1-8-2020 Lisa Warne-Magro vs. Rachel Kline vs. Shaun Gold
12-31-2019 Karen Farrell vs. Susan Stoltzfus vs. Bill Coulter
12-3-2019 Alex Damisch vs. Stephanie Sumulong vs. Theodore Conrad
This game felt worse though with two contestants simultaneously in the hole and the very real possibility of a single-player FJ. Add to that some terrible negs, Shanu uncovering and missing all three DDs, and the sympathy that everyone who isn't a robot was feeling for Priscilla and you've got an extra painful match.
I don't know if it's any comfort to Shanu, but if he'd gotten those DDs and the consequent $13000 (!) swing in his score, he could have entered FJ in the lead... only to lose on a missed FJ. Or maybe he wouldn't have been so rattled at that point and would have parsed FJ correctly (or not done whatever he did that put him on the wrong side of Central America) and won the game. Dang.
CORRECT RESPONSES
$1000 PARK CITY: Balboa
$600 REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN: Bill Gates
$1000 REAL PEOPLE ON SCREEN: John Lennon
$200 WEATHER: fog
$600 5-LETTER WORDS: mango (Alex said "Those are mangoes", so the archive has that as the correct response. But wouldn't the plural version be ruled incorrect based on the category? Or do they give leeway on that issue?)
$200 COINAGE: aluminum
$1000 COINAGE: West Point
$1600 MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE: Ithaca
$1200 ROCK OPERAS: Quadrophenia
$2000 STATES' COMMON SURNAMES: Johnson
$2000 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS: dulcimer
DD1 $400 clue in WEATHER (Shanu wagered $1000): nor'easters
DD2 $1600 clue in STATES' COMMON SURNAMES (Shanu wagered $4000): New Mexico
DD3 $2000 clue in ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (Shanu wagered $1500): the Texas Rangers