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Season 35

Today’s Final Jeopardy – February 26, 2019 (All-Star Games Day #5)

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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 European Artists) for Tuesday, February 26, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 122):

His seldom-used last name reflects his birth near the mouth of a river that flows from the Alps to the North Sea

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Team Ken, consisting of Ken Jennings (C), Matt Jackson (L), and Monica Thieu (R) (Yesterday’s total: $9,800)

Team Ken at the 2019 Jeopardy! All Star Games

Team Austin, consisting of Austin Rogers (C), Roger Craig (L), and Leonard Cooper (R) (Yesterday’s total: $2,800)

Team Austin in the 2019 Jeopardy! All-Star Games

Team Julia, consisting of Julia Collins (C), Ben Ingram (L), and Seth Wilson (R) (Yesterday’s total: $5,600)

Team Julia at the 2019 Jeopardy! All Star Games

Today’s final score will be added to tomorrow’s final score to determine this match’s winner, who will go straight to the final on March 4 & 5. Three wild cards will then play in a wild card match on February 28 & March 1.

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Correct response: Who is Rembrandt (Van Rijn)?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, famous artist, was born in 1606 in Leiden, Netherlands, which sits on the Rhine River delta; Leiden is one of the smaller cities located within the Dutch Randstad. The length of the Rhine is measured from the Old Rhine Bridge on Lake Constance to Hoek van Holland (Hook of Holland) in the southwest of the Netherlands (in the Rotterdam area).

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

Scores going into Final:
Team Ken (Matt) $37,500
Team Julia (Seth) $11,200
Team Austin (Roger) $6,800

Tonight’s results:
Team Austin (Leonard) $6,800 + $1,200 = $8,000
Team Julia (Julia) $11,200 – $11,200 = $0 (Who is Michaelangelo?)
Team Ken (Monica) $37,500 + $2,503 = $40,003

Today's Jeopardy! results (for the February 26, 2019 game.)

Fantasy point accumulation (Unofficial): Larissa Kelly 24 Alex Jacob 24 David Madden 18 Brad Rutter 17 Colby Burnett 16 Matt Jackson 14 Ken Jennings 13 Alan Lin 12 Ben Ingram 11 Buzzy Cohen 10 Leonard Cooper 10 Monica Thieu 10 Jennifer Giles 8 Roger Craig 8 Pam Mueller 7 Austin Rogers 6 Seth Wilson 5 Julia Collins 0

(As per the Official Rules of the contest: A correct response in Single or Double Jeopardy is worth 1 entry into the Lindblad sweepstakes. A correct response in Final Jeopardy is worth 10 entries into the Lindblad sweepstakes.)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round (Yesterday):
Team Ken (Ken) $9,800
Team Julia (Ben) $5,600
Team Austin (Austin) $2,800

Break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) (yesterday) GREAT NICKNAMES $1000 (8th pick)
Ken 4000 +4000 (Ben 800 Austin -600)
2) LAKES & RIVERS $800 (13th pick)
Matt 19000 +8500 (Seth 10400 Roger 1600)
3) ANCIENT AGRICULTURE $1200 (18th pick)
Matt 29100 +4000 (Seth 10400 Roger 2400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 158

Game Stats:
Matt $17,200 Coryat, 14 correct, 0 incorrect, 35.71% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts
Seth $5,600 Coryat, 5 correct, 0 incorrect, 17.86% in first on buzzer
Roger $4,000 Coryat, 8 correct, 4 incorrect, 42.86% in first on buzzer

Double Jeopardy! only:
Combined Coryat Score: $26,800
Lach Trash: $4,000 (on 3 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,200

Combined Single & Double Jeopardy:
Combined Coryat Score: $42,000
Lach Trash: $4,000 (on 3 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,000

Matt Jackson, stats to date:
502 correct, 28 incorrect
20/22 on rebound attempts
43.94% in first on buzzer (453/1031)
34/37 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $143,995)
9/18 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $23,221

Monica Thieu, stats to date:
80 correct, 18 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts
30.18% in first on buzzer (86/285)
1/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $200)
6/6 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,920

Roger Craig, stats to date:
418 correct, 74 incorrect
18/21 on rebound attempts
46.83% in first on buzzer (428/914)
25/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $117,000)
8/15 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,098

Leonard Cooper, stats to date:
81 correct, 14 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts
39.46% in first on buzzer (88/223)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $18,000)
3/5 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,800

Seth Wilson, stats to date:
338 correct, 37 incorrect
18/20 on rebound attempts
39.60% in first on buzzer (318/803)
15/23 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $13,800)
9/14 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,053

Julia Collins, stats to date:
582 correct, 62 incorrect
40/45 on rebound attempts
38.21% in first on buzzer (533/1395)
29/40 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $47,400)
14/26 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,096

Andy’s Thoughts:

  • Because of the fact that tomorrow’s scores can be effectively doubled in Final Jeopardy!, Team Ken has a $16,001.50 lead on Team Austin, and $20,001.50 lead on Team Julia.
  • Also, remember that no team actually knows that the wild card cutoff is $21,800 (though as it stands now, Team Ken will advance to tomorrow no matter what happens).
  • As evidenced by the stats above, Roger actually out-buzzed Matt 12-10, but four really expensive negs ended up really hurting Roger, and Matt took really good advantage of the opportunities that he was presented.
  • If you look at the Team Julia discussion of their Final Jeopardy! bet, it really seemed like Julia seemed less than 100% comfortable with the strategy that Ben was talking about. I think that the best strategy there, considering their position, would have been to have Julia put down a number that she was comfortable with; it might have helped her mindset going in to play that Final Jeopardy. Also, one other thing that was pointed out to me last week: because of the time it took for all 3 times to discuss strategy backstage, and the interviews, about 20 minutes elapsed in real time between the revealing of the category and the revealing of the clue. That can be quite a nerve-wracking 20 minutes.

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