Quick Recap & Today’s Final Jeopardy – March 30, 2017

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Posted By: Andy Saunders March 30, 2017

Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Thursday, March 30, 2017:

Final Jeopardy! category: MUSICAL THEATRE

Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: One of the world’s longest-running musicals, in 2015 it celebrated “30 years of revolution!”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Eric Vernon, a retired government relations specialist from Ottawa, Ontario
 Brook North, an attorney from Raleigh, North Carolina
 Julie Brannon, a professor of English from Jacksonville, Florida (2-day total: $47,200)

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Les Misérables premiered in Paris in 1980, and is the longest-running musical in London’s West End, having run continuously since October 8, 1985 (explaining the “30 years of revolution!” in the clue.)

A win today from Julie will put her onto Page 2 of our Tournament of Champions tracker, though it’s looking more and more like at least 4 wins and $100,000 is going to be necessary to make the field!

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7 Comments on "Quick Recap & Today’s Final Jeopardy – March 30, 2017"

  1. Andy Saunders | March 30, 2017 at 12:10 pm |

    Scores going into Final:
    Julie $15,400
    Eric $14,800
    Brook $3,000

    Final results:
    Brook $3,000 + $2,399 = $5,399
    Eric $14,800 + $12,000 = $26,800 (1-day total: $26,800)
    Julie $15,400 + $7,500 = $22,900

    Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
    Eric $7,400
    Julie $7,400
    Brook $3,000

    Opening break taken after: 15 clues

    Daily Double locations:
    1) THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $800 (13th pick)
    Eric 2400 +2000 (Julie 3400 Brook 800)
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    2) “I” ON THE WORLD $2000 (6th pick)
    Eric 8600 +2600 (Julie 7400 Brook 3400)
    3) HAS GOOD BONES $1600 (14th pick)
    Eric 12000 +2000 (Julie 10600 Brook 3800)

    Unplayed clues:
    J! round: None!
    DJ! round: MICROSOFT WORD $1200 & $1600
    $ Left on Board: $2800

    Game Stats:
    Eric $12,600 Coryat, 21 correct, 3 incorrect, 38.18% in first on buzzer
    Julie $15,400 Coryat, 21 correct, 4 incorrct, 41.82% in first on buzzer
    Brook $3,000 Coryat, 9 correct, 1 incorrect, 16.36% in first on buzzer
    Lach Trash: $9,600
    Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,600

    Julie Brannon, final stats:
    69 correct
    10 incorrect
    3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5,400)
    3/3 in Final Jeopardy
    42.17% in first on buzzer (70/166)
    Average Coryat: $15,200

    Eric Vernon, stats to date:
    22 correct
    3 incorrect
    3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $6,600)
    1/1 in Final Jeopardy
    38.18% in first on buzzer (21/55)
    Average Coryat: $12,600

    Eric Vernon, to win:
    2 games: 41.59%
    3: 17.29%
    4: 7.19%
    5: 2.99%
    6: 1.24%
    Avg. streak: 1.712 games.
    Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $43,559

    With a projected 76 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
    An average of 2.7828 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.2915).
    An average of 4.3105 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.5671).

    An early cutoff took place 9.190% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).

    Tim Kutz qualified 70.126% of the time.
    Todd Giese qualified 27.244% of the time.
    Rob Liguori qualified 6.180% of the time.
    Fred Vaughn qualified 1.009% of the time.

    Miscellany:

    • The expected value of a standard lockout wager for Julie (assuming a 20% chance to reach the ToC with a victory) in this situation is $30,320. The expected value of Julie’s actual wager in this situation was $23,338 (assuming rational betting by her opponents).
  2. Eric Allbritton | March 30, 2017 at 1:54 pm |

    The t-shirt that reads ” don’t call me at 7:30 ”
    Is so apropos for our house, and I laughed for
    at least ten minutes. Thank You

  3. john blahuta | March 30, 2017 at 6:17 pm |

    2 days ago Julie got luck. Today her unconventional bet cost her the game. 14.201 would have been the conventional bet and had won her the game in any case. Since Eric bet 2 K less than going all in, even 11.401 would have done it. but you have always to anticipate/fear that the second placed player may go all in.

    • Frank Smith | March 30, 2017 at 9:01 pm |

      Too bad we won’t be seeing Julie in the ToC. At least Eric has a good 1 day total to get started.

  4. Don Spencer | March 30, 2017 at 11:54 pm |

    I was kind of surprised that Eric bet more than $8,799. A correct answer ($23,599) forces Julie to get a correct answer, but a wrong answer still prevents him from losing to Brook. And, as it turned out, his correct-answer total would’ve still been enough to win because of Julie’s strange bet.

  5. Kevin S. | March 31, 2017 at 1:32 pm |

    The wagers today were a bit… surprising. Have to wonder if Eric may have noticed Julie’s tendencies watching from the audience before his match. Would be heartbreaking to go into FJ with a lead, get the response correct, and then lose.

    I don’t like to judge simply based on appearances, but it’s very possible Eric and I are very close to being contemporaries. Nice to see another competitive appearance by a … seasoned … contestant.

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