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Season 33

Today’s Final Jeopardy – June 21, 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 (in the category Sports & Politics) for Wednesday, June 21, 2017:

After moving to Johannesburg in 1903, he formed the Passive Resisters Soccer Club

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Lisa Evans, an office manager from Easthampton, Massachusetts

Lisa Evans on Jeopardy!

Matt Sokol, a gas turbine repair operations manager from The Woodlands, Texas

Matt Sokol on Jeopardy!

Peter Guekguezian, a PhD student in linguistics from Fresno, California (3-day total: $44,800)

Peter Guekguezian on Jeopardy!

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Knowing soccer (football) well from his time studying law in England, Gandhi began his working career as a lawyer in South Africa. Noticing the large amount of discrimination against the large Indian population in South Africa, he eventually became the leader of non-violent resistance to the early 20th century apartheid groups in South Africa, and formed clubs in Durban, Pretoria, and Johannesburg called the Passive Resisters Soccer Club.

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  • Scores going into Final:
    Lisa $21,600
    Peter $17,200
    Matt $1,200

    Final results:
    Matt $1,200 – $1,100 = $100 (Who is ?)
    Peter $17,200 + $14,899 = $32,099
    Lisa $21,600 + $12,801 = $34,401 (1-day total: $34,401)

    Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
    Peter $9,200
    Lisa $4,600
    Matt $3,600

    Opening break taken after: 15 clues

    Daily Double locations:
    1) CELEBRATIONS OF THE MONTH $800 (14th pick)
    Peter 4600 +4600 (Matt 2000 Lisa -400)
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    2) AROUND THE ADRIATIC $800 (6th pick)
    Lisa 6200 -1000 (Peter 10400 Matt 4000)
    3) HISTORICAL FICTION $1600 (17th pick)
    Lisa 12000 +2000 (Peter 16400 Matt 2800)
    Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 101

    Unplayed clues:
    J! round: None!
    DJ! round: A CATEGORY OF FEW WORDS $1600 & $2000
    $ Left On Board: $3,600

    Game Stats:
    Lisa $22,200 Coryat, 24 correct, 3 incorrect, 41.82% in first on buzzer
    Peter $13,400 Coryat, 21 correct, 3 incorrect, 38.18% in first on buzzer
    Matt $1,200 Coryat, 8 correct, 2 incorrect, 16.36% in first on buzzer
    Lach Trash: $3,800 (on 4 Triple Stumpers)
    Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,800

    Peter Guekguezian, final stats:
    88 correct
    16 incorrect
    4/7 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $600)
    3/4 in Final Jeopardy
    37.39% in first on buzzer (83/222)
    Average Coryat: $15,700

    Lisa Evans, stats to date:
    25 correct
    3 incorrect
    1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,000)
    1/1 in Final Jeopardy
    41.82% in first on buzzer (23/55)
    Average Coryat: $22,200

    Lisa Evans, to win:
    2 games: 74.06%
    3: 54.85%
    4: 40.62%
    5: 30.09%
    6: 22.28%
    Avg. streak: 3.855 games. #Jeopardy

    With a projected 47 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 250,000 simulations, our model shows:
    An average of 1.7465 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.0241).
    An average of 2.6708 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.2435).

    An early cutoff took place 4.432% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).

    Lisa Evans qualified 35.999% of the time.
    Tim Kutz qualified 66.618% of the time.
    Todd Giese qualified 23.758% of the time.
    Rob Liguori qualified 4.772% of the time.

    Miscellany:

    • Over the game’s final 36 clues (the final 8 clues of the first round and the 28 clues played in Double Jeopardy), Lisa had 21 correct and just 1 incorrect. Over the same span, Matt had just 1 correct and 2 incorrect.
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