Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Thursday, July 7, 2016
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Will Matt break our carousel of champions?
Toward the very end, it looked like he might get locked out before Final. Tonight’s notes:
And the scores:
|
Matt Hoffer-Hawlik (1x) |
Neil Sondov |
Bonnie Megel |
| 15,600 | 3,400 | 19,400 |
Some mind games, perhaps, with this category:
| BRITISH LITERARY CHARACTERS |
What actually happened
| Matt | Neil | Bonnie | |||
| 15,600 | 3,400 | 19,400 | |||
| 4,801 | 3,400 | 12,000 | |||
| 10,799 | 0 | 31,400 | |||
| min | max | min | max | ||
| 7,601 | 7,999 | 11,801 | 12,599 | ||
| 399 | 4,201 | 7,599 | |||
| 3,801 | |||||
I don’t like Matt’s wager because it fails to cover Bonnie’s potential Shoretegic wager of 4,201.
Our last multi-day champ, Harris Stutman, lost more than a week ago (Wednesday to be exact). [insert carousel music]
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| BRITISH LITERARY CHARACTERS |
| IN AN 1887 NOVEL THIS NARRATOR’S OLD WARTIME INJURY IS IN HIS SHOULDER; IN AN 1890 NOVEL BY THE SAME AUTHOR, IT’S IN HIS LEG |
[spoiler]Who is Dr. John Watson?[/spoiler]
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Actually, Harris Stutman lost on Wednesday of last week, not Tuesday.
Good catch, thanks!
I got the River Shannon clue because of a story Stephen Colbert told, in which he was afraid to tell his mom that the building he was living in was named after Oliver Cromwell because: “Cromwell is like Satan. He drove our family west of the River Shannon to farm rocks 350 years ago! I was raised on that story.”
What’s going on? Miss you!
Where are you?
Keith must have gotten addicted to Pokemon Go. :'(