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Warning: This page may contain spoilers for the January 9, 2024 game of Jeopardy! UK, especially for those of you watching delayed or on-demand. This page will be updated during each commercial break as the show airs.
Today’s contestants:
Richard Clark, an I.T. service architect from Penarth
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Sabina Crouch, a copywriter from Milton Keynes
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Keshava Guha, a writer from London (3-day total: £14,650)
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Andy’s Pre-Game Thoughts:
Keshava Guha just keeps winning; his last two victories have been in runaway fashion and has already picked up £14,650 in three victories on the programme.
Today’s challengers are Sabina Crouch from Milton Keynes, and Welshman Richard Clark. Neither challenger has recent OQL experience, so it’s a little bit more difficult to get a read on how today’s match might go!
It also seems that a lot of the recent online criticism of the show is coming from viewers who aren’t British; it might be prudent to remind everyone that if you’re not British, this show isn’t being made for you, and you mean nothing to the advertising dollars that support the show. The entitlement of people thinking that every single piece of media needs to be made for them is appalling, in my opinion, and it’s an entitlement that needs to cease forthwith.
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Final Jeopardy category: British Politics
Final Jeopardy clue: Between 1st January 2020 and 1st January 2023, this many people held the post of Foreign Secretary
Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! UK today? Here’s the Tuesday, January 9, 2024 Jeopardy! UK by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round #1:
(Categories: A Life Outside Politics; Board Games; Around The Med; Let’s Dance!; Born On Christmas Day; “Cor” Blimey!)
All three players got off to an excellent start; however, Keshava fell back to £0 after missing a True Daily Double midway through the round. However, Keshava battled back to within £100 of the lead in the span of sixteen clues. Everyone was still very much in contention after 30 clues!
Statistics after Jeopardy Round #1:
Richard 11 correct 1 incorrect
Keshava 12 correct 1 incorrect
Sabina 6 correct 0 incorrect
Scores after Jeopardy! Round #1:
Richard £650
Keshava £550
Sabina £525
Today’s interviews:
Richard eloped with a couple of people off the street as witnesses.
Sabina is a website copywriter, and “probably should be” worried about AI.
Keshava had his first book come out four years ago.
Jeopardy! Round #2:
(Categories: Baby; Sporty; Ginger; Posh; Scary; Spices (And Herbs))
Buoyed by the SPORTY category, Keshava jumped into the lead early in this round. Keshava picked up the Daily Double two-thirds of the way through the round to extend his lead further.
Statistics Jeopardy Round #2:
Keshava 25 correct 2 incorrect
Richard 23 correct 2 incorrect
Sabina 10 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after Jeopardy! Round #2:
Keshava £1,800
Richard £1,200
Sabina £675
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Who Directed The Classic?; Read All About It; Ancient Rome; National Parks; Nautical Knitting; Chemistry Anagrams)
Richard did very well in the movie category to get very close to Keshava’s lead! However, Keshava picked up the game’s third Daily Double to restore a good-sized cushion. The question of “will Keshava get a runaway again” is still to be answered, though! That was answered emphatically with “no” on the first clue after the break, as Richard jumped into the lead with a Daily Double!
Statistics after 75 clues:
Keshava 32 correct 3 incorrect
Richard 30 correct 2 incorrect
Sabina 11 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after 75 clues:
Keshava £3,500
Richard £2,550
Sabina £775
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Richard 36 correct 2 incorrect
Keshava 36 correct 3 incorrect
Sabina 16 correct 2 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
Richard £4,850
Keshava £3,950
Sabina £1,225
Final Jeopardy correct response: What is 3?
Keshava was the only player correct in Final — Keshava is a 4-day champion, total of £19,501!
Tonight’s results:
Sabina £1,225 – £1,224 = £1 (What is 5)
Keshava £3,950 + £901 = £4,851 (What is four 3?) (4-day total: £19,501)
Richard £4,850 – £4,850 = £0 (What is 5?)
Daily Double locations:
1) BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY £150 (clue #14)
Keshava 450 -450 (Sabina 275 Richard 350)
2) BABY £150 (clue #21)
Keshava 1350 +300 (Sabina 750 Richard 1000)
3) READ ALL ABOUT IT £300 (clue #9)
Keshava 2300 +700 (Sabina 675 Richard 1800)
4) ANCIENT ROME £200 (clue #16, £1650 left on board)
Richard 2550 +1550 (Keshava 3500 Sabina 775)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 23
Game Stats:
Keshava £3,850 Coryat, 36 correct, 3 incorrect, 38.37% in first on buzzer (33/86), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Sabina £1,225 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 20.93% in first on buzzer (18/86), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Richard £3,500 Coryat, 36 correct, 2 incorrect, 40.70% in first on buzzer (35/86), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: £8,575
Lach Trash: £150 (on 1 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): £875
Lead Changes: 8
Times Tied: 4
Keshava Guha, career statistics:
154 correct, 18 incorrect
11/13 on rebound attempts (on 19 rebound opportunities)
42.73% in first on buzzer (147/344)
5/8 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: £1,350)
3/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £3,994
Sabina Crouch, career statistics:
16 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
20.93% in first on buzzer (18/86)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £1,225
Richard Clark, career statistics:
36 correct, 3 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
40.70% in first on buzzer (35/86)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: £1,550)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £3,500
Andy’s Thoughts:
- It should be noted that Jeopardy! rules in the United States allow “overfull” song titles to be accepted as correct, provided the extra lyrics added to the title are correct. (Thus “Hit Me Baby One More Time” is considered equivalently correct to “…Baby One More Time”). It is clear that the UK production is following those same rules.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Richard £4,850 Keshava £3,950 Sabina £1,225)
Keshava: Bet between £901 (passing Richard’s total by £1) and £1,499 (keeping Sabina locked out). (Actual bet: £901)
Sabina: Bet at least £575 to pass Richard if he bets to cover and is incorrect. (Actual bet: £1,224)
Richard: Standard cover bet is £3,051. (Actual bet: £4,850)
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I was very surprised to see that Richard had bet it all. He could have still insured a win (if he got FJ correct) AND increased the chance of coming in second (if wrong), if he had bet £3,051 instead.
Is the UK prize money difference between 2nd and 3rd not enough to risk “trying for 1st” math mistakes?
There’s no indication that there is a prize for second and third – which takes some of the fun out of FJ wagering in my opinion.
I don’t believe there is, though, unlike Stateside, their trip to the studio (in Greater Manchester) is paid for.
i know Americans’ opinions about the British Jeopardy! don’t matter in the long run but still? i love it. i absolutely love it. it’s a different take on Jeopardy! than we’re used to in the American version, but it’s one i’ve found immediately cozy and delightful. the pacing feels really good for the hour slot, and as someone is just given to things like banter and adding ancillary facts to things, Stephen Fry’s flow clicks in so well with how my brain works.
I love ancillary facts and asides, but Stephen’s echolalia grates me every time.
With all due respect, the “echolalia” (assuming you’re actually using the term per its definition) is a production decision made specifically because British Jeopardy, unlike American Jeopardy, is not appointment television. Being seven episodes in, Whisper (the production company producing the shows in the UK) and ITV have to assume that a viewer could be tuning in for the very first time midway through an episode, and that viewer needs to be brought up to speed on “what has happened” and “what is going on” as quickly as possible. Certainly unnecessary for a viewer in North America who would be intimately familiar with the proceedings, but absolutely necessary for a British viewer unfamiliar with this game.
Yes, I am. Echolalia is the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made by another person (not to be confused with palilalia). Do you find repeating the category and the amount after every contestant useful?
Echolalia is a medical term and a symptom of a psychiatric condition. As you, as a viewer, presumably do not know Mr. Fry’s medical history, you do not get to make that diagnosis.
Try again, but better.
I must admit I don’t really “keep up with” British political news. I do hear about the highlights, but do not even try to retain it. [I did pay more attention during the BREXIT period, just because I had strong opinions, LOL.] But I found it very amusing that 2 of the 3 British contestants made the same FJ guess that I did (5). It seems that Keshava’s response was a bit of a guess, too, but perhaps he was naming them off in his mind, then before it was too late decided one of them didn’t fit the time frame.
An average Coryat of £3,994 is about equivalent to $22,450 in North America.
There probably won’t be (given how the series is 20 episodes), but if there’s some sort of champion reunion tournament, Keshava’s looking like he might be one to watch. He’s crazy good.