Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Dec. 10

 Here are today's contestants:

- Dan Sand, a law student originally from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania;

- Sara Walker, a family & sports medicine physician originally from Brighton, Michigan; and

- Bill McKinney, a VP of restaurants & bars originally from Boston, Massachusetts. Bill is a one-day champ with winnings of $22,000.

Jeopardy! 

LIFE IMITATES POP CULTURE // WHO WANTS HISTORY? // GALLERIES // A MEAT & POTATOES CATEGORY // GRAB BAG // KING ARTHUR'S VERY PUNNY KNIGHTS

DD1 - $800 - WHO WANTS HISTORY? - Last name of Gonzalo, who as governor of Peru took up arms against Spain after his half-brother Francisco's death (Dan dropped $1,000.)

Scores at first break: Bill $3,400, Sara $3,200, Dan $400.

Scores entering DJ: Bill $4,000, Sara $4,800, Dan $2,000.

Double Jeopardy! 

ISLANDS // WOMEN WRITERS // A "W" FOR SCIENCE // ADJECTIVES // BROADWAY MUSICALS // HOW'S YOUR LEGALESE?

DD2 - $1,200 - ADJECTIVES - Related to the word "diamond", it means unyielding or inflexible, perhaps in your opinion (Dan lost $3,000 from his score of $6,800 vs. 9,600 for Bill.)

DD3 - $1,200 - A "W" FOR SCIENCE - It's the distance between 2 crests of sound or light that are next to each other (Dan moved into second by adding $2,000 to his total of $5,000 vs. $9,600 for Bill.)

Dan found all three DDs and missed two of them in a game where no one really established control. Bill came out on top into FJ at $12,000 vs. $8,800 for Sara and $7,800 for Dan.

Final Jeopardy!

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - The running mates of this candidate included John Kern, Arthur Sewall, and Adlai Stevenson I

Everyone was incorrect on FJ. Dan chose to go big from third place, so Bill was able to hang on, dropping half his score to win with $6,000 for a two-day total of $28,000.

Final scores: Bill $6,000, Sara $5,602, Dan $1.

Wagering strategy: Given how close Sara's score was to Bill's, a better strategy for Dan would have been a bet of no more than $1,400, which would likely give him the win on a Triple Stumper. 

Triple Stumpers of the day: No one knew the "colorful" potato dish that's pressed into flat cakes is hash browns, or the mid-20th century American artist who made a "splash" was Jackson Pollock.

Judging the writers: A clue that covered similar territory to today's FJ was a DD just three months ago, although in the DD they gave the subject's first name in the clue.

Correct Qs: DD1 - Who was Pizarro? DD2 - What is adamant?DD3 - What are wavelengths? FJ - Who was William Jennings Bryan?