Here are today’s contestants:

• Senay Goitom, a software engineer originally from Madison, Wisconsin;
• Sarah Rubenfeld, an attorney from Houston, Texas; and
• Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey. Scott is a 15-day champ with winnings of $430,910.

Jeopardy!

WORLD GEOGRAPHY // THE MOVIES // INVENTORS & INVENTIONS // KID LIT EN ESPAÑOL // THE MYTH BEHIND THE ZODIAC SIGN // IT STARTS WITH “ME”

DD1 – $1,000 – KID LIT EN ESPAÑOL – “Nublado con proegabilidades de albóndigas” (Scott improved by $3,000 to $10,000.)

Scores at first break: Scott $10,000, Sarah -$400, Senay -$600.

Scores entering DJ: Scott $13,000, Sarah $1,400, Senay $600.

Double Jeopardy!

CLASSICAL MUSIC // REALITY TV // GEOGRAPHIC LITERARY TITLES // WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW? // I’M BORED // A SENSE OF HENRI

DD2 – $1,600 – I’M BORED – A word meaning boring gave us this name for a boring burg that we can’t find in our atlas (With $3,800, Sarah dropped to $0 on a true DD.)

DD3 – $2,000 – A SENSE OF HENRI – This Florence-born woman, a major force in 16th c. Europe, was the wife of French King Henri II & the mother of Henri III (With a lead of nearly $20K, Scott lost $5,000 down to $16,400.)

Scott had $10K while both opponents were still in the red, slipped up on DD3 but still was never seriously challenged, entering FJ at $20,400 vs. $7,600 for Sarah and $1,800 for Senay.

Final Jeopardy!

THEORIES – A version of this theoretical economic process was “horse and sparrow” – if you fed the horse enough oats, the sparrows fed afterwards

Scott and Sarah were correct on FJ, with Scott adding $3,690 to win with $24,090 for a 16-day total of $455,000.

Final scores: Scott $24,090, Sarah $7,600, Senay $0.

Triple Stumper of the day: For a top-row clue, no one recalled the Paris Hilton-Nicole Richie series that was one of the first big reality shows, “The Simple Life”.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”? DD2 – What is Dullsville? DD3 – Who was Catherine de’ Medici? FJ – What is trickle-down?