Friday, October 6, 2023

Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Oct. 6

 Today's players in Champions Wildcard are:


- Jamie Logan, a freelancer from Augusta, Maine;

- Matt Glassman, a bar owner from Los Angeles, California; and

- Daniel Nguyen, a high school math teacher & doctoral student from San Jose, California.


Jeopardy! 


CANADIAN CITIES // THE GENE POOL // DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY // PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 5 & 477 // THE VIRTUES // 2 WORDS IN ONE


DD1 - $600 - DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY - This 19th century Italian physicist lends his name to a law & a number relating equal volumes of gases & molecules (Daniel added $1,000.)


Scores at first break: Daniel $2,000, Matt $2,000, Jamie $0.


Scores going into DJ: Daniel $4,600, Matt $5,600, Jamie $1,600.


Double Jeopardy! 


THE CRIMEAN WAR // LITERARY POP // THIS OR THAT // SWORDS // IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... // TRY "TRI" AGAIN


DD2 - $1,200 - THE CRIMEAN WAR - Stark "Sketches" that this Russian wrote from his experience in the war helped advance his literary career (Daniel added $5,400.)


DD3 - $1,200 - IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE...- In 1965 this island city-state peacefully seceded from Malaysia (Matt added $4,000.)


Scores going into FJ: Daniel $20,800, Matt $19,200, Jamie $9,200.


Final Jeopardy!


COMPOSERS - He was given piano lessons by Madame Maute de Fleurville, the mother-in-law of Paul Verlaine, whose poetry he would later set to music


Only Jamie was correct on FJ and doubled up, but Daniel elected to wager $0, and as a result held on to advance with $20,800.


Final scores: Daniel $20,800, Matt $17,599, Jamie $18,400.


Correct Qs: DD1 - Who was Avogadro? DD2 - Who was Tolstoy? DD3 - What is Singapore? FJ - Who was Debussy?

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