Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Sea Life) for Tuesday, January 25, 2022 (Season 38, Game 97):
In 2018 National Geographic reported that half of this was dead, “akin to a forest after a devastating fire”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Maria Krasinski, a managing director & illustrator from Buffalo, New York
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John Williams, a biology professor from Albany, Georgia
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Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California (39-day total: $1,319,800)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Yesterday, Amy Schneider won her 39th game, passing Matt Amodio for the 2nd-longest streak of all time. She’s still 35 wins from passing Ken Jennings, though. We’re at the point of the streak where most of the analysts know that it’s going to take an unlucky set of circumstances for Amy to lose. I don’t really think anyone can truly pinpoint what specific day it will happen on, but I know that some analysts are starting to worry about Amy’s diminishing record in Final Jeopardy!—which will certainly make things easier for her opponents if Amy gets into a situation where she doesn’t have a runaway game.
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Correct response: What is the Great Barrier Reef?
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The National Geographic article from 2018 was titled Half of the Great Barrier Reef is Dead. Basically, rising ocean temperatures due to climate change is stunting the growth of the coral in the famed reef off the northeast coast of Australia.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Amy $38,000
Maria $2,200
John $1,500
Tonight’s results:
John $1,500 + $1,499 = $2,999 (What is the Great Barrier Reef?)
Maria $2,200 + $801 = $3,001 (What is the Great Barrier Reef?)
Amy $38,000 + $25,000 = $63,000 (What is the Great Barrier Reef?) (40-day total: $1,382,800)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Amy $14,600
John $2,200
Maria $1,400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) NATIONAL ANTHEM LYRICS $600 (clue #8)
Amy 2400 +2400 (John 200 Maria 0)
2) FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $800 (clue #2)
Amy 15000 +5000 (John 2200 Maria 1400)
3) BOOKS WITH HORSEPOWER $800 (clue #24, $9600 left on board)
John 3000 -1500 (Amy 32000 Maria 2600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 83
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 13 (0.13 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Amy $32,000 Coryat, 36 correct, 0 incorrect, 57.89% in first on buzzer (33/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Maria $2,200 Coryat, 8 correct, 3 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
John $3,000 Coryat, 9 correct, 2 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $37,200
Lach Trash: $10,200 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,600
Amy Schneider, career statistics:
1309 correct, 75 incorrect
60/67 on rebound attempts (on 149 rebound opportunities)
52.86% in first on buzzer (1202/2274)
65/75 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $206,200)
28/40 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,980
John Williams, career statistics:
10 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,500)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $3,000
Maria Krasinski, career statistics:
9 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $2,200
Amy Schneider, to win:
41 games: 89.026%
42: 81.325%
43: 75.496%
44: 70.937%
45: 64.908%
Avg. streak: 49.543 games.
Today’s interviews:
Maria co-wrote a book about “secret” art in New York.
John prefers to watch Jeopardy! with his 3-year-old daughter.
Amy is worried about more pressure on her during the Tournament of Champions.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Kudos to the writers for their SEE LIFE in the first round / “C” LIFE in the second / SEA LIFE in Final theme. It’s very rare for the show to string a theme through all three rounds.
- Amy’s weakest day of the week throughout her run has been Wednesday.
- Maria’s book is titled Art Hiding in New York: An Illustrated Guide to the City’s Secret Masterpieces”.
- With 1,309 total, Amy passes Matt Amodio (1,305) for #3 all-time in terms of number of correct responses given on the show.
- Both the $32,000 Coryat and $63,000 final total will make it onto our list of top Coryat scores and top final totals.
Link to the box score: January 25, 2022 Box Score
Contestant photo credit: jeopardy.com
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Seeing as though the Great Barrier Reef was mentioned on a recent episode of Cricky! It’s the Irwins, in which the daughter and her significant other were doing some studies of the Reef, this was an easy Final for me.
I think Ken may have overstepped a little when he gave a hint when revealing the FJ category. He said “this time as in under the sea.” He basically told them the correct response would be something underwater. It simplified the thinking process for the contestants, and he really shouldn’t do that. They didn’t have to think if there was anything on an ocean it could refer to.
It was solely a reference to the previous categories SEE LIFE and “C” LIFE, nothing more.
OK, but by doing that I still feel he gave the contestants an inadvertent hint that the correct response would be something underwater. It saves the contestants from spending any valuable time thinking about whether the clue might refer to some anomaly on the surface of the water.
I am so curious about who these “analysts” are that Amdy refers to in his notes. How do I get this job?? 😉
On the subject of how Amy will lose, as with Matt, I think people are overestimating the likelihood of her dropping a FJ in a non-runaway game to an opponent who gets it right. Yes, this is how Ken, Jason, and Roger lost, among others. But many others, including James and Matt, were outgunned in board play. Don’t discount Amy running into two strong challengers on an off day. She’s already been outgunned once, by Andrew He. And I worry that she won’t be able to make the big wagers when she needs to, as we saw with Jennifer Quail in the ToC.
I think recency bias is making folks think Amy is weaker on FJ than she is, too. She’s not Ben Ingram or James Holzhauer, but she’s very good. I think it’s likelier that she loses in a triple stumper in a non-crush than a straight FJ wromg-right situation.
Anyway, onward to 74!
Thank goodness for easy FJ answers! I was worried about running my losing streak to four games😰
Too soon to think about Ken’s record, the one I’m looking at is Matt’s regular season winnings.