Tuesday, July 9, 2024

 Here are today's contestants:


- Kathy Davis, a chemistry professor from North Manchester, Indiana;

- Anna Paone, a stay-at-home mom from Sunnyside, New York; and

- Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California. Isaac is a four-day champ with winnings of $100,586.


Jeopardy! 


CRIME HISTORY // A NOVEL INTRODUCTION // STOCK TICKER TALK // TSA YEA OR NAY // BIG BANDS // MOMENT OF "ZEN"


DD1 - $800 - A NOVEL INTRODUCTION - This novel opens on a rather bleak note with "Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know" (Isaac added $1,000.)


Scores at first break: Isaac $400, Anna $400, Kathy $3,800.


Scores entering DJ: Isaac $4,200, Anna $2,600, Kathy $3,800.


Double Jeopardy! 


ANCIENT CONTEMPORARIES // WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS // THE HUMAN BODY // A SHAPELY CATEGORY // SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL // 11-LETTER WORDS


DD2 - $1,600 - SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL - The animated "Bee Movie" didn't precede this 1973 movie that conned its way into winning 7 Oscars (Anna added $2,000 to her score of $2,600 vs. $4,200 for Isaac.)


DD3 - $1,200 - ANCIENT CONTEMPORARIES - Galen was learning medicine in Greece about tbe time this Egyptian astronomer was writing his "Almagest" (Isaac improved by $4,000 to $19,000 vs. $9,000 for Anna.)


After a mind-spinning number of scoring corrections before DD3, Isaac was clearly in front, but wasn't quite able to nail down the runaway into FJ at $19,400 vs. $9,800 for Anna and $3,800 for Kathy.


Final Jeopardy!


LITERATURE - In one story he is enslaved by the old man of the sea & uses apes to pick fruit so he can afford his fare back to Baghdad


Only Issac was correct on FJ, adding $201 to win with $19,601 for a five-day total of $120,186. Note that Anna needed to nearly double up to have a chance, but for some reason only wagered $1,201, so she would have lost even if correct and Isaac had missed.


Final scores: Isaac $19,601, Anna $8,599, Kathy $3,800.


Triple stumper of the day: No one guessed the inflatable safely device found in a car that you can't take on an airplane, an airbag.


Judging the judges: Somehow they missed Kathy changing her response to a word that didn't fit the 11-LETTER WORDS category and initially gave her credit.


Correct Qs: DD1 - What is "The Stranger"? DD2 - What is "The Sting"? DD3 - Who was Ptolemy? FJ - Who is Sinbad?

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