[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the November 6 episode of Jeopardy!]
The very last finalist for the Jeopardy! Champions Wildcard has been located. Nevertheless, the very last of the 3 semifinal video games could have quickly finished considerably in a different way owing to the winner’s wager all through Closing Jeopardy.
Brian Adams, a retired general public educator from Huge Bear Lake, California, Jilana Cotter, a senior details analyst from Dade Town, Florida, and Dave Pai, a area software scientist initially from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania confronted off in the November six episode, with Jilana just a little bit forward likely into the closing spherical. She experienced $11,500 to Dave’s $11,200, with Brian in 3rd with $five,200.
The clue in “Music & Literature” examine: “John Steinbeck called this ‘one of the great songs of the world’ & wanted the music & lyrics printed in one of his novels.” The response was “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and only Jilana was accurate, including $10,900. She innovative to the finals with a complete of $22,400 (and will be dealing with off versus Emily Sands and Aaron Craig). Nevertheless, if Dave experienced been appropriate and guess every little thing, he and Jilana would have been tied.
And about on Reddit, enthusiasts picked up on that, with just one noting, “There’s no advantage to that wager over the standard cover wager of 10,901, right? I’m assuming she just forgot to add $1 to her wager.”
Jilana herself verified that was the scenario. “Yep, I realized as soon as I tapped the button to finalize my wager that I’d forgotten to add the $1, but it was too late to change then!” she uncovered. “I was in agony until Dave’s FJ response was revealed, since if he’d gotten it right we would have gone to a sudden-death tiebreaker (due to my mistake), and I figured there was no way I could beat him on the buzzer. I got very lucky.”
Brian, in the meantime, skipped out simply because he remaining out the L in “Republic.” A Jeopardy! viewer puzzled if Brian deliberately “did the ‘L’ with his hand after that ruling,” and Jilana made available a little bit of perception into that instant all through the video game — and what host Ken Jennings experienced to re-do.
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“I’m sure it was intentional–the judges didn’t notice the missing L the first time, so Ken’s ruling on his response had to be re-taped,” she wrote. “Brian was an amazing sport about all of it–he’s able to laugh at himself with a lot more grace than most of us would manage in that situation. He really is a delight to spend time with, and very smart.”
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