Show #9257 - Tuesday, January 28, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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David Erb, a puzzle designer from Seattle, Washington

Grant DeYoung, a delivery driver from Prescott, Arizona

Amy Hummel, an ER doctor from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Jeopardy! Round

WORLD WAR II FACTS
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
NOISES
POP MUSIC'S MISSING LINKS
LITERARY SWINE
UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES
(Ken: And then, I'd like you to come on down to [*].)
    $200 25
More than 2,000 people of Japanese descent were shipped from Latin American countries to the U.S. & put in these, like Crystal City
    $200 26
I wanna wish you a merry Christmas--in Spanish, so I'm saying this 2-word phrase
    $200 28
Here's the sweet sound of one of these clubs, which in many golf bags start at No. 4
    $200 29
Almost ____
By The Dashboard Light
    $200 30
In a beloved book Charlotte the spider goes to great lengths to help save this pig from the axe
    $200 23
Go ahead, kick the tires on a 1953 Eldorado convertible one of these, six figures in the right condition, which mine is not
    $400 24
Papers planted by the British on a corpse detailed an Allied invasion of Sardinia, allowing a surprise July 1943 attack here instead
    $400 6
This Hebrew toast means "to life!"
    $400 27
To imitate a cash register or just mean "Here comes money!", this word has sometimes been used without the usual ka- or cha-
    $400 21
A country mash-up: Should've Been
A ____
Take Me Away
    $400 17
4 pigs including Snouter & Tusker pull the Hogfather's sleigh in one of the "Discworld" books by this author
    $400 22
This automaker may have stopped production on its Celica in 2006, but I've got a 1994 one that gets 26 MPG ready to go
    $600 1
Vasily Zaitsev killed 225 people at this 1942 battle & later was played by Jude Law in a 2001 film
    $600 3
It's a German way to say, "thank you very much" even though the second word actually means "beautiful"
    $600 9
2-note come-on heard in the 1943 cartoon "Red Hot Riding Hood"
    $600 18
Truth ____
So Good
    $600 16
Gub-Gub the pig is this man's friend & accompanies him on his overseas adventures
    $600 13
That convertible? A 1990 Mazda MX-5 one of these from when it first hit the U.S.--I see you appreciate a sweet ride, my friend
    DD: $1,000 2
Force K6, made up of Muslims from the Punjab, was among British units evacuated from this French seaport in spring 1940
    $800 4
Headed to New Orleans for Mardi Gras? Use this Cajun French phrase that means "Let the good times roll"
    $800 8
To take arcades by storm with your new "This Is Us" one of these machines, carefully craft how the bumpers & flippers sound
    $800 20
Tell It To ____ ____ Will Go On
    $800 15
In a work by Dick King-Smith, "Ace: The Very Important Pig", the title swine is a great-grandson of this fellow
    $800 12
Okay, okay, Ralph Nader called this model that debuted in 1960 a one-car accident, but ain't it cute
    $1000 10
Prompted by the 1942 raid on Tokyo named for this man, Japan developed balloon bombs made from rubberized silk
    $1000 5
It's how an ancient Roman would tell you "Beware of dog"
    $1000 7
The makers of the Inspire implant measure its success partly in reduction of this noise
    $1000 19
Shut up And ____
The Night Away
    $1000 14
Jodie, a phantom pig with red eyes, shows up in this Jay Anson book about a terrifying possessed house in suburban New York
    $1000 11
Ah, this '76 AMC ride--remember the one Dana Carvey drove in "Wayne's World"? 71 grand at auction; the one on my lot is a steal

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

Amy Grant David
$800 $600 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Amy Grant David
$2,200 $2,800 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

A WINGED CATEGORY
FROM TV SHOW TO FILM
LET'S KEEP IT ABOVE THE WAIST
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES
GEOGRAPHIC NEIGHBORS
IN COMPATIBILITY
(Ken: Responses here made up of letters in the word "compatibility".)
    $400 25
This beverage brand informs us that it "gives you wiiings"
    $400 26
Johnny Depp & Peter DeLuise have cameos at the end of this 2012 back-to-school cop comedy
    $400 27
The left & right hilum anchor these organs in place & are where the bronchi enter
    $400 28
Ice Age footprints have been discovered in a dry ancient lake bed in White Sands National Park in this state
    $400 29
Drive west across the Mississippi River from East Hannibal, Illinois & you'll find yourself in this state
    $400 30
It's pretty obvious there's one in the cleu
    $800 20
Take an Olympian like Poseidon, a Gorgon like Medusa & of course those 2 will produce this winged offspring; that's just science
    $800 18
A 2022 headline said, "'Jackass Forever' was attuned to the passing of wind & time", & called this actor the first "Jackass" silver fox
    $800 7
In humans, it's the roof of the mouth; in some whales, baleen hangs from it
    $800 17
The remains of this English king, showing signs of battle wounds & scoliosis, were located beneath a parking lot in 2012
    DD: $2,000 23
It's about a 30-mile drive on the A4 between these 2 Dutch cities named for their locations along rivers
    $800 24
It somehow means both pleasant, mild weather & foolish or insane
    $1200 1
Harry Potter earned the respect of Buckbeak, one of these winged hybrid creatures
    $1200 19
Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson filled the title roles in this 2004 film based on a 1970s cop show
    $1200 4
A deficiency of iodine is the most common cause of this, an enlargement of the thyroid gland
    $1200 16
In 2024 researchers announced the discovery of the skeletons of a man & a woman trapped at this Italian site by a deadly eruption
    $1200 11
Tortola, the largest of these islands, is about 50 miles from St. Croix, the largest of the U.S. ones
    $1200 15
"Jaws" taught everyone that this, "as you know, means friendship"
    $1600 2
The Tony Award is named for this actress, director & co-founder of the American Theater Wing
    $1600 22
A clumsy Rowan Atkinson took a "Holiday" in a 2007 film based on this Britcom
    DD: $3,000 5
Blood that's depleted of oxygen returns to the heart via this, either superior or inferior
    $1600 12
Using descriptions from the "Iliad", Heinrich Schliemann began excavating this city, or cities one on top of another, in 1870
    $1600 10
Eastern Greece, southern Bulgaria & western this country come together at a point a few miles from Edirne
    $1600 14
It precedes "approval" for something agreed to without actually speaking on the subject
    $2000 3
Born in Lebanon, he wrote "The Broken Wings", a poetic novel set in Beirut & first published in Arabic in 1912
    $2000 21
When this movie based on an '80s show begins, "Numb/Encore" plays over a scene at a Florida nightclub
    $2000 6
The C2 vertebra is also called this; it allows you to rotate your head
    $2000 8
Plato had his Academy & Aristotle had this school, the ruins of which were discovered in Athens in 1996
    $2000 9
It's about a 90-mile jaunt across the Torres Strait from the northern tip of Queensland to this big island
    $2000 13
Medieval disputes might be settled via "single" this; the romance "Guy of Warwick" tells of a hero who saves a land by winning one

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Amy Grant David
$6,600 $3,200 $7,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

PALINDROMIC DATES
(Ken: That might be a first for us.)
This 7-digit date saw the premiere of Handel's "Water Music"

Final scores:

Amy Grant David
$6,401 $399 $1,199
Winner: guaranteed semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Amy Grant David
$7,600 $2,000 $5,800
14 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
10 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $15,400

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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