Responses for Show #9264 - Thursday, February 6, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Neilesh Vinjamuri, a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania

Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii

Drew Basile, a graduate student from Birmingham, Michigan

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Jeopardy! Round responses

STOCKING THE CABINET
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
LEGENDARY TWEETS
(Ken: You'll name the person responsible for each one.)
KIND OF BLUE POP CULTURE
LIBRARY GLOSSARY
ENDS IN "FF"
    $200 27
(John) Marshall

Goins
    $200 12
Mexico City

Basile
    $200 9
Cookie Monster

Basile
    $200 30
the Blue Jays

Basile
    $200 24
(Ken: The other one is [*] Classification system.)

the Library of Congress

Triple Stumper
    $200 22
a tariff

Basile
    $400 25
Commerce

Neilesh
    $400 11
cassava

Neilesh
    $400 10
(Basile: [*]--who is [*]?)

Elon Musk

Basile
    $400 29
(Basile: Oh, um... what is Step Brothers?)

Old School

Basile
Triple Stumper
    $400 23
interlibrary loan

Basile
    $400 21
(Ken: What is [*]; [*] down some food.)

to scoff

Triple Stumper
    $600 17
Kerry

Goins
    $600 6
(Goins: What's a honeymoon resort?)

Sandals

Goins
Triple Stumper
    $600 4
Kanye

Basile
    $600 13
(Ken: You figured out [*], yes.)

Blue's Clues

Neilesh
    $600 15
circulation

Neilesh
    $600 18
Hufflepuff

Goins
    $800 16
greenback

Neilesh
    $1,000 7
(Basile: Uh, what is Yukon?)
...
(Ken: Everybody's in the red.)
(Goins: Great game, Ken.)

Nunavut

Basile
    $800 3
(Neilesh: What is Stamos?)
...
(Ken: You had the wrong Full House star, it was [*] who played Danny Tanner.)

Bob Saget

Neilesh
Triple Stumper
    $800 28
the Na'vi

Goins
    $800 1
(Goins: What is secretariat?)
(Basile: What is reference?)
...
(Ken: Neilesh... wins by not trying.)

citation

BasileGoins
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
a mastiff

Basile
    $1000 14
Garfield

Goins
    $1000 8
(Basile: What is Belize?)
...
(Ken: That's smaller, yes.)

El Salvador

BasileGoins
    $1000 5
deGrasse Tyson

Basile
    $1000 26
Lana Del Rey

Triple Stumper
    $1000 2
microfiche

Goins
    $1000 20
pontiff

Goins

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

Basile Goins Neilesh
-$400 $1,600 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Basile Goins Neilesh
$800 $4,800 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

ENGLISH LIT
(Ken: Ooh, not great news...)
YOU NEED TO SEE A SPECIALIST
THE ARTS
NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES
WELL, WELL
FUNNY BOY IS AN ACTOR NOW
    $400 9
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Goins
    $400 19
caesarean section

Goins
    $400 14
(Basile: What is Swan Lake?)
[Goins did not include the leading article in his response.]

The Firebird

BasileGoins
    $400 21
Barbiecore

Goins
    $400 28
(Goins: What is... England?)

Wales

GoinsNeilesh
    $400 23
Billy Crystal

Goins
    $800 2
Kidnapped

Neilesh
    $800 18
hemoglobin

Neilesh
    $800 6
Kahlo

Basile
    $800 20
(Ken: It makes them [*], left holding the bag.)

a bag holder

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
Rebekah

Neilesh
    $800 24
Drive

Goins
    $1200 1
Charlotte Brontë

Neilesh
    $1200 17
geriatric

Goins
    $1200 5
(Frank Lloyd) Wright

Neilesh
    $1200 15
(Basile: Oh, um... A-OK--what is A-OK?)
...
(Ken: It's a perfectly [*] word; "What is [*]?")

cromulent

Basile
Triple Stumper
    $1200 30
dowsing

Basile
    $1200 25
Eddie Murphy

Goins
    $1600 7
(Goins: What is Ulysses?)

Finnegans Wake

BasileGoins
    $7,200 11
(Ken: That's another stroke of luck for you, Drew.)
...
(Goins: What is... Guillain-Barré?)
(Ken: Oh, that's a shame. No, those are [*] seizures.)
(Goins: Ah, yeah, yep.)
(Ken: Drops you down into third. Gutsy move.)

grand mal

Goins
    $1600 4
Persephone

Neilesh
    $3,600 10
(Goins: This is for Mehal, all of it.)

doomscrolling

Goins
    $1600 22
your well runs dry

Triple Stumper
    $1600 26
(Ken: It's [*] who's very good in that.)

Richard Pryor

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
(Seamus) Heaney

Neilesh
    $2000 16
adrenal

Basile
    $2000 3
Gordon Parks

Triple Stumper
    $2000 13
an extreme heat event

Basile
    $2000 12
(Neilesh: What is Pennzoil?)

Quaker State

Neilesh
Triple Stumper
    $2000 27
Cate Blanchett

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Basile Goins Neilesh
$6,800 $4,400 $8,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY
(Ken: [To Drew Goins] What is the Valley of the Kings and I'm afraid that's not it, Drew Goins.)
...
(Ken: [To Drew Basile] That is correct, the kings are nearby, but this is [*].)
GoinsWhat is the Valley of the Kings?
$400
BasileWhat is the Valley of Queens
$2,002
NeileshWhat Valley of the Queens
$4,801
the Valley of the Queens

Final scores:

Basile Goins Neilesh
$8,802 $4,000 $13,601
2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Basile Goins Neilesh
$7,800 $9,600 $8,800
14 R,
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $26,200

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Game tape date: 2024-12-05
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