• Lisa, a stay-at-home mom & community volunteer, whose kids are cherry-spitting champions;
• Doug, a restaurant manager, has dealt with illness in his family; and
• Amal, a product manager, is a fan of Winnie-the-Pooh books. Amal is a two-day champ with winnings of $43,200.

Doug moved into a closer second place on DD3 and grabbed first position on the last clue of DJ, leading into FJ at $14,800 vs. $14,600 for Lisa and $8,000 for Amal.

DD1 – $600 – STATE PARKS – With boating, camping & fishing, Alabama’s Meaher State Park is on this bay that’s an arm of the Gulf of Mexico (Lisa added $1,000 from her leading score of $4,400.)

DD2 – $1,200 – VOCABULARY – The name of this job that provides child care is a French phrase meaning “equal” (Amal won $2,400 on a true DD vs. $8,600 for Lisa.)

DD3 – $1,600 – BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR – This president’s first wife Alice & his second wife Edith were both born during the early days of the war in 1861 (Doug won $4,000 from his total of $7,600 vs. $11,800 for Lisa.)

FJ – LITERARY INSPIRATIONS – The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel

Lisa and Amal were correct on FJ, with Lisa adding $1,500 to win with $16,100.

Wagering strategy: This game demonstrated the potential benefits of more aggressive DD wagers, as a larger bet on DD1 might have helped Lisa keep the lead into FJ and not depend on a miss from Doug to win. Also, since Doug would have been in difficult shape with a miss on DD3, that would have been a good opportunity to bet it all to take the lead late in the game.

Triple Stumper of the day: In a category in which responses started with “bi”, no one named a judicial type of favoritism as “bias”.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is Mobile Bay? DD2 – What is au pair? DD3 – Who is Teddy Roosevelt? FJ – What is “Frankenstein”?