Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Name the French Author) for Monday, May 20, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 181):
“I am making myself liable to articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July 1881 regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Adam Stone, an associate professor of political science from Marietta, Georgia
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Jenny Gibbs, a handywoman & gardener from Charlottesville, Virginia
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James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (22-day total: $1,691,008)
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Correct response: Who is Émile Zola?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
In his famous letter J’Accuse…!, French author Émile Zola was speaking out against the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, who had been suspected of providing military secrets to the Germans. France was experiencing a bout of anti-Semitism at the time and Zola contended that Dreyfus’ treason conviction had been based on false accusations, and that Major Esterhazy had in fact committed the crime, but the War Office was involved in a cover-up.
After being found guilty of libel, Zola fled to England and died in 1902, asphyxiated by chimney fumes. Dreyfus was exonerated in 1906 and returned to the French army.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
James $49,229
Jenny $4,600
Adam $4,200
Tonight’s results:
Adam $4,200 – $4,199 = $1 (Who is ?)
Jenny $4,600 + $4,201 = $8,801
James $49,229 + $40,000 = $89,229 (23-day total: $1,780,237)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
James $12,000
Adam $4,200
Jenny $1,800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) MURPHY, BROWN $1000 (4th pick)
James 1000 +1000 (Adam 1000 Jenny 200)
2) “O” THE PLACES YOU’LL GO $1600 (6th pick)
James 13200 +10617 (Adam 5800 Jenny -200)
3) A PRINCE AMONG MEN $1600 (8th pick)
James 25017 +9812 (Adam 5800 Jenny -1400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 220
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Game Stats:
James $32,000 Coryat, 37 correct, 0 incorrect, 56.14% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts
Jenny $4,600 Coryat, 11 correct, 3 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer, 1/2 on rebound attempts
Adam $4,200 Coryat, 10 correct, 2 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $40,800
Lach Trash: $6,000 (on 3 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,200
James Holzhauer, stats to date:
841 correct, 27 incorrect
24/26 on rebound attempts (on 52 rebound opportunities)
58.87% in first on buzzer (763/1296)
52/56 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $483,845)
22/23 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $30,835
James Holzhauer, to win:
24 games: 98.062%
25: 96.162%
26: 94.298%
27: 92.471%
28: 90.679%
75: 36.145%
Avg. streak: 73.600 games.
(This is using the updated model.)
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 79 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
James Holzhauer qualified 100.000% of the time.
Eric R. Backes qualified 93.800% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 78.465% of the time.
Lindsey Shultz qualified 51.830% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 29.120% of the time.
Jonathan Dinerstein qualified 21.309% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- $89,229 is the 9th-highest one-day total of all time. James now holds the top 13 one-day totals of all time and 15 of the top 17. Arthur Chu’s February 27, 2014 win of $58,200, which sat 5th all-time in regular play prior to James’ run beginning, is now 20th.
- If you took the 23 games James has already won out of the prediction model, it would still predict a streak of 51 games for James.
- The prediction model gives James a 82.226% chance of surpassing Ken Jennings’ winnings total of $2,520,700.
- James’ current per-game average winnings, $77,402, has surpassed Roger Craig’s previous one-day record of $77,000.
- James’ current streak of hearing clues without giving an incorrect response sits at 151 after this game. He is believed to hold the record at 187 (set April 29-May 2).
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Also, I wonder why he had stopped doing all those shout-outs.
The show changed its policy shout outs are no longer allowed . Not sure why most were meaningful
I heard Jeopardy told him to stop. Guessing they don’t want to take the chance of some one in the future posting something inappropriate
Jeopardy has banned shoutouts now.
After a two week break, I feel that the universe is now back to where it should be, with James back on the air and decimating his opponents.
On another note, I recently returned from two weeks in Europe, and thank goodness for this website. I was able to keep track of all of James’ games by looking at the daily recap.
What are the few dates where James had a close game. Think it has only happened 2 times. Where he didn’t have the win before the last FJ Question
One thing I find really interesting is how James writes his name a different way on each show…
kind of like how Ken Jennings does.
I was thinking that and today the letters were the Jeopardy font. 😉
While Brad R and Ken J matches with James would generate interest, how about another human rematch with Deep Blue??? While James might fare better than Ken and Brad did against the version they faced, hopefully he wouldn’t have to face an upgraded version of that super computer! But increasingly hard for humans to win such competitions, as computers already far outrate top humans in games like chess.
Going into final jeopardy, do you know why James gained 4000 back? I understand getting 2000 back for the “aspect ratio” question but where did the other 2000 come from?
James had 2,000 deducted originally. Thus, to go from -2000 to +2000 (being credited with a correct response), you get 4,000.
What did James say before wagering 10617 on the daily double? Can’t understand.
“go Knights”; the Vegas Golden Knights NHL team played their first game on 10/6/17.
That is insanely nerdy.
Gotcha, thx. He prob won some $ on that too 😉😉🤣🤣
Wait, really? Hah for some reason I thought he said “go mexico”, and so I was wondering why the Mexico national team’s World Cup qualifying win over Trinidad and Tobago on 10/6/17 was so significant.
What channel is Jeopardy on in Australia? Planning a trip and don’t want to miss James.
Due to licensing restrictions, the Australian episodes are about 18 months behind North America.
On the May 20, 2019 episode, how did ms Gibbs lose the amount of $4,000 and not $2,000?
In order to go from a correct response to an incorrect one, you do not go from +2000 to 0, you go from +2000 to -2000; a difference of 4000.
Why is that the case? Say she had $6,000 going into the question, and then $8,000 after it. After that, they decided James was correct. (I can understand giving him $4,000 because he went from a -$2000 to +2,000 difference.) So then, it only makes sense that she goes from $8,000 to $6,000 because she there is a difference of $2,000 of them. It’s not like she gained an extra $2,000 from the question?
There were two completely separate score changes. “Display ratio” and “Pepin the Short” are two completely unrelated things.
To continue because I realized I had a few more thoughts.
If they had immediately accepted James’ answer of “display ratio”, she would not have had the opportunity to gain that $2,000, leaving her at $6,000. So it really doesn’t make sense that she’d lose $4,000.
EJ:
Jenny’s scoring change had nothing to do with the display ratio clue. It was because she said “Pepin the Short” on a completely different clue, which was ruled incorrect.
OH. I missed that. I mean, I saw it but it didn’t register properly. So since she missed the Pepin the Short question AND the loss of the $2,000 from giving James the correct answer, they took $4,000.
EJ:
No. Jenny’s score on the display ratio clue was unaffected by rule. For the entire 35-year history of the show, a player has not lost money on a successful rebound, even if the original incorrect response is reversed. This can lead to multiple contestants getting credit for a correct response.
The entirety of her score adjustment was going from +2000 to -2000 on Pepin the Short.
Assuming they let James in the Tournament of Champions. By that I mean they are just as likely to set up a special event for him to substitute for his tournament, the way they did for Ken Jennings, which was basically an All-Star tournament with Ken waiting at the finals.
So I wouldn’t be surprised that instead of James in a TOC they created an Ultimate Showdown of James vs Ken vs Brad. Maybe a five-game match between the three.
Given J! was running out of excuses to trot out Ken and Brad, James has to be the answer to their prayer!