This could be after Final Jeopardy, but yeah, this is stretching the bounds of what’s possible. Jeopardy has safeguards in place to prevent cheating so Edison wouldn’t have such a high score.
But seriously, this made me check the math. Due to the age of the comic, the values shown are the 200, 400, 600, 800, & 1000 amounts that populated the categories on the second half of the show, before the values were doubled after 9/11. This means the highest amount a player could earn in the first half is $17,800 - including the Daily Double being on the lowest amount to maximize how much can be doubled. Since the values for the second round are doubled, the value is $35,600. Combined it makes $53,400 going into Final Jeopardy.
Assuming Edison could get that many right and Einstein had perfect knowledge of random factoids, it stands that one person could easily exceed their scores after the game is done but their combined scores is more than the $106,800 possible for what was then a perfect game.
The guy on the right has a negative score, so final jeopardy can’t have happened yet (in my interpretation anyway). I went about the math a little differently and tried finding ways for both of them to score above 52k and could not. I might post an exhaustive search of all possible scores, because why not.
Fun fact, their scores are actually impossible for the era the cartoon was drawn.
Einstein and Edison were also dead at the time.
But they were alive at the same time, which is cool, but Einstein would’ve been a fair bit younger than in the picture.
This could be after Final Jeopardy, but yeah, this is stretching the bounds of what’s possible. Jeopardy has safeguards in place to prevent cheating so Edison wouldn’t have such a high score.
But seriously, this made me check the math. Due to the age of the comic, the values shown are the 200, 400, 600, 800, & 1000 amounts that populated the categories on the second half of the show, before the values were doubled after 9/11. This means the highest amount a player could earn in the first half is $17,800 - including the Daily Double being on the lowest amount to maximize how much can be doubled. Since the values for the second round are doubled, the value is $35,600. Combined it makes $53,400 going into Final Jeopardy.
Assuming Edison could get that many right and Einstein had perfect knowledge of random factoids, it stands that one person could easily exceed their scores after the game is done but their combined scores is more than the $106,800 possible for what was then a perfect game.
The guy on the right has a negative score, so final jeopardy can’t have happened yet (in my interpretation anyway). I went about the math a little differently and tried finding ways for both of them to score above 52k and could not. I might post an exhaustive search of all possible scores, because why not.
Hey, wouldn’t round 2 be higher with two Daily Doubles?
You’re right. I forgot that round 2 has 2 DDs!
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Are they too high for the era?