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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Upcoming Encore Presentations
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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 (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
Gavin Borchert, a writer & editor from Seattle, Washington
Kelly Lasiter, an administrative assistant from Granite City, Illinois (1-day total: $22,800)
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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)
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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.
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That means if Gavin had got it wrong, we would FINALLY had our first tiebreaker.
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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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