Responses for Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! game #27 - Wednesday, January 8, 2025

2025 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinal game 1.
Ken Jennings hosts.

Contestants

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W. Kamau Bell, a comedian, author, and filmmaker originally from Chicago, Illinois

Camilla Luddington, an actor originally from Ascot, United Kingdom

Max Greenfield, an actor and best-selling author from Los Angeles, California

Jeopardy! Round responses

HAVE FAITH
CELEBRITY PETS
HOT GOSSIP
DON'T MAKE ME SAY IT
LESSER-KNOWN BREAKFAST CEREALS
DARWIN'S BOOBIES
(Ken: That last one may not be what you think.)
    $100 13
Rastafarianism

Kamau
    $100 7
a cat

Max
    $100 5
Old Faithful

Camilla
    $100 18
(Ken: Thank you, I did not have to say [*]. ...Oh, I just said it.)

moist

Max
    $100 1
Girl Scouts

Max
    $100 24
birds

Kamau
    $200 14
an exorcism

Camilla
    $200 8
Meghan Markle & Prince Harry

Camilla
    $200 6
Death Valley

Max
    $200 19
chunky

Max
    $200 2
Cracker Jack

Kamau
    $200 25
(Ken: Yes...)
(Camilla: [Looking to Kamau] Damn!)
(Ken: Also Camilla's country of origin. We're learning so much.)
(Camilla: [Whispering] I second-guessed it.)

England

Kamau
    $300 15
an avatar

Kamau
    $100 9
(Camilla: Who i--who is AC/DC?)

Slash (from Guns N' Roses)

Camilla
    $300 10
(Kamau: What is Mars?)
(Camilla: What is Jupiter?)

Venus

CamillaKamau
Triple Stumper
    $300 20
(Camilla: What are [**]?)
[Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Double Jeopardy!]

slacks (sweatpants accepted)

Camilla
    $300 3
Urkel

Max
    $300 26
(Kamau: [Gesturing to the category on the board while selecting the next clue] This is not as much fun as I thought it was going to be, we're talking about boobies. I want to be clear.)
[Laughter]

the Galapagos Islands

Kamau
    $400 16
monotheistic

Kamau
    $400 29
(Ken: John Legend playing the hits, there. He sang [*] to the puppies.)
(Kamau: Of course he did.)

"All Of Me"

Triple Stumper
    $400 11
a sauna

Max
    $400 21
phlegm

Kamau
    $400 4
(Kamau: Who is Flipper?)

Baby Shark

CamillaKamau
    $400 27
beagle

Triple Stumper
    $500 17
Shintoism

Kamau
    $500 30
chow chow

Triple Stumper
    $500 23
iron

Kamau
    $500 22
kumquat

Camilla
    $500 12
[NOTE: This was the 540,000th clue entered into the J! Archive, on 2025-01-09.]

Rugrats

Kamau
    $500 28
(Ken: The [*]-footed booby, you got it.)

blue

Max

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

Max Camilla Kamau
$1,100 $500 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Max Camilla Kamau
$1,900 $1,300 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

APT ANAGRAMS
THE CONCH REPUBLIC
GEEKY GOOGLE
FUNNY MATH WORDS
THAT GUY! ACTORS
LINCOLN: THE BIO
    $200 26
who

Kamau
    $200 21
(Ken: That's correct. Are you a big fan, by the way?)
(Kamau: Uh, no, I just made those names up. I never heard of him before.)
[Camilla laughs.]
(Ken: That's amazing.)
(Kamau: I just put those two things together--[*].)

Jimmy Buffet

Kamau
    $200 11
an apple

Camilla
    $200 6
(Ken: Yes, it looks like [*], if--if that's the singular, I don't know.)

a Pringle

Max
    $200 1
(Kamau: What is Groundhog's Day?)

Groundhog Day

CamillaKamau
    $200 16
Indiana

Kamau
    $400 27
lemon

Kamau
    $400 22
key lime

Max
    $400 12
precioussss

Kamau
    $400 7
zero

Max
    $400 2
Step Brothers

Max
    $400 17
Thanksgiving

Kamau
    $600 28
parrot

Max
    $600 23
(Kamau: Who is Dave Barry?)
(Ken: Sorry, no. ...Good guess, Florida author, but not correct.)

Hemingway

Kamau
Triple Stumper
    $600 13
WHO IS Alex Trebek

Max
    $600 8
(Camilla: [Without ringing in] Hah?)
(Ken: It's the sesquiduplicate of [*]. So now you know, when people ask you, "Hey, what's the sesquiduplicate of [*]?")
(Kamau: We're not gonna remember that!)
(Camilla: No, no.)

100

Triple Stumper
    $600 3
Kung Fu Panda

Kamau
    $600 18
(Ken: Yeah, ironic encounter, there.)
(Kamau: Mmm.)

John Wilkes Booth

Kamau
    $1,500 29
veto

Max
    $800 24
Harry S. Truman

Triple Stumper
    $800 14
(Max: What is angle?)

askew

Max
Triple Stumper
    $800 9
(Max: What is the [*] Steelers?)

Pittsburgh

Max
    $800 4
The Thing

Camilla
    $1,200 19
(Kamau: [After responding correctly] I'd like to bet all of it! A True Daily Double! What I meant to say was a True Daily Double!)
(Ken: No, no retroactive wagering, Kamau, I'm sorry.)

Mary Todd Lincoln

Kamau
    $1000 30
(Ken: That one's tough. I'm just gonna say it: that one would be tough even on civilian Jeopardy!)
...
(Kamau: Aw, come on.
That's not a name. That's not a name. You made that up.)

Lloyd

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Ken: You got it! And you sound more excited about that one.)
(Kamau: That was--that--that I know. That I know. Dear Margaret.)
(Ken: Big Blumehead.)

Judy Blume

Kamau
    $1000 15
(Camilla: What is a [***]?)
(Ken: Yes, we'll take that.)

a meteorite (or asteroid; meteor accepted)

Camilla
    $1000 10
(Kamau: What is 9?)
(Camilla: What is 7?)
(Max: What is 11?)

19

MaxCamillaKamau
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
Carlito's Way

Kamau
    $1000 20
(Kamau: Who is John Fitzgerald Kennedy?)

Lyndon Johnson

Kamau
Triple Stumper

Scores at the Double Jeopardy! Round commercial break (after clue 15):

Max Camilla Kamau
$2,500 $2,500 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Max Camilla Kamau
$5,000 $2,500 $6,200

Triple Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN MASTERS
MONUMENT-AL WOMEN
2004, WHAT A YEAR!
HARD NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES
THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE!
TOM CRUISE MOVIES, IN SHORT
(Ken: See what we did there?)
    $300 21
a pitchfork

Triple Stumper
    $300 16
France

Camilla
    $300 11
Mark Zuckerberg

Kamau
    $300 26
bolt

Max
    $300 6
Fox

Triple Stumper
    $300 1
A Few Good Men

Kamau
    $2,000 22
(Kamau: [Before wagering] Pass! Pass! Pass!)
...
(Kamau: What is the dollar bill?)

the American flag

Kamau
    $600 17
(Kamau: [Turning to Camilla after being ruled correct] Sorry about the English one, sorry.)
(Camilla: I know, again! Ugh!)

Pocahontas

Kamau
    $600 12
Alexander Hamilton

Kamau
    $600 27
(Ken: See, these aren't so hard, right?)

Lennon

Kamau
    $600 7
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Camilla
    $600 2
Rain Man

Kamau
    $900 23
Andy Warhol

Max
    $900 18
Madrid

Triple Stumper
    $900 13
Lost

Kamau
    $900 28
Yippie ki yay

Max
    $500 8
(Camilla: Oh... uh! I'm blanking, I know what this is. What is...)
...
(Ken: So, once again, the small wager pays off for you.)

Of Mice and Men

Camilla
    $900 3
Cocktail

Max
    $1200 24
The Saturday Evening Post

Triple Stumper
    $1200 19
[NOTE: On the plaque, "sexworkers" is rendered a single word.]

Amsterdam

Kamau
    $1200 14
Willie Mays

Kamau
    $1200 29
(Ken: You feel better about that?)
(Kamau: Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah. That's--that's more my style. That's more my style.)

NWA

Kamau
    $1200 9
the crawdads

Triple Stumper
    $1200 4
Risky Business

Max
    $1500 25
(Ken: That would be [*] pretending her paintings aren't a little bit naughty, a little bit anatomical, if you know what I mean.)

Georgia O'Keeffe

Triple Stumper
    $1500 20
Eleanor Roosevelt

Triple Stumper
    $1500 15
(Max: What is "Caught Up"?)
(Camilla: What is "All Caught Up"?)
...
(Kamau: [Not ringing in] Feels so awkward to be the Black guy who doesn't know the Usher song.)
[Laughter]
(Kamau: I was listening to Rage Against the Machine at the time, sorry, everybody.)

"Yeah!"

MaxCamilla
Triple Stumper
    $5 30
(Kamau: [After being ruled correct] Yay, five bucks! Five bucks! Five bucks!)
(Ken: I'm tempted to just walk over there and hand it to you, but we will add five dollars to your total.)

noir

Kamau
    $1500 10
Cat's Cradle

Triple Stumper
    $1500 5
Minority Report

Kamau

Scores at the end of the Triple Jeopardy! Round:

Max Camilla Kamau
$7,700 $1,400 $13,205

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

HAWAII
(Ken: Very good penmanship, by the way.)
(Camilla: Thank you, I thought I'd make it look pretty.)
(Ken: Is that your English upbringing?)
(Camilla: [Giggles] Yeah, it actually is, yeah.)
CamillaWhat are palm trees
$200
MaxWhat is coconut?
$7,700
KamauWhat are pineapples
$2,196
macadamia nuts

Final scores:

Max Camilla Kamau
$0 $1,200 $11,009
3rd place: $30,000 to Wags and Walks 2nd place: $30,000 to I Stand With My Pack Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Max Camilla Kamau
$7,000 $2,000 $16,300
21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 12 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 34 R
(including 2 DDs),
7 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $25,300

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Game tape date: 2024-10-20
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