Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category International Groups) for Thursday, August 1, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 46, encore presentation):
The economic bloc known as the G8 became the G7 in 2014 upon the expulsion of this country
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Rhea Sinha, a senior from Chatham, New Jersey |
Jack Izzo, a senior from San Diego, California |
Tim Cho, a senior from Champaign, Illinois |
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Correct response: What is Russia?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
Following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014, Russia was removed from the G8 group of industrialized nations. A request by the United States in 2018 to let Russia back into the group was not taken well by Canada, with Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland saying Russia “made clear that it had no interest in behaving according to the rules of Western democracies”, and former Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying “Russia is more often than not trying deliberately to be a strategic rival, to deliberately counter the good things we’re trying to achieve in the world for no other reason than to just counter them.”
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Tim $17,400
Jack $16,800
Rhea $11,800
Tonight’s results:
Rhea $11,800 – $5,000 = $6,800 (What is Germa)
Jack $16,800 + $1,200 = $18,000
Tim $17,400 + $16,201 = $33,601 (Automatic Semi-Finalist)
Wild card standings:
Monday: Maya Wright, $26,200 ($18,200, $6,600)
Tuesday: Caleb Richmond, $20,200 ($20,200, $11,200)
Wednesday: Audrey Satchivi, $18,800 ($13,400, $6,200)
Thursday: Tim Cho, $33,601 ($17,400, $2,200)
Friday:
1) Emma Arnold, $18,400 ($15,400, $2,200), 100% to advance
2) Jack Izzo, $18,000 ($16,800, $6,000), 100% to advance
3) Claire Sattler, $16,999 ($15,200, $4,800), 96.598% to advance
4) Rhea Sinha, $6,800 ($11,800, $4,600), 10.802% to advance
5) Anish Maddipoti, $3,600 ($6,400, $6,200)
6) Rotimi Kukoyi, $1 ($7,600, $3,400)
7) Isabella Pagano $0 ($8,000, $3,600)
8) Dan Oxman -$2,400 (-$2,400, $400)
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Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Jack $6,000
Rhea $4,600
Tim $2,200
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Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) U.S. CITIES $800 (20th pick)
Tim 1800 -1800 (Jack 4600 Rhea 4600)
2) CLASSIC LITERATURE $800 (1st pick)
Tim 2200 +2200 (Jack 6000 Rhea 4600)
3) ECOLOGY $2000 (21st pick)
Tim 13600 +3000 (Jack 14000 Rhea 8600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 22
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Game Stats:
Tim $16,800 Coryat, 18 correct, 4 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts
Jack $16,800 Coryat, 20 correct, 2 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer, 0/1 on rebound attempts
Rhea $11,800 Coryat, 15 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer, 0/2 on rebound attempts
Combined Coryat Score: $45,400
Lach Trash: $4,400 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,200
Tim Cho, stats to date:
19 correct, 4 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts
31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,400)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,800
Jack Izzo, stats to date:
21 correct, 2 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts
36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,800
Rhea Sinha, stats to date:
15 correct, 2 incorrect
0/2 on rebound attempts
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,800
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Tim’s large wager seems unnecessarily risky as if he missed the question he misses advancing with $1,199. Betting $0 to finish with $17,400 above the $16,999 of would become #4 Claire appears prudent. The only way he wouldn’t advance then is if all three contestants tomorrow finish above $17,400, still a possibility if they all finish DJ! over $8,700 and there’s an easy FJ.
I’m assuming contestants know previous days scores. If not, this advise may not hold water!
In tournaments, they never know previous scores. He was going for broke though, and it worked out.
Actually Tim would have been guaranteed a spot by betting $0, as he would have taken over the #2 of 4 guaranteed spots, taking over Jack’s spot, who would have been the winner.