Here are today's contestants:
- David, a boiler operator, thought Alex looked like Mario of video game fame;
- Jenni, an operations generalist, whose best customers are her kids; and
- Amy, an engineering manager, didn't expect to be associated with the word "million". Amy is a 28-day champ with winnings of $1,019,600.
Jeopardy! round
SUBURBS
THE HUGO AWARDS
NEXT IN LINE...
NEW CHESS STRATEGEMS?
CELEBRITY HOBBIES
WORDS FROM ARABIC
Scores going into DJ: Amy $7,400, Jenni $3,800, David $3,400.
DD1 - $800 - NEXT IN LINE... - In Ivy schools, alphabetically: Columbia, Cornell... (David won $1,000 on a true DD.)
Double Jeopardy!
BANK SHOTS
PARTS OF A POEM
WHALES
SOME TRAVELIN' MUSIC PLEASE
BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS
3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS
David had a chance to make the game very close on DD2 but missed, after which Amy pulled away to a comfortable margin into FJ with $25,800 vs. $7,400 for Jenni and $4,600 for David.
DD2 - $1,600 - WHALES - As well as a type of flatworm, it's something much larger, either of the flat lobes of a whale's tail (David lost $4,000 from his total of $5,400 vs. $9,800 for Amy.))
DD3 - $1,600 - PARTS OF A POEM - Also a punctuation mark, is's an address to a personification of something; "Death, be not proud" is an example (Amy won $4,000 from her score of $20,200 vs. $4,200 for Jenni.)
Final Jeopardy!
19th CENTURY NOTABLES - On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, “The sadness will last forever”
Everyone was incorrect on FJ. Amy dropped $10,000 to win with $15,800 for a 29-day total of $1,035,400.
Odds and Ends
Musical miscues: Fans of 70s rock were yelling at the TV when no one knew "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive" is a lyric by Springsteen, or that the 1974 hit "Jet" was sung by Paul McCartney.
Ken's Korner: He pointed out that both Amy and Matt passed the $1 million mark on a Friday in their 28th game.
Correct Qs: DD1 - What is Dartmouth? DD2 - What are flukes? DD3 - What is apostrophe? FJ - Who was Vincent van Gogh? (FJ was another clue where knowledge of 70s music might have been very helpful.)
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