Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Famous Names) for Thursday, August 10, 2017:
At a May 1989 ceremony in Cape Town, he received a Bachelor of Laws correspondence degree in absentia
(This game originally aired on November 21, 2016.)
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Alec Fischthal, a junior from North Woodmere, New York /td>
| Sharath Narayan, a sophomore from Madison, Alabama |
Michael Borecki, a junior from Darien, Connecticut |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Correct Response/Question’]Who is Nelson Mandela?[/spoiler]
Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Sharath $20,000
Michael $13,600
Alec $10,000
Final Results:
Alec $10,000 + $6,500 = $16,500
Michael $13,600 – $13,600 = $0 (Who is Mohandas Ganhdi?)
Sharath $20,000 + $8,000 = $28,000
Scores after the opening round:
Michael $5,200
Sharath $4,800
Alec $4,200
(more stats below)
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Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) LANGUAGES $400 (4th pick)
Alec 1200 +1200 (Michael 800 Sharath 0)
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2) GEOGRAPHY $800 (5th pick)
Alec 5800 +3000 (Sharath 6000 Michael 5200)
3) COLONIAL AMERICA $1600 (12th pick)
Michael 5600 +5600 (Sharath 12800 Alec 7600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 252
Unplayed clues:
J! round: MANIC PIXEL DREAM GIRLS $200
Game Stats:
Sharath $20,000 Coryat, 22 correct, 1 incorrect, 33.93% in first on buzzer
Alec $7,000 Coryat, 18 correct, 5 incorrect, 32.14% in first on buzzer
Michael $9,600 Coryat, 13 correct, 2 incorrect, 21.43% in first on buzzer
Lach Trash: $9,000 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,200
Michael Borecki, stats to date:
68 correct
7 incorrect
7/7 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $19,600)
1/3 in Final Jeopardy
35.50% in first on buzzer (60/169)
Average Coryat: $16,733
Alec Fischthal, stats to date:
70 correct
12 incorrect
5/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $10,200)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
36.47% in first on buzzer (62/170)
Average Coryat: $14,133
Sharath Narayan, stats to date:
65 correct
7 incorrect
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,400)
3/3 in Final Jeopardy
34.71% in first on buzzer (59/170)
Average Coryat: $14,600
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Jeopardy teen tournament was taken off channel 9 for a football game. I am a football fan but this was not right. Channel 9 will be losing me as a regular fan.
My advice would be for you to contact Channel 9 expressing your displeasure.
That being said: I can certainly understand, though, why a television station would elect to show a preseason football game over a Jeopardy! rerun. This is why the show does run six weeks of encore presentations over the summer, because affiliates often pre-empt the show over the summer for various reasons — preseason football and the Olympics among the most common ones.
Not simply having the six weeks of repeats, but the timing of the season’s start as well. Including the upcoming season, only 7 out of 34 times, and not since 2004, has the season premiere aired the week prior to NFL Week 1.
I imagine that after the Thursday Night Football fiasco three years ago, the show is even more sensitive to not having first-run episodes bumped from their normal time slots by NFL coverage.