Monday, February 26, 2024

Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Feb. 26

 Today's players in the the 2024 ToC are:


- Jared Watson, a quality control specialist from Greenville, Texas;

- Ben Goldstein, a director of content marketing from Dexter, Michigan; and

- Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations manager from Ocean City, New Jersey.


Jeopardy! 


LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE // ALL THINGS DISNEY // HISTORY // THE NEW TESTAMENT // MEMORY // SPEECH! PARTS OF SPEECH!


DD1 - 400 - ALL THINGS DISNEY - At Walt Disney World in 1975, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper & Jim Irwin attended the grand opening of this ride  (Jared added 4,200.)


Scores at first break: Cris 6,200, Ben 800, Jared 2,400.


Scores entering DJ: Cris 8.800, Ben 1,200, Jared 8,800.


Double Jeopardy! 


WORLD CITIES // DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL // ALLOYS // ITALIAN AMERICANS // LITERARY GROUPS // THE '70s TOTALLY ROCKED


DD2 - 1,600 - WORLD CITIES - Fittingly, this capital is the Yukon headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Jared added 6,000.)


DD3 - 1,600 - ALLOYS - This 7-letter word for an alloy used in dentistry is also used to mean any combination of 2 or more substances (Jared added 5,000.)


Jared quickly found both DDs in DJ, opened up a long lead and Cris couldn't quite rally enough to break up Jared's runaway. Going into FJ it was Jared with 32,200, Cris at 14,000 and Ben with 4.400.


Final Jeopardy!


ART HISTORY - The Royal Academy of Arts has this man’s “La Fornarina” & in the 1800s the RAA’s love of him made some artists retreat to an earlier style


Only Jared was correct on FJ, wagering 0 to advance with 32,200.


Final scores: Cris 0, Ben 100, Jared 32,200.


Correct Qs: DD1 - What is Space Mountain? DD2 - What is Whitehorse? DD3 - What is amalgam? FJ - Who was Raphael?

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