Show #9261 - Monday, February 3, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

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Lucas Partridge, a high school counselor from Las Vegas, Nevada

Amar Kakirde, a policy analyst from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey

Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii

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Jeopardy! Round

THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND
KID STUFF
JUST TAKE THE W
VOYAGING THROUGH HISTORY
NICKNAMES
BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME
    $200 30
Walking with an animal pal, he's "credited" with creating Minnesota's 10,000 lakes with his deep footprints
    $200 22
These alliterative items for tots can be chewed on as well as read & their sales grew from 17 million in 2000 to 31 million in 2015
    $200 20
...from the start of a word meaning to flog to get this word meaning cool
    $200 28
Like Sinbad, Zheng He, a Ming-era admiral, scoured the world during this many voyages
    $200 23
In 1999 this academy officially adopted "Black Knights" as the nickname of its sports teams, though "Cadets" is still used too
    $200 29
A favorite in this 10-event event for the 1992 Olympics, Dan O'Brien failed to make the U.S. team; in 1996 he did & got the gold
    $400 26
Caught napping, this character finds "it's twenty years since he went away from home... and never has been heard of since"
    $400 21
One who plays or frolics, or a one-piece kids' garment similar to a jumpsuit
    $400 16
...from one of journalism's 5 Ws to get this avian
    $400 25
By reaching the Viscount Melville Sound, an arm of the Arctic, Sir Robert McClure helped prove the viability of this route
    $400 19
No one's sure how Charlemagne's grandson Charles II got this nickname, but contemporary illustrations show him with hair
    $400 14
In 1955, after 5 previous losses, this NL team finally beat the hated Yankees in the World Series
    $600 2
Covering wealth & agriculture as well as the underworld, this Roman god would have been displeased at a certain 2006 scientific decision
    $600 5
Kids & the authors of a 2023 analysis in the journal "Physical Review E" know this word for height-maximizing action on a swing
    $600 13
...out of a grassy area to get this acronym for a small computer network
    $600 9
Aotea Harbor in New Zealand is named for this type of 5-letter craft that Turi of Maori legend navigated
    $600 10
This blues legend nicknamed many of his guitars Lucille, after a woman who caused a nightclub fight
    $600 15
Carli Lloyd had 3 goals, this apparel-named feat, as the U.S. avenged a 2011 loss to Japan in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final
    $800 1
In another world, perhaps he's Washita William, but in ours he's this Texas legend who dined on nitroglycerin & barbed wire... once
    $800 3
Schaper Toys, creator of Cootie, also gave us this tap-tap-darn it! game of small blocks in a grid
    $800 11
...from the front of a word meaning to get smaller like the Moon, move it to the end & get this synonym for again
    DD: $1,400 8
Magellan's flagship on his epic journey had this Spanish name that honored the Father, Son & Holy Spirit
    $800 7
Does Las Vegas deserve this 2-word nickname? Well, a 2024 survey of vice in U.S. urban areas ranked it No. 1
    $800 27
Muhammad Ali lost the 1971 "Fight of the Century" to this archrival, but won the 1974 & 1975 rematches
    $1000 6
Legend said after this mythic figure headed east on a raft, he'd be back; that story about the Aztecs mistaking Cortes for him: bunk
    $1000 4
In General Mills iconography, Chef Wendell is the creator of CTC, this cereal
    $1000 12
...out of the middle of a subterranean drainage conduit to get this visionary
    $1000 24
In 1802 this German climbed Mount Chimborazo & his study of currents off South America led to one being named for him
    $1000 18
The Democratic Party's donkey symbol traces back to this synonymous but less-flattering nickname given to Andrew Jackson
    $1000 17
After losing the 2023 WNBA Finals, in 2024 the New York Liberty won it all, with this star's free throws sealing the deciding game

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

Drew Amar Lucas
$4,800 $2,400 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Drew Amar Lucas
$5,400 $3,800 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANAGRAMMED NUCLEAR PHYSICS
BRAND NAMES
WETLANDS
5-SYLLABLE WORDS
SUBTITLES OF BOOKS
ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES
    $400 16
Colorful name for a processed oxide of uranium:
WEEKLY COAL
    $400 26
This luxury car brand's logo of 4 interlocking rings symbolizes the 4 automakers that formed the company
    $400 18
The size of North Dakota, Llanos de Moxos in Bolivia is part of this river's Basin
    $400 15
A list of all the books & articles used when writing a particular work
    $400 19
This bestseller by Max Brooks bills itself as "An Oral History of the Zombie War"
    $400 28
MGM's 1953 epic "Julius Caesar" featured Marlon Brando as Mark Antony & James Mason as this betrayer
    DD: $5,400 12
Process of increasing the proportion of U-235 compared to U-238:
NINTH CREME
    $800 21
In 2023 this "Especial" import surpassed Bud Light to become the bestselling beer in America
    $800 23
Cold & oxygen-poor, this 3-letter type of swamp preserves folks like Denmark's Grauballe Man, who had his throat cut around 300 B.C.
    $800 14
It's the process when your dead skin is actually a-peeling
    DD: $2,800 13
The subtitle of "Frankenstein" was "The Modern" this, no mythtake
    $800 27
Paul Mescal is the fighter Lucius in "Gladiator II"; Russell Crowe is this super-sized fighter in the original
    $1200 5
A nucleus formed by the radioactive decay of a parent nuclide:
HATED RUG
    $1200 1
Jennifer Aniston has been a spokesperson for this drugstore brand of moisturizer, saying she's used it since she was a teen
    $1200 24
Zambia's Bangweulu Wetlands are home to the black lechwe, a relative of this antelope that fittingly has "water" in its name
    $1200 6
Adjective for an often metaphorical type of expression seemingly designed to confuse non-native speakers
    $1200 7
In "Dead Wake" Erik Larson wrote of the "Last Crossing of" this British ship, sunk by a U-boat in 1915
    $1200 20
Emil Jannings & Peter Ustinov both burned up the screen as this emperor in films based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' "Quo Vadis"
    $1600 4
This type of particle can be produced during reactions such as beta decay:
TIRE NOUN
    $1600 2
The largest branded marketer of baby apparel in North America, it also owns Oshkosh B'gosh
    $1600 22
Birds heading south for the winter are grateful for the estuary of this river, on Lisbon's doorstep
    $1600 9
It describes the nature of dancing, or a dancer, occupationally
    $1600 3
"The Children's Crusade" is the subtitle of this classic by Kurt Vonnegut
    $1600 29
In "Centurion", the ninth of these army units is on a mission to Scotland to wipe out the Picts; it doesn't go well
    $2000 11
The changing of one element into another through a nuclear reaction:
MOUNTAIN TARTS
    $2000 17
In the 1930s 2 golfers came up with this leading brand of ball after an X-ray proved another ball's core was off-center
    $2000 25
A haven for saltwater crocodiles is the Corroboree, one of these wet places in the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda"
    $2000 10
It's the specific scientific profession of the man seen here
    $2000 8
With a title from an 1890s song, this 1980s book is subtitled "Politics, People, & the AIDS Epidemic"
    $2000 30
Who can forget Jack Palance as this invader whose army threatened Rome in the 5th century & in 1954's "Sign of the Pagan"?

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Drew Amar Lucas
$31,200 $6,600 $7,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

PLACES OF DISASTER
In 1883 an old sailor didn't know what its name meant but believed the natives "named it from the sound"

Final scores:

Drew Amar Lucas
$32,008 $13,199 $5,411
Winner: guaranteed semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Drew Amar Lucas
$24,600 $6,000 $7,400
25 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 10 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 14 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $38,000

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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