- Claire, an ESL professor from New Jersey, gives talks about "Star Trek" phrases;
- Lucy, a lawyer from British Columbia, spent 13 days driving across Canada; and
- Eric, a bartender from Arizona, whose girlfriend's last name is not Antarctica. Eric is a one-day champ with winnings of $17,000.
Champ Eric once again found both DDs in DJ but couldn't make a net profit on them, carrying a slim lead into FJ with $13,500 vs, $12,400 for Claire and $8,400 for Lucy.
DD1, $200 (an extremely rare top-row DD) - WRITERS GO WAY BACK - This Shakespeare play is set in 44 B.C. (Claire won $2,000 from her score of $2,200.)
DD2, $1,600 - THE MARSHALL PLAN - $13 million in aid was distributed to 17 European nations, including this new country born from a recent division (Eric added $5,000 from his total of $6,000 to take the lead from Claire, who had $10,000.)
DD3, $2,000 - COMPOSERS & THEIR WORKS - In 1878 and 1886 he produced sets of "Slavonic Dances" (On the last clue on the board, Eric lost $5,500 from his score of $19,000 vs. $12,400 for Claire. Ideally, Eric would have bet between $5,801 and $6,599, which would have given him a runaway if correct while still holding a lead if he missed.)
FJ - CLASSIC FICTION - A 1902 work says of a riverboat journey, "We penetrated deeper and deeper into" this, the work's title
Everyone was correct on FJ. Eric added $11,500 to win with $25,000 for a two-day total of $42,000.
That's before our time: Depressingly, no one knew the first name that was the title of the TV series about Ms. Morgenstern, who moved from Minneapolis back to New York, "Rhoda".
No harm no foul: All three players forgot the "oxymoron" category while taking incorrect guesses on the 165-178-pound weight class in boxing, light heavyweight.
This day in Trebekistan: Alex opened the show by lamenting that Eric won a "mere $17,000" on yesterday's show. I mean, it's not Wheel of Fortune money, but $17,000 isn't exactly bad.
Correct Qs:
DD1 - What is "Julius Caesar"?
DD2 - What is West Germany?
DD3 - Who was Dvořák?
FJ - What is "(The) Heart of Darkness"?
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