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Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Jul. 9

Here are today’s contestants:

  • Kathy Davis, a chemistry professor from North Manchester, Indiana;
  • Anna Paone, a stay-at-home mom from Sunnyside, New York; and
  • Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California. Isaac is a four-day champ with winnings of $100,586.

Jeopardy!

CRIME HISTORY // A NOVEL INTRODUCTION // STOCK TICKER TALK // TSA YEA OR NAY // BIG BANDS // MOMENT OF “ZEN”

DD1 – $800 – A NOVEL INTRODUCTION – This novel opens on a rather bleak note with “Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know” (Isaac added $1,000.)

Scores at first break: Isaac $400, Anna $400, Kathy $3,800.

Scores entering DJ: Isaac $4,200, Anna $2,600, Kathy $3,800.

Double Jeopardy!

ANCIENT CONTEMPORARIES // WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS // THE HUMAN BODY // A SHAPELY CATEGORY // SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE’S SEQUEL // 11-LETTER WORDS

DD2 – $1,600 – SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE’S SEQUEL – The animated “Bee Movie” didn’t precede this 1973 movie that conned its way into winning 7 Oscars (Anna added $2,000 to her score of $2,600 vs. $4,200 for Isaac.)

DD3 – $1,200 – ANCIENT CONTEMPORARIES – Galen was learning medicine in Greece about tbe time this Egyptian astronomer was writing his “Almagest” (Isaac improved by $4,000 to $19,000 vs. $9,000 for Anna.)

After a mind-spinning number of scoring corrections before DD3, Isaac was clearly in front, but wasn’t quite able to nail down the runaway into FJ at $19,400 vs. $9,800 for Anna and $3,800 for Kathy.

Final Jeopardy!

LITERATURE – In one story he is enslaved by the old man of the sea & uses apes to pick fruit so he can afford his fare back to Baghdad

Only Issac was correct on FJ, adding $201 to win with $19,601 for a five-day total of $120,186. Note that Anna needed to nearly double up to have a chance, but for some reason only wagered $1,201, so she would have lost even if correct and Isaac had missed.

Final scores: Isaac $19,601, Anna $8,599, Kathy $3,800.

Triple stumper of the day: No one guessed the inflatable safely device found in a car that you can’t take on an airplane, an airbag.

Judging the judges: Somehow they missed Kathy changing her response to a word that didn’t fit the 11-LETTER WORDS category and initially gave her credit.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is “The Stranger”? DD2 – What is “The Sting”? DD3 – Who was Ptolemy? FJ – Who is Sinbad?