Thursday, September 14, 2023

Jeopardy! recap for Thur., Sept. 14

 Today's contestants for game one of the two-game weekly finals are:


- Hari Parameswaran, a hardware engineer from Cupertino, California;

- Jill Tucker, an operations manager from Mulino, Oregon; and

- David Maybury, a magnetic engineer originally from Richmond, Virginia.


Jeopardy! 


RECONSTRUCTION // LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH AMERICAN FOOTBALL // THE OHIO UNIVERSITIES // BIOLOGY // THE 2023 TIME 100 // LET'S "SEE"


DD1 - $800 - THE OHIO UNIVERSITIES - In 2012 this Ohio univ. opened its May 4 Visitors Center to place a 1970 event in historical, political & social context (Jill added $1,000.)


Scores at first break: David $6,800, Jill $600, Hari $800.


Scores going into DJ: David $9,400, Jill $2,800, Hari $2,200.


Double Jeopardy! 


RECONSTRUCTION // POP CULTURE // ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY // HIP-HOP LITERARY REFERENCES // SPEECHIFY"ING" // SUCH COLORFUL LANGUAGE!


DD2 - $1,600 - ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY - Called Stingray Harbour by James Cook in 1770, it was renamed for the abundance of new plants found there (Hari added $2,200.)


DD3 - $2,000 - POP CULTURE - John Ford directed the Oscar-winning 1942 documentary "Battle of" this locale at which Ford himself was wounded (Jill added $4,800.)


Scores going into FJ: David $17,000, Jill $13,600, Hari $9,600.


Final Jeopardy!


WORLD CAPITALS - In English, name of 1 of the 2 4-letter capitals with the same first & last letter, one in the N. & one in the S. Hemisphere


Only Jill was correct on FJ. 


Final scores for day one: David $6,728, Jill $19,600, Hari $1,600.


Correct Qs: DD1 - What is Kent State? DD2 - What is Botany Bay? DD3 - What is Midway? FJ - What are Oslo or Apia?

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