"Jeopardy!" 9/26

Panel Hoping For a Better All-Around Game Tonight:
Sheri Boysen (Houston, TX)- Stay-at-home mom
Mike Malaier (Tacoma, WA)- Attorney
CHAMP: David Schulman (whose one-day cash winnings total $4,300)

Leading Off As Follows:
IN THE POLITICAL ARENA
CLEAN OUT YOUR CLOSET
MUSEUMS
WHAT YEAR WAS THAT?
THE NON -ED PAST PARTICIPLE
BIG CHECKS (each clue has a picture of at least one person literally holding one of these attached)

David & Sheri are in front w/ $2,600 each to Mike's $1,600 at the halfway mark of this J! Round. Right after the first break, Mike immediately goes Daily Double Hunting in the middle of The Non -ED Part Participles...but this one belongs to David on the $800 Museums clue w/ $3,800; he's leading Sheri by $400 & Mike by $1,200. The current titleholder wagers $1.5K, so his slight lead's at stake:

Architect Pierre Cuypers designed this museum that houses Vermeer's "The Kitchen Maid".

"What is The Louvre?" is wrong; it was Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum & he slides to third place for the time being w/ $2,300. Left on the board at round's end are the $200 In the Political Arena, $600 What Year Was That? and $200 & $400 The Non -ED Past Participle answers. When that beeper sounds, Sheri's almost in Lock Game Territory w/ $4,200, followed by Mike w/ $2,200 & David w/ 700 bucks.

LACH TRASH (all attempted): $2K

DJ! Menu This Time:
IN THE CORPORATE ARENA
LITERARY TABLOID HEADLINES
RANDOM HOUSE
CHEMISTRY
THERE'S A WORD FOR THAT
"MAN"LY PLACES

Mike's starting to get back into the groove w/ $8,600 by the time of his DD capture to end Chemistry; Sheri's at the $5K plateau & David's improved by $2K since the end of that previous round. Mike goes for $3,600, so should he miss this clue, we'll have a first-place tie at this point:

Used as a purification process, it's the evaporation of a liquid & then the condensation of the vapor.

"What is distillation?"...that is right to go into LGT to the tune of $12,200! But that's not the case for long, as Sheri has taken the last one of the game assigned to the $1,600 Literary Tabloid Headline; $10,200's her current score & she's $3,200 out of the lead, followed by David w/ $2,300. To net her another $3,800 & the lead back:

1847: "Attic head case sets fire to house when hubby falls for new governess".

"What is Jane Eyre?"...$14K! 

SOLE TS: Unattempted $2K "Man" answer

Banks Heading Into Final J!:
David: $4,300
Mike: $20,300
Sheri: $16,400

CORYAT SCORES:
David: $5,800
Mike: $18,700
Sheri: $14,200

FJ! CATEGORY: TV Animation.

This teen duo debuted in a '92 animated short in which they played baseball w/ a frog.

DAVID:
Response: "Who are the Wonder Twins"
Final score: $100

Sheri wrote "Who are Phineas & Ferb?"...down to $1,400 she goes & David leaves w/ $5,300. That means Mike will be the new champ...unfortunately, it won't be w/ $33,100, as he gave a Q of "Who are Ren & Stimpy". That was a good guess, but that show started in '91; the actual duo were "Beavis & Butt-head".

EPISODE RATING: 6