Show #9258 - Wednesday, January 29, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

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Neilesh Vinjamuri, a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania

Weckiai Rannila, an engineer from Albuquerque, New Mexico

Greg Jolin, a system specialist and accountant from Raymond, New Hampshire

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Jeopardy! Round

PARTS OF SPEECH
AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK
3 OF A KIND
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES
THE REST IS HISTORY
(Tom: I'm Tom Holland.) (Dominic: And I am Dominic Sandbrook. We host the podcast The Rest Is History.) (Tom: And we'll have clues that we hope bring our favorite topic to life.)
    $200 5
Leaving the seat up is 100% contemptible: contemptible
    $200 24
Often served in a bowl with rice, this dish from Hawaii has a name meaning "to cut or slice into pieces"
    $200 30
Hosea,
Philemon,
Colossians
    $200 29
Hemingway lived for over 20 years at the hilltop estate known as Finca Vigia, or "Lookout Farm", outside this Caribbean capital
    $200 16
Start your engines:
"The Ballad of Ricky Bobby"
    $200 18
(Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Tom: The 1948 Costa Rican Civil War had a twist ending; José Figueres emerged at the head of this type of group, Spanish for "meeting".)
(Dominic: But surprise, he abolished the army, sex discrimination in voting rights & his own government & went back to democratic elections)
    $400 4
We will repair the submarine ourselves if you will just stop your frenzied yammering:
ourselves
    $400 22
They're the 2 beverages that when added together make an Arnold Palmer
    $400 28
Incus,
hyoid,
vomer
    $400 23
Hemingway, an avid angler, caught many of these large sport fish; his "Old Man" character only managed one blue one
    $400 20
Sea what happens:
"The Curse of the Black Pearl"
    $400 17
(Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: Our listeners have to deal with some Britishisms--in 1790, jailers were gobsmacked to find that Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette had scarpered.)
(Tom: They were trying to get to the protection of Marie's brother, Leopold II, of this country; but they were captured & really copped it)
    $600 1
Joe versus the volcano:
versus
    $600 6
If you're "makin'" the classic version of this state treat of Maine, you'll need some Marshmallow Fluff for the filling
    $600 27
Charmander,
Rattata,
Jigglypuff
    $600 19
Titled "Fiesta" in England, this novel told of Lost Generation Yanks & Brits in France & Spain in the 1920s
    $600 25
Rebels on the run: "Catching Fire"
    $600 15
(Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: The French went their own way with the passengers on their early rockets, including the first catstronaut.)
(Tom: She was dubbed Félicette in honor of this star of early cartoons & had the distinction of actually surviving her sub-orbital flight)
    $800 2
Sarah chose to go to the meditation tent, whereas I went to Vegas:
whereas
    $800 10
This rum cocktail with a rhyming name borrowed from Tahitian was created stateside by the owner of Trader Vic's
    $800 9
Butterhead,
cress,
escarole
    $800 8
Hemingway looked back on his life as a young writer in 1920s Paris in this memoir
    $800 21
Institutionalized:
"Battle of the Smithsonian"
    $800 14
(Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: Despite her stature on the political & the Broadway stage, Eva Perón's career in public life only lasted six years.)
(Tom: Her first world exposure came when she made a rockstar-like rainbow tour in 1947, starting with a visit to this Spanish leader)
    $1000 3
After climbing the mountain, Antoine thought that never in his 26 vampiric lifetimes had he been so tired:
so
    $1000 7
This seafood stew was created by Italian immigrants in San Francisco from the day's catch off the Wharf
    $1000 11
Alef,
samekh,
gimel
    DD: $1,000 12
Ernest was an ambulance driver in World War I, just like his hero Frederic Henry in this novel
    $1000 26
Could spell trouble:
"The Secrets of Dumbledore"
    $1000 13
(Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Tom: The women of this city-state, the most powerful in Greece around 400 B.C., were as tough as the men.)
(Dominic: Plutarch reports that her mother would tell her son to come back from war carrying his shield or dead on top of it)

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

Greg Weckiai Neilesh
$600 $2,800 $6,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Greg Weckiai Neilesh
$1,400 $3,000 $10,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER
HOW FAR IS IT?
RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES
BROADWAY DEBUTS
CHEMISTRY
PIANO LESSON
    $400 5
Egypt's Nubian Valley is now submerged beneath the waters of this lake named for an Egyptian president
    $400 17
All the way around a Major League Baseball diamond, from home to 1st to 2nd to 3rd to home again: this many feet
    $400 30
This word precedes many exclamations, some indecent, but also "terror" to refer to a wild child
    $400 28
Nicole Scherzinger's 2024 performance as Norma Desmond in this musical garnered a 6-minute standing ovation on opening night
    $400 15
A 2008 study did God's honest work & found out how the structure of this "Freshmaker" candy causes Diet Coke to effervesce
    $400 29
French for "study", these piano pieces were originally designed to improve certain techniques
    $800 4
This part of Niagara Falls is named for its curved crest, some 2,200 feet wide
    $800 9
From the Woodrow Wilson Service Area in Hamilton Township to the Joyce Kilmer Service Area in East Brunswick on this turnpike: 4 exits
    $800 26
This Jewish dietary word is used in other contexts, like "Father O'Leary says miniskirts at mass are not..."
    $800 24
In 2022 Greg Kinnear made his debut in "To Kill a Mockingbird" when he took over this role from Jeff Daniels
    $800 11
Remember your Greek roots--glycogen is a polymer, but glucose is this type of -mer
    DD: $2,000 27
Of the 4 main instrument families in an orchestra, the piano actually belongs to both of these
    $1200 1
There's a bit of a debate about the largest lake in South America: is it Lake Titicaca or this Venezuelan one?
    $1200 8
From Q to T on a standard keyboard: across this many intervening keys
    $1200 23
First name of the man seen here & of his character on "The Office"
    $1200 14
This Brit made his debut opposite Glenn Close in "The Real Thing" before starring with her in the movie "Reversal of Fortune"
    $1200 10
A theory has it that the heat & pressure on Neptune & Uranus can produce rain made of this form of carbon
    $1200 25
The piece heard here may have been named for a club in Missouri where this composer played piano
    $1600 3
This 4-letter German canal connects the North Sea & the Baltic Sea
    $1600 16
From Launch Complex 14 at this site to the Moon: roughly 240,000 miles
    $1600 21
Louis XIV was christened "Dieudonné", meaning this, so he really thought he was this alliterative phrase
    $1600 12
In his first 2 Broadway roles, he played Eugene Jerome in the premieres of "Brighton Beach Memoirs" & "Biloxi Blues"
    $1600 7
Give a clock using this element at the Natl. Institute of Standards & Tech. 300 million years & it will gain or lose one second
    $1600 19
Bartolomeo Cristofori, a well-known maker of this instrument, adapted it to invent the piano
    $2000 2
Bombed in 1950 & never rebuilt, the broken bridge over this river allows a glimpse from China into North Korea
    DD: $3,800 22
From L.A. to this atoll, about 3,500 miles; from there to Shanghai, about 3,500 more
    $2000 20
The 11th, 12th & 13th holes at Augusta National, or an area of a church for parishioners giving often fervent responses
    $2000 13
Bette Midler made her Broadway debut, first in the chorus, then as daughter Tzeitel, in this musical
    $2000 6
Fluorine is part of this group of elements on the periodic table named for their salt-forming ability
    $2000 18
"Chiarina", one of the 21 pieces in his piano composition called "Carnaval", was inspired by his future wife Clara Wieck

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Greg Weckiai Neilesh
$800 $4,600 $28,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ENGLISH LITERATURE
Part II of this 17th century work says, "I see myself now at the end of my journey; my toilsome days are ended"

Final scores:

Greg Weckiai Neilesh
$1,031 $7,599 $28,200
3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000 Winner: guaranteed semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Greg Weckiai Neilesh
$6,600 $4,600 $28,200
13 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 8 R,
2 W		 33 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $39,400

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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