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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Chemical Element Names) for Tuesday, August 22, 2023 (Season 39, Game 42):
The 3 elements whose names begin with 2 vowels are iodine & these 2, one synthetic & one natural
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Mattea Roach, a writer & podcaster from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Matt Amodio, a postdoctoral researcher from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, and Mattea Roach—all three players given byes into the semifinals—are playing a warmup exhibition match. The reasons for this are twofold: firstly, this gives these three players the same opportunity to get used to the timing of the signaling device again; secondly, it provides for a non-elimination match when a significant number of locations will be preempting the show for election coverage.
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Correct response: What are Einsteinium & Europium?
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Europium is the natural element, albeit found very rarely (about 2ppm in the earth’s crust); it is found in trace amounts in many minerals, but its phosphorescence makes it valuable for some specialized applications—especially as one of the elements that help produce red color in cathode ray tube monitors. Einsteinium is the synthetic, generally produced by heavy neutron irradiation of plutonium, but can also be present in nuclear explosion debris.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Election Day; Hits Of 2002; Lesser-Known Geography; You Sit On It; Number, Please; Remembering Alex Trebek)
In an opening segment that saw lots of guessing—after all, no prize money is at stake—it was Mattea who got off to the best start. The guessing definitely kept the scores down, though, as both Triple Stumpers in the round were negged by all three players. Amy led after the Jeopardy! round.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Mattea 6 correct 1 incorrect
Amy 5 correct 2 incorrect
Matt 3 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Mattea was seated with Margaret Atwood at a magazine gala dinner.
Matt got to throw out first pitches at minor league and major league baseball games.
Amy got to visit the White House.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Amy 10 correct 3 incorrect
Matt 11 correct 4 incorrect
Mattea 7 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Amy $3,800
Matt $3,400
Mattea $2,800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Hope You Read Middlemarch; We’ll Always Have The Treaty Of Paris; Movie Quotes; Potpourri; Rhymes With A Snow White Dwarf; Wrong But Excellent)
I’m actually a little bit worried about this performance on Matt’s confidence going into the semifinals; he was definitely guessing a bunch, with six incorrect in the round! Meanwhile, Mattea rolled along, running Potpourri en route to a runaway going into Final!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Mattea 18 correct 3 incorrect
Amy 15 correct 5 incorrect
Matt 18 correct 10 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 12 (4 today).
Scores going into Final:
Mattea $17,600
Amy $7,400
Matt $3,600
Both Matt and Amy got half, but Mattea got both halves to take victory in this exhibition match!
Tonight’s results:
Matt $3,600 – $0 = $3,600 (What einsteinium, eulerium?)
Amy $7,400 – $6,496 = $904 (What are Europium and)
Mattea $17,600 + $0 = $17,600 (What are Europium + Einsteinium) (1-day total: $17,600)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) ELECTION DAY $400 (clue #23)
Matt 1200 +1200 (Amy 3000 Mattea 2800)
2) MOVIE QUOTES $1600 (clue #2)
Mattea 2800 +2800 (Amy 1800 Matt 1400)
3) WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE THE TREATY OF PARIS $2000 (clue #5, $27600 left on board)
Matt 2600 +2600 (Amy 1800 Mattea 7200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 300
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Amy 1 2 3 5 4 3 3 3 2
Matt 5 5 5 4 5 4 2*
Mattea 5 4 3 4 3 4 2
DJ! Round:
Amy
Matt 5*
Mattea 5 4* 4 3
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Mattea 3.73
Matt 4.38
Amy 2.89
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE THE TREATY OF PARIS $400 MOVIE QUOTES $400 RHYMES WITH A SNOW WHITE DWARF $400 WRONG BUT EXCELLENT $400
Total Left On Board: $1,600
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 12 (0.29 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Mattea $16,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 3 incorrect, 30.19% in first on buzzer (16/53), 2/4 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
Matt $2,200 Coryat, 18 correct, 10 incorrect, 47.17% in first on buzzer (25/53), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Amy $7,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 5 incorrect, 22.64% in first on buzzer (12/53), 3/8 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $26,000
Lach Trash: $6,600 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $19,800
Player Statistics:
Amy Schneider, career statistics:
1352 correct, 83 incorrect
63/75 on rebound attempts (on 163 rebound opportunities)
52.10% in first on buzzer (1242/2384)
66/76 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $210,200)
28/42 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,481
Matt Amodio, career statistics:
1323 correct, 133 incorrect
56/65 on rebound attempts (on 126 rebound opportunities)
55.79% in first on buzzer (1262/2262)
78/88 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $308,000)
29/40 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $27,270
Mattea Roach, career statistics:
680 correct, 66 incorrect
35/43 on rebound attempts (on 103 rebound opportunities)
45.43% in first on buzzer (641/1411)
30/37 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $60,000)
18/25 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,120
Remaining Players’ Tournament of Champions Chances (after 100,000 Simulations)
Amy Schneider: 19.211%
Maureen O’Neil: 0.743%
Tyler Rhode: 4.117%
Matt Amodio: 23.091%
John Focht: 9.172%
Sam Buttrey: 7.479%
Mattea Roach: 9.136%
Eric Ahasic: 13.992%
Andrew He: 13.059%
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I thought today’s game—especially the REMEMBERING ALEX TREBEK category, was a fitting tribute towards Alex on the second anniversary of his passing.
- I’m interested in seeing what this match does for Matt’s, Amy’s, and Mattea’s respective confidence in the semifinals.
- Today’s box score: August 22, 2023 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Mattea $17,600 Amy $7,400 Matt $3,600)
Amy: Bet between $0 and $199 and enjoy second place. (Actual bet: $6,496)
Matt: Bet whatever you like. (Actual bet: $0)
Mattea: Bet between $0 and $1,799 and enjoy victory! (Actual bet: $0)
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This recap is tagged “Season 39”, vice “Encore Presentations.”
I’m honestly a bit shocked that the show is broadcasting this as part of the rerun schedule, for a few reasons. First off, it’s the only game ever broadcast with a predetermined zero stakes attached to it. Second, since there’s fifteen other games in the tournament, I’d expect only those to be rerun so as to completely fill out the third week and not spill over into the last week. Third, the game is already on YouTube in its entirety.
That being said… I think a lot of people had expectations far too high for this game. It was exactly what it should’ve been – fun! While I do think this eventually hurt Matt’s confidence going into his semifinal, it was still one of my favorite games that I’ve ever watched. Everyone was having a great time, in their element, and of course, Ken cursing after accidentally revealing the answer to NUMBER, PLEASE $200 is an all-time great moment.
It’s just unfortunate that a lot of people weren’t as open to the game as most of the community was. I’m just hoping they got their wish of a really good game with the ninth Masters game. (Which, by the way, I think has the highest combined Coryat of any Masters game where none of the contestants are named James Holzhauer.)
Do you think that the fact they didn’t specify “English” anywhere in the clue could have opened this up to alternate correct responses?
My brain fixated on Gold, briefly, because the symbol has two vowels and it is very obviously naturally occurring. I knew the symbol comes from the Latin “Aurum”, but the element is also spelled “Auro” in Portuguese, and “Aur” in Romanian. Any of those spellings plus Einsteinium would technically meet the criteria established by the clue, unless you consider the inclusion of “The 3” at the start to mean “The only 3″ and thus to imply the missing “English”.
This was obviously a no stakes game (and maybe that was why they put the clue here), but I’m curious as to how they would have handled it if Matt had written “Aurum” as his Hail Mary guess instead of “Eulerium”.
Buzzing in whether you knew the answer or not was a good idea for a game that was largely for buzzer practice. Matt was by far the fastest even if he did get the most wrong. (and 10 incorrect doesn’t even seem all that bad considering half of them were on triple stumpers)
What was the comment pertaining to NE AZ, “What is the Hopi?”
I’m Hopi.
The clue: An Uto-Aztecan speaking people of northeastern Arizona
It was in the category RHYMES WITH A SNOW WHITE DWARF, because “Hopi” and dwarf Dopey rhyme.