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Today’s contestants:
Seb Bate, a medical statistician from Manchester
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Reena Patel, a primary school teacher from Harrow
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Ben Jones, a hotel receptionist from Caerphilly (8-day total: £51,830)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
8-day champion Ben Jones, having cleared the £50,000 mark in winnings, goes for victory #9 in the penultimate episode of Series 2. Seb Bate of Manchester and Reena Patel of Harrow are looking to end Ben’s win streak.
I should also point out that it appears as though Series 1 is going to be rerun on ITV beginning next week, in case anyone missed those games.
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Final Jeopardy clue: On display at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the 1871 painting ‘Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1’ is better known by this colloquial name
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! UK today? Here’s the Wednesday, April 23, 2025 Jeopardy! UK by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round #1:
(Categories: Famous Adverts; It Happened In February; Dickens, Drag Race Or 007; Musical Cities; Talking About The Weather; Fictional Businesses In Literature; “Easy” Clues)
Ben found the Daily Double early in the round and picked up £275 from it. He led after 35 while Reena struggled with incorrect responses.
Statistics after Jeopardy Round #1:
Ben 21 correct 4 incorrect
Seb 8 correct 3 incorrect
Reena 1 correct 6 incorrect
Scores after Jeopardy! Round #1:
Ben £1,375
Seb £450
Reena -£450
Today’s interviews:
Seb is from Surrey, came to Manchester for university, and never left.
Reena is fluent in Gujarati and Hindi.
Ben almost left university after the first year in Edinburgh.
Jeopardy! Round #2:
(Categories: The First Woman To Be…; One Day; Songs Songs Songs; Four-Letter UK Places; Famous People From North Wales; TV Shows: Name The Host; British Vogue Cover Stars)
Ben found another Daily Double, got it correct, had another large number of correct responses, and continued to lead after 70.
Statistics after Jeopardy Round #2:
Ben 38 correct 8 incorrect
Seb 15 correct 6 incorrect
Reena 3 correct 8 incorrect
Scores after Jeopardy! Round #2:
Ben £2,550
Seb £600
Reena -£500
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Larry; Roses; Hitchcock; Ballet; River, Mountain, City; Irish Counties: By Definition)
Ben picked up the first 8 correct of the round, including DD3, to take a massive lead. At the last break, there was still a Daily Double still out, but Seb would need a miracle to win at this point. With 16 clues to play, the scores were Ben £5,950 Seb £600 Reena -£250. Seb converted a True Daily Double after the break, but it wasn’t enough to keep Ben from having a runaway going into Final.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Ben 58 correct 9 incorrect
Seb 24 correct 8 incorrect
Reena 5 correct 9 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
Ben £6,450
Seb £2,150
Reena -£400
Final Jeopardy correct response: What is “Whistler’s Mother”?
Ben punctuated win #9 with a correct response in Final Jeopardy.
Tonight’s results:
Reena -£400 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Seb £2,150 – £0 = £2,150 (What is No idea :()
Ben £6,450 + £1,450 = £7,900 (What is Whistler’s Mother? (Hi Mom!)) (9-day total: £59,730)
Daily Double locations:
1) TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER £100 (clue #9)
Ben 475 +275 (Reena -125 Seb 75)
2) FOUR-LETTER UK PLACES £125 (clue #10)
Ben 1900 +450 (Reena -450 Seb 450)
3) HITCHCOCK £150 (clue #7)
Ben 3400 +1400 (Reena -500 Seb 600)
4) LARRY £150 (clue #26, £1150 left on board)
Seb 800 +800 (Ben 6250 Reena -400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 223
Game Stats:
Ben £4,700 Coryat, 58 correct, 9 incorrect, 54.46% in first on buzzer (55/101), 8/9 on rebound attempts (on 14 rebound opportunities)
Seb £1,500 Coryat, 24 correct, 8 incorrect, 26.73% in first on buzzer (27/101), 2/4 on rebound attempts (on 16 rebound opportunities)
Reena -£400 Coryat, 5 correct, 9 incorrect, 10.89% in first on buzzer (11/101), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 14 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: £5,800
Lach Trash: £2,050 (on 18 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): £2,650
Lead Changes: 0
Times Tied: 0
Ben Jones, career statistics:
415 correct, 52 incorrect
23/29 on rebound attempts (on 55 rebound opportunities)
45.21% in first on buzzer (411/909)
15/18 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: £10,175)
8/9 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £3,847
Reena Patel, career statistics:
5 correct, 9 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 14 rebound opportunities)
10.89% in first on buzzer (11/101)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/0 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: -£400
Seb Bate, career statistics:
24 correct, 9 incorrect
2/4 on rebound attempts (on 16 rebound opportunities)
26.73% in first on buzzer (27/101)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: £800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: £1,500
Andy’s Thoughts:
- There are no wagering suggestions due to today’s runaway.
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Started panicking when I saw 19TH CENTURY PAINTINGS as the Final Jeopardy category, but luckily, I was able to connect “Arrangement” and “No. 1” with Whistler’s Mother. The US streak may be snapped, but the UK streak (I also got L. Frank Baum yesterday) is still going strong!
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, Ben’s breadth of knowledge (especially considering his very young age) is nothing short of remarkable, and I can only imagine how thrilling it must be to watch him for those who can actually do so! His total today, as a matter of fact, actually bumps one of his previous paydays off the Top 5 list of single-game records (I keep track of those sorts of stats on my iPad’s notes app) – and he’s, of course, at nearly DOUBLE what Michael Hutchinson won over his streak, along with being the sole holder of the longest streak on the UK version.
I hope to see Ben close out the series with a win tomorrow (also becoming the 19th player across every version of Jeopardy to have won at least 10 games), but even if he doesn’t, his run has been absolutely incredible and a thrill to keep track of!
Knew this from having attended an exhibition of Whistler paintings several years ago.
Happy St. George’s Day to our UK friends!
I immediately thought “Isn’t that the actual title of ‘Whistler’s Mother’?” but I was very surprised if it was on display at a museum in PARIS, so that made me doubt my knowledge. It turns out that I was correct to doubt my knowledge, but the knowledge of its location, not its title.
Thanks Gregory, much appreciated!
I absolutely agree about Ben, MasterDoge, he’s been so good to watch. Bad luck to Reena and Seb today. It must be so hard to do well against Ben.
I had the same idea as Seb on FJ.
By the way, Lisa, apologies, I was reading through old entries the other day looking for something and realised that on the page for the UK episode on 18 March you asked about my response to the FJ asking for the name of the seventh in line to the throne and I didn’t notice until now. The belated answer is that I simply can never remember the order of succession! For years I was under the impression that Charles’ siblings were next after him, and although I’ve now realised that’s wrong, I still can’t get the order right in my head. Just wanted to take the chance to atone for missing your message while I still could, before the end of the series!
LOL! Thanks for the reply. It has been made simpler to keep track of by Elizabeth living so long (and having her children relatively young and her children all still being alive), giving her direct successor time to have children and grandchildren.
It is also easy to remember that the change about including females only came after all Elizabeth’s children were born (and after Charles’ too, I think) as it was not retro-active.
Whether siblings ever get to be THE heir (so ALSO how far down the rungs they are) depends on whether the first born has had any children yet. So Charlotte would follow or replace George IF something happened to him BEFORE he himself has children, but once he has children, all of them will “push” her down the rungs regardless of whether William is still alive or not. In the highly unlikely event that something happened to Charles, William, AND George before Charlotte became an adult, she would still become the monarch, but an adult would be regent until she became 18. [I did not say “and George has no children” because she will be 18 long before he has any children.]
Thanks very much, Lisa, really appreciate that, it’s really helpful.