He's Back and He's Blowing Them Down

The new season of Jeopardy has resumed on Monday, and with it Matt Amodio's winning streak continues. He has now won 20 consecutive matches and $678,801. He's third in overall money won, and fourth in consecutive games.  It can take a commercial break before one of his opponents even gets to utter a sound.

He of course immediately heads for the $1,000 questions, starts nailing them, sucking the money off the board. And if he lands on the Daily Double quickly goes all in with say $5,000, doubles it, and starts to wave goodbye to his opponents.  He rarely misses.

One of his Daily Double answers correctly identified Iceland and its volcanos as the leading source of the earth's spewed lava. Who knew, other than Matt and a few others who probably watch nature shows on their phones?

When I read the clue for Tuesday's Final Jeopardy question I said if he gets this one, he's a marvel. As if he hasn't already proved he's a Jeopardy contestant outlier.

Under the scary category of Scientific Entomology the clue went: Name two of the three men the dark matter armalcolite found in 1969 is named after.

Again, I missed the key part of the clue, 1969, and that armalcolite is a portmanteau for Neil Armstrong, Buss Aldrin and Michael Collins for what they brought back from the moon's surface. Silly me.

The woman on the right did get two of the names, Armstrong and Collins, and the poor guy in the middle, who put up the best opposition, drew a blank. Matt spun Armstrong and Aldrin out there for a modest wager, for once again he couldn't be caught unless he was reckless. He went into the final round with more money than two times his nearest rival. The cat bird seat.

AOL's banner page is awash with stories of Jeopardy fans mad that the disgraced Mike Richards is appearing as the host. But this in understandable given the taping schedule and that by the time the new season started, Mike hadn't yet met with he bad news that he wasn't wanted anymore.

How many episodes will there be before Mayim Bialik gets the spot as the temporary primary host? The better question will be will Matt still be there?

Don't bet against it.

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