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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category European History) for Tuesday, January 27, 2026 (Season 42, Game 102):
Writing from prison to her pere in 1793, she quoted the dramatist Corneille, “Crime makes the shame, and not the scaffold”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Allegra Kuney, a Ph.D. candidate from New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Tom Devlin, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
The semifinals for the 33rd Tournament of Champions starts today with an absolutely doozy: Scott Riccardi vs. Tom Devlin vs. Allegra Kuney. Just by the numbers, all three of these players are excellent and I am expecting to see a very closely contested match.
I’m not sure if the audience for this tournament was under NDA and someone’s about to get in a lot of trouble for leaking this information, but it’s certainly public now: someone on Reddit this morning decided it was important enough to tell the world that this game had to be restarted due to a major buzzer system malfunction; this audience member also seemed in their tone to be mildly perturbed by the resolution, specifically the fact that they didn’t give the players a break and play a different semifinal first. My thoughts, though, after reading this are much different.
This audience member appears to lack the requisite knowledge in terms of television production. Firstly, this isn’t the first time the ToC has had a buzzer malfunction; stories have circulated over the years about how, in 2015, the Matt Jackson–John Schultz–Jennifer Giles quarterfinal had a buzzer malfunction that nearly necessitated scrapping an Eric Stonestreet category honoring service members on Veterans Day. Secondly, I’m not sure what else you’d expect the show to do here: once an episode starts, even if it needs to be restarted through force majeure, no show is going to actually go through start a completely different episode. They’re going to finish the one they started! Sure, it’s not a perfect situation, but it sounds as if the show made the best decision it could.
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Correct response: Who is Charlotte Corday?
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According to the Smithsonian Institution, where the American Art Museum has a painting of Corday in prison, Charlotte Corday justified her murder of Jean-Paul Marat with the quote “Crime makes the shame, and not the scaffold” in a 1793 heartfelt letter to her father.
This is the sort of “deeper cut” Final Jeopardy clue that the Tournament of Champions has been known for over the years; the expanded correct response canon in a ToC situation allows this sort of thing to be asked about Corday, whereas in regular play, you’d see a lot of people guessing Marie Antoinette and then being wrong.
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Game Recap:
Things were pretty close up until the midway point of the Double Jeopardy round in this one, before Scott found Daily Doubles on back-to-back clues. Picking up a combined and dramatic $21,400 from them, his score skyrocketed as he cruised to a runaway game entering Final Jeopardy.
All three players went for Marie Antoinette on the purely academic Final Jeopardy as Scott is your first finalist.
Scores going into Final:
Scott $41,200
Tom $19,000
Allegra $7,600
Tonight’s results:
Allegra $7,600 – $6,700 = $900 (Who is Marie Antoinette?)
Tom $19,000 – $0 = $19,000 (Who is Marie Antoinette? Thank you, J! team!)
Scott $41,200 – $0 = $41,200 (Who is Marie Antoinette?) (Finalist)
Chances of winning Tournament of Champions:
Scott Riccardi: 48.859%
Laura Faddah: 2.946%
Paolo Pasco: 12.066%
Cameron Berry: 8.576%
Ashley Chan: 4.813%
Steven Olson: 16.170%
TJ Fisher: 6.570%
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s runaway game means that wagering suggestions will not be posted.
- Today’s J!6 clues can be found at the monthly archive.
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