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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Historic Transports) for Wednesday, April 24, 2024 (Season 40, Game 163):
Decorated with an illustration of the Montgolfiers’ craft, the smoking room aboard this could be accessed only via an airlock
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Amy Hummel, an ER doctor from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Paul Drake, a front desk lead originally from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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Mark Lashley, a professor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1-day total: $17,601)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
After Mark Lashley snatched victory at the last possible moment last night, barely avoiding a runaway and then getting Final Jeopardy, he now gets to defend his title. Today’s challengers are Paul Drake and Amy Hummel.
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Correct response: What is the Hindenburg?
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Apparently the need to have a “smoking room” outweighed “this is a ship carrying significant amounts of highly flammable hydrogen gas” when it came to the Hindenburg. The “smoking room” was deliberately kept at a higher pressure than the rest of the show, though, and protected by an airlock, for safety reasons; with hydrogen being a much lighter gas, it would not have been able to enter the room as designed.
That being said, while the cause of the 1937 disaster befalling the ship on mooring in New Jersey is still inconclusive, it is known that this room was not the culprit.
Irony aside, this feels like a “What else could it be?” sort of clue; I expect this will play well both in studio and at home.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: U.S. Military Actions; Celebrity Memoirs; Hiking Gear; Etymologies; The Rite Stuff; Movement)
Paul got off to the best start in this, thanks to seven correct, while Mark got the Daily Double incorrect. Paul had $4,000 after 15 clues, whereas Amy had $2,400 and Mark had $1,000.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Paul 7 correct 0 incorrect
Amy 4 correct 0 incorrect
Mark 3 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Amy has lived in 4 states in the last 10 years.
Paul learned to spell thanks to the Jeopardy! NES game.
Mark might buy Titan-class Transformers with some of his winnings.
Completing an opening round where the only missed clue was the Daily Double, both Mark and Amy had good segments. Amy led after 30, but all three players were between $4,600 and $6,000.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Amy 10 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 9 correct 0 incorrect
Mark 10 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Amy $6,000
Paul $5,800
Mark $4,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Near The Equator; Essays; Art & Artists; Engineering Marvels; Music From 10 Years Ago; Feel “Old” Yet?)
The struggles on the wagering clues continued in Double Jeopardy, with both Amy and Mark losing money to Daily Doubles. However, things were still very competitive going into Final Jeopardy, with Amy holding the lead going into clue #61.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Amy 20 correct 2 incorrect
Paul 16 correct 3 incorrect
Mark 14 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 4 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Amy $13,200
Paul $9,400
Mark $8,600
Final Jeopardy today was a triple-get, which makes Amy our new champion! She returns tomorrow to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Mark $8,600 + $801 = $9,401 (What is the Hindenburg?)
Paul $9,400 + $7,801 = $17,201 (What is the Hindenburg?)
Amy $13,200 + $5,700 = $18,900 (What is the Zep Hindenburg?) (1-day total: $18,900)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $600 (clue #4)
Mark 1000 -1000 (Paul 1800 Amy 0)
2) ESSAYS $1200 (clue #7)
Mark 9400 -2000 (Paul 7400 Amy 7200)
3) NEAR THE EQUATOR $800 (clue #19, $6400 left on board)
Amy 16000 -4000 (Mark 8600 Paul 7800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -146
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Mark 4 3*
Paul 5 5
Amy
DJ! Round:
Mark 3 4 3 3* 5 4† 5
Paul 5 4 3 3
Amy 5 5† 5 4 3 4 4 2*
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Amy 4.00
Paul 4.17
Mark 3.78
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 4 (0.02 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Amy $17,200 Coryat, 20 correct, 2 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Paul $9,400 Coryat, 16 correct, 3 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Mark $11,600 Coryat, 14 correct, 2 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $38,200
Lach Trash: $8,400 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,400
Lead Changes: 6
Times Tied: 5
Player Statistics:
Mark Lashley, career statistics:
33 correct, 6 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (34/114)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,300
Paul Drake, career statistics:
17 correct, 3 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,400
Amy Hummel, career statistics:
21 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,200
Amy Hummel, to win:
2 games: 43.807%
3: 19.191%
4: 8.407%
5: 3.683%
6: 1.613%
Avg. streak: 1.780 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Amy $13,200 Paul $9,400 Mark $8,600)
Mark: If you think Paul will make a large bet, bet small—between $801 and $999. If you think Paul will make a small bet, go all in. (Actual bet: $801)
Paul: You’re in Stratton’s Dilemma, you can’t both cover Mark and win the Triple Stumper. If you think Mark will bet small, bet between $201 and $799. If you think Mark will bet big, bet at least $7,801. (Actual bet: $7,801)
Amy: Standard cover bet over Paul is $5,601. (Actual bet: $5,700)
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“What is the Hindenburg?” I found this one easy, but, there are always surprises with Jeopardy!. Still, I’m predicting a triple get.
As Andy wrote, “What else could it be?” Even my blind guess was either the Hindenburg or the Titanic. The clue clinched it for the Hindenburg. I agree with you on the triple get.
I had a feeling it was an airship. so I settled on The Hindenburg.
I thought that the combination of having an illustration of the Montgolfier balloon and a ‘smoking room’ instead of anyone being able to smoke anywhere “back in the day” [assuming the category of ‘Historic Transports’ was more likely to indicate “in history’ rather than just “history-making”] definitely indicated it was an airship. I felt it was bound to be the Hindenburg because it marked the end of airships for quite a while, so any “historical” ones since then (such as Richard Branson’s and Steve Fossett’s record-setting balloon flights) were unlikely to allow any smoking anyway due to today’s norms.
I almost didn’t think it was right because it seemed too obvious. Also, wasn’t it a FJ answer very recently?
The most recent instance of the Hindenburg being the correct FJ was June 26, 2023, so roughly 10 months ago.
I said what is Zepplin? But that was a design of airships, not a specific airship, which today’s Final Jeopardy called for. This Final Jeopardy certainly was one I should have gotten. I understood that the Hindenberg was an luxurious airshio, though I didn’t know about the smoking room.
Did Ken, the writers, have a comment about Paul Drake’s name being the same as Perry Mason’s Private Detective?
It seems that a response of “The LZ 129 zeppelin” should have been deemed correct, too, but no one would have been likely to say that rather than ‘The Hindenburg’.
…than the rest of the show…
Huh?
Um….I blew this one. Went with the Titanic. Just not clicking lately. 0 for last 42. On to tomorrow! Time for the psyche out to end as Lisa mentioned to me in yesterday’s comments. Thank you for the very nice comment and pep talk Lisa. 🙂
Retro congrats to Amy on the win and we’ll be seeing you tomorrow night. Here in LA, the regular time of Jeopardy being on at 7 p.m. Pacific will be delayed by 3 hours to 1 p.m. Pacific due to the 1st round of the NFL draft on ABC.
Friday I won’t be able to watch, since I’ll be at an LA Kings playoff hockey game. I will come here and read the clue and give myself the requisite 30 seconds to act.
10 P.M. Pacific tomorrow
I feel like your subconscious knew the right response because you picked a disaster and there was nothing in the category or clue to indicate that. [Whereas there were two aspects of the clue indicating it probably had something to do with “air” rather than “water”. Plus the Titanic was so big that even if it had had special smoking room(s) it would probably have had more than one, thus not “the” smoking room.]
BTW, I responded to your time correction comment rather than your original message, so my post would not shove apart the corrected time from the times you originally posted.
🙂 I might have gotten it, but in 30 seconds, I was doomed!
Nashville came to mind right away because of the Parthenon replica, but maybe it’s not so widely known among other Americans.
Spoiler, yikes!