Here are today’s contestants:
- Heather Ryan, a health program director from Binghamton, New York;
- Ian Taylor, a food sales rep originally from Cleveland, Ohio; and
- Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, Texas. Will is a four-day champ with winnings of $79,998.
Jeopardy!
WORLD HISTORY // BOOKS & ARTHURS // ON THE “D-E-L” // COMPLETE THE RHYMING PHRASE // ADVERTISING // MUSICAL NICKNAMES
DD1 – $800 – WORLD HISTORY – This collective defense treaty between 8 nations was signed in Poland in 1955 (Ian added $2,000 to his leading score of $2,400.)
Scores at first break: Will $1,000, Ian $4,600, Heather $3,600.
Scores entering DJ: Will $2,400, Ian $8,800, Heather $3,800.
Double Jeopardy!
EXTREME CANADA // EXCLAMATIONS! // MYTHOLOGICAL RESUMÉS // MEDICAL MATTERS // CAUTION // COMPOUND WORD CONSTRUCTION ZONE
DD2 – $1,600 – CAUTION – Unexplored parts on some old maps could be designated with pictures of monsters & this 2-word Latin designation (Will lost $2,000 from his third-place total of $4,000.)
DD3 – $800 – EXTREME CANADA – Draining an area the size of Mexico, the Mackenzie River system, Canada’s longest, flows 2,635 miles into this body of water (Ian dropped $1,000 from his score of $14,800 vs. $7,800 for Heather.)
Ian led at every commercial break, but wasn’t quite able to put the game away, leading into FJ with $17,400 ve. $9,800 for Heather and $8,000 for Will.
Final Jeopardy!
STAGE MUSICAL SETTINGS – Turned into a Nazi headquarters in 1933, the nightspot Eldorado is said to have inspired this fictional place
Ian and Heather were correct on FJ, with Ian adding $2,201 to win with $19,601.
Final scores: Will $2, Ian $19,601, Heather $19,600.
Triple Stumper of the day: No one could the last three months in the rhyme “30 days hath September, April, June and November.”
Clue selection strategy: In DJ, four clues were chosen from the top row with DD3 still on the board.
One more thing: There’s some controversy about Bart Simpson’s use of “cowabunga”, from a 2021 Chicago Tribune article: “Antonia Coffman, chief publicist for ‘The Simpsons,’ views Bart’s cowabunga connection as a stubborn urban myth. ‘Bart may have used cowabunga once during the first season,’ Coffman says, ‘but what people really hear is Bart saying Aye Carumba!’ or ‘Don’t have a cow, man!’ Somehow, those two phrases are confused with cowabunga.”
Correct Qs: DD1 – What is Warsaw Pact? DD2 – What is terra incognita? (Will put an “o” at the end.) DD3 – What is Arctic Ocean? FJ – What is Kit Kat Club?