There are sites on the internet that claim the Feb 3 2005 -$5000 was the second worst negative total missing record negative total by $100. Anyway it is true that Caitlin Cook a sophomore from Arden, North Carolina did finish the double Jeopardy round with a negative $5,000 on Feb 3 2005 see related link
Jeopardy history started before the 1984 Alex Trebek period with Art Fleming in 1964 and the early shows don't even exist anymore.
For the current season it was Jordan Piel with a minus $2,800 on Friday January 29 2010. see link
For last season #25 it was Mary Beam with a minus $4,400 on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 see link
You can look for other seasons Miscellaneous statistics in the Jeopardy Archive link added to the related links. The click on is at the very bottom for each season.
On the show aired January 19, 1993, Air Force Lt. Col. Darryl Scott won the game with only $1; he won another $13,401 the next day
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Negative $2800 is the lowest winning score in Jeopardy history.
Only contestants with positive totals play final Jeopardy and the one remaining contestant is allowed to complete the game with the knowledge that he will win. The contestant with the lowest score is the third place contestant even if the contestants are both negative
They do not play final Jeopardy The lowest score still gets $1.000 and the second lowest or second place winner gets $2,000 and the one closest to zero comes back to play Wikipedia says that it happened back during the Art Fleming network Jeopardy shows and is quoted here: "Contestants who finish Double Jeopardy! with $0 or a negative score are not allowed to participate in the game's final round, Final Jeopardy! Instead, they leave the game and receive the third place prize, which has been $1,000 since May 16, 2002" "On at least one Fleming-hosted episode, all three contestants finished Double Jeopardy! with $0 or less, and as a result, no Final Jeopardy! round was played that day."
No. There has been a final jeopardy with only one person playing and the other two with negative numbers. It would take all three to have negative numbers for there to be no final Jeopardy
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Yes. If a score is below the mean, the z score will be negative.
A negative z score is a value that is less than the mean value.
You can wager as much money as you decide up to the amount of you score.
no, z score can be negative but a probability is a always positive between 0 and 1.
A negative z-score indicates that the observed value (or statistic) was below the mean. In non-directional tests, a negative z-score is just as likely as a positive one.
The largest negative whole number is -1. The largest negative number including fractions would be -1/999999...