Let’s meet today’s contestants:
- James, a historian and professor, whose wife gave birth in spring of 2020;
- Michelle, a high school history teacher, found “The Big Bang Theory” to be educational television; and
- Lawrence, a nursing student and stay-at-home uncle, had an “ordeal” of a sailing trip. Lawrence is a two-day champ with winnings of $43,591.
Jeopardy!
ALPHABETICALLY FIRST // BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS // THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION // SPORTY LINGO // ISLE “B” // THE JUDGE OF THAT
DD1 – $600 – ISLE “B” – Recent surveys have found that the soil on this atoll has plutonium concentrations vastly higher than Chernobyl’s (Lawrence won the window maximum of $1,000.)
Scores going into DJ: Lawrence $5,200, Michelle $4,400, James $4,000.
Double Jeopardy!
VICE PRESIDENTS // MISMATCHED PAIRS // 3-LETTER ANIMALS // 20th CENTURY HISTORY // IN AUTHORS’ FOOTSTEPS // IT’S TIME FOR A WORD
DD2 – $1,200 – VICE PRESIDENTS – 33 days after taking the oath to be the veep, he took another one to not be the veep (Michelle won $2,000 from her leading score of $8,400 vs. $5,600 for James and $4,800 for Lawrence.)
DD3 – $1,200 – IN AUTHORS’ FOOTSTEPS – The Globe Inn, with a vast selection of single malt scotches, was a hangout of this 18th century poet & can be yours (Lawrence doubled to $13,600 vs. $11,200 for Michelle.)
Scores going into FJ: Lawrence $18,000, Michelle $13,200, James $8,800.
Final Jeopardy!
AMERICAN CITIES – Recorded on a visit to this California city, YouTube’s first video featured a man saying, “They have really, really, really long trunks”
Lawrence and Michelle were correct on FJ, with Lawrence adding $13,201 to win with $31,201 for a three-day total of $74,792.
Odds and Ends
Triple Stumper of the day: No one got the “Back in a …” five-letter word that represents an extremely tiny period of time, a jiffy.
One more thing: The reveal of the correct response to DD3 was one of those moments when in your mind, you hear it the way Alex used to say it.
Correct Qs: DD1 – What is Bikini? DD2 – Who was Tyler? DD3 – Who was Burns? FJ – What is San Diego?