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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Does anybody just love Jeopardy! anymore? It’s always been my favorite game, since the Art Fleming days of the 60s and 70s. The exit of James the Beloved (who didn’t even reach Ken’s streak HALFWAY by the way) seems to be causing a lot of angst…the show is still great and will survive people.
It is a fine game show and my wife and I were watching every night pre James regardless. However James took it to another level and made it incredibly exciting with the consistently good play and mind boggling bets. Andy’s statistical comparison show James actually besting Ken in most of the categories. One I found interesting was the average competitor Coryat score being higher for James than Ken. Could it be that Ken’s outrageous streak was due in part to playing against less capable competitors on average?
2004-era Jeopardy has some subtle differences from 2019-era Jeopardy. A few months back I was looking at some of the Season 21 boards that Ken was playing and there was some weirdly obscure stuff on those boards.
An interesting observation. It would probably be hard to do an objective analysis on this, but I would a agree with your general point: I believe the difficulty of Jeopardy! clues has gotten easier over the years. Not a new knock on the show to be sure, but I think we can at least give more concrete examples of “fluff.” One is the clue crew clues and another is the media tie-in categories. Those are rather lame filler.
I think another factor on the “Jeopardy seems easier” front may be that players are just more prepared these days, what with decades of Jeopardy! clues available in databases, and computer/cell phone/social media trivia challenges available 24/7 to test your sharpness.
Anyway, the various Jennings/Holzhauer comparisons are good grist for the mill. To be continued, I’m sure.
Interesting to have 3 strong competitors so evenly balanced. Based on the numbers, Salomé actually may have been the best by a tad, with no incorrect responses and the highest percentage in first on buzzer. But she had the misfortune of not selecting any Daily Doubles.
Andy, curious how you calculate first-in buzzer rate. Based on the percentages today of 28.57 for two of the contestants and one at 32.14 I calculated 16 out of 56 for those two and 18 of 56 for the other. With only two rebound attempts, how did we get 56 responses? With 3 DDs and 7 triple stumpers, I see only 50 first responses and two second responses. What am I missing? Thanks.
When does to TOC start? When can we see James again?
Nothing is official as far as I can tell, but the ToC usually airs in November. They don’t do it every year (they skipped 2018, for example) so they are due for one. When it actually happens is anyone’s guess. Alex Trebek’s health might be a factor here, as well as the fact that Jeopardy! just had an All-Star Team Tournament in Feb-Mar.
An interesting footnote is that Ken Jennings never played in a regular ToC (he went right to the Ultimate Tournament of Champions in 2005, where I’m sure most J! fans know he lost in the final to Brad Rutter.)
Speaking of which, I think we are all expecting the inevitable Jennings/Rutter/Holzhauer match. I have no doubt in my mind it will happen. Just have the 3 of them on for a week, let the answers and questions fly, and raise some money for charity while they’re at it. I just hope Alex can be there for it.
Did Alex say we’d see James in November? Not sure.
I got the Woody Guthrie answer and I’m a dumb head. I rarely get any right. But I learn! And promptly forget it all.
Odd but nice to actually see a close(r) game. I sometimes wonder if Jeopardy contestants are told not to show too much emotion. I mean no one likes a bragger but the champ today (and others) tend to hide their happiness for the most part…maybe just being humble idk…??
Ken and James certainly mirror the famous fable “The Tortoise and the Hare”. The Tortise came out on top that time as well! Slow and steady almost always wins the day.
So, the contestants don’t win their final total? Correct? 2nd wins 2,000 and 3rd wins 3,000. Please clear this up for me because I thought they got their total final. Thanks.
3rd gets $1,000.
https://thejeopardyfan.com/2016/11/why-does-only-the-winner-keep-the-cash.html
BRAD vs KEN vs JAMES Let’s have it! And let’s remove the luck: FIVE DAYS! No DDs or FJs! The only luck will be who gets to make the first pick.
That wouldn’t be Jeopardy.
No, it wouldn’t. But we would find out who’s Number One!
No we wouldn’t. Because you don’t find the best Jeopardy player by playing something that isn’t Jeopardy.
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.