Final Jeopardy: African Monarchs (7-21-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 7/21/2021 Jeopardy! game:
SING “OUT” ($200) Ed Sheeran won 2015 Song of the Year & Best Solo Pop Performance Grammys for this ruminative tune
($400) In a 2018 Top 10 tune by The Weeknd, this request to a lover precedes “my name”
EXODUS TELLS US… ($200) The Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve, made their lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar & in this
BIRDING ($2000) For many birders, their pride & joy is this alliterative “list”, a personal history of all bird species they’ve encountered
MATH IN THE OLD DAYS ($1600) The Babylonians used base 60, which could be counted on 5 fingers of one hand & the 12 these on 4 fingers of the other
Sneak Peek clues — BOOKS OF 1990
($400) Alan Moore’s dystopian look at a near-future England is called “V for” this
($800) “The Bourne Identity” & “The Bourne Supremacy” were followed in 1990 by this third entry in the series
($1200) “Barbarians at the Gate” is an expose of the fall of this giant food company behind brands like Oreo & Ritz
($1600) This Maeve Binchy novel is about a group of pals attending a Dublin university
($2000) 1990 saw the release of “Postmortem”, Patricia Cornwell’s first novel featuring this crime-solving medical examiner
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Epic game today. Excellent players. Matt was in a distant 3rd late in the game but went on a run and took the lead. Josh fought back but missed an easy $400 question at the end (said Sondheim instead of Webber). That cost him a tie, or the lead if he’d gotten it right. Which ultimately affected the final outcome. Had they tied with $20200, they both likely would have bet it all on FJ and moved on to a tie-breaker. FJ was easier than two of the 3 DDs (abacus was a gimme).
Matt has a disturbing habit of beginning every one of his responses with “What’s” even if the answer is a person or a plural. I don’t think I’ve even seen that before. It’s acceptable, of course, but off-putting.
Great game today! I was happy to see Josh and Matt get FJ! right and Matt won $40,400 which is the 3rd highest win this season.
Me too, Jeopardy! lover! It’s on a list I have made on the top 55 (I should have probably put 61 or something like that.) highest wins ever on season 37! Here are the highest wins from the $40K rank!
1 – Tim Moon, Ben Lewis ($44,401)
2 – Jen Jazwinski, Jennifer Quail ($42,001)
3 – Matt Amodio ($40,400)
4 – Bryce Hwang ($40,200)
And here are my last six rankings since I missed those already:
56 – Phil Hoffman ($23,195)
57 – Zach Shrier ($22,801)
58 – Garrett Marcotte – ($22,000)
59 – Stuart Crane – ($21,800)
60 – Greg Marrerro – ($21,200)
61 – Sandy Olive ($21,000) (Last Place)
Most Common – Lucy Ricketts ($31,399)
My Favorite: Matt Amodio ($40,400)
Least Common: Zach Newkirk ($25,171)
Hopefully that makes your reply, Jeopardy! lover!
It does, thanks Darius!
Very easy final today! The daily doubles were never missed and we got through about forty-two games with all of the three daily doubles with the correct answers in this mid 2021. Very cool!
I Love Jeopardy! I am a true fan and Whenever I see a new Jeopardy! game come on every single week, I would love to watch it! I am a very true fan!
Congrats to Matt Amodio on his very big $40,400 payday! I think this is the third highest money win amount in this season. Very glad to hear that. Let’s give you the top 55 of the highest paydays ever in Season 37, with a couple of extras among the way.
Highest #1 – Sam Kavanaugh ($58,388)
1 – Tim Moon, Ben Lewis ($44,401)
2 – Jen Jazwinski, Jennifer Quail ($42,001)
3 – Matt Amodio ($40,400)
4 – Bryce Hwang ($40,200)
5 (Maybe) – Valerie Costelo, Sam Kavanaugh ($38,000)
6 – Brian Chang ($37,600)
7 – Jon Spurney ($37,201)
8 – Emily Sands ($36,600)
9 – Susan MacMillan or McMillan ? I literally cannot remember ! ($35,600)
10 – Brayden Smith (R.I.P.) ($35,000)
11 – John Focht ($34,000)
12 – Sam Stapleton ($33,201)
13 – Lucy Ricketts – ($33,100)
14 – Ryan Bilger ($32,405)
15 – Jamie Logan ($32,201)
15 – Brayden Smith ($31,799)
16 – Veronica Vichit-Vadakan ($31,600)
17 – Jon Spurney ($31,400)
18 – Sandy Olive, Jeff Mitchum ($31,200)
19 – Henry Baer, Brayden Smith ($31,000)
20 – Brian Chang (Either $30,800 or $30,600. It really needs to be one of those choices.)
21 – Henry Baer ($30,400)
22 – Tyler Vandenberg, Charlie Fonville ($30,000)
23 – Jennifer Quail ($29,999)
24 – Kevin Walsh, Scott Shewfelt ($29,600)
25 – Aaron Craig ($29,227)
26 – Ryan Hemmel ($29,401)
27 – Ryan Hemmel ($28,801)
28 – Emily White, Sam Kavanaugh, Mike Nelson ($28,600)
29 – Josh Saak ($28,405)
30x – Donesh Olyaie ($28,400)
31 – Dave Pie ($28,300)
32 – Tim Moon, Carmela Chan ($28,200)
33 – Brayden Smith ($27,800)
34 – Garrett Marcotte ($27,700)
35 – Mara Davis ($27,600)
36 – Andy Wood ($27,201)
37 – Kelly Donohue ($26,801)
38 – Tanay Kothari ($26,800)
39 – Devin Rossiter, Andy Wood ($26,799)
40 – Mike Nelson ($26,600)
41 – Kendra Blanchette ($26,400)
42 – Colin Davy ($26,100)
43 – Dennis Chase ($25,900)
44 – Devin Rossiter ($25,405)
45 – Aimee Lim ($25,200)
46 – Jennifer Linde (And everybody else with $24,801. I am really sorry I cannot say all of the names. That might be a very long list of names with that amount of money, so, yeah! Sorry guys!) ($24,801)
47 – John Focht ($24,800)
48 – Jim Gilligan, Patrick Hume, Brandon Duestch ($24,401)
49 – Scott Shrum ($24,100)
50 – Juliet Mayer ($23,800)
51 – Nikole Villanueva ($23,300)
52 – Phillip Howard ($23,000)
53 – Dennis Chase ($22,500)
54 – Sameer Gandhi ($22,200)
55 – Patrick Hume ($22,100)
And that is all I could get from the top 55! If I missed anything, please do not hesitate to let me know. Congrats to Matt for $40,400 in part of the top 55 highest payouts and congrats to Josh Saak for 3 wins!
Please note: VJ is the best, please agree with me!
You are correct. VJ’s Jeopardy site is superior
You, Albert, are also correct! You Know, there were a LOT of highest paydays in this season! Jeez, I could have got all of them!
Easy final here today but still Josh’s misspelling will not affect his gameplay today. He played well for three days. Furthermore we shall see what Matt can do. Was Elizabeth thinking of Emperor Mansa Musa from the Mali empire? Or perhaps Pachacouti? I noticed her response was incomplete.