Show #9283 - Wednesday, March 5, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament final game 1.

Contestants

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Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Roger Craig, an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia

Matt Amodio, a quantitative researcher from New York, New York

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Jeopardy! Round

ALL THE NON-HUMAN BOOK CHARACTERS
NOTABLE NAMES
FEELING PUNCHY
SPITTING FIRE
RECENT MOVIES
ADD A LETTER
(Ken: Here, we'll need two words in each response.)
    $200 25
In the sci-fi novel "Children of Time", humans must vie with Portia & Bianca, genetically juiced "jumping" types of this arachnid
    $200 26
Worth about $200 billion, give or take a few, in 2021 he flew to the edge of space on one of his Blue Origin spacecrafts
    $200 27
"Knucks" is shorthand for these illegal metal fisticuff aids
    $200 28
In Exodus the angel of the Lord appeared & this "burned with fire, and" it "was not consumed"
    $200 29
"Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" ends with our hero revealing the existence of this kingdom of his
    $200 30
The sound of guffawing & to butcher cattle
    $400 7
Enzo, the dog from "The Art of Racing in the Rain", is named for this Italian well-known in racing
    $400 10
In 2023 this Nobel Peace Prize laureate called for a global movement to end gender apartheid by the Taliban
    $400 23
In boxing, this 3-letter punch often acts as a range-finder when rockin' & sockin' 'em in the ring
    $400 14
1st century scholar Shammai said all 8 candles should be lit on the first night of this, then decreasing one per night
    $400 22
This beloved bear gets a terrifying makeover in the 2023 horror film subtitled "Blood and Honey"
    $400 24
An attribute or characteristic & a connector of 2 large bodies of water
    $600 5
A motto of Boxer, the cart horse in "Animal Farm", was that this character "is always right"
    $600 6
National Dictionary Day on October 16 honors the day this man was born in 1758
    DD: $3,400 20
A powerful punch, it's likely named for the agricultural practice of cutting dried grass
    $600 12
"Oh, my god, he's gonna say it!... Avengers assem--!" No, Deadpool, Chris Evans is Johnny, not Cap, & says this catchphrase instead
    $600 21
In "The Brutalist" he plays Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr., initially not crazy about the work of architect Laszlo Toth
    $600 19
A 4 on the pH scale & a description of a nasty smell
    $800 2
Treebeard in Tolkien's Middle-earth is this species, the female of which is hard to find
    $800 4
As publisher of the Washington Post, she employed lots of Pulitzer winners; she won one herself for "Personal History"
    $800 17
With his coach Freddie Roach, he developed a right hook called "Manila Ice"
    $800 8
The Food Network's recipe for this includes a pound of a certain fruit, vanilla ice cream & 1/3 cup of golden rum to fire up
    $800 9
As this character in "Dune: Part Two", Timothée Chalamet unites with the Fremen to help seek his revenge on his enemies
    $800 15
A repetitive way of memorizing a lot of facts & a series of steps to get to your destination
    $1000 1
In a book by Robert C. O'Brien, this widowed mouse meets up with some rats from the National Institute of Mental Health
    $1000 3
In 1961 this French co-creator of Cubism became the first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Louvre
    $1000 16
It was noble of boxing to adopt these 1867 rules that banned "shoes or boots with springs"
    $1000 11
It's the title of a 1962 Nabokov novel as well as the 999-line poem within it
    $1000 13
Subtitled "A Mad Max Saga", this film is an origin story about a legendary fighter before she met the Road Warrior
    $1000 18
Graceful or limber & happy or carefree, perhaps in spirit

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

Matt Roger Juveria
$3,000 $4,000 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Roger Juveria
$4,600 $5,200 -$600

Double Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
DOCUMENT DUDES
THE DESIRED OPERA CATEGORY
(Ken: Not dreaded but [*]. That's nice.)
LAYING DOWN THE LAW
REALITY TV
ENDS IN "M"
    $400 21
The São Carlos Opera House is found in this city, the westernmost capital in continental Europe
    $400 22
The D'Arcy Concession, which led to the creation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., later BP, was signed in this Asian city in 1901
    $400 23
Figaro! Figaro Figaro Fiii-gaaa-ro! is who I'm talking about & he sings the aria "Largo al factotum" in this 1816 comic opera
    $400 26
Signed in 1965, this act made literacy tests & poll taxes illegal
    $400 30
This show's spin-offs include "Mediterranean" with Captain Sandy & "Down Under"
    $400 29
A can of this--lovely this! Wonderful this!--has salt, water, sugar, potato starch, sodium nitrate & pork with ham
    $800 19
Icebound from December to April, the Gulf of Riga is part of this 160,000-square-mile body of water
    $800 7
The Roosevelt Corollary said that this statement gives the U.S. the right to butt into Latin America; the Clark Memorandum says not
    $800 25
Like many immigrants, this German worked hard in England, with 11 operas premiering from 1723 to 1728, including "Ottone"
    $800 18
Dutch for "dawdling" gave us the word for this crime of hanging around
    $800 28
This show slayed in 2024, winning the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Program & one for its host, Alan Cumming
    $800 11
Borrowed from Latin, it means word for word--we just saved effort by repeating last year's clue this way
    $1200 17
Before flowing into the Adriatic, the Bojana River forms part of the border between Albania & this country
    $1200 4
This British foreign secretary's 1917 declaration supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine
    $1200 13
The last act of a Wagner opera opens with this classic piece, also used to great effect in "Apocalypse Now"
    $1200 12
Judges tend to "follow" this, referring to a decision in an earlier, similar case
    $1200 27
She's since worked on her anger issues, but an iconic moment on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" was when she flipped a table
    $1200 8
According to Cassius Dio, a mock sea battle took place in here
    DD: $6,600 3
Connected to the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Strait of Bonifacio separates these 2 islands
    $1600 5
Explaining Christ's both human & divine nature, Leo's Tome was from Pope Leo I to the patriarch of this city 850 miles east of Rome
    $1600 1
Stalin walked out of a 1930s opera by Shostakovich called this Shakespearean woman "of Mtsensk"--not a good sign
    $1600 14
It's the Latin way of saying, "I did it, but this is not my admission of guilt"
    $1600 24
For the past 15 seasons, "Survivor" has been filmed in this island country
    $1600 9
Some blame "the" this for all the dog content on their For You Page; the word goes back to an 800s Islamic mathematician
    $2000 16
A dinosaur-dominant period gets its name from this mountain range between France & Switzerland
    $2000 6
He introduced a proviso to prohibit slavery in new territories & presided over the convention that nominated Lincoln
    $2000 2
Italian for woman, singularly or as a group; a famous aria says they è mobile, "are fickle"
    DD: $9,600 15
The D.O.J. states that elements of this paired crime involve the "intent to facilitate the commission of a crime by another"
    $2000 20
Conquering Mt. Midoriyama, a 75-foot rope climb, is the $1 million final obstacle on this series
    $2000 10
It's matter over mind in philosophical thought, or a proclivity for the flashy things in life

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Roger Juveria
$30,000 $22,800 $1,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MEDIEVAL EUROPEANS
This mathematician of Pisa studied in Algeria & later wrote a book introducing Arabic numerals to a larger audience

Final scores:

Matt Roger Juveria
$45,601 $30,397 $1,500
Winner: 1 match point 2nd place 3rd place

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Matt Roger Juveria
$25,000 $15,200 $4,400
27 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 12 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $44,600

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Game tape date: 2025-02-06
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