Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Jeopardy! recap for Wed., Jan. 22

 Here are today's Champions Wildcard contestants:


- Paul Clauson, a tax analyst from Madison Heights, Michigan;

- Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington; and

- Marko Saric, a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.


Jeopardy! 


WOMEN THROUGH THE YEARS // LITERALLY LITERATURE // FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 COMPANIES // NOT TO BE CONFUSED // SCHOOL OF MUSIC // IT'S A VERB! IT'S A NOUN!


DD1 - 600 - LITERALLY LITERATURE - This 1880s short story ends with "Never a cobra dared show its head --inside the walls" (Mehal added 2,600.)


Scores at first break: Marko 1,400, Mehal 5,400, Paul 1,600.


Scores entering DJ: Marko 3,000, Mehal 7,400, Paul 2,000.


Double Jeopardy! 


SALTY BODIES OF WATER // INSECTS IN HiGH & LOW CULTURE // ANATOMY // PREFIXED PAIRS // WHATCHA WATCHIN'? // CHAPEL ROME


DD2 - 1,600 - PREFIXED PAIRS - One millionth of a 60th of a minute & a small region with its own pattern of weather (On the first clue of the round, Paul lost 2,000 on a true DD.)


DD3 - 1,600 - INSECTS IN HiGH & LOW CULTURE - In a Rimsky-Korsakov opera, this piece of music conveys when a prince is transformed into a certain insect (by a magical swan!) (Paul added 4,800.)


Scores entering FJ: Marko 5,800, Mehal 19,800, Paul 12,400.


Final Jeopardy!


FROM REAL LIFE TO FICTION - These 2 British authors based characters–Dikko Henderson & Old Craw–on Richard Hughes, journalist & double agent


Only Marko was correct on FJ. Mehal dropped 6,001 to advance with 13,799.


Final scores: Marko 11,600, Mehal 13,799, Paul 9,900.


That's before their time: A clue's references to J.J. and the Evans family in a '70s sitcom didn't lead the players to "Good Times".


Tough category of the day: The players missed three clues in a first round music category covering Eddie Van Halen, Debbie Gibson and Willie Nelson.


Correct Qs: DD1 - What is "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"? DD2 - What is a microsecond & a microclimate? DD3 - What is "Flight of the Bumblebee"? FJ - Who were Ian Fleming & John le Carré?

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