‘Jeopardy!’: Tense Game Decided on Nobel Prize Question

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A tense Jeopardy! game that was filled with three wrong Daily Doubles came down to the final question about a Nobel Prize winner. The low-scoring game was tight by the end of it.

Shannon Leigh Godwin, from Oakland, California, returned for her second game on October 26 with a one-day total of $16,001. The interior designer defeated four-game champion Anthony Cantor on Friday. On Monday, Godwin played against Jamie Calandro, from Ellsworth, Maine, and Karen Bradley, from Long Island City, New York. Warning: Spoilers for the Monday, October 26, episode of Jeopardy! ahead!

Despite wagering $3,000 out of a possible $3,200 for the Daily Double and getting it wrong, Godwin recovered and still had the lead.

Bradley, a regulatory operations director, found both Double Jeopardy DDs. She missed both of them, allowing Godwin to stay in the lead. The second DD was “The Roman numerals for 1900 can also be used as an abbreviation for this design style that emerged in the 1900s.” The answer would be Mid Century Modern (MCM). Bradley didn’t have an answer.

A Reddit user said the DD was “too ambiguous” and “misleading.” “It feels like it really needed another pass for fairness,” they wrote.

By the end of the Double Jeopardy round, Godwin had $8,200. Calandro, a high school music teacher, was in second place with $4,800. Bradley had $3,600.

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The category for Final Jeopardy was “Tribute.” The clue read, “To honor the 126th birthday of this Nobel Prize winner, a Google Doodle featured a cat & a feline ghost.” 

Two of the game show contestants had the correct response. Bradley wrote, “Who is Schrodinger?”, referencing Erwin Schrödinger. That was the correct response. She wagered $3,300, giving her a final total of $6,900.

Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist who is best known for developing results in quantum theory. He also created the Schrödinger equation, which provided a way to calculate the wave function of a system and how it changes over time.

Calandro’s response was “Who is Lewis Carroll?” He was wrong and dropped down to $1,399 after wagering $3,401. Godwin also had the correct response. However, she spelled it Schroedinger. She wagered $1,401, making her final total $9,601.

Godwin became a two-day champion with a total of $25,602. She will return for her third game on Tuesday. Will she win again?

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