Thursday, November 9, 2023

Jeopardy! recap for Thur., Nov. 9

 Welcome back to the writers, as this is the first episode recorded after the end of the WGA strike.


Today's players in Champions Wildcard are:


- Matt Takimoto, an elementary school teacher from Moraga, California;

- Jen Jazwinski, a youth services librarian from Algonquin, Illinois; and

- Charlie Fonville, a producer from Los Angeles, California.


Jeopardy! 


CLASSICAL MUSIC // FAMOUS FORMER TEACHERS // A LITTLE LEGALESE // POTPOURRI //  OPERATION // ALTERED STATES 


DD1 - $1,000 - A LITTLE LEGALESE - Libel & slander are both forms of this 10-letter term often found before "of character" (Jen added $2,600.)


Scores at first break: Charlie $3,000, Jen $1,600, Matt $1,400.


Scores going into DJ: Charlie $3,800, Jen $7,000, Matt $4,600.


Double Jeopardy! 


MATH SYMBOLS // OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS // CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS // EAT // PRAY // "LOVE"


DD2 - $1,600 - OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS - 1976: William Goldman, from the book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward (Charlie added $5,400.)


DD3 - $2,000 - CHANGING WHITE HOUSE TOWEL MONOGRAMS - From RWR to this (Charlie dropped $5,500.)


Scores going into FJ: Charlie $8,100, Jen $15,400, Matt $15,400.


Final Jeopardy!


AMERICAN AUTHORS - In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner “is a regional writer” but called “his regionalism universal”


Jen and Charlie were correct on FJ, with Jen doubling up to advance with $30,800.


Final scores: Charlie $16,200, Jen $30,800, Matt $0.


Correct Qs: DD1 - What the defamation? DD2 - What is "All the President's Men"? DD3 - What is GHWB? FJ - Who was Faulkner?

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