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Season 33

Quick Recap & Today’s Final Jeopardy – April 12, 2017

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Current Champion

Nikolas Polsinelli, career statistics:
44 correct, 6 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
35.96% in first on buzzer (41/114)
4/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $10,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,500

To win:
3 games: 64.111%
4: 41.102%
5: 26.351%
6: 16.894%
7: 10.831%
Avg. streak: 3.786 games.
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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 $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603

Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy answer and question for Wednesday, April 12, 2017:

Final Jeopardy! category: SCARY MOVIES

Final Jeopardy! clue/answer: A remake of this scary movie was released on 6/6/2006, 30 years to the day after the release of the original

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Jane Joseph, a bond analyst from Wilmington, Delaware

Trevor Mahoney, an actuary from Louisville, Kentucky

Greg Chin, a direct service provider from New York, New York (2-day total: $37,599)

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A win today puts Greg onto our ToC Tracker page. The page now contains a graphic of the day-by-day changes in the qualification chances of the players on the ToC bubble!

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! tonight? Today’s Jeopardy! results will go up on this page late afternoon, with full stats early evening. They will be seen in the comments section at the bottom of this page.

The Richard Donner-directed film The Omen starred Gregory Peck and opened in the UK on June 6, 1976. 30 years later, the remake starring Julia Stiles, directed by John Moore, opened.

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  • Scores going into Final:
    Greg $14,400
    Jane $8,800
    Trevor $8,600

    Final results:
    Trevor $8,600 – $2,600 = $6,000 (What is the Exorcist?)
    Jane $8,800 + $8,602 = $17,402 (1-day total: $17,402)
    Greg $14,400 – $3,201 = $11,199 (What is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre?)

    Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
    Trevor $3,000
    Jane $2,400
    Greg $1,000

    Opening break taken after: 15 clues

    Daily Double locations:
    1) HOW DO YOU… $600 (5th pick)
    Greg 1000 -1000 (Jane 800 Trevor 200)
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    2) SHAKESPEARE IS KILLING ME $1200 (3rd pick)
    Jane 4000 +2000 (Trevor 4200 Greg -600)
    3) WE SALUTE YOU $1600 (24th pick, $6,000 left on board)
    Greg 10200 +1000 (Jane 8800 Trevor 7800)

    Unplayed clues:
    J! round: HAPPY 70th, DAVID LETTERMAN $200 & $1000
    DJ! round: None!
    $ Left on Board: $1200

    Game Stats:
    Jane $8,000 Coryat, 9 correct, 1 incorrect, 12.73% in first on buzzer
    Greg $16,000 Coryat, 20 correct, 4 incorrect, 38.18% in first on buzzer
    Trevor $8,600 Coryat, 18 correct, 3 incorrect, 36.36% in first on buzzer
    Lach Trash: $12,200 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
    Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,000

    Greg Chin, final stats:
    63 correct
    13 incorrect
    1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
    1/3 in Final Jeopardy
    42.59% in first on buzzer (69/162)
    Average Coryat: $15,666

    Jane Joseph, stats to date:
    10 correct
    1 incorrect
    1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
    1/1 in Final Jeopardy
    12.73% in first on buzzer (7/55)
    Average Coryat: $8,000

    Jane Joseph, to win:
    2 games: 26.64%
    3: 7.10%
    4: 1.89%
    5: 0.50%
    6: 0.13%
    Avg. streak: 1.363 games.
    Avg. Total Winnings (including possible ToC): $26,385

    ToC projection update:
    With a projected 87 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
    An average of 3.1894 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.3852).
    An average of 4.9218 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.6905).

    An early cutoff took place 16.816% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).

    Tim Kutz qualified 57.766% of the time.
    Todd Giese qualified 18.535% of the time.
    Rob Liguori qualified 3.891% of the time.
    Fred Vaughn qualified 0.745% of the time.

    (Note: Due to the possibility of a WGA strike, I feel that it is more accurate for ToC projections to add 20 games to the end of the previous projected qualifying period.)

    Miscellany:

    • Thank you to Jay Johnson for providing me with a full chart of this game.
    • Over the final 21 clues of Double Jeopardy, Greg got 12 of them correct, Trevor 5, Jane 0.
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