Show #9265 - Friday, February 7, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions final game 1.

Contestants

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Neilesh Vinjamuri, a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania

Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California

Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana

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Jeopardy! Round

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
FLIGHTS OF FANCY
12-LETTER WORDS
LANDMARKS
POLE
POSITION
(Ken: These are songs on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 Chart.)
    $200 19
The second paragraph declares that the creator endows people with certain unalienable rights & then lists these 3
    $200 30
No, the Titanic's fate wasn't due to a curse involving a priestess of Amen-Ra or any of these tightly wrapped types
    $200 28
This adjective means complicated & difficult to find your way through, like confronting an ancient Cretan maze
    $200 20
The Taj Mahal features one large & 4 smaller these in the "onion" style
    $200 29
A national historic park has a collection of these from Tlingit history, including the Cormorant Memorial one
    $200 7
"Dig if you will the picture" of the top spot in 1984: this Prince hit
    $400 18
Language condemning the British practice of this "execrable commerce" was removed despite objections
    $400 12
Despite what you've heard, the traditional throwing of this at the end of a wedding will not harm birds or their tummies
    $400 27
From Greek for "making of words", this, meaning imitative of sound, might make you hiss
    $400 14
Greek for "high city", it rises some 500 feet above Athens
    $400 24
Their poles are thought to relate to the ancient practice of bloodletting, with red symbolizing blood & white, bandages
    $400 8
We can see why The Weeknd wears shades so often with this 2020 chart-topper
    $600 15
About 2 weeks after Pearl Harbor, the Declaration was hidden away at this Kentucky facility, where it remained until late 1944
    $600 1
Science has never substantiated the existence of this fanciful beast that attacks livestock & has a name meaning "goat sucker"
    $600 6
A copy of an ancient Grecian urn, or how a species propagates
    $600 11
The dining room at this home of a president is serviced by a dumbwaiter & a revolving door for presenting food
    $600 23
Part of George Costanza's heritage, it's symbolized by an aluminum pole
    $600 9
At 35th in 2008 was this banger from M.I.A. that featured gunshots & taking "your money"
    $800 17
The Declaration drew direct inspiration from ideas in this colony's Declaration of Rights
    $800 2
This Ukrainian president wasn't seen on video in a strange costume doing a belly dance; that rumor's been debunked
    $800 25
A Northerner in the South during Reconstruction might be labeled this, for the satchel he carried
    DD: $1,800 5
Its name is Quechua for "old peak"
    $800 22
Term for a type of TV programming where a strong show "supports" a weaker preceding or following show
    $800 10
We're off to hear this artist's "See You Again", which checked in at third in 2015
    $1000 16
The document was influenced by this English thinker's tenet that govt. gets its powers from "the consent of the people"
    $1000 3
This Baltimore Sun writer's completely fictitious history of the bathtub from 1917 was believed by many, much to his mischievous delight
    $1000 26
This 12-letter synonym for sleepwalker sounds a lot fancier
    $1000 4
Built in the 17th & 18th centuries, the Schönbrunn Palace was the summer home of this dynasty for nearly two centuries
    $1000 21
This legendary Ukrainian pole vaulter was the first to clear 20 feet
    $1000 13
In 2000 he had the 2nd & 3rd spots with "Smooth" (with Rob Thomas) & "Maria Maria" (with The Product G&B)

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

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$1,600 $2,000 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$3,400 $2,800 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

HEART WORM-ING MOVIES
CEOs
POETRY-POURRI
ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER
INTO AFRICA
10/10 WINDS
    $400 19
To celebrate the release of "Dune: Part Two", AMC concession stands sold these in the shape of a sandworm
    $400 30
Right before CEO-ing at Starbucks, Brian Niccol ran this company where his go-to was the bowl, not the burrito
    $400 29
In the late 19th century, Masaoka Shiki revived the 2 classic Japanese traditional poetic forms of tanka & this
    $400 28
Where cheese is made &
where thoughts are jotted
    $400 25
Sporting a 355-foot maximum drop, this landmark named by Livingstone has a mean flow of about 35,000 cubic feet per second
    $400 21
The Arabic word for "season" gives us this seasonal rain & wind pattern that occurs over South Asia
    $800 18
This 2006 film based on a Y.A. book by Thomas Rockwell has Billy "Wormboy" Forrester agreeing to ingest 10 squiggly wigglies
    $800 26
Mary Dillon is the CEO of this store for sneakerheads that has a black-&-white logo
    $800 27
Unrhymed iambic pentameter, this type of "verse" was embraced by Milton & Frost
    $800 24
A real test of character, perhaps by fire, &
to put in more ammo
    $800 11
The snows of this Tanzanian mountain include the Dome of Kibo, which has a 1.2-mile-wide crater
    $800 15
It's the alliterative name for a small whirlwind made up of dirt & debris
    $1200 5
Worms called Graboids are on the hunt for some Kevin Bacon in this 1990 film
    $1200 4
O say can you see, Gail Boudreaux took over as CEO of this health insurance provider in 2017; it's now called Elevance Health
    $1200 1
From the Latin for "song", it's a major section of an epic poem
    $1200 12
To support &
a marine creature with edible claws
    DD: $3,000 8
This capital on the Congo River shoreline was the site of Ali & Foreman's "Rumble in the Jungle"
    $1200 16
Here's an Earth-sized storm on this planet, an ice giant that has the strongest winds in the Solar System
    $1600 6
A wormy pal named Maggot lives inside the head of the title character in this Tim Burton tale of man meets decaying flesh
    $1600 23
This pork producer from Virginia had CEOs with the same name: Joseph Luter Jr. & the 3rd; even J.L. the 4th got into some ham hawking
    $1600 2
Horace's odes use a poetic style named for this woman
    DD: $2,000 13
A physical reaction to a substance &
a place to hang art
    $1600 9
This country has a modest but beach-bum-friendly 35-mile coastline on the Gulf of Guinea
    $1600 17
According to Raymond Chandler, these desert SoCal winds make "wives feel the edge of the carving knife & study their husbands' necks"
    $2000 7
"Would you still love me if I was a worm?" takes on a whole new meaning in "Slither", the first film directed by this DC Studios CEO
    $2000 22
In 2015 Larry Page handed over the reins of Google to this CEO born in Tamil Nadu, India
    $2000 3
Sounding like a female antagonist from TV, it's a 19-line poem with 2 refrains
    $2000 14
3 responses:
showy fall flower, shocking weapon & fixed gaze
    $2000 10
In December 2024 Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to visit this African country & its National Museum of Slavery
    $2000 20
This wind scale named for a hydrographer ranges from calm to hurricane

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$11,400 $13,800 $11,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN HISTORY
At his trial, revolutionaries referred to the deposed Louis XVI with this last name, one used previously for a dynasty

Final scores:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$5,400 $4,799 $0
Winner: 1 match point 2nd place 3rd place

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$13,200 $11,600 $11,400
15 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 19 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W		 17 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $36,200

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Game tape date: 2024-12-05
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