Thursday, February 17, 2022

Jeopardy! recap for Thur., Feb. 17

 Today's contestants are:


- Linda, a retired archivist, whose grandchildren play J!6;

- Matt, an elementary school teacher, imagined himself playing the tuba, then did; and

- Charles, a geographer, gives mom credit for his reading and the free babysitting. Charles is a one-day champ with winnings of $10,500.


Jeopardy! 


PLUS // MIDAS // THAT'S SO CLICHÉ! // DESSERT // JAZZ GREATS // ABRAHAM LINCOLN


DD1 - $1,000 - DESSERT - What the French call an omelette norvégienne is what Americans call this dessert (Matt lost $4,000 on a true DD.)


Scores going into DJ: Charles $2,400, Matt $1,000, Linda $3,200.


Double Jeopardy! 


BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES // THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT // ANIMALS OF NOTE // A HARD CATEGORY // A MEASURE OF AUTHORITY // "FOR" WHAT ITS WORTH


DD2 - $1,600 - BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES - Point Christian & Bounty Bay are features of this South Pacific island territory (Linda lost $3,000 from her total of $9,600 vs. $10,400 for Charles.)


DD3 - $1,200 - A HARD CATEGORY - This brand with a biblical character in its name offers hardside luggage with a polycarbonite composite shell (Matt won $4,000 from his score of $4,600 to move into second place behind Charles, who had $12,800.)


Scores going into FJ: Charles $14,400, Matt $11,400, Linda $10,600.


Final Jeopardy!


LONG-RUNNING TV SHOW CHARACTERS - This character who has been on the air for more than 50 years is only 6 1/2 years old


Only Matt was correct on FJ, adding $10,000 to win with $21,400.


Odds and Ends


Triple Stumper of the day: No one could complete the cliché "The proof of the pudding is in the eating".


The writers judge themselves: There was a clue about British "entrance tests to admits kids to this kind of school that not our writers, obviously" (grammar school).


Correct Qs: DD1 - What is Baked Alaska? DD2 - What is Pitcairn? DD3 - What is Samsonite? FJ - Who is Big Bird?


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