{"id":2254086,"date":"2026-01-28T07:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2254086"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:42:54","slug":"jeopardy-contestant-has-jaw-dropping-win-in-toc-fans-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jeopardy-contestant-has-jaw-dropping-win-in-toc-fans-react\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jeopardy!\u2019 Contestant Has Jaw-Dropping Win in Toc \u2014 Fans React"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Tuesday, January 27, episode of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0296693\/\">Jeopardy<\/a>!] The first semi-finals game of the 2026 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions delivered a jaw-dropping win for one contestant. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17492524\/\">Scott Riccardi<\/a>, who earned a bye from the quarterfinals, returned to play against two quarterfinal winners. Riccardi, from Somerville, New Jersey, played against Ph.D. candidate <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17860360\/\">Allegra Kuney<\/a>, from New Brunswick, New Jersey, and attorney <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1672861\/\">Tom Devlin<\/a>, from Washington, D.C., on January 27. At the beginning of the round, Kuney and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4663541\/\">Devlin<\/a> fought for first place. However, Kuney answered a few clues incorrectly and only had $200 by the first 15 clues. Riccardi, an engineer, answered a few, but he wound up in second. Devlin led with $5,400. By the time Riccardi found the Daily&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Tuesday, January 27, episode of Jeopardy!] The first semi-finals game of the 2026 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions delivered a jaw-dropping win for one contestant. Scott Riccardi, who earned a bye from the quarterfinals, returned to play against two quarterfinal winners. Riccardi, from Somerville, New Jersey, played against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2254087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2254086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Jeopardy-Contestant-Has-Jaw-Dropping-Win-in-Toc-\u2014-Fans-React.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254088,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254086\/revisions\/2254088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}