Here are today’s contestants:

– Max Ernst, a software engineer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
– Lydia Sekscenski, a sales consultant from Wallingford, Connecticut; and
– Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat and law student from Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Jamie is a 27-day champ with winnings of $753,000.

Jeopardy!

BIO 101 // I NEED A NEW CAR // MISCELLANY // ALL-STAR GAMES // A LITTLE HISTORY FOR YOU // FROM FLUFF TO GESUNDHEIT

DD1 – $600 – FROM FLUFF TO GESUNDHEIT (alphabetically) – A musical composition, or a state of activity without full awareness (Jamie improved by $3,200 up to $9,800.)

Scores at first break: Jamie $4,800, Lydia $3,000, Max $2,000.

Scores entering DJ: Jamie $10,800, Lydia $3,000, Max $3,200.

Double Jeopardy!

BIO 201 // STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL // FAUXK MUSIC // THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE // NUNS THE WISER // THE TALE END

DD2 – $1,600 – THE TALE END – Near the end of a 1947 tale from this author, we learn that “the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good” (Lydia lost $3,400 from her score of $6,200 vs. $10,800 for Jamie.)

DD3 – $1,200 – BIO 201 – Chapters in a bio of this president include “The Heat in the Kitchen” & “The Moon, the Stars, and All the Planets” (With $800, Lydia lost the $2,000 maximum.)

Lydia missed both DDs in DJ to fall out of contention, but Max was able to keep the game alive into FJ at $10,800 vs. $17,600 for Jamie and $400 for Lydia.

Final Jeopardy!

18TH CENTURY WORKS – Ironically, it was the mayor of Strasbourg, a victim of the guillotine, who requested the composition of this

Everyone was correct. Jamie added $4,001 to win with $21,601 for a 28-day total of $774,601.

Final scores: Jamie $21,601, Lydia $400, Max $19,800.

Missing the layup: For a clue about a folk music mockumentary, after Lydia missed with “Against the Wind”, her opponents couldn’t jump in with “A Mighty Wind”.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is fugue? DD2 – Who was Camus? DD3 – Who was Truman? FJ – What is “La Marseillaise”?