{"id":4824,"date":"2007-03-18T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T16:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2007-03-18T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T16:38:30","slug":"the-mathematics-of-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/the-mathematics-of-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mathematics of Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all the math geeks. In 23 years, this has never happened.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p> The three contestants on the venerable game show all finished with $16,000 after each answering the final question correctly in the category, &#8220;Women of the 1930s,&#8221; on Friday&#8217;s show. They identified Bonnie Parker, of the famed Bonnie and Clyde crime duo, as a woman who, as a waitress, once served one of the men who shot her.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070317\/ap_en_tv\/tv_three_way_tie\" class=\"external external_icon\">The show contacted a mathematician who calculated the odds of such a three-way tie happening &#8211; one in 25 million<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=ZV9vuKfVO04\" class=\"external external_icon\">video<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZV9vuKfVO04\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZV9vuKfVO04\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070317\/ap_en_tv\/tv_three_way_tie\" class=\"external external_icon\">yahoo news<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the math geeks. In 23 years, this has never happened. The three contestants on the venerable game show all finished with $16,000 after each answering the final question correctly in the category, &#8220;Women of the 1930s,&#8221; on Friday&#8217;s show. They identified Bonnie Parker, of the famed Bonnie and Clyde crime duo, as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,7],"tags":[4927],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-science","category-video","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}