Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category American Women) for Tuesday, September 27, 2017:
A collection of her writings includes letters to her famous husband & articles like “Eulogy on the Flapper”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Jennie Floyd, a retired management consultant from Tucson, Arizona |
Pasha Paterson, a senior computer science researcher from Richmond, Virginia |
Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York (1-day total: $36,000) |
[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Final Jeopardy! Correct Response/Question’]Who is Zelda Fitzgerald?[/spoiler]
Zelda Fitzgerald’s writing first became known when the New York Tribune asked Zelda to write a cheeky review of her husband’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned. The success of the piece led to Zelda receiving offers to write other magazine articles, one of which became Metropolitan Magazine‘s “Eulogy on the Flapper”. One quote from the piece:
The flapper awoke from the lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into battle.
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Scores going into Final:
Austin $15,900
Pasha $11,700
Jennie $7,200
Final results:
Jennie $7,200 – $7,200 = $0 (Who is Anne Morrow Lindbergh?)
Pasha $11,700 – $5,050 = $6,650 (Who was Roosevelt)
Austin $15,900 + $8,000 = $23,900 (2-day total: $59,900)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jennie $4,000
Pasha $2,800
Austin $1,800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) COUNTRIES WITH ONLY A’S AS VOWELS $800 (22nd pick)
Austin 4600 -4600 (Jennie 2600 Pasha 400)
2) NEW TO THE OED $1600 (19th pick)
Pasha 7600 +2500 (Austin 8200 Jennie 6400)
3) SUNSET, BOLIVAR $1600 (28th pick, $3,200 left on board, minute-to-go signal given)
Austin 10200 +5700 (Pasha 11700 Jennie 7200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -11
Unplayed clues:
J! round: WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600
DJ! Round: SUNSET, BOLIVAR $1200 & $2000
Total $ Left On Board: $3,800
Game Stats:
Austin $16,400 Coryat, 25 correct, 3 incorrect, 44.44% in first on buzzer
Pasha $10,800 Coryat, 16 correct, 5 incorrect, 35.19% in first on buzzer
Jennie $7,200 Coryat, 9 correct, 1 incorrect, 12.96% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $34,400
Lach Trash: $6,400 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,400
Austin Rogers, stats to date:
51 correct
7 incorrect
3/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $14,100)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
43.24% in first on buzzer (48/111)
Average Coryat: $15,900
Austin Rogers, to win:
3 games: 70.00%
4: 49.00%
5: 34.30%
6: 24.01%
7: 16.81%
Avg. streak: 4.333 games.
(Note: This model has been adjusted to take pre-Final Jeopardy! score into account instead of Coryat Score.)
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A smart bet and a smart player…finally a bet that made sense.
Considering that Austin was in 3rd place heading into DJ!, I thought he was one-and-done. Austin’s 2nd DD made up from the money lost from the first DD. What a comeback!
I’ve seen bigger comebacks than trailing by 2600 after DD1, 1900 after DD2 and 1500 going into DD3. 😉