Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Oct. 7

Here are today's contestants:

- Jessica, a librarian from Maine, was a slow starter when it came to driving;
- Ben, a program coordinator from Montana, writes parody song lyrics; and
- Kara, a coordinator from California, got into taxidermy. Kara is a one-day champ with winnings of $17,800.


Jessica was in control throughout, but came up just short of a runaway at $15,200 vs. $8,200 for Ben and $5,200 for champ Kara.

DD1, $800 - PLACES OF BUSINESS - Despite the state found in the name of this airline, its home offices are in Seattle (Ben, with $800, added an extra letter to his response and lost the table limit of $1,000.)

DD2, $1,200 - THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - "Plain Truth" was James Chalmers' loyalist response to this 1776 pamphlet written in support of the Revolution (Ben, at $600, won the window maximum of $2,000.)

DD3 - Not selected. There were three upper-row clues remaining when DJ ended, and DD3 was almost certainly located under the lone $800 clue, which was in the category Essays.

FJ - OBSERVANCES - Washington made the very first presidential proclamation in response to a request for "a day of public" this

Only Kara was correct on FJ and doubled up, but it wasn't enough to catch Jessica, who dropped $2,600 to win with $12,600.

That's before our time: No one knew the Pac-Man ghost whose name doesn't rhyme with the others is Clyde, or the Sam and Dave hit famously performed by the Blues Brothers, "Soul Man".

This day in Trebekistan: Alex had to apologize for referring to Pac-Man ghost Pinky as "Dinky".

Correct Qs:
DD1 - What is Alaska Airlines? (Ben said "Alaskan")
DD2 - What is "Common Sense"?
FJ - What is Thanksgiving?