Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 19th Century Contemporaries) for Friday, June 17, 2022 (Season 38, Game 200):
Congratulating her on the 1869 release of her biography, Frederick Douglass wrote, “I have wrought in the day –you in the night”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Molly Fleming, a community organizer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Sadie Goldberger, an interpreter from Columbia, Maryland
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Megan Wachspress, an attorney from Berkeley, California (3-day total: $34,402)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Megan Wachspress has clearly studied wagering strategy. It’s absolutely paid off for her, as two of her three victories have been by just two dollars! She’s looking for an all-important fourth win today—Sadie Goldberger and Molly Fleming are hoping to enter the weekend with a victory of their own, though!
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Correct response: Who is Harriet Tubman?
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1869 saw the publication of Sarah Hopkins Bradford’s biography Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman, a biography of the famous American abolitionist who escaped slavery and subsequently organized the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses that saw at least 100,000 enslaved people escape slavery to Canada. Also from Douglass’ letter: “Excepting John Brown—of sacred memory—I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have.”
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Game Recap:
Jeopardy! Round categories: Historic Alliances; Wordplay-Pourri; Home Sweet Home Renovation; Think Pink; Stately Rivers; Pop Rocks
Today’s game got off to a bit of a slower start, with some high-value Triple Stumpers and incorrect responses keeping the scores down. However, Sadie had the strongest round and led after 30 clues.
Double Jeopardy! Round categories: Sci-Fi Characters; His Widow Lived On; Marine Biology; The “IT” Department; The Quotable Movie; Such a Peasant Life
The very close game between Megan and Sadie continued, as Molly found both Daily Doubles in the round, yet got them both incorrect to keep her score down. Meanwhile, Sadie held a slim lead going into Final—$9,800 for her, $9,200 for Megan, and $3,300 for Molly.
Final was very nearly a triple-get for the first time in nearly over two months. Unfortunately, though, Sadie was unable to finish writing “Tubman” in time, and incomplete means incorrect in Final Jeopardy! In a heartbreaking-but-fair ruling, Sadie dropped to third, and Megan Wachspress is now a 4-day champion! She’ll go for 5 wins on Monday!
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, June 17, 2022 Jeopardy! by the numbers:
Scores going into Final:
Sadie $9,800
Megan $9,200
Molly $3,300
Tonight’s results:
Molly $3,300 + $3,200 = $6,500 (Who is Harriet Tubman)
Megan $9,200 + $7,999 = $17,199 (Who is Harriet Tubman) (4-day total: $51,601)
Sadie $9,800 – $7,500 = $2,300 (Who is Harriett Tubma)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Sadie $4,600
Megan $2,000
Molly -$400
Opening break taken after: 14 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) THINK PINK $600 (clue #3)
Sadie 400 +600 (Megan 200 Molly 0)
2) SCI-FI CHARACTERS $800 (clue #2)
Molly 0 -2000 (Megan 2000 Sadie 4600)
3) SUCH A PEASANT LIFE $1600 (clue #26, $6800 left on board)
Molly 2000 -1500 (Megan 9200 Sadie 9400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -115
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 79 (0.40 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Megan $9,200 Coryat, 14 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Molly $6,800 Coryat, 14 correct, 6 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Sadie $9,800 Coryat, 17 correct, 4 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 3/4 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $25,800
Lach Trash: $15,400 (on 13 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,800
Megan Wachspress, career statistics:
63 correct, 15 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 18 rebound opportunities)
29.96% in first on buzzer (68/227)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000)
3/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,050
Sadie Goldberger, career statistics:
17 correct, 5 incorrect
3/4 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $600)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,800
Molly Fleming, career statistics:
15 correct, 6 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,500)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,800
Megan Wachspress, to win:
5 games: 31.323%
6: 9.811%
7: 3.073%
8: 0.963%
9: 0.302%
Avg. streak: 4.456 games.
Today’s interviews:
Molly went on foreign exchange in South African in high school.
Sadie recently found out her great grandfather was the biggest bootlegger in Delaware.
Megan hopes to use some of her winnings to helped pay legal fees for unhoused people.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- As a viewer, you may not *like* the rule, but it is a rule—incomplete Final Jeopardy! responses are incorrect, and you have until the end of the timer to finish. While it is an undoubtedly disappointing ruling for Sadie and those who were cheering for her, this rule keeps things fair for *all* contestants and I personally believe that the ruling is just.
- Viewers should also note that the show watches the light pens write from the control room as the responses are being written; thus, “it looked finished to me” is not a consideration or a valid complaint—the judges would not have seen the final N being written. Moreover, the light pen shuts off as soon as the timer finishes.
- Link to the box score: June 17, 2022 Box Score
Final Jeopardy! betting suggestions:
(Scores: Sadie $9,800 Megan $9,200 Molly $3,300)
Megan: Your best chances of winning happen if you bet between $1,201 (defending against Sadie’s small bet range) and $2,599 (guaranteeing yourself second place). (Actual bet: $7,999)
Sadie: Standard cover bet over Megan is $8,601. (Actual bet: $7,500)
Molly: If Sadie bets to cover and is incorrect, she falls to $1,199. I would bet between $0 and $2,099. (Actual bet: $3,200)
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There were two scribbles, so she definitely spent some time debating the answer. Just one more thing to sweat in the moment, but contestants just have to be prepared to write last names first, specify first if necessary. For instance the QB a couple weeks ago, write Manning first, specify P or Peyton later. Who (or What) is given, so write is/are last, or while thinking about your answer.
I would love to know from any of this week’s contestants if this was litigated at length, and edited back together for TV. The contestants alternated between resignation and shock. I saw long deliberations on set for regular clues and a pivotal Daily Double, but never a Final.
So, are we sayin that all those times that the host(ess) has said to a contestant… “it looks like you were goin for XYZ… but we know already that that is not corect…how much wil you lose…” were just niceties? And, are oui now saying, if in those situations it wood half actchewalee bin the correc anser the respons would rathah half been “sorry, that’s incorrect”?!?!?!? That really confueses me, and if I was a contestant baceing my understaning of the rules on what eye’ve seen to date I would vehemently argue: that based on all those prior host(ess) comments, this situation where the provision of the first name and a scribble that can be, perhaps dubiously, but nevertheless assumed to be the full answer the judges were looking for, should be considered correct. What is ghot? …or is it ghoti?
I would say that “it looks like you were going for XYZ… but we know already that that is not correct…how much will you lose…” is nicer than “whatever that was supposed to be, it is NOT correct”. Some of the time no one has yet had the correct response and the host doesn’t want to supply it prematurely (and doesn’t want to give the current contestant a chance to explain what they WERE going for, nor act like it was a stupid response instead of an incomplete wrong response). I feel like in your scenario of being incomplete but otherwise correct, the host would say “it looks like you were going for XYZ… which would have been correct, but you were unable to finish…how much will you lose…” However, with the instance I mentioned, where one or more response has yet to be revealed so the correct response has not yet been confirmed or revealed, I doubt they would even say that it looked like an incomplete correct response, just saying something like “it looks like you could not give a complete response in time, so how much will you lose…” [Obviously I don’t mean they are holding back on telling the correct response because then a further contestant could “get” it from that, I just mean the audience and the rest of the contestant(s) are not to KNOW the correct response until one of them is deemed correct or no one is and the host finally reveals the correct response.]