Posted By: Andy Saunders September 8, 2022

Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 19th Century Contemporaries) for Thursday, September 8, 2022 (Season 38, Game 200):

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s game originally aired on June 17, 2022.

The penultimate Encore Presentation of Season 38 features Megan Wachspress’ fourth game. Sadie Goldberger was invited to the Second Chance Tournament in October as a result of today’s game.

Today’s New York Times Clue of the Day was one of the Daily Doubles in the Double Jeopardy! round, it comes from the category Sci-Fi Characters . The clue was In an H.G. Wells tale, Griffin, whose face is wrapped in rags, turns out to be this title guy . The correct response: Who is The Invisible Man?

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1869 saw the publication of Sarah Hopkins Bradford’s biography Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman, a biography of the famous American abolitionist who escaped slavery and subsequently organized the Underground Railroad, a network of safe houses that saw at least 100,000 enslaved people escape slavery to Canada. Also from Douglass’ letter: “Excepting John Brown—of sacred memory—I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have.”

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(Categories: Historic Alliances; Wordplay-Pourri; Home Sweet Home Renovation; Think Pink; Stately Rivers; Pop Rocks)

Today’s game got off to a bit of a slower start, with some high-value Triple Stumpers and incorrect responses keeping the scores down. However, Sadie had the best round and led after 30 clues.

Megan 5 correct 1 incorrect Sadie 3 correct 0 incorrect Molly 3 correct 1 incorrect

Sadie 11 correct 2 incorrect Megan 8 correct 3 incorrect Molly 5 correct 3 incorrect

(Categories: Sci-Fi Characters; His Widow Lived On; Marine Biology; The “It” Department; The Quotable Movie; Such A Peasant Life)

The very close game between Megan and Sadie continued, as Molly found both Daily Doubles in the round, yet got them both incorrect to keep her score down. Meanwhile, Sadie held a slim lead going into the Final—$9,800 for her, $9,200 for Megan, and $3,300 for Molly.

Sadie 17 correct 4 incorrect Megan 14 correct 3 incorrect Molly 14 correct 6 incorrect Total number of unplayed clues this season: 79 (0 today).

The Final was nearly a triple-get for the first time in nearly two months. Unfortunately, though, Sadie was unable to finish writing “Tubman” in time, and incomplete means incorrect in Final Jeopardy! In a heartbreaking-but-fair ruling, Sadie dropped to third, and Megan Wachspress is now a 4-day champion!

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, September 8, 2022 Jeopardy! by the numbers:

Molly $3,300 + $3,200 = $6,500 (Who is Harriet Tubman) Megan $9,200 + $7,999 = $17,199 (Who is Harriet Tubman) (4-day total: $51,601) Sadie $9,800 – $7,500 = $2,300 (Who is Harriett Tubma)

1) THINK PINK $600 (clue #3) Sadie 400 +600 (Megan 200 Molly 0) 2) SCI-FI CHARACTERS $800 (clue #2) Molly 0 -2000 (Megan 2000 Sadie 4600) 3) SUCH A PEASANT LIFE $1600 (clue #26, $6800 left on board) Molly 2000 -1500 (Megan 9200 Sadie 9400) Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -115

J! Round: None! DJ! Round: None! Total Left On Board: $0 Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 79 (0.40 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles

Megan $9,200 Coryat, 14 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities) Molly $6,800 Coryat, 14 correct, 6 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities) Sadie $9,800 Coryat, 17 correct, 4 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 3/4 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities) Combined Coryat Score: $25,800 Lach Trash: $15,400 (on 13 Triple Stumpers) Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,800

63 correct, 15 incorrect 4/4 on rebound attempts (on 18 rebound opportunities) 29.96% in first on buzzer (68/227) 2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000) 3/4 in Final Jeopardy Average Coryat: $10,050

17 correct, 5 incorrect 3/4 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities) 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57) 1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $600) 0/1 in Final Jeopardy Average Coryat: $9,800

15 correct, 6 incorrect 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities) 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57) 0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,500) 1/1 in Final Jeopardy Average Coryat: $6,800

Molly went on foreign exchange in South Africa in high school. Sadie recently found out her great-grandfather was the biggest bootlegger in Delaware. Megan hopes to use some of her winnings to help pay legal fees for unhoused people.

Megan: Your best chances of winning happen if you bet between $1,201 (defending against Sadie’s small bet range) and $2,599 (guaranteeing yourself second place). (Actual bet: $7,999)

Sadie: Standard cover bet over Megan is $8,601. (Actual bet: $7,500)

Molly: If Sadie bets to cover and is incorrect, she falls to $1,199. I would bet between $0 and $2,099. (Actual bet: $3,200)

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heh, My eyes are still watering from all the rhetoric spilled on this game 🙂 It did seem like an easy FJ… I’m always grateful for those!

I agree with your comment under “Andy’s Thoughts”.

And thanks also for the interesting tidbit about the light pens.

There was a discussion on one of the podcast episodes regarding this case. It seemed like there was a lot of discussion after the FJ involving judges and producers. We saw a version on TV that was probably recorded separately or edited.

every episode is edited to some degree. Some of it is minimal (cutting out pauses and the like), but fairly often there are times when the game is stopped for the judges to confer on a ruling or research a possible alternate answer that is also correct; all of which are edited out of the televised show. (shows are taped months before they air, so there is plenty of time for editing)

I still don’t think it took Sadie a long time to think of the answer. I imagine it just seemed TOO easy and she took too long trying to possibly second guess herself before beginning to write it down.

“the judges would not have seen the final N being written” I think the opposite: the judges (or producers in the booth) would have seen her (on video) continuing to write after time had expired, thus proving that the full response had not been written in time

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Luigi de Guzman, career statistics: 25 correct, 2 incorrect 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities) 40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57) 1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,800) 1/1 in Final Jeopardy Average Coryat: $20,000

To win: 2 games: 66.059% 3: 43.638% 4: 28.827% 5: 19.043% 6: 12.580% Avg. streak: 2.946 games. (Click Here for Methodology)

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. Mattea Roach $560,983 6. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496 7. David Madden $430,400 8. Julia Collins $428,100 9. Matt Jackson $411,612 10. Austin Rogers $411,000 11. Ryan Long $299,400 12. Arthur Chu $297,200 13. Seth Wilson $265,002 14. Jonathan Fisher $246,100 15. Tom Nissley $235,405 16. Roger Craig $230,200 17. Jennifer Quail $228,800 18. Larissa Kelly $222,597 19. Jason Keller $213,900 20. MacKenzie Jones $204,808

All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments: 1. Brad Rutter $4,953,436 2. Ken Jennings $4,370,700 3. James Holzhauer $2,962,216 4. Matt Amodio $1,518,601 5. Amy Schneider $1,382,800 6. David Madden $773,733 7. Larissa Kelly $660,930 8. Matt Jackson $611,612 9. Mattea Roach $560,983 10. Roger Craig $555,200 11. Jason Zuffranieri $542,496 12. Jerome Vered $499,102 13. Julia Collins $494,767 14. Austin Rogers $486,000 15. Ben Ingram $443,201 16. Buzzy Cohen $439,603 17. Dan Pawson $430,902 18. Alex Jacob $424,802 19. Colby Burnett $408,333 20. Sam Kavanaugh $406,202 21. Arthur Chu $397,200 22. Russ Schumacher $344,800 23. Mark Dawson $343,849 24. Tom Nissley $340,405 25. Celeste DiNucci $338,601

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