Here are today’s Champions Wildcard contestants:

• Aiden Orzech, a teacher from from Thornhill, Ontario;
• Jay Fisher, a government relations manager from Lisle, Illinois; and
• Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Jeopardy!

NOT ON MY WATCH // FICTIONAL FEMALES // _ & _ // POP CULTURE PEOPLE // SPITTIN’ SCIENCE FACTS // DIRECTION TO PERFECTION

DD1 – 1,000 – POP CULTURE PEOPLE – In 2024 she made news by using her voice to question OpenAI’s practices after a new ChatGPT voice sounded an awful lot like her (Drew added 600.)

Scores at first break: Drew 2,200, Jay 200, Aiden -200.

Scores entering DJ: Drew 5,000, Jay 2,400, Aiden 400.

Double Jeopardy!

THE 19th CENTURY // SHADES OF RED // TEARJERKERS // STATE CAPITALS // FIDDLIN’ AROUND // EVERYTHING FROM B TO Y

DD2 – 1,600 – STATE CAPITALS – This state capital lies where the Severn River flows into Chesapeake Bay (Jay added 2,000.)

DD3 – 1,600 – FIDDLIN’ AROUND – You need violins to represent this human part of a 1936 Prokofiev title duo (Jay added 1,800.)

Scores entering FJ: Drew 23,400, Jay 15,400, Aiden -2,400.

Final Jeopardy!

BOOKS OF THE 1960s – In 1962, the New York Times said the release of this controversial book “presages a noisy fall”

Only Drew was correct on a very anticlimactic FJ on which both players wagered 0 as anticipated. Drew advances with 23,400.

Final scores: Drew 23,400, Jay 15,400, Aiden -2,400.

Triple Stumper of the day: No one knew the company that got rid of their allegedly satanic “man in the moon” logo is Procter & Gamble.

Correct Qs: DD1 – Who is Scarlett Johansson? DD2 – What is Annapolis? DD3 – Who is Peter? FJ – What is “Silent Spring”?