Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Presidential Election Years) for Friday, March 1, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 125):
Prior to 2016 it was the last election year in which the winning candidate had never held public elected office
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Team Austin, consisting of Austin Rogers (C), Roger Craig (L), and Leonard Cooper (R) (Yesterday’s score: $5,200)
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Team Colby, consisting of Colby Burnett (C), Pam Mueller (L), and Alan Lin (R) (Yesterday’s score: $7,600)
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Team Buzzy, consisting of Buzzy Cohen (C), Alex Jacob (L), and Jennifer Giles (R) (Yesterday’s score: $0)
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Today’s final score will be added to yesterday’s final score to determine this match’s winner, who will play Team Brad (Rutter) and Team Ken (Jennings) in the final on March 4 & 5.
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Correct response: What is 1952?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
1952 was the first electoral victory for former U.S. Army general Dwight Eisenhower, who had never held public elected office before winning the Presidency. Of course, it’s not his second election, 1956, as he had won the 1952 election by that point.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Team Austin (Leonard J!, Roger DJ!) $8,900
Team Colby (Alan J!, Pam DJ!) $7,600
Team Buzzy (Jennifer J!, Alex DJ!) $3,600
Tonight’s results:
Team Buzzy (Buzzy) $3,600 – $3,600 = $0 + $0 = $0 (What is 1868? Love U Lucerne)
Team Colby (Colby) $7,600 – $101 = $7,499 + $7,600 = $15,099 (Finalist) (What is 1956?)
Team Austin (Austin) $8,900 – $8,900 = $0 + $5,200 = $5,200 (What is 1836?)
Fantasy point accumulation (Unofficial):
Alex Jacob 49
Ken Jennings 31
Colby Burnett 26
Roger Craig 26
Leonard Cooper 26
Matt Jackson 24
Larissa Kelly 24
Austin Rogers 23
Alan Lin 23
Ben Ingram 21
Buzzy Cohen 19
Monica Thieu 19
David Madden 18
Pam Mueller 17
Brad Rutter 17
Seth Wilson 13
Jennifer Giles 13
Julia Collins 2
(As per the Official Rules of the contest: A correct response in Single or Double Jeopardy is worth 1 entry into the Lindblad sweepstakes. A correct response in Final Jeopardy is worth 10 entries into the Lindblad sweepstakes.)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Team Colby (Alan) $5,600†
Team Buzzy (Jennifer) $2,200
Team Austin (Leonard) $2,100
†Alan was originally credited with an incorrect response which was credited to him before the 16th clue of Double Jeopardy.
Daily Double locations:
1) THEIR IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATER $600 (18th pick)
Leonard 5000 -2500 (Alan 4200 Jennifer 1600)
2) “E”PONYMOUS $1600 (7th pick)
Alex 7400 +7400 (Roger 4500 Pam 4000)
3) ON THE SOUNDTRACK $1600 (16th pick)
Alex 15600 -15600 (Roger 4900 Pam 4800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -50
Game Stats:
Alan $6,000 Coryat, 11 correct, 0 incorrect, 31.03% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts
Jennifer $2,200 Coryat, 5 correct, 0 incorrect, 13.79% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Leonard $4,600 Coryat, 9 correct, 4 incorrect, 41.38% in first on buzzer
Roger $6,800 Coryat, 8 correct, 1 incorrect, 27.59% in first on buzzer, 0/1 on rebound attempts
Pam $1,600 Coryat, 5 correct, 3 incorrect, 24.14% in first on buzzer, 0/1 on rebound attempts
Alex $11,200 Coryat, 12 correct, 2 incorrect, 37.93% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Combined Coryat Score: $32,400
Lach Trash: $9,400 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,200
Team Colby stats:
Pam Mueller, stats to date:
273 correct, 42 incorrect
15/22 on rebound attempts
29.71% in first on buzzer (262/882)
10/13 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $22,000)
6/15 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,388
Colby Burnett, stats to date:
237 correct, 24 incorrect
17/17 on rebound attempts
31.56% in first on buzzer (214/678)
11/17 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $9,800)
7/13 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,554
Alan Lin, stats to date:
248 correct, 26 incorrect
12/12 on rebound attempts
33.52% in first on buzzer (235/701)
10/15 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $8,805)
7/12 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,171
Team Austin stats:
Roger Craig, stats to date:
436 correct, 77 incorrect
18/22 on rebound attempts
46.04% in first on buzzer (447/971)
25/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $117,000)
8/16 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,926
Austin Rogers, stats to date:
424 correct, 58 incorrect
29/30 on rebound attempts
38.86% in first on buzzer (403/1037)
24/31 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $105,700)
14/18 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,800
Leonard Cooper, stats to date:
97 correct, 19 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts
37.72% in first on buzzer (106/281)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $16,500)
3/6 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,800
Team Buzzy stats:
Alex Jacob, stats to date:
336 correct, 38 incorrect
16/18 on rebound attempts
44.35% in first on buzzer (322/726)
17/23 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $70,500)
2/11 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,933
Buzzy Cohen, stats to date:
298 correct, 51 incorrect
15/17 on rebound attempts
35.05% in first on buzzer (292/833)
17/23 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $45,400)
8/16 in Final Jeopardy!
Average Coryat: $13,913
Jennifer Giles, stats to date:
109 correct, 18 incorrect
4/6 on rebound attempts
31.78% in first on buzzer (109/343)
3/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,400)
3/7 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,829
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Everyone who decided that they’d had enough of the tournament and has proceeded to skip this match? You literally just missed one of the most dramatic matches in the 35-year history of the show. If this 30-something guy has the meme down, I believe the phrase is “Congratulations, you played yourself”.
- I don’t know what else to say. From what I’ve heard since seeing this result, it seemed like everyone knew that this was a surprise result and an upset. But hey, that’s why you play the games!
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Ooh, this should be interesting, as Andy alludes to, if anyone says 1956… that WAS my first response. I went backwards, got to 1956. Eisenhower!…he had never run for office before! Oops. I really hope (and expect) they all get it right…it’d be a shame for the wild card to hinge on a quasi trick question…but certainly fair. My fault for not reading it carefully enough.
Even though a little tricky, I still think this is by far the easiest Final in the All-Star tournament. All the teams should get it, so there won’t be any coming from behind for a team that hasn’t positioned itself well prior to the Final.
What do we know?
Kudos to Colby for knowing it was Ike…the writers caught one of them in their web though.I’m glad he’s the only one who fell for it.it’s a more satisfying outcome.
Ironic if you remember the answer which won Leonard Cooper the Teen Tournament, Ike Eisenhower figured in both questions.
During the 2008 election campaign, I came up with the question, “Before this year, when was the last presidential election where neither the president or vice president ran for president?” And that was also 1952.
sorry for being a bit off topic but is the all-star tournament replacing tournament of champions? the last TOC info i can find is for 2017? when is/was the 2018 tourney? thx
When I first saw this clue, I was reminded of a quip from a recent NYT Op-Ed column by Gail Collins (which ran on Feb 1) that would make a great TOC FJ clue, assuming it already hasn’t been used as one.
She wrote, “Virtually every president has either been a general in the military or served in some previous elective office. The exceptions were Donald Trump and Herbert Hoover. Enough said.”
Note that Hoover held a few appointed positions before winning the White House in 1928, including a long stint as Commerce Secretary. The Commerce HQ building in DC is named after him (called the HCHB for short).
Finals should be good I think team ken will take it though.
I saw Ike in 1956 when I was a senior at Mineola High School on Long Island NY, and he campaigned there. I was too young to vote, though, still only 17 by election time. Thanks for the heads-up about the excitement of tonight’s show making it worthwhile to watch despite the confusing nature of the current competition with team members bouncing all around.
I just started watching several years ago so I’d never seen Colby play before this tournament. I think I underestimated his strength.
Another tough Final Jeopardy as we end the week with a triple stumper.
Agree Andy, some pretty good drama in this one. Team Buzzy took the risk it had to, but it didn’t work out. Team Colby made a strategic Final bet that did work out. They knew the most they could get to was $22,800, and that Team Austin could max out at $23,000. Looking forward to a wild 2-day finals.
Did each contestant get $75,000.00. Or did they have to split.
Valerie:
The money was split.