Responses for Show #9254 - Thursday, January 23, 2025

2025 Champions Wildcard final game 1.

Contestants

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Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington

Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii

Will Yancey, a lecturer of history from Banquete, Texas

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Jeopardy! Round responses

OUR COLORFUL WORLD
FOR THE "GRAM"
FROM PAGE TO SCREEN
THE NIGHT SKY
CURLS
JUST WANNA HAVE FUN
    $200 5
Whitewater

Mehal
    $200 6
a kilogram

Will
    $200 28
Dune

Mehal
    $200 22
(Mehal: What is gibbous?)

crescent

WillMehal
    $200 26
(Drew: What is Arby's?)

Jack in the Box

DrewMehal
    $200 21
Cranium

Mehal
    $400 4
Green Mountains

Will
    $400 10
a hexagram

Triple Stumper
    $400 29
The Da Vinci Code

Mehal
    $400 23
a comet

Drew
    $400 25
a crêpe

Mehal
    $400 18
paragliding

Mehal
    $600 1
the Yellow River

Mehal
    $600 7
(Will: What's holograph?)

holograms

WillDrew
    $600 14
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Will
    $600 19
meteor showers

Drew
    $600 11
Shirley Temple

Will
    $600 15
electronic dance music

Drew
    $800 2
Brownsville, Texas

Will
    $800 8
[Ken's filtered singing voice was played]

a gramophone

Drew
    $800 13
The Wild Robot

Triple Stumper
    $800 20
Scorpio (Scorpius)

Will
    $800 12
a reflex

Mehal
    $800 16
SoFi

Will
    $1,000 3
(Will: What is Silver Springs?)

Silver Spring

Will
    $1000 9
electrocardiogram

Will
    $1000 30
(Will: What is The Dark Knight?)
...
(Ken: Well done, that's the movie.)

Thank You for Smoking

WillMehal
    $1000 24
Venus

Will
    $1000 27
ears

Mehal
    $1000 17
pickleball

Will

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

Will Drew Mehal
$2,000 $2,000 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Will Drew Mehal
$4,800 $2,800 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HISTORY OF BRITAIN
ALLITERATIVE LIT
9-LETTER WORDS
JANUARY BABIES
NEWS PERSONALITIES
THIS ONE TIME, AT ORCHESTRA CAMP
    $400 10
(Will: What is England and Wales?)

England & Scotland

WillMehal
    $400 20
the Headless Horseman

Will
    $400 27
a bandwagon

Mehal
    $400 29
Muhammad Ali

Drew
    $400 30
(Ken: Anniversary of D-Day, that's correct.)

Normandy

Will
    $400 5
the baton

Mehal
    $800 8
the Gregorian calendar

Mehal
    $800 14
Willy Wonka

Mehal
    $800 17
accessory

Drew
    $800 23
Kim Jong Un

Drew
    $800 25
Rachel Maddow

Will
    $800 4
a French horn

Drew
    $1200 7
(Mehal: Who is [*] II?)

George

Mehal
    $1200 11
Billy Budd

Will
    $1200 16
a falsehood

Mehal
    $3,000 21
(Will: Who is... Madame [French gibberish]? I don't know.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: That's very close, but the French would say [*].)
(Will: Ah.)

Madame (Simone) de Beauvoir

Will
    $1200 24
Meet the Press

Mehal
    $1200 3
the "Surprise Symphony"

Drew
    $1600 6
(Will: What is Paupers' Rebellion?)
...
(Ken: Will, you were on the right track--[*].)

the Peasants' Revolt

Will
Triple Stumper
    $1600 12
(Ken: The Haunting of [*], you got it.)

Hill House

Will
    $1600 15
a generator

Mehal
    $1600 19
(Stephen) Ambrose

Will
    $1600 18
(Drew: Who's Abby Philips?)
...
Ken: Drew, you added the S as you know, [*].)
(Drew: Yup.)

Abby Phillip

Drew
Triple Stumper
    $1600 1
Salieri

Drew
    $2000 9
raj

Will
    $3,800 13
(Will: Band of--what is [*]?)
(Ken: Oh, it came to you in the nick of time.)

band of brothers

Will
    $2000 28
gallivant

Drew
    $2000 22
(Ken: We finally stumped you with [*].)

Wilkie Collins

Triple Stumper
    $2000 26
(Mehal: Oh, shoot... who is [*]?)

(Edward R.) Murrow

Mehal
    $2000 2
(Ken: You just went from third to first.)

John Cage

Drew

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Will Drew Mehal
$11,600 $10,800 $15,200

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD GEOGRAPHY
(Ken: [To Drew] Yes, the namesake mountains that divide Europe and Asia.)
...
(Ken: [To Will] Oh, different Russian river--the Volga.)
...
(Ken: [To Mehal] Yes, the river so nice, he wrote it twice.)
...
(Ken: This is not over yet. These scores will be added to whatever you three accumulate tomorrow, in the second game of our finals, to determine our Champions Wildcard winner. Good luck. We'll see you tomorrow, and I hope we see you as well, right back here on the Alex Trebek Stage. So long.)
DrewWhat is the Ural River?
$6,800
WillWhat is the Volga?
$6,000
MehalWhat is the Ural river? Ural river?
$12,000
the Ural River

Final scores:

Will Drew Mehal
$5,600 $17,600 $27,200

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Will Drew Mehal
$13,800 $10,800 $15,200
19 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 2 DDs)		 13 R,
2 W		 21 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $39,800

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Game tape date: 2024-11-13
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