Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category The Civil War Era) for Tuesday, May 30, 2017:
The USA’s largest state school in 1861, by 1862 its enrollment had dropped by 90%
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Rand Wise, a math teacher from Decatur, Georgia |
Kerry Benn, a legal news editor from Springfield, New Jersey |
Jon Groubert, a former attorney from Denver, Colorado (3-day total: $76,191) |
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Jon Groubert is on the 2nd page of our ToC Tracker. A win today would put him onto Page 1!
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Final Jeopardy! Correct Response/Question’]What is the University of Virginia?[/spoiler]
The University of Virginia was the 2nd largest university in the United States prior to the Civil War. Its pre-war enrollment of 600 dropped 90% by 1862. It was thankfully spared in 1865 by Sheridan’s troops when they reached Charlottesville.
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Scores going into Final:
Jon $18,000
Kerry $13,000
Rand $11,000
Final results:
Rand $11,000 + $900 = $11,900
Kerry $13,000 + $1,000 = $14,000 (1-day total: $14,000)
Jon $18,000 – $8,001 = $9,999 (What is Annapolis?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Rand $4,600
Kerry $3,600
Jon $3,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) BEHIND THE BIBLICAL NAME $600 (28th pick)
Kerry 5600 -2000 (Rand 3600 Jon 2200)
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2) OCCUPATIONS IN THE NEWS $800 (18th pick)
Jon 8200 +3000 (Rand 8600 Kerry 8400)
3) SEOUL MAN & WOMAN $1600 (29th pick, $2,000 left on board)
Kerry 10000 +3000 (Jon 18000 Rand 11000)
Unplayed clues: None!
Game Stats:
Kerry $13,600 Coryat, 18 correct, 3 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer
Rand $11,000 Coryat, 14 correct, 1 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer
Jon $15,800 Coryat, 19 correct, 1 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $11,200 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $2,400
Jon Groubert, final stats:
89 correct
10 incorrect
5/6 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $15,195)
2/4 in Final Jeopardy
37.84% in first on buzzer (84/222)
Average Coryat: $17,950
Kerry Benn, stats to date:
19 correct
3 incorrect
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57)
Average Coryat: $13,600
Kerry Benn, to win:
2 games: 45.24%
3: 20.47%
4: 9.26%
5: 4.19%
6: 1.90%
Avg. streak: 1.826 games.
Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $34,468.
With a projected 63 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 2.28 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.1644).
An average of 3.5494 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.4098).
An early cutoff took place 14.405% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Kerry Benn qualified 7.842% of the time.
Tim Kutz qualified 43.368% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 11.886% of the time.
Rob Liguori qualified 1.689% of the time.
Jon and Rand *being from Georgia ) should get this. We might even have a rare 3/3.Certainly one of the easier FJ clues.
well, so much for guessing jon would get it. I’ll hock my 8 ball……
kind of unusual wagers by Rand and Kerry? Jon was the only one wagering as the situation required. I sometimes really would like to know what a contestant thinks when s/he places an unusual bet. I guess there are all kind of strategies, each one with pros and cons…?
Both wagers were only “unusual” in the sense that very few contestants actually wager properly like that.
Rand needs to go small to protect against exactly what Jon did. And Kerry, seeing that, decided to go small herself.
The Final Jeopardy wagering was impeccable today, for a rare treat, and to say that Rand or Kelly wagered poorly does a massive disservice to future contestants.
well, as I said: there are so many choices of which way to go in wagering for FJ, also depending on how comfortable a contestant might be with the category, anticipating what the leader might do etc. etc.
With unusual I meant that you don’t see that kind of bets as they were today that often. As it turned out a small bet won the game.I did NOT mean to criticize them, just that you don’t see this strategy that often.
Plus, I did NOT say or implicate “poorly”, Andy. Please do not put words in my mouth I never said or meant to say, ok? I hope you don’t take this as a critique on you. Just that I NEVER said “poorly” or meant it. Are we ok?
You also said “Jon was the only one who wagered as the situation required.”
To me, that means that you didn’t think the other two did so, and thus, by my definition, made a poor bet.
Looks like we’re getting back into the pattern where the leader misses final Jeopardy
Right!
If you think about it rand actually wagered well because what happened was Kerry also wagered well she wagered to keep rand locked out if he goes small. Keith Williams we need you back buddy! Come back!
I don’t know where Keith went. He hasn’t done much since Andrew Pau was champion I think.
Or perhaps Jason George, Ellen Corrigan or Justin Bender maybe.
Wagering doesn’t matter in Final.