Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category The Works of Mozart) for Thursday, December 20, 2018 (Season 35, Episode 74):
Composed in 1791, the year he died, & last in the Kochel catalog of all his works, K. 626 is this work
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Andrew Kung, a graduate student from San Francisco, California |
Carrie Blazina, a multiplatform copy editor from Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Jackie Fuchs, an attorney & writer from Los Angeles, California (4-day total: $87,089) |
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Correct response: What is Requiem (in D Minor)?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor was commissioned by the Count Franz von Walsegg-Stuppach; intended as a tribute to the count’s wife, the Count liked to pretend that he was a better composer than he was.
As he was also working on a pair of operas and beginning to suffer from the illnesses that would kill him, the piece was unfinished by Mozart at the time of his death and has been completed by others since.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Andrew $25,200
Carrie $9,200
Jackie $8,600
Tonight’s results:
Jackie $8,600 – $8,600 = $0 (What is the Jupiter Symphony?)
Carrie $9,200 – $9,199 = $1 (What is the Magic Flute?)
Andrew $25,200 – $4,200 = $21,000 (1-day total: $21,000) (What is the Marriage of Figaro?)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Andrew $8,600
Carrie $5,600
Jackie $200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) WORDS OF SCIENCE $600 (8th pick)
Andrew 1000 +1000 (Carrie 3000 Jackie -600)
2) COMMUNICATION $1200 (21st pick)
Andrew 16600 +4600 (Carrie 8800 Jackie 6600)
3) STATE CONSTITUTION $1200 (22nd pick)
Andrew 21200 +3200 (Carrie 8800 Jackie 6600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 143
Unplayed clues:
J! round: ACCORDING TO EMILY POST $200 & SAY IT IN LATIN $200
DJ! Round: INTO THE SPIDER VERSE $800, COMMUNICATION $1600, STATE CONSTITUTION $800 & $1600
Total $ Left On Board: $5,200
Game Stats:
Andrew $19,400 Coryat, 25 correct, 2 incorrect, 47.06% in first on buzzer
Carrie $9,200 Coryat, 15 correct, 1 incorrect, 25.49% in first on buzzer, 3/3 on rebound attempts
Jackie $8,600 Coryat, 10 correct, 3 incorrect, 23.53% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Combined Coryat Score: $37,200
Lach Trash: $5,600 (on 4 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,000
Jackie Fuchs, final stats:
77 correct, 14 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts
29.23% in first on buzzer (76/260)
2/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,800)
4/5 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,920
Andrew Kung, stats to date:
25 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts
47.06% in first on buzzer (24/51)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $8,800)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,400
Andrew Kung, to win:
2 games: 75.90%
3: 57.60%
4: 43.72%
5: 33.18%
6: 25.19%
Avg. streak: 4.149 games.
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 166 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 4.8515 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.8184).
An average of 8.6181 4+-time champions (standard deviation 2.232).
An early cutoff took place 34.848% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Andrew Kung qualified 36.096% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 36.685% of the time.
Alex Schmidt qualified 14.369% of the time.
Jackie Fuchs qualified 3.323% of the time.
Mary Ann Borer qualified 0.635% of the time.
Kyle Becker qualified 0.049% of the time.
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Hey everyone – it’s Jackie here. I haven’t watched this episode (can’t bear to), but thought I’d let you know what happened. I had a serious hypoglycemic episode during the taping that was so bad I thought I might have had a stroke.
What you won’t see today is the l…o…n…g break we took before the interviews. Alex Trebek just went out and talked to the audience and the producers found me some electrolyte punch and poor Andrew and Carrie had to stand there and wait. I was offered an EMT but turned it down. I didn’t think it was fair to Andrew and Carrie who had both gotten off to a great start. So I got up and somehow got through it.
It was a disappointing end for me because I love the categories for once and final Jeopardy was my ultimate dream category. But I couldn’t even parse the clue right (I heard “final symphony,” and put the correct answer to that.). I was barely functional at that point.
I would have been behind Andrew going into final no matter what as he was very smart and very quick on the buzzer. But I think on any other day, I’d have been within 50% of him and not blown final Jeopardy. So… a bittersweet way to end and on my birthday no less.
Jackie — thanks much for the background info; it was toward the end of a long day on your feet so it’s not surprising that your energy reserves may have been depleted.
Enjoyed your run and ToC could still happen. We’ll hope that we may be able to watch you and Andy chat in a future Live Panel.
Jackie – you were just incredible and I’ll be rooting for you to make it to the TOC. I think one of the things you don’t see when watching the show on TV is how draining it can be to be on repeated shows, but for you to continue after a hypoglycaemic episode shows what a badass you are.
Thank you for sharing, Jackie. I have had Type 1 diabetes for 52 years and have experienced severe hypoglycemia. I have had better success recently in avoiding severe hypoglycemia by using CGM technology. Congratulations on your outstanding run! Stay well.