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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Cabinet Members) for Monday, September 1, 2025 (Season 41, Game 126):
In order of fame, the first Cabinet was Jefferson (later Prez), Hamilton (“My Shot” guy), Knox (of Fort fame), this Attorney General
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Emily Sands, a benefits consultant from Chanhassen, Minnesota
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Luigi de Guzman, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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Matt Amodio, a quantitative researcher from New York, New York
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Our final week of encore presentations for Season 41 begins with Semifinal #2 of the 2025 Jeopardy Invitational Tournament; this game featured Matt Amodio, Luigi de Guzman, and Emily Sands. As I said back in March, the Unified Prediction Model did show Matt as the favorite going into this game, but nobody should ever underestimate Luigi or Emily (both of whom ended up putting up five digits in both Coryat score and score entering Final Jeopardy in this one.)
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Correct response: Who is Edmund Randolph?
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The original Cabinet of the United States, under George Washington, consisted of just four members: Thomas Jefferson (Secretary of State), Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of the Treasury), Henry Knox (Secretary of War), and Edmund Randolph (Attorney General.)
I still think that this is a relatively straightforward clue for this level, but also a good one, just due to the expected increase in knowledge demanded of players in the show’s bigger tournaments.
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Game Recap:
Matt Amodio actually got off to a pretty slow start in this one, picking up just six correct responses as he sat third after 30 clues. However, when Matt Amodio gets first pick in Double Jeopardy, he knows what to do with it: leftmost category, $1600 (the most likely square on the board over the last 20 years to have a Daily Double in it.) Needless to say, he doubled up off both of them on clues #1 and #10 of Double Jeopardy to have a big lead going into Final. It wasn’t a runaway, though, as Luigi had 23 correct throughout the game and a Coryat score of $16,400 to make sure it wasn’t a runaway. However, Matt was still in good position as Luigi couldn’t both play for a Triple Stumper and cover Emily.
Final Jeopardy saw Matt be the only player correct to cement victory and move onto the finals, while Emily presumably made a mathematical error in her FJ bet (betting just $400 when she needed to bet at least $1,400).
Scores going into Final:
Matt $22,800
Luigi $16,400
Emily $11,400
Tonight’s results:
Emily $11,400 – $400 = $11,000 (Who is Marbury?)
Luigi $16,400 – $16,399 = $1 (Who is Jay?)
Matt $22,800 + $10,001 = $32,801 (Who Randolph) (Finalist)
Game Stats:
Matt $15,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 3 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Emily $11,200 Coryat, 14 correct, 1 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Luigi $16,400 Coryat, 23 correct, 4 incorrect, 45.61% in first on buzzer (26/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $43,000
Lach Trash: $4,800 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,200
Lead Changes: 1
Times Tied: 1
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Something that I thought of as a result of this game that I think wagering vikings, including those in the Discord server, would do well to realize –
If someone’s FJ wager is off by exactly a power of 10 – whether by $1,000 exactly or by $10,000 exactly – the culprit pretty much 100% of the time is just that they made a mental math error. I know of at least two games that ended how they did because the player in first going into Final forgot to add the extra $10K and couldn’t protect against second or third going big as a result. I know I can sometimes be pretty critical of FJ wagering, but in situations like this, it’s very clear to me that the issue that Emily ran into was just a mental math error, and I believe that any criticism directed towards her for that is improper – especially considering how good of a game she played otherwise. (Seriously – given the complete buzzsaws that Matt and Luigi are individually, putting up a Coryat north of five figures against both simultaneously is incredible!)