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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category European History) for Friday, February 10, 2023 (Season 39, Game 110):
Until 1806, some German nobles included among their honors the title of “Elector” for their role in selecting this personage
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Libby Hsu, a lecturer & associate director from Revere, Massachusetts
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Myles Karp, a journalist & consultant from Weston, Florida
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Mira Hayward, a writer from Portland, Oregon (1-day total: $14,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Yesterday on the show saw another Portland champion, Mira Hayward becoming the area’s third champion in recent weeks! Today, she faces off against Myles Karp and Libby Hsu!
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Correct response: What is Holy Roman Emperor?
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The title of Holy Roman Emperor was created in 800 to reward Charlemagne, as Pope Leo III felt Charlemagne had secured Leo’s election as Pope. (Between the fall of the Western Roman Emperor in 480 and 800, the Byzantine emperor was generally regarded as the Roman emperor.) From the 13th century onward, the title was elected by a small body of the most important European leaders. By way of example, George III of the United Kingdom was the elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
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Game Recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Before They Were Supreme Court Justices; Don’t Fall In!; 5-Letter Double-Z Words; All Kinds Of Books; Hotels Named For People; Super Bowl Heroes)
Mira dominated the opening round, picking up 13 correct, the Daily Double, and nearly $10,000!
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Mira 5 correct 1 incorrect
Libby 3 correct 0 incorrect
Myles 4 correct 2 incorrect
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Mira 13 correct 2 incorrect
Myles 9 correct 3 incorrect
Libby 4 correct 0 incorrect
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Ocean Life; Poets’ Rhyme Time; Fashionable Etymology; An Endless Category; Western Europe; The Miami Vice Squad)
The Double Jeopardy! round belonged to our challengers! First, Myles doubled up and jumped into the lead, getting 10 correct himself! Then, Libby doubled her own score very late in the round to make this a very competitive game going into Final! Scores going into Final were Myles at $17,600, Libby at $13,600, and Mira at $12,400.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Myles 19 correct 3 incorrect
Libby 13 correct 1 incorrect
Mira 20 correct 4 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 16 (0 today).
Today was a single-get Final—and that single-get was Mira! She’s now a 2-day champion and returns on Monday to defend!
Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, February 10, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers:
Scores going into Final:
Myles $17,600
Libby $13,600
Mira $12,400
Tonight’s results:
Mira $12,400 + $10,000 = $22,400 (What is the Holy Roman Emperor?) (2-day total: $37,000)
Libby $13,600 – $4,001 = $9,599 (What is Chancellor?)
Myles $17,600 – $10,000 = $7,600 (What is Kaiser?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Mira $9,200
Myles $2,600
Libby $2,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) BEFORE THEY WERE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES $1000 (clue #26)
Mira 5600 +1600 (Myles 2200 Libby 2200)
2) OCEAN LIFE $1600 (clue #5)
Myles 3800 +3800 (Mira 10400 Libby 3400)
3) AN ENDLESS CATEGORY $1600 (clue #23, $8400 left on board)
Libby 5800 +5800 (Mira 13200 Myles 16000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 229
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Mira 3 2 2 4 3 4 5 1 4 5 1 1 5*
Myles 4 3 2 3 2 3 4 5 1
Libby 4 2 2 3
DJ! Round:
Mira 3 2 3 5 4 1
Myles 4* 5† 1 3 4 4 5 1 2
Libby 1 2 3 2 5 2 3 4*
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Mira 3.05
Libby 2.75
Myles 3.11
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 16 (0.15 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Mira $11,800 Coryat, 20 correct, 4 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Libby $9,400 Coryat, 13 correct, 1 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Myles $15,400 Coryat, 19 correct, 3 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $36,600
Lach Trash: $9,600 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,800
Mira Hayward, career statistics:
42 correct, 10 incorrect
3/4 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
38.60% in first on buzzer (44/114)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$400)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,200
Myles Karp, career statistics:
19 correct, 4 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,400
Libby Hsu, career statistics:
13 correct, 2 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5,800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,400
Mira Hayward, to win:
3 games: 37.389%
4: 13.980%
5: 5.227%
6: 1.954%
7: 0.731%
Avg. streak: 2.597 games.
Today’s interviews:
Libby is a marathon knitter.
Myles is an expert on tropical fruit.
Mira won a “cute baby” contest in 1995.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Myles $17,600 Libby $13,600 Mira $12,400)
Mira: Being that Libby is in Stratton’s Dilemma, you might be able to pull out an advantage here over Libby if you go all-in, so as to force her to cover you. Otherwise, limit your bet to $4,399, in order to win a Double Stumper with Myles. (Actual bet: $10,000)
Myles: Standard cover bet over Libby is $9,601. (Actual bet: $10,000)
Libby: You’re in Stratton’s Dilemma; you can’t win both a Triple Stumper and cover Mira. Bet either less than $5,599 or more than $11,201. (Actual bet: $4,001)
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Dang, my knowledge of the HRE is mostly of the Carolingian period, and the idea of electors came some centuries later :/
Current FJ streak: 1L
you’re not alone. I randomly guessed kaiser.
My first thought was also Kaiser. It’s remarkable that the HRE hung around until 1806.
Add me to the list who incorrectly guessed Kaiser.
Ha! My first thought was Kaiser. . . but then I went with Chancellor. Both wrong!
My only thought was Chancellor, though I also thought “but probably not”.
I knew it partially from my play of Europa Universalis IV; ironically, this is the second night in three that my knowledge of the correct answer came from playing PC games (Aachen is the capital city of the Germans in Civ 6).
I guessed pope as I knew Germany was part of the Holy Roman Empire until Napoleon ended it around that time … but didn’t realize they elected both a pope and holy roman emperor … was on the right track but would have been wrong
Only cardinals elect the Pope; it was always independent of the HRE, unfortunately.
Cardinals only started electing popes in 1059 if I remember correctly.
Many Holy Roman Emperors personally chose popes and entered into agreements to protect them and the papal states.
As Andy Richter said if you don’t know final jeopardy you are done for.
The Holy Roman Emperor was something that I heard of although I had no idea that Leo had been elected as Pope by Charlemagne. The Byzantine empire was something I have seen in a movie once.
Heads up: the broadcast of tonight’s episode is preempted in Philadelphia for Super Bowl coverage; it will air at 2:30 AM.
I immediately thought Holy Roman Empire, but took it another layer and said Pope. I didn’t realize that the Emperor was an elected position or that it had lasted that long; I was thinking that its prior structure of the Emperor and his closest confidants choosing the Pope had carried forth from Barbarossa’s time (when he had named his own Pope to combat the Vatican). Whoops.
I’m glad Mira got this. Her genuine disbelief is so great and makes her so rootable. I would have preferred a bigger bet on her Daily Double, and fear that such conservative play will cost her soon, unfortunately.
I always like players who look happy to be there and are enjoying the game. If I pulled out a win from behind, I would be ecstatic/in disbelief and I wouldn’t be able to hide it on camera. I will always root for players that are human, not jeopardy robots.
I knew Final because of Sophia, Electress Consort of Hanover.
If you want to know the twisting path of Scottish, English and British sovereigns, it all comes down to Sophia. And since she figures greatly in British history, I had to know what an electress was.
Not sure if I like the wording of the clue though. The electors were not mere nobles – they were rulers in their own right.
If you don’t feel like investigating Sophia: she almost succeeded Anne as Queen of Great Britain, her son was George I, and all subsequent monarchs of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom are her descendants (including Chuckles).
She is why the British ended up with a succession of German kings from the House of Hanover.
This site’s recent editorial about the King James Bible seems especially appropriate after today’s game (as some translations do indeed use “eternal” instead of “everlasting” in John 3:16, and had the show gone translation-agnostic, either of those two would have fit the category).
Maybe they could’ve pinned it by saying it was a 11-letter word rather than referring to the KJV? Perhaps that would make it too easy for a $2000 clue.
On the other hand “Name the Hanseatic League” is now worth $2000…
There was not an explicit reference to the KJV; as the show made clear in an Inside Jeopardy! episode released two days after Andy’s editorial on the question, the King James Version is and always has been canonical and dispositive as to any Bible subject matter, and the controversy over Final Jeopardy! in Game 3 of the ToC final will not alter that stance. Indeed, recall that the staff was indifferent to and dismissive of the opposition to the clue. (Episode 18, 2022-11-21)
And for what it’s worth, J! Archive lists December 8 as the tape date for this episode, so the contestants would have been fully aware of how that episode played out.
On the broadcast I saw the clue was phrased thusly: “In the King James Bible John 3:16 says, ‘Whosoever believeth in him’ will have this life”.
except the clue specifically referred to the KJV, did it not?
so the fact that other versions translate it differently is moot
I always feel old when they show a clue that anybody who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s would easily get. Like the clue where they showed a picture of Pat Benetar and it stumped all three.
I had no clue about the FJ. Good on Mira for getting FJ, in the end that’s what counts. Conversative betting may not always guarantee success even if you are one of the strongestamong the bunch.
You might say they didn’t hit that clue with their best shot.
I can’t believe I knew a football triple stumper since I can’t stand football [only basketball is worse because of the squeaky shoes], though mostly BECAUSE of the fandom, not the game itself (though I don’t LIKE that). However, when my son was in school the father of one of his classmates looked just like Terry Bradshaw so my son would always call attention to it whenever a commercial for “Fox NFL Sunday’s” pregame show would come on.
[BTW, IMO, rabid sports fandom paved the way for the current vehement inflexible political divide.]