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Jeopardy! has returned with a new episode today, Friday, December 20, 2024, bringing us some exciting trivia and a competitive spirit. This is the 41st season of the game show, and this time, we have seen some fantastic wins, the notable among which is Ashley Chan's, who departed the game just short of one win and could not reach the five-game milestone.
Today's game will be exciting as we will see yesterday's Jeopardy! winner Laura Faddah, who emerged victorious with $11,200, returning to compete against Joe Asaminew and Maria Lauro. Faddah is a manager from Memphis who won against Neal Bowling and Eric Weldon-Schilling with the assistance of a football clue yesterday.
Today's game will determine whether she retains her title against Winnipeg ER physician Joe Asaminew and Pittsburgh contract specialist Maria Lauro.
December 20, 2024, Friday: Today's Final Jeopardy! question
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The final question for today's Jeopardy! is as follows:
"'Drafters…have to have a little fun sometimes', said the author of this law when asked if he was inspired by 1931's 'Little Caesar'"
Today's question comes from the Movies & The Law category and is intriguing. This question will surely cause the contestants to guess hard. As per the rules of the show, in the game's final round, the participants are provided with a solution, and they have to guess the question. This adds a twist to the game, keeping both contestants and the audience on their toes.
Jeopardy! final solution: Friday, December 20, 2024
The solution to the final round's clue question is:
Solution: What is the RICO Act?
The RICO Act is short for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and it was drafted in the early 1970s in the United States of America to fight against organized crime.
Law professor G. Robert Blakey drafted the legislation. Interestingly, many people, especially those from the Italian-American community, have guessed that Blakey intentionally used the acronym RICO as it was the main character's name in the 1931 film Little Caesar. One of the quotes from that movie, which was also Rico's last line, ranks 73rd on the AFI's "100 Years 100 Movie Quotes" list. The quote reads as follows:
"Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"
It will be interesting to see how the contestants manage to catch on to the clue and who will get the answer correct.
Jeopardy! contestants today: Friday, December 20, 2024
The three contestants for today's upcoming round are Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee who also won yesterday's round, Maria Lauro, a contract specialist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Joe Asaminew, an ER physician who hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Jeopardy! is a long-running American television game show created by Merv Griffin in 1964. The game show is like a quiz competition, but it reverses the order, unlike the traditional question-and-answer format that such shows follow.
Contestants are not given questions that they have to answer. Instead, they are given general knowledge clues in the form of answers, and their task is to guess the question by identifying the person, place, thing, or idea that the clue describes. Their final answer must be in the form of a question.
Catch the three contestants in action on the upcoming round of Jeopardy!
