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Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian readers! Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Women Authors) for Monday, October 9, 2023 (Season 40, Game 21):
In “A Room of One’s Own”, the “four famous names” are Austen, 2 Brontës & this author who died closest to Virginia Woolf’s own time
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Lucy Ricketts, a book designer & freelance illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia |
Camron Conners, a high school social studies teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California |
Phil Hoffman, an analyst originally from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey |
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Today begins week #2 of Champions Wildcard; today’s returning players are Phil Hoffman, Camron Conners, and Lucy Ricketts. Phil was a 2-day champion from February 2021, Camron was best known for being the champion that Mattea Roach defeated, and Lucy was an alternate for the 2022 Tournament of Champions, having won three games.
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Correct response: Who is George Eliot?
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George Eliot was a famed 19th-century English author of such works as Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Middlemarch. Woolf once described Middlemarch as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”. While Woolf does examine the literary careers of more than just the “four famous names” mentioned in the clue, George Eliot was the most recent author examined.
I think Jeopardy! will once again take heat here from some corners of the Internet for its using the category name “Women Authors”; I would posit that this Final would play nearly identically with a category title of “Virginia Woolf” and changing “this author” to “this woman” in the clue.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, October 9, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: A Brief History Of Thyme; Thomas Aquinas, Advice Columnist; 3rd Graders Know This Stuff; Travel Texas; Body Shots; The Heavyweight Champion Of The World)
Lucy was in control early, and picking up $3,000 on the Daily Double before getting to five figures after 30 clues!
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Lucy 7 correct 1 incorrect
Camron 3 correct 2 incorrect
Phil 1 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Lucy got The Re-Call while shopping on her lunch break.
Camron experienced a myriad of emotions around the time of his first Call.
Phil finished second-to-last at online bar trivia during his original run.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Lucy 14 correct 1 incorrect
Camron 8 correct 2 incorrect
Phil 3 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Lucy $10,600
Camron $2,400
Phil $400
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: A Brief History Of Time; I’m Still Standin’; Candle In The Wind; Circle Of Life; I’d Like To Solve The Puzzle; Elton John Songs)
Phil had the best time of finding the Daily Doubles in this one; he got the first one, but losing $5,000 on the second put Lucy in a good position. A rebounded $2,000 clue for Lucy after Phil and Camron missed was enough to make sure Lucy had a runaway going into Final!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Lucy 20 correct 1 incorrect
Camron 15 correct 5 incorrect
Phil 11 correct 4 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Lucy $16,200
Camron $6,800
Phil $990
Lucy was the only correct player in Final—she’s a semifinalist!
Tonight’s results:
Phil $990 – $801 = $189 (Who is ?)
Camron $6,800 – $6,800 = $0 (Who is -love you guys, I had a blast! Godspeed)
Lucy $16,200 + $500 = $16,700 (Who G Eliot?) (Semi-Finalist)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) TRAVEL TEXAS $1000 (clue #15)
Lucy 3800 +3000 (Phil -400 Camron 0)
2) A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1200 (clue #4)
Phil 2000 +1990 (Camron 2400 Lucy 11800)
3) CANDLE IN THE WIND $1600 (clue #20, $8400 left on board)
Phil 7190 -5000 (Camron 9600 Lucy 12600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 109
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Phil 2 4
Camron 3 4 5 3
Lucy 3 2 3 5 2 4 2 4 5*
DJ! Round:
Phil 3 5 3* 4† 5† 4 4 5 3 4*
Camron 3 2 3 4 5 1 2† 3
Lucy 4 2
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Lucy 3.27
Phil 3.83
Camron 3.17
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:
Lucy $14,200 Coryat, 20 correct, 1 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Phil $5,200 Coryat, 11 correct, 4 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Camron $6,800 Coryat, 15 correct, 5 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $26,200
Lach Trash: $15,200 (on 13 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,600
Lead Changes: 1
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Phil Hoffman, career statistics:
58 correct, 17 incorrect
5/6 on rebound attempts (on 19 rebound opportunities)
26.11% in first on buzzer (59/226)
3/6 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,510)
2/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,650
Camron Conners, career statistics:
47 correct, 15 incorrect
4/7 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
29.17% in first on buzzer (49/168)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $6,200)
0/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,867
Lucy Ricketts, career statistics:
115 correct, 14 incorrect
9/11 on rebound attempts (on 25 rebound opportunities)
37.37% in first on buzzer (105/281)
7/8 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $22,000)
2/5 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,080
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I’m sure the contestant coordinators & producers were pulling their hair out at Phil & Camron both routinely shortening category names, against the wishes of the show.
- Today’s box score: October 9, 2023 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Lucy $16,200 Camron $6,800 Phil $990)
Phil: Bet whatever you like. (Actual bet: $801)
Camron: Limit your bet to $4,819. (Actual bet: $6,800)
Lucy: Limit your bet to $2,599. (Actual bet: $500)
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Having recently thought about Chopin, the answer that came to mind was George Sand. But she was French, and not of the specified time period. So, starting off the week with a blank.
Hi RedRose, I did reply to your most-recent comment to me. My reply is listed in the Comments section on Friday, October 6th, if you care to go back & take a look-see. Judith P.
tsk… Missed it. Another gap in my knowledge of literature, although at least I know who Eliot is (but have only read Silas Marner).
When I think Eliot (without first name or initial), I think T.S.
Maybe part of the reason they put ‘Women’ in the category name, not to point to George Eliot, just to allow for only putting a last name.
I am EXACTLY the same as you. (I had heard of all the other books mentioned for George Eliot, but did not know who wrote those.)
One little bonus came from the paperbound edition of SM that I have – a curious short story titled The Lifted Veil, Eliot’s stab at science fiction (maybe… The narrator should not necessarily be believed) with a helping of gothic horror. I wasn’t put off by the mood differences between the two, and recommend the story to fans of that gothic sub-genre.
Thanks, I just now bought ‘The Lifted Veil’ (combined with another called ‘Brother Jacob’) as a single 99-cent e-book.
I thought Jeopardy encouraged contestants to shorten category titles to speed up the show and enable all questions to be answered.
As a trade-off to ensure that home viewers know the full titles of categories in play, the show has done away with that encouragement for the early part of this season, and has strongly encouraged the opposite—reading the full category title.
I get this (and the thing about no good way found to show the category to the home viewers), but until they make a rule change that penalizes a contestant for shortening a category, if I was a contestant I would do it, too (unless in the rare circumstance when some categories have similar names).
Of course they could “penalize” the contestant by having Ken repeat the whole category name before revealing the chosen clue (which would then take up MORE time), but that would penalize all three for what one did.
Why the show requested contestants call for categories by their full name, potentially eating up a lot of time (and possibly causing unplayed clues), instead of just putting the category name on the screen while the clue is being played, is beyond me.
Sarah specifically said on “Inside Jeopardy!” today that they couldn’t find a solution they were happy with to do that.
I find it odd that the show “couldn’t find a solution they were happy with” because I seem to recall that they do it with “Celebrity Jeopardy.” They show the board with the clue and the category highlighted on “Celebrity Jeopardy!” and that seems to work well. So, why can’t they do the same on “Jeopardy!”?
The difference with Celebrity Jeopardy is that they have a lot more broadcast time to play around with than on the regular syndicated games.
Did Lucy’s semi-profile (after winning) picture make anyone else think of Kate Middleton?
Hi Lisa, Watching Lucy stand at a weird angle throughout the entire game really bothered me. I only saw her face from a side profile for almost the whole broadcast. I kept wishing that she would stand facing forward & show us her pretty face. I’m glad that most contestants do actually face forward at their podiums.
Maybe three quarter profile is her “best side”, but that doesn’t seem the case to me, so perhaps there is something about her vision or hearing (or even possibly control of the buzzer) that makes that the most effective stance for her.
It didn’t before but now that you mentioned it, yes.
Just my preference as a viewer, but I’d rather deal with abbreviations than have the flow interrupted by repeatedly hearing the same long category names. And anything that reduces the likelihood of unplayed clues is a good thing.
I’m with you on that.
The use of “women” as an adjective is going to rub me the wrong way until Jeopardy starts having categories like “men authors.”
My knowledge of women authors is weak. I recognized the name of other three in the room, but am near 100% sure that I know nothing of George Elliot, or, if I have read one of her works, was unaware that George Elliot is a woman.
Using abbreviaed names for categories, it may be that the producers want the full cayegory names used, but unless they’re penalized for using abbreviated names, I’m sure that players will continue to shorten category names.
In high school I learned of George Eliot and that she was a woman when we were all assigned to read ‘Silas Marner’. My high school was NOT noted for their sophistication, so my guess is that either you also learned that but as a male was less likely to be interested enough to remember it this long OR you were assigned to read more “important” books than that. Also, back then you could have had her mixed up with George Sand (also a woman writer, 15 years older) and the vagueness of your knowledge of the two made them easier to forget.