Responses for Show #9257 - Tuesday, January 28, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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David Erb, a puzzle designer from Seattle, Washington

Grant DeYoung, a delivery driver from Prescott, Arizona

Amy Hummel, an ER doctor from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD WAR II FACTS
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
NOISES
POP MUSIC'S MISSING LINKS
LITERARY SWINE
UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES
(Ken: And then, I'd like you to come on down to [*].)
    $200 25
internment camps

Amy
    $200 26
Feliz Navidad

David
    $200 28
an iron

Grant
    $200 29
Paradise

Grant
    $200 30
Wilbur

Grant
    $200 23
(Grant: What's a truck?)

a Cadillac

GrantDavid
    $400 24
Sicily

David
    $400 6
(Ken: To you as well.)

l'chaim

David
    $400 27
ching

Amy
    $400 21
Cowboy

Amy
    $400 17
(Terry) Pratchett

Amy
    $400 22
Toyota

David
    $600 1
(Amy: What is the Battle of Leningrad?)
...
(Ken: So close, Amy, but it was [*].)

Stalingrad

Amy
Triple Stumper
    $600 3
Danke schön

Grant
    $600 9
(Ken: Yeah, we'll take that, it's a [**]. We didn't think anyone was gonna act it out, but that's it.)
[Laughter]

wuh-woo! (wolf whistle)

Amy
    $600 18
Hurts

Grant
    $600 16
(Grant: What's... Gulliver?)

Doctor Dolittle

Grant
Triple Stumper
    $600 13
a Miata

David
    $1,000 2
(Ken: You're in the red at the moment, Amy, but you can wager up to $1,000.)
(Amy: I'd like to make it a True Daily Double, Ken.)
(Ken: [Laughs] So, you want to bet -$600?)
(Amy: Umm... no.)
[Laughter]
(Ken: All right, with $1,000 at stake--is that right?)
(Amy: Yes, $1,000.)
...
(Amy: Oh gosh, what is...)
(Ken: Amy?)
(Amy: Not Calais, it's... I'm blanking.)
(Ken: It was [*].)
(Amy: Yeah.)

Dunkirk

Amy
    $800 4
Laissez les bons temps rouler

David
    $800 8
pinball

Amy
    $800 20
My Heart

Grant
    $800 15
Babe

David
    $800 12
(David: What's an Edsel?)
...
(Ken: Nader warned us about [*].)

the Corvair

David
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
Doolittle

Grant
    $1000 5
Cave canem

Amy
    $1000 7
(Grant: What's... white noise?)
(David: What's tinnitus?)

snoring

GrantDavid
Triple Stumper
    $1000 19
Dance

Grant
    $1000 14
(Ken: I just learned there's a pig in [*].)

The Amityville Horror

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
a Pacer

David

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

Amy Grant David
$800 $600 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Amy Grant David
$2,200 $2,800 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

A WINGED CATEGORY
FROM TV SHOW TO FILM
LET'S KEEP IT ABOVE THE WAIST
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES
GEOGRAPHIC NEIGHBORS
IN COMPATIBILITY
(Ken: Responses here made up of letters in the word "compatibility".)
    $400 25
(Grant: Sure does, what's [*]?)
[Laughter]

Red Bull

Grant
    $400 26
(Ken: This time, it's [*].)

21 Jump Street

Amy
    $400 27
lungs

Grant
    $400 28
New Mexico

Grant
    $400 29
(Grant: What's... uh... ah, Indiana?)

Missouri

AmyGrant
    $400 30
(Grant: What's... clue?)
...
(Ken: "Clue" is misspelled, there's [*].)

a typo

Grant
Triple Stumper
    $800 20
Pegasus

Grant
    $800 18
(Grant: What's... Steve-O?)

Johnny Knoxville

AmyGrant
    $800 7
the palate

David
    $800 17
Richard III

Amy
    $2,000 23
Amsterdam & Rotterdam

Grant
    $800 24
(Amy: What is blithe?)

balmy

Amy
Triple Stumper
    $1200 1
a hippogriff

David
    $1200 19
(David: What is 21 Jump Street?)

Starsky & Hutch

David
Triple Stumper
    $1200 4
goiter

David
    $1200 16
Pompeii

David
    $1200 11
(Grant: What are the Virgin Islands?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
(Grant: Uh, American Virgin?)

the British Virgin Islands

AmyGrant
    $1200 15
(Ken: That's the island in Jaws--[*].)

amity

Triple Stumper
    $1600 2
Antoinette Perry

Triple Stumper
    $1600 22
(Ken: Correct, and [*] pulls you out of the hole.)
(Grant: Yay.)

Mr. Bean

Grant
    $3,000 5
the vena cava

David
    $1600 12
Troy

Grant
    $1600 10
(western) Turkey

Triple Stumper
    $1600 14
tacit

Amy
    $2000 3
(Grant: What's Mahfouz?)

Kahlil Gibran

Grant
Triple Stumper
    $2000 21
Miami Vice

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
(Ken: That's why it's called [*], very good.)

the axis

Amy
    $2000 8
(David: Um... [Sighs] I had it, sorry.)
(Grant: What's... the proscenium?)

the Lyceum

GrantDavid
Triple Stumper
    $2000 9
(Grant: What's... Tasmania?)
(Amy: What's Australia?)
...
(Ken: You're going north from Australia to [*].)

New Guinea

AmyGrant
Triple Stumper
    $2000 13
combat

Grant

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Amy Grant David
$6,600 $3,200 $7,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

PALINDROMIC DATES
(Ken: That might be a first for us.)
(Ken: We've got some very smart people thinking very hard right now. I can see the steam coming out of your ears.)
...
(Ken: [To Grant] I'm afraid that's not quite it.)
...
(Ken: [To Amy] She is even closer, but that's still not quite it.)
...
(Ken: So it comes down to David Erb with $7,200. His response?)
(David: [Shakes head] Didn't finish.)
(Ken: Also in January; he didn't quite finish the year. No, it is in 1717, but to make the palindrome right, it's July 17--[*].)
...
(Amy: Oh my God.)
(Grant: Good job.)
GrantWhat is 1/17/1771
$2,801
AmyWhat 1/17/1717?
$199
DavidWhat 1/12/'17
$6,001
7/17/1717

Final scores:

Amy Grant David
$6,401 $399 $1,199
Winner: guaranteed semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Amy Grant David
$7,600 $2,000 $5,800
14 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
10 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $15,400

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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