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Season 34

Today’s Final Jeopardy – April 30, 2018

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Current Champion

Justin Robbins, career statistics:
28 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,600

To win:
2 games: 64.278%
3: 41.317%
4: 26.557%
5: 17.071%
6: 10.973%
Avg. streak: 2.799 games.
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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 (in the category Authors on Authors) for Monday, April 30, 2018 (Season 34, Episode 166):

Whitman said this man’s poetry has a “propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Leslye Laderman, an employee benefits attorney from Creve Coeur, Missouri

Leslye Laderman on Jeopardy!

Osman Syed, a student from Jamesville, New York

Osman Syed on Jeopardy!

Alexandra Henkoff, a college admissions counselor from Houston, Texas (1-day total: $17,300)

Alexandra Henkoff on Jeopardy!

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Correct response: Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

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The quote came from Whitman’s 1887 work, Specimen Days in America”:

Almost without the first sign of moral principle, or of the concrete or its heroisms, or the simpler affections of the heart, Poe’s verses illustrate an intense faculty for technical and abstract beauty, with the rhyming art to excess, an incorrigible propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page–and by final judgment, probably belong among the electric lights of imaginative literature, brilliant and dazzling, but with no heat. There is an indescribable magnetism about the poet’s life and reminiscences, as well as the poems. To one who could work out their subtle retracing and retrospect, the latter would make a close tally no doubt between the author’s birth and antecedents, his childhood and youth, his physique, his so call’d education, his studies and associates, the literary and social Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia and New York, of those times–not only the places and circumstances in themselves, but often, very often, in a strange spurning of and reaction from them all.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!

Scores going into Final:
Osman $27,400
Leslye $6,200
Alexandra $3,800

Tonight’s results:
Alexandra $3,800 – $3,500 = $300 (Who is Dante)
Leslye $6,200 + $1,401 = $7,601
Osman $27,400 + $5,933 = $33,333 (1-day total: $33,333)

Osman Syed, today's Jeopardy! winner (for the April 30, 2018 game.)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Osman $9,000
Leslye $3,000
Alexandra $2,200

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) LITERARY CHARACTERS $600 (3rd pick)
Osman 400 +1000 (Alexandra 200 Leslye 0)
2) JAPAN-POURRI $800 (11th pick)
Osman 12600 +3500 (Alexandra 3800 Leslye 2600)
3) MUSEUMS $1600 (24th pick)
Osman 20100 +4500 (Leslye 4200 Alexandra 3800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 150

Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: RHYMES WITH BOB $2000, POP CULTURE IN THE NEWS $1600 & $2000
Total $ Left On Board: $5,600

Game Stats:
Osman $21,400 Coryat, 30 correct, 3 incorrect, 51.85% in first on buzzer
Leslye $6,200 Coryat, 7 correct, 2 incorrect, 12.96% in first on buzzer
Alexandra $3,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 4 incorrect, 25.93% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $31,400
Lach Trash: $10,200 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,800

Alexandra Henkoff, stats to date:
28 correct, 6 incorrect
26.17% in first on buzzer (28/107)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,300

Osman Syed, stats to date:
31 correct, 3 incorrect
51.85% in first on buzzer
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $9,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,400

Osman Syed, to win:
2 games: 79.58%
3: 63.33%
4: 50.40%
5: 40.11%
6: 31.92%
Avg. streak: 4.898 games.


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