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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Business) for Thursday, December 14, 2023 (Season 40, Game 69):
Of the Big 4 U.S. airlines, the 4 that each have over 15% of the domestic market, it’s the youngest
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Andrew Chaikin, a musician & teacher from San Francisco, California
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Yungsheng Wang, a deputy public defender originally from Lafayette, Louisiana
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Garrett Marcotte, a software engineer from Boulder, Colorado
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Today is the final semifinal of Fall 2023’s Champions Wildcard competition, with this game being between Garrett Marcotte, Yungsheng Wang, and Andrew Chaikin. With how strong all three players can be—Garrett and Yungsheng being 3-day champions and Andrew having been a strong 1-day champion—I am expecting to see an excellent matchup here. In fact, this matchup would not have been out-of-place as a final.
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Correct response: What is Southwest Airlines?
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Of the Big 4 airlines, three of them—Delta, United, and American—commenced operations prior to World War II. The clear youngest of the four, Southwest, commenced operations in 1971. It began operating in Texas only, flying at first between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, and set the standards for many “low-cost” carriers into the 21st century.
Southwest, which made its name by flying out of Dallas’ Love Field and Houston’s Hobby Airport (instead of DFW and George Bush Intercontinental respectively), often utilizes a city’s secondary airport; another famous example is how Southwest uses Midway Airport in Chicago instead of O’Hare. (This has been a sticking point for decades for the country’s major airlines.)
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, December 14, 2023 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: In The Footsteps Of History; Tennis-y Williams; Literature; State Of The College; It’s All Relative; A Proverbial Mess)
Thanks to some incorrect responses from Garrett and Yungsheng, Andrew was leading after 8 clues having yet to buzz! Andrew did turn around his signalling device timing after the interviews.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Yungsheng 7 correct 2 incorrect
Garrett 5 correct 2 incorrect
Andrew 0 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Andrew once taught meditation at the U.S. Congress.
Yungsheng had a client who once told him “a real lawyer would have won four” games of Jeopardy.
Garrett has family in the audience.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Yungsheng 11 correct 3 incorrect
Garrett 8 correct 2 incorrect
Andrew 6 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Yungsheng $5,400
Garrett $2,400
Andrew $2,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Brownian Notions; Scenes From An Italian Restaurant; The Sea’s Bounty; A Matter Of “Life” Or “Death”; Hell; High Water)
It was Andrew who got to both Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy. He went all in on the first one, but only bet $5,000 on the second. While he did have a big lead, Yungsheng did enough to make sure he was within 50% going into Final!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Andrew 18 correct 1 incorrect
Yungsheng 22 correct 5 incorrect
Garrett 12 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Andrew $26,600
Yungsheng $18,600
Garrett $4,800
Only Yungsheng got Final correct; he’s now a finalist!
Tonight’s results:
Garrett $4,800 – $4,800 = $0 (What is Delta?)
Yungsheng $18,600 + $18,600 = $37,200 (What is Southwest?) (Finalist)
Andrew $26,600 – $10,601 = $15,999 (What is Delta?)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $600 (clue #3)
Garrett 1800 -1800 (Yungsheng -1000 Andrew 0)
2) HELL $1200 (clue #8)
Andrew 7600 +7600 (Garrett 2400 Yungsheng 7000)
3) BROWNIAN NOTIONS $2000 (clue #10, $21200 left on board)
Andrew 15200 +5000 (Garrett 2400 Yungsheng 7000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 33
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Garrett 5 4 3*
Yungsheng
Andrew
DJ! Round:
Garrett
Yungsheng 4 3
Andrew 4 3 3 4 4 3* 4 5*
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Yungsheng 3.50
Andrew 3.75
Garrett 4.00
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 0 (0.00 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Yungsheng $18,600 Coryat, 22 correct, 5 incorrect, 47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Andrew $17,200 Coryat, 18 correct, 1 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Garrett $6,600 Coryat, 12 correct, 2 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $42,400
Lach Trash: $5,800 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,800
Lead Changes: 4
Times Tied: 2
Player Statistics:
Garrett Marcotte, career statistics:
126 correct, 16 incorrect
8/10 on rebound attempts (on 25 rebound opportunities)
35.03% in first on buzzer (117/334)
7/9 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $16,100)
3/6 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,000
Yungsheng Wang, career statistics:
122 correct, 22 incorrect
6/7 on rebound attempts (on 24 rebound opportunities)
36.84% in first on buzzer (126/342)
5/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $14,899)
5/6 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,300
Andrew Chaikin, career statistics:
92 correct, 9 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 14 rebound opportunities)
38.60% in first on buzzer (88/228)
6/6 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $23,000)
2/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,150
Andy’s Thoughts:
- This was a really exciting game to watch.
- Today’s box score: December 14, 2023 Box Score.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Andrew $26,600 Yungsheng $18,600 Garrett $4,800)
Garrett: Bet whatever you like. (Actual bet: $4,800)
Yungsheng: If Andrew makes the cover bet and is incorrect, he falls to $15,999. Limit your bet to $2,600 or less to have the best chance of winning. (Actual bet: $18,600)
Andrew: Standard cover bet over Yungsheng is $10,601. (Actual bet: $10,601)
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What is Southwest? I knew it was a young and growing airline, but not the details—I count this one as a lucky guess.
Yeah, me, too….I knew it wasn’t around when I was born, and with Continental and US Air and Pan Am no longer around, I figured it had to be part of the big four.
Exactly. With mergers and failures, American, Delta, and, United, would figure to be the “Big Three” in commercial aviation. Southwest, being the biggest “discount” carrier, would figure to be the fourth. I don’t remember hearing about it until the late 20th Century.
BTW Andy, you mention that Southwest flies mainly out of “secondary” airports, like Dallas’s Love Field. Legend is that is where Southwest’s stockmarket abbreviation “LUV” came from.
That (about LUV) is what I had heard, too.
tsk Missed it. I had no idea that SW was so big, bigger than United!?
No, United flies more passengers than Southest.
MarkO,
For what it’s worth, Wikipedia shows that Southwest flew 12.5 million more passengers last year. It looks like 2015 was when Southwest passed United in annual passengers. United still has a bigger fleet, goes to more locations and has more daily flights.
Interesting – my data was stale. Thanks for the correction. Cheers.
It was one of the easier final questions recently-at least for me.
I thought-which large airline was not around when I was a kid. Therefore I did not have to think about it very long.
Finally get one! I flew on Southwest when I was 25 and it was their 25th anniversary so I received some accolades! 😄
Andy, Southwest does now have flights in and out of O’Hare starting back in 2021 (but MDW is still their ‘major’ airport in Chicago).
I never flew on Southwest airlines but I heard about the 25th anniversary. Still though I prefer EVA air though and Cathay Pacific
Now THAT was a game (esp. the DJ and FJ)! It’s hard to fault anyone’s play or betting, and there was maybe only one or two Triple Stumpers that had me scratching my head. When Andrew hit both DDs, Yungsheng had no choice but to try and run the 2000 clues.. and he pretty much did it! And I thought the Final question was reasonably hard, but fair (somewhat of an advantage to folks on the West side of the US, since that’s mostly SW’s millieu, but maybe with all the negative press they got last year at Xmas time, they’re more widely known? I figured it out, PARTLY atoning for having drawn a blank on Moby Dick earlier) Anyway, good episode and finish!
🤦 I couldn’t remember United [clearly I’ve never even shopped for a flight], so was thinking Southwest was number 3 and thought probably either Alaska or Jetblue was the 4th one they were looking for and went with Alaska, thinking (correctly) that it was probably bigger than Jetblue. I’d assumed it was younger than Southwest because I’d heard of Southwest longer, but it turns out it is much older (founded in 1932). However, had it made the Big 4 rather than Southwest having done so, it would still be the baby of the bunch.
I wasn’t able to watch this Thursday Semifinal, as I was out at Buffalo Wild Wings with a co-worker (she’s a major Raiders fan and is happy), but I read the FJ here and managed to actually come up with the right answer. 🙂 As the saying goes, every now and then a blind squirrel (me) finds a nut. Sounds like I missed 1 heck of a game. 🙁
It would be nice to know the thought process behind FJ bets. It is my belief that there is no thought process by most players. The bets boggle my mind. The last 2 nights, the leaders had about a 90% chance of winning if they bet correctly. With the way they bet, they had about a 50% chance of winning. Most players seem to also have no concept on how to play the game. With a big lead late in DJ, they go for small dollar values. They should be trying to find the DD so that someone else cannot double up.