Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Peoples of the World) for Friday, July 7, 2017:
Living from Norway to Russia, they’ve been called the only indigenous people of the European Union
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Susan Corica, a journalist from Waterbury, Connecticut |
Josh Hamilton, a physician from Pearland, Texas |
Jon Eisenman, an attorney from Los Angeles, California (5-day total: $103,902) |
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Who are the Lapps/Sami?
The Sami people, commonly known in English as the Lapps, inhabited the area of the far north of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia’s Kola Peninsula. Much like “Eskimo” among North American arctic indigenous, though, “Lapp” is often seen as a pejorative term amongst the Sami.
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Scores going into Final:
Jon $14,600
Susan $8,000
Josh $4,400
Final results:
Josh $4,400 – $4,400 = $0 (Who are the Inuit?)
Susan $8,000 + $7,995 = $15,995 (Who are the Laplanders?) (1-day total: $15,995)
Jon $14,600 – $1,401 = $13,199 (Who are the Finns/Oulo)
†”Laplanders” or “Lapplanders” is equivalent to “Lapp” and, thus, Susan’s response was correctly accepted by the judges.
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jon $6,600
Susan $2,600
Josh $1,600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY $400 (4th pick)
Jon 1200 +400 (Susan 0 Josh -600)
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2) STAR TALK $1200 (20th pick)
Susan 5800 +3000 (Jon 11800 Josh 4000)
3) DAY “O” $1200 (24th pick, $4,800 left on board)
Jon 13400 +1200 (Susan 9200 Josh 4800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 94
Unplayed clues:
J! round: CURLY $200
DJ! round: FRANCE VS. EVERYBODY $400, I AM A BUDDHIST $400
Total $ Left on Board: $1,000
Game Stats:
Susan $6,200 Coryat, 15 correct, 5 incorrect, 31.48% in first on buzzer
Jon $13,600 Coryat, 22 correct, 4 incorrect, 40.74% in first on buzzer
Josh $4,400 Coryat, 11 correct, 4 incorrect, 22.22% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $11,400 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $16,400
Jon Eisenman, final stats:
131 correct
18 incorrect
6/11 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,700)
4/6 in Final Jeopardy
36.53% in first on buzzer (122/334)
Average Coryat: $16,133
Susan Corica, stats to date:
16 correct
5 incorrect
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
31.48% in first on buzzer (17/54)
Average Coryat: $6,200
Susan Corica, to win:
2 games: 22.03%
3: 4.85%
4: 1.07%
5: 0.24%
6: 0.05%
Avg. streak: 1.282 games.
With a projected 35 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 1.1433 5+-time champions (standard deviation 0.84193).
An average of 1.8357 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.0122).
An early cutoff took place 5.554% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Susan Corica qualified 0.686% of the time.
Tim Kutz qualified 56.832% of the time.
Todd Giese qualified 12.899% of the time.
Again, for me as European an easy FJ. But then it’s Friday…..though yesterday was a gimme as well.
I hope Jon wins tonight. He’s enjoyable to watch 🙂
He lost tonight.
Jon Eisenman is the first 5+ time champion since Scott Lord nearly two years ago to lose on their sixth game.
Jon Eisenman will soon be on the Jeopardy.com TOC Tracker.
And Rob Liguori is officially out of the running.
Goodbye rob ligouri looks like Todd Giese gets the boubble slot now. Hope Tim kutz can hold on to that last spot he’s looking good but we’ll see. I’d love to have both him and Tim aten so it’s 2 Tim’s
I hope Jon Eisenman is the last 5 time champion before the Tournament of Champions.