Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Novels) for Wednesday, July 26, 2017:
A man can be destroyed but not defeated is a line from this 1952 book, later a Spencer Tracy film
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Kellie Packwood, a software engineer from Austin, Texas |
Seth Cope, a purchasing manager from Savannah, Georgia |
Justin Vossler, a high school history teacher from Homer, New York (4-day total: $92,800) |
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What is “The Old Man and the Sea”?
The classic Ernest Hemingway work “The Old Man and the Sea” was later adapted into a 1958 film starring Spencer Tracy as Santiago.
“But many is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Santiago (spoiler alert) has just killed a mako shark with his only harpoon, but more sharks are on the way and he has no weapon.
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Scores going into Final:
Justin $22,200
Seth $13,400
Kellie $4,400
Final results:
Kellie $4,400 – $0 = $4,400 (What is The Talented Mr. Ripley)
Seth $13,400 – $13,000 = $400 (What is the Man in the Grey Flannel Suit?)
Justin $22,200 – $5,000 = $17,200 (What is the Bridges
on theof Toko-Ri) (5-day total: $110,000)Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Justin $9,300
Seth $5,600
Kellie $1,200
Justin Vossler, to win:
6 games: 59.09%
7: 34.91%
8: 20.63%
9: 12.19%
10: 7.20%
Avg. streak: 6.444 games.
With a projected 22 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 1.5489 5+-time champions (standard deviation 0.64342).
An average of 1.9309 4+-time champions (standard deviation 0.78881).
An early cutoff took place 6.896% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Justin Vossler qualified 100.000% of the time.
Tim Kutz qualified 42.368% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 1.082% of the time.
No one got Final right for the second time. I think Tim Kutz will be in the ToC since the ToC Field is complete.
Scores going into Final:
Justin $22,200
Seth $13,400
Kellie $4,400
Final results:
Kellie $4,400 – $0 = $4,400 (What is The Talented Mr. Ripley)
Seth $13,400 – $13,000 = $400 (What is the Man in the Grey Flannel Suit?)
Justin $22,200 – $5,000 = $17,200 (What is the Bridges
on theof Toko-Ri) (5-day total: $110,000)Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Justin $9,300
Seth $5,600
Kellie $1,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) CROOKS & NANNIES $800 (26th pick)
Justin 6800 +1500 (Seth 3200 Kellie 1200)
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2) A TALE OF “NEW” CITIES (18th pick)
Justin 14500 +2500 (Seth 11200 Kellie 3600)
3) LYRICS FROM BROADWAY (28th pick, $3,600 left on board)
Seth 14800 -1400 (Justin 20600 Kellie 4400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 30
Unplayed clues: None!
Game Stats:
Justin $20,200 Coryat, 24 correct, 2 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer
Kellie $4,400 Coryat, 7 correct, 0 incorrect, 10.53% in first on buzzer
Seth $14,800 Coryat, 19 correct, 2 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $11,400 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $3,200
Justin Vossler, stats to date:
102 correct
13 incorrect
8/9 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $13,100)
3/5 in Final Jeopardy
33.68% in first on buzzer (96/285)
Average Coryat: $16,800
Justin Vossler, to win:
6 games: 59.09%
7: 34.91%
8: 20.63%
9: 12.19%
10: 7.20%
Avg. streak: 6.444 games.
With a projected 22 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 1.5489 5+-time champions (standard deviation 0.64342).
An average of 1.9309 4+-time champions (standard deviation 0.78881).
An early cutoff took place 6.896% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Justin Vossler qualified 100.000% of the time.
Tim Kutz qualified 42.368% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 1.082% of the time.
With 42 games to go, even Justin and Jon Eisenmann are not guaranteed spots.
Unless Justin wins at least one more.
Justin and Jon Eisenman will be in the ToC. Please don’t worry.
I’ll believe the inclusion of anyone on the ToC list when I see them on the show again in November.
Remember that the 2014 tournament qualifying period ended at the end of the season 30, so the same should happen with the 2017 tournament qualifying period ending at this end of season.
The tournament qualifying period ends whenever the producers feel like ending it and there is no such thing as historical precedent in this case.
1. That “the 2014 tournament qualifying period ended at the end of the season 30” is merely the community’s working assumption. The actual date could have been anywhere between June 11 (Molly Lalonde’s last game) and September 23 (Catherine Hardee’s first). The end of Season 30 seems the most logical cutoff point, but the show has never confirmed nor denied it.
2. There is circumstantial evidence that the cutoff date was changed retroactively. When Keith Williams first modeled the 2015 ToC, he based it on the cutoff for the 2014 ToC being on October 10, not November 7. IIRC, he stated on JBoard that said date came from conversations with the show’s production staff at the taping of the 2014 ToC. That would have put Catherine Hardee out of the running. Then, in August 2015, Jeopardy! overhauls its website, including its ToC tracker… and lo and behold, Catherine Hardee is on it.
If the date was retroactively shifted backward, it’s one of two big breaks she had no hand in, but got nonetheless. (The second was appearing before the elimination of regular play tiebreakers; had she played under current rules, she likely would have lost her fourth game and not reached the ToC.) This should not be taken to disparage or diminish Catherine’s play in any way; she rightly earned her berth, and having won her quarterfinal, showed herself to be no slouch.
I’m getting nervous for Tim Kutz.
I hope he makes it.
Not even one of them knows one Spencer Tracy movie!
I’m not sure how that follows. Often contestants will focus on one part of the clue too much when trying to solve a clue that isn’t immediately apparent to them. So to claim the contestants don’t know a Spencer Tracy movie is grossly unfair, in my opinion.
I would have enjoyed it if anyone said “Father of the Bride” 🙂
having technical issues tonight unfortunly I have to miss this tonight but I know that Justin had won again
Wow! I just binged watched all of Justin’s run when I came back from my trip to Toronto. I can’t believe he’s still going.
I changed my response from the right one to “Inherit the Wind”. A good guess based on the clue, I thought—saw both movies. Love gettin’ them slippery Triple Stumper Finals. Oh well :”(
Please what is that question about the thirt book? And I think the answer was “book of Mormon?”
It was a Daily Double, LYRICS FROM BROADWAY $1200:
And God said, ‘Joe, people really need to know that the Bible isn’t two parts, there’s a part three.’
There was a mistake on the 7/26/2017 show. Victor Fleming did not replace George Cukor as the director of the Wizard of Oz. He replaced him as the director of the other classic of that year (the two biggest classics of that multiple-classic year), Gone With the Wind. Fleming left the Wizard of Oz early (King Vidor finished what little filming that remained) to replace Cukor on GWTW, but George Cukor did not direct ANY of The Wizard of Oz.
This link appears to support Jeopardy’s position:
http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/George_Cukor
While I’m sure GWTW would have been accepted had it been given, The Wizard of Oz was an acceptable response.