Warning: This page may contain spoilers for the January 8, 2025 game of Celebrity Jeopardy!—especially if you live west of the Eastern or Central time zones. This page will be updated as the show airs in the Eastern time zone.
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Today’s Celebrity Jeopardy! contestants:
W. Kamau Bell, a comedian, author & filmmaker originally from Chicago, Illinois, playing for DonorsChoose
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Camilla Luddington, an actor originally from Ascot, United Kingdom, playing for I Stand With My Pack
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Max Greenfield, an actor & best-selling author from Los Angeles, California, playing for Wags and Walks
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Andy’s Pre-Game Thoughts:
Season 3 of Celebrity Jeopardy! begins tonight, immediately following the conclusion of Abbott Elementary at 9:00 (8:00 Central) on ABC in the United States and CTV in Canada. Our opening three celebrities are comedian W. Kamau Bell, known for CNN’s United Shades of America, playing for DonorsChoose, Camilla Luddington, known as Jo Wilson on Grey’s Anatomy, playing for I Stand With My Pack, and Max Greenfield, who received Emmy nominations for his role as Schmidt on FOX’s New Girl, playing for Wags and Walks. As always, there are complaints regarding the celebrity status of some of the guests—after looking up the resumes of tonight’s player, I have to completely disagree. We have someone who hosts a show on a major cable news network, an Emmy-nominated actor, and an actress on one of the longest-running primetime shows in TV history. If you don’t know these people, that is 100% a skill issue on your part as a viewer.
Now, one thing that definitely cropped up last season—and I hinted at this last season over on one of Nicole Holliday’s columns over on the now-defunct Questionist, and that I worry might happen tonight—Camilla was born in England. If the more academic material tonight ends up tending to match what an American might learn in school, I worry that this might work to Camilla’s disadvantage.
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Final Jeopardy category: Hawaii
Final Jeopardy clue: Introduced in 1881 to grow ornamental trees, these seeds became one of Hawaii’s most valuable crops
Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Celebrity Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Celebrity Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Have Faith; Celebrity Pets; Hot Gossip; Don’t Make Me Say It; Lesser-Known Breakfast Cereals; Darwin’s Boobies)
Camilla missed the Daily Double early, but everyone was on the positive side early. Max led with $1,100 at the first break, to Camilla’s $500 and Kamau’s $400. After the break, Kamau had a great segment, charging into a $900 lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after 15 clues:
Max 5 correct 0 incorrect
Camilla 4 correct 2 incorrect
W. Kamau 4 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s first interviews:
W. Kamau was once a clue, and that proved he’d made it in show business.
Camilla moved to the U.S. in her 20s and lost her accent.
Max didn’t really prepare.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
W. Kamau 11 correct 2 incorrect
Max 8 correct 0 incorrect
Camilla 6 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
W. Kamau $2,800
Max $1,900
Camilla $1,300
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Apt Anagrams; The Conch Republic; Geeky Google; Funny Math Words; That Guy! Actors; Lincoln: The Bio)
All three players got off to a good start in Double Jeopardy, as Kamau still led with $3,600 to both Max and Camilla at $2,500 at commercial break #3. Kamau and Max split the Daily Doubles after the break; Max’s correct response brought him close to the lead after 60 clues.
Statistics after 45 clues:
W. Kamau 14 correct 4 incorrect
Camilla 10 correct 3 incorrect
Max 13 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s second interviews:
W. Kamau has a new book coming out, “Who is Government?”
Camilla has been on “Grey’s Anatomy” for 13 years.
Max is on Season 7 of “The Neighborhood”.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
W. Kamau 22 correct 6 incorrect
Max 16 correct 2 incorrect
Camilla 10 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Double Jeopardy! Round:
W. Kamau $6,200
Max $5,000
Camilla $2,500
Triple Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: American Masters; Monument-Al Women; 2004, What A Year!; Hard New York Times Crossword Clues; There’S An Animal In My Book Title!; Tom Cruise Movies, In Short)
This round saw two Daily Double misses, and Kamau bet just $5 on the last one, on the last clue of the round. His correct response on it meant it wasn’t a runaway going into Final!
Statistics after Triple Jeopardy:
W. Kamau 34 correct 7 incorrect
Max 21 correct 3 incorrect
Camilla 12 correct 5 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
W. Kamau $13,205
Max $7,700
Camilla $1,400
Final Jeopardy correct response: What are macadamia nuts?
This Final Jeopardy was a Triple Stumper; Kamau advances to the semifinals!
Tonight’s results:
Camilla $1,400 – $200 = $1,200 (What are palm trees)
Max $7,700 – $7,700 = $0 (What is coconut)
W. Kamau $13,205 – $2,196 = $11,009 (What are pineapples) (Semi-Finalist)
Daily Double locations:
1) CELEBRITY PETS $300 (clue #9)
Camilla 700 -100 (Max 700 W. Kamau -200)
2) LINCOLN: THE BIO $800 (clue #19)
W. Kamau 4800 +1200 (Max 2500 Camilla 2500)
3) APT ANAGRAMS $800 (clue #29)
Max 3500 +1500 (Camilla 2500 W. Kamau 6200)
4) THERE’S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE! $900 (clue #8)
Camilla 3100 -500 (Max 7100 W. Kamau 8600)
5) AMERICAN MASTERS $600 (clue #22)
W. Kamau 13400 -2000 (Max 5600 Camilla 1400)
6) HARD NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES $1500 (clue #30, $0 left on board)
W. Kamau 13200 +5 (Max 7700 Camilla 1400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 23
Game Stats:
W. Kamau $16,300 Coryat, 34 correct, 7 incorrect, 45.24% in first on buzzer (38/84), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Camilla $2,000 Coryat, 12 correct, 5 incorrect, 11.90% in first on buzzer (10/84), 2/5 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Max $7,000 Coryat, 21 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.19% in first on buzzer (22/84), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $25,300
Lach Trash: $17,300 (on 20 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,400
Lead Changes: 7
Times Tied: 3
Max Greenfield, career statistics:
21 correct, 4 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
26.19% in first on buzzer (22/84)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,500)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,000
Camilla Luddington, career statistics:
12 correct, 6 incorrect
2/5 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
11.90% in first on buzzer (10/84)
0/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$600)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $2,000
W. Kamau Bell, career statistics:
34 correct, 8 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
45.24% in first on buzzer (38/84)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$795)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,300
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: W. Kamau $13,205 Max $7,700 Camilla $1,400)
Max: You might as well go all in here; you have to be correct to win. (Actual bet: $7,700)
Camilla: Bet whatever you like. (Actual bet: $200)
W. Kamau: Standard cover bet is $2,196. (Actual bet: $2,196)
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We do now have a mini-site with the matchups for all nine quarterfinals.
https://www.jeopardy.com/track/celebrity-jeopardy/season-3
And from looking at the “schedule” tab there, there’s a two week break between the quarterfinals and semifinals — the final will air on April 23.
Thank god! I was absolutely worried.
Willie Mays was an incorrect answer. Hank Aaron is the correct answer.
Speaking as someone who has two books on baseball published, including one that literally had a chapter on Barry Bonds:
You, Trey, are 100% incorrect. Firstly, that was a picture of Willie Mays. Secondly, Willie Mays is Barry Bonds’s godfather. Thirdly, Bonds passed Aaron in 2007. He passed Mays’s home run total, however, in 2004.
Guessed correctly despite never thinking of macadamia nuts are seeds. I love them, but they are a bit out of my budget.
To me this was straight forward. Hawaii. Trees. Corp. I guess Pineapple could fit, but wouldn’t that be considered the literal fruit of the Pineapple tree? A nut would be considered the seed of a tree, like acorns are for Oaks. So for Hawaii it would be Macadamia nuts.
(I was suprised to learn that the Hawaiian spelling of Hawai’i is NOT considered official, because the punctuation mark between the “I’s” was not used in the act creating the state of Hawaii.)
Much the same for me, immediately thinking of coconuts and pineapples, but ruling them out as not fitting the whole clue. Then I quickly thought of Macadamia nuts due to their being such a “valuable crop” (of expensive seeds).
[The terms nuts and seeds are often thought of as interchangeable (and they often are in common names such as “Macadamia nuts), but they are technically different and those most aware are the people with tree nut allergies because they can usually eat seeds.]