Here are today’s Tournament of Champions contestants:

– Aaron Levine, a sports anchor from Seattle, Washington;
– Tom Devlin, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
– Liam Starnes, a payment program manager from Columbus, Ohio.

Jeopardy!

LITERARY QUOTATIONS // ANIME // IT’S HYPHENATED // IOWA HISTORY // LET’S TOOL AROUND // SWITCH THE FIRST LETTER

DD1 – 1,000 – LITERARY QUOTATIONS – William Blake wrote that if these portals “were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite” (Liam lost 1,600 on a true DD.)

Scores at first break: Liam 1,200, Tom 1,600, Aaron 2,000.

Scores entering DJ: Liam 1,400, Tom 5,000, Aaron 2,000.

Double Jeopardy!

THE ERA OF GOOD CEILINGS // WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO? / IT’S ALL FROM GREEK TO ME // MOUNTAINS // 20th CENTURY WOMEN OF THE WORLD // HOW TARIFF-IC

DD2 – 2,000 – HOW TARIFF-IC – senate.gov called this 1930 piece of tariff legislation “among the most catastrophic acts in congressional history” (On the first clue of DJ, Liam improved by 2,000 to 3,400.)

DD3 – 1,600 – 20th CENTURY WOMEN OF THE WORLD – In 1935 she became director of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Training Institute (Aaron lost 5,600 on a true DD vs. 9,400 for Tom.)

Aaron tried to take first away from Tom with an all-in bet on DD3 but missed, and Tom wasn’t threatened from that point, leading into FJ at 19,400 vs. 6,200 for Liam and 1,600 for Aaron.

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS PHOTOS – Being only 5’5″, photographer Joe Rosenthal had to climb on top of a Japanese sandbag to snap a photo while on this peak

Only Aaron was correct on FJ. Tom bet 0 and advances with 19,400.

Final scores: Liam 0, Tom 19,400, Aaron 1,601.

Triple Stumper of the day: For a top-row clue, no one could identify “Icky Thump” musical duo The White Stripes.

Judging the writers: For FJ, they didn’t have to put “only” before the photographer’s height.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What are doors of perception? DD2 – What is Smoot-Hawley? DD3 – Who was Anna Freud? FJ – What is Mt. Suribachi?