Andy here with another recap!
Today’s players:
Will Jennifer make it 2 wins?
INTERNET SLANG
MOVIES’ 2 MALE LEADS
CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS
POLITICAL PARTIES
“HERM”-ETICALLY
SEALED
All 3 players did well off the start; at the first break, the scores were:
Jesse $3,400
Alana $2,800
Jennifer $1,400
Jesse has a cousin named Arthur Chu — not the same Arthur Chu, though!
Coming out of the break, CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $800 had the Daily Double; Jennifer was the one who got to play it! Scores:
Jesse $3,800
Alana $3,000
Jennifer $1,800
Jennifer went for the True Daily Double. Her clue: The San Miguel Mission in this state capital began holding mass in the early 1600s. Jennifer went for Tallahassee and fell to $0. (For the record: I said Sacramento.)
However, Jennifer did recover over the rest of the round, and did pull herself into second place by the end of it! Scores after 30;
Alana $5,600
Jennifer $4,200
Jesse $2,800
DJ! round categories:
SUMMER READING?
NAME-CHECKING SONGS
SCIENCE
ASIAN CITIES
5-LETTER WORDS
CHESHIRE CATS
ASIAN CITIES $800 had the first Daily Double of the round! This was Jesse’s to play! Scores:
Alana $7,200
Jennifer $3,800
Jesse $3,600
Alex: “You have exactly half of Alana’s total”. (Psst: This is Alex’s code for “Make it a True Daily Double”).
Jesse picked up on that! His clue: In 2010 this largest Chinese city overtook Singapore as the world’s busiest container port. Jesse’s correct response tied Alana for the lead!
This was an easy one for me! I wrote the following question for a trivia game about three months ago:
Interestingly, Jesse managed to take negs on the other four questions in that category!
Shortly after Jennifer took the lead from Alana, she found the final Daily Double, under SUMMER READING $1200! Scores:
Jennifer $8,600
Alana $8,000
Jesse $7,200
Jennifer bet just $600. Her clue: It’s Ron Kovic’s memoir of his loss of innocence & mobility in Vietnam. Her correct response put her at $9,200 — but I can’t help but think she should have bet more!
Fortunately for her, Jennifer did have the better luck on the buzzer (Alana didn’t get in at all after that Daily Double) after that; scores going into Final were:
Jennifer $12,400
Alana $8,000
Jesse $6,000
FJ! category: WORLD LEADERS
FJ! clue: Since 1953 5 consecutive siblings have been this country’s head of state
Jesse 6000 – 6000 = 0
Alana 8000 – 5000 = 3000
Jennifer 12400 – 3601 = 8799
Jennifer has enough to stay the champion; she’ll come back for Game #3 tomorrow!