Show #9276 - Monday, February 24, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

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Luigi de Guzman, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia

Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

Avi Gupta, a law student originally from Portland, Oregon

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Jeopardy! Round

SOME ART, SOME SCIENCE
QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY FILMS
ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOUR
SPORT A PHRASE
SEVERANCE
(Adam: I'm Adam Scott. On our show Severance, employees split their consciousness between work and home and today, the cast will present clues about different kinds of severance in literature.)
    $200 26
The name of this decorative art style that arose in France in the 1700s came in part from using rocks to decorate grottos
    $200 24
"Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen"
    $200 27
Wanna work in a U.S. embassy or consulate? Try being an FSO, this type of officer
    $200 28
Maybe the Bob's Red Mill organic type of this stuff, made from the ground white meat of a hard-shelled fruit
    $200 29
This phrase, "full of Grace, the Lord is with thee", & in 2024, also with the Commanders, who beat the Bears with one of them
    $200 30
(Britt Lower presents the clue.) In this 1886 story that's become synonymous with leading a double life, one change is a pair of hands going from firm & white to knuckle-y & hairy
    $400 15
The brightest star in this constellation is Al Tarf, Arabic for "the end"; it marks the end of a leg on the crab
    $400 23
"Fish are friends, not food"
    $400 5
As in the title of a TV show, CSI stands for this
    $400 19
Sí, some masa harina for the corn type of these; I'm making the 8-inch size, good for tacos
    $400 14
You're "born on" this Chipper Jones-manned baseball spot if you begin life with many advantages but think you've earned them yourself
    $400 25
(Patricia Arquette presents the clue.) A Best Actor Oscar went to Ronald Coleman for playing a thespian who can't tell this Shakespeare role from reality & strangles Shelley Winters in the first of her many murder victim roles
    $600 9
A year after finishing this iconic painting featuring a glowing yellow crescent moon, van Gogh was van gone
    DD: $1,200 20
Alan Arkin:
"If I'm doing a fake movie, it's gonna be a fake hit"
    $600 4
Yahoo! stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious" this, also the name of a software company
    $600 13
For these pancakes, so it will be some of the same-named flour with an earthy taste; despite the name, it doesn't come from grain
    $600 6
It's the 3-word boxing phrase for being in a tough situation almost to the point of helplessness, but Ali was great there
    $600 17
(John Turturro presents the clue.) Called perhaps the most unnerving true crime book ever "The Stranger Beside Me" is Ann Rule's account of working at a suicide hotline with a nice young man who turned out to be this serial killer
    $800 8
New to Paris, this Russian-Jewish artist painted a Cubist-ish "Homage to" the avant-garde poet Apollinaire in 1911-12
    $800 22
Clint Eastwood:
"Get off my lawn"
    $800 3
CRF is this chronic problem that might be treated with dialysis
    $800 11
Not sure what I'm in the mood for, so I'll get a bag of white wheat flour with this hyphenated term meaning for use in most anything
    $800 1
Rhymingly in golf, you "drive for show", then get down to business & do this
    $800 12
(Tramell Tillman presents the clue.) The divided consciousness of Black Americans is explored in this 1952 novel whose nameless narrator's grandfather tells of being a spy in the enemy's country
    $1000 10
It's chemistry 101, people! The tables were turned when this radioactive element, No. 101, was named for a Russian chemist
    $1000 21
"Neiman, you earned the part. Alternates, you want to clean the blood off my drum set?"
    $1000 2
In the computer language COBOL, "B" stands for this word
    $1000 16
I'll need to find some teff flour since we'll be having Ethiopian food with this spongy flatbread
    $1000 7
Let's race to define FPTP, short for this, the way Brits elect members of Parliament
    $1000 18
(Adam Scott presents the clue.) Not sure what it says about the guy, but before directing episodes of "Severance" Ben Stiller made a movie of this classic story about a guy whose main life takes place in his fantasies; I was also in this movie, by the way

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

Avi Amy Luigi
$1,400 $3,600 $4,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Avi Amy Luigi
$2,600 $5,200 $9,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

FORESTS
SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE
PORTMANTEAUS
LOOK MA, NO WHEELS!
CELEBRITIES
HISTORY TO A "T"
    $400 30
Belgium's Hallerbos Forest is known for its bloom of these flowers with a musical name
    $400 28
In 1917 the House GOP held a tiny 215-213 majority; a few Progressives voted with the Dems & Champ Clark was elected as this
    $400 26
Shah Rukh Khan & Aamir Khan are on Time Out's list of the 12 Best these Actors Working in Hindi Cinema
    $400 27
This long, flat-bottomed sled gets its name from an Algonquian word
    $400 29
She played Carly Shay on Nickelodeon from 2007 to 2012 & in the 2020's on a Paramount+ revival
    $400 14
In 1971 she eliminated a program that provided milk to schoolkids & got the rhyming nickname "Milk Snatcher"
    $800 21
Trees aren't the focus in Kyoto's Arashiyama Forest; it's stacked tall with a grassy grove of this
    $800 5
The smallest of this group of mammals is the planigale, seen here in Queensland compensating with ferocity
    $800 1
Starbucks began serving this iced blended drink in the early 1990s; the first 2 flavors were coffee & mocha
    $800 6
Maglev is short for this technology in which wheelless trains glide over their tracks
    $800 25
His memoir "From Under the Truck" chronicles being raised in Paso Robles & his roles in "Goonies" & "No Country for Old Men"
    $800 3
In 1922 Harry Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company got exclusive rights to drill, baby, drill at these Wyoming reserves
    DD: $4,600 9
The Bohemian Forest is mainly along Germany's border with this country to the east
    $1200 20
Moku o Keawe is the traditional equivalent of this geographic nickname that's 2 English words
    $1200 2
It's the portmanteau word for a program that is aired at the same time on TV & radio
    $1200 17
Today, it means a hard-top car big enough for four passengers; in ye olden days, it was a portable chair carried on poles
    $1200 24
In 2024, she won the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Award for top U.S Female Track & Field Athlete
    DD: $5,000 4
The forces of Leonidas & Xerxes faced off at this 480 B.C. battle
    $1600 7
Belgrad Forest is deemed the "lungs" of this metropolis & is located on the European side, not the Asian one
    $1600 19
This species, including Kenya's Turkana Boy from 1.6 million B.C., had a brain size between Australopithecus & Alan Turing
    $1600 10
BuzzFeed is known for these, like "16 Things You will Understand Only If You Love Dogs"
    $1600 16
In a classic Monty Python sketch, a mistranslation leads a man to say, "My" this gliding transport "is full of eels"
    $1600 23
Last name Accurso, this "Ms." YouTuber dropped a popular toy line "for Littles" in 2024
    $1600 13
At the turn of the 19th century, this chief spoke for the indigenous people at great councils in Urbana & Chillicothe
    $2000 8
"T" is for this type of Siberian forest, meaning "land of the little sticks" in the native tongue
    $2000 18
The English & the Orpheus are famed these 2-word classical ensembles, midway between the size of a quartet & a philharmonic
    $2000 11
Bobo is a portmanteau for these seemingly conflicting social classes, like being a starving artist & a 9-5er
    $2000 15
Pan-Am called its popular flying boats these, evoking the fast 19th century sailing ships that brought tea from China
    $2000 22
This "SNL" actor found viral success as a doctor/model, wedding crasher, off-key singer & cuckolder Domingo
    $2000 12
The number of sacraments was set at 7 at the 1540s Council of this place

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Avi Amy Luigi
$11,600 $14,200 $23,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN AUTHORS
Enlisting in the Army in 1917, he was sent to Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, where he met the woman who became his wife

Final scores:

Avi Amy Luigi
$4,367 $4,200 $18,799
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Avi Amy Luigi
$8,200 $10,400 $23,000
11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 27 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $41,600

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Game tape date: 2025-02-04
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