Friday, October 16, 2015
[php snippet=29]
Don’t worry, you won’t have to turn down your volume for tonight’s video.
Josh sure has a lot of energy, huh? I’ll start with our scores heading into Final…
|
Josh Silverman |
Zelda Pulliam |
Matt Akridge |
| 20,000 | 9,600 | 13,200 |
…but what I really want to discuss Josh’s antepenultimate wager.
| ANTEPENULTIMATE WAGER | ||
|
Josh |
Zelda |
Matt |
| 22,800 | 9,200 | 13,200 |
| ARCHITECTS, $800 one clue remaining: $400 |
||
Josh wagered $2,800. What would you have done? Here’s your video:
As for the last clue…
First-order calculations
Matt would need 13,334 to have 2/3 of Josh’s score. Therefore, he needs to get it right to have a shot. Same for Zelda.
| Josh |
Zelda |
Matt | |||
| 20,000 | 9,600 | 13,200 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 6,400 | 4,000 | 400 | |||
Easy peasy to finish the week.
What actually happened
| Josh | Zelda | Matt | |||
| 20,000 | 9,600 | 13,200 | |||
| 6,401 | 8,600 | 13,000 | |||
| 13,599 | 1,000 | 200 | |||
| min | max | ||||
| 6,401 | 6,799 | 9,600 | 13,200 | ||
Josh has now won 2 games and $34,800.
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| BASEBALL TEAMS |
| WHEN TRANSLATED, THE FULL NAME OF THIS MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM GETS YOU A DOUBLE REDUNDANCY |
[spoiler]What are “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim”? (“Los Angeles” means “The Angels”)[/spoiler]
[php snippet=29]
Montreal means Mount Royal, and Philadelphia Phillies seems rather redundant, too in Greek as well as English.
There is no longer a team in Montréal.