Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Around The USA) for Friday, May 24, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 185):
Astronomy buffs visit Idaho for the USA’s first dark sky reserve; oddly, part of it is this resort area with a bright name
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Susan Waller, a K through 12 school administrator from Chester, Pennsylvania
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Sam Kooistra, a criminal defense lawyer from Tucson, Arizona
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James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (26-day total: $1,991,135)
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Will James break the $2 million mark today?
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Correct response: What is Sun Valley?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
The area around Ketchum, Idaho, near the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, is the Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve; Sun Valley is a resort town adjacent to Ketchum. The idea of a dark sky reserve is so that people can view the night sky without light pollution.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
James $39,400
Susan $1,800
Sam -$2,000
Tonight’s results:
Sam -$2,000 (by rule, did not play Final Jeopardy)
Susan $1,800 – $0 = $1,800 (What ?)
James $39,400 + $35,000 = $74,400 (27-day total: $2,065,535) (What is Sun Valley? Las Vegas Strip)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
James $24,600
Sam $2,200
Susan -$600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) THE BIG UNIT OF MEASURE $400 (22nd pick)
James 11600 +11600 (Sam 2000 Susan 0)
2) IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $2000 (2nd pick)
Sam 2600 -2600 (James 24600 Susan -600)
3) LET’S GO TO THE OPERA $1600 (6th pick)
Sam -400 -2000 (James 24600 Susan -600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -100
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES & A BOAT $400; QUEEN VICTORIA $400
Total $ Left On Board: $800
Game Stats:
James $28,200 Coryat, 37 correct, 2 incorrect, 61.82% in first on buzzer, 3/4 on rebound attempts
Susan $1,800 Coryat, 3 correct, 2 incorrect, 7.27% in first on buzzer, 0/1 on rebound attempts
Sam $2,600 Coryat, 10 correct, 5 incorrect, 23.64% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $32,600
Lach Trash: $7,600 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,000
James Holzhauer, stats to date:
977 correct, 31 incorrect
31/34 on rebound attempts (on 62 rebound opportunities)
58.12% in first on buzzer (884/1521)
59/63 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $545,654)
26/27 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $30,556
James Holzhauer, to win:
28 games: 98.057%
29: 96.152%
30: 94.284%
31: 92.452%
32: 90.656%
75: 38.995%
Avg. streak: 77.472 games.
(This is using the updated model.)
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 75 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 93.930% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 78.916% of the time.
Lindsey Shultz qualified 52.838% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 30.603% of the time.
Jonathan Dinerstein qualified 22.956% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- $74,400 is the 17th-highest one-day total of all time. James now holds 18 of the top 20 one-day totals.
- $24,600 is a record score after the Jeopardy! round; the previous record is $22,012, set during James’ 7th game.
- This was the 4th time that James had at least $20,000 after the Jeopardy! round.
- James has been correct on his last 21 Final Jeopardy! clues.
- The prediction model gives James a 88.894% chance of surpassing Ken Jennings’ winnings total of $2,520,700, and a 51.318% chance of James surpassing Brad Rutter’s all-time winnings total of $4,688,436. (At his current average, James would pass Ken on June 3 and Brad on July 26.)
- James’ average winning total on Fridays is $69,079.
- James’ weekly total, $374,527, is his lowest weekly total since his first full week (games 3 through 7) where he won $332,429.
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Totally agree with Kate. Well said.
Andy,
Feel free to delete this if necessary. I have a prediction. Just read on Friday that “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” was cancelled, somewhat abruptly and definitely unexpected. This leads to believe that Chris Harrison may be the new host of Jeopardy when the Fall season starts. While Alex can never be replaced, Harrison in my opinion would be a great new host for Jeopardy. He’s intelligent, handsome, young, witty, and has considerable experience with trivia-based shows. I certainly hope Alex will be able to complete his contract, but it’s not sounding very promising. I’ve thought for a while now that Chris would be a great host when Alex retired (much better than comedians or prior players) and this sudden cancellation leads me to believe this may already be happening. I tweeted Harrison with this prediction, but of course there has been no reply (which in itself might be a confirmation). Wondering your thoughts on this prediction. If you want to keep it off the board I understand.
Thanks and have a great Memorial Day weekend,
Wipster
I think this is a good prediction, as unlikely as it seems.
Perhaps Chris Harrison is going to be busy with The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
I read online an interview USA Today did with Alec in February 2019 where he mentioned CNN’s Laura Coates, LA Kings announcer Alex Faust and TCM’s Ben Mankiewicz. These three seem like serious contenders.
Since I’ve seen posts here by Jeopardy! contestants, this forum is obviously well-known to those in the Jeopardy! universe. I really hope and pray Mr. Trebek is not a devotee, for I’d hate for him to be exposed to.the ghoulish comments above. The man’s alive and fighting people, cmon!
Jim,
I did not mean for my thoughts to come off as ghoulish and I’m sorry you read them as such. I sincerely respect Mr. Trebek and will miss him when he retires. What he has done with a game show from the 60’s (which I loved then as well) has been phenomenal. But he has already said he is going to retire. I sincerely hope that he beats this cruel disease, but in the last three years I have lost two good friends to the same malady. My comment was only to remark on the coincidences I noticed, plus the fact I think Chris Harrison would be a great host of Jeopardy. My apologies if my comments were misconstrued, that was not my intent.
I appreciate that, and I’m sorry too for the accusation. I’ve lost them too, and it sucks. Praying for Alex.🙏
Me too my friend, me too.