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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Countries of the World) for Tuesday, January 14, 2025 (Season 41, Game 92):
“Bilady, Bilady, Bilady”, its national anthem, replaced a more militaristic one following a 1979 peace treaty
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Evan Dorey, a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Stevie Ruiz, an assistant front office manger from Montauk, New York
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Davey Morrison, an actor & filmmaker from Provo, Utah
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Today is Day 2 of Winter 2025′ Champions Wildcard, with Davey Morrison, Stevie Ruiz, and Evan Dorey returning to the Alex Trebek Stage. Davey and Stevie won twice recently, while Evan was a high-scoring one-day winner.
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Correct response: What is Egypt?
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“Bilady, Bilady, Bilady” has served as the National Anthem of Egypt since 1979, following the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, signed on March 26, 1979. It replaced the more militaristic “Walla Zaman Ya Selahy”, which had gained popularity in the country after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal.
Remembering that the Egypt–Israel peace treaty took place in 1979, following the Camp David Accords the previous year, is probably the easiest way to get this clue correct. Interestingly, the death of Jimmy Carter between the taping and airing of this clue might actually make this clue easier, as Carter brokered the peace talks between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Movie Profession In Common; As They Say…; Lit-Pourri; Icelandia; The Cold Truth; 1980s Monster Trucks)
All three players got off to a good start; after 15 clues the scores were Evan $3,600 Davey $3,400 Stevie $1,200.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Evan 5 correct 0 incorrect
Davey 5 correct 0 incorrect
Stevie 3 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Evan thought “Sports Teams” was a great Final Jeopardy category for him.
Stevie has pop up restaurants going well.
Davey had a watch party at a haunted house.
Evan picked up $3,000 on the Daily Double and ended up getting 3 correct responses in 3 different categories to take a big lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Evan 12 correct 1 incorrect
Davey 7 correct 0 incorrect
Stevie 7 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Evan $9,800
Davey $3,800
Stevie $2,200
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: We’re Just Gonna Call Him Hercules; Fashionable Names; American History; A Wild Song For You; Botany; Crossword Clues “O”)
While Evan picked up another 9 correct, Davey found both DDs. He got the first one incorrect, but the second correct. Evan cruised to a runaway as Davey and Stevie were in difficult wagering spots going into Final. Remember, they don’t know what yesterday’s scores were!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Evan 21 correct 2 incorrect
Davey 15 correct 2 incorrect
Stevie 13 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 26 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Evan $20,600
Davey $8,800
Stevie $7,000
This Final Jeopardy was a Triple Stumper; Evan advances, while Stevie and Davey will need a lot of help to advance.
Tonight’s results:
Stevie $7,000 – $1,801 = $5,199 (What is Ireland?)
Davey $8,800 – $8,800 = $0 (What is… Iran??????)
Evan $20,600 – $0 = $20,600 (What Vietnam?) (Semi-Finalist)
Wild Card standings:
Monday: Will Yancey, $13,800
Tuesday: Evan Dorey, $20,600
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
1. Jen Feldman, $8,200, 71.417% to advance
2. Paul Clauson, $8,000, 38.273% to advance
3. Stevie Ruiz, $5,199, 2.573% to advance
4. Davey Morrison, $0, 0.001% to advance
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Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) AS THEY SAY… $1000 (clue #19)
Evan 6000 +3000 (Davey 3400 Stevie 1200)
2) WE’RE JUST GONNA CALL HIM HERCULES $1600 (clue #7)
Davey 4600 -4600 (Stevie 3800 Evan 9800)
3) BOTANY $1200 (clue #18, $11200 left on board)
Davey 2800 +2800 (Stevie 6600 Evan 17400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 50
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Davey 4 4 3 5 4 2
Stevie 5 3 3 4 2
Evan 3 4 4 3 3 5 5 5*
DJ! Round:
Davey 4* 4 3 3*
Stevie 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 2
Evan 4 5 3 4 5 5†
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Evan 4.14
Stevie 3.00
Davey 3.60
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 26 (0.28 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Evan $18,600 Coryat, 21 correct, 2 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Stevie $7,000 Coryat, 13 correct, 2 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Davey $11,800 Coryat, 15 correct, 2 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $37,400
Lach Trash: $12,000 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,600
Lead Changes: 4
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Davey Morrison, career statistics:
66 correct, 18 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 18 rebound opportunities)
32.29% in first on buzzer (72/223)
3/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000)
2/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,100
Stevie Ruiz, career statistics:
75 correct, 11 incorrect
5/7 on rebound attempts (on 17 rebound opportunities)
32.44% in first on buzzer (73/225)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
1/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,600
Evan Dorey, career statistics:
62 correct, 8 incorrect
3/4 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
35.09% in first on buzzer (60/171)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
1/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,067
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I have zero issue with Davey’s Final Jeopardy wagering choice. It’s clear he thought that with where his score was that he needed to be correct in Final Jeopardy to advance—and that is a very fair assessment of the situation, in my opinion. And I can never fault a player for going all in when you think an incorrect response eliminates you.
- Why does Davey have a greater-than-zero chance of advancing with $0? Because there is a very minuscule chance of every remaining player finishing with $0 (or less) and losing the tiebreaker (money going into Final Jeopardy), therefore giving Davey the fourth spot. $0 has also advanced as a wild card score in the past (the 2003 Tournament of Champions).
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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Maybe I found this one easy with the recent passing of Carter, but I hope I would have gotten it anyway. Guessing the treaty they meant was the one between Egypt and Israel, and being familiar with the Israeli national anthem, I guessed Egypt.
Fairly easy because of 1979, made easier by the news surrounding the passing of President Carter. I wonder what Bilady means in Arabic?
It means ‘My country’
Ken gave that translation when he revealed the correct response.
“1979 peace treaty” immediately led me to Begin and Sadat, and I was pretty sure those were not Jewish lyrics, so I knew it had to be Egypt. I’m sure that recent events helped.
Actually, Ken said, “My homeland, my homeland, my homeland”.
I was certainly wrong when my response was “South Africa”!!!
South Africa was nowhere near peace in 1979.
I was with Stevie on this one; I heard/read Bilady and couldn’t get Ireland out of my head. Never crossed my mind that it could also be Arabic.
Ireland was my first thought too, until I remembered 1979 was the Israel/Egypt treaty, and bilady is not a Hebrew word. I was left with Egypt with 5 seconds to spare.
Well, my predictions are going about as wrong as they possibly could, aren’t they? 🙂
Today my (lack of) success in having the correct response for Today’s Final Jeopardy is filled with “ifs.” If I had remembered the Camp David accords had been signed in 1979, If I had known that Bilady was Arabic for country…
But I didn’t.
If you’d remembered that the Camp David Accords had been signed in 1979, you would have remembered incorrectly. They were signed in September of 1978. The peace treaty hat followed was signed in March of 1979.
I said Iran, because “Biladi” sounded vaguely Persian to me. As it happens, I was not alone.
Andy- I appreciate your daily posting of the Wild Card standings. Interesting that a $200 separation between contestants results in such a large percentage difference in the prediction model for advancement.
I think it would be the same if it were 1 dollar separation. It’s not the amount but where they stand in the ranking.
It wouldn’t be quite the same; it is better to be at 8199 than 8000, but a lot of the difference comes from the fact that more people need to pass Jen’s score than Paul’s to respectively eliminate them.
I went with Evan and said Vietnam, thinking perhaps a peace treaty with China, when they fought a war at that time.
I knew about Camp David and the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel and just couldn’t decide which, so that’s why I went to Vietnam for my answer.