Here are today’s contestants:
- Amogha Tadimety, a biotech startup founder from Cambridge, Massachusetts;
- Kevin Stuhlmann, a pastor from Rochester Hills, Michigan; and
- Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana. Adriana is a seven-day champ with winnings of $155,700.
Jeopardy!
THAT’S SO 1990s // MICHIGAN // 4-SYLLABLE WORDS // I GOT RHYTHM // THE MAIL PERSPECTIVE // TV COUPLING
DD1 – $600 – 4-SYLLABLE WORDS – Let’s “walk” over to this word describing something ordinary or commonplace (Adriana dropped $2,000 from her score of $4,600.)
Scores at first break: Adriana $2,600, Kevin $1,400, Amogha $600.
Scores entering DJ: Adriana $5,800, Kevin $4,400, Amogha $1,000.
Double Jeopardy!
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY // BRAVING THE ELEMENTS’ SYMBOLS // MOVIES’ OPENING LINES // AMERICANA // A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE // A DANGEROUS THING
DD2 – $2,000 – MOVIES’ OPENING LINES – 1970: “Be seated. Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country” (Adriana added $3,000 to her total of $10,200 vs. $4,400 for Kevin.)
DD3 – $1,200 – BRAVING THE ELEMENTS’ SYMBOLS – Alphabetically, it’s the first element with a single letter as its symbol (From a distant third with $600, Amogha lost $1,000.)
Adriana started DJ strongly in a movie category, but Kevin did a good job of rallying and stayed within two-thirds of the leader going into FJ wtih Adriana at $19,600, Kevin with $13,600 and Amogha at $3,600.
Final Jeopardy!
WORLD LEADERS – During a 1972 presidential visit, Richard Nixon discussed a poem by this leader called “Ode to the Plum Blossom”
Adriana and Amogha were correct on FJ. Adriana added $7,800 to win with $27,400 for an eight-day total of $183,100. Note that by making a mid-sized FJ wager, Kevin gave up the chance to win if Adriana missed without having to be correct himself.
Final scores: Adriana $27,400, Kevin $7,300, Amogha $5,200.
Correct Qs: DD1 – What is pedestrian? DD2 – What is “Patton”? DD3 – What is boron? FJ -Who was Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao)?