Show #9270 - Friday, February 14, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions exhibition game for players with byes into the semifinals.
Played between the quarterfinals and the semifinals but televised after the finals.
Originally aired 2025-01-24 as audio-only on TuneIn.

Contestants

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Drew Basile, a graduate student from Birmingham, Michigan

Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California

Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana

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Jeopardy! Round

SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME
(Ken: This requires two- or even three-part responses from you.)
THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD
NEWSPAPER TERMS
"IME" ON IT
THE VICE PRESIDENCY: AMERICA DECIDES
GIMME SOME BACKUP
    $200 5
Sounds like Angelina's ex:
Pumpernickel or sourdough + a golf stroke done on the green
    $200 24
It's the southernmost nation in which traffic on the left side is standard
    $200 23
It's a short explanation beneath a picture or other graphic
    $200 25
A diversion, perhaps "the national" one
    $200 26
He was still walking jauntily in 1920 when he lost the vice presidency to Calvin Coolidge
    $200 17
Him &
the Heartbreakers
    $400 1
Sounds like a son of West African U.K. immigrants:
A Lincolnesque formal speech + where your arm bends
    $400 27
One of the few non-British colony left-side nations, it shares a border with right-traffic Laos, Myanmar & Cambodia
    $400 22
A bad location for your ball in bowling, or the white space between facing newspaper pages
    $400 6
3-word term for a misdeed committed in the heat of the moment
    $400 18
In 1980 George Bush (he didn't need "H.W." yet) decisively defeated this Minnesotan
    $400 13
Her &
the Supremes
    DD: $1,000 2
Sounds like a Batman:
3-letter term meaning to prohibit + a company with a duck symbol
    $600 28
From Donegal down to Waterford, it's driving on the left you'll be in this country
    $600 10
In October 2024 the publisher of The Washington Post wrote that the paper "will not be making" one of these in the presidential race
    $600 7
womenshealth.gov mentions fatigue, morning sickness, mood swings & heartburn as features of this 12-week period
    $600 19
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Nixon's running mate in 1960, was defeated by this man on the ticket with JFK
    $600 14
Her +
the Machine
    $800 3
Sounds like a "Strange" Marvel actor:
A brand of allergy & itch relief medicine + a tuxedo's waist sash
    $800 29
As part of Indonesia this "East"ern Asian country switched from right to left in 1976 & has remained that way in independence
    $800 11
A mock-up page indicating story, picture & headline position, it's also a ventriloquist's pal
    $800 8
British equivalent of gadzooks!
    $800 20
Dick Cheney narrowly won the office, meaning this man did not become the first Jewish veep
    $800 15
Him &
the Revolution
    $1000 4
Sounds like "Bad Santa":
A kid who prays on weaker ones + a plastic cover for eating lobster + an unlucky number
    $1000 30
It's the only "stan" country with left-side traffic
    $1000 12
The place where back issues & clippings are stored, it sounds like a spot where cadavers are kept
    $1000 9
Unseasonably or inopportunely; Macduff was from his mother's womb that way ripped
    $1000 21
The 1996 race to be a heartbeat away was between Al Gore & this ex-football pro
    $1000 16
Her &
the Banshees

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

Adriana Isaac Basile
$2,400 $3,600 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Basile
$3,200 $8,200 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO
(Ken: I hope you're fluent.)
BIRD "E"s
AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS
SPORTS MOVIES
ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE
LET'S TALK ABOUT 6
(Ken: ...baby.)
    $400 30
Relatively speaking, these 2 are frato & fratino
    $400 28
They soar as Boston College's sports teams
    $400 18
His lawyer characters Jake Brigance, Adam Hall & Reggie Love could start a firm
    $400 26
Denzel Washington starred as the dad of a hoops phenom in "He Got Game", written & directed by this man
    $400 22
Roman boss in Judaea:
ALE PIT
    $400 27
It's the Greek-derived name for a 6-sided polygon
    $800 29
"Felican Novan Jaron!" is likely more often said this way at the Rose Parade
    $800 25
"We send our" these wading birds, a type of heron
    $800 15
Thidwick, the Dr. Seuss "Big-Hearted Moose", barely survives his decisions to let a multitude of animals do this
    $800 17
Sam Wood directed the Marx Brothers in "A Night at the Opera" & Gary Cooper as this ballplayer in "The Pride of the Yankees"
    $800 19
Extremely senior citizen:
HULA THEMES
    $800 23
One of the 6 classic weapons in Clue is this, usually more for tightening a bolt than killing a professor
    $1200 9
Saluton & adiau are these 2 words that take people in different directions
    DD: $8,400 13
In the 1930s Australia declared a war of sorts on these large flightless birds
    $1200 14
His "Gift" was Saul Bellow's 1975 gift to readers
    $1200 3
In a 1962 movie this singer/actor joins boxing trainer Charles Bronson & becomes "Kid Galahad"
    $1200 2
Wasteful wastrel welcomed back:
DROOLING SAP
    $1200 6
He created a successful sextet when in the late '70s, he gathered 5 musicians to be the News
    $1600 10
You gotta have koro, 'cause you can't live without it
    $1600 16
Often nesting in cactus, the world's tiniest owl is not a dwarf owl or fairy owl, but this diminutive species
    DD: $3,000 1
In a 1973 book by her, Deenie has to deal with scoliosis as well as regular 7th grade issues
    $1600 4
If you've seen the movie with Luke Perry as Lane Frost, you know this is the minimum ride time per the Professional Bull Riders
    $1600 11
King in the first verse of the book of Daniel:
ACNE HEN BUZZARD
    $1600 7
When the musical "Six" about Henry VIII's wives opened on Broadway, Abby Mueller played this third wife, aka "Died"
    $2000 24
Esperi, related to the word Esperanto, is to do this
    $2000 21
What a dad! The male of this penguin that can weigh around 90 pounds stands guard & warms a single egg for about 65 days
    $2000 8
She's the youngest & possibly the most annoying of Jane Austin's Bennet sisters
    $2000 5
In "American Underdog", Zachary Levi plays this man who went from stocking grocery shelves to star Rams quarterback
    $2000 12
Prophetess & military leader of pre-monarchic Israel:
ORB HEAD
    $2000 20
This city is the capital of Western Australia, one of Oz' 6 states

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Basile
$10,800 $15,000 $19,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY
On an early book of Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator's maps, an image of this Titan holding the world was used

Final scores:

Adriana Isaac Basile
$20,800 $21,600 $38,400
3rd place 2nd place Winner

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Adriana Isaac Basile
$11,800 $15,000 $10,600
15 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 26 R,
4 W		 13 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $37,400

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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