Today’s contestants are:

– Nathan, a math professor from California, dyed his hair orange and blue to support the Mets;
– Amy, a teacher from Washington state, visited the very cold homeland of her grandparents; and
– Roey, a journalist from Virginia, got into “The Office”, the favorite show of his non-dumped girlfriend. Roey is a one-day champ with winnings of $23,600.

Roey opened the game by running a sports category and had a big lead going into DJ. Nathan then found the last two DDs but missed DD3 and wound up with exactly half of Roey’s total going into FJ with Roey at $19,600, Nathan at $9,800 and Amy with $7,200.

DD1, $600 – A TOUR OF EUROPE – Roman baths once highlighted this Paris locale that got its name due to the language spoken there until about 1789 (Roey won $3,400 on a true DD.)

DD2, $800 – THE 3-NAMED EDGARS – Leonardo DiCaprio played this law enforcement man in a 2011 biopic (Nathan bet all of his $6,000 to try to double it vs. $16,000 for Roey.)

DD3, $1,600 – MEDICAL TERMS – This 11-letter term describes any procedure that doesn’t require breaking the skin or entering the body with instruments (Nathan lost $5,000 of his total of $12,000 vs. $16,000 for Roey.)

FJ – NOTORIOUS – The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law — in 1962, for this man

In the FJ category Notorious, everyone was correct, Nathan doubled up and Roey made the fateful decision to wager $0, so the game went to a tiebreaker clue:

SCIENCE – This noble gas is the second-lightest element

Nathan was able to ring in first with the correct response and took the victory with $19,600.

Triple Stumper of the day: The players might not have been paying attention to the category title Deep “Pocket” when they didn’t know pita is called pocket bread.

Correct Qs:
DD1 – What is the Latin Quarter?
DD2 – Who was J. Edgar Hoover?
DD3 – Who is noninvasive?
FJ – Who was Eichmann?
TB – What is helium?