Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Feb. 6

 Today's players in Champions Wildcard are:

- Matt Harvey, a healthcare administrator from Providence, Rhode Island;

- Crystal Zhao, a tech consultant from Bloomington, Minnesota; and

- Deb Bilodeau, a restaurant server from San Francisco, California.

Jeopardy! 

THE 1970s // 2 BOOKS IN 1 // ACTUALLY, THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO // FAMOUS PAIRS // AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? // 13-LETTER WORDS

DD1 - 1,000 - FAMOUS PAIRS - Depending on whose journal you read, it was either in October or November of 1871 when they first met at Lake Tanganyika (Deb dropped 2,300.)

Scores at first break: Deb 1,700, Crystal 800, Matt 5,000.

Scores entering DJ: Deb 3,500, Crystal 1,600, Matt 5,600.

Double Jeopardy! 

AROUND THE ATLANTIC // LAYERS // IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! // AT THE TINY DESK CONCERT // SOONER // LATER, DUDE

DD2 - 1,600 - SOONER - This folk singer was born in Okemah in 1912 & named for President Wilson (Matt added 4,000.)

DD3 - 2,000 - IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! - During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing (Matt dropped 4,000.)

Scores entering FJ: Deb 10,700, Crystal 5,200, Matt 16,000.

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY CHARACTERS - A 1902 work says an enigmatic character has a half-English mom & a half-French dad, but this name of his is German for “short”

Unsurprisingly, this FJ was a Triple Stumper. Matt made the expected cover bet and Deb wisely wagered 0, having just enough to advance with 10,700.

Final scores: Deb 10,700, Crystal 4,900, Matt 10,599.

Correct Qs: DD1 - Who were Stanley & Livingstone? DD2 - Who was Woody Guthrie? DD3 - What is Nightingale? FJ - Who is Kurtz?