Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Wednesday, March 29, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: NASA wished John Glenn this 8-letter word when he made the 1st U.S. manned orbital flight in 1962 & again upon his passing in 2016
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Tricia Riley, a nurse practitioner from Quincy, Massachusetts |
Rachel Levinson-Emley, a literature Ph.D student from Goleta, California |
Julie Brannon, a professor of English from Jacksonville, Florida (1-day total: $28,400) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response/Question’]What is godspeed?[/spoiler]
“Godspeed, John Glenn” was told to the astronaut by mission controller Scott Carpenter, just prior to the takeoff of Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962.
I’m genuinely surprised by the quick turnaround on this Final Jeopardy! clue as well. On last week’s #JeopardyLivePanel, Kevin Shrum mentioned that last week’s episodes were taped on December 7. John Glenn died December 8. While I’m not sure which side of Christmas this episode taped on, there’s a very good chance that this episode taped within 2 weeks of John Glenn’s death.
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Scores going into Final:
Julie $12,800
Tricia $9,200
Rachel $8,800
Final results:
Rachel $8,800 + $4,200 = $13,000
Tricia $9,200 + $9,199 = $18,399
Julie $12,800 + $6,000 = $18,800 (2-day total: $47,200)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Julie $6,200
Tricia $2,800
Rachel $2,400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) 1967 $800 (12th pick)
Tricia 1000 -1000 (Julie 2600 Rachel 1000)
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2) IT’S EPIC $800 (2nd pick)
Julie 6600 +1400 (Tricia 2800 Rachel 2400)
3) OF THOUSANDS $1200 (18th pick)
Julie 11600 +2000 (Rachel 8800 Tricia 4000)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! round: ASIAN FLAGS $1200, $1600 & $2000
$ Left on Board: $4,800
Game Stats:
Julie $11,400 Coryat, 23 correct, 4 incorrect, 44.44% in first on buzzer
Tricia $10,200 Coryat, 15 correct, 3 incorrect, 25.93% in first on buzzer
Rachel $8,800 Coryat, 9 correct, 0 incorrect, 14.81% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $13,600
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,200
Julie Brannon, stats to date:
47 correct
6 incorrect
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5,400)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
42.34% in first on buzzer (47/111)
Average Coryat: $15,100
Julie Brannon, to win:
3 games: 50.98%
4: 25.99%
5: 13.25%
6: 6.76%
7: 3.44%
Avg. streak: 3.040 games.
Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $73,851
With a projected 77 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 2.8922 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.3136).
An average of 4.4928 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.6024).
An early cutoff took place 10.955% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Julie Brannon qualified 17.984% of the time.
Tim Kutz qualified 66.837% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 23.717% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 5.063% of the time.
Fred Vaughn qualified 0.856% of the time.
This SHOULD be a 3/3 or that everybody left for FJ will get it. HOWEVER, I am very reluctant to make “radical” predictions such as 3/3 or 0/3. I have seen too often that even the most “Duh!” clue was screwed up and on the other hand a clue where you would say “NOBODY” will get it could play out this way: one of the contestants happens to read an article in a magazine on the flight to L.A. (never has heard or read about it before), or by some coincidence somebody mentioned the answer when some people come together and all kind of things are talked about. One player googles something entirely different, BUT (there is always a “BUT”) he goes from link to link and all of a sudden ends up at a site that happens to mention the solution, though by now s/he is on a completely different subject.
So I will say TWO will get it correct and I am curious if we can break the one day champion spell today…..?
An English professor, Julie should get this.
well, I will surmise that the 4-timers currently hovering just above the ToC bubble are quite pleased to see the lack of high-scoring 4- and 5- time champions since the College tournament.
I can only second that with all my conviction!
At this rate, I’m sure Julie can get in. She has a strong 2 day total.
My model’d give 11:2 odds on that happening at this point, Frank. Still reasonably long.
It flicked by too quickly for me to catch who and what and how much the judges accepted a negative answer to a positive. Can anyone tell me? With three attractive female competitors and questions popping from all over the board, keeping track of everything can be confusing. The only “incorrect” answer I thought should have been accepted was Maypole, which I recognized immediately. Is there somewhere a website that gives more information?
I missed the flag question on a flag modeled after the American Flag. I thought Alex said the Indonesian Flag, but obviously not!
It was the Malaysian flag.