OK, I went through the records on the J! Archive website and tried to find all of the multiple-day winners for this season. Still not a lot of five-day winners.
Marko Saric (2)
Alison Betts (5)
Amy Hummel (5)
Grant DeYoung (4)
Weckiai Rannila (3)
Allison Gross (3)
Will Stewart (3)
Amar Kakirde (4)
Adriana Harmeyer (2 so far)
I just watched yesterday’s (6/3/2024) show… every category was played old-school from top to bottom. Take that, Holzhauer! I wonder how long it’s been since the previous time that was done.
One nice thing is they can’t complain about hitting the daily double too soon. I’m always amazed that they start hunting for it right out of the gate, and they are upset when they find it with only $500 to wager.
They started out yesterday’s (either the 4th or 5th, I watched them back to back) game top-to-bottom, but the middle contestant went DD fishing, and found it on the first try. She didn’t have much to wager, and didn’t get it correct. Oh well.
You mean the New York theatrical Producer? I liked him. I liked his enthusiasm. However, as punishment for not knowing what I considered an easy FJ, he should be required to mount a revival of Inherent the Wind.
My guess was “interracial marriage” since I knew the Loving case was right around that time. And now looking it up it was also in 1967 so that wasn’t a bad guess.
I’m a history nerd, so “Scopes” seemed obvious to me.
1925 would be very late for a state to have a newly-passed anti-miscegenation law, though a few states did repeal those laws around that time. Some southern states had them repealed by Reconstruction legislatures, but they were all back again by the end of the nineteenth century, and they were only slowly repealed in the northern states that had them (thirty states still had them until the 1940s-'50s).
I binged watched yesterday. Adriana Harmeyer is now a more than 10 day champ! Those are rare. She certainly didn’t appear to be a future powerhouse on her first game.
I’m too lazy to go back and look, but ISTM that Adriana, in every close game, has always gotten FJ correct. I think there’s a couple of times she’s missed, but she had a big enough lead that it didn’t matter.
Of the games where she didn’t have a runaway, she got FJ correct, and she was vulnerable. She squeaked out the most recent and it would have been even closer if the second placer had bet everything.
eta: to clarify, she missed FJ a few times when she had the runaway.
Though it also should be noted that for most of Jeopardy’s run a champ was limited to a 5-game win. So who knows how many more 10+ game winners there could have been.