Here are today’s contestants:

– Daniel Nicastro, a delivery driver from Las Vegas, Nevada;
– Jen Spinoglio, a financial researcher from San Francisco, California; and
– Matthew Riggle, a community college math instructor from Madison, Alabama. Matthew is a four-day champ with winnings of $95,602.

Jeopardy!

A TRIP BACK TO 1986 // MUSICAL IDIOMS // HAPPY 60th, STAR TREK! // THAT’S A BIT MESSY // DO ME A FLAVOR // I NEED A RIDE TO THE AIRPORT!

DD1 – $600 – MUSICAL IDIOMS – To go at full effort, perhaps from changing an organ’s settings to play at the highest volume (Daniel lost $1,800 on a true DD.)

Scores at first break: Matthew $4,200, Jen -$400, Daniel -$600.

Scores entering DJ: Matthew $7,800, Jen $2,600, Daniel $400.

Double Jeopardy!

ATOMIC PHYSICS GLOSSARY // FROM EAR TO ERE // UNFINISHED LIT // LANGUAGES // THAT’S A LONG TIME // CLOSING CREDIT SONGS

DD2 – $1,600 – LANGUAGES – This country has the most speakers of Berber; Algeria is next (Daniel dropped by $1,900 down to $100.)

DD3 – $1,600 – UNFINISHED LIT – Published posthumously in 1938, her “The Buccaneers” wasn’t about pirates but about love in the Gilded Age (Matthew gambled $7,000 and missed, but still had a small lead at $2,600.)

Daniel missed the first two DDs, then Matthew took a chance and lost most of his score on DD3. This helped Jen take command and lead into FJ at $10,600 vs. $5,400 for Matthew. Daniel scored on the last clue of DJ to get out of the red at $100.

Final Jeopardy!

NAMES IN TECH NEWS – This last name in A.I. news has the same origin as a Latin name meaning “lover of God” or “loved by God”

Only Jen was correct on FJ, adding $201 to win with $10,801.

Final scores: Matthew $199, Jen $10,801, Daniel $2.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is pull out all the stops? DD2 – What is Morocco? DD3 – Who was Edith Wharton? FJ – What is Amodei?