Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 (Power Players #2)
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We had an unusually competitive Power Players match-up to kick things off. How would things go Tuesday?
Back to what many of us expected: 20 clues left on the board, for one.
Lara’s in the lead heading into Final:
|
Anderson Cooper |
Lara Logan |
Michael Steele |
| 4,000 | 5,800 | 1,600 |
| Spike’s K9 Fund | Committee to Protect Journalists | Catholic Charities Mona Center |
Normally, Michael would be out of contention, but you never know how these players will wager.
Tonight’s Final Jeopardy! category is:
| COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD |
Combined analysis
| Anderson |
Lara |
Michael | |||
| 4,000 | 5,800 | 1,600 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 400 | 2,200 | 2,600 | |||
| 3,200* | 1,400 | ||||
Lara and Anderson have some mind games to play. If Anderson thinks Lara will go big, he should go small. Lara might go small in response, to which Anderson should go big. And we’re back to the baseline.
What actually happened
| Anderson | Lara | Michael | |||
| 4,000 | 5,800 | 1,600 | |||
| 3,998 | 4,000 | 600 | |||
| 7,998 | 9,800 | 1,000 | |||
| min | max | min | max | ||
| 399 | 2,201 | 2,599 | |||
| 4,000 | 1,399 | ||||
Despite her win, Lara gets the “white” wager because she let Michael back into contention. Had the right/wrong answers been totally flipped, Michael would have won! (Also, in part because she studied the wrong wagering website.)
In any event, congrats to her and to CPJ for their $50,000 win. Anderson is now 2-for-4 in his appearances – that’s three more games than most Jeopardy! contestants.
Really looking forward to Louis C.K. on Wednesday!
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD |
| THIS COUNTRY’S 2 MAIN ETHNIC GROUPS ARE PUNJABI (WHO ARE ALSO FOUND IN INDIA) & PASHTUN (ALSO LIVING IN AFGHANISTAN) |
[spoiler]What is Pakistan?[/spoiler]
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Anderson, Lara and Michael. Who are 3 people that would never qualify for the real Jeopardy game?
Rick – It’s probably WHO you are. Ratings.