It’s Wednesday, my friends! Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Countries of the World) for Wednesday, January 26, 2022 (Season 38, Game 98):
The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an H, it’s also one of the 10 most populous
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago, Illinois
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Janice Hawthorne Timm, a music educator & choral director from Ukiah, California
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Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, California (40-day total: $1,382,800)
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Correct response: What is Bangladesh?
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Bangladesh, located east of India, is the world’s 8th-most populous country. It’s also the most populous country in the world never to have won an Olympic medal. I think that this is a relatively straightforward clue for anyone who knows what the most populous countries in the world are; however, this is also a clue that could potentially trip someone up if they get lost trying to think of too many populous countries. It will be interesting to see how it plays.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Amy $27,600
Rhone $17,600
Janice $3,200
Tonight’s results:
Janice $3,200 – $500 = $2,700 (What is Syry ?)
Rhone $17,600 + $12,000 = $29,600 (What is Bangladesh?) (1-day total: $29,600)
Amy $27,600 – $8,000 = $19,600 (What is ?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Amy $7,200
Rhone $3,400
Janice $2,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) THE CAROLINAS $1000 (clue #6)
Rhone 1400 -1400 (Amy 0 Janice 800)
2) THAT 1770s SHOW $2000 (clue #5)
Amy 10400 +4000 (Janice 2000 Rhone 3800)
3) OMG! $1200 (clue #23, $6400 left on board)
Rhone 7800 +7800 (Amy 24000 Janice 3600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 38
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:
Rhone $12,400 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Amy $25,600 Coryat, 28 correct, 1 incorrect, 49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Janice $3,200 Coryat, 8 correct, 2 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $41,200
Lach Trash: $8,000 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,800
Amy Schneider, career statistics:
1337 correct, 77 incorrect
60/67 on rebound attempts (on 152 rebound opportunities)
52.77% in first on buzzer (1230/2331)
66/76 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $210,200)
28/41 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,946
Janice Hawthorne Timm, career statistics:
8 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $3,200
Rhone Talsma, career statistics:
17 correct, 2 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $6,400)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,400
Rhone Talsma, to win:
2 games: 56.118%
3: 31.492%
4: 17.672%
5: 9.917%
6: 5.565%
Avg. streak: 2.279 games.
Today’s interviews:
Rhone taught an online dating class for senior citizens at his library.
Janice owns a 1928 Steinway grand piano that was owned by a Nobel Prize winner.
Amy has been taught by her girlfriend Genevieve about pop culture.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Amy joins Matt Jackson, Seth Wilson, and Arthur Chu as the fourth player to win 10 or more games and lose on a Wednesday.
- $27,600 is the fifth-highest score going into Final Jeopardy! (since dollar values were doubled in 2001) that ended up not winning the game.
- Amy mentioned yesterday on Twitter that the lunch break at taping took place between yesterday’s and today’s games. I would hesitate to blame that for Amy’s defeat; 28 correct is still a very strong performance. Viewers are also reminded that, as I said this morning, variance is a thing very much baked into Jeopardy!’s format. It’s a game more like Scrabble than it is chess. Unlucky games can (and will) happen. And Amy just got unlucky today that Rhone found the last Daily Double before she did.
Link to the box score: January 26, 2022 Box Score
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Tough one to pull in 30 seconds unless you get lucky…not the name you usually think of while naming countries. I feel the writers should have given more with either a hint to the area of the world (“…also located in the most populous continent,…”) or to when it came into being (“…that was created in the 2nd half of the 20th century…”). Hard to judge the difficulty when the correct answer is a factor of time only (90% of quizzers would get this right if given 5 minutes).
I agree. I got it, but it took much longer than 30 seconds. Amy seems to be very good with geography, so she will probably get it. Hope the others do too.
I have to disagree (but it came to me right away). My thoughts took me right away to Asia when thinking populous countries.
I disagree. It is good to have some difficult clues like this one. If they made them all gettable no champion of Amy’s caliber would ever be defeated. My wife got this one and I did not. I’m hoping that means she can win 40 games and support me in the manner to which I would like to be accustomed.
I guess Czech Republic ends with a C?
Czech Republic ain’t a top 10 most populous country by any stretch.
But FJ is written: “The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an H . . .”
Names, including those of countries, are nouns or noun phrases. “Czech” is an adjective.
It is called Czechia these days anyhow.
yes, obviously not a top ten country, just questioning the “only” portion of the clue. but upon further thought, i guess it’s actual name does end with the “C”.
it’s not called “czech”, lol
And if we all remember, James lost to a Chicago librarian, let’s find out if this is the case for Amy as well.
You brought up a good point and it happened again.
Matt Amodio, on the other hand, defeated a Chicago librarian in his 12th game
neither Czech Republic or Czechia seems to have made this list, but a couple other (obviously not top ten population) republics did
http://www.list.goodinformationabout.com/countries-capital-city-currency-time-zone-language-calling-code/list-of-countries-country-ending-in/#Countries_that_end_in_c
but the clue wasn’t about countries that end in C. It was about the only country whose name in English ends in H
Big shame that Ken didn’t mention the “giant killer” term.
When our local channel show a preview of today’s game multiple times this morning I knew Amy was going to lose.
Wow! Another Chicago librarian. These megachamps need to stop appearing on GMA because that seems to be the tip off that they are about to lose.
I thought the same thing.
Maybe the Chicago librarians are somehow channeling Sean Connery’s “The Chicago Way” scene from “The Untouchables”? 🙂
In any event, Amy had an incredible run and is a very worthy champion.
“You wanna get Schneider? Here’s how you get her. She pulls a quick wit, you pull a quick buzzer finger. She clears one of your best categories, you send one of hers to the green room! That’s the Chicago way.”
Clever!
Andy, you have been mentioning the doomsday combo of bad luck, etc.
Well, this morning I checked in early, before today’s results were posted. The minute I saw Rhone, Librarian from Chicago, I said “Uh oh!”
Emma Boettcher, University of Chicago librarian, beat James Holzhauer, ending his 32 game streak.
I find it a very strange coincidence! You might want to factor into your calculations: the dreaded Chicago Librarians!
I can’t blame Amy for missing this one. When thinking of populated countries, places like Indiah, Chinah, and Russiah come to mind. Bangladesh is not large in area so most people wouldn’t think about it.
Yeah, if the clue had been “crowded” I think I would have thought of Bangladesh — but probably not within 30 seconds!
When I saw the clue, I thought this was one where she could miss it and a challenger get it. Easier FJ clues really favour her as she would normally be in the lead.
I was thinking so much of a country that ended with the sound of ‘ah,” I kicked myself when it was a country that ended with an “sh.”
I thought it was an easy clue. Great run by Amy and on to the TOC. Also saw an ad during daytime jeopardy and came here to find out.
Will still be a while before the next ToC, as they don’t have a full field of 15 qualifying champions. (currently only have 10)
The producers have announced that starting this year, they will hold the Tournament of Champions in time for airing every November, regardless of how many people have qualified. They will add the top 4-day and, if necessary, 3-day champions to the field to fill the spots.
Congrats Rhone.