Show #9279 - Thursday, February 27, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

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Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Jackson Jones, a conflicts analyst assistant from Louisville, Kentucky

Seth Wilson, an editor and adjunct professor from Oak Park, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round

THE 15th CENTURY
OF (GREEK) MYTHICAL PROPORTIONS
"X" MARKS THE BRAND
STATE THE FACTS
POP CULTURE 2000
LOOK & SEE THE DOUBLE VOWELS
    $200 25
Ming Emperor Chengzu moved the capital of China from Nanjing to this city & built a 30-foot wall surrounding it
    $200 26
You know that it'd be untrue, though it's said he played the lyre, if I was to say to you, this Greek sun god sang "Light My Fire"
    $200 27
In 1972 Humble Oil XXed out the name Enco & renamed its stations this
    $200 28
This cocktail made with bourbon has been the official drink of the Kentucky Derby since 1939
    $200 29
Matthew Perry & Courteney Cox were among the friends who attended her lavish wedding to Brad Pitt
    $200 30
You can be doing this (presently!) both down an airport runway or 42nd Street in public transportation
    $400 16
Cannons helped decide the outcome of 1453's Battle of Castillon, the last major clash of this conflict
    $400 24
In book XI of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", this man "touched a clod of earth, and by the power of touch, the clod became a nugget"
    $400 21
This brand makes the Axent knife
    $400 19
Alabama's state quarter features an image of this woman & her name in English & Braille
    $400 23
The multiple Oscar-nominated films of 2000 included "Gladiator" & this one with co-stars including Helen Hunt & a ball
    $400 22
It's this job:
Now who wants to bid $100 I hear $100 thank you do I hear 2 yes 2 OK now 4! $400 once... twice... sold for $400!
    $600 1
Itzcoatl allied with neighboring states in 1428 & made this empire the dominant force in Central Mexico
    $600 20
Achilles took a dip for invulnerability in this body of water, but uh oh... looks like mom missed a spot
    $600 18
This gum brand makes Refreshers, gum that's coated in tiny crystals with a chewy center
    $600 17
In the original version of the game Monopoly, many of the locations were taken from this New Jersey resort metropolis
    $600 3
This hot new video game of the year had players controlling the day-to-day lives of virtual people
    $600 15
You know how to play this instrument, aka mirliton, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together around it & blow... I mean, hum. You hum
    $800 2
This Wallachian prince picked up his killing-method-based nickname in battles against the Ottoman Turks
    $800 11
Early Postmates man Hercules nabbed golden fruit guarded by these maidens whose name is Greek for "daughters of night"
    $800 12
Microsoft launched this gaming console in late 2005 at a price of $399
    $800 5
In 1996 a village 25 miles north of New York City changed its name to this in honor of an 1820 horror story set there
    $800 13
Eminem released this "LP", his follow-up to "The Slim Shady LP", & often considered his best album
    $800 14
2 U's have different sounds in this word for an unbroken line or sequence
    DD: $1,400 6
The structure called this, after the old city of Tokyo, was built; over centuries, it expanded greatly, then contracted
    $1000 7
Half woman, half serpent but 100% dangerous, this monster whose name is also that of an Aussie mammal was the Sphinx' mom
    $1000 8
Here's the logo of this clothing brand that has been around since 1991
    $1000 4
Joining the U.S. as the 19th state in 1816, Indiana had been part of this vast tract of land ceded to the U.S. after the Revolution
    $1000 9
In 2000 this future Oscar winner won an Emmy & a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Dorothy Dandridge
    $1000 10
Flowering plants, or old-timey loose trousers that women used to wear for athletics

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

Seth Jackson Juveria
$3,400 $2,600 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Seth Jackson Juveria
$4,200 $5,200 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH ISLES GEOGRAPHY
TALES OF ADVENTURE
BODY HUMAN
ONE-WORD ANAGRAMS
SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS & FOOD
WHAT'S THE USE?
    $400 30
As it flows through the city of Oxford, this 210-mile river is known as the Isis
    $400 22
Jules Verne quit his stock market job with the success of "Five Weeks in" this, about 3 men who get a great view of Africa
    $400 28
This architecturally named segment of the aorta curves over the heart
    $400 27
It can be Boolean:
CHASER
    $400 20
Jimmy Buffet said he wrote about one of these "In Paradise" after being limited to canned food & peanut butter on a Caribbean boat trip
    $400 29
Alexis Fraser & Katherine Mason are known for making art using this cosmetic that comes in tubes, like oil paint does
    $800 23
The Royal Conservatoire & the University of Strathclyde are both found in this city, Scotland's most populous
    $800 21
This masked swashbuckler who fought for justice in Old California debuted in the 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano"
    $800 24
Rh incompatibility is one cause of hemolysis, the breakdown of these cells
    $800 25
A recount usually happens when neither opponent has done this to the other:
RECOUNT
    $800 19
A breakout hit for "Weird Al" Yankovic, it mentions Cap'n Crunch & tuna casserole, among other foods
    $800 26
Be patient with this famously slow-pouring condiment: it can polish copper
    $1200 6
The "Garden of England", the county of Kent in the southeast is also home to Folkestone, a terminal of this 31-mile marvel
    DD: $5,800 2
Though a cowardly lech, in India the hero of "Flashman in the Great Game" earns this then-highest British award for gallantry
    $1200 5
Small but mighty, this "master gland" weighs in at only about .02 ounces but regulates the others in the endocrine system
    $1200 7
This indicatory volume:
INDICATORY
    $1200 18
No subtext in this hit by DNCE that mentions "lickin' frosting from your own hands": it's surely about dessert on the beach
    $1200 9
A nonprofit called Good360 helps get this type of apparel never worn by Brock Purdy or Joe Mixon to the global needy
    $1600 12
Also a first name, this 5-letter county is one of England's largest & is one east of Cornwall
    $1600 1
Not every adventure novel has Nietzsche & Schopenhauer in the first paragraph, but this Jack London "Sea" tale does
    $1600 4
The meninges, the protective sheaths around the brain & spinal column, are the arachnoid & the dura mater & this other mater
    $1600 8
These may reduce your liability:
DISCOUNTED
    $1600 16
In a 2011 hit Demi Lovato sang, "I will be rising from the ground like" this title tall building
    $1600 10
This compound is toxic, causes acid rain & has a sharp odor like a struck match, so into the wine it goes, to stop yeast growth
    $2000 3
The birthplace of Catherine Zeta-Jones, this second-largest city of Wales was heavily damaged by German bombing in WWII
    $2000 14
As a teen in Montana, he camped, fletched arrows & forged knives to create the adventurous world of "Eragon"
    DD: $6,600 13
Head to the end of the alphabet for this bone that forms an outer wall of the eye socket
    $2000 17
This adjective that might apply to a nonscientist's way of thinking:
NONSCIENTIST
    $2000 15
Ed Sheeran wrote a love song to his childhood in Suffolk with this tune that mentions "Tiny Dancer" & watching sunsets
    $2000 11
Sildenafil--the same drug in viagra--has been approved by the FDA to give to kids with PAH, pulmonary arterial this

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Seth Jackson Juveria
$6,400 $10,800 $16,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ART & ARTISTS
Born in Amersfoort in 1872, he helped found an art movement noted for the use of straight lines & primary colors

Final scores:

Seth Jackson Juveria
$12,799 $16,001 $21,601
3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Seth Jackson Juveria
$12,200 $10,800 $12,800
13 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
2 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $35,800

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Game tape date: 2025-02-05
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