Thursday, November 5, 2015
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Don’t look now: we’ve got a bit of a carousel in the works this week.
No one’s doubled up since Nikki Grillo was dethroned last Friday, and Sam’s going to need a little help to do so tonight.
|
Sam Stubblefield |
Mike Barrett |
Ken Hill |
| 10,400 | 15,600 | 7,800 |
Tonight’s Final Jeopardy! category is:
| ART HISTORY |
First-order calculations
This is a weird situation. Sam has exactly 2/3 of Mike’s score, and Ken has exactly 1/2 of Mike’s score.
| Sam |
Mike |
Ken | |||
| 10,400 | 15,600 | 7,800 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 5,200* | 5,200 | 2,600* | |||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
Both are wager-to-tie situations to some degree, but less so now that tiebreakers are a thing. (Hey, it’s been almost a year since the rule change!)
What actually happened
| Sam | Mike | Ken | |||
| 10,400 | 15,600 | 7,800 | |||
| 10,241 | 5,201 | 7,799 | |||
| 20,641 | 20,801 | 15,599 | |||
| min | max | ||||
| 10,400 ! | 5,201 | 7,800 ! | |||
| 5,200 | |||||
| 0 ! | 0 ! | ||||
There is a non-zero chance that Mike would have left the dollar off here, or even considered wagering zero; and, really, there’s never a good reason to withhold any money when you need to get it right to have a shot.
After tonight, the Final Jeopardy! clues in the ToC are going to look really hard.
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| ART HISTORY |
| ALTHOUGH IT’S A STATUE OF A GIANT’S FOE, AN OBSERVER WHO SAW ITS 1504 UNVEILING CALLED IT “THE MARBLE GIANT” |
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