Responses for Show #9256 - Monday, January 27, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Rishabh Wuppalapati, a student at the University of Pennsylvania from Vernon Hills, Illinois

Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, Texas

Alison Betts, a writer and creative executive originally from San Jose, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

LAKES OF AMERICA
GAME TIME
SPECIAL DAYS
"CH" AS IN CHAMP
BROKEN
HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL
(Alicia: I'm Alicia Keys. One of my latest projects is Hell's Kitchen, a Broadway musical featuring my songs. It's about a teenage girl named Ali who discovers her city, her talent, and herself. And I'll have clues about the show.)
    $200 26
(Will: What is Lake Michigan?)

Lake Erie

WillRishabh
    $200 17
tic-tac-toe

Alison
    $200 28
bees

Alison
    $200 7
(Ken: You got it, you got all five of those.)
[Applause]

a chamber

Alison
    $200 29
(Rishabh: HELL, uh, bring it. HELL'S KITCHEN for $200.)
(Ken: One more time, back to Alicia Keys...)

Jack

Rishabh
    $200 30
(Will: What is Harlem?)
...
(Ken: Our thanks to Alicia Keys for that category. Hell's Kitchen is currently playing on Broadway.)

the Theater District

Will
Triple Stumper
    $400 23
Wisconsin

Alison
    $400 14
Monopoly

Alison
    $400 27
Columbus Day

Will
    $400 6
(Ken: Like Charlie, right.)

checkpoints

Alison
    $400 20
treaties

Rishabh
    $400 25
[Will shrugs his shoulders.]

"Girl On Fire"

Triple Stumper
    $600 8
a causeway

Will
    $600 10
Minecraft

Rishabh
    $600 16
Palm Sunday

Will
    $600 4
(Alison: What is [*] as in the gorge?)
(Ken: Eat a lot of [*], yeah.)

cheddar

Alison
    $600 19
a URL

Will
    $600 22
(Will: What is the World Series?)

U.S. Open of tennis

Will
Triple Stumper
    $1,000 1
(Alison: Um, I would like to wager $1,000 of house money, please, Ken.)
(Ken: Here we go. House maximum on LAKES OF AMERICA...)
...
(Alison: Um... what are the... Adirondacks?)
[Alison shakes her head.]
(Ken: Sorry, no. We're in Pennsylvania here-- [*].)
(Alison: [*].)

the Poconos

Alison
    $800 12
a (bad) bishop

Will
    $800 11
New Haven

Will
    $800 3
chancellors

Alison
    $800 18
IBM

Rishabh
    $800 21
(Ken: That's her hit [*].)

"Fallin'"

Triple Stumper
    $1000 9
(Rishabh: What is Lake Havasu?)

Apache Lake

Rishabh
Triple Stumper
    $1000 13
cribbage

Will
    $1000 5
(Ken: Mm... yes, we'll take that--[**].)

the vernal equinox (beginning of spring)

Will
    $1000 2
a chador

Alison
    $1000 15
(Will: What is pneumonia?)
(Alison: What is heart failure?)

(pulmonary) edema

AlisonWill
Triple Stumper
    $1000 24
"Empire State of Mind"

Rishabh

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

Alison Will Rishabh
$1,400 $3,200 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alison Will Rishabh
$2,200 $3,800 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PUTTING THE CULTURE IN AGRICULTURE
A WEAK RESPONSE
LITERARY CHARACTERS
IT'S GOT A MOTOR
THAT HAPPENED
CELEBRITY MEMOIRS
    $400 30
(Ken: [*] of American Gothic fame is right.)

(Grant) Wood

Rishabh
    $400 29
frail

Rishabh
    $400 12
Peter Pan

Alison
    $400 19
(Alison: Uh, what is a mixer?)
(Ken: No.)
(Alison: Oh.)

a blender

AlisonWill
    $400 27
the Holy Roman Emperor

Rishabh
    $400 21
Lisa Marie Presley

Alison
    $800 28
Mozart

Rishabh
    $800 15
puny

Will
    $800 13
Sense and Sensibility

Alison
    $800 18
a microwave

Will
    $800 26
cigarettes (tobacco)

Alison
    $800 22
Connie Chung

Alison
    $1200 4
Monet

Rishabh
    $1200 9
infirm

Alison
    $1200 2
Native Son

Will
    $1200 16
(Ken: Yeah, even your Prius.)
[Laughter]
(Will: Even so.)

a starter

Will
    $2,600 3
(Will: I don't love the category, $2,600.)
...
(Alison: Good job.)

Socrates

Will
    $1200 23
(Ken: "The Boss" is right.)

Springsteen

Will
    $1600 5
Grandma Moses

Triple Stumper
    $1600 8
decrepit

Will
    $2,000 7
(Rishabh: I gotta go for it all. $2,000.)

My Ántonia

Rishabh
    $1600 11
a central processing unit

Alison
    $1600 1
(Rishabh: What is, no one expects this, what is the Spanish Inquisition?)
...
(Ken: We needed his title.)
[Rishabh selected the first clue.]

the Grand Inquisitor (Inquisitor General)

WillRishabh
    $1600 24
(Alison: [Whispering to herself] What's it called?)
...
(Ken: The book was called [*].)
(Alison: [Chuckles] [*].)

Bossypants

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
Far from the Madding Crowd

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
a tiger

Will
    $2000 14
(Alison: What is his name?)

Stevens

Triple Stumper
    $2000 17
(Will: What is the condenser coil?)
...
(Alison: Not touching it.)

the compressor

Will
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
the Decembrists

Alison
    $2000 25
(Ken: That's actor [*].)

Griffin Dunne

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alison Will Rishabh
$9,800 $15,200 $5,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD CAPITALS
(Ken: [To Rishabh] He wrote down Reykjavik and he's not in the right hemisphere, I'm afraid.)
...
(Alison: I don't know latitude.)
...
(Ken: [To Will] You had to go the southernmost world capital, this is [*].)
RishabhWhat is Reykjavik?
$5,800
AlisonWhat is Washington DC?
$5,401
WillWhat is Reykjavik?
$4,401
Wellington, New Zealand

Final scores:

Alison Will Rishabh
$4,399 $10,799 $0
2nd place: $5,000 Winner: guaranteed semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Alison Will Rishabh
$10,800 $13,800 $5,400
17 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $30,000

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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