Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Feb. 10

 Here are today's Invitational Tournament contestants:


- Andrew He, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California;

- Jen Giles, a teacher from Longmont, Colorado; and

- Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington.


Jeopardy!


PICK YOUR BATTLES // POP CULTURE MISSING LINKS // WHAT SHOULD WE CALL THE DOG? // KING JAMES BIBLE STUDY // AT FERNCLIFF CEMETERY // RHYME TIME


DD1 - 1,000 - AT FERNCLIFF CEMETERY - After his 1965 death at the Audubon Ballroom in Upper Manhattan, he was interred at Ferncliff Cemetery (Andrew lost 1,000.)


Scores at first break: Mehal 1,600, Jen 2,800, Andrew 400.


Scores entering DJ: Mehal 2,800, Jen 3,400, Andrew 2,200.


Double Jeopardy!


ISLANDS // BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS // 1960s NASA // AWARDS & HONORS // COUNTRY SONGS // RUSSIAN CROSSWORD CLUES


DD2 - 1,600 - BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS - This poet & author wrote a 6-volume bio of Abe Lincoln made up of "The Prairie Years" & the Pulitzer-winning "The War Years" (Mehal bet just 5 of his 5,600 and missed.)


DD3 - 1,600 - AWARDS & HONORS - The IEEE established an award in 1976 to honor the centennial of an invention by this man & named the award for him (Andrew lost 7,400 on a true DD.)


The players missed all three not-too-hard DDs, so once again we had a low-scoring open contest into FJ with Andrew at 6,000, Jen at 5,400 and Mehal with 4,395.


Final Jeopardy!


THE CALENDAR - Black History Month was first celebrated around the birth dates of Abraham Lincoln & this contemporary who died in 1895


Everyone was correct on FJ. Mehal added 4,801 to advance with 10,801, while Jen finished at 8,400 and Mehal had a final score of 6,001.


Ken's Korner: One category was introduced as "From our ongoing series graveyards at Westchester, we have AT FERNCLIFF CEMETERY; gotta give the people what they want." If this was a joke, they forgot to add the fake laughs. Also, not sure it's the role of the Jeopardy! host to mock a contestant making a strategically small DD wager ("...which I have in my pocket") for a clue that he went on to miss.


Correct Qs: DD1 - Who was Malcolm X? DD2 - Who was Sandburg? DD3 - Who was Bell? FJ - Who was Frederick Douglass?

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