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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Publications) for Tuesday, September 26, 2023 (Season 40, Game 12):
A collection of achievements bearing this name was established in the early 1950s to help resolve pub disputes
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Ollie Savage, a high school English & film studies teacher from Burbank, California
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Michalle Gould, a librarian from Laguna Beach, California
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David Kaye, a high school English teacher from Scottsdale, Arizona
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
On yesterday’s Jeopardy! (assuming you actually got to see it, thanks to Monday Night Football), Jilana Cotter punched her ticket into Thursday and Friday’s final. Tonight sees Michalle Gould, Ollie Savage, and David Kaye return for a second chance on the Alex Trebek Stage; one of them will get to join Jilana in the final.
Also in Jeopardy!-land this week, the season premiere of Celebrity Jeopardy is tomorrow night on ABC. One thing I’m interested in, that was announced on Inside Jeopardy yesterday: the show will be testing a new onscreen clue presentation for Celebrity Jeopardy, presumably one that will better remind the home viewer of both the category and dollar amount being played, but exact details were not announced. I’m looking forward to tomorrow!
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Correct response: What is Guinness World Records?
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Sir Hugh Beaver, then-head of brewer Guinness, had just returned from a hunting trip, where he got into a heated discussion about whether the golden plover or the red grouse is the fastest game bird in Europe. Unable to definitively answer the question, he realized that some reference work should be produced to settle such debates. By 1954, Beaver was introduced to Norris and Ross McWhirter (Norris was, coincidentally, the timekeeper from Roger Bannister’s May 1954 sub-four-minute mile at Oxford University), who began producing a book of records.
Over time, the publication has been known as The Guinness Book of Records, The Guinness Book of World Records, and its current name, Guinness World Records. I expect that any of those names will be accepted.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, September 26, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Caves; About Face Tattoo; Who “Ar” They?; The Home Spa; Next Stop, Venus; Shattering Allusions)
Ollie and Michalle got off to the best start, but Michalle led after 30 thanks to an incorrect Daily Double from Ollie.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Ollie 6 correct 0 incorrect
Michalle 5 correct 0 incorrect
David 3 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Ollie prepared by remembering “you can only score if you play with the handbrake off”.
Michalle was excited to come back because someone else got to do her hair & makeup.
David got to discuss Jeopardy! with his uncle.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Michalle 8 correct 1 incorrect
Ollie 12 correct 3 incorrect
David 5 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Michalle $4,400
Ollie $2,800
David $2,400
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: American Islands; In The Corporate Arena; You Could Put An Eye Out; Medicine & History; Translate The Britishism; Sailing The 3 Cs)
Ollie had the best Double Jeopardy round thanks to 11 correct responses; David had a chance to get himself back into the game, but had a pair of conservative Daily Double bets. Ollie led going into Final.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Ollie 23 correct 4 incorrect
Michalle 16 correct 1 incorrect
David 10 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Ollie $15,600
Michalle $13,200
David $7,000
Michalle and David were the only players correct in Final—Michalle is now a finalist!
Tonight’s results:
David $7,000 + $5,802 = $12,802 (What is the Guinness Book of World Records?)
Michalle $13,200 + $13,000 = $26,200 (What is the Guiness Book of World Records) (Finalist)
Ollie $15,600 – $12,000 = $3,600 (What is the College Bowl)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) NEXT STOP, VENUS $600 (clue #17)
Ollie 3600 -2000 (David 800 Michalle 3200)
2) YOU COULD PUT AN EYE OUT $800 (clue #24)
David 6000 -1000 (Michalle 8800 Ollie 15600)
3) AMERICAN ISLANDS $1200 (clue #25, $5200 left on board)
David 5000 +2000 (Michalle 8800 Ollie 15600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -32
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
David 3 4 5 4 3
Michalle 2 1 1 2 1
Ollie 2 1 5 3 4 5 3*
DJ! Round:
David 3 2 3 3 2* 3*
Michalle 1 4 1 1
Ollie 4 5 2 1 5 4 5 2 3 4 5 3 4 5 2
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Michalle 1.56
David 3.18
Ollie 3.50
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 0 (0.00 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Michalle $13,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 1 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
David $7,200 Coryat, 10 correct, 2 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Ollie $17,600 Coryat, 23 correct, 4 incorrect, 45.61% in first on buzzer (26/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: $38,000
Lach Trash: $10,400 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,600
Player Statistics:
David Kaye, career statistics:
30 correct, 5 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
26.61% in first on buzzer (29/109)
2/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,400
Michalle Gould, career statistics:
35 correct, 4 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
28.32% in first on buzzer (32/113)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,600
Ollie Savage, career statistics:
45 correct, 8 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
40.35% in first on buzzer (46/114)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,100
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I’m disappointed that Ken or the show at least didn’t give the current name of the book—namely, Guinness World Records.
- Michalle is going to struggle in the final with an “average row of clue selection” stat under 2.
- Today’s box score: September 26, 2023 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Ollie $15,600 Michalle $13,200 David $7,000)
David: You can’t both defend against a small bet from Michalle and win a Triple Stumper if Ollie makes a cover bet. If you think Michalle will bet big, then bet $2,200 or less. If you think she will bet small, then bet at least $5,401. (Actual bet: $5,802)
Michalle: Standard cover bet over David is $801. If you’re really worried about Ollie making a small bet, a bet between $4,801 and $6,199 is the best defense against that.(Actual bet: $13,000)
Ollie: Standard cover bet over Michalle is $10,801. (Actual bet: $12,000)
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I’m glad Andy said that any of the work’s names would be accepted, because my guess was “What is ‘The Guinness Book of World Records’?” So, two for two this week. (Trivia tidbit: Norris and Ross McWhirter were identical twins.) On a more frustrated note: Monday Night Football pre-empted 7:00 pm Jeopardy! here in the New York area. I saw that Jeopardy! would play at 2:05 am Tuesday, and I just happened to be awake at that hour, so I tuned in. It was a re-run! From now on I’m catching my sleep; although, simply out of curiosity, when I am normally awake, I’ll still look up the Monday morning Jeopardy! Final to challenge myself to guess the answer. (I noticed this morning that, including myself, only three people posted for yesterday’s clue. It seems I’m not the only one disappointed by the popularity of brawn over brains.)
I was happy to guess today’s correctly after yesterday’s dismal guess of Masters and Johnson.
Hi RedRose, Thank you so much for your most-recent comment to me a few days ago. I did go back & read it. Cheers! Judith P.
I was able to get this one because I usually check the Guinness book of records for sports stats and population in the world. Happy to see michalle in the finals as well. I swear I do not need Monday night football ruining our jeopardy and wheel night
Frustrating face palm for me on this one; it came to me in the 30th second of the Think! music, too late to get it down in place of “Sports Illustrated” which I’d written on the score sheet.
We do have the first group of Champions Wildcard contestants. The graphics confirm much of what has been noted by those attending tapings — namely, four cohorts of twenty-seven, each playing a High School Reunion Tournament format (9 quarterfinals, 3 semifinals, a two-game final, no traditional “wild cards”.)
The groups are being assigned suits from a traditional deck of playing cards; this first one is “spades.” Notably, it contains no Second Chance winners; presumably, one of each of them will be in groups 2, 3, and 4.
https://www.jeopardy.com/track/2023/champions-wildcard-s37-38
This final J! was easy for me. I was sure all would get this one… but, alas.
Yeah, I went with the GBoWR myself and am happy to see there was no drama involved with that choice.
Andy, I think you have a typo in your pregame thoughts. Where you said “Thursday and Final’s final”, I assume you meant to type “Thursday and Friday’s final”.
Should be fixed. Thank you!
Andy, do you have any idea when Lucas Partridge will come back to play during Season 40?
The $200 Venus clue had a correct response of “Russia.” Does the show consider Russia and the USSR synonymous?
One answer was wrong. Queue is not synonymous with line, as in lines of poetry. Queue specifically is a line of people or vehicles.
Dan:
You took the clue too literally. You’ll note that other clues in the category played on different usages of the word “yard” and “garbage”.
Well, garbage IS rubbish, but yard (the $2000 clue) was a measurement and a physical area, so with ‘queue’ being the $1,600 clue, I guess being less literal was what was intended to try to make them more difficult.
The Monday night “Jeopardy” episode that was pre-empted by Monday night football, did
air on WABC-TV Channel 7 nyc at 3:08 A.M. Tuesday morning. At 2:05 A.M. when the pre-empted episode was supposed to air per Spectrum Cable and the WABC website schedules,
they aired an episode of what my cable sked always lists as “Daytime Jeopardy”…these are reruns of “Jeopardy” that go back several months. They air Tuesday through Saturday mornings at 2:05 A.M. year round. The episode that aired Tuesday morning was in that proper sequence of episodes. This “Daytime Jeopardy” rerun was followed by the usual 2:38 A.M. rerun of the previous night’s “ABC World News Tonight”. Then the
pre-empted “Jeopardy” got on at 3:08 A.M. followed by the pre-empted “Wheel of
Fortune” at 3:38 A.M. The latter two took the place of the “Tamron Hall” rerun which
airs weeknights at 3:08 A.M….give or take a few minutes. What WABC TV should have done was to air the new episodes of “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune” on their sub channel which is Channel 1240 on Spectrum cable. They’ve done that before. Also they should have let people
know at what time the pre-empted “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune” would air. At
7 P.M. they announced that “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune” would not be seen at their regular times due to football…and that both would air in the late night hours….but they didn’t give a time….not even an approximate one….I realize they couldn’t give an exact time as the football game can run quite late. I’ve become a true night owl….and am usually up til 4 A.M. or so….so staying up for the pre-empted “Jeopardy” and “Wheel of Fortune” was no real inconvenience. For those who did miss Monday’s new episode…check out the j archive website which along with Andy’s excellent commentaries on this website, will completely fill you in on the “Second Chance” action.
I wonder if Ken Jennings has an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for his consecutive win streak.
To ME, using (the) Guiness (Book) of World Records for a Final Jeopardy was TOO EASY.
I had the most common correct reponse as soon as the THINK! theme started playing. I BELIEVE that a Final Jeopardy should make you think, and, reason for a moment. Again, those are MY thoughts. Everyone is free to agree, or, disagree with them.
It has been said before (though not worded exactly this way) that having a smattering of VERY easy and VERY difficult FJ clues is intentional to make it an additional bit more difficult to decide on one’s wager.
Final Jeopardy clues are easy … when you know the answer. What may be easy for you may be difficult for someone else.