Audio-only game #4 - Friday, January 24, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions exhibition game for players with byes into the semifinals.
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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

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 UK 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 plus 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 eastern Asian country switched from right to left in 1976 and has remained that way in independence
    $800 11
A mockup 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, McDuff was from his mother's womb that way ripped
    $1000 21
The 1996 race to be a heartbeat away was between Al Gore and this ex-football pro
    $1000 16
Her & the Banshees

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

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

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

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

Double Jeopardy! Round

CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO
(Ken: I hope you're fluent.)
BIRD-ESE
AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS
SPORTS MOVIES
ANAGRAMED BIBLE PEOPLE
LET'S TALK ABOUT SIX, BABY
    $400 30
Relatively speaking, these two are frato & fratino
    $400 28
They soar as Boston College's sports teams
    $400 18
His lawyer characters Jake Briggins, Adam Hall & Reggie Love could start a firm
    $400 26
Denzel Washington started as the dad of a hoops phenom in "He Got Game", written & directed by this man
    $400 22
Roman boss in Judea:
ALE PIT
    $400 27
It's the Greek-derived name for a six-sided polygon
    $800 29
Feliĉan 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 six classic weapons include is this, usually more for tightening a bolt than killing a professor
    $1200 9
Saluton & adiaŭ are these two 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 Gallahad
    $1200 2
Wasteful wastrel welcomed back:
DROOLING SAP
    $1200 6
He created the successful sextet when, in the late '70s, he gathered five musicians to be the News
    $1600 10
You gotta have koro, because 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 seventh-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 lbs. stands guard & warms a single egg for about 65 days
    $2000 8
She's the youngest & possibly the most annoying of Jane Austin's Bennett 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 premonarchic Israel:
ORB HEAD
    $2000 20
This city is the capital of Western Australia, one of Oz's six states

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

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

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Adriana Isaac Drew
$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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