Here are today's contestants:
- Allie, a health care policy professional, whose wedding guests saw a no-hitter;
- Eugene, an attorney, won a lot of prizes on the radio; and
- Cris, a customer success operations manager, helped soccer teams with their analytics. Cris is a six-day champ with winnings of $162,080.
Jeopardy!
A VIEW TO THE BRIDGE // REMEMBERING PAST LIVES // THE BARTENDER'S TOOLBOX // CRITICAL "MASS" // SPORTY BOOKS // AROUND THE HORN
DD1 - $1,000 - REMEMBERING PAST LIVES - After.a life as a political wife, she co-founded an addiction treatment center & chaired the board of directors until 2005 (Cris doubled up to $12,400.)
Scores going into DJ: Cris $14,200, Eugene $2,000, Allie $6,200.
Double Jeopardy!
PEN NAMES // SPINELESS CREATURES // HOW DID THEY DIE? // NATIONALLY MONUMENTAL // PLACES IN MOVIE TITLES // ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS (that consonant can appear more than once)
DD2 - $2,000 - PEN NAMES - After moving from Russia to the U.S. in the 1920s, Alissa Rosenbaum adopted this pen name with the same initials (Criss added $5,000 to his total of $16,200 vs. $6,200 for Allie.)
DD3 - $1,200 - HOW DID THEY DIE? - His death in Vienna in 1791 has been attributed to rheumatic fever, strep throat, kidney failure & poisoning among other things (With a lead of nearly $24,000, Cris added $5,000 to his score of $26,000.)
Cris turned in his most impressive game so far, sweeping the DDs and opening an enormous lead into FJ at $44,600 vs. $3,800 for Allie and $1,600 for Eugene.
Final Jeopardy!
BRAND NAMES - A neighbor’s charcoal drawing of Ann Turner Cook at age 4 or 5 months won a 1928 contest to appear in ads for this brand
Cris and Allie were correct on FJ. Cris added $15,221 to win with $59,821 for a seven-day total of $221,901.
Odds and Ends
Triple Stumper of the day: No one knew the 2-word 1960s civil rights crusaders whose monument is partially located in a former Alabama Greyhound depot are Freedom Riders.
Judging the writers: Including Celebrity Jeopardy! last Sunday, this is the third time in eight days that there's been a category related to bartending.
Ken's Korner: At the top of the show, he told us that next Monday will be the start of the brand new "Second Chance Tournament", which leads into the ToC.
Correct Qs: DD1 - Who was Betty Ford? (Cris said "Ford" and curiously, Ken remained silent until Cris added the first name.) DD2 - Who was Ayn Rand? DD3 - Who was Mozart? FJ - What is Gerber?
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