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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Names of Myth) for Tuesday, February 28, 2023 (Season 39, Game 122):
Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Audrey Satchivi, a senior at Indiana University-Bloomington from Carmel, Indiana
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Anish Maddipoti, a junior at the University of Texas at Austin from Austin, Texas
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Lucas Miner, a junior at Yale University from Miami, Florida
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Today’s seventh quarterfinal of nine features Lucas Miner (finalist in summer 2019), Anish Maddipoti (quarterfinalist in fall 2018), and Audrey Satchivi (semifinalist in fall 2018). My prediction model at the start of the event has Audrey as a slight favorite due to Audrey having had a slightly better time with the Daily Doubles than Lucas or Anish (both Lucas and Anish are a career net negative on the Daily Doubles). One weak point for Audrey in the initial event was signaling device timing; she was only in first on 23.6% of read clues during her initial tournament appearance. If she can improve upon that, I’d say she has a good chance of advancing.
One other thing: I’ve noticed that for some reason, the show is randomizing both first selection in the Jeopardy! round and contestant lectern placement. If this is one of those “experiments” that Michael Davies said (on Inside Jeopardy!) he would be trying out, count me as a fan who doesn’t like it. It only serves to confuse home viewers like me. It’s fine to randomize which contestant is at what lectern—that I don’t mind—but it’s overkill to do two randomizations. Just randomize the lecterns and have the contestant closest to the host select first, as the show has done for the vast majority of its run.
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Correct response: Who is Helen of Troy?
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Helen of Troy, a daughter of Zeus, was abducted by Theseus as a child after Theseus felt he required a divine wife, the ensuing invasion of Athens by Castor and Pollux resulted in Helen’s return. However, she is best known in Greek myth for being declared the world’s most beautiful woman by Aphrodite. After Aphrodite offered Helen in exchange for Aphrodite being judged the most beautiful goddess, Helen was abducted again; this abduction resulted in the Trojan War, as many Greek heroes had been obligated to defend Helen’s marriage to Menelaus.
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Game Recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: You’re In College Now; People From Islands; Hobbies & Pastimes; Rappers; 13-Letter Words; The Nose Knows)
Lucas started immediately by finding the Daily Double, and had a slim lead after 30 clues. Audrey rebounded well from being in the negative at the first break to being in a close third at the end of the round.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Lucas 7 correct 1 incorrect
Anish 5 correct 1 incorrect
Audrey 1 correct 2 incorrect
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Lucas 11 correct 1 incorrect
Anish 9 correct 1 incorrect
Audrey 7 correct 3 incorrect
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Stay Classy, Classical Music; They Wrote ‘Em; That’s A Laugh!; Medieval Times; South Americana; Get “Set”)
Audrey got to the first Daily Double on clue #4 of the round and took the lead with a correct response. However, Lucas broke a close game wide open by betting $5,000 on the last one. Scores going into Final were Lucas at $16,600, Audrey at $12,600, and Anish at $7,200.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Lucas 21 correct 3 incorrect
Audrey 17 correct 5 incorrect
Anish 12 correct 1 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 16 (0 today).
Lucas and Audrey were correct in Final—Lucas made the standard cover bet and is now a semifinalist!
Tonight’s Game Stats:
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Scores going into Final:
Lucas $16,600
Audrey $12,600
Anish $7,200
Tonight’s results:
Anish $7,200 – $801 = $6,399 ($5,000) (Who is Lebron James? ❤️ Mom + Dad)
Audrey $12,600 + $2,801 = $15,401 ($5,000) (Who is Helen of Troy?)
Lucas $16,600 + $8,601 = $25,201 (Who is Helen of Troy? (boola boola!)) (Semi-Finalist)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Lucas $4,800
Anish $4,000
Audrey $3,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) PEOPLE FROM ISLANDS $800 (clue #1)
Lucas 0 +1000 (Anish 0 Audrey 0)
2) SOUTH AMERICANA $2000 (clue #4)
Audrey 3400 +2000 (Lucas 4800 Anish 4000)
3) MEDIEVAL TIMES $1600 (clue #14, $16800 left on board)
Lucas 10400 +5000 (Anish 6800 Audrey 9000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 207
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Lucas 4*
Anish
Audrey
DJ! Round:
Lucas 4 5 3 4*
Anish 3 4
Audrey 3 2 4 5* 1† 3 2 5
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Lucas 4.00
Audrey 3.13
Anish 3.50
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 16 (0.13 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Lucas $13,000 Coryat, 21 correct, 3 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Audrey $12,600 Coryat, 17 correct, 5 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Anish $7,200 Coryat, 12 correct, 1 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $32,800
Lach Trash: $13,600 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,600
Lucas Miner, career statistics:
95 correct, 16 incorrect
7/7 on rebound attempts (on 16 rebound opportunities)
31.58% in first on buzzer (90/285)
5/9 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000)
5/5 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,960
Anish Maddipoti, career statistics:
29 correct, 7 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
27.19% in first on buzzer (31/114)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,400)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,200
Audrey Satchivi, career statistics:
50 correct, 7 incorrect
5/5 on rebound attempts (on 15 rebound opportunities)
27.49% in first on buzzer (47/171)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5,000)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,467
Remaining Players’ Chances of Winning Tournament:
Maya Wright: 10.303%
Avi Gupta: 16.136%
Stephanie Pierson: 7.671%
Justin Bolsen: 14.673%
Jackson Jones: 15.339%
Claire Sattler: 10.645%
Lucas Miner: 10.888%
Tim Cho: 4.724%
Dan Oxman: 0.289%
Eesha Sohail: 2.450%
Hannah Nekritz: 2.236%
Caleb Richmond: 2.439%
Maggie Brown: 2.207%
Today’s interviews:
Audrey collects records, CDs, and DVDs.
Anish wants to shout out his 10th-grade world history teacher, Ms. Matthews.
Lucas ran into Matt Amodio at Yale.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score: February 28, 2023 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Lucas $16,600 Audrey $12,600 Anish $7,200)
Lucas: Standard cover bet over Audrey is $8,601. (Actual bet: $8,601)
Anish: You should bet at least $3,601, so as to pass Audrey if she bets small and misses Final. (Actual bet: $801)
Audrey: Standard cover bet over Anish is $1,801. (Actual bet: $2,801)
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Softball for an inveterate student of mythology 😀
If I can guess this, knowing very little about mythology, I’m thinking it should be a triple get for today’s contestants.
Totally whiffed on this one. Didn’t register with me that she was “stolen” in the clue. I felt so silly for missing this.
I went with the wrong daughter of Zeus, Persephone, who of course it was Hades not Theseus who was her captor. So, yeah, I was pretty much clueless.
I also went Persephone. I figured that Hades was “the larger force” referenced in the clue.
I three went with Persephone, getting her and Helen mixed up. Greek Myth has a lot of things that are easy to transpose.
Studying mythology in middle school and High school helped me to get to helen of troy. Zeus should be more ashamed of himself for kidnapping Helen in the first place. But Happy to see a double solve today!
Zeus kidnapped Helen? I know even less than I thought I did.
I knew of Helen of Troy, and, think I even knew she was the reason behind the Trojan War. But the rest? If that was covered in a history course in High School, my brain must have been absent those days. Oh, well. Plenty more Final Jeopardys to play.
Lucas’ response “what is monochrome?” should have been accepted. OED defines both adjectives monochrome and monochromatic as having only one color. Fortunately he won anyway so it didn’t change the outcome.
Daniel:
A response that is 10 letters long—”monochrome”—will never be accepted in a category titled “13 Letter Words”.
Of course! Thanks for pointing out the obvious that I missed.
I agree entirely that the two randomizations in combination make no sense. On the previous occasion when first choice wasn’t always at the leftmost lectern, in The Greatest of All Time, it made sense and was clearly explained — the show preferred to keep the players in the same positions over the course of the entire series, and in that case, it wouldn’t have been fair to have the same player (namely James) select first. Particularly in the opening round of a tournament where there is not necessarily a basis on which to seed the three players in each match, it makes sense to assign lecterns randomly. (Indeed, it’s more appropriate to do so than the often but not always used criterion of alphabetical order.)
The second half of the clue gave me the answer. I was expecting to get it wrong when I saw the category.