Responses for Show #9253 - Wednesday, January 22, 2025

2025 Champions Wildcard semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Paul Clauson, a tax analyst from Madison Heights, Michigan

Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington

Marko Saric, a math professor from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WOMEN THROUGH THE YEARS
LITERALLY LITERATURE
FORTUNE GLOBAL 500 COMPANIES
NOT TO BE CONFUSED
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
IT'S A VERB! IT'S A NOUN!
    $200 20
a lamp

Paul
    $200 28
Rochester

Marko!
    $200 30
Volkswagen

Mehal
    $200 6
macaroons & macarons

Mehal
    $200 24
(Paul: Who's... Slash?)
...
(Ken: It's a young [*].)

Eddie Van Halen

Paul
Triple Stumper
    $200 25
herd

Marko!
    $400 22
(Marko!: Who is... O'Connor?)

(Ruth Bader) Ginsburg

Marko!Paul
    $400 27
Madame Bovary

Paul
    $400 29
Costco

Mehal
    $400 7
agnostic

Marko!
    $400 23
Dylan

Paul
    $400 8
host

Marko!
    $600 3
British Columbia

Marko!
    $2,600 5
(Mehal: All of it.)
(Ken: It's kind of been the tradition in this tournament. $2,600 at stake; LITERALLY LITERATURE. Here's your clue...)
...
(Ken: The cobras are afraid of the mongoose, [*].)

"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"

Mehal
    $600 21
Berkshire Hathaway

Mehal
    $600 10
pyrite

Paul
    $600 19
Snoop Dogg

Marko!
    $600 9
reel

Triple Stumper
    $800 2
Annie Oakley

Mehal
    $800 1
(Marko!: Who is Kinsella?)

Salinger

Marko!Mehal
    $800 17
(Paul: Um, what is... Unilever?)

Nestlé

Paul
Triple Stumper
    $800 18
dryads

Mehal
    $800 11
(Ken: And Gen X fondly remembers [*].)
...
(Paul: Gotta go back to SCHOOL for $1,000, please.)

Debbie Gibson

Triple Stumper
    $800 13
quiver

Marko!
    $1000 26
Tereshkova

Marko!
    $1000 4
(Ken: Of Lord of the Flies fame, yes.)

Golding

Mehal
    $1000 16
(Ken: Formerly of The Hague--[*].)

(Royal Dutch) Shell

Triple Stumper
    $1000 15
(Paul: What is [**]?)
(Ken: [*] is right.)

the Phoenicians (Phoenicia)

Paul
    $1000 12
(Paul: Who's... Hank Williams?)
...
(Ken: He looks a little different now and he's still alive; that's [*].)
[Paul sighs.]

Willie Nelson

Paul
Triple Stumper
    $1000 14
harvest

Paul

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

Marko! Mehal Paul
$1,400 $5,400 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Marko! Mehal Paul
$3,000 $7,400 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

SALTY BODIES OF WATER
INSECTS IN HIGH & LOW CULTURE
ANATOMY
PREFIXED PAIRS
(Ken: Each response here is two words but they begin with the same prefix.)
WHATCHA WATCHIN'?
CHAPEL ROME
    $400 24
a flamingos

Paul
    $400 18
Flea

Paul
    $400 25
(Paul: Uh, what are the hands?)

the feet

MehalPaul
    $400 26
(Paul: What is, uh, supernatural and supersonic?)
(Marko!: What is, uh... extraterrestrial and extra... don't know.)

extraterrestrial & extrasensory

Marko!MehalPaul
    $400 27
Avatar

Marko!
    $400 30
mosaic

Paul
    $800 9
(Paul: What is South America?)

Antarctica

MehalPaul
    $800 17
Madame Butterfly

Mehal
    $800 11
the liver

Mehal
    $800 16
(Paul: What is transcontinental and trans... substantiative?)
(Marko!: What is transcontinental and trans... figuration?)

transatlantic & transmigration

Marko!Paul
Triple Stumper
    $800 21
Agatha All Along

Paul
    $800 28
(Ken: Maybe the most famous chapel in Rome--[*].)

the Sistine Chapel

Triple Stumper
    $1200 6
Canada

Mehal
    $1200 8
(Ken: I'm still a little spooked by [*].)

the Mothman Prophecies

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
the optical (optic) nerve

Paul
    $1200 15
a supertanker & supernova

Mehal
    $1200 12
Folie à Deux

Paul
    $1200 23
the Jesuits

Mehal
    $1600 7
the Salton Sea

Mehal
    $4,800 19
"Flight of the Bumblebee"

Paul
    $1600 4
the pleura

Paul
    $2,000 1
(Paul: What is... a... I got nothing.)

a microsecond & a microclimate

Paul
    $1600 13
(Ken: Very sad that you have missed out on the delights of [*].)

Good Times

Triple Stumper
    $1600 22
Matthew

Marko!
    $2000 10
Djibouti

Paul
    $2000 20
The Wasps

Marko!
    $2000 5
the cervix

Mehal
    $2000 2
(Paul: Um, what is... poly... [Sighs] uh...?)
(Mehal: What is [*] and [**]?)
[Ruled incorrect; reversed at clue 19.]

polydactyl & polyphony (polyphonic) (**polyharmonic)

MehalPaul
    $2000 14
The Royal Tenenbaums

Paul
    $2000 29
Avignon

Paul

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Marko! Mehal Paul
$5,800 $19,800 $12,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

FROM REAL LIFE TO FICTION
(Ken: [To Marko!] The two great British spy authors of the century.)
Marko!Who are Fleming & le Carré? (Thanks TV-JAMM) ♡
$5,800
PaulWho are Fleming and Tolkein
$2,500
MehalWho are Fleming and Stevenson?
$6,001
Ian Fleming & John le Carré

Final scores:

Marko! Mehal Paul
$11,600 $13,799 $9,900
2nd place: $10,000 Finalist 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Marko! Mehal Paul
$5,800 $17,800 $11,200
11 R,
4 W
20 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W
18 R
(including 1 DD),
9 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $34,800

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Game tape date: 2024-11-13
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