Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category American Music Legends) for Thursday, June 6, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 194):
Steinbeck called him “just a voice and a guitar” but said his songs embodied “the will of a people to endure and fight against oppression”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Salomé Gonstad, a freelance writer from Hanceville, Alabama
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Brendan Roach, a policy researcher advisor from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Emma Boettcher, a user experience librarian from Chicago, Illinois (3-day total: $97,002)
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Emma is currently sitting 22nd on our Tournament of Champions tracker. A win today will likely move her to #12.
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Correct response: Who is Woody Guthrie?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
The words were penned shortly after Woody Guthrie’s 1967 death by John Steinbeck, who had become a good friend of Guthrie’s in California. Both found much in common in protesting the Great Depression; Steinbeck’s preferred medium was the novel, Guthrie’s was the music. (Guthrie’s guitar famously had “This machine kills fascists” on it.) He wrote “This Land Is Your Land”, one of America’s most famous folk songs, in 1940.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Brendan $19,200
Emma $19,000
Salomé $16,400
Tonight’s results:
Salomé $16,400 + $16,400 = $32,800
Emma $19,000 – $13,801 = $5,199 (Who is Bob Dylan? A. Guthrie)
Brendan $19,200 + $19,000 = $38,200 (1-day total: $38,200)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Brendan $6,200
Salomé $6,000
Emma $3,800
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) BUSINESS NAMES $1000 (16th pick)
Brendan 2800 +2800 (Salomé 3200 Emma 1200)
2) PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1600 (5th pick)
Brendan 8200 +5000 (Salomé 7600 Emma 5800)
3) U.S. RIVERS THAT FLOW NORTH $800 (8th pick)
Emma 9000 +6000 (Brendan 13200 Salomé 7600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 228
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Game Stats:
Brendan $14,000 Coryat, 18 correct, 1 incorrect, 28.57% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Salomé $16,400 Coryat, 19 correct, 0 incorrect, 32.14% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Emma $13,800 Coryat, 16 correct, 1 incorrect, 28.57% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $44,200
Lach Trash: $7,200 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,600
Emma Boettcher, final stats:
103 correct, 6 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
38.50% in first on buzzer (87/226)
5/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $24,200)
2/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,900
Brendan Roach, stats to date:
19 correct, 1 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
28.57% in first on buzzer (16/57)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,800)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,000
Brendan Roach, to win:
2 games: 61.148%
3: 37.391%
4: 22.864%
5: 13.981%
6: 8.549%
Avg. streak: 2.574 games.
Methodology: https://thejeopardyfan.com/2019/04/jeopardy-predictions-updated-methods.html
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 66 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 1.8707 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.1464).
An average of 3.3834 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.4143).
An early cutoff took place 0.175% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).
Brendan Roach qualified 16.929% of the time.
Eric R. Backes qualified 90.288% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 69.164% of the time.
Lindsey Shultz qualified 34.810% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 8.569% of the time.
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It would be better than Jeopardy! We do not need to see who is the luckiest.
To each his own I guess, but as someone who won one of his games coming from behind and getting FJ correct while the leader missed it, I’m not sure why my knowing the answer and his not knowing the answer was ‘luck’ any more than doing well in a category in your wheelhouse (or badly in the dreaded opera category 😊) is luck as opposed to knowledge, and preparation.
Speaking of my earlier post, why don’t Teen Tournament winners get spots in Tournaments of Champions?
Also, shouldn’t next season be the season when a ToC occurs?
The show decided to stop doing so about 20 years ago. We don’t really know why.
Does anyone remember the question about DOS being a programming language vs. the acronym DOS meaning Denital of Service? The clue is incorrect! DOS is an operating system, not a programming language!
I’d like to know the exact wording (or a screen capture) so that I can be properly outraged and share this with my fellow computer geeks. Thanks!
Roy, The J-Archive Page will list the exact cluie, probably tomorrow.
*clue, not cluie.
Thank you! I will be sure to check it then.
Jeopardy! is usually very good with constructing their clues. I’m surprised that this error made it through the reviewing process (although it didn’t affect the correct response to the clue whatsoever).
I think this is it:
Category: SPELL IT OR SAY IT
DOS IS A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; DOS IS SHORT FOR “DENIAL OF” THIS & IS A COMPUTER ATTACK
Answer: What is service?
Thanks, Ed! That sounds familiar. 🙂 DOS stands for Disk Operating System. That tells you right there that it is not a programming language! Thanks again.
I thought the same thing when I saw that. DOS means Disk Operating System and it is not a programming language.
If the aftermath of Emma’s defeating James, several posters predicted that she would likely have a long, successful run on Jeopardy!, perhaps qualifying for the TOC.
I’ve never understood why people jump to such conclusions on the basis of just one game. Crowning a contestant as a superior player should only be done retrospectively, AFTER s/he has had a successful run on the show.
Jasper
The interesting thing is that James actually bested Emma (albeit only modestly) on virtually every stat from the June 3rd game except the one that mattered. She nailed both DDs during the DJ round and got the FJ to seal the deal. Although a very solid player, the luck of a hitting both DDs as well as categories very favorable to her played a big part. Of course that’s part of Jeopardy!
Right! Jeopardy! allows a less-talented player with luck to topple a better player. It reminds me of my 9-year-old granddaughter nearly always getting Yahtzees to beat me. (I rarely get them!)
I still don’t see why this is inherently a problem. There needs to be some amount of randomness and volatility in the game in order to have an exciting and entertaining contest for the viewers at home.
I agree. Although I was disappointed James wasn’t able to topple Ken’s single season record, I was hoping that his dominance didn’t end up becoming completely monotonous. I was actually was wishing for two to three more end to secure the record, then a game like June 3rd where luck rather than a mistake ended his streak.
What a difference a Jamesless Jeopardy! makes for me. I think I’m responsible for requesting the Triple Stumper stat a couple of years (?) ago. As a longtime watcher, I’ve often gauged the quality of the contestants by the number of them in a game. I got four today, but when James was king, I never got so many zeroes or, if I was really lucky, one or two. Seven of them today almost seems sacrilegious…
I guess I am in the very small minority of those who enjoyed watching this game exponentially more than watching James slaughter his opponents and having the games essentially decided at the break.
I agree with you, Mark. I found the absolute lack of any competitive drama to be numbing, to say the least. In fact, I stopped watching and waited for the news of his defeat. It was to me, analogous to watching Lebron James play a game of one on one with a ten year old…not very compelling television.
Did anyone else think Emma looked extremely like Kim Darby from True Grit.?
Maybe this was already asked and answered, but how is California a day behind? This episode has not aired here, and ends up a spoiler for me. Maybe it’s not California, but my cable provider Spectrum? Does anyone know?
Thanks!
Since Jeopardy is syndicated, it airs on different (network) stations in different cities. If the station it’s on in your area is showing a ‘special’ in the Jeopardy time slot, (e.g. an NBA finals game), Jeopardy might be preempted and the show for that day shown at a later time, or even the next day. On all other US stations, the schedule is intact