Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Oct. 22

 Here are today's contestants:

- Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, Texas;

- Stephanie Cooper, a Ph.D. candidate from Baltimore, Maryland; and

- Tristan Brown, a re-entry employment advocate from Richmond, Virginia. Tristan is a one-day champ with winnings of $22,700.

Jeopardy! 

SELLING INSURANCE // THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY // 6 BY 6 NAMES // TV TRANSPORTS // IT'S A PENINSULA // "M" BEFORE "N"

DD1 - $1,000 - IT'S A PENINSULA - At the tip of Pinellas Peninsula, it's nicknamed "The Sunshine City" & has a major sister city in Russia (Will dropped $2,400 on a true DD.)

Scores at first break: Tristan $5,000, Stephanie $1,800, Will $600.

Scores entering DJ: Tristan $6,800, Stephanie $3,200, Will $1,000.

Double Jeopardy! 

THE DUTCH COLONIAL EMPIRE // POP STARS // THE CULTURAL 19th CENTURY // FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES // CHEMISTRY // SHE'S A SAINT!

DD2 - $1,600 - CHEMISTRY - Jöns Jacob Berzelius honored the gods of his Swedish ancestors naming this element, now a powerful nuclear reactor fuel (Will moved to a closer third by adding $2,000 to his score of $3,400.)

DD3 - $1,600 - THE DUTCH COLONIAL EMPIRE - In 1633, when New Netherland occupied part of New York state, ancestors of this 19th c. U.S. president settled in Rensselaer County (Will added $2,000 to his total of $6,600 vs. $8,400 for Stephanie.)

Will climbed from third to first by scoring on both DDs in DJ, but in the end, the lead into FJ came down to the last $400 clue, on which Tristen was incorrect and Stephanie picked up the rebound. The scores after DJ were Stephanie at $10,400, Tristan with $10,000 and Will at $9,400.

Final Jeopardy!

DETECTIVE AUTHORS - For much of the 1920s, he lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District

Only Will was correct on FJ. Will bet nearly everything from a close third place, forcing himself to be correct to have a chance to win, but the gamble paid off this time to the tune of $18,799.

Final scores: Tristan $0, Stephanie $5.400, Will $18,799.

Triple Stumper of the day: No one could name "Deerslayer" author James Fenimore Cooper.

Wagering strategy: Not sure what Stephanie's $5,000 wager on FJ was intending to accomplish. If she disliked the category (and given she couldn't even offer a guess, she probably didn't), better to bet $0 and force her opponents to be correct to defeat her. As it played out, she still would have won if both opponents missed, but Will easily could have gone with a tiny bet from a close third place.

Correct Qs: DD1 - What is St. Petersburg? DD2 - What is thorium? DD3 - Who was Van Buren? FJ - Who was Dashiell Hammett?