Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category World Literature) for Wednesday, December 13, 2017 (Season 34, Episode 68):
In a 1967 novel this Nobel Prize winner wrote, “The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Bryce Johnson, an analytics manager from Evanston, Illinois |
Rachel Schemmel, a teacher from Ridgewood, New Jersey |
LaKedra Pam, a physician from Baton Rouge, Louisiana (2-day total: $32,800) |
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[spoiler title=’Click/Tap Here for Final Jeopardy! Correct Response/Question’]Who is Gabriel García Márquez?[/spoiler]
The 1982 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Colombian Gabriel García Márquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967. The novel tells the story of seven generations of the Buendia family in Macondo, which was founded in the remote Colombian rainforest.
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Scores going into Final:
Bryce $18,000
LaKedra $16,200
Rachel $5,800
Tonight’s results:
Rachel $5,800 – $5,800 = $0 (Who is Singer)
LaKedra $16,200 + $13,000 = $29,200 (Who is Garcia Marquez)
Bryce $18,000 + $14,401 = $32,401 (1-day total: $32,401) (Who is Marquez)
Judging note: The show, on multiple occasions, including the April 1, 2015 episode and the August 11, 1990 episode of “Super Jeopardy!”, has accepted just Marquez, in spite of the fact that Garcia Marquez is a compound last name.
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Bryce $8,800
LaKedra $5,000
Rachel $1,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) OF “ORDER” $800 (4th pick)
Bryce 600 +1000 (LaKedra 400 Rachel 200)
2) RELIGION $1600 (15th pick)
LaKedra 10600 +1600 (Bryce 14400 Rachel 3800)
3) ASIAN RIVERS $800 (23rd pick)
Bryce 14800 -4000 (LaKedra 15000 Rachel 5800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 88
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Game Stats:
Bryce $21,800 Coryat, 23 correct, 1 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer
LaKedra $16,200 Coryat, 20 correct, 1 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer
Rachel $5,800 Coryat, 9 correct, 1 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $43,800
Lach Trash: $8,800 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $1,400
LaKedra Pam, final stats:
67 correct, 4 incorrect
36.90% in first on buzzer (62/168)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,133
Bryce Johnson, stats to date:
24 correct, 1 incorrect
35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,800
Bryce Johnson, to win:
2 games: 58.51%
3: 34.23%
4: 20.03%
5: 11.72%
6: 6.85%
Avg. streak: 2.410 games.
(Note: This model has been adjusted to take pre-Final Jeopardy! score into account instead of Coryat Score.)
Miscellaneous:
- Thanks to Mark Barrett for providing me with a full chart of this game.
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Marquez is actually his maternal family name, Garcia his paternal family name. So it should be in addressing him Sr. Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.In Colombia they use the Spanish naming customs.(Paternal first,maternal second).
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Only when the paternal name is ambiguous (e.g. a common first name) then the maternal name is used, like in the case of Marquez, since Garcia is or at least was a very common first name.So to avoid confusion, G. Garcia-Marquez was called G. Marquez.
Thank you for that information. I learned something today.
My pleasure. How about the star(s)??
If you see random stars, it’s probably a formatting error.
I also had ‘stay” in the contronym category.
Garcia Marquez is the correct surname. Usually the judges on Jeopardy are more discerning. Disappointing for the only contestant who knew that.
The original post explains the precedent and the comment from Mr Blahuta explains a possible rationale for this precedent.
I thought Lakedra would make the toc. Bryce should make the toc.
That’s a bold statement to make on one game!
So, here’s another case where a double-correct answer affects the final winner in allowing a competitor to have enough money to move past the person who otherwise would have won.
In this case, had Stay been accepted to begin with, Bryce doesn’t get that extra $2000 and actually goes into final down by $200. ANd with LaKedra also getting FJ correct, under normal betting she would have won.
Of course, that’s assuming all other things are equal since the moment she was initially ruled incorrect. Since she had a double jeopardy opportunity and might have bet smaller than she would have if she had not been given that $4000 back, who knows what she would have actually bet in her attempt to catch Bryce at a point where the game wasn’t that close to being over yet.
This is not a complaint, just an observation. All players should be fully aware of the rules and the situation they are in when making their decisions while playing the game.
Double Jeopardy = the second round of 30 questions.
Daily Double = the three special clues upon which wagers are made.
Also, you’re forgetting that Bryce played a Daily Double. With $2k less, so many contestants would have bet $2500 or $3000 in the spot (instead of the $4000 he did bet), and with that lesser loss on the Daily Double, Bryce still leads.
So, the extra “what if” here means that it’s impossible to hold everything else constant and say with any sort of certainty that the result would have been different. Sorry.
“So, the extra ‘what if’ here means that it’s impossible to hold everything else constant and say with any sort of certainty that the result would have been different.”
That’s what I said.
Also the Daily Double/Double Jeopardy was clearly a typo, so no need to define the terms
I always wondered about the string of surnames in Spanish names thing but never thought to find out why,,,
I do not claim to have psychic powers (if I do, they work very intermittently), but something made me think of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” before the final clue was revealed.
I am from Colombia. And certified interpreter and translator. No one in Colombia or other Spanish speaking country would refer to García Márquez as Sr. Márquez. His last name is García his maternal last name is Márquez. These are not “compound” last names, we just don’t drop the mother’s last name into oblivion. In everyday usage omitting the maternal last name is fine, it is NOT the last name. It is merely an additional identifier. But your last name is not optional. Garcia Márquez is alphabetized under the G.
Jeopardy accepting Márquez as the “last name” is incorrect. And it was a gross injustice to Dr Pam (no relation, no personal connection). All this decision does is perpetuate an error in English speaking countries. I wrote to Jeopardy and they said they would pass it on to judges and producers.
Here is what I sent to them:
“Tonight’s Final Jeopardy winner gave the WRONG answer: the correct last name is García. The Márquez is the maternal last name which in Colombian legal and customary use is used after the last name proper, in this case García. When the father is unknown or if paternity is not acknowledged a person will have only the maternal last names. Gabriel García Márquez is correctly alphabetized under “G”. Grossly unfair error against the physician contestant.
Apparently they need to include a better vetting process of their answers related to other languages/foreign laws and customs.
Declaring the winner based on this gross error is unjust: And it also serves to perpetuate a common misconception in the US about names from other countries.
Please know that these misconceptions affect people in the US in many ways, including sometimes getting charged with giving a “false” name because they answer Garcia but state licensing /registry of motor vehicles etc filed them under “Marquez”.
Jeopardy is in a unique position to dispel or to perpetuate misconceptions like this among millions of viewers with just one question.
Please let me know how you plan to address this situation for the harmed contestant. “
We’ll see if they respond.
I’d be curious to hear their reply.
I will post if they do. A correct alternative response to García Márquez could be “Gabo” That is the endearing nickname he is known by and as he was called by friends, press, fans, critics and admirers. El gran Gabo. Which brings us to el gran Lorca. If clue had been about him then both Garcia Lorca and Lorca might work as he was and is popularly referred to as García Lorca AND as Lorca, following the custom in Spain of referring to someone by the maternal last name if less common or more poetic than paternal last name. Mr Blahuta refers to this above); that is not the case for GGM.
Bryce lost today but Lakedra was robbed an opportunity.