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Happy Friday! Here's today's Final Jeopardy (in the category Fictional Languages) for Friday, November 26, 2021 (Season 38, Game 55):

Lapine is the name of the language created for this 1972 book beloved by children

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today's contestants:

Andy's Pregame Thoughts: A number of markets didn't get to see yesterday's game due to Thanksgiving; yesterday's recap can also be found here at The Jeopardy! Fan. Amy will attempt to win her 8th game today; a win today will very likely put her into the top 10 all-time in terms of regular play winnings on the show.

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Correct response: What is Watership Down?

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Lapine is the language used by the rabbits in Richard Adams' famous 1972 novel Watership Down (as well as the 1996 sequel Tales from Watership Down. Adams basically created words as required for the narrative of the stories.

Knowing French will certainly help put people in the right direction here, as the French for "rabbit" is "lapin". I'll be interested to see how this plays after how Tuesday's Final played.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight's results are below!

Scores going into Final:
Amy $23,400
Chris $4,000
Greta $3,200

Tonight's results:
Greta $3,200 + $3,200 = $6,400 (What is Watership Down)
Chris $4,000 + $2,400 = $6,400 (What is Watership Down?)
Amy $23,400 + $14,000 = $37,400 (What is Watership Down?) (8-day total: $295,200)

Amy Schneider, today's Jeopardy! winner (for the November 26, 2021 game.)

Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Amy $9,000
Greta $5,200
Chris $2,000

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Opening break taken after: 15 clues

Daily Double locations:
1) STORY TIME $1000 (clue #2)
Greta 200 +1000 (Amy 0 Chris 0)
2) L'HISTOIRE FRANCAISE $1600 (clue #2)
Chris 4000 -4000 (Amy 9000 Greta 5200)
3) YOU CAN QUOTE ME $2000 (clue #11, $20800 left on board)
Greta 5600 -5600 (Amy 15400 Chris 1600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -100

Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 8 (0.15 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles

Game Stats:
Amy $23,400 Coryat, 26 correct, 1 incorrect, 45.61% in first on buzzer (26/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Greta $8,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 1 incorrect, 19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Chris $8,000 Coryat, 12 correct, 3 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $40,200
Lach Trash: $7,400 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,400

Amy Schneider, career statistics:
242 correct, 12 incorrect
14/16 on rebound attempts (on 36 rebound opportunities)
48.23% in first on buzzer (218/452)
11/12 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $32,400)
7/8 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $24,575

Chris Rayis, career statistics:
13 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,000

Greta Perel, career statistics:
14 correct, 1 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
19.30% in first on buzzer (11/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$4,600)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,800

Amy Schneider, to win:
9 games: 88.062%
10: 77.548%
11: 68.290%
12: 60.137%
13: 52.958%
Avg. streak: 15.376 games.

Today's interviews:
Greta worked at a cemetery in Kansas.
Chris is a big Manchester United fan.
Amy is a tarot reader.

Andy's Thoughts:

Amy moves into 10th place all-time in regular-play winnings on the show, $2,000 behind Arthur Chu for 9th.
Ties for 2nd and 3rd place on Jeopardy! are broken in favor of the player leading going into Final Jeopardy, with the ties second tiebreaker being money after the Jeopardy! round.
Thanks to Eugene Byon for his assistance getting the KTRK Houston feed of today's game.
Obviously, Chris and Greta would have preferred to get their Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy! correct, but they absolutely made the correct bet for the situation (as Ken pointed out on the show.)
Much like Ken pointed out before Double Jeopardy!, I immediately noticed that Chris sounded incredibly similar to Brad Rutter.

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