,200
Rachel $3,800
Luis $3,000
Tonight’s results:
Luis $3,000 – $2,000 = $1,000 (What is Wyoming?)
Rachel $3,800 – $2,201 = $1,599 (What is Oregon?)
Amy $30,200 – $20,000 = $10,200 (What is California?) (33-day total: $1,111,800)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Amy $9,000
Rachel $3,000
Luis $600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) WORDS & PHRASES $600 (clue #23)
Amy 5400 +2000 (Luis 600 Rachel 2400)
2) WORLD HISTORY $1200 (clue #3)
Amy 10200 +4000 (Luis 600 Rachel 3000)
3) INTERNATIONAL ORGS. $1200 (clue #14, $21200 left on board)
Amy 19400 +6000 (Luis -1400 Rachel 3000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 107
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 13 (0.14 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Amy $21,200 Coryat, 28 correct, 1 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
Rachel $3,800 Coryat, 12 correct, 3 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Luis $3,000 Coryat, 10 correct, 7 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $28,000
Lach Trash: $14,400 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,600
Amy Schneider, career statistics:
1052 correct, 62 incorrect
52/58 on rebound attempts (on 121 rebound opportunities)
51.41% in first on buzzer (964/1875)
51/59 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $160,600)
24/33 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $25,945
Luis Soto, career statistics:
10 correct, 8 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $3,000
Rachel Ostrow, career statistics:
12 correct, 4 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $3,800
Amy Schneider, to win:
34 games: 92.560%
35: 81.624%
36: 71.235%
37: 64.426%
38: 59.067%
Avg. streak: 41.113 games.
Today’s interviews:
Rachel hired an accordion player to surprise an elderly roommate in Spain.
Luis works for Virgin Hyperloop.
Amy had expectations of potentially winning 3 or 4 games if things went her way.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Amy passes James Holzhauer for the 3rd-longest win streak in Jeopardy! history.
- With Ken saying “over 1,000 correct responses” and not “1,000 exactly”, it signals to me that the show is counting Final Jeopardy! correct responses in its totals.
- The prediction model currently gives Amy a 1.209% chance of winning 75 games.
- Amy’s strongest days of the week thus far have been Monday and Friday; her weakest are Tuesday and Wednesday.
Link to the box score: January 14, 2022 Box Score
Contestant photo credit: jeopardy.com
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so wish the football garbage from the boston stations would go away. Go Amy you rock,keep up the goodness.
Very historic week for Amy in exceeding > $1M, exceeding > 1K right responses, and exceeding James’s 32 wins, but a rough week in missing 4 of 5 FJ’s and making “just” $92.2K, with $62K lost in those 4 FJ misses.
Could next week be as historic? Looking forward to seeing.
There may be time of day effects. Matt Amodio was weaker on Fridays and lost on a Monday, as did James. Amy’s weakness may be fatigue as the morning drags on, before a reset at lunch break.
They tape 5 days in one day.
Yes. Ben knows this. He was a contestant. His comments take “5 games taped in 1 day” into account. Monday is the first one, Tuesday the second, Wednesday the third, Thursday the fourth, and Friday the fifth.
I learned something this evening.
I thought that the first use of tanks was at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, so I was surprised to see the reference to the Battle of the Somme in one question (World History?).
After doing some brief research online, it appears that tanks were indeed first used at the Somme, though the first time tanks were used en masse in a coordinated fashion was at Cambrai.
Only one correct Final answer (Amy) this week! Like a lot of the people on here, I’ve been watching Jeopardy! for decades. I don’t recall that happening much. I’m sure someone on here will tell me it happens all the time. I don’t think so. I got Monday’s, so I tied with her this week on Finals. Top of the world!
I thought Hawaii almost immediately – extinct volcanic caldera, Pearl Harbor- but what made me doubt it slightly was that Hawaii didn’t become a state until a decade plus later. I was most pleased I knew Queen Beatrix when none of the contestants did. Teeny tiny “victory” for me, haha.
Greetings: I try to catch Jeopardy every day—to keep my mind sharp if nothing else! Today I was pleasantly surprised and amazed that none of the three contestants had a correct answer. It was an easy time for me as I visited that cemetery on December 7th 44 years ago (and one month)—the U.S. bicentennial year. Quite the view from the rim of the volcano!
I immediately got the final jeopardy answer…Hawaii, but I was surprised that Amy didn’t get it. Now, I realize that the question was kind of confusing. Maybe Amy didn’t think it was Hawaii because the year was given as 1949 and Hawaii wasn’t a state until 1959.