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Today’s contestants:
Sarah Trevarthen, an environment & safety consultant from Bury
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Anthony Fish, a housing enforcement manager from Pontypool
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Emma Laslett, a disability benefits officer from Milton Keynes (2-day total: £9,024)
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Andy’s Pre-Game Thoughts:
We’re now onto Day 3 of Twitter in the United Kingdom generally showing how collectively terrible they are, as 2-day champion Emma Laslett returns, having won £9,024 up to this point. Remember, when a player loses on Jeopardy!, they take home their winnings from all of their previous wins.
Emma said on Twitter that her opponents today are “big guns”—Sarah won the 2022 Brain of Britain competition on the BBC, while Anthony and Sarah have actually competed against each other before—they were both Grand Finalists in the 2021-22 season of Mastermind; Anthony finished fourth in that final and Sarah second.
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Final Jeopardy category: The Oscars
Final Jeopardy clue: As of 2023, this is the most recent film to be nominated for the record of 14 Oscars
Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! UK today? Here’s the Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Jeopardy! UK by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round #1:
(Categories: “House” Music; Life’s A Beach; Name The U.S. State; Name The Tom Hanks Film; Back To The 90s; Crossword Clues “J”)
It was Anthony who got to the first Daily Double in this one, but he fell back to zero after an incorrect response. Emma and Sarah both had good opening rounds, with Emma leading after 30.
Statistics after Jeopardy Round #1:
Emma 12 correct 0 incorrect
Sarah 8 correct 0 incorrect
Anthony 9 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after Jeopardy! Round #1:
Emma £975
Sarah £700
Anthony £250
Today’s interviews:
Sarah has visited 49 countries.
Anthony has geocaching as a hobby.
Emma is a huge Eurovision fan.
Jeopardy! Round #2:
(Categories: Coronation Of King Charles III; Republics; It’s A Numbers Game; Mononymic Wonders; Name That Film Composer; European Football Anagrams)
Anthony got to Daily Double #2; unfortunately, he fell to £0 for the second time. Meanwhile, Sarah had a strong round with 11 correct and took the lead through 60 clues.
Statistics Jeopardy Round #2:
Sarah 19 correct 0 incorrect
Emma 21 correct 2 incorrect
Anthony 13 correct 6 incorrect
Scores after Jeopardy! Round #2:
Sarah £1,550
Emma £1,375
Anthony £100
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: We Detect A Mystery; U.S. Civil Rights Movement; Connected Countries; A Musical Menu; Welsh Sportspeople; Del Boy Malapropisms)
Emma got to a Daily Double early in Double Jeopardy, and her correct response on it earned her £1,000! There’s still one out there for Sarah to mount her comeback, though! Emma found it, but an incorrect response brought her back to Sarah and Anthony!
Statistics after 75 clues:
Emma 28 correct 3 incorrect
Sarah 22 correct 1 incorrect
Anthony 17 correct 6 incorrect
Scores after 75 clues:
Emma £3,525
Sarah £1,800
Anthony £950
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Emma 34 correct 5 incorrect
Sarah 25 correct 2 incorrect
Anthony 20 correct 6 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
Emma £2,975
Sarah £1,950
Anthony £1,300
Final Jeopardy correct response: What is La La Land?
Final Jeopardy was another Triple Stumper; Emma is now a 3-day champion, winnings £10,999!
Tonight’s results:
Anthony £1,300 – £1,300 = £0 (What is Lord of the Rings)
Sarah £1,950 – £1,026 = £924 (What is Dune?)
Emma £2,975 – £1,000 = £1,975 (What is Everything Everywhere All at On) (3-day total: £10,999)
Daily Double locations:
1) BACK TO THE 90s £75 (clue #16)
Anthony 150 -150 (Emma 825 Sarah 500)
2) REPUBLICS £75 (clue #16)
Anthony 225 -225 (Emma 1175 Sarah 1350)
3) CONNECTED COUNTRIES £300 (clue #7)
Emma 1975 +1000 (Anthony 400 Sarah 1450)
4) WELSH SPORTSPEOPLE £150 (clue #17, £1050 left on board)
Emma 3675 -1000 (Anthony 950 Sarah 1800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -29
Game Stats:
Emma £3,275 Coryat, 34 correct, 5 incorrect, 39.53% in first on buzzer (34/86), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Sarah £1,950 Coryat, 25 correct, 2 incorrect, 29.07% in first on buzzer (25/86), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Anthony £1,675 Coryat, 20 correct, 6 incorrect, 26.74% in first on buzzer (23/86), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: £6,900
Lach Trash: £1,000 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): £1,700
Lead Changes: 4
Times Tied: 1
Emma Laslett, career statistics:
108 correct, 17 incorrect
6/7 on rebound attempts (on 17 rebound opportunities)
41.86% in first on buzzer (108/258)
4/7 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: £1,700)
1/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £3,625
Anthony Fish, career statistics:
20 correct, 7 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
26.74% in first on buzzer (23/86)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -£375)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £1,675
Sarah Trevarthen, career statistics:
25 correct, 3 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
29.07% in first on buzzer (25/86)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £1,950
Andy’s Thoughts:
- A lot of UK viewers clearly need to go to Specsavers.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Emma £2,975 Sarah £1,950 Anthony £1,300)
Emma: Standard cover bet is £926. (Actual bet: £1,000)
Anthony: Your only chance is if you’re the only one to get this Final. Go all in. (Actual bet: £1,300)
Sarah: Cover bet over Anthony is £651. (Actual bet: £1,026)
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I assume that even by now they are airing episodes that were recorded before any episodes had ever been shown. I say this because I have observed that ALL of the UK FJ!s have been either very short or pretty short (like “green” or just a 4-digit year). I believe this one today [La La Land] may be the first 3-word response, but it is short, nonetheless. Therefore, I would have expected that ‘Everything, Everywhere, All At Once’ was probably too long to be the desired response. I guessed ‘Oppenheimer’ [wrong, 13]. I believe even this simple clue had a bit of obfuscation to it because of the year — The current crop of movies qualified for Oscar nominations for the 2024 Oscars are 2023 movies and if one did not know [and I didn’t], they might think the nominations were made in December 2023 (but they weren’t, it was just today, January 23rd, so had not even been announced prior to the taping of this episode).
American Jeopardy! is known for frequently having clues related to VERY current events — like “How did they even know to have that one?” [I suspect they have contacts in publishers’ offices, etc. so they get heads up about upcoming news.] Of course, UK Jeopardy! certainly knew when this year’s nominations would be, but it is kind of amazing that they scheduled this episode/clue to precisely coincide since being in Britain, I assume they would not be in a position to possibly get extra ad sales [TV commercials for movies still in theaters?] for their syndicated stations.
I think you’re right, Lisa, a report last August said that all 20 episodes had already been recorded at that time. I agree it’s unlikely that the ITV network which shows Jeopardy! in the UK will have been able to sell any ads for movies. I watch the show on catch-up on their streaming app ITVX and there were no special ads on it today.
By the way, very well said again, Andy. Really appreciate your support for the British show and all its contestants.
To clarify, Sarah beat Emma in the 2022 Brain of Britain final (on BBC Radio 4). Was surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the episode.
Completely ignored the fact that Anthony & Sarah were in the same Mastermind final. And Emma was in the final the previous year.
RE: Final Jeopardy’s – I don’t think the questions are written with deliberately short answers in mind, but (IMO) they are deliberately pitched with fewer ins to make it less likely we will get huge jackpot winners (same as how lots of Daily Doubles have been “name that year” because it’s so easy to be slightly off).
Final Jeopardy! sounded like it might have been ADR’d to include the “As of 2023” bit – maybe even the day of transmission?!
I note that Fry didn’t mention that bit when reading the clue back at the end.