Let's meet today's contestants:
- Sarah, a museum program director, whose husband has tattoos based on their trips;
- Evan, an associate broker, was born during a Jeopardy! episode; and
- Katie, a graphic designer, bowled in her wedding dress. Katie is a three-day champ with winnings of $35,899.
Katie had the best showing in the first two rounds of her run to date, leading into FJ with $16,600 vs. $11,200 for Sarah and $4,800 for Evan.
DD1 - $600 - SCIENTISTS - This man's original temperature scale had 0 as the boiling point; Linnaeus made a more intuitive thermometer with 0 as freezing (Evan won the table limit of $1,000.)
DD2 - $1,200 - DESERT ISLAND READS - The term Robinsonade refers to a castaway story that emulates the 18th century works of this man (Katie won $3,000.)
DD3 - $1,200 - COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS - From Central America, thought to be from the name of a local leader & the Spanish word for water (Evan lost $4,000 from his third-place score of $5,200 vs. $11,800 for Katie.)
FJ - MOVIE CHARACTERS - A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person
Sarah and Evan were correct on FJ, with Sarah adding $1,601 and taking the win when Katie dropped $5,801. Sarah's victory was worth $12,801.
Wagering strategy: Sarah's FJ wager would have put her $1 behind Evan's double-up if she had missed. The strategy that perhaps she intended to do called for a wager of $1,599, which would have guaranteed a finish ahead of Evan. But an even better play would have been a bet of $400 or less, that would have given Sarah the win if Katie missed without having to be correct herself.
Triple Stumper of the day: No one knew the word used in France centuries ago that contains a synonym for "big" and means "generosity" is largesse.
Correct Qs: DD1 - Who was Celsius? DD2 - Who was Defoe? DD3 - What is Nicaragua? FJ - Who is Buzz Lightyear?
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