Here are today’s Champions Wildcard contestants:
- Paul Clauson, a tax analyst from Madison Heights, Michigan;
- Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington; and
- Marko Saric, a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Jeopardy!
WOMEN THROUGH THE YEARS // LITERALLY LITERATURE // FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 COMPANIES // NOT TO BE CONFUSED // SCHOOL OF MUSIC // IT’S A VERB! IT’S A NOUN!
DD1 – 600 – LITERALLY LITERATURE – This 1880s short story ends with “Never a cobra dared show its head –inside the walls” (Mehal added 2,600.)
Scores at first break: Marko 1,400, Mehal 5,400, Paul 1,600.
Scores entering DJ: Marko 3,000, Mehal 7,400, Paul 2,000.
Double Jeopardy!
SALTY BODIES OF WATER // INSECTS IN HiGH & LOW CULTURE // ANATOMY // PREFIXED PAIRS // WHATCHA WATCHIN’? // CHAPEL ROME
DD2 – 1,600 – PREFIXED PAIRS – One millionth of a 60th of a minute & a small region with its own pattern of weather (On the first clue of the round, Paul lost 2,000 on a true DD.)
DD3 – 1,600 – INSECTS IN HiGH & LOW CULTURE – In a Rimsky-Korsakov opera, this piece of music conveys when a prince is transformed into a certain insect (by a magical swan!) (Paul added 4,800.)
Scores entering FJ: Marko 5,800, Mehal 19,800, Paul 12,400.
Final Jeopardy!
FROM REAL LIFE TO FICTION – These 2 British authors based characters–Dikko Henderson & Old Craw–on Richard Hughes, journalist & double agent
Only Marko was correct on FJ. Mehal dropped 6,001 to advance with 13,799.
Final scores: Marko 11,600, Mehal 13,799, Paul 9,900.
That’s before their time: A clue’s references to J.J. and the Evans family in a ’70s sitcom didn’t lead the players to “Good Times”.
Tough category of the day: The players missed three clues in a first round music category covering Eddie Van Halen, Debbie Gibson and Willie Nelson.
Correct Qs: DD1 – What is “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”? DD2 – What is a microsecond & a microclimate? DD3 – What is “Flight of the Bumblebee”? FJ – Who were Ian Fleming & John le Carré?