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Season 33

Today’s Final Jeopardy – July 12, 2017

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Current Champion

Matthew Riggle, career statistics:
47 correct, 6 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
41.23% in first on buzzer (47/114)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,300

To win:
3 games: 68.027%
4: 46.277%
5: 31.481%
6: 21.415%
7: 14.568%
Avg. streak: 4.128 games.
(Next game: September 14)
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All Time Winnings

All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:

1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200

All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):

1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,098,403
7. Mattea Roach $897,983
8. Jamie Ding $885,605
9. David Madden $785,733
10. Victoria Groce $773,801
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Larissa Kelly $671,930
14. Matt Jackson $623,612
15. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
16. Andrew He $534,365
17. Scott Riccardi $533,000
18. Jerome Vered $499,102
19. Julia Collins $495,767
20. Austin Rogers $493,000
21. Ben Ingram $449,201
22. Paolo Pasco $448,717
23. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
24. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
25. Juveria Zaheer $441,000

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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category World Leaders) for Wednesday, July 12, 2017:

A landmark 1957 N.Y. Times story called him “a powerful six-footer, olive-skinned…with a straggly beard”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Sara-Jane Whitaker, an office clerk from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sara-Jane Whitaker on Jeopardy!

Gavin Borchert, a writer & editor from Seattle, Washington

Gavin Borchert on Jeopardy!

Kelly Lasiter, an administrative assistant from Granite City, Illinois (1-day total: $22,800)

Kelly Lasiter on Jeopardy!

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When the 1957 article was published, even the U.S. embassy in Havana was not even sure if Castro was still alive; Fulgencio Batista’s regime had claimed in December 1956 that Castro had died. But Castro’s resistence movement was revived by the 1957 series of articles by Herbert L. Matthews, and by 1959, Castro was in power.


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  • Scores going into Final:
    Gavin $14,600
    Kelly $8,600
    Sara-Jane $7,200

    Final results:
    Sara-Jane $7,200 + $7,200 = $14,400
    Kelly $8,600 + $5,800 = $14,400 (Who is Josef Stalin Fidel Castro?)
    Gavin $14,600 + $5,000 = $19,600 (1-day total: $19,600)

    Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
    Sara-Jane $5,400
    Kelly $2,600
    Gavin $1,800

    Opening break taken after: 15 clues

    Daily Double locations:
    1) THOREAU-ING A 200th BIRTHDAY $800 (26th pick)
    Kelly 1800 +1800 (Sara-Jane 5400 Gavin 3400)

    2) KABOOM! $1600 (25th pick)
    Sara-Jane 8200 -1500 (Gavin 12600 Kelly 6600)
    3) THE PITTSBURGH ADDRESS $1200 (28th pick, $3,600 left on board)
    Sara-Jane 8700 -1500 (Gavin 14600 Kelly 6600)
    Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 64

    Unplayed clues: None!

    Game Stats:
    Gavin $14,600 Coryat, 18 correct, 4 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer
    Kelly $7,600 Coryat, 15 correct, 5 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer
    Sara-Jane $10,200 Coryat, 15 correct, 2 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer
    Lach Trash: $11,000 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
    Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $10,600

    Kelly Lasiter, final stats:
    29 correct
    6 incorrect
    2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,800)
    2/2 in Final Jeopardy
    23.68% in first on buzzer (27/114)
    Average Coryat: $9,000

    Gavin Borchert, stats to date:
    19 correct
    4 incorrect
    0/0 on Daily Doubles
    1/1 in Final Jeopardy
    36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57)
    Average Coryat: $14,600

    Gavin Borchert, to win:
    2 games: 48.97%
    3: 23.98%
    4: 11.74%
    5: 5.75%
    6: 2.82%
    Avg. streak: 1.960 games.

    With a projected 32 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
    An average of 1.064 5+-time champions (standard deviation 0.81242).
    An average of 1.7097 4+-time champions (standard deviation 0.97845).

    An early cutoff took place 4.074% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).

    Gavin Borchert qualified 9.538% of the time.
    Tim Kutz qualified 61.096% of the time.
    Todd Giese qualified 14.752% of the time.

    • Dal Higbee | July 12, 2017 at 4:36 pm | Reply

      That means if Gavin had got it wrong, we would FINALLY had our first tiebreaker.

      • Andy Saunders | July 12, 2017 at 4:51 pm | Reply

        Precisely!

      • john blahuta | July 12, 2017 at 4:54 pm | Reply

        yeah, but it was imo pretty much a giveaway clue, so we have already two 3/3. And it’s just Wednesday….Yesterday we had the usual struggle when the FJ deals with outside US categories, especially Europe. But Fidel was close enough to us to miss.Plus, the re-opening relations between Cuba and the US keeps Cuba in the news. And after all Raul Castro, Fidel’s brother is in charge now and the transferring of power was also getting a lot of media exposure. And the name “Castro” stayed, even though it’s Raul now, so there was no “generation gap” since Cuba was in the news a lot lately.I wonder how Trump is going to approach the “revival” of relations between Cuba and us. So far he is rather quiet about it…

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