Today’s Final Jeopardy – Tuesday, December 17, 2024

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Current Champion

Matthew Riggle, career statistics:
47 correct, 6 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
41.23% in first on buzzer (47/114)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,300

To win:
3 games: 68.027%
4: 46.277%
5: 31.481%
6: 21.415%
7: 14.568%
Avg. streak: 4.128 games.
(Next game: September 14)
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All Time Winnings

All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:

1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200

All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):

1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603

Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Fictional Characters) for Tuesday, December 17, 2024 (Season 41, Game 72):

Dressed in white in her first scene, this play character says her name means “white woods”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Jasmine Zhou, an ASIC engineer from Woodland, California

Jordan Carr Peterson, a professor from Knoxville, Tennessee

Ashley Chan, a publicist from Lewisville, Texas (3-day total: $46,500)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

It’s Tuesday, eight days until Christmas. (No, my shopping isn’t quite done yet.) Interestingly, we haven’t had a player win a fourth game in over a month, with Greg Jolin back on Election Day the last player to win number four. Ashley Chan hopes to break that today with challengers Jasmine Zhou and Jordan Carr Peterson. (Let me tell you, I am glad, for Jordan’s sake, that he chooses to add Carr in there.) I do think that Ashley might have her work cut out for her, though, as Jasmine has been a strong player in the quizzing world over the past few years. While I’ve often said that’s no guarantee of a good day on the Alex Trebek Stage, it does make me think that we’re going to have an exciting game today.

One other thing to note today, from a strategy perspective: remember that Ken did say at the start of yesterday’s game—at the start of a taping day—that Ashley had made an unorthodox Final wager on Friday—the last game of the previous taping day. If you’re in second place against Ashley at this point, that should mean that your first instinct should be to bet everything in Final Jeopardy.

And, on the pre-emption front, the in-season NBA Cup final is airing on ABC tonight; this will have airing impacts in markets west of the Eastern time zone. Matt Carberry has compiled a Google Sheet detailing how the show is affected. Check your local listings!

Correct response: Who is Blanche Dubois?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

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“It’s a French name. It means woods and Blanche means white, so the two together mean white woods. Like an orchard in spring! You can remember it by that.” That’s how Blanche Dubois describes her name to Mitch in Scene 3 of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Her arrival in Scene 1, arriving at the home of her sister Stella and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski, is described in the script as “incongruous to this setting” when she arrives “daintily dressed in a white suite with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district.”

This one took about ten seconds of “huh?” before the correct response dawned on me. I’m sure that someone for whom the dawn takes more time today will find some way of taking umbrage with this clue online, even though there is nothing actually wrong with it: it’s one of the most famous characters in American theater described as per primary sources. (You can find a digitized link to the script at the Internet Archive.)

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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:

Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, December 17, 2024 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: Books & Authors; Swap A Vowel; 19th Century Sports; Amphibians & Reptiles; For A Dollar; Name A Woman)

Both Ashley and Jasmine had good starts in this one; Jasmine converted a True Daily Double on the clue before the break to lead after 15 clues. At the interviews, Jasmine had $4,800 to Ashley’s $4,400 and Jordan’s $800.

Statistics at the first break (15 clues):

Jasmine 4 correct 0 incorrect
Ashley 6 correct 0 incorrect
Jordan 2 correct 0 incorrect

Today’s interviews:

Jasmine drove a truck by hooking it up to a laptop.
Jordan had Mario Kart as a pandemic hobby and still plays competitively.
Ashley is also a yoga instructor.

All three players played well over the second half of the opening round, with Jasmine extending her lead.

Statistics after the Jeopardy round:

Jasmine 9 correct 0 incorrect
Ashley 8 correct 0 incorrect
Jordan 7 correct 0 incorrect

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:

Jasmine $7,200
Ashley $5,200
Jordan $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round:

(Categories: World History; Jury Duty; From The AFI Catalog; Art Class; Canadiana; Crossword Clues “R”)

Ashley picked up 13 correct and both Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy to hold the lead going into Final Jeopardy.

Statistics after Double Jeopardy:

Ashley 21 correct 2 incorrect
Jasmine 16 correct 1 incorrect
Jordan 13 correct 1 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 17 (0 today).

Scores going into Final:

Ashley $18,800
Jasmine $15,600
Jordan $10,200

Everyone was correct in this Final Jeopardy; Ashley made another small wager and picked up win #4 when Jasmine chose not to go all in. Ashley gets to go for win #5 tomorrow!

Tonight’s results:

Jordan $10,200 + $1,800 = $12,000 (Who is Blanche DuBois?)
Jasmine $15,600 + $5,000 = $20,600 (Who is Blanche Dubois?)
Ashley $18,800 + $2,100 = $20,900 (Who is Blanche DuBois?) (4-day total: $67,400)

Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:

Daily Double locations:

1) SWAP A VOWEL $1000 (clue #15)
Jasmine 2400 +2400 (Ashley 4400 Jordan 800)
2) FROM THE AFI CATALOG $1200 (clue #6)
Ashley 8000 +3000 (Jordan 4600 Jasmine 9200)
3) ART CLASS $1200 (clue #17, $12800 left on board)
Ashley 15000 +3000 (Jordan 9000 Jasmine 10000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 158

Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:

J! Round:
Ashley 3 4 5 4 5 2 1 4
Jordan 3 5
Jasmine 3 4 4 3 5*

DJ! Round:
Ashley 5 4 3* 2† 5 4 3 3*
Jordan 4 5 3 1† 4 2 2
Jasmine 3 5

† – selection in same category as Daily Double

Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:

Ashley 3.56
Jasmine 3.86
Jordan 3.22

Unplayed clues:

J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 17 (0.24 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles

Game Stats:

Ashley $15,200 Coryat, 21 correct, 2 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
Jasmine $14,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 1 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Jordan $10,200 Coryat, 13 correct, 1 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $39,600
Lach Trash: $10,000 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,400
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 0

Player Statistics:

Ashley Chan, career statistics:

86 correct, 10 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
36.84% in first on buzzer (84/228)
5/6 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $9,500)
1/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,200

Jordan Carr Peterson, career statistics:

14 correct, 1 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,200

Jasmine Zhou, career statistics:

17 correct, 1 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,400)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,200

Ashley Chan, to win:

5 games: 54.972%
6: 30.219%
7: 16.612%
8: 9.132%
9: 5.020%
Avg. streak: 5.221 games.

Andy’s Thoughts:

• I would have been happier with the Triple Stumper on the clue about the island of Newfoundland had it been a stand-and-stare. The fact that all three players gave incorrect responses on it just makes it worse.
• As I noted in my preview: all of the contestants would have been privy to the fact that Ashley had not bet to cover, as Ken announced it to the world at the start of yesterday’s game. This should now be an automatic all-in from second place—and this advice comes without the benefit of hindsight.
• That being said, it would not surprise me in the least if we saw Jasmine back in a year for Second Chance.
• Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.

Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:

(Scores: Ashley $18,800 Jasmine $15,600 Jordan $10,200)

Ashley: Standard cover bet over Jasmine is $12,401. Though I think you’d be playing with fire in doing so, especially after Ken announced yesterday that you didn’t make cover bets, a bet between $1,602 and $3,199 plays for the Triple Stumper and covers most of Jasmine’s small cover bet range. (Actual bet: $2,100)

Jordan: I would bet between $600 and $3,800; this will pass Jasmine if she bets to cover you and is incorrect, while also staying in front of Ashley if she bets to cover and is incorrect. (Actual bet: $1,800)

Jasmine: Ashley hasn’t been betting to cover–and Ken announced this to everyone yesterday. Go all in. (Actual bet: $5,000)

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