Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Monday, March 27, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: SCIENTISTS
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: This European’s 1751 “Philosophia Botanica” gave rules of nomenclature & said don’t change generic names
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Meral Cultu, a nonprofit strategist from Cleveland, Ohio |
Adam Vesterholt, an energy engineer from Brooklyn, New York |
Robert Weibezahl, a writer from Westlake Village, California (1-day total: $11,000) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response/Question’]Who is Carl Linnaeus?[/spoiler]
Carl Linnaeus (Carolus Linnaeus) was a Swedish botanist who created a uniform system of naming natural organisms (binomial nomenclature), using genera and species (and creating principles upon which to frame those definitions.)
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Scores going into Final:
Adam $13,401
Robert $13,400
Meral $11,800
Final results:
Meral $11,800 + $1,602 = $13,402 (Who is Charles Linnaeus?†)
Robert $13,400 – $1,600 = $11,800 (Who is Boyle)
Adam $13,401 + $13,400 = $26,801 (1-day total: $26,801)
†(Meral’s response of “Who is Charles Linnaeus?” was accepted by the judges because “Charles” is an Anglicized form of the Swedish “Carl”/Latin “Carolus”).
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Adam $7,200
Robert $6,600
Meral $3,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) OH MY GODS! $600 (15th pick)
Adam 3400 +2400 (Robert 2000 Meral 1200)
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2) THE SOUTHWEST $800 (19th pick)
Adam 9600 +3600 (Robert 11800 Meral 8200)
3) CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF $1600 (29th pick, $2,000 left on board)
Adam 12000 +1401 (Robert 13400 Meral 11800)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: THE BUSY BUSINESSMAN $1000
DJ! round: None!
$ Left on Board: $1,000
Game Stats:
Adam $9,000 Coryat, 19 correct, 6 incorrect, 37.50% in first on buzzer
Meral $11,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 0 incorrect, 23.21% in first on buzzer
Robert $13,400 Coryat, 19 correct, 1 incorrect, 28.57% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $11,800
Coryat lost to incorrect responses: $7,000
Robert Weibezahl, final stats:
36 correct
6 incorrect
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
30.09% in first on buzzer (34/113)
Average Coryat: $11,000
Adam Vesterholt, stats to date:
20 correct
6 incorrect
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,401)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
37.50% in first on buzzer (21/56)
Average Coryat: $9,000
Adam Vesterholt, to win:
2 games: 29.50%
3: 8.70%
4: 2.57%
5: 0.76%
6: 0.22%
Avg. streak: 1.418 games.
Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $36,966
With a projected 79 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 2.8822 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.313).
An average of 4.4643 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.594).
An early cutoff took place 10.705% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Tim Kutz qualified 67.085% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 24.874% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 5.466% of the time.
Fred Vaughn qualified 0.897% of the time.
Miscellany:
Wow, I honestly did not think that 2 would get it. I was leaning more towards a ZERO correct…..compliments to the players,close game and everybody way over 10 K before FJ!!!
Anyone could’ve won big today, but Adam went almost all in and it paid off. We just can’t get a superchampion anymore.
PS
Yet again, a one day champion, no repeat. There is a hex in there somewhere!!
My dad thinks we’re in for a run here with Adam
Hi. The guy who won tonight wrote “Who Linneaus” no question mark and no is….at least that is what I remember from the screeen
Is that in the form of a question?
It is. No verb is required!
Well;, let’s hope so. Unfortunately for Meral it did not matter whether they accepted “Charles” or not, she did not have enough money. I am pretty sure that they would have accepted just the last name. I mean, how many people who were botanists were around at that time with the last name “Linnaeus”? Same as they would accept (Ernest) Hemingway, (Florence) Nightingale, (Albert) Schweitzer etc etc. With some people the last name says it all. There really seems a jinx in there for champions lately. Not many repeat champs in March at all. Well, there is always a new week/month. We just started a new week, so maybe Adam can break the spell!