Today's players in the 2024 ToC are:
- Josh Saak, a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho;
- Brian Henegar, a guest services agent from LaFollette, Tennessee; and
- Stephen Webb, a data scientist from Longmont, Colorado.
Jeopardy!
PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES // GETTING SEAL-Y // FOOD, FAST // POP CULTURE PRINCESSES // DECADES // RHYMES WITH RHYME
DD1 - 600 - PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES - A conquistador combined the name of a local people & the Spanish word for water to name this country (Stephen dropped 1,000.)
Scores at first break: Stephen -600, Brian 2,800, Josh 3,600.
Scores entering DJ: Stephen -800, Brian 5,200, Josh 5,600.
Double Jeopardy!
THAT'S A LONG STORY // ARCHITECTURE // COVER ME // "N"OWLEDGE // CHEMISTRY CLASS // GENDERED LANGUAGE
DD2 - 2,000 - "N"OWLEDGE - Henry Fonda played this admiral in the 1976 film "Midway" (Stephen added 2,000.)
DD3 - 1,600 - THAT'S A LONG STORY - "Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words (Brian dropped 3,200.)
Tough game in which two out of three DDs were missed and Stephen was in the red most of the way, finishing in the negative column. Brian managed to open a little daylight late to lead into FJ at 12,800 vs. 8,400 for Josh.
Final Jeopardy!
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD - Fearful of independence in 1975, around 120,000 of this country’s people, a third of the population, fled to the Netherlands
Both players were incorrect on FJ. Brian dropped $4,001 to advance with 8,799.
Final scores: Stephen -800, Brian 8,799, Josh 3,995.
Correct Qs: DD1 - What is Nicaragua? DD2 - Who is Nimitz? DD3 - What is "Ulysses"? FJ - What is Suriname?
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