Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Monday, February 13, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: It begins with God saying, “Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Netanel Paley, a senior at Yeshiva University from Teaneck, New Jersey |
Esteban Fernandez, a freshman at San Francisco State University from Coronado, California |
Lilly Chin, a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from Decatur, Georgia |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response/Question’]What is Numbers?[/spoiler]
Interestingly, the beginning of the Book of Exodus, “Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt” was an $800 clue on Wednesday, February 8, in AND SO IT BEGINS.
Moving onto today’s Final, Numbers concludes the story of Israel’s exodus from Egypt and their journey to take possession of The Promised Land. It takes its name from the two censuses taken of the Israelites.
Now also seems like a good time to remind people that on Jeopardy!, contestants and game material are selected randomly and independently, and yes, sometimes, a Yeshiva student gets a Bible category in Final Jeopardy, just like sometimes an English professor gets a literature category.
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Scores going into Final:
Lilly $20,000
Netanel $15,600
Esteban $7,400
Final results:
Esteban $7,400 – $7,400 = $0 (What is Exodus?)
Netanel $15,600 + $2,400 = $18,000
Lilly $20,000 + $4,399 = $24,399 (Automatic semifinalist)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Lilly $7,200
Esteban $4,200
Netanel $4,200
Wild Card standings:
Monday: Lilly Chin, $24,399 ($20,000, $7,200)
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
1) Netanel Paley $18,000 (99.397%) ($15,600, $4,200)
2) Esteban Fernandez $0 (0.00004%) ($7,400, $4,200)
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(Here is the Wild Card prediction methodology.)
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) IN OLDEN TIMES $800 (11th pick)
Lilly 3200 +1200 (Esteban 1000 Netanel 400)
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2) BODIES OF WATER $1200 (12th pick)
Netanel 6200 +3000 (Lilly 12400 Esteban 5400)
3) A “B”-PLUS STUDENT $2000 (17th pick)
Lilly 13200 +2000 (Netanel 13600 Esteban 5400)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! round: None!
$ Left on Board: $0
Game Stats:
Lilly $19,600 Coryat, 27 correct, 2 incorrect, 45.61% in first on buzzer
Netanel $13,800 Coryat, 17 correct, 2 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer
Esteban $7,400 Coryat, 11 correct, 1 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $8,000
Coryat lost to incorrect responses: $5,200
Lilly Chin, stats to date:
28 correct
2 incorrect
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,200)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
45.61 in first on buzzer (26/57)
Average Coryat: $19,600
Netanel Paley, stats to date:
18 correct
2 incorrect
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
29.82 in first on buzzer (17/57)
Average Coryat: $13,800
Esteban Fernandez, stats to date:
11 correct
2 incorrect
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
17.54 in first on buzzer (10/57)
Average Coryat: $7,400
Miscellany:
You said, “Per our prediction model, Netanel risked his chances of advancing falling from 95.003% to 51.401% with his bet in Final Jeopardy, had he gotten Final incorrect and Esteban gotten it correct.”
Netanel probably knew he would get it correct – after all, he’s attending Yeshiva University!
True — but it’s still quite a risk with not a great deal of upside.
Would the “torah” be a correct response as well?
No, because the Torah begins with the Book of Genesis, which does not begin that way.
He’s probably already memorized the Torah.
Under game stats you have Lilly’s Coryat as 19,200 instead of the correct 19,600 that shows for her individual stats.
Thank you! Will correct.
99.397% is what you estimate the odds are of Paley advancing?
Yes. $18,000 is a very high non-winning score. The chances of four other players surpassing that are very small.
Also, he probably would have bet far, far more had Books of the Bible been restricted to the Jewish Bible (OT) only. We Jews aren’t all that knowledgeable about the NT.
Do you think that he probably wanted to end up with a score of 1,000 chai? He probably knew that 18,000 would be a good wildcard score, and was also going for symbolism.
I saw another place on the Internet that made the same point as this. I think it’s at least a good possibility.