Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Tuesday, March 21, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: FASHION HISTORY
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: These pants first became popular when Pratap Singh, a maharaja’s son, visited Queen Victoria with his polo team in 1897
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Kevin Shrum, a retired adjunct professor from Fort Collins, Colorado |
Adam Weissengruber, a librarian from Toronto, Ontario |
Rebecca Wald, a psychologist from Baltimore, Maryland (2-day total: $43,300) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response/Question’]What are jodhpurs?[/spoiler]
Originating in India, jodhpurs were designed to improve conditions when horseback riding. When Pratap Singh visited England for the Diamond Jubilee with his polo team in 1897, the jodhpurs became quite a sensation, especially considering that the polo team won a great number of its matches.
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Scores going into Final:
Adam $17,100
Kevin $15,600
Rebecca -$3,200
Final results:
Rebecca -$3,200
Kevin $15,600 + $1,600 = $17,200 (What are jhodpurs?) (1-day total: $17,200)
Adam $17,100 – $1,505 = $15,595 (What are crops?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Kevin $8,400
Adam $2,400
Rebecca $1,800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) MOVIE STARS $1000 (10th pick)
Adam 2200 -1400 (Kevin 2800 Rebecca 0)
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2) BAYS $1600 (12th pick)
Adam 6800 +1500 (Kevin 10000 Rebecca 5800)
3) WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON $1200 (23rd pick)
Rebecca 5000 -5000 (Kevin 14400 Adam 10700)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: THE 20th CENTURY $200
DJ! round: None!
$ Left on Board: $200
Game Stats:
Kevin $15,600 Coryat, 21 correct, 2 incorrect, 39.29% in first on buzzer
Adam $18,600 Coryat, 22 correct, 4 incorrect, 41.07% in first on buzzer
Rebecca $1,800 Coryat, 9 correct, 4 incorrect, 17.86% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $6,000
Coryat lost to incorrect responses: $11,800
Rebecca Wald, final stats:
49 correct
9 incorrect
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
28.05% in first on buzzer (46/164)
Average Coryat: $12,200
Kevin Shrum, stats to date:
22 correct
2 incorrect
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
39.29% in first on buzzer (22/56)
Average Coryat: $15,600
Kevin Shrum, to win:
2 games: 52.64%
3: 27.71%
4: 14.59%
5: 7.68%
6: 4.04%
Avg. streak: 2.112 games.
Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $43,462.
With a projected 83 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 3.0799 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.3595).
An average of 4.7514 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.6575).
An early cutoff took place 14.524% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Kevin Shrum qualified 11.952% of the time.
Tim Kutz qualified 61.103% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 20.799% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 4.350% of the time.
Fred Vaughn qualified 0.810% of the time.
Miscellany:
Oh, my, a very prescient rule reminder from Andy “Nostradamus” Saunders. The one thing the reminder doesn’t mention is that even though misspellings can result in an allowed answer, there’s no rule to prevent a contestant from looking a bit silly on national TV ….
Only if it doesn’t change the pronunciation, and titles must be spelled exactly.
Frank:
Take a closer look at who you’re replying to. 😉
I meant to reply to you. You mentioned spelling answers.
Never mind.
My apologies.
1) Congratulations, Kevin!
2) That is an excellent point! Though in terms of prescience, I just had an inkling that the correct response would be: a) easily gettable; b) easily misspelled. So, I figured I’d try to head off the avalanche of “why did the judges let a misspelled response through?”
Thanks for the note. Fortunately for me, the “H” was sihlent. Whew.
Great game, Kevin – congrats! Loved your story about your trip, and how much you loved Edinburgh (although I would put in a vote for Glasgow. 🙂
Laurie — thanks for the note. The whole trip was GREAT! One highlight after another. I was stationed in Germany in the mid-70s, so we got to see a lot of the continent, but was never able to spend much time in the U.K. It was hard to pick out a highlight on the spur of the moment. Had to go with Edinburgh, since on the way home my wife and I agreed that if we get to go back, Edinburgh will be our first stop since we left so much that we wanted to see, unseen.
Glad you had such a wonderful time! If you go back, definitely try and see some of Glasgow as well – it’s a beautiful city and very underrated (at least in comparison to Edinburgh).
Delighted to see Chief Shrum on Jeopardy! Told my wife, “We shared a cubicle at Pope and he turned me on to science fiction”. I’m still reading sci-fi today and I remember the Chief saying he envied my getting to read “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” for the first time. Great guy. I miss him and the 2 o’clock Coke flip.