Show #9260 - Friday, January 31, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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Kevin Laskowski, an Episcopal priest from Falls Church, Virginia

Allison Gross, a data scientist from Cleveland, Ohio

Mark Fitzpatrick, a content manager from Riverside, Connecticut

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD FACTS
"H.R."
LUCKY 13
THE THEATER
OF EQUAL MEASURE
PLAYING SPORTSBALL
    $200 30
It's the only continent whose mainland lies in all 4 hemispheres
    $200 22
The United Nations' Universal Declaration of these has been called the most translated document in the world
    $200 28
"The best feeling in my life, to finally come back & hit that water", said this commander of the Apollo 13 mission
    $200 29
When "The Seagull" bombed in St. Petersburg in 1896, this dramatist vowed to give up playwriting
    $200 24
Currently, we're talking DC: 10 amps x 120 volts equals 1,200 of these
    $200 26
In 2004, LeBron James welcomed his son Bronny into the world; in 2024, Mr. J took his son to work as both hooped for this team
    $400 12
In its Constitution this country is also referred to as Bharat
    $400 21
Despite cell phones & the internet, this is still a popular hobby & can be useful in times of emergency
    $400 27
Atomic number 13, it's the most common metallic element in the Earth's crust, does not rust & resists weathering
    $400 23
In 2024 he traded in his Iron Man suit & made his Broadway debut as the title character in the play "McNeal"
    $400 20
Please don't sing your response, but one (non-leap) year has 525,600 of these
    $400 25
In 2019 Novak Djokovic & this Swiss mister couldn't get enough of Wimbledon, matching up for 4 hours & 57 minutes
    $600 6
Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe, is in this range that forms a boundary between Europe & Asia
    $600 9
Gamblers who wager lots of money at a casino, or, before "Jeopardy!", a game show hosted by Alex Trebek, featuring Ruta Lee & some dice
    $600 16
From Greek, it's an abnormal fear of the number 13
    $600 17
In a Euripides play, after she exacts revenge on Jason, she escapes in a chariot provided by her grandpa, the sun god Helios
    $600 19
Let's get deep--5,280 feet is 880 of these
    $600 3
For women, the playing area of this sport is roughly 27 yards x 22 yards & 6 feet deep
    $800 5
The largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere extends over 180 miles along the entire coast of this Central American country
    $800 8
This type of surgery involves removing a damaged femoral head & frequently the socket it fits into
    $800 15
The 15th century's "Thirteen Years' War" was between Poland & this order of Germanic knights that began as a crusader army
    $800 11
For its Canadian debut, this play by Heidi Schreck used Canada's Charter of Rights & Freedoms rather than the title U.S. document
    $800 18
You want 500 pecks, or 125 of these?
    $800 2
We get a kick out of this Argentinean who in 2012 became the first player to score 5 goals in a Champions League match
    DD: $1,800 4
Central Asia is made up of 5 countries, all former Soviet republics, including these 2 "T" ones
    $1000 7
It's the official name for Greece
    $1000 14
This Japanese musical instrument has 13 strings made of silk & is plucked with an ivory plectrum called a tsume
    $1000 10
The title guys of this Shakespeare play leave home & head to Milan; various love plots ensue
    $1000 13
In December 2024 200 British pounds got you $253 but 200 U.S. pounds was a constant 14.29 these
    $1000 1
In 2024 the only Jewish starting QB in college football was Jake Retzlaff of this Provo school, one of 3 M.O.T.s on the whole campus

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 16):

Mark Allison Kevin
$4,800 $1,600 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Allison Kevin
$7,000 $2,600 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHAT AN ARTIST DIES IN ME
ETYMOLOGY
WAY, WAY BACK IN THE DAY
ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK
NATURE
PLAYING NON-SPORTS"BALL"
    $400 26
After making his mother immortal (metaphorically, as the woman died in 1881), this American painter passed on July 17, 1903
    $400 27
Business stays all in the family with this word derived from Latin for nephew
    $400 28
Founded c. 800 B.C., this great city of antiquity on the north coast of Africa has a name meaning "new town"
    $400 30
2022:
"Suspicious Minds",
"Can't Help Falling In Love"
    $400 29
Despite its name, it also enjoys beetles, arachnids, grasshoppers
    $400 24
Larry Sabato has one for predicting political races, but also has the motto "he who lives by" this "ends up eating ground glass!"
    $800 25
Cousin to a noted gunmaker, this sculptor of "The Rattlesnake" died at 48 from complications after an appendectomy
    $800 16
It gets its name from originally being the seventh month of the Roman calendar
    $800 13
According to tradition, this ruler hid inside a rolled-up carpet to smuggle herself into Julius Caesar's quarters
    $800 7
1994:
"Son Of A Preacher Man",
"Surf Rider"
    $800 23
Used in herbal medicine, there's a fungus among us, named for its resemblance to this fowl's tail
    $800 22
Knaidel is another name for this item that you hope turns out light & airy for your chicken soup
    $1200 19
This American expat who drew--OK, painted--"The Child's Bath" would die at 82 near her beloved Paris in 1926
    $1200 3
It means "to walk before"; a famous one begins, "We the People"
    $1200 14
In the 490s B.C. he left the state of Lu along with his disciples after having been minister of crime
    $1200 6
Animated in 2009:
"Down In New Orleans",
"When We're Human"
    $1200 9
No cows are born during this process by which icebergs break off from glaciers
    $1200 10
She starred as the title character on TV's No. 1-rated show from October 1952 to April 1955
    DD: $5,000 18
If this Northern Renaissance painter of wild imagery was alive, he'd ask, "A TV cop has my name? & What's TV?"
    $1600 1
Not just found in Hawaiian waters, this fishy has a name that you could say means "strong-strong"
    $1600 15
Britannica calls this Roman's "Natural History" an "encyclopaedic scientific work of dubious accuracy"
    $1600 5
A 2014 mix tape:
"Hooked On A Feeling",
"Come And Get Your Love"
    $1600 21
Scientists have identified more than 20,000 species of these prehistoric arthropods named for three of a certain part
    $1600 12
The seller of the house you want needs to move fast; let's make this kind of offer, way under the asking price
    $2000 17
In 1614 in Toledo it was time for the burial of this "Burial of the Count of Orgaz" painter
    DD: $3,000 2
Aristotle believed there was a fifth element", which gives us this word for the purest form of something
    $2000 8
The ruler Ur-Nammu is credited with building the Great one of these pyramidal structures of Ur around 2100 B.C.
    $2000 4
1968:
"Lux Aeterna" &
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
    $2000 20
Agate, carnelian & even onyx are all varieties of this 10-letter quartz mineral
    $2000 11
Belly up to the bar & get this drink of strong + fizzy, such as whiskey & soda or gin & tonic

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mark Allison Kevin
$16,400 $10,400 $6,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PLACE NAMES
Before 1867, this city that lends its name to a type of tree was known as Novo Arkhangelsk

Final scores:

Mark Allison Kevin
$11,999 $8,399 $1
Winner: guaranteed semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mark Allison Kevin
$12,200 $13,400 $6,200
22 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 15 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $31,800

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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