Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 20th Century Literature) for Wednesday, January 23, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 98):
The writing of this novel, the author’s first with no Canadian setting, appropriately began in 1984
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Tim Edwards, a paralegal from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Rachel Paterno-Mahler, an astrophysicist from Playa Del Rey, California
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Haley Zapal, a copywriter from Atlanta, Georgia (1-day total: $27,400)
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Correct response: What is The Handmaid’s Tale?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
The Handmaid’s Tale is a 1985 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It regained prominence in the 21st century as it was turned into a hit television series. It focuses on the life of Offred (“of Fred”), named as such because in the book, handmaidens are forbidden to use their birth names and must be tied to the male (master) who they serve.
Atwood has long contended that anything that took place in the novel was something that had taken place somewhere in real life.
A sequel, The Testaments, will be published in 2019.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Tim $16,000
Rachel $14,800
Haley $12,600
Tonight’s results:
Haley $12,600 + $12,600 = $25,200
Rachel $14,800 + $14,800 = $29,600 (1-day total: $29,600)
Tim $16,000 – $13,601 = $2,399 (What is Dystopia)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Rachel $6,400
Haley $4,000
Tim $3,600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) BRAND MASCOTS $400 (2nd pick)
Tim 200 +1000 (Haley 0 Rachel 0)
2) WORLD HISTORY $2000 (2nd pick)
Haley 4800 +3000 (Rachel 6400 Tim 3600)
3) 1970s TV MOVIES $1600 (23rd pick)
Rachel 15600 +2000 (Tim 14000 Haley 9400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 175
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Game Stats:
Rachel $14,400 Coryat, 22 correct, 3 incorrect, 42.11% in first on buzzer
Haley $11,600 Coryat, 16 correct, 2 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer, 2/3 on rebound attempts
Tim $15,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 2 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $41,400
Lach Trash: $4,600 (on 4 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,000
Haley Zapal, final stats:
40 correct, 6 incorrect
5/6 on rebound attempts
30.97% in first on buzzer (35/113)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,800
Rachel Paterno-Mahler, stats to date:
23 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts
42.11% in first on buzzer (24/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,400
Rachel Paterno-Mahler, to win:
2 games: 48.82%
3: 23.84%
4: 11.64%
5: 5.68%
6: 2.77%
Avg. streak: 1.954 games.
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 142 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 4.0467 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.6845).
An average of 7.3147 4+-time champions (standard deviation 2.0784).
An early cutoff took place 18.986% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Rachel Paterno-Mahler qualified 6.422% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 57.797% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 32.350% of the time.
Jonathan Dinerstein qualified 11.087% of the time.
Alex Schmidt qualified 2.858% of the time.
John Presloid qualified 0.355% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I’ll be honest: that was a heartbreaking result for me to see.
- Alex made a comment regarding Tim being good at CRIMINOLOGY after he ran it. Of course he would be good at it, he’s a paralegal!
- It’s not often that two different contestants run a category in Double Jeopardy; Rachel also ran 1970s TV MOVIES.
- There’s probably going to be some discussion online about this one. On the $1600 clue in 2 OF THE 3 LETTERS ARE VOWELS, it is apparent to me that the judges, by the fact that they did not take points away from Rachel, ruled that Rachel did say “ail” on that clue and not “ill”, in spite of what the closed captioning may claim. Closed captioning is not done by the show’s judges or own post-production staff, it is a service done these days by Los Angeles Distribution and Broadcasting, Inc. by a person who was not in studio at the time of taping, so occasional errors can creep in that way. Moreover, the judges have the ability to isolate each contestant’s audio specifically to determine precisely what was said, and that is a luxury that the home viewer does not have. I myself am perfectly satisfied by the judges’ decision, and I have spoken with others who also definitively heard “ail”.
What do you hear? Listen: - On the WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE $1600 clue, there was a lengthy stoppage while the judges deliberated on “needles” vs “thorns”, and they did end up ruling against Rachel on that one.
- All 4 of the Triple Stumpers were preceded by negs, so the “effective in first on buzzer” matches the stats above.
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Is it just me, or is the “Clue of the Day” on Jeopardy.com out of sync? Yesterday (Tuesday) when I checked I saw today’s (Wednesday’s) clue. Today, I see one on UK Prime Ministers. The “missing” one is yesterday’s Calvin and Hobbes.
The NY Times ‘Clue of the Day’ showed today’s Final Jeopardy yesterday, Tuesday. (redacted because of potential spoilers)
in the category 2 of 3, the 3 letter answer was to have 2 vowels, the $ 1600 question was To be unwell, the answer ill only has 1 vowel
As was mentioned in the post above, the answer was “ail”.
Rachel said “ill”,I rewound it to make sure I heard her correctly. All 3 of us in the room agreed that she said ill and we were trying to figure out if we missed something or if there might be an alternate spelling. I think the judges were wrong.
I’ve heard it at least half a dozen times in the last hour. I am currently convinced she said “ail”.
It might be a Yanny – Laurel thing going on here, but “ail” is what I’m going with.
Sorry your friend lost, Andy.
I had a feeling he’d miss it, as it’s such a feminist book and I’d wager that readers were overwhelmingly female. Even the TV show seems to have predominantly female viewers. All the comments on TV blogs were from women.
Curious how many men here got this one.
For what it’s worth, I did get it. (Granted, I’m Canadian and Margaret Atwood is covered heavily in our English classes in school.)
I’ve read it, as have several male fans of Dystopian literature that I know. I read it in college in the late 80’s or early 90’s; I still haven’t seen the TV show.
She clearly said “Ill.” I actually rewound to the beginning of the category because I concluded that I must have misunderstood what was being asked.
Rachel herself on Twitter said she said “ail”.
Case closed. Ail it is.
I know case is closed but I heard “ail.” Maybe it’s her Cali accent 😉