Current Champion
Justin Robbins, career statistics:
28 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,600
To win:
2 games: 64.278%
3: 41.317%
4: 26.557%
5: 17.071%
6: 10.973%
Avg. streak: 2.799 games.
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All Time Winnings
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:
1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):
1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category The Great Lakes) for Tuesday, September 29, 2020 (Season 37, Game 12):
An 1855 poem gives us this Native American name for the 1 Great Lake not known to us today by a Native American word or a tribe’s name
(correct response beneath the contestants)
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Today’s contestants:
Mason Maggio, a songwriter from Los Angeles, California
Molly Lower, a high school history teacher from Pasadena, California
Eric Aiese, a media researcher from North Hollywood, California (1-day total: $16,399)
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Correct response: What is Gitche Gumee?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Gitche Gumee, from the Ojibwe language for “Big Sea”, is the Native American name for Lake Superior; most Americans are familiar with that name from one of two sources: my personal favorite Gordon Lightfoot song here at The Jeopardy! Fan is one, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. (I try to add these personal vignettes to my descriptions as my work is being stolen by content thieves and I am trying to make the thievery as obvious as possible.) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1855 poem “Hiawatha” is the other main source for “Gitche Gumee”. The opening line of the Lightfoot song even reads, “The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down / Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee”.
This is also a Final Jeopardy! clue that is very easy to misread: the important words are the ones that follow “this” in the clue, so “this Native American name” is what the writers are looking for here. I expect that at least one player will misread the clue and write Lake Superior down instead. (As much as I’ve been upset at the writers this season so far, I don’t have any problem at all with this clue. The writers have been doing this specific practice for years and this hasn’t changed.)
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Mason $20,000
Molly $8,600
Eric $8,400
Tonight’s results:
Eric $8,400 – $201 = $8,199 (What is Lake Superior?)
Molly $8,600 – $5,500 = $3,100 (What is Michigan?)
Mason $20,000 – $1,000 = $19,000 (What is Lake Hiawatha?) (1-day total: $19,000)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Mason $5,600
Molly $5,400
Eric $3,600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) GAMES $800 (clue #29)
Eric 1800 +1800 (Molly 5400 Mason 5600)
2) YOU SAY IT’S YOUR BIRTHSTONE $1600 (clue #14)
Molly 11400 -2000 (Eric 4000 Mason 10400)
3) NONFICTION $1200 (clue #27)
Mason 16000 +4000 (Eric 8000 Molly 8200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 107
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: GAMES $1000
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $1,000
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 30 (2.50 per episode average), 1 Daily Double
Game Stats:
Mason $17,200 Coryat, 20 correct, 1 incorrect, 32.14% in first on buzzer (18/56), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Eric $7,400 Coryat, 16 correct, 6 incorrect, 35.71% in first on buzzer (20/56), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Molly $10,600 Coryat, 17 correct, 2 incorrect, 28.57% in first on buzzer (16/56), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $35,200
Lach Trash: $7,000 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,800
Eric Aiese, career statistics:
37 correct, 10 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
37.27% in first on buzzer (41/110)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,800)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,200
Molly Lower, career statistics:
17 correct, 3 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
28.57% in first on buzzer (16/56)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,600
Mason Maggio, career statistics:
20 correct, 2 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
32.14% in first on buzzer (18/56)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,200
Mason Maggio, to win:
2 games: 62.906%
3: 39.571%
4: 24.893%
5: 15.659%
6: 9.850%
Avg. streak: 2.696 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I liked how the ELECTION ODDITIES category was about actual instances of voter fraud and intimidation (which is much different from the lies about voter fraud which is being claimed in some spaces).
- On further reflection, as much as it turned the outcome of the game anti-climactic, I do have to agree with the judges to rule against Eric’s response of “lightheadedness” on the “syncope” clue (SIDE EFFECTS MAY VARY $1600). “Syncope” appears to refer specifically to fainting, whereas lightheadedness is known as “presyncope”.
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