Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Jeopardy! recap for Wed., Oct. 18

 Today's players in the first game of the two-game Champions Wildcard finals are:


- Lucy Ricketts, a book designer & freelance illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia;

- Josh Saak, a traffic engineer from Boise Idaho; and

- Sam Stapleton, a college consultant from Los Gatos, California.


Jeopardy! 


THE 1600s // A DAY AT THE RACES // DINING OUT IN NEW YORK // OOH, LOOK, SHINY THINGS! // "SMOKE"// MIRRORS


DD1 - $800 - THE 1600s- After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611 (Lucy added $1,000.)


Scores at first break: Sam $4,600, Josh $800, Lucy $2,200.


Scores going into DJ: Sam $4,600, Josh $5,000, Lucy $4,400.


Double Jeopardy! 


IN CRISIS MODE // YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT THE COUCH // ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE // ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB // A FABRIC-ATED CATEGORY// 3 LITTLE WORDS


DD2 - $1,200 - ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB - He won the 1984 Best Actor Oscar for a movie named for a different character (Lucy dropped $4,000.)


DD3 - $2,000 - IN CRISIS MODE - The first armed U.N. Peacekeeping Force was established on Nov. 7, 1956 in response to this Mideast crisis (Sam added $4,000.)


Scores going into FJ: Sam $12,600, Josh $16,600, Lucy $9,200.


Final Jeopardy!


NATURAL LANDMARKS - The Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition happened upon it in 1870 & named it for the regularity of its activity


Everyone was correct on this very easy FJ. Sam risked $2,600, Lucy added $5,000 and Josh bet the most at $8,600.


Scores to be carried over into tomorrow's game: Sam $15,200, Josh $25,200, Lucy $14,200.


Correct Qs: DD1 - Who was Henry Hudson? DD2 - Who is F. Murray Abraham? DD3 - What is the Suez Crisis? FJ - What is Old Faithful?

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