Final Jeopardy: British Thinkers (5-8-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (5/8/2014), in the category “British Thinkers” was:
His works include ‘The Economic Consequences of the Peace” in 1919 & “The End of Laissez-Faire” from 1926.
In the 4th quarter-final of the Battle of the Decades, the players are: Tom Cubbage (80s); Rachael Schwartz (90s) and Ken Jennings (00s). Click on their names to see the game they won to qualify for this one.
Round 1: Ken found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “I’m a Papal Person” under the $400 clue. It was the second clue chosen and he had $200, since he was the one to answer the first clue. He bet the $1,000 allowance and thought it was Alexander II. That was WRONG.
The fifth successor to St. Peter was Alexander I; the next one had this name. show
Ken finished in the lead with $6,400. Tom was second with $3,400 and Rachael was last with $400.
Round 2: Rachael found the first Daily Double in “Science & Tech Books” under the $1,600 clue. She was in third place with $1,600, $6,000 less than Ken’s lead. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
Harold Evans covers 200 years of science history in “They Made America: From” this “Engine” to this “Engine”. show
Ken found the last Daily Double in “Its Only Land Border” under the $1,600 clue. In the lead with $9,200, he had $5,800 more than Tom in second place. He bet $5,800 and he was RIGHT (at the very last second!).
This country’s is with France. show
Ken finished in the lead with $30,200. Tom was next with $9,800 and Rachael was in third place with $3,800.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“So influential was John Maynard Keynes in the middle third of the twentieth century that an entire school of modern thought bears his name. Many of his ideas were revolutionary; almost all were controversial. Keynesian economics serves as a sort of yardstick that can define virtually all economists who came after him.” (Library of Economics and Liberty)
from 2012: THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS ($1200) In 1922 Fridtjof Nansen beat out this Brit economist who’d opposed harsh economic reparations against Germany
Rachel doubled up and finished with $7,600.
Tom added $9,700, finishing with $19,500.
Ken bet $9,800 so he ended up with an even $40,000 and became the 4th semi-finalist.
This game changes the Wild Card lineup, knocking Tom Nosek ($2,400) and Dan Pawson ($399) out of the running. Now we have:
Tom Cubbage $19,500
Leszek Pawlowicz $15,000
Pam Mueller $14,798
Rachael Schwartz $7,600
2 years ago:: ALL of the Teen Tournament players got this FJ in “Olympics History”
Besides Antarctica, the 2 continents that have never hosted the Summer or Winter Olympic Games. show
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I thought the Keynes question was far easier than the Book of Mormon question. The results bear that out. All 3 answered the former correctly; all missed the latter. Had an effect on the wild card.
Im hoping and rooting for Brad.
Personally, I tend to pull for an underdog in many cases. Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings are both absolute buzz saws, and Roger Craig is not far behind them in ability, as far as I can tell. The other player that “coulda been a contenda” was Dave Madden, the 19 time champion from nine years ago. [Dave’s DD statistics were an un-Earthly 95 percent –41 correct out of 43!]
And this is exactly why I would love to see an interloper get into the mix for the two-game final –provided they could at least make it interesting, which is asking an awful lot, I know!
I would not be surprised if that “interloper” is Colby Burnett
That Ken Jennings would win was a foregone conclusion. However, that Rachel said Nostradamus in the Papal category was not. What was she thinking? The audience couldn’t help but laugh at that faux pas. Sorry, Rachel. I guess it was nerves from standing next to Ken.
I guess the “by prophecy” in the clue made her think of Nostradamus and not The Celestine Prophecies. Obscure and crappy clue, imo, anyhow and there were 5 Popes named Celestine so the answer should have been Celestine I.
Also, contrary to Trebek’s opinion, the DD clue did not make sense since the 5th pope’s name was Alexander (and that time they put in the I). Maybe if the fifth pope’s name was Fiftus, it would have made sense. LOL!
so dan from yesterday would still be in had he wagered nothing in fj. but there is still tomorrow….i still wonder if contestants know how earlier games ended,where wc spots are involved. i hope not, it would be unfair.
did they ever mention any prize money for players eliminated in the earlier rounds, including the upcoming semifinals and final?
I think the players who got eliminated in the earlier rounds each got $5K.
The players who get eliminated this week go home with $10K.
The players eliminated in the semi-finals get $25K.
In the finals,
Winner gets $1M
2nd place $100K
3rd place $50K
In my estimation based on watching Jeopardy tourney’s over the years, the target region for a wild card is at least 13 to 15,000, with anything in the 16 to 18,000 plus region being pretty safe, in most cases.
I would guess that Pam’s 14,798 is somewhere around 90 percent certain to get her through at this point. If Dan Pawson had stuck around at 10,200 (had he wagered zero in Final) he would have to be biting his nails hoping to stay alive after tonight’s game. In his (hypothetical) case I would ballpark his odds at maaay-be 50-50 at best right now, and that’s actually a lucky break for a score of 10,200, I think.
Much will likely depend on tonight’s Final Jeopardy clue as far as a shakeup in the final two wild card spots.
By the way, I’m pretty certain that Jeopardy! does a good job of sequestering the players so that they cannot have an idea what the needed total for a wild card might be. The best way to do it would be to tape all five of the week one games in a lengthy, one day session. Barring that, the contestants playing later games would have to be isolated from contact with audience or family who could pass on earlier results.