Show #9246 - Monday, January 13, 2025

2025 Champions Wildcard quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Jen Feldman, a high school teacher from Brooklyn, New York

Paul Clauson, a tax analyst from Madison Heights, Michigan

Will Yancey, a lecturer of history from Banquete, Texas

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Jeopardy! Round

2015: 10 YEARS AGO
LATINAS
OTHER USES OF TEXTING ABBREVIATIONS
TV THIS CENTURY
SCIENCE
THAT PHRASE IS MONEY
    $200 27
Al Gore visited Paris for the talks that resulted in a 195-nation accord aimed at reducing this & its worst effects
    $200 28
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa has logged nearly 1,000 hours in space & in 2013, became director of Johnson Space Center in this city
    $200 29
LOL, without JK:
This company that grew by selling butter in sticks
    $200 24
In 2014 "The Tonight Show" turned 60 & got this new host who turned 40
    $200 30
Newton's third law of motion states that "for every action there is" one of these
    $200 13
If you come from a wealthy family, you're said to have been born with this alliterative item "in your mouth"
    $400 22
This Afghan group announced the death of its leader Mullah Omar, which had happened sometime around 2013
    $400 19
An advocate for more Latinas in the arts, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "Barbie"
    $400 26
IRL:
What an NFL player goes on if he severely hurts his elbow, knee or--very painful--undisclosed
    $400 23
This Kristen Bell show is set in a a spot where people couldn't use curse words & ended up saying "shirt" & "fork" instead
    $400 25
The Nicobar pigeon of Southeast Asia is the closest living relative to this animal that had gone extinct by 1681
    $400 12
Cent & sensibility; this phrase involves a curiosity about what's going on in a pal's mind after they've been silent for a while
    $600 1
Leaving many stunned, in August these 2 Muppets announced the end of their romantic relationship on Twitter
    $600 18
The first Hispanic person on the Supreme Court, she says her law career was partly inspired by "Perry Mason"
    $600 17
BTW:
Drivers' ed talk for actually taking control
    $600 10
As Valery Legasov, Jared Harris starred in this 2019 miniseries about the aftermath of a real-life deadly accident
    $600 21
Giving a clue to their age, galaxies come in three basic shapes--elliptical, irregular & this one like M74 in Pisces seen here
    $600 11
A 2014 TV movie had this title that describes both tardiness & having not quite enough cash to cover a cost
    $800 2
This former gov. was an early front-runner for the GOP nomination after announcing his presidential run at Miami Dade College
    $800 7
Sandra Cisneros is known for her depiction of Mexican-American life in Chicago, as in this 1983 novel
    $800 6
ETA: Formal name for someone in a white jumpsuit who says, "Thank you, thank you very much" & sings "Love Me Tender"
    $800 3
Vhagar, Seasmoke & Arrax are among the airborne creatures on this show
    $800 4
Though An & Ay were available, this element used in alloys has the chemical symbol Sb, from its Latin name stibium
    $800 5
A word of advice from Shakespeare... actually, let's make it 2 words: "Neither a" this word "nor a" this 2nd word "be"
    $1000 8
In March, NASA's Dawn probe began orbiting this dwarf planet found between Mars & Jupiter
    $1000 20
The first Latina inducted into the National Women's HOF, Dolores Huerta helped Cesar Chavez start this labor organization
    $1000 16
IMO: This UN agency responsible for secure shipping
    $1000 9
"Slough" must be a U.K. punchline--it's the town of "The Office" & Slough House is for failed spies on this Apple TV+ show
    DD: $3,800 15
The recoil of a gun is an example of conservation of this, mass times velocity
    $1000 14
A 1906 telegram from a mom to her boxer son told him to do this "meaty" 4-word phrase, provide money for the family

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Will Paul Jen
$1,400 $0 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Will Paul Jen
$2,600 $4,600 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARE YOU SURREAL?
ANATOMICAL SONG TITLES
PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
MacARTHUR FELLOWS
THERE IN THE WORLD IS THAT
ENDS IN "UE"
    $400 30
This artist described his own mustache as "very gay, very pointed, very aggressive"
    $400 21
This song was part of the Weeknd's set list at the Super Bowl in 2021
    $400 26
Fresh-out-of-prison Tom,
strong & loving Ma, apostate preacher Casy
    $400 29
Jason Reynolds wrote the YA Marvel novel titled "Miles Morales:" this superhero
    $400 7
You can round up pals in Calgary, party in Keg River & visit your friend Ron in Sexsmith in this Canadian province
    $400 28
Mark your calendar--August 15 is the day to celebrate this type of lemon pie
    $800 23
Black surrealist Ted Joans named his 1958 painting "Bird Lives!" honoring this saxophonist who had died a few years before
    $800 11
Not inspiring us to dance but to continue on after hard times, Gloria Estefan encouraged us to "Get on" these
    $800 25
Private dicks Sam & Miles;
sexy, deceitful client Miss Wonderly; acquisitive Caspar Gutman
    $800 24
Fellow Emily Wilson is the first woman to publish an English translation of this Homer epic about a voyage
    $800 6
About an hour from Wilkes-Barre, the Centralia mine fire in the Buck Mountain coal bed in this state has been ablaze since 1962
    $800 27
Claudio Monteverdi was the first great composer of opera & an early master of this musical style that began in the 1600s
    DD: $3,000 19
Leonora Carrington's crocodile sculpture in Mexico City was inspired by a poem a little girl recites in an 1865 novel by this man
    $1200 8
"I like big butts & I cannot lie", to quote Sir Mix-a-Lot in this hip-hop song in praise of fuller bottoms
    $1200 17
Con men the Duke & the Dauphin;
the civilizing-bent Widow Douglas
    $1200 20
Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro delivered a Google lecture about cloning this Pleistocene pachyderm
    $1200 1
Boasting 1,500 miles of southern coastline for its 6.5 million residents, it's the Aussie state highlighted here
    $1200 12
In estate planning this word refers to a person's lineal descendants
    $1600 15
In this Belgian's painting "The Son of Man", a man in a bowler hat has his face obscured by a green apple
    $1600 9
According to Hall & Oates, they're "watching you, they see your every move"
    DD: $3,400 13
Paralyzed Clifford,
amorous Constance,
manly Oliver
    $1600 14
Anna Deavere Smith's play "Twilight: Los Angeles" chronicles the aftermath of the 1992 trial of the cops who arrested this man
    $1600 2
The name of this Russian city just a 2-hour flight from Tokyo means "control the east"
    $1600 3
In antiquity, a slave escorting kids to school was called this, from Greek for "child" & "lead"; now it means a dogmatic teacher
    $2000 18
Erik Satie & Jean Cocteau collabbed on a Surrealist ballet for this "national" company founded by Sergei Diaghilev
    $2000 10
Demi Lovato sang, "The day I first met you, you told me you'd never fall in love"; now she wants to do this
    $2000 16
From 2009:
Thomas Cromwell,
Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey
    $2000 22
This "Finding Your Roots" host became a jolly good fellow in part for investigating "Language Use in the Black Vernacular"
    $2000 5
Rutherford B. Hayes' 1878 arbitration in a dispute between Argentina & this landlocked nation gave it 60% of its present territory
    $2000 4
Remove an "R" from a word meaning to squabble to get this old term for malaria & the feverish symptoms that accompany it

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Will Paul Jen
$9,800 $4,000 $10,200

Final Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC CURRENCY
Henry VII minted the first pound coin in 1489, which was called this, also a term for what Henry was

Final scores:

Will Paul Jen
$13,800 $8,000 $8,200
Automatic semifinalist 3rd place 2nd place

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Will Paul Jen
$9,800 $11,200 $13,200
14 R,
2 W		 26 R,
7 W
(including 2 DDs)		 12 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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Game tape date: 2024-11-12
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