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Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Jul. 2

Here are today’s contestants:

  • Kelly Proulx, a non-profit communications director from Billerica, Massachusetts;
  • Chris Nichols, a mechanical engineer from Lawrenceville, Georgia; and
  • Matt Brooks, a healthcare IT analyst from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Matt is a one-day champ with winnings of $10,600.

Jeopardy!

DESCRIBING THE LANDMARK // SPORTS // MISCELLANY // SCRAMBLED FLAGS // LEISURE TIMING // THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID…

DD1 – $800 – DESCRIBING THE LANDMARK – Some people just lying around? Clement Attlee, Lord Kelvin & the very real Sir Peter Parker (On the first clue of the game, Matt dropped $1,000.)

Scores at first break: Matt $0, Chris $2,400, Kelly $2,200.

Scores entering DJ: Matt $800, Chris $5,000, Kelly $4,400.

Double Jeopardy!

BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS // WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? // ELEMENTARY // 5-LETTER “X” WORDS // THAT’S OLD NEWS // THE SUPREME COURT CONNECTION

DD2 – $1,600 – ELEMENTARY – Hennig Brand became the first known discoverer of an element when, in 1669, he found this, meaning “light bearer” (Chris lost $2,000 from his score of $11,400 vs. $11,600 for Kelly.)

DD3 – $1,600 – BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS – In Acts, “the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; and sounded, and found it twenty” of this measurement (On the very next clue from DD3, Matt dropped $3,000.)

Chris was nearly tied with Kelly when he missed on back-to-back DDs, so it was Kelly leading into FJ at $13,200 vs. $8,400 for Chris. Matt finished DJ out of the running at -$400.

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIE & STAGE CHARACTERS – Acquitted of shooting her lover in 1924, Beulah Annan was the inspiration for this character in a play, film, and musical

Only Kelly was correct on FJ, adding $3,601 to win with $16,801.

Final scores: Matt -$400, Chris $0, Kelly $16,801.

Triple Stumper of the day: No one knew the row of very bright illumination along the front edge of a stage, also used to refer to the art of the theater in general, are the footlights.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is Westminster Abbey? DD2 – What is phosphorous? DD3 – What is fathoms? FJ – Who is Roxie Hart?