Tuesday, May 12, 2015 – Celebrity Jeopardy! #2
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Yesterday, Neil Flynn became our first Celebrity champion. Who will join him: Aaron Rodgers, Kevin O’Leary, or Mark Kelly?
I predicted that Aaron would take this one down, and that Kevin would be lying belly up. Looks pretty good so far.
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Aaron Rodgers |
Kevin O’Leary |
Mark Kelly |
| Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer | Martin P. Solomon Medical Education Scholars Program | Memorial Hermann Hospital Foundation |
| 12,800 | -2,800 | 8,600 |
Kevin becomes our first player to get the Final Jeopardy! pity prize for this category:
| BUSINESS |
Once again, I’m going to offer this poll:
How should Keith handle this week's shows?
- Skip the entire week! (12%, 15 Votes)
- Be ruthless! They could lose money for their charity! (61%, 75 Votes)
- Be nice! They're playing for charity! (26%, 32 Votes)
Total Voters: 122
Some mind games between Aaron and Mark.
First-order calculations
Second doubles up
If Mark doubles his score, he’ll have 17,200.
To cover this all-in wager, Aaron will need to wager 4,400.
| Aaron |
Kevin |
Mark | |||
| 12,800 | -2,800 | 8,600 | |||
| 4,400 | 8,600 | ||||
| 17,200 | 17,200 | ||||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 4,400 | |||||
An incorrect response with that wager will leave Aaron with 8,400.
To stay above his total, Mark can wager up to 200.
| Aaron |
Kevin |
Mark | |||
| 12,800 | -2,800 | 8,600 | |||
| 4,400 | 200 | ||||
| 8,400 | 8,400 | ||||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 4,400 | 200 | ||||
Second-order calculations
If Mark makes the rational maximum wager of 200, Aaron will need to wager no more than 4,000 to stay above him.
| Aaron |
Kevin |
Mark | |||
| 12,800 | -2,800 | 8,600 | |||
| 4,000 | 200 | ||||
| 8,800 | 8,800 | ||||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 4,400 | 200 | ||||
| 4,000 | |||||
In that case, Mark would have to wager 8,200 and respond correctly. All in for charity!
| Aaron |
Kevin |
Mark | |||
| 12,800 | -2,800 | 8,600 | |||
| 4,000 | 8,200 | ||||
| 16,800 | 16,800 | ||||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 4,400 | 200 | ||||
| 4,000 | 8,200* | ||||
What actually happened
| $50,000 | $10,000 | $10,000 | |||
| Aaron | Kevin | Mark | |||
| 12,800 | 1,000 | 8,600 | |||
| 4,401 | 1,000 | 4,300 | |||
| 8,399 | 0 | 4,300 | |||
| min | max | min | max | ||
| 4,401 | 199 | ||||
| 3,999 | 8,600 | ||||
Had both Mark and Aaron gotten it right, Mark would have left $4,300 on the table for charity. No point in doing that, particularly when second and third get the same amount!
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| BUSINESS |
| THESE 2 AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN ARE SEEN HERE IN EARLY 20th CENTURY PHOTOS |
thanks to JBoard user jeff6286
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