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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Rivers) for Friday, January 12, 2024 (Season 40, Game 90):
A European capital got its name as a consequence of flooding on this river
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Rotimi Kukoyi, a health policy & management student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from Hoover, Alabama
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Long Nguyen, a retired engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Roy Camara, a grocery specialist from Crawfordsville, Florida
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Our latest two-game total point final is between our three semifinal winners, Rotimi Kukoyi, Roy Camara, and Long Nguyen. Of our three players, Roy seemed to have immediately figured out the timing on the signaling device and came back from an early Daily Double miss to nearly take a runaway game in the semifinal! Interestingly, Rotimi (at 77%) had an even better time on the signaling device than Roy (at 70%) did! Long, however, was in just 47% of the time. In terms of semifinal attempts, though, Long leads that battle with 47, Roy 43, and Rotimi 26. I get the sense that this is going to be a very interesting final!
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Correct response: What is the Amstel?
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As a result of massive North Sea flooding in the northern Netherlands in 1170 (the All Saints’ Flood), the general geography of the northern area of the country changed. The Amstel River basically got an open connection to the sea nearly overnight, and habitation in the area began. A dam on the river was constructed in the 1260s and 1270s, leading to the name Amsterdam (“dam on the river Amstel”) being given as a name to the settlement located there.
This is one of those “Oh, but of course!” Final Jeopardy clues where you’ll realize how you’re supposed to get to the answer once you do. It might be a challenge to get there within 30 seconds; we’ll see if anybody does!
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, January 12, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: An “A” In Science; Double Talk Geography; A Fashionable Category; Television; Anagrams; UFOs)
Long struggled a bit with three incorrect responses, while Roy picked up 8 correct and the first Daily Double! In the second half of the round, Long pulled himself back to $0, while three incorrect responses from Roy kept his score at around the same level.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Roy 8 correct 1 incorrect
Rotimi 3 correct 0 incorrect
Long 1 correct 3 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Rotimi was named UNC’s Bachelor in 2023.
Long is reminded of “The Godfather, Part 3”.
Roy did lots of practice games with David Maybury and others.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Roy 11 correct 4 incorrect
Rotimi 6 correct 0 incorrect
Long 7 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Roy $5,400
Rotimi $3,400
Long $0
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Historic American Women; Book Titles; Flags; Podcasts; A Seasoned Film; We Have Oxy, Give Us The Moron)
Roy was cruising—and then he got a five-figure Daily Double incorrect. This brought Long into the lead! Long then strengthened his lead with a True Daily Double himself! This gave Long a big lead going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Long 17 correct 5 incorrect
Rotimi 9 correct 1 incorrect
Roy 20 correct 7 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Long $18,400
Rotimi $4,600
Roy $1,600
All three players bet the farm in this Final—and only Long was correct. His chances in this one 100% paid off and he has a commanding lead going into Monday! Long, more than anyone, knows that absolutely anything can happen, though, on Monday! Long has an “effective lead” of $18,400 on both Roy and Rotimi (as anything earned Monday in the main game can be doubled in Final Jeopardy).
Tonight’s results:
Roy $1,600 – $1,600 = $0 (What is the Seine?)
Rotimi $4,600 – $4,600 = $0 (What is the Volga?)
Long $18,400 + $18,400 = $36,800 (What is the Amstel River?)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) AN “A” IN SCIENCE $1000 (clue #3)
Roy 1400 +1400 (Long 0 Rotimi 0)
2) HISTORIC AMERICAN WOMEN $800 (clue #13)
Roy 10600 -10600 (Long 7200 Rotimi 3400)
3) BOOK TITLES $800 (clue #22, $4000 left on board)
Long 9200 +9200 (Roy 800 Rotimi 3400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 100
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Roy 4 3 5*
Long
Rotimi
DJ! Round:
Roy 4 3 3 3 2* 5 5 2 4 2
Long 4 4 5 5 4 5 3 4 3 3 2*
Rotimi 5
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Long 3.82
Rotimi 5.00
Roy 3.46
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:
Long $10,000 Coryat, 17 correct, 5 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Rotimi $4,600 Coryat, 9 correct, 1 incorrect, 12.28% in first on buzzer (7/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
Roy $11,800 Coryat, 20 correct, 7 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $26,400
Lach Trash: $16,400 (on 13 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,200
Lead Changes: 1
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Roy Camara, career statistics:
69 correct, 17 incorrect
3/4 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
42.11% in first on buzzer (72/171)
5/7 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $17,000)
1/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,600
Long Nguyen, career statistics:
55 correct, 11 incorrect
4/6 on rebound attempts (on 12 rebound opportunities)
31.58% in first on buzzer (54/171)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,600)
3/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,267
Rotimi Kukoyi, career statistics:
37 correct, 11 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 13 rebound opportunities)
23.39% in first on buzzer (40/171)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000)
1/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,467
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Because it’s Day 1 of a 2-day final, wagering suggestions will not be posted.
- Today’s box score: January 12, 2024 Box Score.
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I started with a quick tour of the capitals of my ancestral Central Europe, but quickly got to the Low Countries and then Amsterdam stood there, waving eagerly in my direction, and it took less than a second to remember it’s on the Amstel. Being a geographer by education is very useful for quick recall of cities. 🙂
Thinking of flooding cities, I thought of Venice, which is of course not a capital. I should have then switched to another ‘canal’ city. But I did not. Ran out of time.
Oops, didn’t pay attention to the question, answered Amsterdam. I recall Long was very good at capitols yesterday. Good come from behind effort.
I had wondered if any of the players would do that, but it seems to happen more often when the clue is longer, giving more words and phrases to consider.
When I think of the flooding cities like amsterdam it got me to Amstel. I have been a huge geography fanatic all my life.
There’s currently no closing “em” tag after Long’s Final Jeopardy response, causing the remainder of the post and all comments to be rendered in italics.
There was something odd in yesterday’s UK game write-up that I assumed to be an HTML error or some such, but it didn’t seem to have an effect, so I didn’t mention it, but Andy might want to look at that, too.
It looks like this below (and can be found on the page with a search for the less-than symbol) . . .
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Rotimi pronounced an answer Lux et Veritas correctly and Ken said it was incorrect.
“Et” is not pronounced “Eh”/”Ay” in Latin; it is not French.
The show was correct in its judgement.
How would you pronounce et tu brute. Which is a Latin phrase
ɛt ‘tuː ˈbruːtɛ.
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Wow! For a game with only 1 lead change (credit to Andy, because I hadn’t realized that), this was one of the most topsy turvy games I have ever seen.
As Rowan Ward would say, Mr. Long is like Silky Sullivan! Closes from far back to win.
As for FJ, I was up there with Copenhagen, but not sure if that’s a name of a river or not.
Monday should be a fait accompli, but the way tonight’s game played out, I’m not going bet on it. It will be fun though.
Have a great weekend everyone! 🙂
Wrote down “Danube” immediately figuring I’d at least give myself four chances at the correct capital in the worst case, but I did manage to reason out “Amstel” in time.
Andy’s comment in the “more information” section, can be said to be true for “almost” all Final Jeopardy answers that one can’t come up with the correct response.
It certainly was for me. 1) I know of Amstel only as a brand of beer. 2) knowing of the Netherlands vast ystem of dykes, maybe should have lead me to Amsterdam, but it didn’t.
Andy; include these as possible subjects for the mailbag, or, whatever. Has there ever been a game, “post season,” or, otherwise when all three players went “all in” on a Final Jeopardy? And, if Long had the incorrect response as Rotimi, and, Roy did, would Monday’s game start with all 3 players being at zero dollars, and, Roy leading off?
https://thejeopardyfan.com/statistics/games-with-no-winner
According to Andy’s commentary from a Teen Tournament Semifinal from 2013, it appears the rules have changed for tournaments. If all players didn’t have the correct response, and, have wagered all their game earnings, a tie breaker is played to determine a winner. Follwing this logic, I’d expect if something like this happened in the first game of a two day total earnings final, the winner of the tie breaker would recieve $2000, the highest dollar amount in Double Jeopardy.
In non-tournament games, three new players start the next game. (Unless that has changed.)
Don’t be absurd here.
What would happen here is the obvious thing: If all three players finished Day 1 of a Final with $0, there would be no tiebreaker, and all three players would start Day 2 with $0.
Andy;
What you have said would happen in a 2 day final,
if all 3 players were wrong in Final Jeopardy and wagered their entire scores, is at least in part one the scenarios I asked about in my Friday post.
But then Eric replied directing me to the no winners Stat page, where I found your comments from the 2013 Teen Tournament Semifinal. I took that, and, presumed.
But, I’m a big enough man that, when someone comes around with better knowledge on something than me, to go with that person’s knowledge.
I almost posted a comment yesterday that I only know Amstel as a brand of beer despite that I don’t even drink beer. [I have only ever drunk a half a beer — at Gilly’s (of Urban Cowboy fame) in Pasedena, TX — about 1982 when visiting relatives, but it would not have been an Amstel.]
Maybe many Final Jeopardy clues elicit “Oh, but of course!” if one did not get it correct (and large numbers of ones we get correct were sort of a “but of course!” when we made our response), but there are many difficult ones such that when the correct response is revealed, we are more like “wow, I had no idea!”. Example for me: John Steinbeck called this one of the great songs of the world & wanted the music & lyrics printed in one of his novels.
In Charlotte, NC the wrong episode of Jeopardy aired on 1/12/24. It was a Cris Pannullo episode!
Being that this is the first anyone is reporting of this, four and a half days later, I would say that the likelier issue is that your DVR recorded either the Daytime Jeopardy rerun or Saturday’s weekend episode instead for some reason.
(The way I see it: Charlotte is a TV market with more than a million households. Had this happened, at the very least, Reddit would have blown up on Friday at about 7:02 PM Eastern with angry viewers.)