Today’s players in the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament are:

• Sam Buttrey, a bon vivant & man about town from Pacific Grove, California;
• Colby Burnett, a high school college counselor from Chicago, Illinois; and
• Lilly Chin, a robotics professor from Decatur, Georgia.

Jeopardy!

TAILOR’S VERSION // CURRENT EVENTS // REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS // INTERNATIONAL SPORTS // AUTHORS AT WAR // SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS

DD1 – 800- AUTHORS AT WAR – As a P.O.W., Kurt Vonnegut survived the 1945 Allied firebombing of this German city because he was working underground (Colby doubled to 3,600.)

Scores at first break: Lilly 400, Colby 3,600, Sam 2,800.

Scores entering DJ: Lilly 2,000, Colby 4,800, Sam 4,600.

Double Jeopardy!

THE 14TH CENTURY // IN MY FEELINGS // ART & CRIME // LONG WORDS // YOU NAMED YOUR BAND WHAT? // “G”OING PLACES

DD2 – 2,000 – IN MY FEELINGS – Freud’s works helped popularize this loanword for a general sense of dread or unease (Lilly dropped 5,000.)

DD3 – 1,200 – THE 14TH CENTURY – During the Great Schism beginning in 1378, Robert of Geneva reigned as Clement VII, this 8-letter type of guy (Sam doubled to 21,200.)

Sam found DD3 under the only non-lower-value clue remaining on the board, took the lead by doubling up and held first place into FJ at 24,400 vs. 14,800 for Colby and 3,000 for Lilly.

Final Jeopardy!

NOVEL TITLE OBJECTS – A girl in a 1950 novel walks into this & “got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them”

Only Sam was correct on FJ, adding 5,201 to advance with 29,601.

Final scores: Lilly 3,000, Colby 5,199, Sam 29,601.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is Dresden? DD2 – What is angst? DD3 – What is antipope? FJ – What is wardrobe?