Responses for Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! game #28 - Wednesday, January 15, 2025

2025 Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy! quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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Jackie Tohn, an actor originally from Oceanside, New York

Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist, author, and host from New York, New York

Melissa Peterman, an actor and game show host originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jeopardy! Round responses

TRAVEL GUIDES
HISTORICAL RUMORS QUASHED
BEVERAGE BRAND BACKSTORY
SURVIVING THE MOVIE
(Ken: You'll tell us who's still alive at the end.)
"BUTT" SERIOUSLY
PICTURE THE BOOK
    $100 27
Vespa

Melissa
    $100 20
Marie Antoinette

Jackie
    $100 11
Red Bull

Melissa
    $100 30
(Ken: Ooh, clean sweep. [*] is Morgan Freeman's character. It's [*] that survives.)
(Melissa: [Overlapping] None of us survived that category, Ken.)
(Ken: It's true. We have no survivors... from that category.)

Red

Triple Stumper
    $100 5
(Jackie: For the record, I knew all the others.)
(Ken: [Chuckles] That's right, you're just spotting 'em the lead.)

Butterball

Jackie
    $100 24
Emma

Jackie
    $200 13
(Melissa: What is Germany?)

Switzerland

MelissaNeil
    $200 16
Washington

Melissa
    $200 10
Pabst Blue Ribbon

Neil
    $200 15
(Melissa: Uh, who is Forrest Gump?)

Lieutenant Dan

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $200 1
(Ken: He knows his Harry Potter.)

butterbeer

Neil
    $200 6
Dune

Melissa
    $300 14
a turtle

Melissa
    $300 17
Godiva

Melissa
    $300 7
AriZona tea

Neil
    $300 12
(Ken: Spoilers: Iron Man and Thanos don't make it. If you haven't seen it, sorry.)
(Neil: Yeah, you totally ruined it.)
(Jackie: Congrats, [*].)

Captain America

Triple Stumper
    $300 2
butt naked

Neil
    $300 21
1984

Neil
    $400 25
Istanbul

Triple Stumper
    $400 18
Napoleon

Neil
    $400 8
South Beach

Jackie
    $400 28
(Jackie: [Just after time runs out] Is it... Oh, I had it! I--I clicked.)
(Ken: Who would you have said? Who would you have said?)
(Jackie: I was gonna say Javert.)
(Ken: Nnn, you would've been wrong.)
...
(Ken: [*]'s younger than the other two, so she survives. Tough category.)

Cosette

Triple Stumper
    $400 3
buttinski

Melissa
    $400 22
(Ken: That's General Grant, so "What is [*]?")

Ulysses

Triple Stumper
    $500 26
(Neil: Just guessing--what is [*] and [**]?)
(Ken: You are correct.)
(Neil: Guessed.)
...
(Ken: Guessing is allowed.)

Moscow & Saint Petersburg

Neil
    $500 19
Abner Doubleday

Triple Stumper
    $500 9
Yoo-hoo

Jackie
    $500 29
(Melissa: Um, who is... uh...)
(Ken: You're out of time, I'm afraid.)
(Melissa: [Overlapping] Johnny Cade!?)
...
(Ken: It's [*] who makes it.)
(Melissa: He does?)
(Ken: Apparently.)
(Melissa: I just saw it on Broadway!)
(Ken: [Shrugging] I just read them.)
[Neil laughs.]

Ponyboy

Melissa
Triple Stumper
    $500 4
[Ken provided imitations of the characters in reading the quotations in the clue.]

Beavis & Butt-Head

Neil
    $500 23
Leaves of Grass

Neil

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

Melissa Neil Jackie
$600 $1,700 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Neil Jackie
$700 $3,400 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

GRUMPY PHILOSOPHERS
DOUBLE TALK
THAR SHE BLOWS!
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1899
VOLCANOES ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW
IN THE KITCHEN WITH INA GARTEN
    $200 30
a Nobel Prize

Neil
    $200 7
choo-choo

Jackie
    $200 19
Fudgie the Whale

Neil
    $200 13
aspirin

Neil
    $200 22
a tiki bar

Melissa
    $200 18
(Melissa: Well, she could've crashed anywhere, we don't know.)
(Ken: Sure, who knows?)
(Melissa: Yeah.)
(Jackie: Poughkeepsie, Melissa. It was in [*].)
(Ken: It's a long commute.)

Paris

Triple Stumper
    $1,800 29
(Ken: Neil?)
(Neil: [Stammering] I got--I got--um...)
[The time expiry signal sounds.]
...
(Ken: It's [*] from Calvin and [*].)

Hobbes

Neil
    $400 1
(Jackie: [After being ruled right] I can't believe I'm here.)

a goody-goody

Jackie
    $400 10
Free Willy

Jackie
    $400 9
(Melissa: [After Ken gives the response] Neil?)
(Ken: We stumped Neil.)
[Neil guffaws.]

moon

Triple Stumper
    $400 8
Lava

Melissa
    $400 5
Jeffrey

Melissa
    $600 26
a pendulum

Jackie
    $600 2
matchy-matchy

Jackie
    $600 11
SpongeBob SquarePants

Melissa
    $600 14
(Ken: Did you play that growing up?)
(Neil: I did, totally. I played with Phillip, yeah.)
(Ken: [*]...)
(Jackie: Phillip!!)
(Neil: My guy in your audience.)

stickball

Neil
    $600 23
(Ken: Very relieved you got that right.)
(Neil: Back in it.)

Mars

Neil
    $600 6
vodka

Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Copenhagen

Neil
    $800 3
hubba-hubba

Melissa
    $800 12
the Fail Whale

Triple Stumper
    $800 15
piano

Melissa
    $800 24
(Ken: Etna is on [*].)

Sicily

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 16
30 Rock

Melissa
    $1000 28
Macbeth

Triple Stumper
    $1000 4
(Ken: Yes. I've never heard of that one.)
(Melissa: Neither have I!)

rabbit, rabbit

Melissa
    $1000 20
Pinocchio

Triple Stumper
    $1000 21
bloomers

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Melissa: I thought it was Sweden because it sounded like an IKEA volcano.)

Iceland

Neil
    $1000 17
Something's Gotta Give

Triple Stumper

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

Melissa Neil Jackie
$4,700 $4,200 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Neil Jackie
$6,900 $5,200 $3,400

Triple Jeopardy! Round

HEY "YA"
NOT-SO-SURREALISM
TEXAS HOLD'EM
NAME THAT "3" SOME
(Ken: Each response will contain that number.)
RESPOND IN GERMAN IF YOU DER
STREAMIN' TO THE OLDIES
(Ken: These are songs that have been streamed more than a billion times on Spotify.)
    $300 14
Yabba Dabba Doo

Neil
    $300 17
(Jackie: But you can't guess.)
(Ken: You can guess, it's okay.)
(Jackie: But then you'll lose, and you'll look like a... All right...)
(Melissa: The pressure, Ken...)
...
(Melissa: My hand is stuck like this now.)

a bed

Triple Stumper
    $300 30
Las Vegas

Neil
    $300 10
the Three Bears

Jackie
    $300 28
Gesundheit

Neil
    $300 4
"Hotel California"

Melissa
    $600 11
yang

Neil
    $600 16
(Neil: Let the record show I'm in last place.)
(Melissa: And the first time a theater major took on an astrophysicist! Only for a brief moment in time, I imagine.)

a wagon

Melissa
    $600 18
all in

Neil
    $600 6
the Three Stooges

Neil
    $600 22
über

Neil
    $600 1
Fleetwood Mac

Melissa
    $1,000 12
(Neil: What is "Y'all"?)

Boo-yah!

Neil
    $900 21
tears

Melissa
    $900 19
the nuts

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 7
the Three Wise Men

Neil
    $900 23
(Neil: [Laughs at the pun] That's good!)

Wurst

Melissa
    $900 2
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"

Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
yas

Melissa
    $1200 26
fish

Neil
    $1200 20
(Melissa: Who wants to take us to Vegas?)
(Ken: [Laughs] I think every poker player in the world would like to take you...)

the flop

Triple Stumper
    $1200 8
the Three Amigos

Jackie
    $1200 24
(Neil: What is [*] Cop?)

Kindergarten

Neil
    $1200 3
"Every Breath You Take"

Triple Stumper
    $1500 15
(Jackie: [Yodels] [*]! What is [*]?)
(Ken: Oh, you remembered! You remembered in the nick of time. I would've hated to rule against you after all the yodeling effort.)
(Jackie: My heart is pounding, Ken.)
(Ken: Don't forget your "What is...")

Yahoo!

Jackie
    $2,800 27
(Neil: Oof. Uh, y'know, my brother's an artist, so I gotta do right by him. Not--not the full amount, but more than I would otherwise. Let's go $2,800.)
...
(Ken: Neil, you got anything?)
[The time expiry signal sounds.]
(Neil: Uh, what's an ice cream cone?)
(Ken: Oh, no. It's [*] that Frosty and Popeye both have. It's a picture of [*] and it says "This is not [*]." Those nutty surrealists.)

a pipe

Neil
    $1500 29
the hole cards

Neil
    $1500 9
the Three Tenors

Jackie
    $1500 25
an Umlaut

Neil
    $1500 5
(Ken: You did remember, correct.)

"September"

Melissa

Scores at the end of the Triple Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Neil Jackie
$12,900 $12,100 $7,900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THE MUPPETS
(Ken: And from third place Jackie Tohn is now a semifinalist!)
[Jackie walks around downstage of her lectern. When she returns, Melissa and Neil perform "we're not worthy" bows.]
JackieWho is gonzo?
$4,500
NeilWho is... snufalufagus?
$3,701
MelissaWho is Animal?
$10,001
Gonzo the Great

Final scores:

Melissa Neil Jackie
$2,899 $8,399 $12,400
3rd place: $30,000 to Diana DiSalvatore Nursing Scholarship at St. Catherine University 2nd place: $30,000 to STRIVE Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Melissa Neil Jackie
$11,700 $16,600 $7,900
22 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
29 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 3 DDs)
14 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $36,200

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Game tape date: 2024-10-20
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