Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Jun. 10 – Here are today’s contestants:

– Mary, a retail manager from New Mexico, operates a yarn store;
– Martin, a high school teacher from Tennessee, wrote and performed educational plays; and
– Brendan, a policy researcher from Massachusetts, was an investigator for the Office of the Public Defender. Brendan is a two-day champ with earnings of $58,700.

Martin and Brendan were tied with three clues remaining in DJ, and Martin nailed two of them to ensure first place into FJ with $18,600 vs. $17,800 for Brendan and $14,400 for Mary.

DD1 (video), $600 – OUT TO “C” – In the United States, this type of transport helps half a million people in distress each year (Martin won $3,000 on a true DD.)

DD2, $800 – 3-WORD CITY NAMES – The full name of this South American city begins with Cidade de Sao Sebastiao do (Brendan won $6,000 from his total of $7,800 vs. $11,800 for Martin, and Brendan not going all-in here might well have made the difference between winning and losing.)

DD3, $2,000 – ANIMAL TALK – The norm in mammals & birds is a nictitating membrane, also called the third this — humans are weird in lacking it (Brendan lost $2,000 from his score of $18,200 vs. $16,600 for Martin.)

FJ – 20TH CENTURY THEATER – The final scene of this play takes place by a grave & includes the line “He had the wrong dreams”

Martin and Brendan were correct on FJ, with Martin adding $17,001 to win with $35,601. Both Brendan and Mary gave up any realistic chance for possible Triple Stumper wins by betting it all or nearly everything.

Triple Stumper of the day: No one knew the “No way! Way” actor from “Bohemian Rhapsody” who has a 1992 connection to the song is Mike Myers.

Clue selection strategy: Those who feared the departure of James meant we were headed back to “boring top-down Jeopardy!” should be pleased that in DJ, the entire top row was untouched until the very end.

Correct Qs:
DD1 – What is medivac?
DD2 – What is Rio de Janeiro?
DD3 – What is eyelid?
FJ – What is “Death of a Salesman”?