Show #9268 - Wednesday, February 12, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions final game 4.

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

17th CENTURY FACTS
DIFFERS BY A LETTER
MONOGRAM MADNESS
(Ken: Uh-oh, we have a little [*]; you must account for all the initials in the clue.)
LOUNGE WEAR
BANGERS
THE NEW YORKER AT 100
(David: I'm David Remnick, only the fifth editor of The New Yorker in its 100-year history, and I'll have clues about some of the magazine's best in its first century.)
    $200 25
Sadly, the drama became all too real in 1613 when this theatre burned down after cannon fire set off its thatch during "Henry VIII"
    $200 24
To fly high & to box
    $200 27
He succeeded Scalia:
NG
    $200 28
You can find this material, perfect for lounging, in the piped pajamas from Derek Rose of London for $880
    $200 29
In 2020 he was on a "watermelon sugar, high, watermelon sugar, high"
    $200 30
(David Remnick presents the clue.) Our critics have included Edmund Wilson, Pauline Kael & on the theater beat, John Lahr, the son of the man who played this character in "The Wizard of Oz", which, by the way, we called "a stinkeroo" in 1939, so, we're not perfect
    $400 23
Not yet known as le Roi Soleil, in 1643 this new ruler of 19 million subjects was a few months shy of his 5th birthday
    $400 26
Speak softly &
whine softly
    $400 14
4-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet:
RF
    $400 21
Although this company sells Nulu fabric casual wear in lichen lime, it has another citrus fruit in its name
    $400 18
Sorry, this state! The wind may come sweeping down the Plain there, but per Luke Combs, there "Ain't No Love in" it
    $400 20
(David Remnick presents the clue.) A classic cover that gave us a rare light moment in 2001 shows the city like a "National Geographic" map; after 90 years in Khouks, The New Yorker is now down in Moolahs, in this building, One WTC for short
    $600 22
In 1676 this colonist led a rebellion against Gov. William Berkeley but didn't live to see the end of the year
    $600 4
A witty remark &
a British pound sterling
    $600 1
One of his nicknames was "Old Kinderhook":
MVB
    $600 17
You can keep your waves from rippling away with this hair protector; Merriam-Webster says the word comes from "hairdo"
    $600 7
Chappell Roan wasn't horsing around--or was she?--"on the stage in my heels", dancing at this title place
    $600 10
(David Remnick presents the clue.) We know people look at the cartoons first & no artist made a bigger name than Charles Addams; his more than 1,100 cartoons include one from 1939, where this servant first becomes recognizable
    $800 6
This dynasty may have come to an end in 1644, but one of its vases was doing just fine in 2011, selling for $21.6 million
    $800 19
A TV show with a limited number of episodes &
the duties of members of the clergy
    $800 2
In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League:
MS
    $800 15
Many a robe is made with this kind of "cloth" whose name may come from the French for "drawn"
    $800 8
A headbanger, to be specific, 1991's "Enter Sandman" by this band advises, "Sleep with one eye open gripping your pillow tight"
    $800 13
(David Remnick presents the clue.) The New Yorker profile is an art form & it can be celebratory or less so, as in 1957 when Truman Capote visited this actor on location for "Sayonara" & reported on his meal of soup, steak, fries, three vegetables, spaghetti, salad, sake & apple pie with ice cream
    DD: $1,000 5
In 1626 this Dutch colonial governor got big into the Manhattan real estate market, paying 60 guilders for, well, Manhattan
    $1000 12
Expressed in words &
relating to spring
    $1000 3
At his death in 1848, he had an estimated $20 million fortune:
JJA
    $1000 11
The 3-letter name of this company that sells yoga & active apparel is an abbreviation of other words for wind, earth & water
    $1000 9
"I can't stand it, I know you planned it"; listen, all y'all, it's this Beastie Boys song, "classical music" in "Star Trek Beyond"
    $1000 16
(David Remnick presents the clue.) Sports writing has always had a place in the magazine; one classic is the 1960 piece about Ted Williams's last game by this literary giant whose sole ambition in small town Pennsylvania was to make The New Yorker

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

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$2,400 $5,800 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$2,800 $7,000 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

HILLS I DON'T WANT TO DIE ON
NONFICTION
JUST A LITTLE ASTROPHYSICS
4, 4
(Ken: Each response here, two 4-letter words.)
ON THE RUN
UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
    $400 30
Big on cattle & sheep ranching until 1906, this city is known for the Polo Lounge, Rodeo Drive & money... lots & lots of money
    $400 24
Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of" these includes some of his own, one where he's drinking from an Etruscan funerary urn
    $400 29
Pre-20th century, it was thought that stars were powered by the heat generated from their own collapse caused by this force
    $400 28
The use of celluloid balls began around 1900 in this game once also called "whiff-whaff"
    $400 26
Formerly Jimmy McGill, Saul Goodman uses the name Gene as he's laying low managing one of these mall eateries
    $400 27
Ska & rock steady were contributors to this style of music that made the list for Jamaica in 2018
    $800 23
Tune up in this 2008 Olympic city at the Hall of Supreme Harmony & smell you later at its Fragrant Hills Park
    $800 18
In this treatise Sun Tzu says, "The impact of your army may be like a grindstone dashed against an egg"
    $800 8
The space between stars isn't a total vacuum; it contains matter called the interstellar medium, 98% made up of these 2 starry elements
    DD: $4,000 22
The ancient Egyptians were expert users of thin metal sheets called this to adorn mummy cases in a process called gilding
    $800 25
Trying to put some crime behind him, in 2019 Ice-T rapped about seeing the "Feds in My" this part of the car
    $800 17
It's not just pizza, but the culinary practice of the pizzaiuolo, as originated & still regulated by this Italian city
    $1200 19
I found my thrill on Strawberry Hill, an island in Stow Lake, in this large San Francisco park
    $1200 3
This Brit covered M-theory & the like in "The Universe in a Nutshell"
    $1200 7
A 2024 study found that the Milky Way acted like a giant hair dryer blowing gas off the nearby dwarf galaxy LMC, the "Large" this
    $1200 10
Rosemont & Radnor are 2 of this collection of suburbs named for a stretch of railroad outside Philly
    $1200 11
In "Venom: The Last Dance", this actor plays two characters on the run together, & that's all I know about Venom & Eddie
    $1200 14
This country has a national day honoring its windmills every May; the craft of their millers was recognized by UNESCO
    $1600 1
Sacred to the Western Sioux, this region in South Dakota is largely within the same-named national forest
    $1600 4
In this essay, Virginia Woolf created the hypothetical example of Shakespeare's sister, gifted but uneducated
    $1600 6
Think economically about the theory of cosmic this, which says the early universe expanded faster than the speed of light
    $1600 21
Tofu sounds less appealing when you call it by this alternate name
    $1600 15
Jeff Bridges packs up his passports & his Rottweilers, trying to stay one step ahead of his fate in this FX spy thriller
    $1600 13
The 2023 list included this national dish of Peru: raw fish marinated in lime juice
    DD: $6,000 2
Alphabetically first of the fabled 7 hills of Rome, it boasts the Basilica of Santa Sabina, which dates to the 5th century
    $2000 9
Chapters in this pre-"Silent Spring" book by Rachel Carson include "The Moving Tides" & "Wind & Water"
    $2000 5
The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is a graph of stars' temperatures versus their absolute this, meaning their intrinsic brightness
    $2000 20
A union suit may have this feature on the rear end, a flap on the back, so to speak
    $2000 16
Billy Joe & Bobby Sue were the young lovers on the lam after a hassle in El Paso in this Steve Miller Band tune
    $2000 12
The Cracovia Danza Ballet specializes in traditional court dances of its country, including this one enshrined by UNESCO in 2023

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$2,800 $22,200 $13,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN ARTWORK
A rope around their leader's neck, the men depicted in this late 19th c. piece seem resigned to death, but in the end they survived

Final scores:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$0 $27,601 $22,201
3rd place: 1 match point Winner: 1 match point 2nd place: 2 match points

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$2,800 $18,200 $17,800
8 R,
3 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $38,800

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Game tape date: 2024-12-06
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