Show #9278 - Wednesday, February 26, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 8.

Contestants

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Shane Whitlock, a radiologist originally from Benton, Arkansas

Claire Sattler, a comedian and research scientist from New York, New York

Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin

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Jeopardy! Round

MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB
(Ken: That'll narrow it down.)
SECOND LETTER "Y"
A NOVEL PROFESSION
(Ken: You'll have to name each character's career choice.)
TELEVISION
WARRIORS
COME OUT & PLAY
    $200 8
On the Roman calendar, Feb. 13 was these of February, not quite as well known as the ones of March
    $200 26
A little easier on the wallet, this type of gem is created in a lab
    $200 4
Hannibal Lecter, who (mis)treated Mason Verger
    $200 14
Tami Taylor (Connie Britton) worked as a guidance counselor at Dillon High School, home of Panthers football, on this series
    $200 27
The sagittarii were these type of soldiers in the Roman army
    $200 30
Ten high school pals who continued being "it" for more than 20 years inspired this 2018 movie with Jeremy Renner & Jon Hamm
    $400 10
Perhaps in the spirit of George Washington's birthday, National this dessert Day is celebrated on February 20
    $400 13
This North American tree throws a lot of shade & its peeling bark can look like camouflage
    $400 5
Miss Jean Brodie
    $400 18
Jewel won the sixth season of this series, competing as the Queen of Hearts
    $400 17
An ancient Persian force was called the 10,000 these--the soldiers didn't live forever, but were replaced as soon as they died
    $400 29
"Squid Game" put a gruesome twist on this stop-&-go game also called Statues
    $600 21
This stock market index debuted in February 1971
    $600 23
The state motto of Virginia translates as "Thus Always to" these
    $600 7
Mitch McDeere
    $600 19
This sitcom stalwart plays Charles, "A Man on the Inside" investigating crime at a nursing home
    $600 12
Geoffroi de Charney belonged to this order of knights & was immolated in 1314 with the grand master of his order
    $600 28
'90s kids might remember this game played with cardboard, bottle caps & slammers
    $800 24
This English chocolate company is credited with introducing the heart-shaped box of chocolates on Valentine's in 1868
    $800 22
This small area at the base of the brain helps manage, among other things, body temperature & thirst & hunger
    DD: $1,000 1
Oliver Mellors, working on the Chatterley estate
    $800 20
Dominic West was McNulty on "The Wire" & unfaithful spouse Noah Solloway on this Showtime series
    $800 11
17th century Ethiopian warrior Malik Ambar fought Jahangir, a ruler of this dynasty, on the Deccan plateau of India
    $800 16
Come outside & play this verbal contest with me; the OED says it is where "2 people exchange insults" & mentions your mama
    $1000 25
This group went to work for the first time in February 1790 with John Jay presiding
    $1000 2
To the Greeks it was 10,000 specifically, but we think of it as being innumerable or an abundance of something
    $1000 3
Howard Roark, who laughed in an opening line
    $1000 6
He was just a writer on "Ted Lasso" but thought, "I really identify with Roy Kent, so I should play him" & did
    $1000 9
From Arabic for "slave", these warriors established a dynasty in Egypt & Syria from 1250 to 1517
    $1000 15
Speeds can reach 150 mph in this fast-paced sport, "merry festival" in Basque

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

Ben! Claire Shane
$800 -$200 $5,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben! Claire Shane
$3,200 $800 $9,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

POETS GO TO THE CINEMA
4-LETTER CITIES
CONTEMPORARIES
SOLD! AT AUCTION
ALL ABOUT ANIMALS
ALLITERATION
    $400 25
In a poem inspired by this film, Amanda Gorman wrote, "Defending the good is how we defy gravity"
    $400 28
The Romans called this Somerset city Aquae Sulis, then probably took a soak there
    $400 30
Queen Victoria gave birth to her son Leopold in 1853, when this man (& sons) opened a piano shop in Manhattan
    $400 29
One of the larger items auctioned off by Sotheby's was Sue, one of these, now residing at Chicago's Field Museum
    $400 27
About two inches, give or take a whisker, Otocinclus laps up algae & is related to the bullhead as this type of fish
    $400 26
If you've tabled an issue, you've put it on this proverbial spot, where it can simmer
    $800 7
Frank Bidart's poem about this actor notes "The Joker's voice, so unlike the bruised, withheld, wounded voice of Ennis Del Mar"
    $800 11
This city on the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh is also home to the Pearl Mosque
    $800 14
In the 1850s Mendel studied pea plants & this Dem. senator introduced his Freeport Doctrine allowing laws tough on slave owners
    $800 8
A surplus of its office assets were auctioned off in 2023, including a neon bird sign from its San Francisco HQ
    $800 17
It's the 6-letter word for the hairy flap of skin under a moose's chin
    $800 22
Just the most basic, like a skeleton
    $1200 4
Frank O'Hara wrote a poem for this film star after he died in a 1955 car accident
    $1200 10
In 2015 Yemen's government fled to this port city after Houthi rebels captured Sana'a
    $1200 9
Mozart composed "Cosi fan tutte" around the time when this French guy was writing his "Elementary Treatise on Chemistry"
    $1200 3
Written mostly by Bill W., the original working draft for this organization's Big Book was sold in 2018
    $1200 1
Fratercula, a genus name of this sea parrot, means "little brother", a reference to how its plumage looks like a monk's robe
    $1200 21
In his 1941 State of the Union, FDR enumerated this quartet
    $1600 5
John Murillo name-drops Bruce Lee & Jim Kelly in a poem named for this 1973 martial arts film
    $1600 12
This picturesque Austrian city on the Danube claims its namesake torte is the oldest cake named for a city
    $1600 13
Cecil B. DeMille directed the hit epic "The Ten Commandments"; this 1923 insurrection led by Hitler was a failure
    $1600 6
The mahogany table on which he signed his abdication papers in 1936 was sold 62 years later for around $400,000
    $1600 2
An endangered species, the golden lion variety of this primate lives exclusively in forested habitats in Brazil in the wild
    $1600 23
This pair of words is in the title of books that collect the pithy quotes of Oscar Wilde, Abraham Lincoln & others
    $2000 19
Allen Ginsberg's poem "The Blue Angel" begins with this German actress "singing a lament"
    $2000 15
In 2011 this city in Africa became the world's newest national capital
    $2000 16
While Molière was cornering the market on French comedy, this "Phèdre" playwright was the virtuoso of French tragedy
    $2000 18
In 2018 a bronze head by this "Bird in Space" sculptor sold at auction for $71 million
    DD: $5 20
These pointy denizens of the ocean were actually named after an earlier word for hedgehogs
    DD: $3,500 24
This pair that tests one's forbearance sounds redundant; the phrase was used about St. Paul's epistle to the Romans

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben! Claire Shane
$18,395 $0 $14,700

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
The only 2 Democrats to be elected president between James Buchanan in 1856 & FDR in 1932

Final scores:

Ben! Claire Shane
$14,701 $0 $20,700
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Ben! Claire Shane
$19,400 $0 $18,200
23 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 4 R,
2 W		 23 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $37,600

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Game tape date: 2025-02-05
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