Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Asian Geography) for Tuesday, October 17, 2017 (Season 34, Episode 27):
It’s the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea & the Persian Gulf
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Fran Fried, a writer, editor & DJ from Prospect, Connecticut |
Carlos Nobleza Posas, an actor from Salt Lake City, Utah |
Manny Abell, a Naval officer from Lacey, Washington(2-day total: $42,798) |
[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Final Jeopardy! Correct Response/Question’]What is Iran?[/spoiler]
Iran is one of the top 20 countries in the world in area, and its territory stretches from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf. Other countries that border the Caspian Sea are Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Fran $12,300
Carlos $12,300
Manny $1,000
Tonight’s results:
Manny $1,000 – $999 = $1 (What is Iraq?) (3-day total: $42,799)
Carlos $12,300 – $12,300 = $0 (What is Azerbaijan?)
Fran $12,300 – $12,300 = $0 (What is Tibet?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Fran $2,800
Manny $2,200
Carlos $400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) A NOVEL IDEA $600 (22nd pick)
Carlos 4000 -4000 (Fran 4000 Manny 2000)
2) IT’S A BATTLE $1200 (4th pick)
Fran 4000 +1500 (Manny 2200 Carlos 800)
3) INVENTION & DISCOVERY $2000 (27th pick) [$1600 left on board]
Carlos 7600 +5100 (Fran 12700 Manny 600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 5
Unplayed clues:
J! round: A NOVEL IDEA $200 & LET’S SAVE THE PLANET $1000
DJ! Round: ANCIENT WISDOM $400
Total $ Left On Board: $1,600
Game Stats:
Manny $1,000 Coryat, 12 correct, 5 incorrect, 22.22% in first on buzzer
Fran $12,000 Coryat, 17 correct, 5 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer
Carlos $13,200 Coryat, 15 correct, 6 incorrect, 31.48% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $26,200
Lach Trash: $14,000 (on 12 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,600
Manny Abell, stats to date:
59 correct
12 incorrect
4/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,200)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
34.52% in first on buzzer (58/168)
Average Coryat: $11,133
Manny Abell, to win:
4 games: 41.00%
5: 16.81%
6: 6.89%
7: 2.82%
8: 1.16%
Avg. streak: 3.695 games.
(Note: This model has been adjusted to take pre-Final Jeopardy! score into account instead of Coryat Score.)
Miscellaneous:
- The only other win with a total of $1 was on January 19, 1993: Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Darryl Scott defeated Nancy Melucci and Kate Marciniak.
- Fran gets 2nd place over Carlos due to her having more money after the Jeopardy! round.
- With $1,000, Manny’s Coryat score is the lowest Coryat score of any player who went onto win the game (in my score database).
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One other thing that entered into the situation at the end is that when Carlos selected the clue that had the Daily Double, I think he had $3,600. Before he made his Daily Double bet, Alex informed him that his previous response that was originally ruled incorrect had been determined to be acceptable, so they credited him with $4,000, giving him a total of $7,600. That enabled him to bet $5,100 and move into a tie with Fran when he answered the Daily Double correctly.
If the judges had been slower with their ruling and Carlos hadn’t been credited with the $4,000 before the bet, he could’ve only gotten up to $7,200 with a true Daily Double. Adding the $4,000 after that would’ve only gotten him up to $11,200, so without a tie between Carlos and Fran going into Final Jeopardy, things wouldn’t have worked out so well for Manny. Timing is everything…
Re: “If the judges had been slower with their ruling” –
That’s an incredibly rare occurrence — when it happened last Thursday with Austin, I thought it noteworthy enough to bring up on Live Panel on Monday, because I seem to recall it happening fewer than five times in the entire history of the show.
In fact, if there’s any doubt as to a response, the judges will routinely stop tape at the Daily Double — even more so in Double Jeopardy — to ensure that the scores and all previous responses are correct, so that a situation as described by you could not occur. So, I think I can safely say that your hypothetical would just be that, a very rare, if not impossible, hypothetical.
Oh, okay. Didn’t realize that that’s the way things work. Thanks for explaining the way things happen during taping.
@ Andy
yes, 8 flags on the very top and then the correct 5 countries printed in bold in the first paragraph. proof that you can’t always trust google!!!!!