Tuesday, January 5, 2016
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On tonight’s video, I explain how the show Archer helped me get no fewer than four clues on Tuesday’s episode.
First, a note of impatience, echoed by my friends at The Jeopardy Fan. As usual, clickbaity websites have gotten hold of an incorrect response made under the pressure of the lights and several million viewers.
It’s here that I need to remind everyone tempted to make fun of Terry for his “Auburn Crimson Tide” that registration for the Jeopardy! online test is now, once again, open. Here, I’ll even link to it!
To anyone snarking Stephanie and Brad: you had better ace the #JeopardyOnlineTest soon. Put up or shut up. It wasn’t a good game for anyone.
— Kristin Sausville (@ksausville) March 13, 2015
Here are our scores heading into Final:
|
Terry McElhennon |
Alex Lautanen Walker |
Steve Belding |
| 11,200 | 12,200 | 18,600 |
Steve has more than 1.5 times Alex’s score, so the category is irrelevant.
First-order calculations
The trailers need to wager big, so might as well go for broke!
| Terry |
Alex |
Steve | |||
| 11,200 | 12,200 | 18,600 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 1,600* | 10,200* | 5,800 | |||
| 600* | |||||
What actually happened
| Terry | Alex | Steve | |||
| 11,200 | 12,200 | 18,600 | |||
| 11,000 | 6,500 | 5,801 | |||
| 22,200 | 18,700 | 24,401 | |||
| min | max | ||||
| 11,200 | 12,200 | 5,801 | 6,399 | ||
I don’t get Alex’s wager, but as someone said, at least it only cost her $1,000 – and not a victory.
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| BRITISH NOVELS |
| IN SOME COUNTRIES THE SUBTITLE “A CONTEMPORARY SATIRE” WAS USED FOR THIS 1945 PARABLE |
[spoiler]What is Animal Farm by George Orwell?[/spoiler]
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