Show #9269 - Thursday, February 13, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions final game 5.

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

THAT HAPPENED IN 2024
2-WORD CITIES
YOUR STOCK IS CLIMBING
20th CENTURY BOOKSHELF
RECENT HORROR MOVIES
MATHEMATICAL OVERLAPS
    $200 30
Hitting the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history in Game One & driving in 12 runs in 5 games, earned this Dodger the MVP
    $200 28
Czar Peter I intended to make this city his "window to Europe"
    $200 29
If you bought this stock at its initial price of $18 a share on May 15, 1997, congratulations! You made a prime investment
    $200 15
In "Tarzan of the Apes", we learn that Professor Archimedes Q. Porter is the father of this woman, the hero's beloved
    $200 27
Leaning into the trope, the "Terrifier" films have a killer character named Art the this
    $200 11
It's the distance across the center of that round glass enclosure where you raise indoor plants & animals
    $400 21
Attention, this discount store shoppers! Opened in 1962, the last full-size one in the mainland U.S. closed in October
    $400 25
The U.S. Air Force Academy is found north of this city that includes its state in its name
    $400 26
This "selling" is betting against the price of a stock; in 2008 the same kind of "squeezing" caused VW shares to jump 500% in 2 days
    $400 14
A new steel alloy called Rearden Metal threatens to shake up the railroad industry in this Ayn Rand novel
    $400 17
"The Last Exorcism" & "Paranormal Activity" use this alliterative technique involving prerecorded events
    $400 10
Standing at a point right on the edge of a circle is someone who's not Jewish
    $600 20
Trump was the first GOP presidential candidate since 1988 to win this 2-named Florida county, the "Gateway to Latin America"
    $600 12
There are some big buildings in this Asian metropolis that just put a "Lump" in your throat
    $600 24
Though the stock market crashed in 1929, IBM continued to pay investors these at the rate of $1.50 per share all through the 1930s
    $600 2
On Audible fellow Canadian Rachel McAdams narrates this 1908 classic about an orphan girl
    $600 5
No stranger to horror, Ethan Hawke starred in the first film in this franchise about a lawless time in a future America
    $600 9
Look below the line in a fraction! It's a whirlwind!
    $800 19
In October, NASA launched a mission to this icy moon of Jupiter, despite a warning in "2010: Odyssey Two" to never land there
    $800 1
This Israeli metropolis was founded as a suburb of the ancient port of Yafo, or Jaffa
    $800 23
Since 1995, this energy drink company's stock has generated an appropriately freakish return of more than 160,000%
    $800 3
This graphic novel about the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize
    $800 6
Director Ari Aster followed up "Hereditary" with another shocker: this film in which Florence Pugh goes Swedish
    DD: $1,200 8
Rehoboth Beach, Wilmington & all the rest of the state cover a total of 2,489 square miles
    $1000 18
The garment makers that fast fashion relies on in this Asian country were back up days after a 2024 revolt toppled Sheikh Hasina
    $1000 13
This Chilean city, the largest on the Strait of Magellan, has been enriched by nearby oil fields
    $1000 22
Over a 1-week span in January 2021, shares of GME, this retailer, briefly rose from less than $10 to more than $120
    $1000 4
OBOS is short for this title of a women's health book published starting in the '70s
    $1000 16
Before the horror of "Longlegs", Maika Monroe was on the run in this 2014 hit involving a sexually-transmitted curse
    $1000 7
It's a constant that multiplies a variable & gets into the study of bugs

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

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$1,200 $2,200 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$2,000 $3,400 $6,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

CIVIL WAR PLACES
ART FOR ART'S SAKE
ADDRESSES
FURNISHING SOME FURNITURE
POP CULTURE JEOPARDY!
WORDS WITH INTEREST
    $400 11
A July 1863 Union victory at Honey Springs was the decisive battle in Indian Territory, now this state
    $400 24
Not now but someday, check out the Andrei Sheptytskyi Museum collection of art with these religious images in Lviv, Ukraine
    $400 29
Her birth name was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier; her grandpa James Lee was the developer of 740 Park Avenue, her childhood home
    $400 30
The same-named form of music developed in 17th century Europe, along with the furniture style known for ornate designs seen here
    $400 27
During the 2024 Olympics, Stephen Nedoroscik took off his glasses & helped clinch a bronze for his gymnastics team during this event
    $400 25
A guided excursion gains 6 letters of interest to become this word for a tight strip of cloth used after an injury
    $800 9
A Union victory in the 1864 Battle of this city on the Cumberland River ended Southern resistance in Tennessee
    $800 10
Also called "Vampire", "Love and Pain" is an 1893 work by this Scandinavian artist
    $800 15
Life is very different for this kids' book bear at 32 Windsor Gardens than it was in Darkest Peru
    $800 28
Usually adorned with a mirror, this bedroom table has a name meaning self-adoration
    $800 26
Gloria Hallelujah Woods is the government name of this Memphis rapper who spits bars on hits like "Yeah Glo!" & "TGIF"
    $800 23
An ear of corn doubles its size & is now this abandoned arachnid abode
    $1200 6
Shortly after the Confederacy's surrender, this leader was captured by federal troops in Irwin County, Ga. May 10, 1865
    $1200 3
Installing a doorway in the wall that holds this famous fresco in 1652, workers chopped off Jesus' feet
    DD: $5,000 14
The New Mexico State Capitol is at 490 Old this route blazed in 1821
    $1200 16
In 2004, this cabinet, named for a duke's house & not the birdie racket sport, went for $36 million at auction
    $1200 19
CHD for short, this podcast hosted by Alex Cooper was bought by SiriusXM for $125 million
    $1200 22
A rude fellow careless of women's feelings adds 4 letters to become this metal next to silver on the periodic table
    $1600 7
Where the Potomac & Shenandoah Rivers meet, this city that entered history just before the war was attacked by both North & South
    $1600 5
Seen in a selfie, Jacopo Robusti was the real name of the 16th century Mannerist better known by this name, meaning "little dyer"
    $1600 13
If you want to see this 1949 architectural landmark, or see through it, head for 199 Elm Street in New Canaan, Connecticut
    DD: $4,000 2
In the 1860s the New Lebanon community in New York became a hub for ladder-back chairs named for this religious group
    $1600 18
She was the mother on "How I Met Your Mother" & the daughter of Carmine Falcone on the HBO show "The Penguin"
    $1600 21
One whose company is tedious gains 2 letters to become this adjective for a climatic zone near the Arctic
    $2000 8
The promontory known as this "Ridge" at the Battle of Gettysburg was the objective of Pickett's Charge
    $2000 4
Borrowed from French, it's the term for Louise Nevelson's form of sculpture in joining everyday objects in unusual combinations
    $2000 12
This series of 10 books by Armistead Maupin chronicles the lives of San Franciscans who resided at 28 Barbary Lane
    $2000 1
This style of furniture is named for an 18th century queen & mostly used walnut
    $2000 17
Joshua Jackson & Phillipa Soo star in this ABC medical drama aboard a luxury cruise ship with a mythic name
    $2000 20
The masculine form of Spanish for "the" increases its length by 2 letters to become this Frenchy word for vigor & flair

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$10,400 $7,800 $13,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

GREEK MYTH
Panoptes, meaning all-seeing, was the byname of this legendary figure, slain by Hermes while standing guard over Io

Final scores:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$16,400 $15,500 $20,801
2nd place: $75,000 3rd place: $75,000 Winner: $250,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$8,000 $7,800 $18,200
16 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 13 R,
5 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $34,000

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Game tape date: 2024-12-06
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