The Final Jeopardy question (3/14/2012) in the category “20th Century Names” was:

Chapters in his autobiography include “Outcaste,” “First Day in Pretoria” & “Fasting as Penance.”

Today’s new champ is Patrick Antle, who prevailed in yesterday’s game by being the only one who knew Final Jeopardy. These two players were on hand to see if they can whup him: Michael Gurshtein from Thornton, CO, and Rebecca Blustein from Oakland, CA.

Michael found the Jeopardy! Daily Double before the commercial break in the category “Ivy League Schools.” He was in second place with $1,600, $400 behind Patrick. He risked half his dough, guessed “Yale” and that was WRONG.

This school plays its home football games at Franklin Field. show

WHAT IS THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA?

Patrick finished with a big big lead of $9,400. Rebecca was next with $2,600 and Michael was in last place with $1,000.

In Double Jeopardy!, Michael found the first Daily Double in “They Go By Their First Initial.” He had $1,800 at this point, $800 less than Rebecca. Patrick now had $9,000. He chose to make it a true Daily Double, saying “in case I never get the chance, let’s go $2,000.” For a split second, it didn’t look good, but he did know it and he was RIGHT.

H is for Henry: billionaire who had a reform party. show

WHO IS ROSS PEROT?

Patrick found the second Double Jeopardy! in “A Dazzling Internal Organ Solo.” Just knew there would be one in that category! And it was a video delivered by Dr. Oz. Patrick now had $13,000, no longer a runaway lead over Michael who had $9,800. “Just in case I get a chance to say this,” he said, “$5.00.” Alex wanted to know if he was trying to be funny but he was, he said, deadly serious. He was WRONG. Hard to believe he thought the thyroid is under the diaphragm. Do you think he blew it on purpose to justify the $5.00 bet?

One reason to always wear your seat belt is for the protection of this organ under the diaphragm which creates vital antibodies. show

WHAT IS THE SPLEEN?

Patrick finished in the lead with $13,795. Michael was in fine standing with $13,000 and Rebecca gained a lot of ground, too, with her knowledge of “National Book Award Winners.” She had $9,800.

Almost as if he knew about the the hue and cry over the Wimbledon and Iberia game, Alex Trebek wryly said: “And we will not penalize you for a misspelled word unless you added a syllable or something like that.” (But he couldn’t have, could he?)

Only ONE of the players got Final Jeopardy! right, and not the same one as yesterday.

WHO IS MOHANDAS K. GANDHI?

Gandhi’s 1957 autobiography is entitled “Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.” Mahadev H. Desai is listed as the translator. Of his first day in Pretoria in 1893, Gandhi wrote “I had expected someone on behalf of Dada Abdulla’s attorney to meet me at Pretoria station. I knew that no Indian would be there to receive me, since I had particularly promised not to put up at an Indian house….”

Rebecca wrote down “Nelson Mandela.” That cost her $5,000 so she ended up with $4,800.

Michael got it right and spelled it right too. He bet $12,000 and finished with $25,000.

Unlike yesterday, Patrick gave no sign that he had this one as the camera panned by during the music, so we didn’t think he was sure of his answer this time. He wrote down Desmond Tutu and that cost him $13,000. He finished in third place with $795.

Kudos to Michael for the stellar feat of moving from third place with a mere $1,000 at the beginning of Double Jeopardy! to winning the game with $25,000.