Show #9273 - Wednesday, February 19, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

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Jonathan Fisher, an actor originally from Coral Gables, Florida

Rachael Schwartz, a scientist from Berkeley, California

Emily Sands, a benefits consultant from Chanhassen, Minnesota

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Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS NOT AUTHORING
LET'S PLAY SPORTS
CLASSICAL MUSIC
LIQUOR IS QUICKER
LACK OF ENERGY
I'M "DRAGON" TODAY
    $200 30
This Arthur, er, author, was knighted for his work in & about the Boer War
    $200 22
If you hit for the cycle in baseball, you've gotten all of these hits in one game, & congrats!
    $200 28
This opera was commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt & earned its composer 150,000 francs
    $200 14
Casamigos Añejo & Don Julio Blanco are bottles of this
    $200 29
The removal of 4 dams on the Klamath River has cut hydro power a bit but allowed these fish to return to their historic habitat
    $200 7
Rising from the Nevada desert in 2008, this band has had Top 10 hits with songs like "Demons" & "Radioactive"
    $400 26
Although it wasn't his "Endgame", this author worked as James Joyce's amanuensis after moving from Dublin to Paris
    $400 18
A soccer team facing a free kick may form this architecturally named blocking formation & ouch
    $400 24
His 1884 "Holberg Suite" was written to commemorate the 200th birthday of Norwegian-born writer Ludvig Holberg
    $400 8
Queen Victoria adorns the label of this brand's Sapphire gin
    $400 23
OPEC's 1973 ban on sales to the U.S., then heavily dependent on foreign oil, is known as this word from the Spanish
    $400 3
This word that follows Uther in the name of King Arthur's father is a title for ancient British chiefs
    $600 15
After writing what Jack London called "'The Uncle Tom's Cabin' of wage slavery", he ran for governor of California three times
    $600 9
A classic volleyball sequence goes bump (stop the shot), set (tee up a teammate), this powerful attacking hit that may yield a kill
    $600 21
Tchaikovsky described this piece as very noisy with no great artistic value
    $600 11
The word "whiskey" comes from the Gaelic for "water of life", a translation of this Latin phrase
    $600 1
This word is found in the names of 3 now-decommissioned nuclear power plants, following Vermont, Maine & of course Connecticut
    DD: $1,000 4
This book's title character is "Armansky's star researcher... a pale, anorexic young woman who had hair as short as a fuse"
    $800 16
When this short story writer was on the lam, he headed down Honduras way, hung out with a bank robber & wrote "Cabbages & Kings"
    $800 10
Also a place to store fishing gear, in football it's the area of the offensive backfield seen here
    $800 25
Despite its name this Chopin piece typically takes longer than 60 seconds to play
    $800 12
One ingredient in Aperol is this tart root also known as the pieplant
    $800 2
A turning point in empowering U.S. labor was a 1902 strike of this state's anthracite miners, driving up prices
    $800 5
Duanwu Jie in Chinese, this festive holiday features aquatic races, rice dumplings & rituals to ward off evil
    $1000 17
In his early 20s this poet who wrote "A Season in Hell" wanted a season abroad; he quit poetry & traveled the world
    $1000 19
Named for a tough hockey HOFer, a Gordie Howe hat trick is scoring a goal, earning an assist & doing this
    $1000 27
In 1931, 20 years after his death in Vienna, his 9th symphony had its U.S. premiere by the Boston Symphony
    $1000 13
This Mexican liqueur brand uses arabica coffee beans & rum
    $1000 20
Rapid clicking when you try to start your car is a sign of cold cranking, a problem with this item
    $1000 6
This warning is not really found on old maps but really is found (in Latin) on a globe circa 1510

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

Emily Rachael Jonathan
$2,000 $2,400 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Emily Rachael Jonathan
$2,200 $3,200 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ABCs OF ARCHITECTURE
BROADWAY
RECEDING HEIR-LINES
TOUGH VOCAB
THE ELEMENTS
ISLAND MOUNTAINS
    $400 28
A is for this open central court of a Roman house or in Atlanta's Hyatt Regency
    $400 12
In 2022, Black actors played this family for the first time on Broadway in a revival of "Death of a Salesman"
    $400 26
Staying on brand in 1581, he murdered his heir & namesake; Russia's Time of Troubles lay ahead
    $400 27
You could use the word zaftig or this synonym inspired by a Baroque master
    $400 29
Symbol Mg, this element that's essential to life might help with sleep issues & prevent migraines
    $400 30
On Sicily:
This volcano at more than 11,000 feet
    $800 22
G is for this triangular end of a wall that mirrors the shape of the pitched roof
    $800 6
Opening in 2024, the jukebox musical "A Wonderful World" traces the life of this legendary jazz great
    $800 25
Carlos I of this nation & his son were slain in 1908; another son, Manuel II, would take over, but by 1910 a republic was born
    $800 13
French for great generosity, it starts with a word for very big
    $800 18
27.7% of the Earth's crust is made up of this element that's used in computer chips
    $800 23
On Baffin Island:
This mountain named for a thunder god with the world's greatest vertical drop
    $1200 7
M is for this tower where a muezzin calls the faithful to prayer
    $1200 3
In 1996, Idina Menzel was among a host of young people who made their Broadway debuts in this Jonathan Larson musical
    DD: $2,400 11
This heir, a valuable pawn after his mom & dad got the guillotine in 1793, was determined to have died in a prison
    $1200 10
Originally a type of Greek poem; Tennyson wrote some "of the King"
    $1200 1
Iron combines with oxygen to make ferric oxide, aka this mineral named for its blood red color
    $1200 19
On Cyprus:
This 6,000+-foot peak named just like the deity domicile on the mainland
    $1600 8
N is for this architectural style of the U.S. Capitol & the White House
    $1600 4
In the 1990s both parts of this Tony Kushner epic won Tonys for Best Play
    $1600 16
Archduke Karl Ludwig's death made Franz Ferdinand next up for the Austro-Hungarians, but Franz would die in this city
    $1600 14
The Latin for "cage" may have given us this word for coaxing via flattery
    DD: $2,200 2
The Og of elements is oganesson--though we don't know for sure it's a gas, it's part of group 18, this septet
    $1600 20
On Hokkaido:
This mountain (the island's tallest) that shares its name with a start-of-the-alphabet Japanese beer
    $2000 9
C is for this column with female figures named for Greek maidens
    $2000 5
In 2010, Adam Driver made his Broadway debut in a revival of this playwright's "Mrs. Warren's Profession"
    $2000 24
Cleopatra's son with a famous dad, he was king of Egypt for a while but larger ambitions saw his downfall in Alexandria
    $2000 15
This word for a loyal follower is named for Thessalians devoted to Achilles; legend says they were once ants
    $2000 17
You may have to drink this whitish element in liquid form for imaging of your GI tract
    $2000 21
On New Zealand's South Island:
This mountain also known as Mount Cook

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Emily Rachael Jonathan
$14,000 $6,000 $12,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THE ANCIENTS SPEAK
He wrote, "I must make the founder of lovely & famous Athens the counterpart... to the father of... glorious Rome"

Final scores:

Emily Rachael Jonathan
$14,000 $1,000 $12,001
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Emily Rachael Jonathan
$13,400 $5,600 $11,200
20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 8 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W

Combined Coryat: $30,200

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Game tape date: 2025-02-04
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