Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Poets’ Birthplaces) for Wednesday, December 19, 2018 (Season 35, Episode 73):
5 Cwmdonkin Drive was the address of the family home where he was born in 1914
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Trisha Eustaquio, a biomedical engineer from Silver Spring, Maryland |
Eric Doctor, a graphic designer & teacher from Brooklyn, New York |
Jackie Fuchs, an attorney & writer from Los Angeles, California (3-day total: $58,689) |
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Correct response: Who is Dylan Thomas?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Dylan Thomas is a Welsh poet and writer, famous for “Do not go gentle into that good night”, Under Milk Wood, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
Cwmdonkin Drive is located in Uplands, Swansea, Wales; 5 Cwmdonkin is at the interserction of Cwmdonkin and Hillside Cres.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Jackie $14,400
Trisha $13,400
Eric $4,800
Tonight’s results:
Eric $4,800 – $2,799 = $2,001 (What is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?)
Trisha $13,400 + $13,399 = $26,799
Jackie $14,400 + $14,000 = $28,400 (4-day total: $87,089)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Trisha $6,600
Jackie $2,400
Eric -$800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) HIGHER EDUCATION $800 (20th pick)
Trisha 3600 +2000 (Jackie 400 Eric -1000)
2) “IN” THE END $1200 (8th pick)
Trisha 9000 -2000 (Jackie 4400 Eric 0)
3) LAKES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1200 (23rd pick)
Eric 1200 -2000 (Jackie 14400 Trisha 9400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -67
Unplayed clues:
J! round: WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $200 & CHALLENGED & BANNED BOOKS $1000
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $1,200
Game Stats:
Jackie $14,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 1 incorrect, 25.45% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts
Trisha $14,200 Coryat, 19 correct, 4 incorrect, 30.91% in first on buzzer, 2/4 on rebound attempts
Eric $6,800 Coryat, 15 correct, 6 incorrect, 34.55% in first on buzzer, 0/1 on rebound attempts
Combined Coryat Score: $35,400
Lach Trash: $7,200 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,200
Jackie Fuchs, stats to date:
67 correct, 10 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts
30.62% in first on buzzer (64/209)
2/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,800)
4/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,750
Jackie Fuchs, to win:
5 games: 39.12%
6: 15.31%
7: 5.99%
8: 2.34%
9: 0.92%
Avg. streak: 4.643 games.
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 167 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 5.0036 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.8595).
An average of 9.3532 4+-time champions (standard deviation 2.2276).
An early cutoff took place 38.124% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Dave Leffler qualified 32.913% of the time.
Alex Schmidt qualified 11.932% of the time.
Jackie Fuchs qualified 40.643% of the time.
Mary Ann Borer qualified 0.763% of the time.
Kyle Becker qualified 0.004% of the time.
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He may not be my favorite poet, but he’s the only Welsh poet I know and I did recognize the spelling as Welsh. Once again a close game. I’ll actually be home tonight to watch the questions and answers.
I like Eric’s FJ answer.
I was at this taping and have been eagerly awaiting for the world to see Eric’s FJ response. Someone, please turn this into a GIF so I can make use of it on Facebook and Twitter!
State in the southeastern corner of the states is Florida not New Mexico. New Mexico would be the southwestern corner.
It said “4 Corners states”.
Yes 4 corners states refers to the only spot where 4 US states meet. There is a monument there though some think it is actually slightly misplaced.
https://youtu.be/HLgbIIXjgUo
Jackie left out the “S” in Strawberry Field”s”. Both times.
I personally heard an “S”. Evidently, so did the judges, because they would have otherwise walked it back.
The judges have much better audio in studio than we do at home.
You did a good job copying Eric’s sketch answer for FJ. The middle is a real “letter” in Japanese kana writing. Two strokes show a change from voiceless to voiced in the syllable. Kanji are the Chinese-based characters. I have a Japanese Bible that has kana symbols alongside the Kanji so that less educated people can pronounce the words. Japanese is a totally different language from Chinese, with many endings. Chinese looks like a solid block of relatively complicated symbols but Japanese has the kana syllables all over the place. When I lived in Norway I was exposed to Finnish and Lappish and BRIEFLY considered doing my linguistics doctoral dissertation on the remarkable similarities to Japanese phonology and syntax but decided I needed something not so difficult to complete. The contact would be over the ice-covered Arctic Ocean, much closer than further south.
Man, Idk, lemme just ¯_(ツ)_/¯