Show #9284 - Thursday, March 6, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament final game 2.

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

SPEECH!
2024 WORDLES, DEFINED
CANADIANA
ALSO A BOAT
WOMEN IN SPORTS
WHAT'S FOR LUNCH?
    $200 22
Conceding, Kamala Harris said accepting the results of an election is what distinguishes this from monarchy or tyranny
    $200 28
A bird claw:
_ _ L _ _
    $200 27
Anne Murray & Michael Bublé have sung the unofficial anthem this botanical emblem "Forever"
    $200 25
In 2002 the Federal Trade Commission launched a crackdown on this type of intrusive e-mail
    $200 29
With 11 medals total, she's the most decorated U.S. gymnast in Olympic history
    $200 30
The Spanish word for bread is hiding inside the name of this Latin American turnover that usually has a savory filling
    $400 19
In a 2005 commencement speech, he talked about his $2 billion company... "I had just turned 30. And then I got fired"
    $400 20
To divide into tenths, formerly, or a church donation:
_ _ _ H _
    $400 21
It's Canada's national police force
    $400 23
This palindromic company can help with flights, accommodations & car rentals
    $400 24
The Indiana Fever's No. 1 draft pick in 2024, she's had a great "effect" on women's basketball
    $400 26
Feel like Japanese food? Try unagi, this freshwater fish, often grilled & served over rice
    $600 3
"It is international morality that is at stake", Haile Selassie told the League of Nations after Italy invaded this country
    $600 17
A person's strong point, or Will of "MacGruber" fame:
_ O _ _ _
    $600 6
Justin Trudeau was Canada's 10th prime minister of this party that dominated that job in the 20th century
    $600 16
New Englanders call soft-shelled clams these, in reference to the way they're best cooked
    $600 18
One of the greatest beach volleyball teams of all time, she & Kerri Walsh Jennings took the gold in three consecutive Olympics
    $600 14
In the mood for a sandwich? How about a po' boy or this other New Orleans favorite said to have been created at the Central Grocery
    $800 2
In 1992 activist Mary Fisher asked the GOP convention not to "whisper" about this disease but "to bring our silence to an end"
    $800 8
"There it is!"
(in French):
_ _ I _ _
    $800 4
In 1916, this easternmost Prairie province became the first in Canada to grant women the right to vote & hold provincial office
    $800 13
As a boat, it's a bit pushy on the waters; as a verb, it means "to rudely interrupt"
    $800 15
This Ski Hall of Famer, I see you are not named for a baby game but for a small town in Idaho
    $800 11
This North African dish of poached eggs in a spicy tomato sauce isn't just for breakfast; plus its imitative Arabic name is fun to say!
    $1000 1
In his first speech to Parliament as PM, Winston Churchill declared, "I have nothing to offer but" these 4 things
    DD: $1,000 7
Part of the NATO phonetic alphabet:
_ _ _ V _
    $1000 5
Charlie Chaplin's "The Gold Rush" was inspired by events 30 years earlier along this 100-mile-long river
    $1000 10
If you want bang for your buck when bingeing beer, ask for this kind of wide-mouth glass
    $1000 12
The first woman to play in an NHL game, in 2022, this Canadian was hired by the Kings as a hockey operations & prospect advisor
    $1000 9
Don't get mad--try the pasta with this spicy sauce whose name is Italian for "angry"

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

Matt Roger Juveria
$4,200 $1,600 $3,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Roger Juveria
$5,200 $3,400 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE NAME OF THE PLAY
COLLEGE SEALS
THE MAGMA MOVEMENT
HIP-HOP & RELIGION
5-LETTER GEOGRAPHY
ADVERBS
    $400 27
This Theban king has some real mommy & daddy issues
    $400 26
The tree on the seal of this school represents el Palo Alto, a more than 1,000-year-old redwood
    $400 28
That magma has achieved a breakthrough & now we call it this
    $400 25
While Kanye West made "Jesus Walks", Lupe Fiasco remixed the beat to make this 7th century religious figure "Walks"
    $400 29
This long Asian peninsula stretches 700 miles south from Myanmar towards the island of Sumatra
    $400 30
In 2016 a lexicographer assumed Donald Trump meant "big league" in a debate though it sounded like this adverb
    $800 5
This Marlowe man "was grac'd with doctor's name, excelling all... in heavenly matters of theology"
    $800 21
The seal of this university features the Sun & California poppies, but no Hector or King Priam
    $800 10
The Caribbean plate isn't an entree with goat curry; it's this type of plate, which collides with the North Amer. one to produce magma
    $800 24
On "Wants & Needs" Drake raps that he "probably should go to" this type of Jewish university but went to "Ibiza" instead
    $800 22
Bounded by the Sinai Peninsula to the west & the Jordan Valley to the east, this arid region makes up about 60% of Israel
    $800 23
"Don't take it" this way is an advice book subtitled "The Art of Dealing with Rejection"
    $1200 3
The title mom in Bertolt Brecht's her "and Her Children" is a not always brave 17th century war profiteer
    $1200 19
On Harvard's seal 3 open books spell out this Latin motto
    $1200 8
The stuff is sloshing around in the Socorro Magma Basin below a rift bisecting New Mexico & bearing the name of this river
    $1200 18
Coolio references the 23rd Psalm on this lead single from the "Dangerous Minds" soundtrack (please don't say the hard "ER")
    $1200 6
In the 15th century, Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui is said to have devised the plan for this South American city
    $1200 20
From Latin for "of one mind", it means with everyone in agreement
    $1600 2
Athol Fugard's him "...and the Boys" is a coming-of-age story set in apartheid-era South Africa
    DD: $2,000 12
From 1783 to 1929 this university in Virginia used what's called the Jeffersonian seal, which depicts Greek Revival architecture
    $1600 9
4 billion years ago the Earth was a hellscape of magma oceans; from the Greek hell, it has the near-rhyming name this "eon"
    $1600 15
Rapper Hanumankind is partly named for a Hindu deity who appears in an ancient Indian epic about this 4-letter king
    DD: $7,800 7
Site of an art show with outposts in Hong Kong & Miami Beach, this city sits near where France, Germany & Switzerland meet
    $1600 17
Rob Lowe named his podcast this, like his character's catchphrase on "Parks & Recreation"
    $2000 4
In a 5th century B.C. play, this activist leads the women of 2 warring cities on a sex strike
    $2000 13
The heraldic shield of Lord Baltimore & a line from gospel are on the seal of this school founded in 1876
    $2000 1
Magma can form a xenolith, one kind of rock in another; many are found near this 1st-name-named capital of Northern Cape province
    $2000 14
In a song titled this New Testament verse, Wyclef Jean riffs, "For God so loved the world, every man packs an M-16"
    $2000 11
This South Pacific island nation, a cradle of Polynesian culture, was governed by New Zealand until 1962
    $2000 16
To show that meaning is not related to syntax, Noam Chomsky coined "colorless green ideas sleep" not fastly but this way

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Roger Juveria
$13,600 $9,400 $16,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH ROYALTY
In the 12th c. after walking barefoot, this man stripped down & allowed himself to be flogged by dozens of monks

Final scores:

Matt Roger Juveria
$11,199 $5,199 $4,799
Winner: 2 match points 2nd place: $50,000 3rd place: $50,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Matt Roger Juveria
$13,600 $9,000 $9,800
19 R,
3 W		 18 R
(including 2 DDs),
5 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $32,400

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Game tape date: 2025-02-06
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