Jeopardy! recap for Thur., Feb. 26

 Here are today's contestants:

- Patrick Creech, a planning director originally from Pink Hill, North Carolina;

- Elizabeth Hurd, a pastor from West Bloomfield, Michigan; and

- James Hirsh, a lawyer from Toronto, Ontario. James is a two-day champ with winnings of $47,418.

Jeopardy!

THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME // STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME CONSONANT // SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS // BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL // FIRST LINES OF LITERATURE // SOME IF/THEN STATEMENTS

DD1 - 600 - SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS - One step of Joseph Priestley's 1700s experiment to make soda water involved storing this gas in a sheep's bladder (Elizabeth lost $400 on a true DD.)

Scores at first break: James $2,400, Elizabeth $1,600, Patrick $200.

Scores entering DJ: James $6,200, Elizabeth $2,800, Patrick $800.

Double Jeopardy!

THE ROLL OF A LIFETIME // GEOGRAPHY // INSTRUMENTAL TUNES // "BIT"s // LA BELLE ÉPOQUE // CONVICTED

DD2 - 1,600 - LA BELLE ÉPOQUE - Wondrous contraptions at the Paris Expo of 1900 included La Grande Roue, the world's biggest one of these (James dropped $4,000 down to $4,200 vs. $6,400 for Elizabeth.)

DD3 - 1,200 - CONVICTED - It's no good when someone who had this job is convicted; the 68th, Richard Kleindienst, misled the Senate & got a suspended sentence (Patrick fell back into the red by losing $2,000.)

Everyone missed a DD opportunity, and it took James a while to get rolling but he finally put it away late to enter FJ at $16,200 vs. $6,000 for Elizabeth and $1,200 for Patrick.

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY ORIGINS - As a child, Christopher Robin Milne loved feeding a London Zoo animal whose former owner hailed from this city

Only James was correct on FJ, adding $3,800 to win with $20,000 for a three-day total of $67,418.

Final scores: James $20,000, Elizabeth $5,000, Patrick $1,180.

That's before their time: No one knew the 1987 Bertolucci film that won 9 Oscars with 15-year-old Wu Tao in a "royal performance" is "The Last Emperor", or in "BIT"s, the Western-sounding "cuss" word heard in old cartoons is dagnabbit.

Correct Qs: DD1 - What is carbon dioxide? DD2 - What is Ferris wheel? DD3 - What is attorney general? FJ - What is Winnipeg?