Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 19th Century British Authors) for Monday, May 29, 2017:
Cliffs Notes says a book by this man “was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Megan Clair, a senior risk analyst from Houston, Texas |
Emily Hollins, a university registrar from Hancock, Maryland |
Jon Groubert, a former attorney from Denver, Colorado (2-day total: $40,991) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Final Jeopardy! Correct Response/Question’]Who is Lewis Carroll?[/spoiler]
The book described as such was Lewis Carroll’s famous work “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
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Scores going into Final:
Jon $32,200
Megan $11,400
Emily $5,600
Final results:
Emily $5,600 – $5,600 = $0 (Who is Wilde?)
Megan $11,400 – $0 = $11,400 (Who is Swift?)
Jon $32,200 + $3,000 = $35,200 (3-day total: $76,191)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jon $9,000
Megan $7,400
Emily $2,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) THE CLASSICS $800 (15th pick)
Jon 3600 +3600 (Megan 3000 Emily 600)
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2) ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $1200 (18th pick)
Jon 13800 +3000 (Megan 10200 Emily 7600)
3) STATES’ LARGEST LAKES (30th pick)
Jon 27200 +5000 (Megan 11400 Emily 5600)
Unplayed clues: None!
Game Stats:
Jon $24,600 Coryat, 28 correct, 1 incorrect, 42.11% in first on buzzer
Megan $11,400 Coryat, 21 correct, 3 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer
Emily $5,600 Coryat, 8 correct, 1 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $3,600 (on 3 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,800
Jon Groubert, stats to date:
70 correct
8 incorrect
4/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $12,195)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
39.39% in first on buzzer (65/165)
Average Coryat: $18,667
Jon Groubert, to win:
4 games: 66.23%
5: 43.86%
6: 29.05%
7: 19.24%
8: 12.74%
Avg. streak: 4.961 games.
With a projected 64 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 2.5716 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.2239).
An average of 4.0382 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.4768).
An early cutoff took place 21.771% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Jon Groubert qualified 45.958% of the time.
Tim Kutz qualified 33.032% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 6.567% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 1.057% of the time.
Miscellany
Important note the last time a contestant had over 30k going into final Jeopardy was Andrew Pau’s third game on April 19 2016
Well, Jon finding all 3 DDs AND responding correctly sure helped. Great game by Jon, congratulations.Megan put up a good fight for a while but was eventually “outgunned” by Jon.
Happy Memorial Day, everybody!! Remember those who serve and served us well…
I’m puzzled. Should the word included in today’s Final Jeopardy question have been “limericist” (a writer of limerics), or was it correctly used as “limerist”? If so, what does limerist mean in this context?
It quotes Cliffs Notes, which uses the word “limerist”.
And what is a limerist? Alice doesn’t contain limericks.
The word limerist may derive from “limerance”, a strong romantic attraction to somebody or something . Others claim it might just be a corruption of somebody who writes limericks. So….take your pick by reading Carroll’s works….
I believe it is a mixture of both, since living languages constantly change and new words and meanings are coming up nobody heard before just a few years or even moths ago.
It has also been explained as an intentional attempt to create some ” confusion” or “nonsense” in otherwise normal works, literary or other arts.Sort of “tongue in cheek”… So….. I guess it is a word that is evolving right now, looking for a final definitive explanation. Hope that helps somewhat.
Two r’s and two l’s—tough spell! I thought Kipling…
Did anyone else notice how foolhardy Jon’s $5000 wager on the game’s last clue was? If he had been incorrect, he would have left Megan back in for the final. Of course, it turned out to be moot as he was the only correct questioner in the final…but still!
I wondered about that. “Foolhardy,” that’s probably borderline controversial on this site…
I consciously elected to approve the comment as submitted. 🙂
(I’ve also deleted downthread, as I think I acted poorly. Thank you for calling me out.)
Yeah, he took a big (and unnecessary) risk there. As you said, though, it turned out to be a moot point.
Ignorant question for those of you out there – did you know which state Lake Ray Hubbard was in? I didn’t think that it was that well known, so I was surprised that Jon got it right. (I only knew because (a) I grew up in Texas and (b) one of my brothers, an avid fisherman, lives 30 miles from the lake.)
I never heard of Lake Ray Hubbard or Lake Sam Rayburn (which was the lake cited in the clue). Like Jon I would have guessed Texas, as Sam Rayburn is pretty generally known to be associated with Texas. I’d never heard of Ray Hubbard though.
Oops – my mistake. I would’ve sworn it was Ray Hubbard, but it was in fact Sam Rayburn. And yes, Sam Rayburn would’ve been much more familiar to non-Texans. Never mind …
I’ve recently discovered this site, and I’d love feedback on something that’s always bothered me about the game. When a contestant gives a response that’s not correct, but is close, Alex will sometimes hesitate…” ummm no.” Invariably another contestant will ring in with the correct response. This has always struck me as not fair. The remaining two contestants have been provided with an additional clue ( the ruled against response perhaps sounds like the right response, etc.). Whatcha think?
I love Jeopardy!
You have a bit of a point, but often the second contestant in this case will make the wrong correction and take the neg as well.
Good point! But then it’s kinda not fair to the unlucky second responder! Once Alex hesitates, maybe the clue should be discarded. Oh well, it’s still my favorite game show. 😀