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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category U.S. Geography) for Monday, April 24, 2023 (Season 39, Game 161):
Interstate 25 connects these 2 state capitals, 1st & 2nd in elevation, & in between runs through No. 3, Denver
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Dillon Hupp, a development director from North Little Rock, Arkansas |
Année Tousseau, an editor from Alameda, California |
Emma Hill Kepron, a librarian from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (2-day total: $26,000) |
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
It’s time for a new week of Jeopardy! episodes; this is scheduled to be Ken Jennings’ final week of episodes this season. Our returning champion is Canadian, and a librarian named Emma: Winnipeg librarian Emma Hill Kepron has two victories! Her challengers today are Dillon Hupp from Arkansas and Année Rousseau from Alameda.
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Correct response: What are Santa Fe & Cheyenne?
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Interstate 25, one of the country’s major north-south Interstate Highways (the major ones end in 5 going north-south or 0 going east-west), runs through New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming, going through the three highest capitals in elevation: Santa Fe, NM, Cheyenne, WY, and Denver, CO.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, April 24, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: African Geography; Synonyms & Antonyms; Non-Video Games; American Lit; That’s An Animal Sound; Beatles “S”ongs)
Dillon had the strongest round, picking up 15 correct, to 4 apiece for Emma and Année. The Daily Double also went his way, though he only bet a conservative $1,200 on it.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Dillon 9 correct 2 incorrect
Emma 2 correct 0 incorrect
Année 1 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Dillon is a former Arkansas state quiz bowl champion.
Année has many generations of ancestors who worked for the post office.
Emma accidentally drove onto a Game of Thrones set.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Dillon 15 correct 2 incorrect
Emma 4 correct 1 incorrect
Année 4 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Dillon $7,400
Emma $1,800
Année $1,200
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Greek History; Y Is The Only Vowel; The United Nations; Wherefore Art, Thou; Local Boy; Made Good)
Emma got to both Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy! and used them to propel herself into the lead! Even a 30th-clue incorrect response wasn’t enough to take her out of the lead, but there was just $500 separating first from second going into Final!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Emma 16 correct 3 incorrect
Dillon 24 correct 4 incorrect
Année 6 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 26 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Emma $14,700
Dillon $14,200
Année $3,200
Dillon was the only player correct in Final today; that makes him Jeopardy! champion! He’ll be back tomorrow to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Année $3,200 – $3,199 = $1 (What Albany + Boston)
Dillon $14,200 + $7,799 = $21,999 (What are Cheyenne & Santa Fe?) (1-day total: $21,999)
Emma $14,700 – $7,000 = $7,700 (What is Cheyenne and Salt Lake Ci)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS $800 (clue #25)
Dillon 5200 +1200 (Emma 200 Année 1400)
2) WHEREFORE ART, THOU $1200 (clue #12)
Emma 3400 +2000 (Année 1600 Dillon 9800)
3) MADE GOOD $1600 (clue #23, $10800 left on board)
Emma 12600 +2500 (Année 1600 Dillon 12600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 102
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Emma 1 2 2
Année 3 4 2
Dillon 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 1 2 1 3 4 5 3 4*
DJ! Round:
Emma 2 3* 4† 5† 1 3 4 1 2 4*
Année 2 1 2
Dillon 2 1 3 1 3 4 5 2 5 3
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Dillon 2.86
Emma 2.62
Année 2.33
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 26 (0.16 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Dillon $13,800 Coryat, 24 correct, 4 incorrect, 47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Emma $13,000 Coryat, 16 correct, 3 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Année $3,200 Coryat, 6 correct, 2 incorrect, 12.28% in first on buzzer (7/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $30,000
Lach Trash: $14,800 (on 14 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,200
Player Statistics:
Emma Hill Kepron, career statistics:
48 correct, 8 incorrect
4/5 on rebound attempts (on 15 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (45/171)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $6,000)
1/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,533
Année Tousseau, career statistics:
6 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
12.28% in first on buzzer (7/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $3,200
Dillon Hupp, career statistics:
25 correct, 4 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,200)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,800
Dillon Hupp, to win:
2 games: 46.950%
3: 22.043%
4: 10.349%
5: 4.859%
6: 2.281%
Avg. streak: 1.885 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Just a reminder to all fans that the rules of Jeopardy! are such that when referring to song titles (and song titles only) that if a contestant gives a correct lyric that contains the correct title, the judges will rule the contestant correct. (It’s known by longtime fans as the “Drive My Car” rule after “Baby, You Can Drive My Car” was accepted in Final Jeopardy on May 31, 2005.)
- On today’s Inside Jeopardy!, even Sarah and Buzzy expressed disappointment at contestants who go back to the same category as the first Daily Double when trying to find the second one. It’s not going to be there. Stop doing it.
- Today’s box score: April 24, 2023 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Emma $14,700 Dillon $14,200 Année $3,200)
Emma: Standard cover bet over Dillon is $13,701. (Actual bet: $7,000)
Année: Limit your bet to $2,199—staying ahead of Emma if she covers. (Actual bet: $3,199)
Dillon: Limit your bet to $7,799 to keep Année locked out. (Actual bet: $7,799)
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Good FJ clue today. The Santa Fe part was easy for me, having driven there on I-25 from the Albuquerque airport. I didn’t know that Cheyenne had a high elevation, but it had to be the Wyoming capital since the clue ruled out Denver. Learned something new.
Well, if Denver isn’t one of them, but lies in-between them, then it’s gotta be the capitals of Wyoming and New Mexico. I was able to remember those after a short struggle😅
Having grown up in New Mexico and my son living in Cheyenne, easy for me.
I almost said Sante Fe and Helena and then quickly remembered Wyoming was south of Montana and scratched out (in my head) Helena and wrote Cheyenne.
In the mid 1990s the governor of NM wanted a law passed that would only allow native Americans to gamble in the casinos. A large reservation is between Albuquerque and Santa Fe and they were prepared to block I-25 from all traffic. Most citizens supported the Native Americans and the law was never enacted.
Boy this game felt like we were playing jeopardy in a pre James Holzhauer era. I was shocked seeing everyone play almost all the clues from top to bottom. I’m a little shocked this wasn’t mentioned in the post game comments about how you shouldn’t be playing the game this way anymore.
I’m guessing the elevation of Boston is 0.
Close 😄! I thought EVERYONE knew where Denver is [in the Rocky Mountains, well west of the Mississippi River] — plus, did Annee not realize that the clue meant THE 3 highest state capitals, not just the comparison of the 3 that Interstate 25 runs through? I am guessing that maybe she had no idea, not even a guess and put “Albany + Boston” as a shout-out to some people.
Yeah, I’m guessing those weren’t ‘serious’ guesses. 🙂
Especially since I-90, the highway between them (The Mass Pike/NY Thruway New England Extension) doesn’t run through a third state, en route. 😉
I got Cheyenne, but KNOWING that Flagstaff is higher than Denver and having always assumed that Santa Fe is in the desert, so low elevation (think Death Valley, though not THAT low), I guessed Phoenix. Turns out Phoenix is closer to “Death Valley elevation” and Santa Fe is not only higher than Denver but higher than Cheyenne.
Great Final Jeopardy clue, may require some working knowledge of Interstate numbering (odd #s going north-south) but can also be guessed with knowledge of the category (U.S. Geography) just by knowing what states border Colorado and their capitals.
This would have been easy when I was 10 years old and got a perfect score on my states & capitals map test. Not so much 61 years later!
Exactly (and I mean EXACTLY). [And I had a twin sister Barbara.]
The odd numbered interstate was a big hint. The only question was how far north was the top capital. It turns out that Helena is a lot lower even though it is still in the mountains.
Got half right, didn’t realize Santa Fe was the other one. If it had been an I-5 question I’d have easily answered correctly.
Regarding the first Thought: today’s ruling would seem to establish that with respect to the Drive My Car rule, there is not an exception analogous to the Ellison/Wells one that applies to the rule regarding adding leading articles to a title. I saw it pointed out that “Something in the Way She Moves” is the title of a 1968 James Taylor song — and indeed, its first line was the inspiration for George Harrison to write “Something.” I’m not saying that the ruling on that clue should have gone the other way, but I do find it noteworthy.
Looking at elevations of state capitals, I was surprised to discover that Salt Lake City is actually fifth; in addition to the three in today’s Final clue, Carson City, Nevada sits higher.