A model new episode of Jeopardy! Season 39 aired on Friday, that includes one-day champion Sharon Stone and two new gamers. The returning champion is a supervisor from Spherical Rock, Texas, who earned a complete of $17,000 in her first sport when she defeated two-day winner Lisa Siren on Thursday’s episode.
The sport present has been followers’ favourite sequence for many years. The Emmy-winning trivia quiz present was first launched on March 30, 1964, and ran till 1975. Jeopardy! then returned in 1984 and continues to be going sturdy.
Within the newest episode of season 39, returning champion Sharon performed towards two newcomers — Brittany Shaw, a senior insurance coverage rater from Joliet, Illinois, and Jen Petro-Roy, a author from Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Right now’s Jeopardy! winner is Sharon Stone
After profitable her first sport within the March 30 episode, Sharon Stone continued her profitable streak in her second sport. She performed splendidly all through the episode.
Within the first spherical, the classes included “Well being & Medication, That, Or A Golf Factor, Vermont, Songs From ’60s Musicals, Hey, Massive Spender, Candy Charity.”
Returning champion Sharon had a good time within the first spherical as she discovered the primary Day by day Double and appropriately answered 4 $1,000 questions. She was initially not main within the sport as Jen Petro-Roy was on high with the utmost variety of appropriate solutions. However Sharon’s $1,000 questions helped her take the lead in spherical 1. Brittany Shaw, then again, struggled to present appropriate solutions and thus her rating went unfavorable.
The scores of the gamers within the first spherical had been Sharon at $6,200, Jen at $5,200, and Brittany at -$400.
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Within the second spherical of the Ken Jennings-hosted episode, the classes included “Oh, The Literary Locations You Don’t Need To Go!, Politics Speak, Final Traces Of Motion pictures, To The Tower!, Historical Vips, Consecutive Letter Phrase Pairs.”
The Day by day Jeopardy spherical got here with two Day by day Doubles — one went to Brittany and one other to Sharon. The senior insurance coverage rater was lastly in a position to come out of the crimson zone. She performed fairly nicely as Brittany landed in second place. Sharon was nonetheless main the sport, whereas Jen’s rank went down from second to 3rd. Nonetheless, Brittany and Jen weren’t removed from one another as the previous was main by simply $400.
The scores of the gamers within the second spherical had been Sharon at $15,500, Brittany at $6,800, and Jen at $6,400.
The Ultimate Jeopardy spherical confirmed that as we speak was Sharon’s day. She was the one participant to present the proper reply to the ultimate query. Whereas she topped the scoreboard within the closing spherical, Jen managed to seize second place and Brittany landed in third place.
Therefore, Sharon Stone gained Jeopardy! as we speak.
Ultimate Jeopardy! outcomes as we speak
Within the March 31 episode, the class for the ultimate spherical was “Metropolis Historical past,” and the ultimate query/clue learn:
“Over 700 years after its conventional 1252 founding date, this port metropolis turned related to a psychological response.”
The right reply to the ultimate clue was “Stockholm.”
Solely Sharon gave the proper reply, whereas Jen wrote “Somalia” and Brittany guessed “Pavlova.”
Check out the ultimate outcomes of the March 31 episode:
Sharon Stone: $15,500 + $1,100 = $16,600 (What’s Stockholm?) (2-day complete: $33,600)
Jen Petro-Roy: $6,400 – $500 = $5,900 (What’s Somalia?)
Brittany Shaw: $6,800 – $6,001 = $799 (What’s Pavlova)
With as we speak’s win, Sharon turned the two-day champion of season 39. If she wins two extra video games, she will advance to the Match of Champions.
In the meantime, Sharon will return to the sport present to defend her win towards two new gamers. The subsequent episode will air on Monday, April 3, 2023.
