Friday, January 8, 2016
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Steve Belding is looking to break our drought of four-time champions. Will he do it?
When Steve found that Daily Double in “AMERICAN” ORGANIZATIONS, I was hoping he would make it True. It’s the ideal category for a big wager: there are an extremely limited number of possible answers, and you’re probably familiar with all of them.
Lucky for him, he didn’t – but he still needs help heading into Final.
|
Steve Belding |
Ava Hadaway |
Adam Hoskins |
| 9,400 | 9,000 | 14,600 |
If you multiply Steve’s score by 1.5, you get 14,100, less than Adam’s pre-Final total. That means he has to get it right to have a shot to win. Same for Ava. All-in, regardless of category!
What actually happened
| Steve | Ava | Adam | |||
| 9,400 | 9,000 | 14,600 | |||
| 8,601 | 9,000 | 4,201 | |||
| 18,001 | 18,000 | 18,801 | |||
| min | max | ||||
| 9,400 | 9,000 | 4,201 | 5,199 | ||
We now stand at 52 regular games since Matt Jackson lost; he’s the last player to win more than three. I’ll soon have to update my Streaks of Futility record board.
Have a great weekend!
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| SOCIOLOGY |
| OFTEN APPLIED TO ATHLETES, THIS 2-WORD TERM POPULARIZED BY ROBERT K. MERTON REFERS TO AN EXAMPLE WE ASPIRE TO |
[spoiler]What is ‘role model’?[/spoiler]
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