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Season 34

Today’s Final Jeopardy – October 4, 2017

Published Modified

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 American Plays) for Wednesday, October 4, 2017 (Season 34, Episode 18):

The latitude & longitude given by the narrator of this 1938 play would set it in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire

(correct response beneath the contestants)

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Today’s contestants:

Jay Hancock, a journalist from Ellicott City, Maryland

Jay Hancock on Jeopardy!

Marguerite Moran, a library director from Webster, Minnesota

Marguerite Moran on Jeopardy!

Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York (6-day total: $257,700)

Austin Rogers on Jeopardy!

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In the play, Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town”, the Stage Manager states:

The name of the town is Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire–just across the Massachusetts state line: latitude 42 degrees 40 minutes; longitude 70 degrees 37 minutes.

Unfortunately, those co-ordinates place Grover’s Corners about a thousand feet off the coast of Rockport, Massachusetts. It is believed that Wilder modeled the play after Peterborough, New Hampshire: latitude 42 degrees 51 minutes, longitude 71 degrees 58 minutes.

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Scores going into Final:
Austin $27,600
Jay $10,000
Marguerite $7,000

Final results:
Marguerite $7,000 – $6,999 – $1 (What is)
Jay $10,000 + $4,500 = $14,500
Austin $27,600 – $7,000 = $20,600 (What is a taco?) (7-day total: $278,300)

Austin Rogers, winner of the October 4, 2017 episode of Jeopardy!

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Austin $6,200
Jay $5,200
Marguerite $3,000

Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) AUTHORS BORN && DIED $600 (8th pick)
Jay 400 +1000 (Austin 3200 Marguerite -400)
2) 3 STRAIGHT VOWELS $800 (2nd pick)
Austin 6600 +5000 (Jay 5200 Marguerite 3000)
3) DENTAL PROBLEMS $1600 (26th pick)
Austin 21200 +6000 (Jay 9200 Marguerite 5000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 204

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

Game Stats:
Austin $19,000 Coryat, 25 correct, 2 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer
Jay $9,600 Coryat, 15 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer
Marguerite $7,000 Coryat, 11 correct, 2 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $35,600
Lach Trash: $11,600 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,800

Austin Rogers, stats to date:
183 correct
20 incorrect
14/15 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $85,100)
6/7 in Final Jeopardy
42.42% in first on buzzer (165/389)
Average Coryat: $18,800

Austin Rogers, to win:
8 games: 87.18%
9: 76.00%
10: 66.26%
11: 57.77%
12: 50.36%
Avg. streak: 13.801 games.
(Note: This model has been adjusted to take pre-Final Jeopardy! score into account instead of Coryat Score.)


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