Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Thursday, April 6, 2017:
Final Jeopardy! category: FAMILIAR PHRASES
Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: Old circuses like “Gentry’s Equine & Canine Paradox” gave rise to this idiom referring to any elaborate presentation
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Maresha Mead, a high school English teacher from Alexandria, Virginia |
David Gatewood, a Ph.D student from Knoxville, Tennessee |
Nora Rowaily, a scoring director from Cincinnati, Ohio(1-day total: $23,600) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response/Question’]What is a dog and pony show?[/spoiler]
While its origin lies as above, the term “dog and pony show” is usually used nowadays to describe seminars for the purpose of introducing new investment products to potential investors.
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Scores going into Final:
Nora $12,200
David $11,600
Maresha $10,200
Final results:
Maresha $10,200 + $10,198 = $20,398
David $11,600 + $10,000 = $21,600 (What is a
horsedog and pony show?) (1-day total: $21,600)Nora $12,200 – $11,001 = $1,199 (What is a horse and pony show?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Nora $7,600
Maresha $5,800
David $3,400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) AN ECO-CATEGORY $1000 (23rd pick)
Nora 2800 +2800 (Maresha 5800 David 2400)
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2) AWARDS & HONORS $1200 (12th pick)
David 11000 -3000 (Nora 10400 Maresha 5800)
3) A LIBERAL LIBRARY $1600 (19th pick)
Nora 9200 +3000 (David 9600 Maresha 6200)
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! round: None!
$ Left on Board: $0
Game Stats:
David $14,600 Coryat, 12 correct, 2 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer
Maresha $10,200 Coryat, 23 correct, 4 incorrect, 43.86% in first on buzzer
Nora $9,000 Coryat, 18 correct, 4 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $9,400
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,800
Nora Rowaily, final stats:
34 correct
7 incorrect
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $10,800)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
30.36% in first on buzzer (34/112)
Average Coryat: $9,600
David Gatewood, stats to date:
13 correct
2 incorrect
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
Average Coryat: $14,600
David Gatewood, to win:
2 games: 48.92%
3: 23.93%
4: 11.70%
5: 5.73%
6: 2.80%
Avg. streak: 1.958 games.
Average Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $44,154
ToC projection update:
With a projected 91 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 3.3799 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.4268).
An average of 5.2064 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.7438).
An early cutoff took place 20.985% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Tim Kutz qualified 52.123% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 15.276% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 3.128% of the time.
Fred Vaughn qualified 0.677% 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:
Familiar phrases??? I never in my life heard of it, certainly not with its supposed meaning.
The answer would have to be: Dog and Pony Show
I know the show doesn’t have a good track record with regionalisms (note Rob Russell’s regional pronunciation of “foliage” last season), but is “horse and pony show” used equivalently in any areas of the US? I thought it was interesting that we nearly had two contestants use the phrase.
Also, the only citations I found on the web cited the same Wikipedia article. That Wikipedia article has since had that citation removed. So if a citation’s flimsy enough to not even stick on Wikipedia, I’d hardly say it’s up to Jeopardy’s standards.
didn’t understand the FOC question which had the Bahamas FOC, the answer was given as the cross of st george, except the flag shown was a white cross on red background, not a red cross on a white background???
The English flag (as well as the flag of Genoa, and the main cross on Georgia’s flag (the Caucasian republic, not the American state)) is usually described as “a red St. George’s cross on a white field”. This would imply that any cross that is symmetrical with the horizontal bar twice as long as the vertical one is a St. George’s cross.
Indeed, on page 24 of Whitney Smith’s book, Flags Through The Ages and Across the World, considered the foremost book on vexillology by vexillologists, it defines a St. George’s cross as:
“A red cross on a white flag or shield, symbolic of St. George and used in England, Genoa, and elsewhere; by extension, a flag cross of the same design regardless of color”
Please note the second half of that (i.e., everything after the semicolon). While the red on white is the usual depiction, and can’t be faulted, crosses of the same appearance but other colours are also St. George’s crosses, vexillologically speaking.
The clue’s definition was right.
Sincerely,
Your friendly neighbourhood vexillologist
The “horse and pony show” thing cracked me up, because my fiancee says that all the time! She never thought of it as “correct”, though (and she’s not from the US, so I don’t think that supports and regionalism theory.
Gotta admit I felt a little bit prescient watching the episode after posting a note yesterday that used “Oxford comma” as a parallel in the grammar discussion about Raptors. As soon as the category was announced, we knew it would be either a clue or an answer. Thought it would have valued more lightly, though.
I would appreciate if you tracked how many clues were revealed but not correctly answered or attempted by any of the contestants. J! Archive calls them “Triple Stumpers,” I believe. I usually get a couple every game. If that stat’s already on your site somewhere, my bad. And, if so, could you please point me to it?
The specific term I think you’re looking for (not in the J! Archive glossary, but used by the show’s staff), is “stand-and stare”; that is a specific subset of Triple Stumper, as a clue may be a Triple Stumper if any or all of the contestants give an incorrect response (but a missed Daily Double is not a Triple Stumper.) Once I confirm specifically what subset of clues you’d like tracked, I can certainly begin posting those numbers on Monday.
If any or all of the contestants give an incorrect response, or if any or all of the contestants have no response at all—not including Daily Doubles, which are directed only at one contestant, or Final Jeopardy! You’re the best, Andy—the best!
I am originally from South Africa
And growing up there I was familiar with the term dog and pony show
Wouldn’t the “equine” in the clue rule out *horse* and pony show and lead you to dog?
You mean “canine”. But, I would also personally say that using a TOM as pinning is flimsy. That said, this page sees more than five thousand hits and nobody has made a case for equivalence yet that hasn’t hinged upon the now-disappeared Wikipedia citation. So I’m feeling confident that they generally aren’t.