Below you’ll find the Final Jeopardy clue for Friday, October 4 2024. Ryan Manton is set to become a rare 5-time Jeopardy champion after winning a tight match in Thursday’s match. To accomplish this, he will need to defeat two more contestants in today’s episode, executive director Anne Singleton from Massachusetts and content manager Mark Fitzpatrick from Connecticut. This is the question and answer for Final Jeopardy on 10/4/2024, along with the wagers and the winner of the episode.
Final Jeopardy Question for October 4
The Final Jeopardy question for October 4, 2024 is in the category of “Literary Characters” and has the following clue:
A fragment from a nautical tool found on a Chilean island in 2005 was likely left by the Scot who partly inspired this character
You’ll find the right answer to this clue at the bottom of this article. This will give you a chance to work out the correct response without spoilers.
Final Jeopardy Wagers and Winner for October 4
In hotly contested match, Mark emerged as the winner of the October 4 match, beating out Ryan and being the only one to answer the Final Jeopardy clue correctly.
Mark had a fair lead over Ryan heading into the segment with $23,400 after answering two Daily Doubles correctly in a row. He earned an additional $7,001 with his wager, finishing in first place with $30,401.
Ryan put up a good fight, correctly answering a large number of clues in the second round. However, he wasn’t able to come up with any response in Final Jeopardy and that cost him a wagered $5,201, dropping his $15,200 to only $9,999.
Anne didn’t do poorly either, amassing $10,200. But she incorrectly guessed Wallace in Final jeopardy and lost $5,200. She finished third with $5,000..
Final Jeopardy Answer for October 4
The correct answer for Final Jeopardy on October 4, 2024 is “Who is Robinson Crusoe?”
The novel “Robinson Crusoe” by Daniel Defoe was published in 1719 and follows a castaway who spends more than twenty years on various tropical islands near Venezuela and Trinidad. As the clue hints, the titular character was inspired by a Scot, namely Alexander Selkirk, a privateer and Royal Navy officer who marooned on an island in the South Pacific Ocean for four years. The artifact the clue mentions is a small blue-tip navigational divider found by Japanese explorer Daisuke Takahashi in 2005.
His journey of survival was publicized after he returned home, which inspired the character of Robinson. A man wearing goatskins with bare shins and feet was drawn on the first page of the novel, making the comparison hard to miss. Más a Tierra island, which Selkirk was stranded on, was renamed to Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966 by Chilean president Eduardo Frei Montalva.
A NBC TV series called “Crusoe” launched in 2009, but it only had a single season.
