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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category The New Testament) for Wednesday, November 16, 2022 (Season 39, Game 48):
Paul’s letter to them is the New Testament epistle with the most Old Testament quotations
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Sam Buttrey, an associate professor of operations research at the Naval Postgraduate School from Pacific Grove, California
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Andrew He, a software developer from San Francisco, California
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Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
In all three meetings between Amy Schneider and Andrew He, Andrew He has led going into Final Jeopardy. However, in two of those meetings, Amy Schneider has come out as the victor. Andrew’s stronger strategy over the first two rounds—namely, being better at both finding and taking advantage of the Daily Doubles—has resulted in having the upper hand twice. One thing to consider: there was an overnight taping break in between Game 2 and Game 3 of this series; will Amy have adapted her strategy as we go into Game 3? Or, will she feel that her current strategy is working? Amy has been dominating on the signaling device and Andrew is only in this series because of the Daily Doubles. If Amy and Sam stop selecting top-row clues and start an all-out hunt for the Daily Doubles, this might be a different series going forward, because starving Andrew of those big-money opportunities is the best way to keep him from winning.
I should also point out that I come at this from a perspective of hoping that all the players play their best game possible, and I feel disappointed when I don’t see that happen.
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Correct response: Who are Hebrews (as per the show)?
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There are a couple of problems with this clue: I can’t tell whether the intended correct response is “Romans” or “Hebrews”. Firstly, I have found conflicting sources as to whether Romans or Hebrews contains more quotations. Secondly, there’s the more pressing question of authorship—specifically of Hebrews. There’s no dispute that Paul wrote Romans. While Ken’s church—the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—claims Paul wrote Hebrews, this is certainly disputed—even a clue by the show from June 2021 says that Barnabas has sometimes been credited with authorship—and even Britannica itself says it is “now widely believed to be the work of another Jewish Christian”.
These combined problems make this clue completely inappropriate for a Tournament of Champions final. The show needs to improve—all this will do is cause unnecessary angst online, especially amongst Biblical scholars.
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Game Recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: A Bouquet Of Flowers; American History; Better Call Saul; Rappers Who Act; Beastly Book Titles; Making An Assonance Of Yourself)
Amy had control of the board for most of the opening of today’s game, but it was Andrew who found the Daily Double—because he was searching for it. Andrew led after 15 clues, but all three players stayed very close—Amy and Andrew were tied at $3,800, with Sam just $200 behind going into Double Jeopardy.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Andrew 4 correct 1 incorrect
Amy 4 correct 1 incorrect
Sam 2 correct 0 incorrect
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Andrew 8 correct 1 incorrect
Amy 9 correct 1 incorrect
Sam 7 correct 0 incorrect
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: 4 Weddings & A Funeral; Opera Characters; Compound Words; Cold Around The Globe; Heard In The Movie; Spelementary)
The hunting happened, and I am happy. Unfortunately, the Daily Doubles still worked out better for Andrew. Amy dropped $5,000 on hers, whereas Andrew pulled back significantly to Sam by doubling up through his! Sam had zero unforced errors today, though, and this led to our professor leading going into Final with $14,800; Andrew had $13,200 and Amy $2,400.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Sam 18 correct 0 incorrect
Andrew 15 correct 3 incorrect
Amy 15 correct 4 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 12 (0 today).
Controversy will abound as Sam’s response was not accepted, in spite of potential evidence that it maybe should have been. As a result, Andrew has been awarded a crucial second victory towards the championship; Game 4 is tomorrow!
Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, November 16, 2022 Jeopardy! by the numbers:
Scores going into Final:
Sam $14,800
Andrew $13,200
Amy $2,400
Tonight’s results:
Amy $2,400 + $1,000 = $3,400 (Who are the Hebrews?) (1 win)
Andrew $13,200 – $3,201 = $9,999 (Who are Philippiaes?) (2 wins)
Sam $14,800 – $11,601 = $3,199 (Who are the Romans?) (0 wins)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Andrew $3,800
Amy $3,800
Sam $3,600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) AMERICAN HISTORY $1000 (clue #11)
Andrew 400 +1000 (Amy 2000 Sam 200)
2) COMPOUND WORDS $2000 (clue #6)
Amy 5800 -5000 (Andrew 5000 Sam 5200)
3) 4 WEDDINGS & A FUNERAL $800 (clue #20, $5600 left on board)
Andrew 5800 +5800 (Amy 1600 Sam 12400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 114
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Andrew 4.00
Amy 3.31
Sam 3.91
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 12 (0.25 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Andrew $8,200 Coryat, 15 correct, 3 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Amy $7,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 4 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Sam $14,800 Coryat, 18 correct, 0 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $30,400
Lach Trash: $12,800 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,800
Amy Schneider, career statistics:
1434 correct, 95 incorrect
67/82 on rebound attempts (on 178 rebound opportunities)
50.57% in first on buzzer (1321/2612)
69/80 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $214,200)
30/46 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $25,422
Andrew He, career statistics:
254 correct, 35 incorrect
15/17 on rebound attempts (on 38 rebound opportunities)
38.12% in first on buzzer (239/627)
17/22 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $87,800)
4/11 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,018
Sam Buttrey, career statistics:
211 correct, 20 incorrect
12/14 on rebound attempts (on 36 rebound opportunities)
39.18% in first on buzzer (201/513)
5/7 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,600)
5/9 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,667
Remaining Players’ Tournament of Champions Chances (after 100,000 Simulations)
Amy 24.475%
Andrew 72.368%
Sam 3.157%
Chances of 4 games: 37.157%
Chances of 5 games: 38.069%
Chances of 6 games: 17.841%
Chances of 7 games: 6.933%
Today’s interviews:
Sam went skydiving for a friend’s bachelor party.
Andrew received feedback that he was “visibly aging” from his mother after his shows.
Amy was at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- As highlighted above, I believe Sam has a significant protest case, and I don’t know how the show can rectify it. The fact that the show claims the epistle was written by Paul when most Biblical scholars now believe he didn’t, means that, at best, I believe this was a Final Jeopardy! clue with no correct response—an untenable situation considering the stakes of this match.
- Today’s box score: November 16, 2022 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Sam $14,800 Andrew $13,200 Amy $2,400)
Amy: If Sam covers Andrew and is incorrect, he falls to $3,199. Thus, you need to bet at least $801 to have the best chance of winning. (Actual bet: $1,000)
Andrew: Bet between $3,201 (covering Sam’s very small range) and $8,399 (thereby keeping Amy locked out). (Actual bet: $3,201)
Sam: Standard cover bet over Andrew is $11,601. (Actual bet: $11,601)
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First thing that popped into my head was Ephesians.
I thought Corinthians.
Now that I think about it, the “Old Testament” snip in the clue is probably a lead towards the Torah, and therefore, Hebrews.
Maybe🤷 That would be typical of the extra clue “vectors” they like to toss in.
The author of Hebrews has always been unknown, to say this epistle is written be Paul is misleading
First thing that popped into my head was Thessalonians. I’m guessing it was just because I assumed the writers would have picked something kind of weird.
Sorry, I thought I had clicked on the ‘Reply’ button for Michael R’s first post.
I also believe that because the authorship of Hebrews is not 100% clear, the question could have been phrased differently, leaving out the attributed author altogether.
Terribly misleading clue – no New Testament scholar today believes that Paul wrote Hebrews. I can’t believe this made it past the fact checkers.
ack! I have to wait to find out if I’m wrong again?
mebs, my subtext got cut off ;p
I guessed Hebrews, and am hoping the contested authorship doesn’t disqualify it.
The clue is insufficiently pinned, in my opinion; the best-case scenario for the show is that there’s a double runaway, and this Final purely becomes an academic debate for the viewers at home.
Well I got the sought for solution, so that’s good, but I sure hope this doesn’t become a big deal 😕
The only outcome that can save this situation is if all 3 finalists guess the same answer and are either right or wrong.
well, that doesn’t quite solve it – if it were a situation like yesterday, you’d have a different winner if all were correct as opposed to all were incorrect.
Aside from the disputed authorship of Hebrews, I just found it interesting, only looking at the sources that Andy linked, that there is such a disparity on the numbers! The first source has the count as Romans 58, Hebrews 42 and the second has Hebrews 86, Romans 74!
I don’t normally track this sort of thing but if the answer is indeed Romans then I have a 1-game streak going after missing just about every other Final in this tournament 🙂
I wonder if the difference could be if one source counts even just repeated phrases and the other only counts whole statements. Or perhaps some quotations are repeated again and one source only counts them once and another counts them each time.
You are correct, Patrick, but I don’t see how it can be corrected.
There’s an entire chapter of Hebrews that names a lot of the main people from the Old Testatment with brief descriptors of their stories, but to me that’s not the same thing as quotes from the Old Testament. Romans also has a few places where Abraham is named but it’s not really a quote. So I suspect that’s where the different numbers come in your sources: was it a quote from the Old Testament or a reference to something in the Old Testament?
I don’t know of any scholar who believes that Paul wrote Hebrews. The vocabulary and sentence structure of the Greek are just too far removed for there to be any doubt. The only people who hold to Paul as the author of Hebrews are the strict literalists who seem to think that if there was some point in the past where people believed this was the author, then this MUST be the author.
i thought Romans while Hebrews is in doubt. I feel the writing style lends to Paul. I do not share the same denomination as Ken
I agree it’s badly written.
There are very few authoritative voices that say Paul wrote Hebrews, so I hope the J Crew doesn’t give this as the answer.
Regarding Romans – you can find people who would say someone other than Paul, but it’s almost universal among Biblical scholarship that Paul is the author of Romans. You could find exceptions – but in the same way you’d find exceptions to most medical views.
I also agree with John Hensgen – If you read Romans in the original language of Greek, it’s very obviously Paul’s style of writing and logic.
Andy, what do you think will happen? The fact that the game aired as is means Jeopardy does not understand it has a problem, correct? Because they’ve had plenty of time to address the problem in one way or other, had they chosen to, as these games were taped roughly two months ago.
So I assume they don’t know they have a problem. How in the world could they possibly straighten it out now? You can’t go back in time now, reset the win counter to one apiece, and proceed.
What do you think they will do?
I’m really not sure what they’ll do—they may hope it all blows over. Sports leagues certainly have had their share of bad calls by the officials over the course of history.
Have ALL the ToC shows already been recorded? Perhaps they waited until all had been filmed in hopes that the final winner would have won regardless of which way this went — and it did come out that way, so they left this alone.
For that to happen
1-Andrew must be shut out in remaining 4 games
plus
2-Sam must win 3 of last 4 games
or
Amy must win 2 of last 4 games
All the resources that I can find list Romans with more
direct quotes from the Old Testament than Hebrews .
This would make Sam the real winner today. Very unfortunate
for a TOC game. In addition it is very doubtful if Paul wrote
Hebrews.
All I can think of was the hebrews, I’ve been studying with the bible group abou t those guys in the new testament. I found it interesting because ever since i was baptized and going to church as often as necessary, I’ve been thinking about learning more on the hebrew history.
I agree that this was a terrible clue, specially for a ToC game!! During the 30 seconds I kept thinking, “They better not say Hebrews, because no one is sure who wrote it!” Sam should have won this game today. He was the best player.
I’m sorry, but Sam has misread the clue.
If one knows that the Epistle to the Hebrews is the New Testament epistle with the most Old Testament quotations, using its traditionally attributive title in the clue, whatever is the current consensus wrt its authorship, should not change the answer, as the clue wording is non-restrictive.
Had it been “This Paul’s epistle has the most Old Testament quotations”, arguing that the correct answer is To the Romans could have been more justified.
Leo:
With all due respect, I think you’re wrong.
Firstly: is Hebrews even the epistle with the most quotations? Even that part of the clue is disputed.
Secondly: Saying it’s Paul’s letter 100% attributes authorship to him, and that is also definitely disputed.
What I’m saying is that I can take the producers’ side without much difficulty.
Let’s see in the coming days, along which lines the producers are going to justify their decision, if it comes to them having to justify it publicly.
Amen.
It is certainly possible that the powers that be are learning, only today and only as a result of Andy’s excellent sleuthing, that there is potential trouble in River City. They presumably can’t change today’s show, since it has already hit the airwaves, but they could certainly suspend the rest of the tournament, change today’s result and retape the next games of the tournament on that basis. Yes, a total mess, but “fair”, at least to me. The regular shows are already in the can and can be accelerated. These are only the views of one guy who isn’t in the trenches dealing with this potential mess and the associated costs and challenges.
Quotations? No, absolutely not.
References to people and stories from the Old Testament? Probably.
But the way the clue was written, Paul as the author is an essential element and no Biblical scholar would say that Paul is the author of Hebrews. That would sort of be like saying that the person who wrote Shakespeare’s plays also wrote the script for a movie. You can tell by the vocabulary and sentence structure of the original Greek that Hebrews was not written by the same person as any of the other epistles in the New Testament.
On a different topic — it looks to me like if Amy had “followed my suggestion” [yes, I know the airings and the comments are well after the actual ToC games were played] of trying to get to a DD before Andrew (which she did) but betting low (like just $100, not $5,000), she would have had a real chance to win this game. I know it cannot be said for sure since different totals at the end of DJ! would have affected their actual FJ! betting, but it looks likely to me. [Ignoring the “correct or not?” problem.]