Andy here with another recap!
Today’s players:
J! round categories:
THE BODY SHOP
TRUE RELIGION
“LID”S
AS SEEN ON TV
RETURNS
AT THE MALL
Paige did quite well in “AT THE MALL”, going 3/5, even though on her first pronounciation, her GNC sounded very close to GMC! At the end of the rightmost three categories, the scores were:
Paige $3,800
Andrea $3,200
Peter $1,200
Peter’s door-to-door commute: Two and a half hours! (From Pennsylvania to Manhattan!)
Getting back to the game, Peter did quite well on the buzzer and tied Paige for the lead immediately before finding the Daily Double, under THE BODY SHOP $800! Scores:
Peter $4,400
Paige $4,400
Andrea $3,600
Peter picked $1,400 as his bet. Because of its inherent rhythm, the sinoatrial node is the specialized heart tissue known as the natural this. His correct response put him at $5,800!
Over the remaining six clues of the round, Paige re-took the lead (aided by a neg by Peter on TRUE RELIGION $1000: Now a saint, she founded the first free Catholic school for girls in America. He said “Drexel”; I guess the $1,000 on the neg was worth it for someone from Philly!)
Scores after 30:
Paige $5,800
Peter $4,800
Andrea $3,600
DJ! round categories:
THE BIG BUKOWSKI
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES
THE NAME OF THE LAW
MOVIE TERMS
“I” AY AY!
SOLVE FOR x
I think Andrea was hoping to do better on MOVIE TERMS, but her two opponents beat her to the buzzer on all 5!
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES $1600 had the first Daily Double, and Peter was rolling along quite nicely when he’d found it! Scores:
Peter $12,000
Paige $7,000
Andrea $3,600
Peter went conservative the first time. He picked $2,500 out of thin air this time! His clue: In South Dakota you can visit a launch facility for these Cold War missiles with a Revolutionary War name. It took him a while to think, and he came up with “Patriot missiles” to fall to $9,500.
This gave Paige her opening, and after she went 3/5 in I, she found the final Daily Double at the bottom of THE NAME OF THE LAW! Scores:
Peter $12,300
Paige $11,000
Andrea $3,600
Paige bet $3,000. Her clue: Named for an Illinois representative, 1910’s White Slave Traffic Act is better known as this “act”. Her immediate correct response put her at $14,000!
Our contestants saved SOLVE FOR x until last; they probably thought it was an algebra category! Once we got to the end of that, our scores going into Final were:
Paige $17,200
Peter $15,500
Andrea $4,800
FJ! category: 19th CENTURY NOVEL CHARACTERS
FJ! clue: His “spinal column was curved” …the “head was between the shoulder-blades and…one leg was shorter than the other”
Andrea 4800 + 4798 = 9598
Peter 15500 – 7200 = 8300 (Peter’s response looked like it could be ruled correct, but it was illegible and he knew it.)
Paige 17200 + 15000 = 32200
So Paige is our new champion; she’ll return tomorrow, and Jeanie will have the recap! See you then!