- Jamie, a writer & content producer from California, went to grad school in London;
- Josh, a software engineer from New York, had a Dean who got mean after an allegedly poor Jeopardy! performance; and
- Danyelle, a scientist from West Virginia, has a black belt in Taekwondo. Danyelle entered the game as a one-day champ with winnings of $13,412.
All three DDs were missed and it came down to the last clue of DJ, which Josh solved to lead into FJ at $8,000 vs. $7,300 for Jamie and $5,400 for Danyelle.
DD1, $1,000 - SNAKES - The yellow type of this South American snake can reach 15 feet long; its green cousin can reach 30 (On the last clue of the round, Jamie lost $500 from her leading score of $7,800.)
DD2, $1,200 - WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE - Beneath the Ponte Sant'Angelo, commissioned by Hadrian (Jamie lost $1,200 from her total of $8,500 vs. $7,800 for Josh.)
DD3, $1,200 - WALKING - In 1974 Dave Kunst became the first person verified to have done this (minus water) -- a distance of 14,450 miles (Josh lost $3,000 from his score of $10,600 vs. $5,200 for Jamie.)
FJ - 20TH CENTURY EUROPEAN LEADERS - In a 1930s broadcast, this man spoke of "a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing"
Only Josh was correct on FJ, adding $6,601 to win with $14,601.
Triple Stumper of the day: The players didn't guess the river that runs under the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge is the Mississippi.
That's before our time: No one could name 1970s Alabama Governor and presidential candidate George Wallace.
Clue selection strategy: With the round one Daily Double still in play and the only clues that remained being in an untouched category, the players still went top-down instead of shopping in the higher-value clues.
Correct Qs:
DD1 - What is anaconda?
DD2 - What is the Tiber?
DD3 - What is walked the Earth?
FJ - Who was Chamberlain?
No comments:
Post a Comment