Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category The Great Depression) for Quarterfinal #4 in the 2017 Tournament of Champions, on Thursday, November 9, 2017 (Season 34, Episode 44):
A street-corner occupation that saved many in the Depression was aided by a 1930 tops-in-the-U.S. crop in this state
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Throughout November, in memory of Cindy Stowell, I’ll be making a donation for every item sold from this site’s online store! More details are below the information about Final Jeopardy.
Today’s contestants:
Sam Deutsch, a business consultant from Calabasas, California |
Lisa Schlitt, a microbiologist from Berwyn, Pennsylvania |
Seth Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate & adjunct professor from Nacogdoches, Texas |
[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Final Jeopardy! Correct Response/Question’]What is Washington?[/spoiler]
The Washington apple industry had a huge bumper crop in 1930. Looking for a place for the apples to go, the International Apple Shippers Association came up with an idea: Send them east! People could buy a crate of 60 apples for $1.75, and sell them for a nickel apiece! If they sold their entire crate in a day, well, that’s a net profit $1.25 — which went a long way, and was a lot better than nothing, in America at that time. By November 1930, streets were packed with apple sellers, and Akron, Ohio went so far as to require apple sellers to give up their spots every two weeks to give more people a chance of at least making some money!
(As an aside: This is the kind of interesting, difficult fact that I was hoping to see more of this week in the Tournament of Champions! I definitely learned something new today!)
In memory of Cindy Stowell, I’ll be donating $2 to the Cancer Research Institute for every item sold in November from our store!. Here are our top sellers; all prices are in US dollars!
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Lisa $14,400
Sam $12,400
Seth $9,900
Tonight’s results:
Seth $9,900 – $4,501 = $5,399 (What is Iowa?)
Sam $12,400 – $4,200 = $8,200 (What is Florida)
Lisa $14,400 + $1,000 = $15,400 (Automatic semifinalist)
Automatic Semifinalists:
Monday: Buzzy Cohen, $30,000 ($16,400, $8,400)
Tuesday: Jason Sterlacci, $23,000 ($18,800, $5,000)
Wednesday: Alan Lin, $19,610 ($19,605, $8,800)
Thursday: Lisa Schlitt, $15,400 ($14,400, $9,200)
Friday:
Wild Card standings:
1) Pranjal Vachaspati $16,401 ($15,000, $5,400), qualified
2) Austin Rogers $16,000 ($8,000, $600), qualified
3) Lilly Chin $12,000 ($12,800, $2,000), 95.041% to advance
4) Tim Aten $11,500 ($14,000, $5,600), 57.079% to advance
5) Sam Deutsch $8,200 ($12,400, $4,400)
6) Seth Wilson $5,399 ($9,900, $5,600)
7) Hunter Appler $1,400 ($1,400, $1,200)
8) David Clemmons $0 ($1,400, $-200)
9)
10)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Lisa $9,200
Seth $5,600
Sam $4,400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) “N” TITLED TO LITERATURE $800 (20th pick)
Lisa 3400 +3400 (Sam 4200 Seth 2600)
2) MECHANICS $800 (10th pick)
Lisa 11200 +2000 (Seth 8400 Sam 5600)
3) WHERE & WHEN? $1600 (13th pick)
Seth 8000 -2500 (Lisa 13200 Sam 5600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 87
Game Stats:
Lisa $10,600 Coryat, 20 correct, 1 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer
Sam $12,400 Coryat, 12 correct, 0 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer
Seth $12,400 Coryat, 17 correct, 2 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $35,400
Lach Trash: $13,800 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,800
Lisa Schlitt, stats to date:
172 correct
20 incorrect
9/12 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $17,100)
6/8 in Final Jeopardy
37.75% in first on buzzer (168/445)
Average Coryat: $14,150
Sam Deutsch, stats to date:
80 correct
8 incorrect
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
4/5 in Final Jeopardy
27.80% in first on buzzer (77/277)
Average Coryat: $11,440
Seth Wilson, stats to date:
333 correct
37 incorrect
15/23 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $13,800)
9/14 in Final Jeopardy
40.54% in first on buzzer (313/772)
Average Coryat: $17,671
Miscellaneous:
- Seth Wilson is now the first player to win at least 9 games and be eliminated in the quarterfinals of a tournament.
Become a Supporter now! Make a monthly contribution to the site on Patreon!
Contestant photo credit: jeopardy.com
When commenting, please note that all comments on The Jeopardy! Fan must be in compliance with the Site Comment Policy.
I made the connection between the depression and apples, but I didn’t get to Washington, since apples are grown in so many states. I was thinking NYC street corners and said New York. I didn’t think they would be shipping apples across the US to sell on street corners.
I envisioned a movie scene in which old men wearing fingerless, tattered, wool gloves were huddled around a rusty steel drum used as a firepit for roasting chestnuts 🙂