Show #9248 - Wednesday, January 15, 2025

2025 Champions Wildcard quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

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Aiden Orzech, a teacher from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

Jay Fisher, a government relations manager from Lisle, Illinois

Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii

Jeopardy! Round

NOT ON MY WATCH
FICTIONAL FEMALES
____ & ____
POP CULTURE PEOPLE
SPITTIN' SCIENCE FACTS
DIRECTION TO PERFECTION
    $200 16
My watch shows the time, but not in these units abbreviated ms
    $200 12
In Janet Evanovich's "Top Secret Twenty-One", Stephanie Plum has this job; finding bail-skipper Jimmy Poletti is a typical task
    $200 23
It's come to describe a business in a physical building as opposed to simply online
    $200 25
This actress said, "In the first Harry Potter film, if you watch carefully in some scenes, you can see me mouthing Harry & Ron's lines"
    $200 24
Tephra is a collective term for the pyroclastic material ejected into the air during this event
    $200 29
This plural word can mean something is tops, like 4 certain cards in a standard playing deck
    $400 15
A lunar phase display, yes; a 2-way wrist radio like the one introduced by this comics detective in 1946, no
    $400 27
In a 1996 book her wedding gifts include a silver horse & 3 ancient dragon eggs
    $400 21
In economics the price of a product is determined by this, how much is available & how bad you want it
    $400 28
In 2024, he led the American League with 58 homers & 144 RBIs; our verdict--guilty, of being very good at his job
    $400 20
This 2-named "colorful" insect differs from other wasps in having wings that fold longitudinally at rest
    $400 30
We would love to see the coyote sue this company that is not the "pinnacle" of road runner snaring equipment
    $600 14
It's got a glow-in-the dark dial but not one of these radiation detectors named for a German physicist
    $600 26
Aibileen, why can't you be true... but you're a made-up maid in this novel by Kathryn Stockett
    $600 18
God "rained upon" Sodom & Gomorrah these 2 things, often now seen in the opposite order from the King James Bible's
    $600 22
Oh, doctor! When it comes to "The Hangover", he's Mr. Chow, that's his name, that name again is Mr. Chow
    $600 19
Symbiotically speaking, it's the 9-letter word for when both organisms get to thrive
    $600 17
A town in Texas has this name, like a hypothetical Thomas More society
    $800 5
The movement uses a quartz crystal, not one of these transparent gem crystals prized for shimmering colors
    $800 4
In the first book of the Millennium Series, she tattoos the villainous Nils Bjurman
    $800 3
In the '90s this company dropped its man in the moon logo after rumors spread that it had satanic elements
    $800 8
2 differing Hot 100 tunes in Oct. 2024: Tate McRae's "It's OK I'm OK" & "I Am Not Okay" by this singer with a sponge cake name
    $800 6
This largest moon of Jupiter is the only known moon in the solar system to have its own magnetic field
    $800 1
As a noun, this 5-letter word is the concept of a goal in its highest perfection; as an adjective, existing in imagination alone
    $1000 13
The housing is stainless steel, not this super-hard element No. 74 long used in light bulb filaments
    $1000 9
In this novel Becky Sharp inspires George to leave his wife, but he gets killed at Waterloo
    $1000 10
In an Edward Lear poem, this pair "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat"
    DD: $600 11
In 2024 she made news by using her voice to question OpenAI's practices after a new ChatGPT voice sounded an awful lot like her
    $1000 7
Hermann Muller named these regions of DNA sequences that cap chromosomes from the Greek "telos", meaning "end"
    $1000 2
This word that sounds like a geometric figure often precedes "of virtue"

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

Drew Jay Aiden
$2,200 $200 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Drew Jay Aiden
$5,000 $2,400 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 19th CENTURY
SHADES OF RED
TEARJERKERS
STATE CAPITALS
FIDDLIN' AROUND
EVERYTHING FROM B TO Y
(Ken: Responses will begin and then end with those two letters.)
    $400 24
This inventor who built a lab there in 1876 was nicknamed "The Wizard of Menlo Park"
    $400 25
It's the shade of red worn by Hester Prynne
    $400 30
The 3-hanky "Beaches" stars Barbara Hershey as a lawyer & this star singer as a star singer
    $400 26
The birthplace of the Oldsmobile, it was first called the Village of Michigan
    $400 27
Sappy trails! The sugar type of this tree is used to make the backs of violins
    $400 1
A provocative character in film or literature often has a compelling one of these that explains their past
    $800 17
In 1819's McCulloch v. this state, the Supreme Court expanded the reach of Congress by saying it has implied powers
    $800 23
Cerise can be bright pinkish red or closer in color to this fruit that cerise is French for
    $800 6
We'll spare you the full ending of this 1957 Disney film, but yes, the title dog does have rabies
    $800 2
French explorer Bernard de la Harpe gave what's now this capital the name "La Petite Roche" in 1722
    $800 28
The Messiah, made in 1716, is one of these violins; it's worth an estimated $20 million & is on display in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum
    $800 13
Notorious B.I.G. & Jay-Z were mainstays of the Brooklyn neighborhood with this hyphenated nickname
    $1200 16
In 1846 this president sent the Army into disputed territory in Texas, provoking war with Mexico
    $1200 14
In 1910 it was designated the official color of Harvard
    $1200 7
If you don't cry during Sally Field's cemetery speech in this 1989 film, you must be made of the same stuff as the title flowers
    $1200 3
Named for a German chancellor, this capital got a boost in popularity after gold was discovered in them thar Black Hills
    $1200 20
In a 1979 hit a human soul is put up against a fiddle of gold when Johnny takes on the devil, visiting this state
    $1200 11
One of these that's accessible by glass doors or windows is called a Juliet
    $1600 9
Caused by this 6-letter plague, meaning a nasty plant disease, the Great Famine sent Ireland into chaos
    $1600 8
A shade of reddish gold is named for this Venetian Renaissance master who used it in his paintings
    $1600 19
Saoirse Ronan got her first Oscar nomination for her role as a 13-year-old who causes endless regret in this WWII-set film
    DD: $2,000 4
This state capital lies where the Severn River flows into Chesapeake Bay
    DD: $1,800 21
You need violins to represent this human part of a 1936 Prokofiev title duo
    $1600 10
Ahoy, matey! It means to fasten a rope around a cleat
    $2000 18
A style of decorative arts is named for this period of time from 1811 to 1820 when the future George IV was in charge
    $2000 15
Going back to the Latin word for "worm", it's the shade & species of the flycatcher seen here
    $2000 29
No doubt you recall Mandy Moore as a terminally ill teen in this 2002 weeper
    $2000 5
Named for a nearby mountain range, this capital is located on Budd Inlet
    $2000 22
The Oscar-winning score of "Schindler's List" featured solo violin work from this Tel Aviv born man
    $2000 12
If your baby is going to receive a sacramental dunk, it usually happens in this part of the church

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Drew Jay Aiden
$23,400 $15,400 -$2,400

Final Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS OF THE 1960s
In 1962 the New York Times said the release of this controversial book "presages a noisy fall"

Final scores:

Drew Jay Aiden
$23,400 $15,400 -$2,400
Automatic semifinalist 2nd place 3rd place

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Drew Jay Aiden
$23,800 $14,800 -$2,400
27 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 20 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 3 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $36,200

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Game tape date: 2024-11-12
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