Here are today’s contestants:
- Matt Askins, an aerospace engineer from Chandler, Arizona;
- Angela Mustapha, a library specialist from Conway, Arkansas; and
- Brendan Liaw, a recent graduate and stay-at-home son from Vancouver, British Columbia. Brendan is a two-day champ with winnings of $38,798.
Jeopardy!
TITLES // TRIPLE TALK SONGS // THE MIDDLE AGES // AROUND THE HOUSE // “B” & “B” // LAST LINES OF THE CHILDREN’S BOOK
DD1 – $800 – LAST LINES OF THE CHILDREN’S BOOK – “But he never knew that it really was his own bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be real” (Matt added $1,000.)
Scores at first break: Brendan $3,600, Angela $1,000, Matt $400.
Scores entering DJ: Brendan $5,000, Angela $1,800, Matt $1,200.
Double Jeopardy!
SUBTITLES // CREATURES OF THE EARTH // OUTDOOR ART // HISTORICAL MOVIES & TV // IN THE DICTIONARY // RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER
DD2 – $1,200 – CREATURES OF THE EARTH – Structures called osteoderms throughout this mammal’s body protect it from predators (Matt lost $4,000 on a true DD.)
DD3 – $800 – OUTDOOR ART – Shepard Fairey used a 1967 photo of this athlete to create a 7-story mural outside a Louisville YMCA (Brendan added $2,400 to his score of $15,400 vs. $5,800 for Angela.)
Once again it was a race to the finish to see if Brendan could nail down a runaway, and this time he did, entering FJ at $19,800 vs. $9,400 for Angela and $2,800 for Matt.
Final Jeopardy!
BORN & DIED – He was born in Fürth, Germany in 1923, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, & passed away in Connecticut in 2023
Only Brendan was correct on FJ, adding $800 to win with $20,600 for a three-day total of $59,398.
Final scores: Brendan $20,600, Angela $8,800, Matt $2,800.
Sports stumbles: in “B” & “B”, no one knew what baseball hitters can try to rub away the back line of to give them more reaction time is “batter’s box”.
Correct Qs: DD1 – What is “The Velveteen Rabbit”? DD2 – What is armadillo? DD3 – Who was Ali? FJ – Who was Kissinger?