Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category U.K. Prime Ministers) for Thursday, January 24, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 99):
He was the first U.K. Prime Minister born after Elizabeth II became queen
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Nancy Rohlen, a sales manager from Chicago, Illinois
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Aaron Lichtig, a growth marketer from Silver Spring, Maryland
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Rachel Paterno-Mahler, an astrophysicist from Playa Del Rey, California (1-day total: $29,600)
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Correct response: Who is Tony Blair?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
I’m not sure why the Jeopardy! writers thought this was a good subject for a Final Jeopardy!; but hey, it’s their show. I mean, the clue is written properly, and it pins to the correct answer, but this clue seems to be lacking any sort of tease-out metric”, especially for an American audience.
And yes, it pins to the correct answer. While Tony Blair was born May 6, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II became queen when her father died in 1952, even though her coronation took place June 2, 1953.
When I first encountered this clue as New York Times Clue of the Day, I was hoping that this clue was going to be a $2,000 Daily Double, that Cameron, Brown, and Major were earlier clues in the category, and the writers were trying to reward taking a category from top-to-bottom. But, alas, this is Final Jeopardy!.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Aaron $12,400
Nancy $7,200
Rachel -$1,600
Tonight’s results:
Rachel -$1,600
Nancy $7,200 + $5,201 = $12,401
Aaron $12,400 + $2,001 = $14,401 (1-day total: $14,401)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Nancy $4,400
Aaron $3,600
Rachel $3,600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) CREATURES WITH BLOWHOLES $600 (12th pick)
Aaron 2400 -1200 (Nancy 1400 Rachel 1000)
2) SLOGANS & MOTTOES $1200 (16th pick)
Nancy 9200 -2000 (Aaron 9600 Rachel 1600)
3) POTENT POE TALES $800 (22nd pick)
Rachel 3600 -3600 (Aaron 11600 Nancy 6800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -172
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: BEFORE & ACTOR $400 & $800
Total $ Left On Board: $1,200
Game Stats:
Aaron $13,600 Coryat, 18 correct, 5 incorrect, 38.18% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Nancy $9,200 Coryat, 19 correct, 4 incorrect, 34.55% in first on buzzer, 0/3 on rebound attempts
Rachel $2,000 Coryat, 8 correct, 4 incorrect, 18.18% in first on buzzer, 0/1 on rebound attempts
Combined Coryat Score: $24,800
Lach Trash: $12,000 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $16,000
Rachel Paterno-Mahler, final stats:
31 correct, 7 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts
30.36% in first on buzzer (34/112)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,600)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,200
Aaron Lichtig, stats to date:
19 correct, 5 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts
38.18% in first on buzzer (21/55)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,200)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,600
Aaron Lichtig, to win:
2 games: 41.65%
3: 17.35%
4: 7.22%
5: 3.01%
6: 1.25%
Avg. streak: 1.714 games.
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 141 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 3.9977 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.6736).
An average of 7.235 4+-time champions (standard deviation 2.0675).
An early cutoff took place 18.132% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Aaron Lichtig qualified 3.476% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 58.952% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 33.472% of the time.
Jonathan Dinerstein qualified 11.752% of the time.
Alex Schmidt qualified 3.028% of the time.
John Presloid qualified 0.373% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- After yesterday’s clunker in the closed captions, I didn’t think we could top it, but xi instead of pi on the third clue of the game is absolutely inexcusable.
- Kudos to both of our players in Final for getting that one correct.
- Today was the first 0-for-3 on the Daily Doubles since December 26, and today had the worst Daily Double Efficiency since October 24.
- Good on all 3 players for staying in POTENT POE TALES until the Daily Double was found. It’s too bad it didn’t work out for Rachel, but at least she can call herself a Jeopardy! champion; a title nobody can take away from her.
- Effective in first on buzzer percentages: Aaron 42.00% (21/50), Nancy 38.00% (19/50), Rachel 20.00% (10/50)
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And what’s the result of the third DD? Doesn’t say who found it or how much was bet!!
Should be corrected now. Thank you!
Very disappointed episode. Three wrong answers on the daily double resulted a shutout and the clues were evil to Rachel. Let’s hope tomorrow’s episode will be much better.
So did Rachel not make it to Final J!?
Yo, what I miss? Whered the other lady go to?
I can say the same thing to you but I know it’s kind of hard to tell that Rachel is the second returning champion this season after Dylan Gallard and the first female returning champ this season to bust before Final J!. What more can I say about this?
i agree it’s not a great FJ…. it’s simply an arbitrary guess (major, cameron or blair) for me.