Today’s contestants:
Sally Neumann, a mental health counselor from Seattle, WA |
Joe Mulder, a closed captioner from Marshall, MN |
Liz Haigney Lynch, a freelance writer & genealogist from Monclair, NJ (2-day total: $49,600) |
Scores going into Final Jeopardy:
Joe $14,600
Sally $13,900
Liz $5,400
Final Jeopardy! category: EUROPEAN LITERATURE
Final Jeopardy! clue: Episodes in this 1922 work include The Lotus Eaters & Ithaca
What is “Ulysses”? (Incorrect responses, if any, and full stats, can be found in the comments section.
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Liz 5400 – 5394 = 6
Sally 13900 – 3000 = 10900 (1-day total: $10,900)
Joe 14600 – 13201 = 1399
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Episode #5 is “The Lotus Eaters”. Episode #17 is “Ithaca”.
This really would have been a better Final Jeopardy last Thursday, what with June 16th being known now as “Bloomsday” (all of the book’s action, of course, takes place on June 16, 1904).
While I haven’t read the book myself, I definitely remember Megan Barnes taunting Steve Bahnaman on Season 1 of “500 Questions”, after Steve missed a question regarding the book’s final word (That word, by the way: “Yes!”)
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Incorrect responses to Final Jeopardy:
Liz: “The Golden Bough”
Sally: “The Satanic Verses”
Joe: “Dubliners”
Game Stats:
Sally 13,600 Coryat, 14 correct, 1 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer
Joe 14,600 Coryat, 23 correct, 1 incorrect, 42.11% in first on buzzer
Liz 5,000 Coryat, 9 correct, 0 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer
Liz Haigney Lynch’s final stats:
49 correct
1 incorrect (this Final Jeopardy)
2/2 on Daily Doubles
2/3 in Final Jeopardy
25.00% in first on buzzer (42/168)
Average Coryat: $13,667
Sally Neumann, to win:
2 games: 49.73%
3: 24.73%
4: 12.30%
5: 6.11%
6: 3.04%
Avg. streak: 1.989 games. #Jeopardy
Here’s a link to THE CINEMA OF BRADLEY COOPER category on the show tonight.