Late to the game with this one: It's interesting to see how things play out. Hannah qualified for the TOC by winning her fourth game last Monday. She ended up winning four more games, but her streak should have ended last Tuesday (May 9). The three contestants went into Final Jeopardy with the following scores:
Hannah: $26,000
Raquel: $14,400
Joe: $5,800
The clue in "Actresses & Their Roles" was, "She made her big screen debut as a teen named Laurie in a 1978 film & in 2022 she played that role for the 7th & last time." I thought this one was fairly easy: Jamie Leigh Curtiss.
Joe was correct and almost doubled his score to $11,598.
Raquel was correct but bet an inexplicable $8,000 to finish with $22,400
Hannah was wrong (but almost right - she just wrote, "Who is Leigh?"). She made slightly more than a standard cover wager of $3,000 (i.e., if she had been right, Raquel could not have caught her), so she finished at $23,000 and won by $600.
Had Raquel made a better wager, she'd have won. There's just no logic to wagering $8,000 instead of at least $8,801, which would have put her ahead of Hannah with a standard cover bet and an incorrect question. According to a social media post I saw, Raquel claimed to have made a mathematical error when calculating her wager. The look on her face at the end said it all.