Jeopardy! recap for Wed., Mar. 20

 The players in game one of the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament are:

- Andrew He, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California;

- Pam Mueller, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois; and

- Dan Pawson, a global health consultant from Arlington, Virginia.

Jeopardy! 

THE HISTORIC 1990s // FIRST NAMES // MISSION: PLAUSIBLE // WHEATIES ATHLETES // BESTSELLING BOOKS // THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY

DD1 - 1,000 - THE HISTORIC 1990s - This republic joined Serbia to fight against the secession of Slovenia & Croatia (Andrew dropped 1,000 on a true DD.)

Scores at first break: Dan 2,400, Pam 4,400, Andrew 0.

Scores entering DJ: Dan 3,200, Pam 6.800, Andrew 600.

Double Jeopardy! 

19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS // THE DIRECTING BROTHERS // UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY // IT'S A BIG COUNTRY // VIOLENT ART // OVERLAPS

DD2 - 1,200 - IT'S A BIG COUNTRY - Once claimed by Italy, Cyrenaica is an historic region & former province of this 650,000-square-mile land (Andrew doubled to 17,200.)

DD3 - 1,200 - 19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS - In 1847 Frederick Douglass founded this antislavery paper whose name refers to what guided people escaping slavery (On the next clue following DD2, Andrew added 10,000.)

Andrew trailed after round one, but scored on back-to-back DDs in DJ to take a big lead. Pam was able to keep the game alive by entering FJ with exactly half of Andrew's score, with Andrew at 33,600, Pam with 16,800 and Dan at 6,400.

Final Jeopardy!

TRAILBLAZERS - The foremost member of the “Sochi Six”, which was similar to a previous U.S. group, he died in a plane crash in 1968

Only Andrew was correct on FJ, adding one point to advance with 33,601.

Final scores: Dan 0, Pam 0, Andrew 33,601.

Correct Qs: DD1 - What is Montenegro? DD2 - What is Libya? DD3 - What is "The North Star"? FJ - Who was Yuri Gagarin?