Welcome to the start of a new week of episodes! Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Toys & Games) for Monday, February 7, 2022 (Season 38, Game 106):
Its co-creator said adding an “L” to the end of the 1st word in the original title of this board game invented in 1979 “made it”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Jennifer Kronenberger, a social worker from Metairie, Louisiana
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Lawrence Long, a nursing student & stay-at-home uncle from East Bend, North Carolina
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Emma Saltzberg, a consultant from Brooklyn, New York (3-day total: $54,199)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: In what is the start of a busy two and a half weeks on the show, Emma Saltzberg returns as a 3-day champion; she’ll face Lawrence Long and Jennifer Kronenberger in a game absolutely crucial to her Tournament of Champions chances. Emma’s a strong champion—on her best days she’s at Amy Schneider-levels—but the variance levels remain to be seen at this point.
On another note, the primetime Jeopardy! National College Championship begins tomorrow night on ABC prime time (8:00 Eastern and Pacific, 7:00 Central and Mountain). These episodes are above and beyond the normal syndicated episodes. So, you’ll get an extra hour of Jeopardy! Tuesday through Friday between tomorrow and the final of Jeopardy! National College Championship on February 22. One interesting wrinkle to this is that Jeopardy! will be airing opposite itself in Phoenix—the show airs in Phoenix at 7:30 local time on independent station KTVK, while Jeopardy! National College Championship airs on KNXV (ABC) from 7:00 to 8:00 local time.
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Correct response: What is Trivial Pursuit?
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After the frustration of having to keep buying Scrabble sets because they weren’t positive their previous sets still had all of the tiles, Montreal-based newspaper reporters Chris Haney and Scott Abbott decided to invent their own game, as they figured there was a lot of money in board games. They settled on a trivia game, eventually titled Trivial Pursuit, in 1979. By 1984, the game was a North American phenomenon. The Trivial Pursuit phenomenon reached a point where television stations in the United States were more than willing to take a chance on the syndicated revival of a Merv Griffin network trivia game whose heyday was in the 1960s and 1970s. You might have heard of it. Something called Jeopardy?
(And yes, there was a significant amount of money in board games for both Abbott & Haney; both became rich due to the game.)
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Lawrence $14,800
Emma $11,600
Jennifer $5,600
Tonight’s results:
Jennifer $5,600 – $5,000 = $600 (What is ?)
Emma $11,600 – $2,000 = $9,600 (What is the)
Lawrence $14,800 + $8,401 = $23,201 (What is Trivial Pursuit?) (1-day total: $23,201)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Emma $3,200
Lawrence $1,600
Jennifer $1,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $1000 (clue #13)
Lawrence 2000 -2000 (Emma 2400 Jennifer 800)
2) CANNES $1200 (clue #4)
Lawrence 3600 +3600 (Emma 3200 Jennifer 1200)
3) PROSE $800 (clue #12, $22800 left on board)
Emma 8800 -4000 (Lawrence 8800 Jennifer 800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -45
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: THE WRATH OF KHAN $800
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $800
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 19 (0.18 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Lawrence $14,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 5 incorrect, 33.93% in first on buzzer (19/56), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Emma $15,600 Coryat, 17 correct, 2 incorrect, 30.36% in first on buzzer (17/56), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Jennifer $5,600 Coryat, 9 correct, 2 incorrect, 17.86% in first on buzzer (10/56), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $35,600
Lach Trash: $10,000 (on 13 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,600
Emma Saltzberg, career statistics:
83 correct, 14 incorrect
5/6 on rebound attempts (on 20 rebound opportunities)
35.68% in first on buzzer (81/227)
5/6 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,400)
1/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,200
Lawrence Long, career statistics:
19 correct, 5 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
33.93% in first on buzzer (19/56)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,600)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,400
Jennifer Kronenberger, career statistics:
9 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
17.86% in first on buzzer (10/56)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,600
Lawrence Long, to win:
2 games: 47.590%
3: 22.649%
4: 10.779%
5: 5.130%
6: 2.441%
Avg. streak: 1.908 games.
Today’s interviews:
Jennifer spent 3 years doing volunteer work in Alaska, Maryland, and Ireland.
Lawrence got to play a conch at a beach wedding.
Emma had a great-aunt who won a college scholarship on a radio quiz in the 40s.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I’ve seen a lot of people on Twitter as of late mentioning Mayim Bialik with their criticisms, or worse, abuse. This really puts Jeopardy! fans in a really bad light. Is it really that much of a struggle to practice kindness?
Link to the box score: February 7, 2022 Box Score
Contestant photo credit: jeopardy.com
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“stay-at-home uncle”?!?
does that mean he looks after his sibling’s kids for them or something?
Also, Emma’s story about her relative winning a full scholarship to college back in the 40s… college tuition was quite cheap back then compared to what it is these days. (even after adjusting for inflation)
What you said about college tuition is true, even just adjusted for inflation (for which $1,000 in fall of 1945 supposedly would be $15,114.20 in fall of 2021), but weren’t there also fewer colleges then and lots of competition from men on the G.I.bill? However, I am thinking that the main point was that the great-aunt had also been a winner on a quiz-show.
Took me about 30 seconds but I got it. Basically the clue gives you the following:
-well-known board game
-At least 2 words in the name
-First word likely ends in “al” (because it is rare to add an “l” to anything else and have it make a word)