Responses for Show #9266 - Monday, February 10, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

Contestants

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Neilesh Vinjamuri, a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania

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

CLINKY DRINKS
LITERARY QUOTATIONS
FROM "C" TO "Y"
(Ken: Responses begin and end with those two letters respectively.)
COLONIAL AMERICA
INTERNATIONALLY SCHOOLING YOU
TV SHOW CHANGE A LETTER
    $200 30
(Ken: Can't make a piña colada without light [*], yes.)

rum

Adriana
    $200 21
hope

Neilesh
    $200 24
capacity

Adriana
    $200 28
(Betsy) Ross

Neilesh
    $200 29
[Ken reads the clue in a Scottish accent.]

Edinburgh

Isaac
    $200 19
Lizards of Waverly Place

Adriana
    $400 13
Cadillac (style)

Triple Stumper
    $400 14
one's country

Adriana
    $400 23
cryptocurrency

Adriana
    $400 11
whales

Isaac
    $400 25
Sydney

Adriana
    $400 18
(Ken: Yeah, Dr. [*].)

Mouse

Isaac
    $600 12
gin

Isaac
    $600 2
the Walrus

Isaac
    $600 7
(Isaac: What is... C... coerce-y?)
(Ken: No, I'm sorry, coining a new word there.)

compulsory

IsaacNeilesh
    $600 10
neglect

Triple Stumper
    $600 1
a Rhodes Scholar

Isaac
    $600 15
(Ken: [*], yes--changing the "S" to an "O".)

Happy Day-O

Isaac
    $800 9
rye

Triple Stumper
    $800 3
sans merci

Neilesh
    $800 20
confederacy

Neilesh
    $2,400 8
(Ken: You might know him from the Pocahontas story.)

Powhatan

Neilesh
    $800 26
British Columbia

Adriana
    $800 16
(Ken: Not Dexter but [*].)

Texter

Adriana
    $1000 4
Prosecco

Isaac
    $1000 5
Miller

Neilesh
    $1000 22
capillary

Neilesh
    $1000 6
Oglethorpe

Isaac
    $1000 27
(Ken: He was from [*], right.)

Pisa

Neilesh
    $1000 17
(Neilesh: What is Cash Scab?)

Rash Cab

AdrianaNeilesh

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

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$400 $4,200 $4,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$4,400 $4,800 $7,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BEFORE, DURING & AFTER
(Ken: A tournament favorite.)
LIFE SCIENCE
BACH TO THE FUTURE
SOUTH AMERICA
THE ANDYs
THE NOT-A-COMMA DESERT
    $400 26
Mutiny on the Bounty Hunter S. Thompson

Isaac
    $400 21
biome

Neilesh
    $400 27
the Brandenburg Concertos

Isaac
    $400 23
Pelé

Neilesh
    $400 28
(Doug) Emhoff

Adriana
    $400 30
(Ken: That is correct; the round ends with [*], as the home audience always likes to see.)

sex

Isaac
    $800 25
Attorney General Tso's chicken scratch

Adriana
    $800 15
keratin

Neilesh
    $800 24
sheep

Isaac
    $800 22
Peru

Neilesh
    $800 20
Reid

Neilesh
    $800 29
the Magna Carta

Isaac
    $5,000 4
(Adriana: What is... "Fiddler Man Of Steel Wool"?)
(Ken: Oh, everything but the first part--[*].)

"If I Were A Rich Man Of Steel Wool"

Adriana
    $1200 1
pheromone

Neilesh
    $1200 19
the Goldberg Variations

Isaac
    $14,600 16
(Ken: [*], Ecuador is right, yes.)

Quito

Neilesh
    $1200 10
(Andy) Serkis

Neilesh
    $1200 7
Don't Worry Darling

Isaac
    $1600 5
Cio-Cio-San Jose Cuervo

Isaac
    $1600 3
dendrites

Adriana
    $1600 18
Yo-Yo Ma

Isaac
    $1600 12
rhea

Adriana
    $1600 13
(Andy) García

Adriana
    $1600 8
(Neilesh: What is Jesus Christ Superstar?)

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

IsaacNeilesh
    $2000 6
(Ken: I think Adriana got there a second too late.)

the Eras Tour de Force Majeure

Triple Stumper
    $2000 2
nucleotide

Neilesh
    $2000 17
Glenn Gould

Isaac
    $2000 11
Guarani

Neilesh
    $2000 14
Andy Murray

Neilesh
    $2000 9
Stein

Isaac

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$5,400 $18,800 $31,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

MEN OF WAR
(Ken: [To Isaac] Yeah, I think it's a "U" instead of an "I", but that's phonetically right. We'll take that. A Pyrrhic victory because of the 12,000 Confederate casualties at Chancellorsville despite the victory.)
AdrianaWho is Hannibal?
$0
IsaacWho is Pyrrhis?
$18,600
NeileshWho Pyrrhus
$6,001
Pyrrhus

Final scores:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$5,400 $37,400 $37,601
3rd place: 1 match point 2nd place Winner: 1 match point

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$10,400 $18,800 $16,600
14 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 21 R,
1 W		 20 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $45,800

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Game tape date: 2024-12-05
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