[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the March 6 episode of Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament.]
The March 6 episode of Jeopardy! High School Reunion Tournament proves that it may well all come all the way down to how a lot you wager in the long run. In truth, for the reason that three contestants — Claire Sattler, Stephanie Pierson, and Justin Bolsen — all acquired it incorrect, it decided who moved on to the finals.
Double Jeopardy! was stuffed with just a few misses in addition to, for Stephanie, virtually right solutions in two clues underneath Pivotal Women. First, for the $1600 clue, “After inspiring millions to join a global climate strike in 2019, this Swedish activist was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year,” Stephanie stated “Who is Greta Thurnberg,” as a substitute of “Greta Thunberg.” Then for the $2000 clue, “Depicted in the movie ‘Hidden Figures’ and described as one of NASA’s ‘human computers,’ this mathematician overcame institutional racism and sexism doing the complex calculations that put America’s first astronauts into space and on the Moon,” she stated “Who was Kathleen Johnson” as a substitute of “Katherine Johnson.”
After Double Jeopardy, Claire led with $8,600, Justin was in a detailed second with $8,400, then Stephanie with $5,200. Then got here time for Final Jeopardy!, and the clue, in U.S. History, learn: “An 1869 presidential pardon was granted to this man, due in part to a plea by the Medical Society of Harford County, Maryland.” Everyone was incorrect (the right reply was Who was Mudd?), nevertheless it was Justin’s wager (of $2,001) that led to him transferring on with $6,399. Stephanie ended the sport in second, with $1,700, and Claire in third with $399. (Stephanie and Claire every went house with $10,000.)
It was a solution that just a few followers on Reddit thought the contestants ought to have gotten — and Claire herself truly chimed in as properly. “I was kicking myself the whole time the question was on screen! I knew the clue was referring to Booth’s doctor, but I just had absolutely no idea what his name was! (if only I’d paid closer attention to National Treasure 2)” she wrote. “But such is the fickle beast of Jeopardy!— it can all come down to Final…”
She then went on to want Justin, Jackson (who gained the primary semifinal), and whoever could be transferring on after the March 7 episode “the best … in the finals,” including, “they’re such lovely people and I can’t wait for y’all to see the games.”
She later wrote, “Justin is a sweetheart and this is all in good fun. 10 upvotes and I make a TikTok about losing to Justin with the New Girl audio ‘A White man?? NO!!’”
Flipped again only for Final #Jeopardy. That was really easy. And all of them missed it. Our faculties are failing miserably.
— The Goof™ (@MetsFanInPhilly) March 7, 2023
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