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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category World History) for Tuesday, November 7, 2023 (Season 40, Game 42):
This African capital renamed an area Mexico Square to honor Mexico’s WWII-era support of its sovereignty during Italian occupation
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Aaron Craig, an attorney originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Jilana Cotter, a senior data analyst from Dade City, Florida
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Emily Sands, a project manager from Chanhassen, Minnesota
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
What we do know: One of Emily Sands, Jilana Cotter, and Aaron Craig are going to the Tournament of Champions. What we don’t know is who of those three players will be going to the tournament. In case you’ve forgotten, today’s scores get added to tomorrow’s to determine the overall winner.
I do think that Emily is the favorite in this final; she’s been the strongest player in all facets of the game so far through the semifinals. However, anything can happen! (As Chris Berman would always say on ESPN, “that’s why they play the games”.)
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Correct response: What is Addis Ababa, Ethiopia?
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As Mexico was one of just five countries to refuse to recognize Italy’s annexation of Ethiopia in the 1930s, Ethiopia expressed its gratitude by naming a square in its capital, Addis Ababa, Mexico Square. Today, the area is a traffic circle; a light rail bridge also bisects the traffic circle. Interestingly, Mexico City reciprocated by naming a square Ethiopia Square.
Any contestant or home viewer familiar with the history of east Africa will probably have an easier time with this one; had I been on stage, I would have finished writing before the music started.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, November 7, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?; Bands In Other Words; Critters; Death; Taxes; Latin Phrases)
The Jeopardy Round saw both Emily and Jilana pick up 12 correct responses; Emily’s 2 incorrect, though, put Jilana, into the lead after 30 clues!
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Jilana 5 correct 0 incorrect
Emily 6 correct 1 incorrect
Aaron 3 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Aaron got to visit an old college friend after taping his first appearance.
Jilana realizes she made a betting error in her semifinal.
Emily enjoys being able to play more Jeopardy.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Jilana 12 correct 0 incorrect
Emily 12 correct 2 incorrect
Aaron 5 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jilana $7,600
Emily $6,800
Aaron $1,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Albert Camus; Dude-Er-Onomy; Mythological Paintings; Government & Politics; You’Re Getting Very Sleepy; Starts With…)
Emily’s big bets on Daily Double proved crucial; an $8,000 correct response from her on DD2 prompted a $9,000 bet from Jilana on DD3. Jilana’s incorrect response put Emily in a commanding position!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Emily 20 correct 2 incorrect
Jilana 24 correct 2 incorrect
Aaron 13 correct 3 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Emily $22,400
Jilana $11,000
Aaron $7,200
Emily’s position got even better in Final, as Jilana misread the clue—and put the country instead! Emily has an “effective lead” of $10,200 over Aaron and $13,700 over Jilana going into tomorrow!
Tonight’s results:
Aaron $7,200 + $2,800 = $10,000 (What is Addis Ababa?)
Jilana $11,000 – $8,000 = $3,000 (What is Ethiopia?)
Emily $22,400 + $8,000 = $30,400 (What is Addis Ababa?)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) DEATH $800 (clue #10)
Emily 1600 +1600 (Jilana 3400 Aaron 800)
2) GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $2000 (clue #10)
Emily 12000 +8000 (Jilana 12400 Aaron 2800)
3) ALBERT CAMUS $2000 (clue #15, $15200 left on board)
Jilana 14000 -9000 (Emily 21200 Aaron 4000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 102
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Emily 2 5 3 4*
Jilana 3 4 2 1
Aaron 5 4
DJ! Round:
Emily 3 4 3 5* 3† 2†
Jilana 3 4 2 1 5*
Aaron 4 4 5 4
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Emily 3.40
Aaron 4.33
Jilana 2.78
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:
Emily $15,600 Coryat, 20 correct, 2 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Aaron $7,200 Coryat, 13 correct, 3 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Jilana $20,000 Coryat, 24 correct, 2 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $42,800
Lach Trash: $3,000 (on 2 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,200
Lead Changes: 4
Times Tied: 2
Player Statistics:
Emily Sands, career statistics:
160 correct, 25 incorrect
6/10 on rebound attempts (on 25 rebound opportunities)
38.73% in first on buzzer (153/395)
12/15 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $38,400)
6/7 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,143
Jilana Cotter, career statistics:
142 correct, 19 incorrect
14/16 on rebound attempts (on 33 rebound opportunities)
32.58% in first on buzzer (130/399)
7/8 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $8,100)
5/7 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,343
Aaron Craig, career statistics:
125 correct, 13 incorrect
8/8 on rebound attempts (on 20 rebound opportunities)
34.80% in first on buzzer (119/342)
2/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$6,000)
3/6 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,467
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Because Day 1 of a final is essentially a Daily Double that all players get to play, wagering suggestions will not be posted.
- Today’s box score: November 7, 2023 Box Score.
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Got this one! I knew that Italy had colonized more than one African country, but Ethiopia was the only one I could remember. I almost slipped up and said the COUNTRY instead of the CAPITAL, but caught myself just in time.
P.S. Yet another of Andy’s educational write-ups. How does he find the time?!
Don’t remember how I knew that Italy, under Mussolini, had occupied Ethiopia, but I did also.
And, paid attention that the answer referred to the capital.
So, an easy get for me.
Hi RedRose, I’m still behind in watching the daytime Jeopardy! episodes, but I hope that you can swing back & read this note. Yes, I got today’s Final!, too. However, I did the exact same thing as you. I blurted out “Ethiopia.” Then I quickly re-read the clue & barely had time to switch up my response to “Addis Ababa.” Whew!
Having no clue, I went with Monrovia since they already had a history of naming places for something associated with North America.
Like MarkO, I had no idea. So I went with proximity to Italy, and said Tunis. Ah, well, you can’t get them all.
and your answer has inspired me to listen to Dizzy Gillespie’s “Night in Tunisia”. Love some good jazz.
I really had no idea, but thinking back [not clearly, though] to war movies that took place in Africa, I thought it might be Tunis.
I never forget the name Addis Ababa, but I keep forgetting that it is in Ethiopia because its name just sounds to me like it would be in Arabia (or maybe Turkey).
I don’t know much about the history of East Africa but I do know a good bit about the pre-war period, especially as it relates to the opposing powers.
I somehow got this cpaital in ethiopia due to the colonization of Italy in that area. Brushing up on european and african history seemed to have helped me with today’s clue. This is almost a perfect game by the finalists.
Game-related comments – I think this proves how important confidence on the wagering clues is. Weirdly enough, I don’t know whether to be more or less confident in Jilana going into tomorrow.
Personal comments – With STARTS WITH… in Double Jeopardy, today marks the fourth game in a row where I ran a category, and I’m feeling very accomplished 🙂
LOL, speaking of misreading, I first read your last note as “where I am a category” 🙃 and was confused — reread your name before I reread your comment!
I am thinking that Jilana is less likely to have MISREAD the clue than to have initiated her thinking as “what country was it likely to have been?”, intending to then put the capital of it, but after juggling possible countries in her mind, by the time she decided which one (probably kind of late), she had forgotten she was only trying to decide on country in order to then say its capital.
I noticed Jilana was already writing her response as the music started and had her stylus down before the camera started panning over Emily.
Well, not confidence about the clue itself, confidence about the wagers!
Emily is very used to, a) making large wagers, and b) having said large wagers backfire in her face. But Jilana isn’t – this was her first Daily Double miss, and her largest bet so far was one $4,000 wager. It’s entirely possible that she got caught up in her own head with the added pressure of having a big wager attached to the clue, and once that happened, her entire mentality started to slip and led to her making a lot more mistakes than she normally would’ve made. Had she answered that DD correctly, she’d have probably been pushing $50,000 at the end of this game.
But if any of the past tournaments I’ve watched have taught me anything, it’s this – it’s not over yet!
The clue has bad syntax. The pronoun “its” has an implied reference (the country, the capital of which …), which is different from the reference of “this”.
In this respect, the clue is not ideal – it could have been solved by saying “its country’s sovereignty” – but that doesn’t fault the clue. It is long standing clue writing convention that “this” or “these” denotes what is the correct response the show wants. Indeed, Andy wrote about this very thing in mid-July.
It stinks for Jilana, especially because of how well she played overall and how she battled back from the miss on the final Daily Double, but the mis-reading of the clue is on her, not the show.
https://thejeopardyfan.com/2023/07/andys-weekly-thoughts-july-10-14-2023.html
Back in the 1960’s, one of my college roommates who was also a teammate on the soccer club was from Addis Ababa. We had occasion to speak about the occupation of Ethiopia by Italy, so this one was a given for me.
It never occurred to me until Andy mentioned it, but FJ on Day 1 of a two-day final really is essentially a Daily Double that everyone gets to play. That helps me to understand the wagering a bit better. Thanks for that insight, Ancy.
I noticed Jilana was already writing her response as the music started and had her stylus down before the camera started panning over Emily.
With a bit of world history knowledge as well as a bit of geography knowledge, I easily managed to get the answer for Final Jeopardy mainly because the first person I thought of while reading the clue was Mussolini, who was associated with the country I was thinking about to which I remembered the country capital.
Hello,
Like a few others, I almost went with Tunis, because of where it sits in relation to Italy. I, like Jilana, went with the country of Tunisia. For the life of me, until I read Tunis being the capital here on this site, I couldn’t remember it. Doh! But I was also thinking country, mistakenly. I feel pretty bad for Jilana on that miss. Hopefully tomorrow, it can become a game. Though I have a hunch we’ll be seeing a runaway by Emily. But yes Andy, that’s why they play the games and it’s a phrase I use all the time and I guess I better start giving Chris Berman the credit.