Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category U.S. Museums) for Monday, January 24, 2022 (Season 38, Game 96):
Named for a benefactor, it was established in 1893 to house artifacts from the nearby World’s Columbian Exposition
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Joanne Mercer, a nursing assistant from Toledo, Ohio
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Erin O’Leary, an attorney from New York, New York
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Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California (38-day total: $1,307,200)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Amy has now tied Matt Amodio for #2 all time in terms of longest winning streaks on Jeopardy!; she plays tonight hoping to take the #2 spot all to herself.
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Correct response: What is the Field Museum of Natural History?
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The Field Museum of Natural History was named after Marshall Field, Chicago business magnate and also the namesake of the famed Marshall Field’s department store; the museum was originally known as the Columbian Museum of Chicago—named after the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Field offered $1 million towards the museum’s building, and was named after Field in 1905.
Interestingly, Sue—the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton—has been on display at the Field since 2000; of course, last Monday’s Final Jeopardy! was about T. Rex.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Amy $37,600
Joanne $4,200
Erin $800
Tonight’s results:
Erin $800 – $799 = $1 (What is the Busc)
Joanne $4,200 + $2,000 = $6,200 (What is the Field Museum? :))
Amy $37,600 – $25,000 = $12,600 (What is the Grant Museum?) (39-day total: $1,319,800)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Amy $6,600
Joanne $3,000
Erin -$800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) U2 $800 (clue #5)
Erin 1200 -1200 (Amy 600 Joanne 0)
2) THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $1600 (clue #9)
Amy 11800 +4000 (Erin 400 Joanne 3000)
3) SCI. ABBR. $1600 (clue #16, $16000 left on board)
Amy 21400 +5000 (Erin 400 Joanne 3800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -43
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 $31,800 Coryat, 36 correct, 2 incorrect, 59.65% in first on buzzer (34/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Joanne $4,200 Coryat, 8 correct, 2 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Erin $2,000 Coryat, 8 correct, 4 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $38,000
Lach Trash: $8,400 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,600
Amy Schneider, career statistics:
1272 correct, 75 incorrect
59/66 on rebound attempts (on 145 rebound opportunities)
52.73% in first on buzzer (1169/2217)
63/73 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $198,800)
27/39 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,851
Erin O’Leary, career statistics:
8 correct, 5 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,200)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $2,000
Joanne Mercer, career statistics:
9 correct, 2 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $4,200
Amy Schneider, to win:
40 games: 90.038%
41: 80.157%
42: 73.224%
43: 67.975%
44: 63.870%
Avg. streak: 48.997 games.
Today’s interviews:
Joanne’s flying to play Jeopardy! was her first flight since the age of 4; she conquered her phobia of flying.
Erin helped people displaced by Katrina rebuild their homes in 2005.
Amy spent time in lockdown quarantined with a stuffed penguin.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Amy surpasses Matt Amodio for #2 in terms of consecutive games won on the show.
- $25,000 is the third-most amount lost on a Final Jeopardy! clue in regular play.
Link to the box score: January 24, 2022 Box Score
Contestant photo credit: jeopardy.com
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I’ve been there a few times.
I wonder how many will answer James Smithson, he of the Smithsonian fame?
Ah, a nice layup for this Chicagoland resident. The Field’s one excellent place to spend an entire day.
Continuing my losing streak from last week (I missed Thursday’s and Friday’s FJs), I whiffed on this. It looks like one that only a small minority of contestants would get.
Great to see Amy’s streak continue.
I’ve been to chicago many times and visited the shedd aquarium but I should go to the field museum of natural history. But still though amy played well today despite not getting final right. Still surprised only one got it. I still think Amy could get to 40 games as long as this week doesn’t have triple stumpers.
World Columbian Exhibition is the big clue. That’s clearly Chicago — 1892 — the first superstar World’s Fair. That takes you to Chicago. The other big Museum doesn’t have the name of the primary donor attached to it. So that makes the Field a relatively easy choice. (and the MSI is in the original building housing the Field..)
The only reason I got this one right was because we were taken there to see ‘Sue’ the giant T-Rex fossil shortly after the exhibit opened. The clever ‘reference’ to the Chicago World Fair clinched it for me.
As a Chicagoan this was a gimme.
I support Amy’s strategy to bet large in Final Jeopardy when it is a runaway.
Even if she loses the big wager, she still has a cushion so she can return to play again.
I like her a lot.
I took a roundabout way of getting to the right response…I remember watching a History Channel feature on the Murder Castle of H.H. Holmes. What a chilling story!! He basically custom built this “torture palace” guised as a hotel for unwitting folks visiting Chicago for the Columbian Exposition. He was also rumored to possibly BE Jack the Ripper…seeing how the Whitechapel murders coincided with a trip he took to London. When he returned to the US, the killings in London ceased. Just Google “HH Holmes” to read more…warning…it will creep the bajeezus out of you.
I’ve connected at O’Hare many times, and my boys always want to pose in front of the replica of Sue. Although I’ve never been to the actual museum, I got it that way.
wow amy is in a league of her own !! next milestone is ken’s 74 wins!
Whoever would have thought that the longest-running Jeopardy champ would be the host at the same time one of the newer superchamps became #2? Quite a coincidence of timing.
How many runaway games has Amy had? It seems like the games are not very close at all recently.