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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 19th Century Literature) for Tuesday, June 27, 2023 (Season 39, Game 207):
In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Chris Ban, an oral & facial surgeon from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Erin Gold, a teacher from Aurora, Colorado |
Donna Matturri, a librarian from Columbus, Ohio (2-day total: $40,200) |
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
On this Tuesday, Donna Matturri returns as a 2-day champion to face Denver-area Erin Gold and Pittsburgh’s Chris Ban. One thing that our challengers should keep an eye out for today, especially in Final Jeopardy!: Donna didn’t bet enough to cover yesterday. This would mean that the standard strategy for the trailing player should then become an almost-automatic all-in bet, in order to force a cover bet out of Donna in this game.
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Correct response: Who is Rudyard Kipling?
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In 1896, George and Elizabeth Peckham named several new genera of spiders; among their choices for names were characters from Rudyard Kipling’s famous 1894 work The Jungle Book: Akela the wolf, Bagheera the black panther, Nagaina the cobra, and Messua (one of the characters who adopts Mowgli.)
To me, this seems like a straightforward Final in which Rudyard Kipling will probably be the “default” response; though I could definitely see other responses from a player who unfortunately overthinks the clue.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Some Thoughts On The Book; Only Fans; Australian Universities; What Are You Made Of?; Starts With “Z”; It Came From New Jersey)
Of our two challengers, Erin got off to the better start on the signaling device; however, a rebounded $1,000 neg just before the break gave Donna the lead after 15 clues. The back half of the round saw Donna get the Daily Double, but Erin get enough clues to jump into the lead after 30!
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Donna 5 correct 0 incorrect
Erin 5 correct 1 incorrect
Chris 2 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Chris wants to have a boathouse at his alma mater named after his late brother, who passed last year.
Erin was recently married by The Sphinx in Salt Lake City.
Donna became a librarian because of a clothes-shopping trip.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Erin 11 correct 1 incorrect
Donna 9 correct 2 incorrect
Chris 5 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Erin $6,000
Donna $5,200
Chris -$600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Country, Please; War Films; Banking “A” “B” “C”s; Word Origins; 2001; A Space Odyssey)
Double Jeopardy! saw a number of incorrect responses, especially on the higher-valued clues, keep the scores down. Chris rebounded well, though, finding the first Daily Double. Erin missed the second. By the end of the round, just $800 separated first from third!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Donna 16 correct 6 incorrect
Chris 13 correct 3 incorrect
Erin 17 correct 4 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 34 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Donna $8,400
Chris $8,000
Erin $7,600
Chris was the only player correct in Final—that makes him the champion! He’ll be back tomorrow.
Tonight’s results:
Erin $7,600 – $2,000 = $5,600 (Who is Robert Louis Steveson?)
Chris $8,000 + $5,000 = $13,000 (Who is Rudyard Kipling?) (1-day total: $13,000)
Donna $8,400 – $6,000 = $2,400 (Who is Verne?)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) STARTS WITH “Z” $1000 (clue #20)
Donna 4800 +1000 (Erin 1800 Chris 200)
2) WAR FILMS $1600 (clue #7)
Chris 1800 +1800 (Donna 6400 Erin 7200)
3) BANKING “A” “B” “C”s $1600 (clue #24, $8000 left on board)
Erin 10400 -2000 (Donna 8800 Chris 8000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 92
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Donna 1 3 3 1 4 5 1 4 5*
Erin 2 4 5 1 4 5 3
Chris 2 2 2 3
DJ! Round:
Donna 3 1 2 1 3
Erin 2 3 3 4 5 4 5 2 5 4*
Chris 1 2 1 4* 5† 1 3 2 4
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Chris 2.46
Erin 3.59
Donna 2.64
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 34 (0.16 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Chris $7,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 3 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Erin $9,600 Coryat, 17 correct, 4 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 3/4 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Donna $8,400 Coryat, 16 correct, 6 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $25,800
Lach Trash: $15,800 (on 13 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,400
Player Statistics:
Donna Matturri, career statistics:
53 correct, 11 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
33.92% in first on buzzer (58/171)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,200
Erin Gold, career statistics:
17 correct, 5 incorrect
3/4 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,600
Chris Ban, career statistics:
14 correct, 3 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,800)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,800
Chris Ban, to win:
2 games: 29.958%
3: 8.975%
4: 2.689%
5: 0.806%
6: 0.241%
Avg. streak: 1.428 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- With all due respect, Chris cost his donation fund at least $2,200, if not $3,000, by not making a more strategic bet for this situation.
- Today’s box score: June 27, 2023 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Donna $8,400 Chris $8,000 Erin $7,600)
Donna: Standard cover bet over Chris is $7,601. Because of the evenly spaced scores, don’t go above this. (Actual bet: $6,000)
Erin: Limit your bet to $6,799, because it’s important to stay ahead of Chris and Donna if they’re incorrect. However, I would also bet that full $6,799, just in case Donna doesn’t cover. (Actual bet: $2,000)
Chris: With the evenly spaced scores, I’d normally say “make the cover bet” of $7,201. However, Donna didn’t cover yesterday. Go all in. (Actual bet: $5,000)
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Guessed correctly thinking what author wrote about such animals. Honestly, though, thinking of snake made me think of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi which took me to the wrong book but correct author.
Some of my earliest childhood memories are of my mother reading The Jungle Book to me as a bedtime story. To this day it remains one of my favorite literary works. So for me this was one of the easiest FJ’s in quite some time.
Our family were readers and my mother read to us as children, but I have no idea why she never exposed us to Rudyard Kipling. The first exposure I had was as excerpts in our “Reading” textbooks in school, then later (but still long ago) seeing the movies. Jungle Book did not even occur to me because I still have no memory of a wolf character in it. I think maybe if the clue had said bear instead of wolf I MIGHT have remembered Jungle Book (which I would have remembered was Rudyard Kipling).
I agree that it was a good (and not TOO easy) FJ clue.
For some reason, the best I could come up with was Jack London. But I would have picked Kipling if it were a multiple choice.
Andy, as for thinking that Donna might not bet to cover today since she didn’t yesterday – being that she’s a librarian and for the second time in three days the final jeopardy is an author, I think if she’s in the lead, she’ll bet to cover
You would think.
Well…
Reading the jungle book helped me to get Rudyard Kipling and watching the Disney movie was worth it because that was my childhood memory.
I thought of Kipling immediately from the animals hint. I’m glad someone got it 🙂
“I don’t know. I’ve never kippled.”
So, what’s the second postgame Thought?
(read: there’s a stray “li” tag in that unnumbered list)
The thought of “Oh, that should be a closing tag” when I read your comment.
Thanks for trying out the san serif font today. It is MUCH easier for this old woman to read. But if others aren’t fond of it, especially in the larger font size, I’ll still keep reading your comments every day.
Hmmm… this old woman thinks it is much more difficult to read. The letters just look too similar. Just looking at the font in my comment is instant relaxation in comparison.
Andy, I like this font, too, but my computer has had MORE trouble loading since you started tinkering with that. I first became aware due to performing a FIND function (in a prior day page) on a name that I KNEW was in the comments and it would say there were none. In scrolling, I finally caught a revolving pale circle as the only thing below the link for “Previous post”. Once that resolves into the actual comments, then the FIND finds (though not immediately).
However, my problems seemed to start when a “never before seen (anywhere)” ad started showing up in the bottom right corner of your site’s window. It is an almost solid black rectangle with a big arrow in the middle and reads “Shop Now” without saying to shop for what. I am NOT going to click on an ad that doesn’t even try to say what it is for, but unlike 95% of pop-ups, it never shows ANY kind of ‘X’ in order to just get rid of it. It also stays in position when I scroll, unlike the other ads (in this site) that do say what they are for. After a few days, I am still not seeing this black box mystery ad anywhere but on your website.
I know some would think that the librarian should have gotten this Final, but I’ve noticed she has struggled on literature clues (and her interview today seems to indicate her profession was more a choice of whimsy than a love of books and reading). Add in that I know that Lee, who was on the show last week, is an English professor from his radio presence, and I’ve come to realize that just because someone is in a literature related field, that doesn’t necessarily mean they will excel in literature categories; that they have preferred areas in literature like the rest of us.
For me, Kipling was my immediate thought because of the year, and recalling Akela the Wolf from Cub Scouts.
I don’t think Kipling is taught much these days; if most people know anything about him, it’s from “Jungle Book” and more likely to be from the Disney movie than the book.
Drat! I missed today’s Final J! However, it was a well-worded Final! clue, indeed. I can see why many people were able to get “Who is Rudyard Kipling?” I thought it might be Charles Darwin, but fretted because “Darwin” was already a previous answer in the same game. I am familiar with Kipling, but have never read “The Jungle Book” nor seen the Disney movie. Now, if “mongoose” had been part the clue, that would have been a different story. I remember studying about “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” in elementary school English class.
When the ‘answer” was revealed, I immediately said Kipling. Had a brief second thought of Burroughs, but discarded it becuase he is 20th century not 19th. My reasoning was I knew that at least two of the animals in the “answer” were featured in the Jungle Book.
Andy; I have seen stories on internet sites alleging that the person Donna dethroned is criticizing Jeopardy for not paying travel, and, lodging coste for contestants. Now I remember some game shows at least USED to do this (including Jeopardy, plugs for Merv’s Beverly Hills Hotel.) But wasn’t the pratice disontinued stopped because of complaints from contestants living in LA about how the winnings of the out of town contestants had been increased by having their travel, and, lodging paid for by the show?
Bill:
You should read Andy’s Weekly Thoughts: June 19–23, 2023, the article which unwittingly started the whole hullaballoo.
Jeopardy! only ever did this for tournament contestants; regular play contestants have always had to pay their own way.
Each show makes its own decisions as to whether or not to cover those expenses.
Andy;
I stand corrected as to Jeopardy’s policy of not paying contestant’s travel and lodging. Apparently according to the (former) contestant co-ordinator you quote on your thoughts from last week, “out of town” tournamnet players DO get help with.
But my thought on why (regular) contestants don’t get help with travel, and, lodging, was correct. I still recall some games did it, specifically the Richard Dawson era Family Feud. I also still believe that the reason the shows that DID do it, dropped it because of a complains similar to the reason given by the (former) Jeopardy! contestant co-ordinator for Jeopardy! NOT doing it. (For regular contestants.)