Today’s players in the first game of the 2024 ToC are:

• Matthew Marcus, a software developer & substitute teacher from Portland, Oregon;
• Suresh Krishnan, a networking engineer from Suwanee, Georgia; and
• Emily Sands, a project manager from Chanhassen, Minnesota.

Jeopardy!

1960s FICTION // TV COMEDY // SLEEP-POURRI // CONDIMENTS // ELECTION LINGO // TRIPLE RHYME TIME

DD1 – 1,000 – TRIPLE RHYME TIME – A clever little song about any metropolis (Suresh dropped 2,400.)

Scores at first break: Emily 3,000, Suresh 0, Matthew -200.

Scores entering DJ: Emily 4,800, Suresh 200, Matthew 1,000.

Double Jeopardy!

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ERA // POP CULTURE DRAGONS // JUDGES // THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES // QUICK GEO // 2020s & 1920s SLANG

DD2 (video) – 1,600 – THAT BUILDING HAS GREAT BONES – You’ll think of mortality in a Rome church housing 3,500 skulls of friars in this order that makes me think of Italian coffee (Emily added 7,000.)

DD3 – 2,000 – POP CULTURE DRAGONS – Falkor the white luck dragon helps Atreyu in this epic fantasy film from Wolfgang Petersen (Suresh dropped 5,000.)

Scores entering FJ: Emily 21,800, Suresh 0, Matthew 7,400.

Final Jeopardy!

FRENCH AUTHORS – Trained as a priest & a physician, in 1532 he published his first novel under the pen name Alcofribas Nasier

Matthew was the only one of the two remaining players to get FJ. Emily wagered 0 to advance with 21,800.

Final scores: Emily 21,800, Suresh 0, Matthew 14,799.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is witty city ditty? DD2 – Who are the Capuchins? DD3 – What is “The NeverEnding Story”? FJ – Who was François Rabelais?