Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Monday, April 3, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: In 1947 these 2 nations became the first new members of the British Commonwealth since the original group in 1931
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Billy Wong, an adjunct professor from Hacienda Heights, California |
Abigail Myers, an education administrator from Brooklyn, New York |
Eric Vernon, a retired government relations specialist from Ottawa, Ontario (2-day total: $50,400) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response/Question’]What are India and Pakistan?[/spoiler]
The original group of the Commonwealth of Nations consisted of Australia, Canada, Ireland, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. India and Pakistan joined upon their 1947 independence. Sri Lanka joined in 1948, where Newfoundland (when it became a Canadian province) and Ireland (when it became the Republic of Ireland) left in 1949. It was created by the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which also established the legislative independence of Britain’s dominions at the time.
Interestingly enough, it was a constitutional crisis in 1925 in Canada, known as the King-Byng Affair, which provided a great deal of impetus for the discussions which led to the formation of the Commonwealth.
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Scores going into Final:
Abigail $22,000
Billy $5,600
Eric -$800
Final results:
Eric -$800
Billy $5,600 + $5,600 = $11,200
Abigail $22,000 + $7,000 = $29,000 (1-day total: $29,000)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Abigail $9,200
Billy $3,200
Eric $3,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) WHERE ART THOU? $800 (10th pick)
Billy 1400 +1400 (Abigail 1600 Eric 1400)
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2) PHOTOGRAPHY $1600 (15th pick)
Abigail 16400 +2000 (Billy 5600 Eric 4800)
3) CONSTELLATIONS $2000 (25th pick, $6,000 left on board, minute-to-go signal given)
Eric 9600 -9600 (Abigail 22000 Billy 5600)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: NEW WAYS TO SAY CORRECT $200, KING ME $200 & $400
DJ! round: KILLER CARS $1600 & $2000
$ Left on Board: $4,400
Game Stats:
Abigail $21,600 Coryat, 24 correct, 2 incorrect, 46.15% in first on buzzer
Billy $5,000 Coryat, 9 correct, 1 incorrect, 17.31% in first on buzzer
Eric $8,800 Coryat, 14 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.92% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $8,600
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,600
Eric Vernon, final stats:
50 correct
7 incorrect
3/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
30.86% in first on buzzer (50/162)
Average Coryat: $11,067
Abigail Myers, stats to date
25 correct
2 incorrect
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
46.15% in first on buzzer
Average Coryat: $21,600
Abigail Myers, to win:
2 games: 72.51%
3: 52.57%
4: 38.12%
5: 27.64%
6: 20.04%
Avg. streak: 3.637 games. #Jeopardy
Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $92,255.
With a projected 74 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 2.7911 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.3003).
An average of 4.2568 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.5977).
An early cutoff took place 9.273% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Abigail Myers qualified 33.347% of the time.
Tim Kutz qualified 69.736% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 26.572% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 6.512% of the time.
Fred Vaughn qualified 1.691% of the time.
Miscellany:
nice payday! could have made it an even 30 K, just for the heck of it. TYhe FJK was relatively easy imo, you just had to think who became independent around that time and had really strong relations with the U.K. Nevertheless, nice job!!
Didn’t she finish with 29 K even, not 29.200 ?????
Thanks for the correction. Somehow misread my notes.
When will the next jeopardy live panel air?
The next three weeks, #JeopardyLivePanel will be airing on Tuesday evenings.
Why wasn’t Eric in final jeopardy round? I tuned in just as FJ clue was given and he was not at his podium .
When you’re at a negative score going into Final, by rule, you may not participate in Final Jeopardy.
I have no idea what happened on the last clue in DJ! after Eric making a TDD and getting it wrong.
he got the last clue wrong, that put him in the red and out of FJ.