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Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Sept. 29

Here are today’s contestants:

  • Rebecca Thompson, a French teacher and researcher from Buffalo, New York;
  • Zach Knecht, a law clerk originally from Spring Hill, Florida; and
  • Prasad Patil, an assistant professor of biostatistics from Burlington, Massachusetts. Prasad is a one-day champ with winnings of $35,600.

Jeopardy!

THE 20th CENTURY // FICTIONAL FEMALES // PROPOSITIONAL PHRASES // WRITING MATERIAL // 5,5 // SECOND CHANCE QBs

DD1 – $800 – WRITING MATERIAL – Magazines were once differentiated as either shiny “slicks” or these, cheaply made with rough wood (Prasad improved by $3,000 to $9,200.)

Scores at first break: Prasad $5,200, Zach $800, Rebecca $600.

Scores entering DJ: Prasad $11,400, Zach $2,000, Rebecca $2,200.

Double Jeopardy!

SCIENCE & NATURE // A WORLD OF MOUNTAINS // I MARRIED MY CO-STAR // NEAR & FAR PHRASES // CAVEAT // MENTOR

DD2 – $1,600 – A WORLD OF MOUNTAINS – Found in Table Mountain National Park, Lion’s Head & Lion’s Rump are peaks overlooking this coastal city (Zach lost $2,400 on a true DD.)

DD3 – $1,600 – CAVEAT – Rattlesnakes warn us by shaking their tails; the sound is the motion of this fibrous stuff that makes up hair & nails (Zach added $2,000 up to $3,600.)

Prasad opened a solid lead in round one, but didn’t do too much in DJ, so Zach was able to stay in the game into FJ with Prasad at $13,400 vs. $8,400 for Zach and $3,800 for Rebecca.

Final Jeopardy!

MEDIEVAL NAMES – He was accused of killing William de Heselrig & also pled not guilty to being a traitor, saying he was never a subject of the King of England

Only Zach was able to come up with the FJ name, adding $5,001 to win with $13,401.

Final scores: Prasad $9,999, Zach $13,401, Rebecca $3,300.

Triple Stumper of the day: The players couldn’t come up with Shakespeare’s unnamed character who warned Julius Caesar, “Beware the Ides of March”, the soothsayer.

That’s before their time: No one knew the MTV game show hosted by Ken Ober (“Remote Control”), or could name the designs printed from acid-incised metal plates that complete the cliche pick-up line from the 1930s, “come up and see my etchings”.

Clue selection strategy: With DD1 still on the board, the players completed the guest-presented video category where the DD was unlikely to be located.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What are pulps? DD2 – What is Cape Town? DD3 – What is keratin? FJ – Who was William Wallace? (Rebecca wrote Braveheart.)