Responses for Show #9025 - Friday, January 26, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

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Ittai Sopher, a news producer and journalist from New Orleans, Louisiana

Michael Menkhus, a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri

Tamara Ghattas, an editor from Chicago, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round responses

TOUCH SOME GRASS
"C" IN THE MIDDLE
(Ken: The exact middle of each response, in fact.)
THAT'S JUST TEARABLE!
FULL-COURT PRESS
2-3 ZONE
COACHING BASKETBALL
    $200 28
Augusta

Michael!
    $200 24
an ace

Michael!
    $200 30
(Ken: ASMR fans, you're listening to [*].)

Velcro

Michael!
    $200 29
(Michael: Bring it!)
(Ken: There you go, you got your chance.)

Florida

Michael!
    $200 27
Mountain

Michael!
    $200 19
a triangle

Michael!
    $400 22
lemongrass

Michael!
    $400 18
a parachute

Michael!
    $400 25
Picasso

Michael!
    $400 14
Prohibition

Ittai =)
    $400 26
(Tamara: What is Jerusalem?)

Baghdad

TamaraIttai =)
    $400 13
Los Angeles

Tamara
    $600 2
crabgrass

Ittai =)
    $600 3
an acupuncturist

Michael!
    $600 21
slash

Tamara
    $600 9
Roe v. Wade

Tamara
    $600 8
the Korean DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)

Triple Stumper
    $600 12
Georgetown

Michael!
    $800 6
wheatgrass

Tamara
    $800 1
an ulcer

Ittai =)
    $800 15
the Achilles

Michael!
    $2,600 11
(Ken: [*] v. Madison, yes.)

Marbury

Michael!
    $800 23
the Combat Zone

Triple Stumper
    $800 5
Naismith

Ittai =)
    $1000 7
St. Augustine

Ittai =)
    $1000 17
embarcadero

Tamara
    $1000 20
(Michael: Who is Macbeth?)
...
(Ken: Yes, that's why he can kill Macbeth.)
(Tamara: Ha ha.)

Macduff

TamaraMichael!
    $1000 10
Plessy v. Ferguson

Michael!
    $1000 16
(Ittai: What is Zimbabwe?)

Namibia

TamaraIttai =)
    $1000 4
Doc Rivers

Michael!

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

Tamara Michael! Ittai =)
$1,800 $6,600 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tamara Michael! Ittai =)
$5,000 $8,000 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORIC BATTLES
DASHIELL HAMMETT
GAS EVERYWHERE
WHAT'S IN A NAME
THE TV SPIN-OFF SOURCE
(Ken: You'll name the origin show.)
SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS
    $400 5
the Vietnam War

Michael!
    $400 12
the Maltese Falcon

Tamara
    $400 11
methane

Michael!
    $400 29
(Ken: From Byblos, [*].)

Bible

Triple Stumper
    $400 28
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Tamara
    $400 30
knead

Michael!
    $800 4
the Persian Empire

Michael!
    $800 27
McCarthy

Michael!
    $800 16
volume

Michael!
    $800 17
(Ken: Yeah, Morganization named for Morgan.)

M

Michael!
    $800 26
All in the Family

Ittai =)
    $800 25
bristle

Michael!
    $1200 1
the Luftwaffe

Michael!
    $1200 9
(Ittai: Who is Mickey Spillane?)
(Tamara: I'm sorry, I don't know.)
(Ken: No response.)

Raymond Chandler

TamaraIttai =)
Triple Stumper
    $1200 15
noble gases

Michael!
    $1200 6
Monte Cristo

Tamara
    $1200 19
Battlestar Galactica

Tamara
    $1200 22
a chorus

Ittai =)
    $1600 2
the Ottoman Empire

Michael!
    $1600 23
the Tenderloin

Ittai =)
    $1600 13
Jupiter

Michael!
    $4,500 7
[Tamara slams a fist into her other hand.]

Lusitania

Tamara
    $1600 18
Supernatural

Triple Stumper
    $7,000 20
(Tamara: To the purpose. Oh, my God.)
(Ken: Tamara?)
(Tamara: What is apt?)
[Tamara slams her hand on the podium and hits a fist into her hand.]

àpropos

Tamara
    $2000 3
(Ittai: What is... Spotsylvania?)

the Rappahannock River

Ittai =)
Triple Stumper
    $2000 24
(Lillian) Hellman

Tamara
    $2000 14
landfill gases

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
Louis XVIII

Ittai =)
    $2000 10
Letterkenny

Michael!
    $2000 21
aplomb

Tamara

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tamara Michael! Ittai =)
$8,500 $20,800 $5,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LEADING LADIES: NEXT IN LINE
(Ken: [To Ittai] Very good, yes, these are the leads in the four different screen versions of A Star is Born, most recently, [*].)
...
(Ken: [To Michael] Who is Hepburn?? Covering his bases--could be any Hepburn.)
Ittai =)Who is Lady Gaga ♡ :)
$601
TamaraWho is Bernadette Peters?
$0
Michael!Who is Hepburn??
$0
Lady Gaga

Final scores:

Tamara Michael! Ittai =)
$8,500 $20,800 $6,001
2nd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Tamara Michael! Ittai =)
$12,600 $19,000 $5,400
14 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 28 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $37,000

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Game tape date: 2024-01-04
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