On tonight's episode of Jeopardy, two
new contestants desperately want to toss Julia Collins,a supply chain
professional from Kenilworth, Illinois, off her 3-day reign as
champion. Grace Riley is a writer, from Portsmouth, Arkansas, and
James Behrens is a Geo-physicist from San Diego, California.
Getting right into the Jeopardy round,
the contestants had these categories to master: Fill In The Movie
Titles, From “B” to “Y” all responses must start with a B,
and end with a Y, The Woman Who Wrote..., It Was An Accident, That
Explanation, and Does Hold Water.
Julia started the game with the The
Woman Who Wrote category for $200, and scored the first points of the
game with “Who is J.K. Rowling.” referencing “Quidditch through
the ages.” She came along to grab the $400 dollar clue as well,
about Nora Ephron who wrote “Heartburn.” Staying with the
category, the $600 dollar clue went to Grace about a poem inside the
Statue of Liberty, the author was Emma Lazarus.
Grave then moved on to Movie Titles,
snagging the $200 dollar clue about “Fast” Food Nation and “Fast”
Times at Ridgemont High. James took the $400 dollar clue for Movie
Titles with “What is Dark,” a reference to “A Shot in the
Dark,” and “Dancer in the Dark.” Julia snagged the $600 dollar
clue about, “Coming Home” and “Home Alone.”
Moving back to The Woman Who Wrote,
Grace took the $800 dollar clue about Diane Warren's hit songs. Grace
then went back to Movie Titles for $800, and James took it with “Top
Gun,” and “Top Hat.”
James went for a new category, That
Explanation, for $400, which he promptly snagged. Staying with that
category he went to the $600 dollar clue. James took that one as
well, but wasn't fast enough to beat Grace to the $800 dollar clue.
Grace then finished out the Movie Titles category for the $1000
dollar clue, which James snagged with, “Lone Star,” and “Rock
Star.”
Once again choosing a new category,
James picked From B to Y, for $200, which he easily answered. Grace
took the next $400 dollar clue about theft turning into burglary by
entering someone's home. Her next clue, the $1000 dollar one for The
Woman Who Wrote, landed her on the Daily Double. Risking $1000, Grace
nailed her answer with Clara Barton, who wrote “An Official History
of The Red Cross,” in 1882.
After a short stint to get to know the
contestants a little, Julia started off with From B to Y for $600,
which she took with Belfry, the bell tower usually seen on older
churches. She also snagged the $800 dollar clue about the ever
important bibliography. Finishing out the category, Julia wasn't
giving up yet and snagged the $1000 dollar clue about securing
someone to the end of a rope, as in mountain climbing, with Belay.
Moving back to That Explanation, Julia
scored again on the $200 dollar clue about the ever mysterious,
Bermuda Triangle. She snatched the $1000 dollar clue as well about
the Salem witch trials and the fungus created on Rye bread.
Continuing her streak, Julia nabbed the
$200 dollar clue for Does Hold Water, with Thermos, which means,
“Hot.” Julia continued to impress, grabbing both the $400 and
$600 dollar clues. James took a stab at the $800 dollar clue with,
Viaduct, but was incorrect. Neither Julia or Grace took a chance on
the clue which Vessel was the right answer for; but Julia did come
back to get the $1000 dollar clue.
Finishing out the last category for the
Jeopardy round, both James and Grace incorrectly answered the $200
dollar clue, about a Hot Air Balloon hitting a chimney in Tullamore,
Ireland. Grace did come back to get the $400 dollar clue in the It
Was An Accident category. It referenced the collapse of The Circus
Maximus, in Rome. Julia showed up strong with the correct answers for
the $600 and $800 dollar clues. Grace rounded out the Jeopardy round
with 'Le Mans', a French town where dozens were killed in 1955, when
a car flew into a crowd of spectators.
After the break, the Double Jeopardy
round got started with these categories: Leo-The Pope, State of the
Art, Legal Matters, Words Refashioned (the correct response will come
from letters in a highlighted word in the clue), Singapore, and
Sitcom Neighbors (contestants had to name the sitcom when given the
infamous neighbor(s).)
James chose to go with Singapore for
$400, but incorrectly guessed the answer for the clue. Julia snatched
it up with, “What are Chinese.” the ethnic group that makes up a
vast majority of Singaporians.
Julia then moved on to Sitcom
Neighbors, which Grace nailed for the $400 dollar clue about Seinfeld
and crazy Cosmo Kramer. Julia then came back to grab the $800 dollar
clue about the Honeymooners. The $1200 dollar clue went into oblivion
as no one tried to guess The Dick Van Dyke Show. Grace snagged the
$1600 dollar clue about Winnie on The Wonder Years, and James swooped
in to double his money on the $2000 dollar clue with, Married With
Children.
James chose to go with Words
Refashioned for $400, which Grace promptly got by turning,
“Obligatory,” into “Bigot.” Grace also snagged the $800
dollar clue, but Julia stole the $1200 dollar clue with Lathe, made
from the word Plethora.
Julia went on to pick the State of the
art for $400, and took the clue to the bank as she guessed the
correct answer. James snagged the $800 dollar clue about Georgia
O'Keefe's painting, New Mexico. Grace nabbed the $1200 dollar clue
about a mountain carved dedication to Crazy Horse in South Dakota. On
a miss by James, Julia swooped in to steal the $1600 dollar clue
about Watts Towers in California. On the $2000 dollar clue, Julia
landed on the Daily Double. Wagering $2000, Julia wasn't able to come
up with Louisiana, which referenced a painting by de Galle of his
American cousin, Estelle.
Grace nabbed the $400 dollar clue about
St. Peter in the, Leo-The Pope category. She went back to the Words
Refashioned category for $1600, which she answered incorrectly,
allowing Julia to steal the clue with Inquest, fashioned from
Question. The $2000 dollar clue eluded the players as Saccharine was
turned into Archaic, meaning antiquated.
Julia then snagged the $800 dollar clue
for the Leo-The Pope category. Taking the $1200 dollar clue, Julia
found the second Double Jeopardy clue and was able to maximize her
wager of $2000 with te correct answer of, John Paul II. The $1600
dollar clue about Charlemagne, went to James. He was also able to
grab the $2000 dollar clue about Constantinople.
Choosing to go back to Singapore for
$800, James took the clue about the average Humidity percentage in
the country. Grace snagged the $1200 dollar clue for the Legal
Matters category which James chose. The $1600 dollar clue went into
the abyss as no one took a stab at answering it. Julia did, however,
swoop in to grab the $2000 dollar clue in the category with, “What
are Torts.” She also grabbed the $1600 dollar clue in the Singapore
category, leaving James to take the $2000 dollar clue about the
Straights in the country.
Going back to Legal Matters, Julia
grabbed the $800 dollar clue with Process Server, someone who
delivers legal documents to a defendant or plaintiff in a legal case.
James took the $400 dollar clue in the category about moving a case
from Juvenile Court to adult court proceedings. The last clue for the
Double Jeopardy round was the $1200 dollar clue in the Singapore
category, which Julia snatched up to move the game into Final
Jeopardy.
The Final Jeopardy category, was
Diaries and Journals. The clue read as follows: This archeologists
diary for November 26th, 1922 mentions 2, “Ebony Black
Effigies of a King, Gold Sandalled.”
Grace, who was in third place, put it
all on the line with the correct answer, and bumped herself into
second place with $18,800. James couldn't guess the correct answer
and wound up with just $1199 at the end. Julia who guessed the man
who financed the expedition for Carter-who found the tomb of King
Tut-also lost money, but nothing significant, with a small wager of
$795. She ended her fourth straight win with $20,005. Her grand total
for the 4-day streak was $73,110!
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