Responses for Show #9236 - Monday, December 30, 2024

2024-2025 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 1.
A large Jeopardy! logo is added to the set, hanging above upstage center.

Contestants

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Tekla Sauter, a nonprofit strategist from Chicago, Illinois

Will Yancey, a lecturer of history from Banquete, Texas

Alex Michev, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round responses

A EUROCENTRIC CATEGORY
RHYME TIME
TRANSPORTATION
COLOR MY WORLD
BOOK "OF"
MERMAN
    $200 15
Monte Carlo

Alex
    $200 8
hawk talk

Triple Stumper
    $200 25
a Segway

Alex
    $200 14
a pink slip

Will
    $200 20
A Tale of Two Cities

Alex
    $200 26
Aquaman

Will
    $400 6
Poland

Alex
    $400 10
a wrong song

Tekla
    $400 24
(Alex: What is the Falcon?)

Dragon

Alex
Triple Stumper
    $400 9
a black bear

Alex
    $400 19
The Return of the King

Will
    $400 27
Zoolander

Alex
    $600 1
(Tekla: What's Etna?)
(Will: What is Stromboli?)
...
(Ken: You two were in the right country, but it's [*].)

Vesuvius

WillTekla
Triple Stumper
    $600 11
a single Pringle

Alex
    $600 23
(Ken: You might have seen their driverless cars freaking you out.)
[Laughter]

Waymo

Triple Stumper
    $600 4
the red zone

Will
    $600 18
[Alex omitted the leading article from his response.]

The Call of the Wild

Alex
    $600 28
(Ken: [*] losing his cool.)

(King) Triton

Alex
    $800 2
the Adriatic Sea

Will
    $800 12
a mound sound

Alex
    $800 22
a rickshaw

Alex
    $800 5
(Alex: What is the White Nile?)

the Blue Nile

AlexWill
    $800 17
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Will
    $800 29
Futurama

Alex
    $1,000 3
the Brandenburg Gate

Will
    $1000 13
a greater crater

Tekla
    $1000 21
(Will: What is KLM?)
...
(Ken: That would be [*], Scandinavian capitals.)

SAS

Will
Triple Stumper
    $1000 7
green bananas

Tekla
    $1000 16
Of Human Bondage

Tekla
    $1000 30
(Ken: It was [*], the little [*] in Barbie.)

John Cena

Triple Stumper

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

Alex Will Tekla
$1,600 $2,800 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Will Tekla
$4,800 $3,200 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ISSUING A CETACEAN
ART & ARTISTS
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
THE 13th CENTURY
THINKERS & THEIR THOUGHTS
MOOD INDI-GO-GO
    $400 24
barnacles

Alex
    $400 23
The Kiss

Tekla
    $400 1
a remainder

Alex
    $400 11
Switzerland

Will
    $400 30
gender

Will
    $400 29
BTS

Will
    $800 14
a narwhal

Alex
    $800 22
New Mexico

Alex
    $800 2
a magnum

Alex
    $800 10
the Assassins

Will
    $800 18
loneliness

Triple Stumper
    $800 28
Wham!

Tekla
    $1200 13
a bottlenose dolphin

Tekla
    $1200 19
don't touch me

Will
    $1200 3
monotheism

Alex
    $1,200 6
the last crusade

Will
    $1200 7
(Will: What is will?)

what doesn't kill me (you)

Will
Triple Stumper
    $1200 27
Sunset

Will
    $1600 15
a sperm whale

Alex
    $1600 20
Cassatt

Will
    $1600 4
a Gulag

Will
    $1600 8
the Habsburgs

Will
    $1600 12
[The second image shows characters from the series Universal Basic Guys.]

universal basic income

Triple Stumper
    $1600 26
(Tekla: What's "Walk Like An Egyptian"?)
...
(Ken: [To Tekla] Those are The Bangles.)

"Head Over Heels"

Tekla
Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
flukes

Will
    $2000 21
David

Triple Stumper
    $2,400 5
(Ken: Wow, tough word, but you got it, yes.)

exsanguinate

Will
    $2000 9
(Will: What is Congo?)

the Niger

AlexWill
    $2000 17
Hillel

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
Inspector Gadget

Tekla

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Will Tekla
$12,800 $14,800 $5,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
(Ken: [To Tekla] That is correct, named for Spain.)
TeklaWhat is Hispaniola?
$5,598
AlexWhat is Hispaniola?
$1,500
WillWhat is Hispañola Hi Coco
$10,801
Hispaniola (Hispañola)

Final scores:

Alex Will Tekla
$14,300 $25,601 $11,198
2nd place: $3,000 Finalist 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Alex Will Tekla
$12,800 $14,400 $5,600
20 R,
2 W		 20 R
(including 3 DDs),
4 W		 8 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $32,800

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Game tape date: 2024-11-04
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