Friday, September 15, 2023

Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Sept. 15

 Today's players in the second contest in the two-game weekly finals are:


- Hari Parameswaran, a hardware engineer from Cupertino, California, who earned $1,600 in game one;

- Jill Tucker, an operations manager from Mulino, Oregon, who carries over $19,600 from the previous game; and

- David Maybury, a magnetic engineer originally from Richmond, Virginia, who earned $6,728 yesterday.


Jeopardy! 


IN YOUR ELEMENT // BUILDING, AMERICA // AGATHA ALL ALONG // SONG BIRDS // CAT LOVERS // FIRE Z


DD1 - $1,000 - SONG BIRDS - In the 1960s Fleetwood Mac had an international hit with their song about one of these seabirds; Coleridge put one in a poem (David added $2,000.)


Scores at first break: David $4,600, Jill $1,800, Hari $4,000.


Scores going into DJ: David $6,400, Jill $3,000, Hari $6,800.


Double Jeopardy! 


MONET MONET // CURRENCY // FROM "B" TO "F" // CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER // THIRST // TRAP


DD2 - $1,600 - TRAP - In WWI the "Lost Battalion" lacked food & medical supplies while trapped behind enemy lines in this forest (Hari dropped $5,000.)


DD3 - $1,600 - THIRST - Excessive thirst may be a symptom of high blood sugar, also known by this 13-letter name (On the very next clue from the previous DD, Hari added $3,000.)


Scores going into FJ: David $14,800, Jill $7,800, Hari $19,200.


Final Jeopardy!


ASTRONOMY - The only dwarf planet located in the inner Solar System, it’s named for an ancient deity of planting & harvests


Hari and David were correct on FJ. Hari finished the two games with the top combined score, good for $35,000 in cash, and he will advance to the Champions Wild Card event. David wound up second to earn $20,000 in cash, while Jill gets $10,000.


Final scores for day two: David $29,600, Jill $7,800, Hari $35,200.


Final combined two-day scores: David $36,328, Jill $27,400, Hari $36,800.


Correct Qs: DD1 - What is albatross? DD2 - What is the Argonne? DD3 - What is hyperglycemia? FJ - What is Ceres?

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