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Jeopardy! recap for Tue., May 28

Here are today’s contestants:

  • Steve Miller, a retired medical transcriptionist from Eugene, Oregon;
  • Abby Mann, a digital scholarship librarian from Normal, Illinois; and
  • Amar Kakirde, a graduate student from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey. Amar is a four-day champ with winnings of $55,899.

Jeopardy!

EUROPEAN HISTORY // DEFINING LAW // DOING A NUMBER ON YOU // SOUNDS LIKE A BOY BAND // DO BUG US // THINK “SMALL”

DD1 – $800 – DOING A NUMBER ON YOU – In the presidential election of 1956, Eisenhower carried 41 states & Stevenson, this many (Amar added $3,000.)

Scores at first break: Amar $2,600, Abby $3,800, Amar -$200.

Scores entering DJ: Amar $8,600, Abby $3,000, Amar $1,400.

Double Jeopardy!

CANADIAN CITIES // NONFICTION BOOKS BY SUBTITLES // WEAPON NAMES // WHAT DO YOU MEASURE? // MOVIES WITH LITTLE DIALOGUE // SPILL THE “T”

DD2 (video) – $1,200 – WEAPON NAMES – In 1939, Artem Mikoyan & Mikhail Gurevich headed a design bureau that has turned out generations of these fighter planes (On the first clue of the round, Steve improved by $2,000 to $3,400.)

DD3 – $1,200 – NONFICTION BOOKS BY SUBTITLES – “A True Story of Men Against the Sea” (the North Atlantic’s Grand Banks)(Steve added $4,000 to his total of $8,200 vs. $9,400 for Amar.)

After a slow start, Steve rallied by hitting both DDs in DJ and was able to carry a small lead into FJ at $15,400 vs. $14,200 for Amar and $8,200 for Abby.

Final Jeopardy!

EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS – On the 2022 bicentennial of his birth, the body of this man was exhumed & DNA used to determine his genetic afflictions

Everyone was incorrect on FJ. Amar chose to wager nearly everything, which allowed Abby to take the win as she dropped $3,000 to finish on top at $5,200.

Final scores: Amar $1, Abby $5,200, Steve $2,399.

Movie miscues: The players missed three clue in the movie category, including the top-row clue about the 2018 John Krasinski film which included characters communicating in sign language, “A Quiet Place”.

Underpriced clue of the day: only $400 for knowing the boy band which sounds like an abbreviation for “filming people filming people”, BTS (which apparently also stands for “behind the scenes’).

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is seven? DD2 – What are MIGs? DD3 – What is “The Perfect Storm”? FJ -Who was Mendel?