Here’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Tuesday, April 4, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: Raised in industrial Yorkshire, he moved to L.A. in 1964 & thought, “This is the place to be–in the land of swimming pools”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Lena Liberman, a content editor from Baltimore, Maryland |
Jace Cochran, a municipal judge from Dayton, Tennessee |
Abigail Myers, an education administrator from Brooklyn, New York (1-day total: $29,000) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response/Question’]Who is David Hockney?[/spoiler]
The quote comes from a February 2016 interview with Art News. Hockney is considered important in both the 1960s pop art movement, as well as being one of Britain’s most important 20th century artists. Some of his works include “The Road to York through Sledmere” and “Hollywood Swimming Pool”
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Scores going into Final:
Abigail $12,200
Jace $11,400
Lena $4,800
Final results:
Lena $4,800 – $1,998 = $2,802 (Who is Hirst?)
Jace $11,400 – $1,799 = $9,601 (Who is Warhol?)
Abigail $12,200 – $2,000 = $10,200 (Who is Damien Hirst) (2-day total: $39,200)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jace $5,200
Abigail $4,800
Lena $2,800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) WHEN IN DOME $800 (2nd pick)
Jace 200 +1000 (Abigail 0 Lena 0)
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2) BATTLE HIM $1600 (7th pick)
Jace 8800 -5000 (Abigail 4800 Lena 2800)
3) GARDENING $1600 (22nd pick)
Abigail 10400 -1000 (Jace 11000 Lena 4000)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: TURKISH DELIGHTS $400
DJ! round: GARDENING $400
$ Left on Board: $800
Game Stats:
Abigail $13,200 Coryat, 20 correct, 2 incorrect, 36.36% in first on buzzer
Jace $16,200 Coryat, 18 correct, 2 incorrect, 32.73% in first on buzzer
Lena $4,800 Coryat, 7 correct, 2 incorrect, 16.36% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $13,400
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,600
Abigail Myers, stats to date
45 correct
5 incorrect
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
41.12% in first on buzzer (44/107)
Average Coryat: $17,400
Abigail Myers, to win:
3 games: 60.48%
4: 36.57%
5: 22.12%
6: 13.38%
7: 8.09%
Avg. streak: 3.530 games. #Jeopardy
Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $78,548
ToC projection update:
With a projected 93 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 3.5587 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.4659).
An average of 5.4821 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.7941).
An early cutoff took place 25.295% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Abigail Myers qualified 23.854% of the time.
Tim Kutz qualified 46.977% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 12.563% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 2.540% of the time.
Fred Vaughn qualified 0.637% of the time.
(Note: Due to the possibility of a WGA strike, I feel that it is more accurate for ToC projections to add 20 games to the end of the previous projected qualifying period.)
Miscellany:
When is the next jeopardy live Panel being taped?
My best guess is when I get back from Ottawa. More information is forthcoming.
On the $400 clue for “deb” 8 the answer given was debug, not an 8 letter answer?
Abigail absolutely, definitely said “debugged”.
(Not a specific reply to Steve here, but a reply to another similar comment which was not approved): I am of the view that implying that the judges somehow missed this (spoiler alert: they have dedicated audio feeds and the ability to listen again) is similar enough to people calling into professional golf tournaments claiming rules infringements by players (like what happened to Lexi Thompson last weekend) to be a Site Comment Policy violation.
To help illustrate this, we can look back at one of your own posts. In January of last year, you gave voice to Steve Bahnaman’s assertion that Mike Drummond’s Final Jeopardy! response of “Atlanta” may have been correct. In contrast to suggestions that Abigail’s response should’ve been judged wrong, that post (a) was well-supported by facts, and (b) asserted not that the judges had erred, but only the “Atlanta” be given further consideration (and, given Drummond has not re-appeared, we can presume that the appeal was most likely denied).
I also had a thought of “if not for viewer input, the show likely pays out to Jeff Kirby in 2009,” but the breakdown in the contestant vetting process that allowed Kirby to appear doesn’t imply that his ineligibility would not have been caught by the staff post-airdate, especially with 120 days to discover it.
Absolutely. There is a huge difference between a claim that the show has erred in factual matters and a claim that the show has erred in judging.
It should have been Debugged. If you take away Abigails $400 she received and another $400 for being incorrect she would go into final with same $$ as Jace.
(Admin addition: While it is true that the game would have been tied had Abigail been negged on this clue, Abigail definitely added the -ged onto the end.)
If I am not mistaken On 4/4 the champion answered bonzai with a z not bonsai with a s. This was a $1200 question which would have made a difference of $2400 and she did not win by that amount.
Jeff:
Regardless of how she chose to pronounce the word:
1) “Bon-zai” is a generally accepted common pronunciation of that word.
2) $1 going into Final Jeopardy is not the same as $1 coming out of it. Wagers are generally dependent on the scores, so to say that “she won by less than $2400, therefore it affected the outcome” is a wildly inaccurate statement. To say that the outcome of the game would be different based on that alone is incredibly disrespectful to Abigail and her championship.