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Jeopardy! season 39 returned on KABC-TV on Monday with two new challengers, who were supposed to compete with the reigning winner Ben Chan. Ben is a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and has won a total of $227,800 from the previous eight games.
His challengers in the latest episode were Joe Lasser, an astronautical engineer originally from Colfax, Illinois, and Nancy Duran, a marketing copywriter from Stowe, Vermont.
The three players were supposed to answer some tough knowledge-based questions to earn money. The contestant with the maximum amount of money at the end of the third round would win the game.
Today’s Jeopardy! winner is Ben Chan
Ben Chan took the lead in the game in the first round itself. His challengers could not catch a break as Chan kept on answering the questions at a very rapid pace.
The categories under the first round were Art Imitating Life, Americana, Assisting The Detective, Book-Pourri, If There Was A Problem and“Yo”, I’Ll Solve It.
Joe and Nancy had a tough time understanding the clues in the first round and Ben took advantage of the opportunity, earning $7800 even before the first break. In total, Ben gave 15 correct answers, with two wrong responses. Joe gave seven right and three wrong answers while Nancy got two correct responses against two incorrect ones.
The scores after the round were Ben at $8400, Joe at $1400, and Nancy at -$400.
The categories under the Double Jeopardy! round were Historic People, A Loss For Words, Walking In A Redwood Forest, Pop Culture 2003, Vacation Spots, and Rice Pudding.
Joe gave Ben a run for his money initially in the round by scoring a daily double. Later, Ben gained the lead back in the last 10 clues by answering a daily double.
In total, Ben gave 25 correct answers and two incorrect responses. Joe answered 14 questions correctly, against six incorrect ones, while Nancy gave six right and three wrong answers.
The scores after the Double Jeopardy! round were Ben at $20,800, Joe at $7600, and Nancy at $3600.
Ben and Joe got the final question right and the former earned $4000 in the round, taking his total score to $24,800.
Hence, Ben Chan won Jeopardy! today.
Final Jeopardy! results today
The final question of Jeopardy! game 181 was under the category Children’s Books and the clue read:
"The original 1900 printing of this book was in a pale green dust jacket stamped in a vivid jewel tone of green."
The correct answer to this question was: What is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? (also The Wizard of Oz.) Nancy lost $3500 in the round due to her wrong response of Anne of Green Gables. Joe and Ben earned $399 and $4000 respectively after giving the right answer.
The final score after the game was:
Ben Chan: $20,800 + $4,000 = $24,800 (What is The Wizard of Oz?) (9-day total: $252,600
Joe Lasser: $7,600 + $399 = $7,999 (What is The Wizard of Oz?)
Nancy Duran: $3,600 – $3,500 = $100 (What is Anne of Green Gables?)
Ben will now compete for the super-champion status in his next game and might even reach the Masters! Competition.
Ben will compete against Danny Leserman and Lynn Di Vito in the next game of Jeopardy!, which airs on Tuesday, May 23.
