Show #9259 - Thursday, January 30, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

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Will Stewart, a political organizer originally from Nashville, Tennessee

Ryan Manton, a systems administrator from Columbus, Ohio

Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington

Jeopardy! Round

U.S. CITIES
HOMONYMBLE ON YOUR FEET
FITNESS
IN THE AIR
PRE-BOOTS
LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER
    $200 29
More than 30% of its approximately 105,000 residents are students at the University of Colorado
    $200 28
To scoop water out of a boat, or to leave suddenly to avoid a bad situation
    $200 30
Sets of these to elevate you & raise your heart rate include L.A.'s Prospect ones & D.C.'s Exorcist ones
    $200 25
In 1961 an airplane looking for bugs in the atmosphere found one of these wood eaters flying at 19,000 feet
    $200 27
"They're not saints" was a tagline for this 2011 show with Minka Kelly as one of the title trio; Jaclyn Smith was heavenly in 1976
    $200 10
First name of Koufax or Duncan + a frozen waffle brand once owned by Kellogg's = this not quite a Southern California city
    $400 15
"There's no place like" this Alaskan gold rush town located on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula
    $400 26
To follow stealthily during a hunt, or the main stem of a plant
    $400 19
Get fit with this fighting sport whose name indicates it uses hands & feet; MMA adds other moves like grappling
    $400 24
These 2 elements make up more than 90% of the air you breathe
    $400 23
Nicollette Sheridan & Elaine Hendrix both played Alexis in 2019 on this nighttime soap, but Joan Collins was enough in 1981
    $400 14
1st name of the guy "who lives in a pineapple under the sea" + activity with "star promenade" & "arm turns" = this dude with new moves
    $600 2
Incorporated in 1961, this Florida city lives up to its name today around 7 a.m.
    $600 17
Extremely sensitive to the touch, or a smaller ship used to assist a larger one... any "Below Deck" fans playing now?
    $600 18
This company's star instructors for member workouts have included Kristin McGee for yoga & Cody Rigsby on the bike
    DD: $1,000 9
These avians can rotate their wings to generate lift while flapping both up & down, enabling them to hover in the air
    $600 22
There was a time, 2013, when Chris Hardwick hosted "After Midnight", but today, it's this comedian who's on "After Midnight"
    $600 13
The state where you'll find Sleepy Hollow & New Paltz + shortened plural for a cloth used to blow the nose
    $800 1
Named for a city in France, this state capital lies along the Winooski River
    $800 16
A part of the body, or a pro wrestler who purposely antagonizes fans; c'mon, ref! How did you not see that?!
    $800 8
Seen more often at senior swim than a Katie Ledecky workout, it does help work your obliques
    $800 6
These delicate, high-level clouds are made entirely of ice crystals
    $800 21
In 2018 Juliet Higgins helped solve mysteries in Hawaii on this show, but back in 1980, it was Jonathan Higgins on the case
    $800 12
A word preceding "punishment" when that's applied to a body + married name of Ark. gov. Sarah = this demoted fried chicken magnate
    $1000 3
Take a load off in this third-largest Iowa city that hosts a famous jazz festival honoring native son Bix Beiderbecke
    $1000 4
Prey, or an excavation to remove stone
    $1000 7
As a model of the universe opposed to the Big Bang, it's in trouble; as a low-intensity type of cardio training, it's still popular
    $1000 5
Look out! We're surrounded by this, the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere
    $1000 20
Whether it was Roselyn Sánchez in 2021 or Ricardo Montalbán in 1977, your "Fantasy Island" host had this last name
    $1000 11
5-letter synonym for terrible that also describes the "Truth" in a film title + the Willis one in Illinois = this European eyesore

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

Mehal Ryan Will
$2,200 $2,600 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mehal Ryan Will
$4,200 $4,000 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

COUNTS & COUNTESSES
FILMMAKERS
ASIAN HISTORY
COMMUNICATION
AUTHORS
STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL
    $400 22
Before her contemporary Charles Perrault, Countess d'Aulnoy used this name for a type of story, conte de fées in French
    $400 29
The 2020 movie On the Rocks reunited Bill Murray & this director who Murray says was a child when they made "Lost in Translation"
    $400 20
West Papua became a part of this country in 1969 as its Irian Jaya province
    $400 28
Rhyming synonym for a namecheck
    $400 27
Andrew Neiderman has written 60+ books under the name of this "Flowers in the Attic" author plus her bio, "The Woman Beyond the Attic"
    $400 19
It's the collective term for all the people in an area eligible to vote
    $800 21
Countess Jacqueline des Ribes was one of the original women Truman Capote compared to these birds
    $800 30
Fresh out of film school, he insisted on directing his screenplay of Boyz n the Hood, which starred Ice Cube & Cuba Gooding Jr.
    $800 16
During the Vietnam War, this Asian city was the headquarters of American military operations
    $800 23
In a 2017 movie one of these title objects in Missouri reads, "And Still No Arrests?"
    $800 26
This author of "The Right Stuff" defined the new journalism as using fiction techniques in reporting
    $800 18
Shapely name for President's Park South, a 52-acre location near the White House used for gatherings & other activities
    $1200 12
The Count of Cavour helped unify this European nation & became its first prime minister in 1861, inspired by his youthful love for the radical Nina
    $1200 25
He directed "Frances Ha" & "Mistress America", both co-written with star Greta Gerwig
    $1200 3
Öz Beg was both great & powerful as khan of this group whose territory ranged from the Carpathians to Siberia
    $1200 17
Since 1991, this 3-letter abbreviation has referred to familiar text messaging technology
    $1200 24
Early novelists often titled books after a character; see Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews", "Jonathan Wild" & this 1749 tale
    $1200 13
A region of ancient Greece, it was the pastoral home of the god Pan
    $1600 8
18th c. charlatan Count Cagliostro posed as this, a transmuter of base metal, if you can pose as a job that's already a scam
    $1600 11
In the '30s, he directed upbeat films like "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town", with Gary Cooper in the title role
    $1600 1
The Killing Fields of Cambodia got their name due to the brutality of this French-named Communist group
    DD: $7,400 14
The Baltic-Finnic languages include Finnish & this national language spoken due south across the Viro Strait
    DD: $100 15
Sinclair Lewis created this guy, a symbol of materialist conformity; Matthew Broderick played him on stage in 2024
    $1600 4
In "War and Peace" Pierre is criticized for preaching the doctrines of this secret group
    $2000 9
Found in The Hague, one of Holland's great museums was the House Orhuis of this man & there's a portrait of him inside
    $2000 10
"12 Years a Slave" was the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar that was directed & produced by a Black filmmaker, this Brit
    $2000 2
This Sri Lankan Guerrilla force attacked Colombo's airport in 2001, destroying many of the country's commercial planes
    $2000 7
It's alternation of types of speech, common among Black employees moving in & out of African-American vernacular English
    $2000 6
In 2023 an amateur scholar found a creepy story by this Irish novelist, "Gibbet Hill", from an 1890 newspaper & unpublished since
    $2000 5
Ismat Chughtai, a writer in this South Asian language, shocked some with her 1942 story "The Quilt" about female-female intimacy

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mehal Ryan Will
$7,400 $14,400 $14,900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

LATIN PHRASES
After Camillagate, a fire at Windsor castle & marriage problems in her family, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed 1992 this

Final scores:

Mehal Ryan Will
$399 $13,899 $900
3rd place: $5,000 Winner: guaranteed semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mehal Ryan Will
$7,000 $14,400 $10,600
16 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 13 R,
0 W		 13 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $32,000

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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