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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 20th Century Transportation) for Friday, November 15, 2024 (Season 41, Game 50):
A 1947 article read, its “wings were not clipped by the Senate fishermen & ghost hunters after all”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Kristen Moreland, a school administrator from Brooklyn, New York
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Paul Clauson, a tax analyst from Madison Heights, Michigan
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Stephanie Asalone, a former 401k processor originally from St. Marys, Pennsylvania (1-day total: $14,100)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
In the final game of the week, Pennsylvania’s Stephanie Asalone returns as a 1-day champion to do battle with Michigan’s Paul Clauson and New York’s Kristen Moreland.
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Correct response: What is the Spruce Goose? (Hughes H-4 Hercules)
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In 1942, the United States government was having issues with troop transport across the Atlantic as Allied Atlantic shipping was suffering heavy losses to German U-boats. Ship builder Henry J. Kaiser and Howard Hughes teamed up on a design for a wooden airplane (wood needed to be used because of wartime restrictions on aluminum), but design delays (caused mainly by Hughes’s insistence on perfection) and the plane wasn’t completed until 1947; earlier that year, Hughes had been called before the Senate to testify over a potential misuse of government funds in the plane’s construction.
The plane made one brief flight on November 2, 1947 in Long Beach, California. It was kept in flying condition by a crew of 50 during Hughes’s lifetime and can be found today at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in Oregon.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, November 15, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: This American Wife; Tooling Up; I Didn’t Come Here To Make Friends; People-Named Highways; Poke An I Out; Last Lines Of Books)
Stephanie got off to the best start, with 5 correct before the break. After 15 clues, Stephanie had $3,200 to Paul’s $1,600 and Kristen’s $0.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Stephanie 5 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 6 correct 2 incorrect
Kristen 0 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Kristen spent a summer learning Azerbaijani in Baku.
Paul often played trivia games with his grandparents.
Stephanie took the Online Test on Jeoparday last year.
Paul rebounded Stephanie’s first incorrect response, found the Daily Double immediately thereafter, and doubled up to take a big lead through 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Paul 14 correct 3 incorrect
Stephanie 7 correct 1 incorrect
Kristen 3 correct 0 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Paul $7,800
Stephanie $3,600
Kristen $2,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Animals Of The Amazon; Sculptors; Miscellany; 4-Letter Geography; Broadway Musicals By Songs; Foreign Words & Phrases)
Kristen found the first Daily Double immediately and doubled up. From there, DD3 was in the category nobody really wanted it to be in. Paul went conservative when he found it and his small bet helped him stay in a runaway position going into Final.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Paul 23 correct 6 incorrect
Stephanie 10 correct 1 incorrect
Kristen 8 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 6 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Paul $15,600
Stephanie $7,600
Kristen $6,400
Nobody got this Final Jeopardy correct; Paul’s runaway makes him the new champion! He’ll be back Monday to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Kristen $6,400 – $2,000 = $4,400 (What is ???)
Stephanie $7,600 – $7,589 = $11 (What is Area 51?)
Paul $15,600 – $399 = $15,201 (What is an airplane) (1-day total: $15,201)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) LAST LINES OF BOOKS $600 (clue #23)
Paul 3400 +3400 (Stephanie 2600 Kristen 1600)
2) 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $800 (clue #1)
Kristen 2000 +2000 (Stephanie 3600 Paul 7800)
3) SCULPTORS $1200 (clue #27, $4000 left on board)
Paul 17000 -1000 (Stephanie 7600 Kristen 4800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 194
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Stephanie 2 1 1 3 1 3 2 1 1
Paul 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 5 5 5 3*
Kristen 2 3
DJ! Round:
Stephanie 1 1 2 1 1
Paul 4 3 2 3 3 2 1† 5 5 4 2 4 5† 5 5 3*
Kristen 2* 3† 4† 2 3 4
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Paul 3.71
Kristen 2.88
Stephanie 1.50
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 6 (0.12 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Paul $13,800 Coryat, 23 correct, 6 incorrect, 45.61% in first on buzzer (26/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Kristen $5,200 Coryat, 8 correct, 2 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Stephanie $7,600 Coryat, 10 correct, 1 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $26,600
Lach Trash: $19,600 (on 18 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,800
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Stephanie Asalone, career statistics:
22 correct, 2 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
18.42% in first on buzzer (21/114)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $500)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,600
Paul Clauson, career statistics:
23 correct, 7 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
45.61% in first on buzzer (26/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,400)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,800
Kristen Moreland, career statistics:
8 correct, 3 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,200
Paul Clauson, to win:
2 games: 52.681%
3: 27.753%
4: 14.620%
5: 7.702%
6: 4.058%
Avg. streak: 2.113 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Paul $15,600 Stephanie $7,600 Kristen $6,400)
Stephanie: Standard cover bet over Kristen is $5,201. However, because Paul’s runaway margin is so small, there’s nothing wrong with going all in here. (Actual bet: $7,589)
Paul: Bet no more than $399. (Actual bet: $399)
Kristen: Bet no more than $4,000. (Actual bet: $2,000)
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Interesting history of the Spruce Goose and its one and only flight. That flight apparently took place when my oldest sister was two months old. I’ll need to visit that museum in Oregon to see the Spruce Goose.
Very glad I wasn’t on the stage for this one–I would have quickly written down the X-1 given the year, and I’m sure my reaction would have been meme-worthy, haha.
Turns out Yeager’s secret sound-barrier breaking flight took place about 2 weeks before the Spruce Goose’s only flight, and news leaked to the press by December.
I was lucky enough to tour the Spruce Goose when it was on display in Long Beach, CA. Standing inside, I could really appreciate how massive it is.
Guessed correctly mainly because of the year.
I got extremely confused by “fishermen and ghost hunters”. After reading the response, I realized that I remembered the year Spruce Goose flew incorrectly (if asked, I would have said 1946).
I immediately guessed “Spruce Goose”, though I don’t understand what the “fisherman and ghost hunters” refers to. Trivia note: It was made from birch, not spruce, but the press came up with something that rhymed and was G-rated.
For some reason, the Spruce Goose (and Howard Hughes) played a larger part in my childhood than I would have expected. That made it easy to get this final. Seems like I’ve been hearing about Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose a lot throughout my lifetime. It also didn’t hurt that I had a small tree named Bruce the Spruce so that may have contributed to my getting this, too, lol.
I remember watching it being transported up the Willamette river when they moved it to Evergreen museum. That thing was big!
I guessed Wiley Post’s plane, though I had nothing to tie it to the clue except that a lot of rich men (such as senators) go fishing in Alaska. The only tie-in I had to “ghosts” was that Wiley Post and Will Rogers died in the plane crash and of course ghosts are dead people. I knew both were an unlikely, extreme reach.
Missed it! Went 0 for 5 for the week and 6 for 50 for the season.