Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Colorful Geography) for Thursday, February 14, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 114):
Named for a soldier killed in 1846 at the start of a war, it was in the news again as a port of entry to the U.S. in 2018
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Mitch Rodricks, an attorney from Oakland, California
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Alex Miller Murphy, a public relations specialist from Washington, DC
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Eric R. Backes, an attorney & government relations professional from Round Rock, Texas (3-day total: $91,201)
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Correct response: What is Brownsville, Texas?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
The fort at the original location of Brownsville, Texas was originally named Fort Texas, but was renamed to Fort Brown after the start of the Mexican–American War, and an incident where the fort’s commander, Major Jacob Brown, had a cannonball hit his leg, dying three days later.
It entered the news in 2018 as Casa Padre, the largest juvenile immigration detention center in America, is within its city limits; Casa Padre is where many children are being held in custody as part of the Trump administration policy of separating immigrant children from their parents.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Mitch $14,400
Eric $11,100
Alex $2,600
Tonight’s results:
Alex $2,600 – $600 = $2,000 (What is the Rio Grande?)
Eric $11,100 + $3,301 = $14,401 (4-day total: $105,602)
Mitch $14,400 – $9,000 = $5,400 (What is Tijuana)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Eric $6,000
Mitch $4,800
Alex $2,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) QUOTES OF NOTE $800 (13th pick)
Mitch 2200 -2200 (Eric 3200 Alex 1200)
2) KIND-OF-PERSON MAGAZINE $1200 (11th pick)
Eric 9200 -2800 (Mitch 8800 Alex 2600)
3) 13-LETTER WORDS $2000 (30th pick)
Eric 12800 -1700 (Mitch 14400 Alex 2600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -144
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Game Stats:
Eric $15,600 Coryat, 20 correct, 5 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer, 0/1 on rebound attempts
Mitch $16,600 Coryat, 23 correct, 3 incorrect, 42.11% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Alex $2,600 Coryat, 8 correct, 1 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $34,800
Lach Trash: $8,200 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,000
Eric R. Backes, stats to date:
108 correct, 11 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts
46.70% in first on buzzer (106/227)
3/6 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,500)
3/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $22,350
Eric R. Backes, to win:
5 games: 72.82%
6: 53.03%
7: 38.62%
8: 28.12%
9: 20.48%
Avg. streak: 6.679 games.
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 126 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 4.253 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.6034).
An average of 7.2693 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.9356).
An early cutoff took place 8.385% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Eric R. Backes qualified 97.124% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 71.841% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 48.457% of the time.
Jonathan Dinerstein qualified 22.644% of the time.
Alex Schmidt qualified 5.662% of the time.
John Presloid qualified 0.808% of the time.
Jackie Fuchs qualified 0.000% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Eric was on the wrong end of some absolutely correct but painful judgement calls. He said “numistacist” instead of “numismatist”, and gave the wrong winning amount for “Pyramid” (which is “incorrect extra information which turns a correct response incorrect”).
- I have mixed thoughts about today’s endgame. On the one hand, it feels like Eric shuld have avoided the $400 clue until the Daily Double was found in 13-LETTER WORDS. On the other, it really feels like the producers have been actively trying to avoid unplayed Daily Doubles this season. Considering how dominant Eric has been when he wants to be on the buzzer, it almost felt like a case of “I want to earn as much money as I can before the Daily Double”, which does have the effect of keeping Eric’s Daily Double wager as low as possible. That being said: for normal players who do not appear to have Eric’s buzzer dominance, it’s probably much better to go after the Daily Double.
- Effective in first on buzzer stats: Eric 40.00% (22/55), Mitch 43.64% (24/57), Alex 16.36% (9/55).
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Brownsville Texas. I learned something new. are there colorful named cities ? Blacksburg Blue Ball,amarillo, greenville, orangeburg etc?
White Salmon, WA
The Oranges in NJ
Alabaster, Alabama
Today Alex staff was wrong. Eric was right. Maybe I heard the clue wrong. The coin collectors magazine since 1888 is The Numismatist. Alex counted Eric wrong stating it is Numismatic. ANA or American Numismatic Association publishes The Numismatist.
David:
Eric said “numistacist”, not “numismatist”. That’s why he was ruled incorrect.
Eric Had “home advantage” being from Texas. Probably why he was the only one to get Final Jeopardy right.
Birgit:
Possibly, but in his interview, he did say he’d just moved there.
But in any event, Eric still would have won had he gotten that wrong.
Yeah I was watching and thinking he could just say “Pyramid” and leave it at that. I don’t know if he felt Alex was prompting him for more info, and that’s why he offered the extra info, but as I understand it, the show has always been called “Pyramid” with the dollar amount almost like a subtitle.
I agree!!! But oh well!!!
Enjoying watching you play, Eric! I auditioned in Austin in December of 2017, were you in Austin then?
No. I was still in Maryland. I tried out last fall in Memphis after having to ask them change my location from Philadelphia.
Your Final J! wager tonight was very smart, you would have won even if you’d gotten it wrong. Keep it up! (I realize these shows are already in the can for some time, and you can’t comment on future happenings, but I’m really enjoying you too!)
The weird thing is that the Donny Osmond version is called just “Pyramid”, which complicates things a bit.
Even weirder, my mom’s coworker told her that she thinks I look like Donny Osmond…coincidence??? meaningless???
Are you a little bit country or a little bit rock ‘n roll?
Seriously though, I watch news obsessively and never heard Brownsville mentioned as the site of detention centers. Of course I’ve heard of the city but couldn’t think of anything to answer. Great job coming up with that one, Eric!
fantastic final jeopardy……. unfortunately, i only went through more exciting colors in my mind, and i doubt i’d have gotten it if it’d thought of brown.
probably would have got it if someone told me it started with brown. but that’s not realistic
It looked like Trebek was looking at Eric for more info after he answered “Pyramid”. I blame Trebek for Eric missing that question….