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Jeopardy! recap for Mon., Jan. 5

Here are today’s Champions Wildcard contestants:

  • Dargan Ware, an attorney & writer from Bessemer, Alabama;
  • Bill McKinney, a hospitality executive from San Diego, California; and
  • Stella Trout, a software engineer originally from Houston, Texas.

Jeopardy!

THE BEST & THE BRIGHTEST // WORLD GEOGRAPHY // LER’S GET “WILD” // 404 PAGE NOT FOUND // HISTORIC NAMES // 90s NO. 1 HITS

DD1 – 800 – THE BEST & THE BRIGHTEST – Founded in 1946 as a motel chain, this now-international hotel brand is appropriately headquartered in Arizona (Stella lost 1,400 on a true DD.)

Scores at first break: Stella 0, Bill 600, Dargan 3,600.

Scores entering DJ: Stella 1,400, Bill 2,000, Dargan 5,400.

Double Jeopardy!

LITERARY BEGINNINGS // LUCKY 13 LETTERS // BACKWARDS // THE VIKINGS // A FLUVIAL CATEGORY // A PERFORMATIVE MALE

DD2 – 1,600 – THE VIKINGS – The first evidence of a European presence in America is an 11th c. Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows on this island (On the first clue of DJ, Stella added 2,000.)

DD3 – 1,200 – LITERARY BEGINNINGS – Jorge Luis Borges’ “A Universal History of Infamy” has been called the first book in this literary genre (Stella doubled to 6,800 and moved to the lead.)

Stella went from 0 to first by quickly finding both DDs in DJ, betting the maximum and being correct. She went on to keep first place into FJ at 16,000 vs. 13,200 for Bill and 2,600 for Dargan.

Final Jeopardy!

SCIENCE – Important in developing vaccines against TB, they were domesticated as a food source in the Andes region around 5000 B.C.

Only Stella was correct on FJ, as for some reason, Bill wrote down the right response but drew a line through it. Stella played to win and added 10,401 to advance wtih 26,401. In the wild card chase, Bill lost 1,000 down to 12,200, while Dargan dropped 400 to 2,200.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is Best Western? DD2 – What is Newfoundland? DD3 – What is magical realism? FJ – What are guinea pigs?