Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Jan. 20

 Here are today's Tournament of Champions contestants:

- Allegra Kuney, a Ph.D. candidate from New Brunswick, New Jersey;

- Brendan Liaw, a law student from Vancouver, British Columbia;

- Andrew Hayes, a judicial law clerk originally from Tupelo, Mississippi.

Jeopardy!

A CULT BAND // NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD // STANDING ON BUSINESS // THE TALE THAT WAGS THE DOG // RANKS & TITLES // RHYME TIME

DD1 - 600 - NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD - The most famous feature of Venezuela's Canaima National Park, it has an initial plunge of 2,648 feet (Brandan added 1,000.)

Scores at first break: Andrew -1,600, Brandan 200, Allegra 3,000.

Scores entering DJ: Andrew -1,000, Brandan 3,600, Allegra 3,000.

Double Jeopardy!

OCCULT BANDS // LAWYERS // WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE // ROLE-PLAYING ROLES // POP-UP-POURRI // BACK WORDS

DD2 - 1,600 - BACK WORDS - Turn over a painting & you might find labels, notes or even a signature on this side, a 5-letter word from Latin for "to turn" (Andrew added 2,000.)

DD3 - 1,600 - WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE - Mansa Musa I recruited scholars & architects to go to Timbuktu during the height of this 4-letter West African empire (Allegra moved to the lead, improving by 4,000 to 9,000.)

Allegra took the lead on DD3 and kept building from there to a runaway into FJ at 18,200 vs. 8,000 for Brendan and 6,200 for Andrew.

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENTIFIC WORDS - A Nobel laureate coined this word “to avoid the repetition of the rather cumbersome phrase ‘mould broth filtrate’

Only Allegra was incorrect on FJ, dropping 10 to advance with 18,190.

Final scores: Andrew 8,001, Brandan 9,337, Allegra 18,190.

Triple Stumper of the day: No one figured out that they'd be "on target" if they guessed the dog belonging to Bill Sikes is named Bull's-eye.

Correct Qs: DD1 - What is Angel Falls? DD2 - What is verso? DD3 - What is Mali? FJ - What is penicillin?