Today’s Final Jeopardy – March 29, 2019

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 Children’s Books) for Friday, March 29, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 145):

This 1883 classic ends with the words “A well-behaved little boy!”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s contestants:

Andrew Simmons, a grants contracts reviewer from Lilburn, Georgia

Natasha Leyk, a budget manager from Chicago, Illinois

Steven Grade, a sports industry consultant from Atlanta, Georgia (2-day total: $57,201)

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Correct response: What is The Adventures of Pinocchio?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

Before Pinocchio was a famous 1940 Disney animated film, it was an 1883 children’s novel by Carlo Collodi. The work was originally serialized as La storia di un burattino in the magazine Giornale per i bambini. (If you’re reading this anywhere other than thejeopardyfan.com, know that the website operator has copied this description wholesale from that site.) Once the serialization was finished, it was published as a book. In the original serialization, Pinocchio actually was hanged for his faults, but Collodi’s editor requested that The Fairy with the Turquoise Hair rescue Pinocchio and turn him into a real boy.

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

Scores going into Final:
Steven $17,800
Andrew $14,300
Natasha $12,400

Tonight’s results:
Natasha $12,400 – $7,400 = $5,000 (What is Peter Pan?)
Andrew $14,300 – $12,000 = $2,300 (What is Little Lord Fauntleroy?)
Steven $17,800 – $10,801 = $6,999 (What is The Velveteen Rabbit?) (3-day total: $64,200)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Natasha $8,200
Steven $7,400
Andrew $1,400

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) LITERARY GENRES $800 (29th pick)
Natasha 5600 +1600 (Steven 8400 Andrew 1400)
2) CASTLE ARCHITECTURE $2000 (5th pick)
Natasha 11400 -3000 (Steven 7400 Andrew 2200)
3) QUARTZ & ALL $2000 (27th pick) ($4800 remaining on the board)
Andrew 11800 +2500 (Steven 15800 Natasha 9600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 23

Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0

Game Stats:
Steven $17,800 Coryat, 21 correct, 1 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer
Natasha $14,600 Coryat, 18 correct, 3 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts
Andrew $13,800 Coryat, 18 correct, 1 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts
Combined Coryat Score: $46,200
Lach Trash: $2,000 (on 2 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,800

Steven Grade, stats to date:
85 correct, 4 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts
47.62% in first on buzzer (80/168)
3/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $6,000)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,067

Steven Grade, to win:
4 games: 73.39%
5: 53.87%
6: 39.53%
7: 29.02%
8: 21.30%
Avg. streak: 5.758 games.

Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 105 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
An average of 3.3692 5+-time champions (standard deviation 1.4862).
An average of 5.9561 4+-time champions (standard deviation 1.79).

An early cutoff took place 2.159% of the time (or a 5-game winner will be left out).

Steven Grade qualified 57.460% of the time.
Eric R. Backes qualified 90.156% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 74.593% of the time.
Lindsey Shultz qualified 49.782% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 23.175% of the time.
Jonathan Dinerstein qualified 6.502% of the time.
Alex Schmidt qualified 0.853% of the time.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• Wagering advice: If you’re not going to make sure your score stays above the leader’s if you both miss Final Jeopardy!, it’s probably a better idea to go all-in. That way, you win more money on the occasions where you win the game.
• I know I’ve gone on record as saying that the show would be boring if everyone wagered perfectly, but it still feels frustrating in the moment.
• I can imagine those on the ToC bubble at the moment looking back on this game six to nine months from now in some sort of wistful “what might have been”.
• Effective in first on buzzer stats: Steven 40.00% (22/55), Natasha 30.91% (17/55), Andrew 29.09% (16/55).

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