Friday, January 10, 2020

Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Jan. 10

Today's contestants are:

- Jack, a travel consultant from Texas, whose sister was on the show 4 years ago;
- Alek, an environmental consultant from California. watches "Friends" in the shower; and
- Katie, a retail supervisor from New York, whose friends hold annual roasts for each other. Katie entered the game as a one-day champ with winnings of $36,001.


Katie was successful on both of her DD opportunities and held first place into FJ with $12,400 vs. $8,800 for Alek and $5,800 for Jack.

DD1, $600 - TOYS - This brand of toy trucks began in Minnesota in the late 1940s (Katie won $1,000 from her score of $3,800.)

DD2, $800- AMERICAN HISTORY - On Oct. 8, 1871, a fire started on DeKoven Street, destroying more than 17,000 of this city's buildings (Katie won $2,000 from her total of $7,600 vs. $8,400 for Alek.)

DD3, $800 - BOOK MARKS - In this novel Mark Watney says, "I didn't die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of the crew thought I did." (Jack lost $2,000 from his score of $5,000 vs. $9,600 for Katie.)

FJ - CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD - This country's 1979 constitution forbids amendments altering its official ideology or religion

Katie and Jack were correct on FJ, with Katie adding $5,201 to win with $17,601 for a two-day total of $53,602.

Triple Stumper of the day: The players couldn't guess that the third important "check" in professional hockey that you can take "to the bank" is paycheck.

That's before our time: Very depressingly, in a category about numerical characters, no one knew the partner of Agent 86 played by Barbara Feldon, Agent 99.

Correct Qs:
DD1 - What is Tonka?
DD2 - What is Chicago?
DD3 - What is "The Martian"?
FJ - What is Iran?

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