Show #9275 - Friday, February 21, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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John Focht, a baseball software team lead originally from El Paso, Texas

Roger Craig, an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia

Maya Wright, a graduate student from Atlanta, Georgia

Jeopardy! Round

SAYETH THE BIBLE BOOK
A.P. HISTORY
HOBBIES & PASTIMES
ARE YOU INTO ASTROLOGY?
IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL
IDIOMS
    $200 29
"And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people"
    $200 24
Lifelong Catholic Alexander Pope received these prayers & sacraments the day before his death
    $200 25
Get your salsa or merengue on while getting in a good workout with this program launched by Alberto Pérez
    $200 26
People of this sign tend to be chatty, like early June babies Anderson Cooper & Amy Schumer, who make their living talking
    $200 30
A "Greatest Hits" album by this legend included "I Will Always Love You" & "Old Flames (Can't Hold A Candle To You)"
    $200 28
To describe a situation exactly is said to be achieving this level of triumphant hammering
    $400 21
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall"
    $400 20
Allan was the first name of this Scottish-born founder of an American detective agency
    $400 14
Maybe you'd like to volunteer & become one of these mentors through the organization abbreviated BBBS
    DD: $1,000 23
Think of the 4-letter acronym describing Muhammad Ali & it makes sense this was his sign
    $400 22
Mammas tried not to let their babies become them, but Kelsea Ballerini & Noah Kahan taught us that they "Cry Too"
    $400 27
This phrase meaning to do everything possible to ensure success specifically invokes a baseball diamond
    $600 1
In chapter 20 "and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire"
    $600 6
In 1923 suffragist Alice Paul drafted & had introduced into Congress the first version of this proposed amendment
    $600 13
Now included at the Olympics, it's a form of rock climbing on shorter routes without ropes or harnesses
    $600 17
Fans of Malibu beaches & TV's "The Cisco Kid" know this first name of actor Carrillo, matching his sign
    $600 16
Last names of Kix & Ronnie who provided "Boot Scootin' Boogie" & "Little Miss Honky Tonk"
    $600 9
Someone who is everything you were hoping for does this
    $800 2
"The seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein"; sorry, college & pro football players!
    $800 5
General A.P. Hill led reserve troops on a forced march to save a Confederate Army from destruction at this gory 1862 battle
    $800 7
It was a stamp collector who proposed this word for the hobby of stamp collecting
    $800 15
It's your sign if, like Logan Paul, your birthday is on a day noted for pranks
    $800 18
Carrie Underwood sang, "She was drivin' last Friday", hit some black ice, then implored, "Jesus" do this
    $800 11
Throwing idioms include... the baby out with the bathwater & this breezy one about saying to heck with being careful
    $1000 3
"Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice"
    $1000 4
Alexander Pushkin dramatized Russian history in this play about a 17th century czar
    $1000 10
Rikka & moribana are styles of this, the classical Japanese art of flower arranging
    $1000 19
Always seeing both sides equally, it's "the diplomat of the zodiac" & was the sign of Ebenezer Bassett, the USA's first Black diplomat
    $1000 8
A Scotty McCreery country megahit puts together a cussword & the last name of singer George for this title
    $1000 12
To be lumped in with wrongdoers, undeservingly or not, is to be "tarred with" this

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

Maya Roger John
$600 $400 $5,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Maya Roger John
$2,200 $2,600 $7,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

PROLOGUES
MOVING WORDS
FLOWERS
OLD STUFF
THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLE
"G"EOGRAPHY
    $400 28
Carroll's preface to this sequel includes a chess problem that underlies the book's action
    $400 25
It's done by a student moving from one college to another, or a subway rider getting on a bus
    $400 27
A climbing rose with numerous flowers is called this, like a person who talks on & on & on at length
    $400 30
In 2022 the perfectly preserved remains of a 30,000-year-old baby one of these tusked animals were discovered in the Yukon
    $400 22
Robert Downey Jr., Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss, in this film
    $400 23
This suburb of Cairo is home to a zoo; the University of Cairo moved there in 1924
    $800 29
This playwright had his character Tom Wingfield speak directly to the audience as a prologue
    $800 24
If you're applying for a job far away, right after the address on your résumé, put "willing to" do this
    $800 26
This cheerful yellow flower is the national flower of Wales; wear it on St. David's Day
    $800 4
The oldest person in the Bible, Methuselah lived to this ripe old palindromic age
    $800 11
Louis Gossett Jr., a gunnery sgt. & tough drill instructor in this 1982 film
    $800 9
In 2004 this city's airport was renamed to honor Lech Walesa
    $1200 16
An 1850 preface says this British novel "was hewn in a wild workshop... the statuary found a granite block on a solitary moor"
    $1200 20
Add a "Y" to a synonym for "move" & you get this word for a tricky person or their untrustworthy eyes
    $1200 14
Ironically, the pollen of this flower seen here is toxic to cats
    $1200 5
The paintings discovered in this French cave Sept. 12, 1940 likely date to the Upper Paleolithic period
    $1200 8
For 2006:
Helen Mirren as "The Queen" & Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in this film
    $1200 1
Lake Tiberias is another name for it
    DD: $12,000 17
His intro to "Nobody Knows my Name": "In America, the color of my skin had stood between myself & me; in Europe, that barrier was down"
    DD: $9,000 13
12-letter word for the group of people walking down the aisle at the start of a wedding
    $1600 15
In "You've Got Mail", Meg Ryan says, "Don't you think that" these "are the friendliest flower?"
    $1600 6
Completed in 1345 this bridge that spans the Arno River in Florence has a name meaning "old bridge"
    $1600 7
This actress for her 2003 portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in "Monster"
    $1600 2
This town in Somerset is said to be the burial place of Queen Guinevere
    $2000 18
This poem has a general prologue that introduces the pilgrims, beginning with the Knight
    $2000 21
More foreign travel than any previous sec def got William Perry this punning adjective, from his name & a word for moving a lot
    $2000 19
These flowers named for the shape of their snout are a favorite in gardens
    $2000 12
Founded in 1764 this New England newspaper is the oldest continuously published paper in America
    $2000 10
For 1960:
Burt Lancaster as this fast-talking salesman turned preacher
    $2000 3
This city on the Mur River is the second-largest in Austria

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Maya Roger John
$1,400 $36,000 $13,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

COMPOSERS
Yale takes credit for starting a commencement tradition when it gave this composer an honorary doctorate in 1905

Final scores:

Maya Roger John
$1,447 $36,000 $14,715
3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Maya Roger John
$1,400 $17,600 $13,800
7 R,
2 W		 26 R
(including 3 DDs),
5 W		 18 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $32,800

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Game tape date: 2025-02-04
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