Monday, May 4, 2015
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Greg Seroka’s back, and he’s looking for number eight! Will he survive Monday, the day that claimed Alex Jacob and Julia Collins, the previous two players to sweep a full week?
Well, anyone who looked at the Jeopardy! YouTube account this weekend already knew that he’d fall tonight, because someone put up his “Winners Circle” interview. Nice job, guys!
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Greg Seroka |
Praggya Rustagi Barretto |
Scott Ylinen |
| 4,800 | 4,800 | 18,205 |
Because Greg had a higher score than did Praggya at the end of the first round, he carries the tiebreaker for second place. Maybe he’ll be generous with this category?
| CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS |
Funny enough, Scott had a Penultimate Wager, bet the minimum allowed, and got it right. (I probably would have done the same thing on a philately category.)
I’ve got some time to kill on tonight’s post, so please enjoy this reenactment of the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight on Mike Tyson’s PunchOut!!:
What actually happened
| Greg | Praggya | Scott | |||
| 4,800 | 4,800 | 18,205 | |||
| 4,793 | 1,000 | 4,300 | |||
| 7 | 3,800 | 22,505 | |||
| min | max | ||||
| 4,800 | 8,604 | ||||
| 0 | |||||
Greg Seroka: over $180,000 in seven victories, and the top slot in the TOC field right now. He seemed liked a nice guy, to boot!
Oh, yeah – did I help you to get one of tonight’s clues?
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS |
| HARRIET HEMENWAY’S BOYCOTT OF THE FEATHERED HATS OF HER SOCIAL CIRCLE INSPIRED THE 1905 FOUNDING OF THIS |
[spoiler]What is the Audubon Society?[/spoiler]
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If I’m not mistaken, not only did Julia, Alex, and Greg all lose on a Monday, they all did so in the first game of the second day of a week’s taping session. Can’t infer causation, of course, but just saying…
I was just about to point the same thing out. I’d love to see a “By the Numbers” on whether challengers have significantly more success on any particular day of the week.
Could do that, but because of occasional vagaries in taping schedule, M-F don’t always align with a single taping day