Responses for Show #9252 - Tuesday, January 21, 2025

2025 Champions Wildcard semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Will Yancey, a lecturer of history from Banquete, Texas

Jay Fisher, a government relations manager from Lisle, Illinois

Evan Dorey, a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Jeopardy! Round responses

AUTHORS
STATE ANIMALS
FOUND ON TEMU
WILD CARD WINNERS
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
FROM THE DUTCH
    $200 15
E.B. White

Will
    $200 13
a spaniel

Will
    $200 28
a chicken McNugget (a nugget)

Will
    $200 26
Wimbledon

Will
    $200 30
a pyramid

Jay
    $200 22
Saint Nicholas

Will
    $400 14
(Tom) Clancy

Will
    $400 11
the beaver

Evan
    $400 27
(Evan: What's a rat?)
...
(Ken: A much more pleasant toilet sticker, yes.)
[Laughter]

a squirrel

EvanWill
    $400 25
the Stanley Cup

Evan
    $400 29
teardrop

Jay
    $400 21
brandy

Will
    $600 5
Rice

Evan
    $1,000 4
(Will: What is a bear?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
(Will: What is a... golden bear?)

the grizzly bear

Will
    $600 16
Shrek

Evan
    $600 8
the Arizona Diamondbacks

Will
    $600 12
an eagle

Will
    $600 1
to splice

Evan
    $800 6
John Irving

Triple Stumper
    $800 9
the Maine Coon

Evan
    $800 23
(Will: What are... gold teeth?)

grills

Will
Triple Stumper
    $800 18
Elway

Will
    $800 17
a funnel cloud

Will
    $800 2
the caboodle

Evan
    $1000 7
Kingsolver

Evan
    $1000 10
(Jay: What is a gamecock?)

wild turkey

JayWill
    $1000 24
a mullet

Evan
    $1000 19
judo

Evan
    $1000 20
a tree

Evan
    $1000 3
rabbits

Will

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

Evan Jay Will
$4,200 -$1,000 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Evan Jay Will
$7,800 -$400 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

1925
BEFORE & AFTER
THE BIBLE
SCI-FI ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
SOME WEAR...
"B" ON THE SEA
    $400 18
Mussolini

Evan
    $400 25
a gingerbread Man of La Mancha

Jay
    $400 9
(Ken: Right, you got all five of those.)
[Applause]

manna

Will
    $400 28
time

Will
    $400 30
loafers

Evan
    $400 27
Belgium

Evan
    $800 17
Coolidge

Will
    $800 24
Orlando Magical Realism

Evan
    $10,800 8
(Ken: You're now just $1,000 off the lead off the lead, Will and dealing with a category that seems to be a strong one for you.)

John the Baptist

Will
    $800 23
(Ken: Yeah, from 2001.)

HAL

Jay
    $800 29
(Evan: Got one of those, eventually.)

an ascot

Evan
    $800 26
Barcelona

Evan
    $1200 10
Wyoming

Will
    $1200 14
(Ken: Love this guy's work--[*].)

Grandmaster Flash flood

Triple Stumper
    $1200 5
Jacob

Will
    $1200 2
faster than light

Evan
    $1200 20
the Google Pixel

Triple Stumper
    $1200 1
(Will: What is... Jamaica?)

Barbados

EvanWill
    $1600 11
the Battleship Potemkin

Evan
    $1600 15
Bowling Green eggs & ham

Will
    $1600 6
30 pieces of silver

Will
    $1600 3
android

Evan
    $1600 21
(Ken: You three apparently do not wear [*].)
(Evan: Not exactly a lot of those in my closet, Ken.)

palazzo pants

Triple Stumper
    $13,400 12
(Evan: All right, I gotta answer it, True Daily Double.)
(Ken: Okay.)
[Cheers and applause]

Bahrain

Evan
    $2000 16
Margaret Mead

Jay
    $2000 19
Love's Labour's Lost in Space

Triple Stumper
    $2000 7
(Ken: It is [*], well done.)

Zephaniah

Will
    $2000 4
Alien Life Form

Will
    $2000 22
(Ken: We found your weakness; it's fashion.)
(Evan: ...Look at me Ken, isn't that obvious?)
[Laughter]

trilby

Triple Stumper
    $2000 13
(Ken: Right, Azerbaijan.)

Baku

Evan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Evan Jay Will
$32,400 $2,800 $26,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MYTHOLOGY
(Ken: [To Will] [*], the rock in the Rhine said to be where a siren would lure fishermen to their death.)
JayWhat is I've had a great time on Jeopar
$0
WillWhat is Lorelei's rock?
$26,000
EvanWhat ?
$20,000
Lorelei

Final scores:

Evan Jay Will
$12,400 $2,800 $52,000
2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Evan Jay Will
$20,600 $2,800 $17,000
23 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 5 R,
1 W		 24 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $40,400

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Game tape date: 2024-11-13
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