Responses for Show #9270 - Friday, February 14, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions exhibition game for players with byes into the semifinals.
Played between the quarterfinals and the semifinals but televised after the finals.
Originally aired 2025-01-24 as audio-only on TuneIn.

Contestants

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Drew Basile, a graduate student from Birmingham, Michigan

Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California

Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME
(Ken: This requires two- or even three-part responses from you.)
THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD
NEWSPAPER TERMS
"IME" ON IT
THE VICE PRESIDENCY: AMERICA DECIDES
GIMME SOME BACKUP
    $200 5
bread putt

Isaac
    $200 24
(Isaac: What is Australia?)
(Ken: No.)
(Isaac: Okay.)
...
(Ken: Correct, a little further south.)

New Zealand

AdrianaIsaac
    $200 23
a caption

Isaac
    $200 25
pastime

Isaac
    $200 26
FDR

Adriana
    $200 17
Tom Petty

Isaac
    $400 1
(Ken: Let's see how this works.)
...
(Ken: Not Idris Elba, but [*]. Love that guy.)

address elbow

Adriana
    $400 27
Thailand

Basile
    $400 22
the gutter

Adriana
    $400 6
a crime of passion

Isaac
    $400 18
Mondale

Basile
    $400 13
(Diana) Ross

Isaac
    $1,000 2
(Ken: Adriana?)
(Adriana: What... is...)
[The time expiry signal sounds.]
(Ken: Oh, you're out of time. [*] is that near-Batman.)

ban Aflac

Adriana
    $600 28
Ireland

Isaac
    $600 10
an endorsement

Isaac
    $600 7
the first trimester

Isaac
    $600 19
LBJ

Basile
    $600 14
Florence

Isaac
    $800 3
Benadryl cummerbund

Isaac
    $800 29
East Timor

Isaac
    $800 11
a dummy

Basile
    $800 8
(Isaac: What is... why did I do that?)

blimey

IsaacBasile
    $800 20
Lieberman

Isaac
    $800 15
Prince

Isaac
    $1000 4
(Ken: Which doesn't even sound like Billy Bob Thornton, but yes, that's correct. You're out of the hole.)

bully bib thirteen

Adriana
    $1000 30
(Ken: It makes sense when you think about it. It got partitioned from India, which also drives on the left.)

Pakistan

Triple Stumper
    $1000 12
the morgue

Adriana
    $1000 9
untimely

Adriana
    $1000 21
(Jack) Kemp

Isaac
    $1000 16
(Isaac: Who is "SOO-shee"?)
(Ken: Uh, yeah, we'll take that.)
(Isaac: I don't know how you say it. "SOO"--"SOO"--"SOO"--)
(Ken: I think she says "SOO-zee", but that's correct.)
[Laughter]

Siouxsie

Isaac

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

Adriana Isaac Basile
$2,400 $3,600 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Basile
$3,200 $8,200 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO
(Ken: I hope you're fluent.)
BIRD "E"s
AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS
SPORTS MOVIES
ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE
LET'S TALK ABOUT 6
(Ken: ...baby.)
    $400 30
(Ken: You guys are getting better and better at your Esperanto.)

brother & sister

Isaac
    $400 28
the Eagles

Isaac
    $400 18
Grisham

Basile
    $400 26
Spike Lee

Isaac
    $400 22
Pilate

Basile
    $400 27
a hexagon

Basile
    $800 29
(Ken: Yes, you guys do speak Esperanto.)
[Laughter]

Happy New Year

Adriana
    $800 25
egret(s)

Adriana
    $800 15
(Isaac: What is... [*]?)
(Ken: Yeah, we'll take that.)
(Isaac: Okay, yeah--)
(Ken: They're all [**].)
(Isaac: Yeah!)
(Ken: We've--we've all been there.)
(Isaac: Okay! Uh, sure.)

live on him (living in his antlers)

Isaac
    $800 17
Gehrig

Isaac
    $800 19
Methuselah

Isaac
    $800 23
a wrench

Isaac
    $1200 9
(Isaac: What are... north and south?)
(Drew: What are right and left?)
...
(Ken: They sound like what they are--[*].)

hello & goodbye

IsaacBasile
Triple Stumper
    $8,400 13
(Ken: You found them both in the round, Drew, and you are knocking on the door of the lead right now.)
(Drew: Well, you know, it's, uh... it's an exhibition game. I'll go all-in.)
[Applause]
(Ken: Okay. That's kind of reckless, foolhardy play we want to see when nothing counts.)
...
(Ken: Yes, you have $16,800... of fake money.)

emus

Basile
    $1200 14
Humboldt

Basile
    $1200 3
Elvis

Adriana
    $1200 2
Prodigal Son

Adriana
    $1200 6
(Ken: Yeah, you love your backing bands.)
(Isaac: I love my backing groups.)

Huey Lewis

Isaac
    $1600 10
(Adriana: What is money?)
(Isaac: What is water?)
(Ken: No, it's also not water. Those are good things to have. I'm not saying they're not.)
...
(Ken: I'm starting to think you three don't speak Esperanto at all.)
[Laughter]
...
(Adriana: I'm going to quit trying to speak ESPERANTO. Let's go ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE, $1,600.)

heart

AdrianaIsaac
Triple Stumper
    $1600 16
(Ken: [TuneIn version] Yes, and I feel bad for our Tune-In listeners 'cause that was a very cute photo.)
(Ken: [video version] Yes, that was a very cute photo.)

elf

Adriana
    $3,000 1
(Ken: Nobody wrote about 7th grade like [*], that is correct.)

Judy Blume

Basile
    $1600 4
(Adriana: I knew it was somewhere around there.)

8 seconds

Triple Stumper
    $1600 11
Nebuchadnezzar

Adriana
    $1600 7
(Jane) Seymour

Basile
    $2000 24
(Adriana: What is speak?)
(Ken: No, I'm sorry. Isaac or Drew? Isaac, were you about to say "speak"?)
(Isaac: I was.)

hope

Adriana
Triple Stumper
    $2000 21
emperor

Adriana
    $2000 8
(Ken: Yeah, we're really tough on [*] Bennet on this show.)

Lydia

Adriana
    $2000 5
(Kurt) Warner

Isaac
    $2000 12
Deborah

Basile
    $2000 20
Perth

Isaac

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Basile
$10,800 $15,000 $19,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MYTHOLOGY
(Ken: [To Adriana] That is why we call a book of maps an [*], because of that illustration.)
AdrianaWho is Atlas?
$10,000
IsaacWho is Atlas?
$6,600
BasileWho is Atlas?
$19,200
Atlas

Final scores:

Adriana Isaac Basile
$20,800 $21,600 $38,400
3rd place 2nd place Winner

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Adriana Isaac Basile
$11,800 $15,000 $10,600
15 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 26 R,
4 W		 13 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $37,400

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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