Show #9264 - Thursday, February 6, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Neilesh Vinjamuri, a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania

Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii

Drew Basile, a graduate student from Birmingham, Michigan

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Jeopardy! Round

STOCKING THE CABINET
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
LEGENDARY TWEETS
(Ken: You'll name the person responsible for each one.)
KIND OF BLUE POP CULTURE
LIBRARY GLOSSARY
ENDS IN "FF"
    $200 27
This chief justice of the U.S. moonlighted at his old secretary of state gig for John Adams
    $200 12
The canals of Xochimilco are in the southern part of this national capital built on an ancient lake bed
    $200 9
"Contrary to popular belief, me don't only eat cookies. Me eat three square meals a day... with lots of circular desserts"
    $200 30
This team flies the coop from Rogers Centre for spring training at TD Ballpark in Florida
    $200 24
2 essential types of call numbers are Dewey Decimal & this classification system abbreviated L.C.
    $200 22
This type of tax on imports goes back to Arabic for "notification"
    $400 25
Herbert Hoover handled merch in this Cabinet post under Warren Harding & Calvin Coolidge
    $400 11
Found in Guyana's national dish, pepperpot, cassareep is a thick syrup extracted from this plant
    $400 10
"I rewatched 'Office Space' tonight for the 5th time to prepare for @doge!"
    $400 29
In this frat comedy, Will Ferrell sings a riveting rendition of "Dust In The Wind" at the funeral of his pal Blue
    $400 23
I.L.L., short for this, won't make you sick; it's just a way of borrowing books from other repositories
    $400 21
It can mean to mock someone, or to eat voraciously
    $600 17
An ex-presidential candidate himself, he diplomatically followed Hillary Clinton as Obama's secretary of state
    $600 6
The Grande St. Lucian is one of more than 15 of these Caribbean resorts for couples in love
    $600 4
"I have to dress Kim every day so she doesn't embarrass me"
    $600 13
From 1996 to 2002 Steve Burns hosted this children's show, solving puzzles with a pup
    $600 15
Another name for the loan desk is this 4-syllable word, a reference to how the books move around
    $600 18
It's the Hogwarts house that fits the category
    $800 16
Treasury Sec. Salmon P. Chase raised revenue & inflation by printing the U.S. government's first currency, known by this colorful name
    DD: $1,000 7
The name of this territory means "our land" in an Inuit language
    $800 3
"Oh. My. God. I spend my day cleaning & vacuuming & sanitizing everything in the house. I have become Danny Tanner"
    $800 28
James Cameron said he chose blue for this alien species because "green was taken"
    $800 1
Also a Triple Crown racehorse, it's a reference to a book or magazine including publication date, author & so on
    $800 19
In ancient Rome, an ancestor of the English type of this dog breed fought bears, lions & even gladiators in the arena
    $1000 14
Robert Todd Lincoln, who saw his share of bad stuff, was in this president's Cabinet & witnessed his fatal shooting in Washington
    $1000 8
Pacific port cities of this smallest Central American nation include La Unión & Acajutla
    $1000 5
"And of course, the film 'Gravity' (2013) should instead have been named 'Zero Gravity"'
    $1000 26
"Hollywood Sadcore" has been used to describe this artist, as well as her music video for "Blue Jeans"
    $1000 2
Your library may have a reader for this type of film, with reproductions of newspapers & a name from French
    $1000 20
This word meant any bishop, but now it's specifically the bishop of Rome

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

Basile Goins Neilesh
-$400 $1,600 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Basile Goins Neilesh
$800 $4,800 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

ENGLISH LIT
(Ken: Ooh, not great news...)
YOU NEED TO SEE A SPECIALIST
THE ARTS
NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES
WELL, WELL
FUNNY BOY IS AN ACTOR NOW
    $400 9
This book begins, "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy"
    $400 19
A maternal-fetal medicine doctor can judge the wisdom of VBAC, giving birth naturally when you've previously delivered this way
    $400 14
A 1912 review of this ballet based on Russian folklore said ornithologists would be interested in a new discovery that flew on stage
    $400 21
Pink outfits are central to this "-core" that got some pop culture heat from a 2023 flick with some real dolls
    $400 28
A holy well in this U.K. country is named for Saint Winifred, whose head ended up in it; her name sometimes starts with "G"
    $400 23
He left "City Slickers" & Oscar hosting behind for roles like writer with dementia ("Here Today") & widower therapist ("Before")
    $800 2
"Catriona", a sequel to this novel, recounts "The Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad"
    $800 18
It's thalassemia, so you're short on this protein that carries oxygen in the blood--here's a referral to the hematologist
    $800 6
This painter is a character in the animated film "Coco", still creating art in the Land of the Dead
    $800 20
Involving a paper container, this phrase refers to what someone is after not selling that bad investment, now even worse
    $800 29
At a well in Genesis 24, this biblical matriarch helps out some thirsty camels & soon is Isaac's wife
    $800 24
Albert Brooks of likable schlub roles was chilling as mobster Bernie in this Ryan Gosling movie
    $1200 1
Published in 1853, "Villette", her last completed novel, tells of a young woman who teaches at a boarding school in the title town
    $1200 17
Meaning related to the elderly, it precedes "medicine" for a specialist who sees a lot of falls & dementia
    $1200 5
This architect captured the horizontal sweep of the Plains in the Prairie style, as seen in his Robie House
    $1200 15
Meaning perfectly acceptable, this word from "Simpsons" fame made it into Merriam-Webster in 2023
    $1200 30
The man seen here is deciding where to dig a well; he's divining or doing this, which sounds like soaking someone with water
    $1200 25
Snubbed by the Academy for "Daddy Day Care", he earned an Oscar nomination for an edgy role in "Dreamgirls"
    $1600 7
This James Joyce novel ends, "The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the"
    DD: $7,200 11
An epileptologist will know how to treat tonic-clonic seizures, the bad kind also known by this French name
    $1600 4
Bernini sculpted this goddess struggling helplessly as she is dragged to the underworld
    DD: $3,600 10
This online activity of anxiously poring over the sad state of affairs was in full swing in 2024
    $1600 22
In a soul music classic, it's when you miss your water; it happens faster in a water table aquifer than in a confined aquifer
    $1600 26
On film in the '70s this stand-up legend made comedies like "Silver Streak" but also the Marxist auto worker drama "Blue Collar"
    $2000 8
This Irish poet & 1995 Nobel laureate won monster praise for his modern translation of "Beowulf"
    $2000 16
An endocrinologist can treat this insufficiency--the glands of the same name are under-producing hormones like cortisol
    $2000 3
This pioneering photographer titled his iconic photo of garment worker Ella Watson "American Gothic"
    $2000 13
E.H.E. is short for this type of steamy meteorological happening, all too common now with climate change
    $2000 12
Giving oil since 1861, McClintock Well #1 in Northwest Pennsylvania was long-owned by this motor oil company with a Pennsylvania name
    $2000 27
Sacha Baron Cohen gets all upset on "Disclaimer", with this blonde actress as documentarian Catherine Ravenscroft

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Basile Goins Neilesh
$6,800 $4,400 $8,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY
Wadi al-Malekat in Arabic, this site near a similar & better known location was the burial place of Nefertari & others

Final scores:

Basile Goins Neilesh
$8,802 $4,000 $13,601
2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Basile Goins Neilesh
$7,800 $9,600 $8,800
14 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $26,200

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Game tape date: 2024-12-05
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