Jeopardy! recap for Wed., Feb. 7

 Today's players in Champions Wildcard are:

- Taylor Clagett, a marketing director originally from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland;

- Lisa Sriken, a lawyer from New York, New York; and

- Justin White, a director of orchestra personnel from Overland Park, Kansas.

Jeopardy! 

U.S. NATIONAL PARKS // LITERATURE BINGO // AHHH, THE FRENCH // WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? // SPORTS PROFESSORS // THE "ICK"

DD1 - 1,000 - WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? - Vladimir Nabokov was an avid collector of these, called babochkas or "bow ties" in his native Russian (Justin dropped 2,300.)

Scores at first break: Justin 1,400, Lisa 4,600, Taylor 4,000.

Scores entering DJ: Justin 400, Lisa 6,600, Taylor 5,600.

Double Jeopardy! 

IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY // ANTHROPOLOGISTS // QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT // DO ME A FLAVOR // V SHOWS BY CHARACTER // NUMERICALLY PREFIXED

DD2 - 1,600 - ANTHROPOLOGISTS - In 1927 Davidson Black identified this "man" as a member of the human lineage on the basis of a single tooth found in North China (Lisa dropped 4,000.)

DD3 - 1,600 - QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT - The second verse of this book begins,"Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel..." (Taylor added 1,200.)

Scores entering FJ: Justin 3,600, Lisa 11,000, Taylor 15,600.

Final Jeopardy!

WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD - Achilles Tatius wrote that it “was like a mountain… at the top of this mountain rose a second sun”

Surprisingly, today's FJ was another Triple Stumper. This should have been good news for Lisa, but she bet more than she needed to, so Taylor hold on to advance with 8,200.

Final scores: Justin 600, Lisa 2,000, Taylor 8,200.

Correct Qs: DD1 - What are butterflies? DD2 - Who is Peking Man? DD3 - What is Numbers? FJ - What is the Lighthouse of Alexandria?