Wednesday, November 25, 2015
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Tuesday’s champ made a questionable wager. Will her strategy improve on Wednesday?
As it turns out, no – facing a huge deficit with one category left and a Daily Double somewhere therein, Julie went for the top of the category. My fellow New Yorker has this one locked up.
|
Julie Adair |
Ricky Hudson |
Saadia Mather |
| 4,600 | 13,800 | 5,200 |
My hunch with a category like
| DAYS OF THE WEEK |
was that they’d ask about the only day of the week named for a female. Not a bad guess!
What actually happened
| Julie | Ricky | Saadia | |||
| 4,600 | 13,800 | 5,200 | |||
| 4,400 | 3,399 | 4,001 | |||
| 200 | 17,199 | 9,201 | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 1,201 | 3,399 | 3,399 | 4,000 | ||
| 600 | |||||
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| DAYS OF THE WEEK |
| TO THE ANCIENT GREEKS, THIS DAY OF THE WEEK WAS HEMERA APHRODITES |
[spoiler]What is Friday?
Aphrodite is known as Venus in Roman mythology; “Friday” is Vendredi in French and Viernes in Spanish, for example. In English, Friday is named for the Norse goddess Frigg, who shares a similar niche[/spoiler]
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