Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Shakespeare’s Time) for Monday, June 3, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 191):
The line “a great reckoning in a little room” in “As You Like It” is usually taken to refer to this author’s premature death
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Emma Boettcher, a user experience librarian from Chicago, Illinois
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Jay Sexton, a senior research engineer from Atlanta, Georgia
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James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (32-day total: $2,462,216)
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If you’re curious to see how James’ stats so far shape up to those of Ken Jennings, you can find them at A James Holzhauer vs. Ken Jennings Statistical Comparison.
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Correct response: Who is Christopher Marlowe?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
A contemporary of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe (also known as Kit Marlowe) was a major Elizabethan playwright and was a great influence on Shakespeare. In 1593, Marlowe was accused of holding treasonous opinions, and after the “Dutch church libel” was published (which contained several allusions to Marlowe’s plays), Marlowe was arrested. While awaiting his trial at the Privy Council, Marlowe was killed under mysterious circumstances ten days later in an altercation with Ingram Frizer.
Shakespeare’s As You Like It provides the most famous tribute to Marlowe, where Marlowe’s Hero and Leander was quoted, as well as the “a great reckoning in a little room” line referred to in today’s clue.
Since Alex Trebek’s diagnosis of stage 4 pancreatic cancer, many community members have been raising money. The Jeopardy! Fan Online Store is as well! All proceeds from any “Keep The Faith And We’ll Win” shirt sold will be donated to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. To date, over $370 has been raised.)
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Scores going into Final:
Emma $26,600
James $23,400
Jay $11,000
Tonight’s results:
Jay $11,000 + $6,000 = $17,000
James $23,400 + $1,399 = $24,799
Emma $26,600 + $20,201 = $46,801 (1-day total: $46,801)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
James $9,000
Emma $6,400
Jay $2,600
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) LITERATURE $1000 (1st pick)
James 0 +1000 (Jay 0 Emma 0)
2) CAPITAL “A” $800 (4th pick)
Emma 7600 +7600 (James 12600 Jay 2600)
3) POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY $2000 (14th pick)
Emma 20400 +3000 (James 17800 Jay 7400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 215
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Game Stats:
Emma $18,800 Coryat, 21 correct, 0 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer
James $23,400 Coryat, 25 correct, 0 incorrect, 42.11% in first on buzzer
Jay $11,000 Coryat, 13 correct, 1 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $53,200
Lach Trash: $400 (on 1 Triple Stumper)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $400
James Holzhauer, final stats:
1,186 correct, 36 incorrect
33/36 on rebound attempts (on 68 rebound opportunities)
57.81% in first on buzzer (1077/1863)
72/76 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $654,416)
32/33 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $30,576
Emma Boettcher, stats to date:
22 correct, 0 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $10,600)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,800
Emma Boettcher, to win:
2 games: 78.319%
3: 61.338%
4: 48.039%
5: 37.624%
6: 29.466%
Avg. streak: 4.612 games. #Jeopardy
Methodology: https://thejeopardyfan.com/2019/04/jeopardy-predictions-updated-methods.html
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 69 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 2.1568 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.1836).
An average of 3.7189 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.4397).
An early cutoff took place 0.391% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Emma Boettcher qualified 45.564% of the time.
Eric R. Backes qualified 84.074% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 57.753% of the time.
Lindsey Shultz qualified 24.059% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 4.468% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Emma’s $46,801 is the sixth-highest first-game winning total in regular play of all time. (Thank you to those who have contacted me with a correction.)
- The Combined Coryat score for the game of $53,200 is an all-time regular-play record.
- James has been correct on his last 27 Final Jeopardy! clues.
- According to the prediction model, a score of $23,400 going into Final Jeopardy wins 86.868% of the time.
- Given James’ mean average score going into Final Jeopardy of $47,655 and standard deviation of $13,422, the chances of James having a score of $23,400 or worse going into Final Jeopardy are about 1 in 30.
- There was absolutely nothing wrong with James’ Final Jeopardy bet of $1,399. He knew that Emma was overwhelmingly likely to bet what she did and, thus, his only chance of winning was if Emma did not get Final Jeopardy! correct. $1,399 ensures that his score stays above Jay’s and gives James the best chance of winning the game. Had James gone all-in, he would have finished at $46,800 and lost by $1.
- 42.11% in first on buzzer is the worst that James did in on the signalling device since going 36.84% in his second game on April 5.
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If he had gotten the DD1 a little later after getting more money or had gotten either of the DJ! DD’s, the story could easily have changed. Very bummed that he didn’t break the record but it was an incredible performance and he should be proud.
The king is dead, long live the queen. Thanks to all three contestants tonight. That’s the best played game I have ever seen from the entire group. One miss in 60 clues is amazing.
I don’t understand the conspiracy theories. James made the exact right bet. As a side note, these conspiracy theories are undermining the great game that Emma played. I don’t know how many games she will win but in the moment tonight, she would have beat almost anyone. We all knew that eventually James’ run would come to an end. It’s a great run so let’s appreciate it for what it is and appreciate the amazing effort from Emma that ended it.
Congratulations to James on a uniquely phonemonal run. The game will never be the same, and I think that’s a good thing.
Congratulations to Emma on her excellent play and well-deserved victory. I hope we see a nice long run of victories from Emma as well.
It seemed to me that several factors played into the outcome of today’s game:
DJ’s: James’s first DJ on his first pick prevented him from running up a dominating score to begin with. Luck of the draw there. Then Emma was able to use her first DJ to double up and take the lead, which I believe she never relinquished. From start to finish, it was a close contest, and highly entertaining to watch.
First on buzzer: Between them, Emma and Jay held James to his lowest first-on-buzzer stat since May 23, when Nate come close to beating James. On the other recent games. James’s first-on-buzzer is in 50-60% range. Today it was in the 40%’s as it was on May 23. His competitors have typically shown 10-20% range, but today Emma was 33%. On the 23rd, Nate was 37%. The more evenly shared first-on-buzzer play seemed evident to me during the game, and is borne out in the stats, though James was ahead in all of these games.
As noted, there was only one incorrect response today. All three players knew their stuff, and were able to back up their buzz-ins with right answers.
Beautiful game from all three. Well fought, and a deserving close the “Jacobean” Era.
I am stunned! This close to regular record, and he did not win. I am saddened for my loss. The two opponents were not lucky – they were smart and talented. Ken Jennings – you are still Jack Nicklaus. James is Tiger Woods. Wow! Really never ever saw this coming. Probably be quite a while before I heavily watch Jeopardy again. Thanks for the ride.
As I said a little while ago, when the time came, the media was going to spoil the result for everyone. If today’s media was around in the 1940’s and knew the date and location of the D-Day landing, they would have printed it: “You’ll never guess the actual location of the Allied landing! Click here to find out!”
Most of the country forgets that there are states like California and Hawaii that are hours earlier than the rest of the country. For Jeopardy spoilers, it’s a minor annoyance. When news outlets predict Presidential winners even before we finish voting, it’s criminal.
Yeah, it’s easy enough to avoid this Website before the episode airs (and the site is clear about live-tweeting the East Coast feed of games, so just mute it). Avoiding the news crawl on ESPN during a baseball game? Major news outlets including spoiler headlines in email blasts and Twitter notifications? Not as easy to avoid when you have no idea that’s what they’ve decided to cover that day when they’ve never covered it before.
The lack of consideration is so disappointing. It’s as if their mindset was “we gave them six hours of spoiler warnings, now we can just say it directly in tweets,” or “it’s aired on the East Coasts, it’s fair game.” All before half the country has yet to see it.
I have enjoyed watching James winning streak so much that I would light-heartily Compare myself to Raymond in ‘Rain Man’ who Could not miss an episode of Judge Wopner!!! I would have loved to see him break the record, and look forward to seeing him in the Tournament of Champions. I also think he has the most adorable smile!!!
I was stewing about the game for a little while, but then realized:
The Tournament of Champions is on the way!
Another $250,000 for James? I’d like to see the odds on that, Vegas books — and also the chance to see one of the greatest Jeopardy! players ever back on the buzzer. The other 14 contestants will have a lot on their plates while preparing for JJ — buzzer skills, studying and calming of their nerves.
Prediction: Jeopardy! ratings take deep dive — leadoff contestant, “I’ll take European cities for $200” — then zoom back up for the T o C and $1,000 clues off the top.
And I wish Sports Jeopardy! was still around so we could see him in action there (and I would have liked to have taken a whirl on that, too). But as I understand, James tried out for that, too, and wasn’t chosen, probably because he doesn’t have a case of arrested development or call his favorite team “us.” Of course, he got the better of the options, by far.
Many have said they rearranged their plans just to watch James because of his incredible run. I wouldn’t be surprised if Emma went on an incredible run herself and many plan their schedules to watch her.
Most of the country forgets that there are states like California and Hawaii that are hours earlier than the rest of the country. For Jeopardy spoilers, it’s a minor annoyance. When news outlets predict Presidential winners even before we finish voting, it’s criminal.
Duplicate-sorry
I know this question has been answered previously, but since I was with my spouse in the ER this afternoon and evening, I did not get to see any of today’s show, so where can I find the complete show on-line without signing away my first-born?
Yes, indeed, today was my birthday and hubby’s trip to the ER had nothing to do with it–I promise!
You are in luck, Jeopardy posted it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwgdVoDLHpY.