Friday, February 4, 2022

Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Feb. 4

Introducing today's contestants:


- Molly, a director of university communications. whose daughter "gave birth to herself";

- Sara, a 3rd grade teacher, is into karate along with her family; and

- Emma, a consultant, has gotten mixed up with other people with her same name. Emma is a two-day champ with winnings of $36,999.


Jeopardy! round


DANCE PARTY // MAMMALS // ALL THE BELLS & WHISTLES // NOT AN ANSWER // "R" TOWN // THE STAGE MANAGER


DD1 - $800 - "R" TOWN - On the 18th of April, 1871, the former North Chelsea, Mass. celebrated this new name with a reading of a Longfellow poem (Emma won $1,400 from her score of $2,600 to take the lead from Sara.)


Scores going into DJ: Emma $5,200, Sara $3,800, Molly $200.


Double Jeopardy! 


TITLE WORD PUZZLES // HISTORIC OFFSPRING // WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD // ON THE BEACH // BOOKS & AUTHORS // UKRAINE DROPS


DD2 - $2,000 - BOOKS & AUTHORS - Bill O'Reilly subtitled this 2012 alliterative bestseller "The End of Camelot" (Molly lost $2,000 from her total of $3,000 vs. $6,400 for Emma.)


DD3 - $800 - HISTORIC OFFSPRNG - His only legitimate heir, a son with empress Marie-Louise, died in 1832 of tuberculosis (Emma won $5,000 from her score of $15,600 vs. $1,800 for Molly.)


Scores going into FJ: Emma $24,600, Sara $4,200, Molly $5,400.


Final Jeopardy!


BEHIND THE DISNEY ATTRACTION - The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror utilizes technology developed by this company founded in 1853


Only Sara was correct on FJ. Emma dropped $7,400 to win with $17,200 for a three-day total of $54,199.


Odds and Ends


That's before our time: No one knew the Rufus Thomas 1970 arm-flapping two-word dance ("Funky Chicken"), the misogynistic tennis player from the 1973  "Battle of the Sexes" match (Bobby Riggs, played by Steve Carell in a little-seen 2017 film) or could recognize an early photo of Shirley MacLaine.


Underpriced clue of the day: Just $200 for knowing the union that stage manager Jimmy is covered by is the Directors Guild of America.


Correct Qs: DD1 - Who was Revere? DD2 - What is "Killing Kennedy"? DD3 - Who was Napoleon? FJ - What is Otis (Elevator)?


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