Here are today’s contestants:
– Carlos Cea, a software quality assurance engineer from San Francisco, California;
– Kyla Wall-Polin, a data analyst from Petaluma, California; and
– Adam Remsen, an attorney and theater producer from Memphis, Tennessee. Adam is a six-day champ with winnings of $124,502.
Jeopardy!
GENERALS & ADMIRALS // LITERARY SUBTITLES // AT THE MUSEUM // BOARD GAMES // KUDOS // 2 U
DD1 – $1,000 – LITERARY SUBTITLES – This Cormac McCarthy novel subtitled “The Evening Redness in the West” has been called both the ultimate Western & anti-Western (Adam added $1,000.)
Scores at first break: Adam $8,400, Kyla $800, Carlos $2,200.
Scores entering DJ: Adam $10,600, Kyla $3,000, Carlos $3,200.
Double Jeopardy!
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY? // MATH FOLK // 3-SYLLABLE RHYMERS // THAT’S PRECIOUS // MUSICAL POTENT POTABLES // JESTERMAXXING
DD2 – $1,200 – BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY? – The name of this capital city between the Pacific Ocean & the Andes is the Spanish version of an apostle’s name (Carlos moved to a closer second by adding $4,000 up to $12,400.)
DD3 – $1,200 – MATH FOLK – In the 18th c. Leonhard Euler popularized “Latin Squares”, forerunners of the puzzles that got this name in 1984 (Carlos lost $4,000 down to $10,400 vs. $16,200 for Adam.)
Carlos broke even on the two DDs he found in DJ, but he was still able to stay in range of Adam into FJ, with Adam at $20,600 vs. $12,400 for Carlos and $5,400 for Kyla.
Final Jeopardy!
ANCIENT AUTHORS – A mural discovered in Tajikistan of a man stabbing a fowl is cited as evidence that this author’s works traveled the Silk Road
Only Adam was correct on FJ, adding $4,201 to win with $24,801 for a seven-day total of $149,303.
Final scores: Adam $24,801, Kyla $2,500, Carlos $4,199.
Judging the writers: Since the term “author” is usually associated with the written word, perhaps “communicator” could have been used to describe the FJ subject without giving too much away.
Tough category of the day: The players missed three straight in THREE-SYLLABLE RHYMERS, the third of which followed by canned laughter, I guess to try and break the awkwardness.
Correct Qs: DD1 – What is “Blood Meridian”? DD2 – What is Santiago? DD3 – What is Sudoku? FJ – Who was Aesop?