Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Women Who Write) for Monday, January 31, 2022 (Season 38, Game 101):
Mimicking her style, a 1912 rejection note read: “Only one look, only one look is enough. Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Riley Timmreck, a student from Houston, Texas
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Matthew McElroy, a high school history teacher from Wildwood, New Jersey
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Jay Foster, an engineer from Rancho Palos Verdes, California (1-day total: $13,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Jeopardy! is in the third day of its post-Amy Schneider world, as Jay Foster returns to the studio as champion.
Meanwhile, we are 8 days from the start of the primetime Jeopardy! National College Championship on ABC. There is so much conflicting information on the Internet about this tournament, and still no official format announcement. ABC is dropping the ball pretty badly when it comes to their promotional efforts here, and I find that incredibly disappointing.
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Correct response: Who is Gertrude Stein?
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In 1912, author Gertrude Stein sent a manuscript to London publisher Alfred C. Fifield (the work would be published in 1925 as The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress.) It had deliberately been written using significant repetition in the vocabulary, and the publisher chose to mimic that in its rejection letter.
Mental Floss has a copy of that rejection letter.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Jay $16,400
Matthew $10,400
Riley $200
Tonight’s results:
Riley $200 – $200 = $0 (Who is Plath?)
Matthew $10,400 – $9,999 = $401 (Who Aust)
Jay $16,400 – $4,401 = $11,999 (Who is Virginia Woolf) (2-day total: $25,599)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matthew $4,600
Jay $4,400
Riley $1,800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) FROM BOOK TO TV $600 (clue #8)
Riley 200 -200 (Jay 0 Matthew 1800)
2) ON THE “M”AP $2000 (clue #4)
Jay 5600 +5600 (Matthew 3800 Riley 1800)
3) SURNAMES $1200 (clue #27, $2000 left on board)
Matthew 12600 -3000 (Jay 16400 Riley 200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 56
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $400 $800
Total Left On Board: $1,200
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 18 (0.18 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Jay $12,800 Coryat, 16 correct, 4 incorrect, 32.73% in first on buzzer (18/55), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Matthew $13,400 Coryat, 20 correct, 4 incorrect, 36.36% in first on buzzer (20/55), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Riley $400 Coryat, 9 correct, 6 incorrect, 21.82% in first on buzzer (12/55), 0/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $26,600
Lach Trash: $13,000 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $13,200
Jay Foster, career statistics:
31 correct, 7 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 12 rebound opportunities)
28.18% in first on buzzer (31/110)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $8,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,300
Matthew McElroy, career statistics:
20 correct, 5 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
36.36% in first on buzzer (20/55)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,400
Riley Timmreck, career statistics:
9 correct, 7 incorrect
0/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
21.82% in first on buzzer (12/55)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$200)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $400
Jay Foster, to win:
3 games: 47.823%
4: 22.870%
5: 10.937%
6: 5.230%
7: 2.501%
Avg. streak: 2.917 games.
Today’s interviews:
Riley grew up wanting to be a Radio City Rockette.
Matthew reads all of the time when growing up and now reads to his son.
Jay met his wife four years after college even though they both went to neighboring small schools.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Mayim Bialik returned to hosting the show today. I’m glad she remembered to remind Riley that she could bet up to $1,000 (even though she didn’t heed the advice); however, it still feels to me that Ken is a significantly better quiz moderator than Mayim is. Pausing on Auburn (waiting for Auburn University) feels like something that a inexperienced quiz moderator would do, and really only serves to delay the proceedings.
- That being said, I would not blame Mayim for the two unplayed clues. To me, that’s on the fact that there were 14 incorrect responses and 11 Triple Stumpers.
Link to the box score: January 31, 2022 Box Score
Contestant photo credit: jeopardy.com
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I also prefer Ken as the host. I liked Buzzy too more than Mayim. Somehow with Mayim the show drags.
Was surprised they accepted just “Wahlberg” as a response without asking for more specificity as to Mark or Donnie, both of whom are well-known actors. Coming on the heels of recently accepting “Manning” as a response, just curious if the show has changed its policy in this regard.
I wondered the same thing
Gertrude Stein was the greatest answer that Matt Amodio ever gave… Remember? (September 13, 2021)
“She studied medicine at Johns Hopkins before moving to Paris in 1903 & drove an ambulance for the French in World War I”
What’s…………………….Stein? (Classic look of incredulity on Matt’s Face)
I definitely prefer Ken over Mayim.
Ken brings gravitas to the game; he takes it seriously. Mayim seems like she’s doing it tongue-in-cheek, like it’s just a lark.
Ken is hosting; Mayim is acting.