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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category The United Nations) for Thursday, March 14, 2024 (Season 40, Game 134):
Of the 9 countries that have produced a U.N. Secretary-General, this nation is the only one from its hemisphere
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin (1 win)
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Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, Florida (1 win)
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Yogesh Raut, a social and personality psychologist from Vancouver, Washington (0 wins)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Troy Meyer and Ben Chan have a victory apiece in this first-to-three-win final; today is a very crucial Game 3. Yogesh absolutely needs a victory in this one to prevent either of his opponents getting on the hill (if you’ll pardon the term being brought over from billiards.)
As this final is now guaranteed to go at least four games, we now know for certain that the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament is beginning at some point next week. The 27-player field was announced yesterday, while my event preview will be released this weekend.
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Correct response: What is Peru?
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Nine countries have produced a U.N. Secretary-General: Norway (Trygve Lie), Sweden (Dag Hammarskjöld), Myanmar (U Thant), Austria (Kurt Waldheim), Peru (Javier Pérez de Cuéllar), Egypt (Boutros Boutros-Ghali), Ghana (Kofi Annan), South Korea (Ban Ki-Moon), and Portugal (António Guterres). Of those nine, eight are in the Northern Hemisphere; the ninth, Peru, is in the Southern Hemisphere.
The list of U.N. Secretaries-General is short enough that any serious quizzer from high school onwards should have the list memorized, so this should be relatively straightforward for a Tournament of Champions finals situation.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, March 14, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Look At The Map; Health & Medicine; Khan You Dig It?; Festivals; Songs Of Youth; Crossword Clues “R”)
Troy found the Daily Double right before the interviews; an incorrect response on it left him starting again from $0.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Ben 5 correct 0 incorrect
Yogesh 5 correct 0 incorrect
Troy 4 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Ben is a huge fan of Elvis’s favorite roller coaster that was relocated to Green Bay.
Troy was inspired by a teacher named Mrs. Scuderi.
Yogesh thinks “Pretty Little Liars” is an excellent show.
After the break, all three players played well in a round that had just one Triple Stumper. Of course, that Triple Stumper was the clue about Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen”. Troy’s right: it’s not going to go over well—even though it was literally the only clue on the board that got by all three players.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Ben 8 correct 0 incorrect
Yogesh 9 correct 1 incorrect
Troy 11 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Ben $5,800
Yogesh $4,600
Troy $2,800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Ancient History; Books By Reporters; Memorials & Monuments; It’s A Fact!; The Name On The Oscar; Ends In “IX”)
In a round that saw all 30 clues responded to correctly, both Troy and Yogesh successfully converted True Daily Doubles; Yogesh’s came two-thirds of the way through the round and propelled him into the lead going into Final Jeopardy!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Yogesh 22 correct 2 incorrect
Ben 16 correct 0 incorrect
Troy 20 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Yogesh $29,600
Ben $17,800
Troy $15,200
Everyone got Final Jeopardy correct—which means this series is now all square at one game apiece!
Tonight’s results:
Troy $15,200 + $15,200 = $30,400 (What is Peru)
Ben $17,800 + $12,601 = $30,401 (What is Peru?)
Yogesh $29,600 + $6,001 = $35,601 (What Where Peru) (1 win)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) KHAN YOU DIG IT? $1000 (clue #15)
Troy 2600 -2600 (Yogesh 3200 Ben 4600)
2) MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS $1600 (clue #9)
Troy 5600 +5600 (Yogesh 5000 Ben 13000)
3) ENDS IN “IX” $1200 (clue #20, $7200 left on board)
Yogesh 12200 +12200 (Troy 13200 Ben 17800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 100
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Yogesh 4 4 5 4 3 3
Troy 2 3 5 5*
Ben 4 5 3 4 3
DJ! Round:
Yogesh 5 4 3 2 4 3*
Troy 4 2 4* 3 5 5
Ben 3 5 4 3 4 2 2 5
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Yogesh 3.67
Ben 3.62
Troy 3.80
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:
Yogesh $18,600 Coryat, 22 correct, 2 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Ben $17,800 Coryat, 16 correct, 0 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Troy $13,800 Coryat, 20 correct, 2 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: $50,200
Lach Trash: $400 (on 1 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $3,400
Lead Changes: 1
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Yogesh Raut, career statistics:
220 correct, 16 incorrect
13/15 on rebound attempts (on 32 rebound opportunities)
39.77% in first on buzzer (204/513)
8/8 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $43,400)
7/9 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,089
Troy Meyer, career statistics:
316 correct, 26 incorrect
22/25 on rebound attempts (on 41 rebound opportunities)
41.81% in first on buzzer (286/684)
17/19 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $84,400)
8/12 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $22,700
Ben Chan, career statistics:
385 correct, 34 incorrect
17/22 on rebound attempts (on 56 rebound opportunities)
41.50% in first on buzzer (354/853)
21/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $41,405)
11/15 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,400
Andy’s Thoughts:
- People are going to gloss over the fact that the players picked up everything but one Daily Double and one other clue, just because that one other clue happened to be about a Taylor Swift Song. This will be 100% unfair to all three players.
- Chances of winning the ToC for each player: Troy 42.149% (+120), Yogesh 30.670% (+210), Ben 27.181% (+250).
- Chances of each finals length: 5 games 33.648% (+180), 6 games 44.402% (+110), 7 games 21.950% (+330).
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Yogesh $29,600 Ben $17,800 Troy $15,200)
Yogesh: Standard cover bet over Ben is $6,001. (Actual bet: $6,001)
Troy: Bet at least $8,400 here. (Actual bet: $15,200)
Ben: Standard cover bet over Troy is $12,601. (Actual bet: $12,601)
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I guessed “What is Brazil?” Right hemisphere, wrong country.
I knew it was someone from South America, but guessed Argentina.
My mind first went to Western and Eastern hemispheres. But technically, some European countries are partially in the Western hemisphere. In any event, I incorrectly guessed Brazil.
I also thought they meant the Western Hemisphere (due to interpreting “from its hemisphere” to mean the same hemisphere where the U.N. Headquarters is located, in NYC). I guessed the United States, but I was pretty sure I was wrong because I thought if there had been one from the U.S. I would probably remember them (even if I couldn’t think of their name).
The only secretary general I could come up with was U Thant because he was secretary general when I was in high school. I wasn’t going to get this right no matter what.
Looking forward to a Taylor Swift question!! 🙂
Having been in high school Model UN in the late 1980s, and having been at the UN as a part of that, this one was a lay-up for me. The biggest issue was remembering that it was asking for the country rather than the person.
As Andy wrote, there are only nine countries so it is not too difficult to have the list in memory. For me, it is easier to recall the countries rather than the names of the Secretaries-General. The one who has always stood out to me is Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden because he was the first one I was aware of in the 1950’s. He is also memorable for me because his term ended when he died in a plane crash in 1961 while on a peace mission to the Congo if I remember correctly. Other memorable names for me are U Thant and Boutros Boutros-Ghali (SNL used that one a lot).
Maybe a “serious quizzer from High School on” would have the list of UN Secretary Gnerals memorized, and, so this Final Jeopardy would be “stright forward for a Tournamnet of Champions situation.” But I found the wording of the “answer” confusing. But I’m not blaming the writer and editor of this Final Jeopardy just because I found it hard to understand, I don’t have the list of Secretary Generals memorized, so even if I had understood the “answer” I don’t think it would’ve done me any good.
And I thought I was the only one!
It was altogether unclear to me what “its” referred to; it could just as easily have been the UN itself: a) since that’s what the category was (not “UN Countries”)) and b) it (The UN) was mentioned in the previous clause.
Glad I wasn’t the only one I guess! Don’t know why they didn’t just say “the Southern Hemisphere.”
See my reply above to Dave B in order to count another one [or two, if that was how Dave B came to think East/West instead of North/South] who thought “its” referred to the U.N. itself. However, even though I wouldn’t have known the right country anyway, I think just outright saying Southern Hemisphere would have made it too easy for anyone who had a chance at figuring it out.
With all due respect, “its” is generally used to refer to “thing previously identified”—i.e. “the 9 countries” mentioned earlier.
Certainly, none of the three players were confused by it.
And why they didn’t say “The Southern Hemisphere”? Because this is the Tournament of Champions.
I went with Columbia, even though the UN Secretary General was the gentleman from Peru while I was in High School. I knew his name then, but never knew what country he was from or did I? LOL. 0 for my last 13. 🙁 I last got it right on February 26th.
I don’t know what to say other than we are being treated to some of the greatest games in Jeopardy history in my opinion. These 3 guys are stellar and next game is crucial!
Have a great Friday everyone and can’t wait to see who gets to 2 first tomorrow night. 🙂
If it had been Colombia, I wonder if you would’ve gotten credit for your spelling. Not sure if Colombia is pronounced the same as Columbia given past rulings.
I would love to see a greater math nerd than I take on the final answer. Can you draw a great circle which makes other right solutions? I don’t think it’s trivial that all 9 countries are but I would think more than 1 is a solution.
Visualizing the globe in my head, the other eight countries are close enough such that I don’t know if it’s possible. What an interesting way of looking at this, though!
The westernmost longitude of Peru is ~81 W and the easternmost of Myanmar is ~101 E. Taking great circle comprising 80 W and 100 E would
almost isolate South Korea in its own hemisphere, but you’d be including a small slice of each Myanmar and Peru. Pin antipodes on the equator at 80 W and 100 E, and rotate the circle so that it moves slightly NE/SW from the equator, and I think you can get Myanmar to be entirely to the west and Peru entirely to the east.
I don’t have a ton of confidence in this assertion, however.