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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Southern Politicians) for Tuesday, February 13, 2024 (Season 40, Game 112):
An article written after his 1935 death asked, “Will some crown prince arise to take his place?”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Nicole Rudolph, an associate dean from Williston Park, New York
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Kat Jepson, an artist from Roanoke, Virginia
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Long Nguyen, a retired engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
As we move to within a week and a half of the start of the Tournament of Champions, today’s game, Quarterfinal #7 of Group 2 of Winter 2024’s Champions Wildcard, is shaping up to be an excellent one. Both Nicole Rudolph and Kat Jepson are no slouches, both having had excellent statistics in their initial games. Moreover, Kat’s loss was to Ben Chan, who is definitely one of the top players going into the Tournament of Champions. Viewers certainly won’t need any reminder as to who Long is—his aggressive play in the most recent Second Chance event won many fans, and those fans will be hoping for Long’s strong play to continue!
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Correct response: Who is Huey Long?
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Huey Long, “The Kingfish”, was a famous Louisiana politician who served as the state’s governor from 1928 to 1932 and as a U.S. Senator from the state from 1932 until his 1935 assassination. He became well known for believing that FDR’s New Deal was not radical enough, and was incredibly popular in his home state. Long advocated for a plan called “Share Our Wealth”, believing that economic stimulus needed to come from significantly increased federal spending, increased taxes on the wealthy, and wealth redistribution. Under Long’s plan, net worths among millionaires would be capped at $100 million, annual income was to be capped at $1 million, and individual inheritances would be capped at $5 million. Moreover, he wished for every family to have a basic household grant of $5,000 and a minimum annual income of one-third of the average family homestead value. His social programs included proposals for free college and training programs, federal assistance to farmers, a 30-hour work week, a month’s vacation a year for every worker. To help advocate for his aims, “Share Our Wealth” clubs were formed throughout the United States.
While Long was assassinated in 1935, the pressure caused by “Share Our Wealth” did bring about many of FDR’s later initiatives, including the Social Security Act, the Works Progress Administration, the National Labor Relations Board, Aid to Dependent Children, and the Revenue Act of 1935 (also called the Wealth Tax).
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, February 13, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Lending You A Poker Hand; Rhyming Phrases; Oh, The Places You “Can” Go!; Duck Soup; It Happened In Congress; 50 Greatest Rappers Of All Time)
“It’s too soon!”, Long exclaimed after he found the Daily Double on his opening pick. After that, he did run LENDING YOU A POKER HAND in the opening segment and held the lead at the interviews.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Long 7 correct 1 incorrect
Kat 3 correct 0 incorrect
Nicole 1 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Nicole spent her winnings on a second car for her kids.
Kat saw a beautiful wood nymph moth last summer.
Long is still “the darkest-colored sheep” in his family, according to his mother
After the interviews, Long and Kat continued their battle, with Long doing slightly better on the buzzer. Nicole would be picking first in Double Jeopardy.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Long 14 correct 1 incorrect
Kat 9 correct 0 incorrect
Nicole 3 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Long $6,600
Kat $5,000
Nicole $1,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Wistful Thinking; Siblings Of Note; There’s A Vaccine For That; Vwllss Cmpns; Documentaries; “RH” Factor)
In one of the more stunning Double Jeopardy battles of all time, Long and Kat held Nicole to 1 correct response, at the $2,000 level to boot. Long took full advantage of a clue selection misstep by Kat to find the first Daily Double and double up. However, Kat recovered, and her $7,000 bet on the final Daily Double was enough to make sure she led going into Final Jeopardy!
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Kat 22 correct 0 incorrect
Long 26 correct 3 incorrect
Nicole 4 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 0 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Kat $28,000
Long $26,400
Nicole $3,000
Final Jeopardy today was a triple-get, which advances Kat to the semifinals!
Tonight’s results:
Nicole $3,000 + $0 = $3,000 (Who is Huey Long? (Hi Fam! <3))
Long $26,400 + $1,601 = $28,001 (Who is Long? (not me))
Kat $28,000 + $24,801 = $52,801 (Who is Long?) (Semi-Finalist)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) OH, THE PLACES YOU “CAN” GO! $800 (clue #1)
Long 0 +1000 (Kat 0 Nicole 0)
2) SIBLINGS OF NOTE $1600 (clue #14)
Long 11000 +11000 (Kat 16200 Nicole 1000)
3) THERE’S A VACCINE FOR THAT $800 (clue #20, $8000 left on board)
Kat 18600 +7000 (Long 23600 Nicole 3000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 238
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Long 4*
Kat
Nicole
DJ! Round:
Long 4 3 5 4 4* 3 3
Kat 3 4 3 4 5 5 1 5 5 2*
Nicole 1 2 4
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Kat 3.70
Long 3.75
Nicole 2.33
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:
Kat $21,800 Coryat, 22 correct, 0 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Long $16,800 Coryat, 26 correct, 3 incorrect, 47.37% in first on buzzer (27/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Nicole $3,000 Coryat, 4 correct, 2 incorrect, 10.53% in first on buzzer (6/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $41,600
Lach Trash: $8,400 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,000
Lead Changes: 3
Times Tied: 2
Player Statistics:
Long Nguyen, career statistics:
104 correct, 18 incorrect
5/7 on rebound attempts (on 19 rebound opportunities)
36.14% in first on buzzer (103/285)
6/7 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $16,400)
4/5 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,840
Kat Jepson, career statistics:
56 correct, 6 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
30.41% in first on buzzer (52/171)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $15,000)
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,667
Nicole Rudolph, career statistics:
42 correct, 9 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 15 rebound opportunities)
25.29% in first on buzzer (43/170)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $0)
1/3 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,333
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Yes, Fyre Festival was colloquially known as Fyre Fest.
- Long’s score going into Final Jeopardy isn’t a record trailing score—Adam Levin still holds that one—but there’s zero shame in picking up $26,400 going into Final Jeopardy.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Kat $28,000 Long $26,400 Nicole $3,000)
Long: Bet between $3,201 (thereby covering against any possible low wager Kat might make) and $20,399 (thereby keeping Nicole locked out.) (Actual bet: $1,601)
Kat: Standard cover bet over Long is $24,801. (Actual bet: $24,801)
Nicole: You have to bet at least $200 to have any chance of winning. (Actual bet: $0)
Updated CWC Group 2 odds:
Kat +460
Alex +460
Mira +790
Deb +840
Sriram +950
Taylor +950
David +1400
Jesse +1500
Elliott +1900
Vince +2300
Ilhana +3000
James +3100
Diandra +9600
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I can’t believe I got this one right! I thought “Who is Huey Long?” was just another wild guess. But he was the only Southern politician I could think of dating that far back, so the clue elements were a help after all. It’s always better to say something rather than go blank—sometimes it’s the answer you didn’t expect.
I was almost exactly the same as you. I did not totally think of my guess as “wild”, but I would not have been surprised at all if I had been wrong. I am certain that I had never heard most of what Andy informed us of about Long (rather than having forgotten it).
I did the exact same thing Red Rose! I just blurted out Huey Long right away and immediately thought…..nah…..and to my surprise, I was right. 🙂
Hi RedRose, I hope you are well. I’m just now getting over a bad cold. I also blurted out “Huey Long!” I thought about George Wallace, but he didn’t fit the time frame. Kudos to both of us! 😉
Similar for me. Huey Long was my only option. Nice it was correct.
Share Our Wealth wasn’t mentioned in the clue, BTW.
The only Southern Politican that might be considered royality in my mind was Huey Long. And, that is who I went with. I’ll take the win, who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Are you the same guy from YouTube who makes nonsensical responses to deliberately spoil the answer for mobile users and acts as if he gets every single clue right? You certainly type the same way, and use things that weren’t in the clue to get your answer just the same (meaning you didn’t get it right).
I had no idea. I had thought Huey Long had died in the 50s and I can’t say I recall ever hearing of his nickname, so I found this incredibly vague. Given what Andy wrote about him, I think I need to read up some more.
I was unaware this user did that. Thank you for this information.
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Thanks for taking care of that, Andy. And for your write-up about Huey Long – I didn’t know much about him so this FJ had me stumped, given how little I knew about him before today. Been reading up on him some more…
Just realized I repeated myself and forgot to erase part of it, whoops. I’m human.
But I came back to add: That was a thriller of a duel. Poor Nicole, though, being relegated to having a front-row seat. But Long (Nguyen, not Huey) should be proud of what he accomplished on the Alex Trebek Stage – and I’m excited to see what Kat can do in the semis!
As soon as I saw the category Southern Politicians, my blind guess was Huey Long. The clue merely confirmed it. A crown prince to take the place of “The Kingfish” made it a lock. My familiarity with Huey Long was/is because I read “All the King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren many years ago. For those unfamiliar with the book, the fictional character Willie Stark was based on Huey Long.
Same here. I don’t usually try to blind guess, but the category screamed it out to me.
For a while my mother’s mother’s parents ran a sort of boardinghouse in Kentucky, but for travelers, not longer term guests. She told me that Robert Penn Warren stayed there at least once. [I am remembering it as maybe 2 or 3 times.] She was 7 years younger than he was, so would have been helping out there as an adult rather than being a little girl living there, so presumably knew what she was talking about and remembered correctly. [She was also an avid reader her whole life, especially books about the South.]
Yep, I was like a lot of us today with blind guess and boom, correct! 🙂
What a game today! That was a game of Jeopardy that makes the game so great. I had Long picked to win. Kat and Long just put on a totally thrilling duel!
Retro congrats to Kat and look forward to your Semifinal match!
2 more games of Quarterfinals to go and then on Friday start the Semifinals. It’s going to be good!
I’m now 2-5 in my picks for this round of the competition and tomorrow I have picked Ilhana, which is probably bad news for her. 🙁
For instances like today when a lot of people can only think of one name that might be correct (because it is the only one they know in the whole category — and/or per a broad part of the clue like time period) and then it is correct, it makes me wonder if the writer(s) also only knew one and THEN did research to come up with a clue.