Here are today’s Invitational Tournament contestants:
– Andrew He, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California;
– Jen Giles, a teacher from Longmont, Colorado; and
– Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington.
Jeopardy!
PICK YOUR BATTLES // POP CULTURE MISSING LINKS // WHAT SHOULD WE CALL THE DOG? // KING JAMES BIBLE STUDY // AT FERNCLIFF CEMETERY // RHYME TIME
DD1 – 1,000 – AT FERNCLIFF CEMETERY – After his 1965 death at the Audubon Ballroom in Upper Manhattan, he was interred at Ferncliff Cemetery (Andrew lost 1,000.)
Scores at first break: Mehal 1,600, Jen 2,800, Andrew 400.
Scores entering DJ: Mehal 2,800, Jen 3,400, Andrew 2,200.
Double Jeopardy!
ISLANDS // BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS // 1960s NASA // AWARDS & HONORS // COUNTRY SONGS // RUSSIAN CROSSWORD CLUES
DD2 – 1,600 – BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS – This poet & author wrote a 6-volume bio of Abe Lincoln made up of “The Prairie Years” & the Pulitzer-winning “The War Years” (Mehal bet just 5 of his 5,600 and missed.)
DD3 – 1,600 – AWARDS & HONORS – The IEEE established an award in 1976 to honor the centennial of an invention by this man & named the award for him (Andrew lost 7,400 on a true DD.)
The players missed all three not-too-hard DDs, so once again we had a low-scoring open contest into FJ with Andrew at 6,000, Jen at 5,400 and Mehal with 4,395.
Final Jeopardy!
THE CALENDAR – Black History Month was first celebrated around the birth dates of Abraham Lincoln & this contemporary who died in 1895
Everyone was correct on FJ. Mehal added 4,801 to advance with 10,801, while Jen finished at 8,400 and Mehal had a final score of 6,001.
Ken’s Korner: One category was introduced as “From our ongoing series graveyards at Westchester, we have AT FERNCLIFF CEMETERY; gotta give the people what they want.” If this was a joke, they forgot to add the fake laughs. Also, not sure it’s the role of the Jeopardy! host to mock a contestant making a strategically small DD wager (“…which I have in my pocket”) for a clue that he went on to miss.
Correct Qs: DD1 – Who was Malcolm X? DD2 – Who was Sandburg? DD3 – Who was Bell? FJ – Who was Frederick Douglass?