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Today’s contestants:
Heather Heath, an optometrist from Buckingham
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Sree Kanthamneni, an AI product director from Hertfordshire
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Lizzie Mackarel, a PR account manager from Bromley-by-Bow (1-day total: £4,025)
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Andy’s Pre-Game Thoughts:
Lizzie Mackarel was yesterday’s winner on Jeopardy!, picking up a shade over £4,000. Today, she faces off against Buckingham’s Heather Heath and Hertfordshire’s Sree Kanthamneni. There seems to have been a bit of a geographical bias to casting thus far—surely, there are intelligent people in the UK who live north of the Midlands!
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! UK today? Here’s the Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Jeopardy! UK by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round #1:
(Categories: Up In The Sky; Minor Characters In Major Books; Musical “Losers”; Supermarkets; Missing Consonants; When I’m 64; Stadium Tours)
Lizzie got the Daily Double incorrect, but it didn’t cost her her early lead. Lizzie had 17 correct to lead after 35 clues.
Statistics after Jeopardy Round #1:
Lizzie 17 correct 3 incorrect
Heather 5 correct 0 incorrect
Sree 4 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after Jeopardy! Round #1:
Lizzie £825
Heather £425
Sree £125
Today’s interviews:
Heather has been married for 39 years.
Sree is originally from Hyderabad and works in the “more boring” parts of AI.
Lizzie went to Marrakesh on a solo trip.
Jeopardy! Round #2:
(Categories: Cinema By Numbers; Question Marks; Religious Musicals; Name The Year; World Geography Pot Luck; Ends In X; Would You Have Won £1M?)
Another Daily Double, and another incorrect response from Lizzie, but she still held her lead for a spell afterwards. Sree did have a good round, though, and led through 70 clues.
Statistics After Jeopardy Round #2:
Sree 16 correct 2 incorrect
Lizzie 30 correct 5 incorrect
Heather 11 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after Jeopardy! Round #2:
Sree £1,300
Lizzie £1,125
Heather £600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral; Sewing; Spanish Loanwords; Abdications & Dethronements; Who Painted It?; Women In TV Comedy)
Sree found both Daily Doubles early and picked up a combined £1450 from them. With 15 clues to go, Sree had £3,500 to Lizzie’s £1,975 and Heather’s £600. Sree led going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Sree 27 correct 2 incorrect
Lizzie 43 correct 6 incorrect
Heather 11 correct 1 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
Sree £3,900
Lizzie £2,525
Heather £600
Final Jeopardy correct response: What is Hungary?
All three players were incorrect in Final; Sree is your new champion as a result of his lead going into Final!
Tonight’s results:
Heather £600 – £100 = £500 (What is Czechoslovakia?)
Lizzie £2,525 – £1,400 = £1,125 (What is Poland?)
Sree £3,900 – £1,200 = £2,700 (What is Czechoslovakia) (1-day total: £2,700)
Daily Double locations:
1) STADIUM TOURS £125 (clue #7)
Lizzie 450 -300 (Sree 125 Heather 125)
2) RELIGIOUS MUSICALS £125 (clue #5)
Lizzie 925 -350 (Sree 475 Heather 425)
3) WHO PAINTED IT? £200 (clue #5)
Sree 1550 +700 (Lizzie 1475 Heather 600)
4) ABDICATIONS & DETHRONEMENTS £250 (clue #7, £3850 left on board)
Sree 2250 +750 (Lizzie 1475 Heather 600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -26
Game Stats:
Sree £2,900 Coryat, 27 correct, 2 incorrect, 25.74% in first on buzzer (26/101), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Lizzie £3,175 Coryat, 43 correct, 6 incorrect, 44.55% in first on buzzer (45/101), 0/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Heather £600 Coryat, 11 correct, 1 incorrect, 9.90% in first on buzzer (10/101), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: £6,675
Lach Trash: £2,925 (on 22 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): £900
Lead Changes: 5
Times Tied: 2
Lizzie Mackarel, career statistics:
83 correct, 11 incorrect
4/6 on rebound attempts (on 14 rebound opportunities)
40.59% in first on buzzer (82/202)
1/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -£450)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £3,013
Sree Kanthamneni, career statistics:
27 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
25.74% in first on buzzer (26/101)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: £1,450)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £2,900
Heather Heath, career statistics:
11 correct, 2 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
9.90% in first on buzzer (10/101)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £600
Andy’s Thoughts:
- There was a weird editing error in Final Jeopardy; both Heather and Sree showed Sree’s response displayed, though the three shot did show that Heather also responded with Czechoslovakia.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Sree £3,900 Lizzie £2,525 Heather £600)
Lizzie: You have to be correct to win. Bet at least £225, but you might as well go all in to maximize your winnings if you’re correct. (Actual bet: £1,400)
Sree: Standard cover bet is £1,151. (Actual bet: £1,200)
Heather: You need an overbet from Sree to have a chance. Bet whatever you like. (Actual bet: £100)
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Finally got one right! Ironic it should be a triple stumper after I failed on the triple get yesterday. I actually remembered it from the time – showing my age there.
Stephen Fry was on the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show this morning to promote Jeopardy. He gave a lovely interview (about 2 hours into the programme) – as always his affection for the programme and its contestants is clear to see. I think he’s a great host. However, a word of warning – in the interview he drops a large spoiler about something that happens later in the series, so don’t listen if you don’t want to know!
I was really surprised that none of these British contestants knew this one since the Brits often go on vacation in Europe, regardless of whether they’d studied this in history. I shouldn’t be surprised about it not being covered in school as the US is not much for teaching recent history, but I assumed that was a shortcoming unique to us. I have never really tried to keep up with exactly where different countries in Europe are located [not even ones that 23&Me says I “came from”], but I guessed “What is Hungary?” just because I knew there used to be an Austro-Hungarian Empire so I assumed that they shared a border. Oddly enough Czechoslovakia was my 2nd guess — NO idea why — but I stuck with my first guess.
Hi Lisa!
I wrote Hungary, along the same lines of working as you (Austro-Hungarian empire), but thought it was too obvious and deleted it in a fit of nerves. If you watch it back you can see me react when Stephen reveals the correct answer!
I didn’t put this in the article itself, but a few months back I was driving around in Euro Truck Simulator 2, and I was curious as to whether a certain rest stop on the Autobahn network was converted from the former border between East and West Germany. (It had been). On the rabbit hole I went down that night, I read about Karl von Habsburg and the Pan-European Picnic in August 1989 that led to the opening of the Austro-Hungarian border.
Actually to Andy:
This extra note is so interesting, thanks for taking the time to add it.
You usually note deleted responses in American FJ!s. Does this mean that the British responses are typed instead of written and being deleted makes them never seen by audiences/viewers? If so, do the judges perhaps see the responses as they are being typed (and deleted) as the written responses are here? [I can’t imagine why they would be, but am curious.]
I don’t know if the light pen technology is different on the UK version, but Lizzie’s screen on broadcast only ever showed “What is Poland?” There was nothing else written or crossed out.
Oh, no! 🤦 My sympathies!
Oops! that was supposed to be attached to Lizzie’s note! (I had gotten interrupted.)