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Jeopardy! recap for Mon., May 19

Here are today’s contestants:

  • Catherine Carnovale, a professor and creative producer from Toronto, Ontario;
  • Micah Green, a chemical engineer from College Station, Texas
  • Mitch Loflin, a set decoration coordinator from Long Beach, California. Mitch is a one-day champ with winnings of $8,400.

Jeopardy!

THIS GENERATION IS SO BOOKED // COMMON BONDS // CANADIAN HISTORY // THE HOLLYWOOD SCENE // “S” TO “P”// AMERICANA

DD1 – $800 – CANADIAN HISTORY – Lovers of Latin must have rejoiced when this name was officially adopted in 1713; it’s still on a province (Micah doubled to $2,400.)

Scores at first break: Mitch $2,200, Micah $2,400, Catherine $2,200.

Scores entering DJ: Mitch $2,800, Micah $4,800, Catherine $4,600.

Double Jeopardy!

ALL THE KINGS’ MENUS // POTPOURRI // NAME THE 5-LETTER SONG // OUR CHEMISTRY IS PALPABLE // COUNTRY NAMES // GRAMMAR POLICE

DD2 – $1,600 – ALL THE KINGS’ MENUS – This successor to a Sun King loved hot chocolate & sometimes made his own (Mitch went from third to first, improving by $3,500 to $9,100.)

DD3 – $2,000 – GRAMMAR POLICE – In the sentence “I fought the law and the law won”, the word “and” is this type of conjunction (Initially, Mitch dropped $5,000 to $8,100 vs. $9,400 for Catherine. Before FJ, this was reversed and Mitch was awarded $10,000, representing the amount the was taken away and the amount he won.)

Mitch took the lead on DD2, then a ruling reversal on DD3 after the last commercial break turned a competitive game into a runaway for Mitch at $25,300 vs. $11,400 for Catherine and $6,800 for Micah.

Final Jeopardy!

DRAMA – The first time a woman played a role on the professional stage in England, it was as this wife of a soldier in a play 50-some years old

Only Mitch was correct on FJ, adding $2,000 to win with $27,300 for a two-day total of $35,700.

Final scores: Mitch $27,200, Micah $2,199, Catherine $9,199.

Triple Stumper of the day: No one knew the “plastic platter” that was an early inductee to the National Toy Hall of Fame is the Frisbee.

Judging the judges: Perhaps they listened to “Conjunction Junction” from “Schoolhouse Rock” before making their reversal on DD3, as Mitch’s response is right in the lyrics.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is Nova Scotia? DD2 – Who was Louis XV? DD3 – What is coordinating (what the clue wanted) or additive (Mitch’s response)? FJ – Who is Desdemona?