[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Tuesday, December 10 episode of Jeopardy!]
Jeopardy!’s bungee-jumping returning champ Invoice McKinney pulled off a second win on Tuesday night time after a turbulent match that resulted in low scores for all events concerned. An opponent struggled regardless of the benefit of discovering all three Day by day Doubles (which Ken Jennings made abundantly clear), and followers additionally identified that the Last Jeopardy query was a little bit of a deja “clue.”
McKinney, a VP of eating places & bars initially from Boston, Massachusetts, entered with a one-day whole of $22,000 after an all-out runaway final episode, outplaying two-day champ Dave Bond. He confronted Dan Sand, a regulation scholar from Kennett Sq., Pennsylvania, and Sara Walker, a household & sports activities drugs doctor from Brighton, Michigan.
Within the Jeopardy! spherical, no participant decisively pulled forward. Sand instantly situated and flubbed the “Who Desires Historical past?” Day by day Double which was in search of “Pizarro,” ending the spherical with $2,000. The champ had $4,000, and Walker had a slender lead of $4,800.
Within the Double Jeopardy, Sand missed the second Day by day Double dropping $3,000 drawing a clean on the “Adjectives” clue in search of “Adamant.” He discovered the final one, and Jennings remarked, “To date they haven’t gone your method.” “They haven’t,” Sand admitted, wagering and gaining $2,000 on the “A ‘W’ For Science” clue in search of “Wavelengths.” Given his up-and-down Day by day Double journey with nobody totally taking management, the scores into Last Jeopardy wound up with McKinney within the lead at $12,000, Walker at $8,800, Sands at $7,800.
The “Presidential Candidates” clue was, “The working mates of this candidate included John Kern, Arthur Sewall, and Adlai Stevenson.” It was a triple-stumper as nobody appropriately responded “William Jennings Bryan.” Dropping half his rating, McKinney survived the scare to win with $6,000 for a two-day whole of $28,000.
Followers took to the Reddit thread for the episode celebrating the continuing champ for profitable a topsy turvy sport and observing that the Last Jeopardy clue was additionally used as a Day by day Double earlier this season.
“Wasn’t Jennings Bryan a DD reply this season? Additionally very curious triple stumper. I used to be deciding between Bryan and Clay,” one fan wrote.
“On September 11, 2024, yeah,” confirmed one other.
A 3rd additionally seen as a lot, “A clue that coated related territory to right now’s FJ was a DD simply three months in the past, though within the DD they gave the topic’s first identify within the clue.”
In that episode, a Day by day Double was certainly additionally in search of “Williams Jennings Brian.” The clue was phrased simply barely in a different way: “Twice to at least one William & as soon as to a different William, this William ran & misplaced 3 instances.”
Different followers within the thread identified that Sands made a expensive mistake, not along with his Day by day Double woes that appeared to devour a lot of the sport however along with his near-all-in wager from a second place place in Last Jeopardy. The wager was ill-advised as a result of if he had opted to guess extra conservatively, he nonetheless would have received the sport.
“Given how shut Sara’s rating was to Invoice’s, a greater technique for Dan would have been a guess of not more than $1,400, which might doubtless give him the win on a Triple Stumper,” wrote a fourth.
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