Show #9251 - Monday, January 20, 2025

2025 Champions Wildcard semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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

Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii

Joey DeSena, a development engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina

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Jeopardy! Round

REMEMBERING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
MUSEUMS
FARM TOOLS & MACHINERY
BRITISH SITCOMS
THIS & THAT
BACK WORDS & FORWARD
(Ken: Each response will be two words, like "God" and "dog".)
    $200 29
During the 1963 March on Washington, King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of this monument
    $200 23
St. Petersburg, Russia has a museum devoted to these bejeweled objects given as Easter gifts by the czar
    $200 16
Nebraskans may know it's a machine intended for the operator-free removal of leaves & hairs from cobs
    $200 15
On this sitcom, Basil needed lots of help from Polly & Manuel running a seaside hotel
    $200 27
This item is in Pop Tarts' full name, but many choose to eschew it before chewing
    $200 30
Your emotional disposition
&
ruinous fortune
    $400 21
King's 1st name was originally Michael, but inspired by a visit to this country, his father changed both his own & his son's names
    $400 18
To see Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa" in person head to the Salle Mollien in this museum
    $400 17
Used worldwide, like against locusts in Africa, it's an aircraft employed for spraying pesticide over large acreages
    $400 14
"I'm Alan Partridge", starred this performer as a former TV talk show host who finds himself on Radio Norwich
    $400 26
Even dog people sometimes mix up the Alaskan Malamute & this less bulky breed from a different northern land
    $400 22
3 feet
&
a sturdy cart
    $600 1
King wrote, "this courageous New Englander's... choice of jail" was his first contact with nonviolent resistance theory
    $600 4
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an iconic image of American history: "Washington Crossing" this river
    $600 24
This machine is used to gather & compress hay, straw or corn stalks into round or rectangular shapes
    $600 10
Captain Peacock kept the retail staff on their toes on "Are You Being Served?", a show set at Grace Brothers, one of these businesses
    $600 19
OK, coach: 4th & inches, ball on your own 45--punt or these 3 little words meaning run or pass for a first down (as the crowd wants)
    $600 20
To exude an odor or radiation
&
3:47 P.M.
    $800 5
With a dissertation comparing Paul Tillich & Henry N. Wieman, in 1955 King earned his PhD from Boston University in this -ology
    $800 8
Opened in 1819, this museum has many paintings that were once in the collections of Spain's 16th & 17th century monarchs
    $800 25
This type of silo with a conveyor belt to take grain up to the top level is mentioned in the first paragraph of "O Pioneers!"
    $800 11
"As Time Goes By", about lovers who meet again after years apart, starred this Oscar winner for "Shakespeare in Love"
    $800 6
They're the two basic diving options seen here; one lets a layer of water in to warm up next to your body, one lets in none
    $800 2
Met in competition
&
a less jittery morning beverage choice
    $1000 9
At King's funeral, this gospel singer & close friend sang the hymn "Precious Lord, Take My Hand"
    DD: $1,600 13
Sir Aston Webb designed this London museum of decorative arts
    $1000 28
Often used for foraged plants this tractor attachment bores down & inserts seeds into soil with minimal disturbance
    $1000 12
This show about 2 boozy women trying to stay young began as a skit on the "French & Saunders" sketch comedy show
    $1000 7
In early political science government by the best, hoi aristoi, was contrasted with government by the people, them
    $1000 3
Students
&
an unfortunate mistake

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

Joey Drew Jen
$0 $4,200 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Joey Drew Jen
$800 $7,200 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

FRENCH GEOGRAPHY
18th CENTURY WRITING
BROADWAY
PSYCHOLOGY
LET'S TALK ABOUT POLITICS
STARTS WITH "D"
    $400 25
This 10,000-square-mile region in the northwest sounds like it could be part of a different nearby nation
    $400 27
Caleb Williams, the hero of an early one of these creepy novels of crime & atmosphere, throws no TD passes but exposes a murderer
    $400 22
This musical that played on Broadway from 1988 to 2023 is based on a horror novel by Gaston Leroux
    $400 30
Psychology's "Hierarchy of" these says that more basic ones like food must be met before loftier ones
    $400 29
The Free Soil Party didn't want to give away dirt; it was opposed to the expansion of this
    $400 26
To speak slowly with vowels prolonged; some might have a "Southern" one
    $800 24
The southern region known as the French Riviera, running east roughly from the village of Cassis, is known by this name in French
    $800 23
Visionary artist & poet William Blake wrote collections titled "Songs of" these 2 opposites
    $800 21
"I Dreamed A Dream" & "Do You Hear The People Sing?" are songs from this show
    $800 28
Freud identified this mental energy, from the Latin for "desire", with sexual drive
    $800 14
Woodrow Wilson won the White House in 1912 after this former prez threw his hat in the ring, weakening incumbent William Howard Taft
    $800 19
It's a mournful song or hymn for the dead
    $1200 6
France is big on 5-letter rivers; the Yonne flows northwest between the Seine & this 630-mile one
    DD: $5,000 18
Pangloss & Cunegonde are characters in this satire that mocked optimism by portraying a world of folly & danger
    $1200 1
In 2024, Jim Parsons played the Stage Manager & Katie Holmes was Mrs. Webb, in a revival of this Thornton Wilder play
    DD: $4,000 20
Like "helicopter parents", this term from a sports-minded Danish psychologist describes parents who sweep obstacles away from kids
    $1200 9
A 2015 article in the Atlantic gave us this alliterative term for a young male supporter of Senator Sanders
    $1200 11
Actor Colman & singer Placido know it's the Spanish word for a day of the week
    $1600 7
Glaciers cover about 40 square miles of this highest mountain in the Alps, though some in Italy claim it as theirs, not France's
    $1600 10
In this satirical essay, Jonathan Swift suggested killing & eating poor Irish children to help end poverty
    $1600 2
In 2022, this entertainer became the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named after her
    $1600 15
CBT is short for this therapy; psychotherapists use it to change negative thinking patterns
    $1600 12
"We are the 99%" was the rallying cry of this movement that took over part of Lower Manhattan in 2011
    $1600 3
It's the sale or liquidation of a corporate division, from the Anglo-French for "undress"
    $2000 8
The chief city of Alsace & home to several European institutions, this eastern city is just 2.5 miles from the German border
    $2000 17
In 1774 this once-enslaved woman wrote, "Then fix the humble Afric muse's seat at British Homer's and sir Isaac's feet"
    $2000 5
In 2023, Jodie Comer won a Tony for her role as a barrister in this one-woman play whose Latin title means "at first sight"
    $2000 16
The German for "shape" gives us this school of psychology that focuses on the whole rather than the parts
    $2000 13
With a brain tumor & unable to speak, Clair Engle pointed to his eye to vote "aye" & end a Senate filibuster against this 1964 act
    $2000 4
This Enlightenment-era philosophy rejected miracles but believed in a divinely inspired universe

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Joey Drew Jen
$9,200 $26,800 $12,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

COLD WAR CRAFT
A U.S. Navy website says its journey from New London to Norway in 1957 opened up Arctic waters previously ruled by the Soviets

Final scores:

Joey Drew Jen
$9,811 $26,800 $10,000
3rd place: $10,000 Finalist 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Joey Drew Jen
$10,800 $24,000 $8,800
12 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 29 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 10 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $43,600

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Game tape date: 2024-11-13
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