Show #9256 - Monday, January 27, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Rishabh Wuppalapati, a student at the University of Pennsylvania from Vernon Hills, Illinois

Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, Texas

Alison Betts, a writer and creative executive originally from San Jose, California

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Jeopardy! Round

LAKES OF AMERICA
GAME TIME
SPECIAL DAYS
"CH" AS IN CHAMP
BROKEN
HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL
(Alicia: I'm Alicia Keys. One of my latest projects is Hell's Kitchen, a Broadway musical featuring my songs. It's about a teenage girl named Ali who discovers her city, her talent, and herself. And I'll have clues about the show.)
    $200 26
Tributary rivers of this lake include the Cuyahoga, Detroit & Sandusky
    $200 17
Noughts & crosses is a British name for this game, but whatever you call it, it's still a tie with best play
    $200 28
The U.N. has designated May 20 a World Day named for these insects whose population decline has alarmed many
    $200 7
A somewhat formal word for a bedroom, or the area of a firearm that holds the ammunition
    $200 29
In a nursery rhyme his broken crown was patched "with vinegar and brown paper"
    $200 30
(Alicia Keys presents the clue.) Practically a character itself, the setting of much of the show is Manhattan Plaza, the real-life building where I grew up among many artists hoping to make it, just a block east to Eighth Ave, the edge of this district
    $400 23
Fond of lakes? Start up the ol' Winnebago & head to Fond du Lac in this state & partake of Lake Winnebago
    $400 14
An optional "Speed Die" for use with this game has one face with a picture of its eponymous top-hatted "Mr."
    $400 27
In 1990 South Dakota's legislature voted to rename the day formerly called this as Native Americans' Day
    $400 6
The border between East & West Germany featured Alpha & Bravo these as well as a more famous one
    $400 20
A 1972 caravan to D.C., the Trail of Broken these documents ended with the occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
    $400 25
(Alicia Keys presents the clue.) In Hell's Kitchen, you don't need a Steinway or a Stradi to make music; Ali's love interest plays drums on buckets, & she joins in for this song that says, "She's a flame"

"You can try, but you'll never forget her name, she's on top of the world, hottest of the hottest girls say, oh-oh"
    $600 8
One can traverse Lake Pontchartrain by taking this 24-mile-long type of bridge from Metairie to Mandeville
    $600 10
There's "an infinite world that's yours to shape, one block at a time" in this "ultimate sandbox game"
    $600 16
A fitting botanical prop is used in some celebrations of this first day of Holy Week
    $600 4
On her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840, Queen Victoria received a 1,250-pound wheel of this cheese as a wedding gift
    $600 19
If you change a web address, aka this 3-letter initialism, something called a 301 redirect will prevent the dreaded broken link
    $600 22
(Alicia Keys presents the clue.) "Kaleido-leido-leido-leido-leidoscope, everyone looking high and low"

A new song about opening up the world, "Kaleidoscope" was the theme song of this sporting event in 2024, & in late August, Shoshana Bean made the trip from Hell's Kitchen to Queens to sing at the opening night
    DD: $1,000 1
Northwest of Allentown, Beltzville Lake is a popular fishing spot in this mountain range
    $800 12
In chess, one of these diagonally moving pieces is "bad" if it's blocked by its own pawns
    $800 11
On Powder House Day this Conn. college town reenacts Benedict Arnold (still a good guy in 1775) standing up for the colonists
    $800 3
Rather than presidents, many universities have these top officials
    $800 18
Punch cards from this company helped the U.S. break WWII Japanese codes, which used book ciphers rather than machines
    $800 21
(Alicia Keys presents the clue.) Along with new songs, the show reimagines some of my classics, like this breakout hit from 2001, about a love that's so much pleasure & so much pain; it has new instrumentation & a new seductive tone, & is sung by a dude

"Lovin' you darlin, makes me so confused"
    $1000 9
Named for a Native American people, this Arizona lake is found within Tonto National Forest
    $1000 13
Noted 17th c. poet Sir John Suckling popularized this peg, board & card game & is said to have won a fortune cheating at it
    $1000 5
Sheep lactation is involved on Imbolc, a February 1 Celtic & pagan celebration of this, though it's still 7 weeks away
    $1000 2
A veil or facescreen called a yashmak is often worn in public with this full-length garment for Muslim women
    $1000 15
Modern medicine says broken heart syndrome can be triggered by grief & may lead to this, congestion from fluid in the lungs
    $1000 24
(Alicia Keys presents the clue.)

"New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of (oh, come on), there's nothin' you can't do"

The closing number's this song that I performed on the Tony Awards in 2024, with of course, a guest vocal by Jay-Z

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

Alison Will Rishabh
$1,400 $3,200 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alison Will Rishabh
$2,200 $3,800 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

PUTTING THE CULTURE IN AGRICULTURE
A WEAK RESPONSE
LITERARY CHARACTERS
IT'S GOT A MOTOR
THAT HAPPENED
CELEBRITY MEMOIRS
    $400 30
Born on a farm near Anamosa, Iowa, he often depicted rural life in his art, like "Seed Time & Harvest" from 1937
    $400 29
Remove 2 letters from "fragile" to get this near-synonym
    $400 12
"All children, except one, grow up", the one being him
    $400 19
A 2.2-horsepower motor drives the Vitamix 750, one of these with pre-programmed settings for smoothies & more
    $400 27
After conquering Italy, German King Otto I revived this imperial title in 962 A.D. & was crowned by Pope John XII
    $400 21
She recalled some of her happy times at Graceland in "From Here to the Great Unknown", completed by daughter Riley Keough
    $800 28
At age 19 in 1775 in his post as Salzburg court Konzertmeister, he composed "Il re pastore" ("The Shepherd King")
    $800 15
After smashing Loki, the Hulk calls him this unimposing 4-letter type of god
    $800 13
This 19th century classic follows the romantic relationships of sisters Elinor & Marianne Dashwood
    $800 18
A small motor drives the turntable in one of these, whether countertop or over-the-range
    $800 26
On June 1, 1969 Canada's CBC stopped accepting ads for this product on TV & radio
    $800 22
This TV journalist dedicated her 2024 memoir, in part, to "My Dearest Maury" (Povich)
    $1200 4
He painted about 25 canvases of haystacks after a harvest; the fields were near his house in Giverny
    $1200 9
Add -ary to this word for weak & you get a word for a small hospital
    $1200 2
Bigger Thomas ends up in prison for 2 murders, one accidental & the other deliberate, in this Richard Wright novel
    $1200 16
A clicking noise when you turn the ignition can mean a bad this, the motor that gets your combustion-engine car going
    DD: $2,600 3
Anytus, Meletus & Lycon were the 3 prosecutors in the trial of this man in 399 B.C.
    $1200 23
"The Castiles", "Steel Mill" & "The River" are chapters in a memoir by this rocker
    $1600 5
She painted 20th century agricultural scenes, like "Moving Day on the Farm"
    $1600 8
The "crep" in the middle of this word is from the Latin for to crack or burst
    DD: $2,000 7
Shimerda is the last name of the heroine of this Willa Cather novel
    $1600 11
The fan that cools the CPU, short for this part of your computer, is essentially a little brushless motor
    $1600 1
At the start of the 1500s, Diego de Deza was the second holder of this title & during his tenure, over 1,600 "heretics" perished
    $1600 24
Wondering whose big hairy arms are on the cover of this Tina Fey bestseller? They belong to hand model & actor Joe Rosario
    $2000 6
Bathsheba Everdene owns a farm & Gabriel Oak is a shepherd in this Thomas Hardy novel 1st published in The Cornhill Magazine
    $2000 10
Mao wrote that "Imperialism and Reactionaries are Paper" these animals that only appear to have power
    $2000 14
He's the aging butler who narrates & reflects upon his life in "The Remains of the Day"
    $2000 17
An electric motor powers this part of a refrigerator that condenses low-pressure coolant into high-pressure gas
    $2000 20
It's the collective term for the Russian conspirators who failed in their late 1825 attempt to overthrow Czar Nicholas I
    $2000 25
Among those he writes about in his family memoir, "The Friday Afternoon Club", are late sister Dominique & Aunt Joan Didion

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alison Will Rishabh
$9,800 $15,200 $5,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS
Home to more than 400,000, it's the only world capital in the "Roaring Forties" latitudes

Final scores:

Alison Will Rishabh
$4,399 $10,799 $0
2nd place: $5,000 Winner: guaranteed semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Alison Will Rishabh
$10,800 $13,800 $5,400
17 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $30,000

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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