Here are today’s contestants:
- Mark Lashley, a professor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
- Lianne Schaffer, a piano teacher & musician from Newton, Massachusetts; and
- Nam Nguyen, a playwright from Mississauga, Ontario. Nam is a one-day champ with winnings of $26,999.
Jeopardy!
PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES // CULTURE, POPULARLY // ITALIAN PRODUCTS // WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS // WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? // RELAX, IT’S MATH
DD1 – $600 – ITALIAN PRODUCTS – This car brand’s name begins with the first phonetic letter of the NATO alphabet & ends with another (Lianne added $1,000.)
Scores at first break: Nam $5,200, Lianne $800, Mark $1,000.
Scores entering DJ: Nam $8,600, Lianne $2,600, Mark $1,800.
Double Jeopardy!
THE PICTURE OF SOMEONE NAMED GREY // SHARED INTERNATIONAL LAKES // NAME THAT AUTHOR // 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD // I’LL REMEMBER LATE APRIL // “PRO” NOUNS
DD2 – $2,000 – I’LL REMEMBER LATE APRIL – This organization was founded 80 years ago on April 25 to benefit institutions including Howard & Morehouse (Nam dropped $3,000 from his score of $9,400.)
DD3 – $1,600 – NAME THAT AUTHOR – “It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics…but this slaughtering machine ran on” (Nam added $2,000 to his total of $8,000.)
Nam found both DDs in DJ but missed one of them, losing a net $1,000 on the pair. Still, Nam was on the edge of a runaway, but Mark got the last clue of the round to keep the game alive, entering FJ at $9,000 vs. $17,600 for Nam and $7,000 for Lianne.
Final Jeopardy!
BUSINESS – In the 1850s the .925 sterling silver standard was instituted by this company, the first American one to do so
Only Nam missed FJ, so Mark getting that last $400 clue in DJ was the difference between winning and losing. Mark added $8,601 for a victory worth $17,601.
Final scores: Nam $17,199, Lianne $14,000, Mark $17,601.
Correct Qs: DD1 – What is Alfa Romeo? DD2 – What is United Negro College Fund? DD3 – Who was Sinclair? FJ – What is Tiffany & Co.? (Also acceptable: “Tiffany” and “Tiffany’s”)