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Jeopardy! recap for Wed., Apr. 3

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

  • Sam Kavanaugh, an educator from Minneapolis, Minnesota;
  • Andrew He, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California; and
  • Larissa Kelly, an editor from Richmond, California.

Jeopardy!

STARS & CONSTELLATIONS // AS HEARD ON TV // BABY TALK // HISTORIC REFUSALS // SPRINKLE, SPRINKLE // ENDS IN A BODY PART

DD1 – 800 – STARS & CONSTELLATIONS – If you’re really smart, you should know that this constellation was named for South Africa’s Table Mountain (Larissa dropped 3,600 on a true DD.)

Scores at first break: Larissa 1,000, Andrew 4,600, Sam -200.

Scores entering DJ: Larissa 4,000, Andrew 5,600, Sam 800.

Double Jeopardy!

BODIES OF WATER // BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN // MATH TALK // FILM COMPOSERS // CLASSICAL LITERATURE // STARTS WITH THREE CONSECUTIVE LETTERS

DD2 – 1,200 – CLASSICAL LITERATURE – In this Sophocles play, Orestes enlists the aid of his sister, the title character, to kill his mother & her lover (Andrew doubled to 19,200.)

DD3 – 1,600 – BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN – In the 1990s this future senator from Illinois was the only woman in her helicopter training class (Andrew added 6,000.)

Andrew turned a small lead into a big one by doubling on DD2, then put the game away on DD3, entering FJ at 32,000 vs. 13,200 for Larissa and 9,200 for Sam.

Final Jeopardy!

PHYSICISTS – This man with a force named after him published an 1835 scientific treatise on the physics of billiard balls

Only Andrew tried to respond on FJ, was correct and wagered 0. Andrew advanced with 32,000.

Final scores: Larissa 13,200, Andrew 32,000, Sam 9,200.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is Mensa? DD2 – Who is Electra? DD3 – Who is Duckworth? FJ – Who was Coriolis?