[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Tuesday, November 12 episode of Jeopardy!]
Trendy-day Jeopardy! is all about taking full benefit of Each day Doubles, and a worthy challenger discovered that the laborious method on Tuesday, November 8’s episode. On this occasion, a wager of the play-it-safe selection got here again to chunk him, as followers identified he in any other case would have gained.
Joey DeSena, a improvement engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina, entered because the one-day champ with winnings of $17,497 after a promising debut. He confronted Jonathan Fox, a staffing capability supervisor from Plymouth, Massachusetts (who signed his spouse’s title in his intro), and Kathleen Clark, an English instructor initially from Stamford, Connecticut.
Within the Jeopardy! spherical, Clark discovered the primary Each day Double in an “English Literature” class. Regardless of this being her wheelhouse, she opted to wager $800 as a substitute of the utmost quantity permitted by legislation (as Sam Buttrey would say), which was $1000. With that foreshadowing, DeSena completed with $4,000, she had $2,800, and newcomer Fox led with $4,600.
In Double Jeopardy, DeSena retook the lead with an all-in wager on the second Each day Double to have $8,000. Then issues obtained fascinating. Fox discovered the final Each day Double, a “TRANSPORTATION” clue that learn, “Disneyland opened certainly one of these in 1959; Seattle, in 1962 & Las Vegas, in 1995.” With $9,400 to DeSena’s $14,400, he wagered $5,000. He obtained the clue appropriate with a crisp annunciation of “Monorail.” However solely wager sufficient to have a tie for first place.
This meant that, after some incorrect responses from Fox, DeSena led going into Remaining Jeopardy. The conservative wager was made extra obvious for the reason that champ didn’t buzz in as soon as over the past dozen clues, and nonetheless led. DeSena completed with $14,400, or what Ken Jennings known as “the narrowest of leads,” Fox with $13,600 and Clark with $7,600.
The “LITERARY MONUMENTS” clue was, “A 112-foot-tall monument in a Madrid plaza depicts a author seated above bronze statues of those 2 characters.” Everybody appropriately responded “Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.” A near-tears DeSena added $12,801 to emerge unscathed with $27,201 and a two-day complete of $44,698.
Followers took to the Reddit thread for the episode, celebrating the two-day champ and declaring that Fox, who regarded visibly annoyed with himself in the course of the triple-get Remaining clue, technically misplaced due to an absence of Each day Double grit.
“If Jonathan had gone all-in for $9,400 on DD3, he would have had the lead going into FJ and really possible would have gained the sport,” one person wrote.
“I like how clearly Jonathan stated “What’s a monorail”?” appreciated one other.
“Did Jonathan say one thing in ASL in the course of the intro?” requested a 3rd to which a fourth wrote with a coronary heart emoji, “He spelled out his spouse’s title.”
“Nice sport by all three contestants as we speak,” surmised a fifth.
What did you consider the sport and Jonathan Fox’s DD3 wager? Can Joey DeSena sustain his successful streak (that Kylie Minogue/Keith City mixup however)? And the way did nobody know Ocean’s 11? Tell us within the feedback part under!
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