Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Jan. 4

 Here are today's contestants:

- Teal, a lawyer, got a grant to study psycholinguistics;

- David, a high school English teacher, had done well in quiz bowls with his now-lost pen; and

- Brayden, a policy intern, works on criminal justice reform. Brayden is a four-day champ with winnings of $97,799.

David made a $10,000 wager on DD3 but appeared to forget the category, which helped Brayden take the lead into FJ with $23,800 vs. $14,800 for David and $5,000 for Teal.

DD1 - $600 - GEOGRAPHIC ETYMOLOGY - Early Spanish settlers gave this South American city a name meaning "fair winds" (Brayden won $5,200 on a true DD.)

DD2 - $1,200 - 3-NAMERS IN AMERICAN HISTORY - In 1871 this inventor began teaching instructors of the deaf in the Boston area (David won $6,400 on a true DD vs. $12,600 for Brayden.)

DD3 - $800 - -OLOGIES - Ethnology is a branch of this -ology that is closely related to sociology (David responded with "races" and lost $10,000 from his score of $21,200 vs. $17,400 for Brayden.)

FJ - LITERARY CHARACTERS OF THE 1600s - When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family

Everyone was incorrect on FJ. Brayden dropped $5,801 to win with $17,999 for a five-day total of $115,798.

That's way before our time: No one took a guess that the comedy star whose first full-length feature, 1914's "Tillie's Punctured Romance", was Charlie Chaplin.

This day in shilling: The movie clip that accompanied the clue with Ryan Reynolds felt like it was never going to end.

Christmas in January: Because this episode was intended to air two weeks ago, we heard a heartfelt holiday message from Alex, along with categories about Christmas-themed Broadway shows and December 21.

Correct Qs: DD1 - What is Buenos Aires? DD2 - Who was Alexander Graham Bell? DD3 - What is anthropology? FJ - Who is Sancho Panza? 

Judging the writers: Note that all three players responded to FJ with a title character (Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver), while the clue wanted a character other than the title one. Perhaps it would have helped if the FJ clue opened: "When he was told by the title character..."