Today’s Final Jeopardy – Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Current Champion

Nikolas Polsinelli, career statistics:
44 correct, 6 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
35.96% in first on buzzer (41/114)
4/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $10,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,500

To win:
3 games: 64.111%
4: 41.102%
5: 26.351%
6: 16.894%
7: 10.831%
Avg. streak: 3.786 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 20th Century Novels) for Wednesday, June 30, 2021 (Season 37, Game 198):

British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane’s essay on ectogenesis, birth outside the womb, helped inspire this 1932 novel

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Abby Furnish, a government analyst from Washington, D.C.

S.A. Shenoy, a student originally from Newark, Delaware

Courtney Shah, a community college instructor from Portland, Oregon (2-day total: $39,100)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: Courtney is now a 2-day champion; both days, she has been the only player to get Final Jeopardy! correct (though, yesterday, it happened from first and not third.) She also improved considerably on the signalling device. If that keeps up, we may have another 3-day champion.

When it comes to the contestant area of the Jeopardy! website, though, the show really needs to improve on that front. Punctuation is often missing—and that punctuation is, frankly, important to showing respect for contestants. (Though, that is par for the course for a show that often lets fans say terrible things about contestants with impunity on their own Facebook page, which the show itself promotes as “a lively exchange of information”. Lively exchange, my foot.) It’s impossible to determine in advance whether the middle contestant played as “Sa”, “SA”, or “S.A.”, and that sort of thing is important. Two thumbs down, Jeopardy!

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Correct response: What is Brave New World?

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Children being engineered through artificial wombs is a major part of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World. Outraged at parts of life in the 1920s after a visit to the United States, Huxley sought to provide a frightening view of the future, in which institutions such as families and marriage were seen as “savage”, and children were incubated artificially.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!

Scores going into Final:
S.A. $12,605
Courtney $10,200
Abby $9,400

Tonight’s results:
Abby $9,400 – $5,600 = $3,800 (What is Metamorphosis)
Courtney $10,200 + $8,800 = $19,000 (What is Brave New World) (3-day total: $58,100)
S.A. $12,605 – $8,000 = $4,605 (What is Steppenwolfe?)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Abby $7,400
Courtney $4,600
S.A. $3,400

Opening break taken after: 14 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) AWARDS & HONORS $1000 (clue #29)
Abby 5200 +2000 (Courtney 4600 S.A. 3400)
2) MAPPING THE MIDWEST $1600 (clue #5)
Abby 9800 -2000 (Courtney 4600 S.A. 7000)
3) ARIA GRANDE $1600 (clue #29, $2000 left on board)
S.A. 10600 +5 (Courtney 10200 Abby 9400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 18

Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 197 (0.99 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles

Game Stats:
Courtney $10,200 Coryat, 14 correct, 1 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
S.A. $14,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Abby $10,400 Coryat, 20 correct, 4 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $34,800
Lach Trash: $11,200 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,000

Courtney Shah, career statistics:
55 correct, 5 incorrect
2/4 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
30.18% in first on buzzer (51/169)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $600)
3/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,667

S.A. Shenoy, career statistics:
16 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,200

Abby Furnish, career statistics:
20 correct, 5 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,400

Courtney Shah, to win:
4 games: 35.699%
5: 12.744%
6: 4.549%
7: 1.624%
8: 0.580%
Avg. streak: 3.555 games.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• Through 3 days, $67,100 has been donated to Odyssey Atlanta. $1,980,061 has been donated to all charities.
• It’s clear that S.A. thought he had a less than 50% chance of getting that final Daily Double correct, and a better chance on Final Jeopardy. From that perspective, he did make the correct wager. He may have misread his own chances on the respective clues, but he made the best strategic choice with the information that he had. I can’t fault the wager he made.

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