Responses for Show #9259 - Thursday, January 30, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

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Will Stewart, a political organizer originally from Nashville, Tennessee

Ryan Manton, a systems administrator from Columbus, Ohio

Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington

Jeopardy! Round responses

U.S. CITIES
HOMONYMBLE ON YOUR FEET
FITNESS
IN THE AIR
PRE-BOOTS
LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER
    $200 29
Boulder

Will
    $200 28
bail

Mehal
    $200 30
stairs

Triple Stumper
    $200 25
a termite

Mehal
    $200 27
Charlie's Angels

Will
    $200 10
Sandy Eggo

Ryan
    $400 15
Nome

Mehal
    $400 26
a stalk

Will
    $400 19
kickboxing

Will
    $400 24
oxygen & nitrogen

Mehal
    $400 23
Dynasty

Triple Stumper
    $400 14
(Ken: Again, first and last time he'll be a Jeopardy! response, [*].)
...
(Ken: No more of those, I'm sorry, Mehal.)
(Mehal: Just when I was getting it.)

SpongeBob SquareDance

Triple Stumper
    $600 2
Sunrise

Ryan
    $600 17
a tender

Ryan
    $600 18
Peloton

Mehal
    $1,000 9
hummingbirds

Mehal
    $600 22
(Taylor) Tomlinson

Mehal
    $600 13
[Mehal groans.]
(Ken: [Laughing] But you still stayed with it, huh?)

the New York Hankies

Triple Stumper
    $800 1
Montpelier, Vermont

Triple Stumper
    $800 16
a heel

Mehal
    $800 8
sidestroke

Mehal
    $800 6
(Mehal: What are stratus?)

cirrus

MehalRyan
    $800 21
(Mehal: What is Hawaii Five-O?)

Magnum, P.I.

MehalRyan
    $800 12
Corporal Sanders

Mehal
    $1000 3
(Ken: Take a load off like you're sitting in a [*].)

Davenport

Triple Stumper
    $1000 4
quarry

Will
    $1000 7
steady state

Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
the troposphere

Ryan
    $1000 20
Roarke

Triple Stumper
    $1000 11
the Awful Tower

Triple Stumper

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

Mehal Ryan Will
$2,200 $2,600 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mehal Ryan Will
$4,200 $4,000 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

COUNTS & COUNTESSES
FILMMAKERS
ASIAN HISTORY
COMMUNICATION
AUTHORS
STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL
    $400 22
fairy tales

Triple Stumper
    $400 29
(Mehal: Who is Coppola?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)

Sofia Coppola

Mehal
    $400 20
Indonesia

Mehal
    $400 28
(Will: Um, what is... name drop?)

a shout-out

Will
Triple Stumper
    $400 27
V.C. Andrews

Triple Stumper
    $400 19
(Ken: Good for you as a political organizer, you got it.)

electorate

Will
    $800 21
swans

Triple Stumper
    $800 30
(Mehal: [Sighs] Who's Spike Lee?)

John Singleton

Mehal
Triple Stumper
    $800 16
Saigon

Ryan
    $800 23
(Ryan: What's Three [*] Outside Ebbing, Missouri?)
(Ken: Yeah, [**], we'll take that.)

billboards (a billbord)

Ryan
    $800 26
Wolfe

Mehal
    $800 18
The Ellipse

Triple Stumper
    $1200 12
Italy

Will
    $1200 25
(Ken: That's correct, nick of time.)

Baumbach

Will
    $1200 3
the Golden Horde

Will
    $1200 17
SMS

Mehal
    $1200 24
(Will: What is Robinson Crusoe?)

Tom Jones

Will
Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
(Mehal: [Sighs] What's Anatolia?)

Arcadia

MehalWill
    $1600 8
an alchemist

Ryan
    $1600 11
Capra

Ryan
    $1600 1
Khmer Rouge

Will
    $7,400 14
Estonian

Will
    $100 15
Babbitt

Will
    $1600 4
(Mehal: Who are the Masons?)
...
(Ken: That fits the category, yes.)

the Illuminati

MehalRyan
    $2000 9
(Ken: That's [*], the Mauritshuis.)

Count Maurits

Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
McQueen

Ryan
    $2000 2
the Tamil Tigers

Mehal
    $2000 7
code-switching

Mehal
    $2000 6
(Ken: We know him better for a different creepy story--that's [*] of Dracula fame.)

Bram Stoker

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
Urdu

Ryan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mehal Ryan Will
$7,400 $14,400 $14,900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LATIN PHRASES
(Ken: [To Mehal] What is an Annus Horriblis? And I'm afraid we cannot accept that, Mehal.)
...
(Ken: Mehal, you were just a syllable away, it's [*]; but because you dropped a vowel, you were a syllable off and we cannot accept that response.)
MehalWhat is an Annus Horriblis? Thanks to the awesome crew for having me!
$7,001
RyanWhat is annum non grata
$501
WillWhat is anno terribilis
$14,000
annus horribilis

Final scores:

Mehal Ryan Will
$399 $13,899 $900
3rd place: $5,000 Winner: guaranteed semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Mehal Ryan Will
$7,000 $14,400 $10,600
16 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 13 R,
0 W		 13 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $32,000

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Game tape date: 2024-12-04
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