Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Monday, March 6, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: EUROPE
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: These 2 countries whose names start with the same 4 letters were part of different countries until the 1990s
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Ernie Sykes, a high school English teacher from Nolensville, Tennessee |
Alison Maguire-Powell, a middle school band director from Denton, Texas |
Rob Liguori, a research editor from Brooklyn, New York (4-day total: $72,601) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response/Question’]What are Slovakia and Slovenia?[/spoiler]
Slovakia was a part of Czechslovakia, and Slovenia was a part of Yugoslavia. Another fun fact: Their flags are a white-blue-red tricolor, defaced with a coat of arms!
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Scores going into Final:
Rob $15,200
Alison $13,400
Ernie $8,400
Final results:
Ernie $8,400 – $6,801 = $1,599 (What is ?)
Alison $13,400 + $9,800 = $23,200 (1-day total: $23,200)
Rob $15,200 – $11,601 = $3,599 (What is Latvia & ?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Rob $4,400
Ernie $2,400
Alison -$1,000
Opening break taken after: 14 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER $400 (14th pick)
Rob 1600 +800 (Alison 1200 Ernie 1200)
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2) STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $1200 (19th pick)
Alison 7400 +4000 (Rob 10800 Ernie 3200)
3) THIS CATEGORY GOES TO THE 1100s $1600 (29th pick, $2000 left on board, minute-to-go signal given)
Ernie 4400 +4000 (Rob 15200 Alison 13400)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: WHO IS OUR LEADER $1000, A CUTE LITTLE HEDGEHOG $600, $800, $1000
DJ! round: THIS CATEGORY GOES TO THE 1100s $2000
$ Left on Board: $5,400
Game Stats:
Alison $10,600 Coryat, 16 correct, 5 incorrect, 36.54% in first on buzzer
Rob $14,800 Coryat, 20 correct, 4 incorrect, 40.38% in first on buzzer
Ernie $6,000 Coryat, 10 correct, 3 incorrect, 15.38% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $8,400
Coryat lost to incorrect responses: $8,800
Rob Liguori, final stats:
113 correct
18 incorrect
5/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $6,300)
2/5 in Final Jeopardy
41.54% in first on buzzer (108/260)
Average Coryat: $16,000
Alison Maguire-Powell, stats to date:
17 correct
5 incorrect
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
36.54% in first on buzzer (19/52)
Average Coryat: $10,600
Alison Maguire-Powell, to win:
2 games: 34.63%
3: 11.99%
4: 4.15%
5: 1.44%
6: 0.50%
Avg. streak: 1.530 games.
Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC berth): $35,850
Tournament of Champions prediction update:
With a projected 94 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 100,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 3.4176 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.4334).
An average of 5.2705 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.7502).
An early cutoff took place 21,892 times (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Tim Kutz qualified 51,075 times.
Todd Giese qualified 14,719 times.
Rob Liguori qualified 2,965 times.
Fred Vaughn qualified 666 times.
As a geography master, I knew this one right away. Too bad Rob couldn’t pull off win #5. Hopefully we’ll see him in the ToC.
As you’ll see by the release of my new prediction model, the chances are not good.
His chances may not be so good, but they’re better than those of Fred Vaughn.
It was kinda of a disappointment of Rob’s loss because now he has low TOC changes and I felt his coryot average was higher. #whydoesfinaljeopardyhavetobesodifficult.
I was in the “piece of cake” camp on this one.
Alison was a big surprise, with her comeback from a negative score beginning DJ. Her FJ correct response was beautifully written with great assurance!
I really enjoy the Geography questions. I was annoyed the other day when the contestants avoided, and then didn’t have time for, all the questions in the “which country is left of…” category.