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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“Bangladesh” came to me almost immediately. My head went quickly to the alphabet and began going through the sequence from A TO Z to see what worked with an H at the end. With its beginning of the letter B, I felt I had the right answer in terms of spelling and population size.
I saw Amy struggling to write something. She was fairly easy to read via facial expressions. Still, I was surprised she didn’t think of Bangladesh as geography is usually an easy answer for her.
My wife beat me to Bangladesh, so I don’t know for sure whether I would have got it or not, although I’d like to believe I would have . . . 🙄
I was thinking of this right after Amy won #40, and now I’m really curious. Ken, Amy, Matt and James won a total of 184 ‘non-tournament games. How many of those 184 games, if any, were they not leading when heading into the final?
One of the very few Final Jeopardies that I knew, and it was immediately. Just about any other letter-ed country though I would probably not know. Great run for Amy.