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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Island Chains) for Friday, September 20, 2024 (Season 41, Game 10):
Named for a Spanish queen, this Pacific island chain was a starting point for famous explorations of 1960 & 2012
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Sarah Preisinger, a family law attorney from Bellevue, Nebraska
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Santhosh Sastry, an information technology executive from Austin, Texas
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Jen Feldman, a high school teacher from Brooklyn, New York (1-day total: $13,800)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Brooklyn teacher Jen Feldman is your new champion after her $4,000 bet in Final Jeopardy last night worked out for her. That should definitely be a consideration on the minds of challengers Santhosh Sastry and Sarah Preisinger going into today’s 61st clue; if I were in second place against Jen at this point, I would be going all-in in Final Jeopardy.
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Correct response: What are the Mariana Islands?
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Comprised today of a pair of United States territories in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, the Marianas—named after the Spanish queen Mariana of Austria—were the starting point for a pair of notable dives to Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the earth’s seabed. The two dives were undertaken by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in 1960 (in the Trieste bathyscape) and film director James Cameron in 2012 in Deepsea Challenger.
Certainly, the realization that the explorations needed to proceed downward and not towards the poles or space would make this a much easier clue, and I think the less intuitive direction of the exploration gives the clue much of this difficulty. I have confidence that at least one player will get to the bottom of this clue, though.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, September 20, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: On The Map; Powers That “B”; Food; Missing Movie Title Adjectives; Spoke; Hub)
Santhosh got off to the best start in this game, picking up 7 correct responses and holding a big lead after 15 clues.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Santhosh 7 correct 0 incorrect
Jen 3 correct 1 incorrect
Sarah 3 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Sarah has been to all 11 Presidential libraries.
Santhosh went on a trip to South America where he encountered stray dogs at a border.
Jen has students who can’t process that she’s a vegetarian.
Santhosh got the Daily Double and extended his lead, but all three players had a good score after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Santhosh 12 correct 1 incorrect
Sarah 8 correct 2 incorrect
Jen 8 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Santhosh $7,800
Sarah $3,400
Jen $3,400
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Trees & Flowers; Literary Title Math; Music; TV Pets; Latin Lovers Needed; 20th Century Women)
Double Jeopardy saw Jen come alive; she found both Daily Doubles, and while she ran out of time on the third one, she still had a strong enough round to make sure she led going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Jen 18 correct 2 incorrect
Santhosh 17 correct 4 incorrect
Sarah 13 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Jen $15,100
Santhosh $9,400
Sarah $7,000
For the second day in a row, Jen didn’t make the standard cover bet in Final Jeopardy; fortunately for her, this Final Jeopardy was a Triple Stumper, and she’s now a 2-day champion. She’ll be back on Monday to defend her title.
Tonight’s results:
Sarah $7,000 – $1,000 = $6,000 (What are the Antilles?)
Santhosh $9,400 – $9,400 = $0 (What are the Isabella island)
Jen $15,100 – $1,050 = $14,050 (What is Isabella? <3 Mom) (2-day total: $27,850)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) SPOKE $1000 (clue #20)
Santhosh 4600 +2000 (Jen 2000 Sarah 2000)
2) 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1200 (clue #1)
Jen 3400 +2000 (Santhosh 7800 Sarah 3400)
3) LITERARY TITLE MATH $1200 (clue #8, $26000 left on board)
Jen 9000 -1500 (Santhosh 9400 Sarah 5800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 86
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Jen 4 3 3 4 5 5 2
Santhosh 1 2 3 4 5 3 4 5*
Sarah 5 3 4 2 1
DJ! Round:
Jen 3* 4† 2† 3*
Santhosh 5†
Sarah 1† 3 4
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Jen 3.45
Sarah 2.88
Santhosh 3.56
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:
Jen $15,800 Coryat, 18 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Sarah $7,000 Coryat, 13 correct, 2 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Santhosh $8,400 Coryat, 17 correct, 4 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $31,200
Lach Trash: $15,600 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,200
Lead Changes: 1
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Jen Feldman, career statistics:
32 correct, 6 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (30/114)
1/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$100)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,100
Santhosh Sastry, career statistics:
17 correct, 5 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,400
Sarah Preisinger, career statistics:
13 correct, 3 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,000
Jen Feldman, to win:
3 games: 42.534%
4: 18.091%
5: 7.695%
6: 3.273%
7: 1.392%
Avg. streak: 2.740 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Jen $15,100 Santhosh $9,400 Sarah $7,000)
Jen: Standard cover bet over Santhosh is $3,701. (Actual bet: $1,050)
Santhosh: At minimum, standard cover bet over Sarah is $4,601. However, I think it’s worth going all-in today, because I don’t think you can count on Jen betting to cover—even from this position. (Actual bet: $9,400)
Sarah: You have to bet at least $4,400 to have any chance of winning. (Actual bet: $1,000)
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I got lucky with the FJ! clue in that the Federal agency I was a part of for many years has one of its 120 or so field offices in Guam. While I wasn’t sure that the name of the island group was taken from a Spanish queen, I knew about the nearby “Trench” and figured it was as good a guess as any.
I, like two of the contestants, went with Isabella. Not that I know any Isabella Islands, but first Spanish Queen I could come up with. As for Sarah’s wager- I admire all the people who make it on the show, but I would also like them to know as much about wagering strategy as they do about the trivia.
Today was another day when the correct response to Final Jeopaardy just “came” to me.
Post final Jeopardy analysis of why I said “(what are) the Marianas?” made me realize that the Marianas were the only island group I knew of that could fit the Final Jeopardy “answer” clue about being named after a Spanish queen. the Isabellas would have worked, but I’m not aware of any island group iwith that name.
Finished the week 3 for 5. Would have 4 for 5, if I hadn’t second guessed myself on the HP/Disney Final Jeopardy. Still .600 is pretty good.
Nice week Bill!
what is you contact info?
I tried blind guessing as the category was read and said the Aleutian Islands. Then we got the clue and I could only come up with the Galapagos Islands. O for 5 for the week. 2 for 10 on the season.
Hopefully Monday night I can improve on that after Monday Night Football on ABC.
Also, I’ll be going to the morning taping of 2 shows on Monday, so maybe I’ll do well on those FJ’s. 🙂 Last time I was there on December 5, 2023, I hit 2 of 3 FJ’s for shows that aired on January 2 to 4, 2024.
Sadly, as Andy pointed out, Sarah didn’t bet enough to have any chance of winning. Though with Jen’s bet, it became a moot point anyway, as Jen’s bet made it where Sarah didn’t have any chance to win anyway.
Andy or anyone else, do you find any justification at all for Jen to make a wager such as this, where she knows only 1 player can beat her?
Have a great weekend everyone! 🙂
3 shows on Monday that is! The morning session! 😉
I feel sorry for that Spanish Queen Galapagos for having such an ugly-sounding name! 😉
lol…..right Lisa ? 😉
By the way, 8 straight days with “No Runaway.” 2 for 10 Runaway’s on the Season.
What happened with the Hawaiian flower clue? The TV had the pic of the flower but was silent and the answer was never heard at least not on DirecTV, There was a pause and it came back on already into the next question.
That behavior is consistent with a brief signal interruption on your end. No other viewer except for you would have had that issue.