Friday, June 7, 2024

Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Jun. 7

 Here are today's contestants:


- Amogha Tadimety, a biotech startup founder from Cambridge, Massachusetts;

- Kevin Stuhlmann, a pastor from Rochester Hills, Michigan; and

- Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana. Adriana is a seven-day champ with winnings of $155,700.


Jeopardy! 


THAT'S SO 1990s // MICHIGAN // 4-SYLLABLE WORDS // I GOT RHYTHM // THE MAIL PERSPECTIVE // TV COUPLING


DD1 - $600 - 4-SYLLABLE WORDS - Let's "walk" over to this word describing something ordinary or commonplace (Adriana dropped $2,000 from her score of $4,600.)


Scores at first break: Adriana $2,600, Kevin $1,400, Amogha $600.


Scores entering DJ: Adriana $5,800, Kevin $4,400, Amogha $1,000.


Double Jeopardy! 


BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY // BRAVING THE ELEMENTS' SYMBOLS // MOVIES' OPENING LINES // AMERICANA // A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE // A DANGEROUS THING


DD2 - $2,000 - MOVIES' OPENING LINES - 1970: "Be seated. Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country" (Adriana added $3,000 to her total of $10,200 vs. $4,400 for Kevin.)


DD3 - $1,200 - BRAVING THE ELEMENTS' SYMBOLS - Alphabetically, it's the first element with a single letter as its symbol (From a distant third with $600, Amogha lost $1,000.)


Adriana started DJ strongly in a movie category, but Kevin did a good job of rallying and stayed within two-thirds of the leader going into FJ wtih Adriana at $19,600, Kevin with $13,600 and Amogha at $3,600.


Final Jeopardy!


WORLD LEADERS - During a 1972 presidential visit, Richard Nixon discussed a poem by this leader called “Ode to the Plum Blossom”


Adriana and Amogha were correct on FJ. Adriana added $7,800 to win with $27,400 for an eight-day total of $183,100. Note that by making a mid-sized FJ wager, Kevin gave up the chance to win if Adriana missed without having to be correct himself.


Final scores: Adriana $27,400, Kevin $7,300, Amogha $5,200.


Correct Qs: DD1 - What is pedestrian? DD2 - What is "Patton"? DD3 - What is boron? FJ -Who was Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao)?

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