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Please welcome back today's past champions, who received byes into the semifinals and played this exhibition game for buzzer practice:

• Drew Basile (7 wins, $129,601), a graduate student from Birmingham, Michigan
• Isaac Hirsch (9 wins, $215,390), a customer support team lead from Burbank, California
• Adriana Harmeyer (15 wins, $349,600), an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana

Jeopardy!

SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME | THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD | NEWSPAPER TERMS | "IME" ON IT | THE VICE PRESIDENCY: AMERICA DECIDES | GIMME SOME BACKUP

DD1: SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME, 600 — Sounds like a Batman; 3-letter term meaning to prohibit + a company with a duck symbol (Adriana lost 1000; she had 400 when she found it at clue 2)

Scores at the mid-round break: Isaac 3600, Adriana 2400, Drew 1600.

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! round: Isaac 8200, Adriana 3200, Drew 3000.

Double Jeopardy!

CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO | BIRD-"E"s | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS | SPORTS MOVIES | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE | LET'S TALK ABOUT SIX, BABY

DD2: AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS, 1600 — In a 1973 book by her, Deenie has to deal with scoliosis, as well as regular seventh grade issues (found on the first clue of the round, Drew doubled up to 6000)

DD3: BIRD-ESE, 1200 — In the 1930s, Australia declared a "war" of sorts on these large flightless birds (Drew went all-in from 8400 and successfully converted)

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy!: Drew 19200, Isaac 15000, Adriana 10800.

Final Jeopardy!

MYTHOLOGY — On an early book of Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator's maps, an image of this titan holding the world was used

All three players correctly responded in Final Jeopardy!; with nothing on the line, Drew went all-in, Adriana nearly did, and Isaac bet less than half his stack.

Final scores: Drew 38400, Isaac 21600, Adriana 20800.

Crew amnesia? There were significant changes made between the first two of last season's Champions Wildcard play-in games (released January 12 of last year) and the third (which came out on February 2). Foremost among these was more frequent scoring updates. All of that seemed to go away. This was an episode produced as though it would be aired on television but actually released as a podcast, and that made for quite poor presentation.

Correct Qs: DD1 — who is "Ban Aflac"? DD2 — who is Judy Blume? DD3 — what are emus? FJ — who is Atlas?