Hello! Andy here with a recap from Monday!
This week's players:
Shloka Ananthanarayanan - New York, NY (WABC)
Melinda Dudley - Hayden, CO (KMGH)
Christi Esterle - Colorado Springs, CO (KKTV)
Beverly Garcia - Quincy, MA (WBZ )
Matthew Harney - Springfield, IL (WAND)
Howard Ray - East Longmeadow, MA (WWLP)
Jill Rowley - Baltimore, MD (WBFF)
Sally Sheinberg - Palmdale, CA (KABC)
Kay Thanaporn - Decatur, GA (WXIA)
Jeff Versteeg - Cleveland, OH (WOIO)
Ben Zimmer - Jersey City, NJ (WABC)
If you want to watch the Howdies, you can see that Jill seemed really nervous in her Howdy. Alex even seemed to notice nerves on her part last Friday, but she claims to be less nervous. I'm not so sure!
Today's players:
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J! round categories:
MAN OVERLORD!
3-LETTER WORDS
TV HOSTS
REMEMBER THE ALIMONY
POTENT POTABLES
A MODEL OF FORD, &...
Both of our challengers got off to an excellent start; however, Jill got on a bit of a roll in TV HOSTS to have the lead at the first break! Scores at the first break were:
Jill $3,000
Ben $2,800
Melinda $2,400
Melinda collects National Park stamps; she collected over 100 of them in her first year! Jill, a flight attendant, once had Vanna White as a passenger!
A MODEL OF FORD $600 had the Daily Double; it was Melinda's to play! Scores:
Melinda $4,000
Ben $3,200
Jill $3,000
Melinda bet $2,500. Her clue: A thermonuclear reaction. Melinda couldn't come up with it, and her score fell to $1,500!
REMEMBER THE ALIMONY was interesting -- it was about divorce law in different US states!
Over the rest of the round, Melinda nearly was able to catch up to her two opponents after the miss, but it was Ben who jumped from third to first by claiming the final $1,000 clue of the round! Scores after 30:
Ben $5,400
Jill $4,800
Melinda $4,700
DJ! round categories:
MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES
WILDLIFE
ONE-HIT WONDERS
U.S. COLONY NAMES
"EAU", NOT SORRY
LASTS
Ben did quite well in ONE-HIT WONDERS to jump out to a big lead! Then, Jill had some excellent gets in both EAU and WILDLIFE to regain that lead! However, Melinda got MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $400, and $800 had the Daily Double for her to play! Scores:
Jill $12,000
Ben $11,800
Melinda $5,100
Melinda bet just $3,000. Her clue: "'A' is for Trespass". Melinda gave the two answers and went to $8,100! (I can't help but think that she left $2,100 on the table, though!)
A key clue at U.S. COLONY NAMES $800 (Rhode Island may be named for a place in this sea). Jill got a "be more specific" on "Meditterannean", followed by a neg, Ben picked up the rebound! $1200 had the Daily Double! Scores:
Jill $16,800
Ben $11,400
Melinda $7,300
Ben bet just $4,000. His clue: Massachusetts means "at the big" one of these; colony governor John Winthrop said, "We shall be as a city upon" one of these. His correct response put him at $15,400. Again, I think he bet too small.
Ben couldn't quite get into the lead! Scores going into Final:
Jill $18,800
Ben $15,800
Melinda $7,300
FJ! category: 1970s FILMS
Alex commented that somebody didn't look happy when they saw the category!
FJ! clue: In 2013 Mario Cuomo said he finally saw this film, which he had boycotted for personal reasons, & called it "maybe...a masterpiece"
Melinda 7300 + 3000 = 10300
Ben 15800 + 3000 = 18800
Jill 18800 + 12801 = 31601
I couldn't tell from the betting who looked unhappy with the category!
Jill's now a 2-day champ, $43,802! I'll be back tomorrow with that recap too; see you then!
This week's players:
Shloka Ananthanarayanan - New York, NY (WABC)
Melinda Dudley - Hayden, CO (KMGH)
Christi Esterle - Colorado Springs, CO (KKTV)
Beverly Garcia - Quincy, MA (WBZ )
Matthew Harney - Springfield, IL (WAND)
Howard Ray - East Longmeadow, MA (WWLP)
Jill Rowley - Baltimore, MD (WBFF)
Sally Sheinberg - Palmdale, CA (KABC)
Kay Thanaporn - Decatur, GA (WXIA)
Jeff Versteeg - Cleveland, OH (WOIO)
Ben Zimmer - Jersey City, NJ (WABC)
If you want to watch the Howdies, you can see that Jill seemed really nervous in her Howdy. Alex even seemed to notice nerves on her part last Friday, but she claims to be less nervous. I'm not so sure!
Today's players:
J! round categories:
MAN OVERLORD!
3-LETTER WORDS
TV HOSTS
REMEMBER THE ALIMONY
POTENT POTABLES
A MODEL OF FORD, &...
Both of our challengers got off to an excellent start; however, Jill got on a bit of a roll in TV HOSTS to have the lead at the first break! Scores at the first break were:
Jill $3,000
Ben $2,800
Melinda $2,400
Melinda collects National Park stamps; she collected over 100 of them in her first year! Jill, a flight attendant, once had Vanna White as a passenger!
A MODEL OF FORD $600 had the Daily Double; it was Melinda's to play! Scores:
Melinda $4,000
Ben $3,200
Jill $3,000
Melinda bet $2,500. Her clue: A thermonuclear reaction. Melinda couldn't come up with it, and her score fell to $1,500!
REMEMBER THE ALIMONY was interesting -- it was about divorce law in different US states!
Over the rest of the round, Melinda nearly was able to catch up to her two opponents after the miss, but it was Ben who jumped from third to first by claiming the final $1,000 clue of the round! Scores after 30:
Ben $5,400
Jill $4,800
Melinda $4,700
DJ! round categories:
MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES
WILDLIFE
ONE-HIT WONDERS
U.S. COLONY NAMES
"EAU", NOT SORRY
LASTS
Ben did quite well in ONE-HIT WONDERS to jump out to a big lead! Then, Jill had some excellent gets in both EAU and WILDLIFE to regain that lead! However, Melinda got MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $400, and $800 had the Daily Double for her to play! Scores:
Jill $12,000
Ben $11,800
Melinda $5,100
Melinda bet just $3,000. Her clue: "'A' is for Trespass". Melinda gave the two answers and went to $8,100! (I can't help but think that she left $2,100 on the table, though!)
A key clue at U.S. COLONY NAMES $800 (Rhode Island may be named for a place in this sea). Jill got a "be more specific" on "Meditterannean", followed by a neg, Ben picked up the rebound! $1200 had the Daily Double! Scores:
Jill $16,800
Ben $11,400
Melinda $7,300
Ben bet just $4,000. His clue: Massachusetts means "at the big" one of these; colony governor John Winthrop said, "We shall be as a city upon" one of these. His correct response put him at $15,400. Again, I think he bet too small.
Ben couldn't quite get into the lead! Scores going into Final:
Jill $18,800
Ben $15,800
Melinda $7,300
FJ! category: 1970s FILMS
Alex commented that somebody didn't look happy when they saw the category!
FJ! clue: In 2013 Mario Cuomo said he finally saw this film, which he had boycotted for personal reasons, & called it "maybe...a masterpiece"
Melinda 7300 + 3000 = 10300
Ben 15800 + 3000 = 18800
Jill 18800 + 12801 = 31601
I couldn't tell from the betting who looked unhappy with the category!
Jill's now a 2-day champ, $43,802! I'll be back tomorrow with that recap too; see you then!