Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 18th Century Names) for Thursday, January 27, 2022 (Season 38, Game 99):
In 1793 he left Dublin for the United States, saying, “I expect to make a fortune” off George Washington, & he did
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Carrie Cadwallader, a business intelligence manager from Aurora, Colorado
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Chris Canahui, a technician from Brooklyn, New York
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Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago, Illinois (1-day total: $29,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: After over 8 weeks on the show, Amy Schneider was defeated yesterday by Chicago librarian Rhone Talsma, after Rhone picked up the final Daily Double, doubled up through it, and then got a Final Jeopardy! that Amy did not. That’s variance for you. To viewers who got yesterday’s Final: Congratulations! But that was either one you get immediately, or you spend much too long trying to sift through countries. Period. As TikTok trivia maven and Master Minds expert Muffy Marracco has since pointed out, in a Master Minds final round, Ken Jennings himself once couldn’t come up with the only country whose name ends in G (that being Luxembourg).
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Correct response: Who is Gilbert Stuart?
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Gilbert Stuart was an artist who is best known today for painting a portrait of George Washington that was later used on the U.S. one dollar bill. This quote can be found in Ron Chernow’s biography Washington: A Life. Stuart was in debt, and sold copies of his portrait of Washington in order to pay off debts accrued in England and Ireland. Among the portraits painted by Stuart include each of the first six U.S. Presidents.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Carrie $13,000
Rhone $9,200
Chris $9,200
Tonight’s results:
Chris $9,200 – $9,199 = $1 (Who is ???)
Rhone $9,200 – $9,200 = $0 (Who is Guinness?)
Carrie $13,000 – $5,500 = $7,500 (Who is Madison) (1-day total: $7,500)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Carrie $4,200
Rhone $1,200
Chris $800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) MOTHERS OF INVENTION $800 (clue #16)
Carrie 600 -1000 (Rhone 1000 Chris 400)
2) MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $800 (clue #3)
Carrie 6200 +2000 (Rhone 1200 Chris 800)
3) BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000 (clue #14, $18400 left on board)
Carrie 11000 -2000 (Rhone 5600 Chris 2400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -86
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: A LITTLE 5-NOTE MELODY $1000
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $1,000
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 14 (0.14 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Carrie $14,800 Coryat, 21 correct, 7 incorrect, 41.07% in first on buzzer (23/56), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Chris $9,200 Coryat, 10 correct, 1 incorrect, 19.64% in first on buzzer (11/56), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Rhone $9,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 4 incorrect, 30.36% in first on buzzer (17/56), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $33,200
Lach Trash: $9,600 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,200
Rhone Talsma, career statistics:
33 correct, 7 incorrect
3/4 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
28.32% in first on buzzer (32/113)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $6,400)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,800
Chris Canahui, career statistics:
10 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
19.64% in first on buzzer (11/56)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,200
Carrie Cadwallader, career statistics:
21 correct, 8 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
41.07% in first on buzzer (23/56)
1/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,800
Carrie Cadwallader, to win:
2 games: 42.260%
3: 17.859%
4: 7.547%
5: 3.189%
6: 1.348%
Avg. streak: 1.732 games.
Today’s interviews:
Carrie has a dog with an emotional support cat.
Chris was taught to read by his older sister Nat.
Rhone has a collection of metro fare cards from different US cities.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I’ll be honest: I’m surprised that the show wrote a clue about Jitterbug cell phone service, especially considering that Consumer Cellular is a major sponsor.
- I think Chris’ Final Jeopardy! wager was one where on its surface it looks like a good idea, but in reality it wasn’t all that good. If Chris wasn’t going to bet everything (like Rhone did), he should have bet $0 and played for the Triple Stumper. Doing so would also have led to him becoming champion.
Link to the box score: January 27, 2022 Box Score
Link to the box score: January 26, 2022 Box Score
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I wish the category was “Artists”…then I would’ve gotten this one.
Since the clue was money-related, I said John Jacob Astor.
tch I’ve heard of Stuart, but I didn’t know any details of his life, and couldn’t remember him as the painter of Washington’s portrait 🙁
Good luck to the contestants on this one. I think a lot of people know Stuart for his paintings of Washington, but how many can get it from this clue. I tried to think of somebody with an Irish name, and thought maybe there was a connection with Guinness since Washington was a major whiskey distiller.
I agree…very abstract clue with no “in”. It has to click in terms of “who had anything to do with George Washington directly?”.
Stuart and Parson Weems would make an interesting higher-level pair in OQL, I think.
I agree…had a game show with straight out questions (and not even multiple choice answers) asked just “Who was Gilbert Stuart?” I would have been able to correctly answer, but here I could only try to think of people who could try to sell things to George Washington and was trying to think of arms manufacturers. [In 1793 the Revolutionary War was over but such a person could have easily foreseen something coming like the War of 1812 did.] Second possibility was silversmiths, but I didn’t think Paul Revere was Irish (and also correctly assumed he was born in America and was too old to be the right person anyway).
As far as contestants for the next TOC, does anybody know if the winner of next month’s college tournament will qualify. I can’t find it anywhere. The upcoming tournament is entirely different from the ones in the past. It’s a made for prime time event and won’t replace the normal daily Jeopardy show. In the past the college winner got a spot in the TOC. That would be one more TOC spot claimed unless they aren’t doing that this time.
I’d be very surprised if the winners qualified. The show has historically separated the prime time and syndicated shows. (i.e. Super Jeopardy)
Being a terrible speller (and a Scot), I’d have written Stewart…
Don’t worry, the rules say that unless it affects the pronunciation, there are no penalties for misspelled words.
Is Mayim hosting TOC do we know? It would just be far too epic to have Ken, Amy, and Matt on one stage.
Aw man 🙁 I hate Triple-Stumper FJs.
@Andy – the situation where the leader is in a 2/3 game, but 2nd and 3rd place are tied is kind of a tricky one for me to figure. Wouldn’t a viable strategy for either of the non-leaders be to just bet as though they were in sole possession of 2nd place in a 2/3 game? Or do you have to go all or nothing?
Here is the suggested wagering for this situation on the Jeopardy archives. “Two-thirds for first place; prisoner’s dilemma between the two 2nd place contestants
Chris: You have only two rational options. Either wager $0 if you think the clue will be a Triple Stumper or all $9,200 if you think you will get the clue right.
Rhone: Your score is the same as Chris’s and your wagering suggestion is the same as well. It’s all or nothing.”
Jim: you have miscited your source. It is J! Archive, not “the Jeopardy archives”.
Thanks to both of you for that source! Another bookmarked page 😉
Needless to say how sorry I am that Amy lost. I found her to be an amazing champion and has such a tremendous knowledge in so many areas. I would also like to say that I feel Ken has really become a great host. He’s pleasant, knowledgeable and seems so much more relaxed. I am enjoying his role as host and his interaction with the contestants.
I would have gotten stuart but I don’t know much about his life. Although he did paint the portrait of George Washington and that lead me to him. Furthermore I would have renamed this category 18th Century Artists which would have been better. And I thought Rhone was going to win again but he fumbled.
Amy’s absence was very noticeable, and the transition was rather jarring. That said, all those triple stumpers did make it a more exciting match. But then the Final was someone I can’t recollect ever hearing about.
Sucks to lose Rhone after one day. Was really hoping he’d get another win or two so the show could justify putting him in the TOC just for a semifinal rematch with Amy. I like my good TV.
A change of pace compared to the last 8 weeks was apparent, and a dreaded unrevealed clue, again. Has it ever been explained why not let all clues be revealed, and then edit for the time constraint in the post-production? Trimming pauses on triple-stumpers and about a second from every long-winded category-value call should be straightforward.
It seems reasonable to me that contestants be “penalized” the opportunity to win that last bit of money (unrevealed) when they have been below average on speed during the game. [And back when it was rare — maybe even unheard of(?) — for the levels of each category not to be taken sequentially, the unrevealed clues could be a substantial amount.]
I’d much rather watch a game like this, where all 3 contestants are in the running for a win than a runaway/lock game. (ideally, I’d like a competitive game with fewer stumpers; but I’d rather have a competitive game stumpers than a runaway)