Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 19th Century Brits) for Monday, April 22, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 161):
In a poem Lord Byron, a lover of Greece, calls this diplomat & fellow lord a “plunderer”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Rebecca McNitt, an archivist from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Rob Hornick, a product manager from San Francisco, California
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James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (12-day total: $851,926)
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Rebecca’s sister is Sarah McNitt; Sarah is a 5-time champion from 2014.
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Correct response: Who is Lord Elgin?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
The poem by Byron, titled “The Curse of Minerva”, is a severe attack on Lord Elgin for taking the marbles of the Parthenon from Athens and bringing them to England. Later in life, Lord Elgin served as Governor General of pre-Confederation Canada; a major Ottawa hotel, the Lord Elgin, is still named after him.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
James $52,126
Rebecca $4,600
Rob $2,000
Tonight’s results:
Rob $2,000 + $727 = $2,727
Rebecca $4,600 – $599 = $4,001 (Who is Melbourne?)
James $52,126 + $38,686 = $90,812 (13-day total: $942,738) (Who is Elgin? Hi Zach Emma & Lilly <3)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
James $10,000
Rebecca $3,800
Rob $2,400
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) THE 20-TEENS $1000 (1st pick)
James 0 +1000 (Rob 0 Rebecca 0)
2) NEW COUNTRY $1200 (3rd pick)
James 13200 +9812 (Rebecca 3800 Rob 2400)
3) I WROTE IT $2000 (13th pick)
James 28212 +11914 (Rob 2000 Rebecca 1800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 217
Unplayed clues:
J! round: THE 20-TEENS $200
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $200
Game Stats:
James $33,600 Coryat, 37 correct, 0 incorrect, 58.93% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Rebecca $4,600 Coryat, 11 correct, 2 incrrect, 21.43% in first on buzzer, 0/1 on rebound attempts
Rob $2,000 Coryat, 6 correct, 2 incorrect, 12.50% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Combined Coryat Score: $40,200
Lach Trash: $8,200 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,400
James Holzhauer, stats to date:
455 correct, 17 incorrect
14/16 on rebound attempts (on 33 rebound opportunities)
55.99% in first on buzzer (411/734)
29/32 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $281,150)
12/13 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $29,431
James Holzhauer, to win:
14 games: 96.417%
15: 92.963%
16: 89.632%
17: 86.421%
18: 83.324%
75: 10.413%
Avg. streak: 39.911 games.
(This is using the updated model.)
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 89 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 2.6894 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.0925).
An average of 4.0912 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.3605).
An early cutoff took place 0.076% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
James Holzhauer qualified 100.000% of the time.
Eric R. Backes qualified 93.647% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 76.711% of the time.
Lindsey Shultz qualified 43.372% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 14.659% of the time.
Jonathan Dinerstein qualified 3.888% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s one-day total was the 4th-highest one-day total of all time. James now holds the top six one-day totals and seven of the top nine.
- At 455, James moves into 6th place on the all-time list in terms of number of correct responses given on Jeopardy!; Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, Julia Collins, David Madden, and Matt Jackson are 1 through 5.
- Effective in first on buzzer: James 63.46% (33/52), Rebecca 23.08% (12/52), Rob 13.46% (7/52).
- Obviously, it’s not worth throwing $1,000 out the window just for the opportunity to “just wager $4,000” in Rebecca’s case; good on her for making the good bet for the situation and taking home second place prize money.
- As per the prediction model, James has a 44.810% chance of surpassing Ken Jennings’ regular-season total of $2,520,700.
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I don’t know why that would be. They had contestants shake hands for 34 years.
Maybe there were some contestants that didn’t want to shake hands, so rather than make everyone uncomfortable, they decided to stop it. I know there was at least one instance when James went over to shake someone’s hand, and she turned her head away.