Show #9280 - Friday, February 28, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Shane Whitlock, a radiologist originally from Benton, Arkansas

Jaskaran Singh, a consultant from Plano, Texas

Roger Craig, an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round

EYEWITNESS U.S. HISTORY
BOOKS & AUTHORS
BILLBOARD BILLS, BILLYS & A BILLIE
SOCIAL TYPES
USE YOUR WORD WORDS
NOT TODAY, SATIN!
(Ken: That's what we say.)
    $200 21
An eyewitness in 1906 described "dynamite used to blow down buildings in the path of flames" just after this event
    $200 17
Since its publication in 1990, this Dr. Seuss book has popped up on bestsellers lists again & again during graduation season
    $200 22
She recorded a drill at her dentist's office & put the sound in her 2019 hit "Bury a Friend"
    $200 23
It's the NYSE symbol for insurance brokerage Brown & Brown, or a young hedge fund manager who might invest in it
    $200 26
Morning (time of day) & mourning (in grief) are examples of these, partly from the Greek for "sound"
    $200 30
Lycra & this other 1950s proprietary brand name both refer to synthetic elastic polyurethane fabrics
    $400 10
A performer at this venue remembered the president's wife "was laughing at my speech when the shot was fired"
    $400 11
This author of "The Name of the Rose" was a semiotician, a scholar in the field of signs & symbols
    $400 12
He & his Comets hit No. 1 in 1955 with we're gonna "Rock Around the Clock"
    $400 20
Nara Smith & Hannah Neeleman make popular videos about how to be this smushed word for a woman who embraces a conventional role
    $400 25
This verb means to articulate & pronounce one's words clearly & correctly
    $400 29
This word for a coarse fabric used for flags could also get you to first in baseball
    $600 4
Horace C. Porter recalled handing General Lee his pencil on April 9, 1865 in this place with a 3-word name
    $600 6
Jennifer Egan won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for her novel featuring record exec Bennie Salazar called "A Visit from" this
    $600 9
"Mony Mony" is his only Billboard No. 1
    DD: $1,800 16
Random House says this 2-word term for one who travels a lot for business was suggested by a Mad Max film title
    $600 24
Speaking casually without preparation is done ad-lib or this 3-word clothing way
    $600 13
Not just for bandages, it's a thin fabric with an open weave perfect for summer wear
    $800 3
Victor Weisskopf saw a "smoke ball rising with a thick stem of dark brown color" in July 1945 near this test site with a religious name
    $800 1
His "Sons and Lovers", about relationships in a British working-class family, was semi-autobiographical
    $800 7
He says the grave basement cold of Chicago influenced the music he made with his band
    $800 14
3-word self-description by Taylor Swift as she endorsed Kamala Harris
    $800 19
It's been said that a language is this regional form "with an army & a navy"
    $800 28
Minawear, founded in Venice Beach in 1998, makes clothing from this smokin' fiber with anti-microbial benefits
    $1000 5
She recalled a 1960 event in New Orleans: "People yelled & threw things"; "I was surrounded by the marshals"
    $1000 2
Dubbed the first great millennial author, she wrote the novels "Normal People" & "Conversations with Friends"
    $1000 8
This Righteous Brother teamed with Jennifer Warnes on the No. 1 "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life"
    $1000 15
From Latin for "to sit apart", this word is used of people jailed in Russia for their views, but also of some U.S. professors
    $1000 18
A word meaning "written in verse" begins this 2-word term for breaking rules of writing or speech intentionally
    $1000 27
Any goat besides an Angora can provide this material made from the soft, downy undercoat, shed in early spring

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

Roger Jaskaran Shane
$2,600 $1,800 $4,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Roger Jaskaran Shane
$4,400 $5,000 $5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE COUNTY LINE
SYMBOLISM IN ART
METEOROLOGY
CREATORS & CREATIONS
PERIOD ENTERTAINMENT
BEFORE & AFTER
    $400 18
A less-famous John Hancock signature is on the 1793 act establishing this state's Norfolk County, to include Cohasset
    $400 19
This bird known for its showy feathers could represent immortality (ancient Greeks believed its body didn't decay after death)
    $400 20
A "line" of these wind-speed disturbances can be miles long; the word also means a squabble
    $400 24
In 2024 Mo Willems posted a video about his new book "Are You Small?", but this creature busted in to ask where he (it) is in it
    $400 26
On Broadway since 1996, this 1920s-set musical has seen more than 11,000 renditions of "When Velma Takes The Stand"
    $400 25
Reed Richards' superhero quartet considered an organic omen of good luck
    $800 17
In the 1940s the New Mexico legislature established this county quite a bit smaller than its neighbors
    $800 7
A rooster can symbolize this man's denial of Jesus "three times before the cock crows"
    $800 21
Here's a silver lining--you can just say AC, short for this type of mid-altitude cloud
    $800 12
David Baszucki & Erik Cassel navigated Obbys & became tycoons as creators of this platform for creating 3D worlds
    $800 14
Set in the early 20th century, "Downton Abbey" had Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley, Earl of this
    $800 29
Residential area of mobile homes where you can safely leave your car & catch a bus into town
    $1200 4
O'Brien County, Iowa is a perfect square, this many miles each side for a total of 576 very square miles
    $1200 3
A skull in a vanitas still life painting is shorthand for this Latin phrase that means "remember you must die"
    $1200 10
Originally used to classify wind strength at sea, the Beaufort scale measured speed not by miles or km per hour but these
    $1200 11
This filling & rhyming signature dish of Hawaii was created by restaurant owners Richard & Nancy Inouye
    DD: $5,800 15
"The Night That Goldman Spoke in Union Square" is a song from this musical named for a music style that defined an era
    $1200 30
Translation of carpe diem that became a novel about an attempt to kill Charles de Gaulle
    DD: $4,000 5
Cross this county's border & you're in one of the "collar counties": Lake, McHenry, DuPage, Kane & Will
    $1600 1
This mythical creature symbolizes purity; it's seen in a Raphael portrait of a blonde lady
    $1600 8
In April 2011 the South, East & Central U.S. were struck by the largest outbreak of these ever recorded
    $1600 13
In literature, real 16th century Rabbi Judah Ben Bezalel Loew is the creator of this creature that protects the Jews
    $1600 22
He put the "swear" in Al Swearengen on "Deadwood"
    $1600 28
Turns out the frontwoman of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is a universal blood donor
    $2000 6
Cities in 2 counties include this one in Anderson & Campbell Counties, Tennessee, named since 2014 for a state song also a Volunteers anthem
    $2000 2
A mirror can refer to art's reflection of reality, as in this Velázquez work where one shows Philip IV & his queen
    $2000 9
Humidity is measured with one of these instruments that also starts with "H"
    $2000 16
The creator of an ancient sculpture of a discus thrower; his oddly non-Greek-sounding name comes from one of the gifts of the Magi
    $2000 23
(Rachel Brosnahan presents the clue.) On "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", my character pursues stand-up comedy & got arrested on obscenity charges along with this comedian, who in real life was arrested in 1964 after a Greenwich Village set
    $2000 27
Deceptive Greek "gift" found near a high-pressure belt known for calm winds

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Roger Jaskaran Shane
$14,400 $12,600 $3,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES
(Ken: Not so specific.)
As a young reporter in Appleton, Wisconsin, Edna Ferber interviewed this hometown celebrity originally from Hungary

Final scores:

Roger Jaskaran Shane
$25,201 $25,198 $6,400
Finalist 2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Roger Jaskaran Shane
$14,400 $15,400 $9,000
17 R,
3 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $38,800

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Game tape date: 2025-02-05
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