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Jeopardy! recap for Tue., Jan. 14

Here are today’s Champions Wildcard contestants:

  • Evan Dorey, a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario;
  • Stevie Ruiz, an assistant front office manger from Montauk, New York; and
  • Davey Morrison, an actor & filmmaker from Provo, Utah.

Jeopardy!

MOVIE PROFESSION IN COMMON // AS THEY SAY… // LIT-POURRI // ICELANDIA // THE COLD TRUTH // 1980s MONSTER TRUCKS

DD1 – 1,000 – AS THEY SAY… – No backsies with this phrase, iacta alea est in Latin (Evan added 3,000.)

Scores at first break: Davey 3,400, Stevie 1,200, Evan 3,600.

Scores entering DJ: Davey 3,800, Stevie 2,200, Evan 9,800.

Double Jeopardy!

WE’RE JUST GONNA CALL HIM HERCULES // FASHIONABLE NAMES // AMERICAN HISTORY // A WILD SONG FOR YOU // BOTANY // CROSSWORD CLUES “O”

DD2 – 1,600 – WE’RE JUST GONNA CALL HIM HERCULES – Hercules had a hand in the Trojan War, as his slaying of Laomedon made this man Troy’s king (Davey lost 4,600.)

DD3 – 1,200 – BOTANY – The agave is this type of plant whose name comes from the Latin for “juice” (Davey added 2,800.)

Scores entering FJ: Davey 8,800, Stevie 7,000, Evan 20,000.

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD – “Bilady, Bilady, Bilady,” its national anthem, replaced a more militaristic one following a 1979 peace treaty

Everyone was incorrect on FJ. Even advanced with 20,000.

Final scores: Davey 0, Stevie 5,199, Evan 20,000.

Triple Stumper of the day: No one could provide the last two words in the proverb “A new broom sweeps clean”.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is the die is cast? DD2 – Who is Priam? DD3 – What is a succulent? FJ – What is Egypt?