Here are today’s contestants:
– Robin Richardson, a city planner from Memphis, Tennessee;
– Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey; and
– Luke Henson, a grocer from East Moline, Illinois. Luke is a one-day champ with winnings of $16,798.
Jeopardy!
ALL EARS // 21st CENTURY COMEDIC TV // RESTAURANTS // BURNING SOME BRIDGES // 5, 5 // GORDON RAMSAY YELLS AT HISTORICAL FIGURES
DD1 – $1,000 – RESTAURANTS – In the 1950s the carhop restaurant Top Hat chose this new name to reflect its slogan “service with the speed of sound” (Robin doubled to $3,200.)
Scores at first break: Luke -$200, Jamie $2,400, Robin $4,000.
Scores entering DJ: Luke $800, Jamie $7,200, Robin $6,600.
Double Jeopardy!
CAROLINA-CATION // A LITTLE LITERATURE // AUTO TUNES // YOU’RE SO POSSESSIVE // ARTIST OF THE PORTRAIT // REJECTED FIDDLER ON THE ROOF OPENING NUMBER TITLES
DD2 – $1,600 – A LITTLE LITERATURE – Appropriately, this 1953 Raymond Chandler novel runs 53 chapters ends with Philip Marlowe saying a farewell (Jamie dropped $3,600 down to $9,200 vs. $8,200 for Robin.)
DD3 – $2,000 – YOU’RE SO POSSESSIVE – It’s the principle that “plurality should not be posited without necessity”: in other words, keep it simple, stupid (On the next clue after DD2, Jamie added $1,800.)
Jamie found both DDs in DJ back-to-back, showed a net loss on them but was still able to build a runaway into FJ at $22,600 vs. $10,600 for Robin and $8,000 for Luke.
Final Jeopardy!
POLITICIANS – In a 1984 speech, he said, “our flag is red, white & blue” but American was “many colors … held together by a common thread”
Only Jamie was correct on FJ, adding $33 to win with $22,633.
Final scores: Luke $6,311, Jamie $22,633, Robin $5,000.
That’s before their time: No one knew the magazine that is most associated with Norman Rockwell is the Saturday Evening Post.
Judging the producers/writers: Between the cringeworthy Gordon Ramsey and “Fiddler on the Roof” categories, the mute button was very useful for this episode.
Correct Qs: DD1 – What is Sonic? DD2 – What is “The Long Goodbye”? DD3 – What is Occam’s razor? FJ – Who was Jesse Jackson?