Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Thursday, February 16, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: SOUTH AMERICA
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: This capital’s name is a Latinized form of the name of its country
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Corey Schmalzle, a senior at Lehigh University from Hawley, Pennsylvania |
Mohan Malhotra, a freshman at New York University from Wilmington, Delaware |
Allison Holley, a senior at Lawrence University from Racine, Wisconsin |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response/Question’]What is Brasilia, Brazil?
Brasilia, founded on April 21, 1960 specifically to serve as the capital of Brazil, was planned by Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer to move the capital to a more central location from Rio de Janeiro. It is similar to Washington, D.C. and Canberra that it is part of a federal district as opposed to a municipality.
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Scores going into Final:
Mohan $14,800
Allison $9,000
Corey $6,000
Final results:
Corey $6,000 + $5,000 = $11,000
Allison $9,000 + $4,000 = $13,000
Mohan $14,800 + $800 = $15,600 (Automatic semifinalist)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Mohan $4,600
Allison $2,600
Corey $2,000
Wild Card standings:
Monday: Lilly Chin, $24,399 ($20,000, $7,200)
Tuesday: Viraj Mehta, $23,000 ($23,000, $8,200)
Wednesday: Alex Bourzutschky, $23,599 ($20,000, $2,800)
Thursday: Mohan Malhotra $15,600 ($14,800, $4,600)
Friday:
1) Netanel Paley $18,000 ($15,600, $4,200)
2) Mari Hanley $16,201 (8,200, $4,600)
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3) Clarissa Santori $14,000 (92.667%) ($18,000, $7,600)
4) Allison Holley $13,000 (45.370%) ($9,000, $2,600)
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5) Jennifer Katz $12,100 ($6,100, $3,800)
6) Corey Schmalzle $11,000 (6,000, $2,000)
7) Hannah Whisnant $1 ($7,000, $4,400)
8) Esteban Fernandez $0 ($7,400, $4,200)
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Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) & WHERE TO FIND “EM” $800 (28th pick)
Allison 1600 +1000 (Mohan 3600 Corey 2800)
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2) ENGLISH LIT $1200 (4th pick)
Mohan 5800 +200 (Allison 3000 Corey 2000)
3) MADAM SECRETARY $2000 (11th pick)
Corey 3600 -2000 (Allison 4600 Mohan 7600)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! round: None!
$ Left on Board: $0
Game Stats:
Mohan $15,800 Coryat, 19 correct, 1 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer
Allison $8,800 Coryat, 12 correct, 1 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer
Corey $8,000 Coryat, 17 correct, 6 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $11,800
Coryat lost to incorrect responses: $9,600
Mohan Malhotra, stats to date:
20 correct
1 incorrect
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $200)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
Average Coryat: $15,800
Allison Holley, stats to date:
13 correct
1 incorrect
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57)
Average Coryat: $8,800
Corey Schmalzle, stats to date:
18 correct
6 incorrect
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57)
Average Coryat: $8,000
What was the clue for question “em”?
Thanks
It was a category of five. Which one would you like?
Why did Corey lose $2000 on a question that was worth much less than that?
It was worth $1,000. To go from a correct response to an incorrect one, you lose the $1,000 you were given for being correct, and then the $1,000 penalty that you would have received had you originally been ruled incorrect.
Had he just lost $1,000, it would have turned it into a non-event, which would be patently unfair for the other two competitors.
Of course! Thank you very much.
The correct answer is Brazil “This country’s . . . ” is how it starts, therefore it is asking for the name of the country – right?
As it shows at the top of this post, it started “This capital” and ended “its country”.