Jeopardy! recap for Fri., Oct. 17

 Here are today's contestants:

- Dargan Ware, an attorney and writer from Bessemer, Alabama;

- Sondra Venable, a standardized patient from New Orleans, Louisiana; and

- Cindy del Rosario, a hospice and palliative care nurse from Denver, Colorado. Cindy is a one-day champ with winnings of $23,201.

Jeopardy!

HOW'S YOUR GULF GAME? // A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME // DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN // THIS IS WHAT WE TRAINED FOR! // MOVIE IMPROVISATIONS // DADDY IS THERE REALLY A...

DD1 - $600 - DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN - As the title of a 1972 Eagles song, this phrase is pretty innocuous; as an imperative to calm down, it may raise some hackles (Cindy lost $2,600 on a true DD.)

Scores at first break: Cindy $1,000, Sondra $2,800, Dargan $3,200.

Scores entering DJ: Cindy $3,000, Sondra $4,200, Dargan $5,200.

Double Jeopardy!

HISTORY // TV PERSONALITIES // SOLD! TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER // PHILOSOPHY ABCs // CAT OF 5 TALES // "PASS"WORDS

DD2 - $1,600 - HISTORY - For 4 days in 1863, New York City was the scene of riots over inequitable exemptions in this process (From the lead on the second clue of DJ, Dargan doubled to $12,800.)

DD3 - $1,600 - PHILOSOPHY ABCs - F: Non sequiturs & vicious circles are types of these, from the Latin for "deceit" (Four clues after DD2 with a lead of over $11K, Dargan improved by $4,000 to $16,000.)

Dargan did an excellent job of DD-hunting, finding both in DJ very quickly and breaking the game wide open, entering FJ with $35,600 vs. $11,400 for Cindy and $7,400 for Sondra.

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY SCIENCE - Calling it “a particle that cannot be detected", physicist Wolfgang Pauli 1st proposed this in 1930; it was detected in 1956

Only Cindy was correct on FJ. Dargan dropped $9,400 to win with $26,200.

Final scores: Cindy $14,800, Sondra $3,399, Dargan $26,200.

Triple Stumper of the day: After being given the last two words, no one knew the name that begins the title of the animated feature "Kiki's Delivery Service".

Judging the writers: When a clue is so obscure that even the host says "I didn't understand any of that", it probably doesn't belong as a $400 clue in the first round. Again, the writers are expecting players to know internet nonsense that is aimed at bored teenagers, not at the kind of intelligent adults with lives that make up most of the contestant base.

Correct Qs: DD1 - What is "Take It Easy"? DD2 - What is the draft? DD3 - What are fallacies? FJ - What is a neutrino?