Responses for Show #9267 - Tuesday, February 11, 2025

2025 Tournament of Champions final game 3.

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

Jeopardy! Round responses

20th CENTURY NOTABLES
LET ME TELL YOU A STORY
(Ken: You'll name the work.)
UTENSILS
HODGEPODGE
COMPETITION SHOWS
FILL OUT THE "NDA"
    $200 17
Schindler

Neilesh
    $200 2
(Ken: By Kafka, right.)
[Neilesh did not include the leading article in his response.]

The Metamorphosis

Neilesh
    $200 23
chopsticks

Adriana
    $200 30
(Ken: I can't imagine that went over very well.)

pandas

Adriana
    $200 24
[Ken reads "ep" as "episode".]

Survivor

Isaac
    $200 12
anaconda

Neilesh
    $400 16
Einstein

Neilesh
    $400 4
The Handmaid's Tale

Adriana
    $400 22
whisk

Adriana
    $400 29
Rapinoe

Adriana
    $400 25
RuPaul's Drag Race

Isaac
    $400 20
gendarme

Neilesh
    $1,000 1
(Ken: First Black woman to run for Democratic Party nomination.)

(Shirley) Chisholm

Adriana
    $600 5
"Brokeback Mountain"

Neilesh
    $600 21
ladle

Neilesh
    $600 9
tuberculosis

Isaac
    $600 26
the Golden Bachelorette

Adriana
    $600 19
mandate

Neilesh
    $800 8
Yangon

Isaac
    $800 6
Antigone

Neilesh
    $800 14
colander

Neilesh
    $800 10
(Isaac: What is a... paleo... vore?)
...
(Isaac: Overthought that, okay.)

carnivore

Isaac
Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Ink Master

Isaac
    $800 18
a mandala

Isaac
    $1000 7
(Ken: That's [*], Nelson Mandela's wife.)

Winnie Mandela

Triple Stumper
    $1000 3
Lincoln in the Bardo

Adriana
    $1000 13
a lattice

Adriana
    $1000 11
campanology

Adriana
    $1000 28
Fear Factor

Isaac
    $1000 15
(Isaac: What is a... agenda?)

a quandary

AdrianaIsaac

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

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$5,400 -$400 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$7,200 $2,800 $4,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BRIDGES
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS
MEYER SCHUSSER, IRASCIBLE REFUGEE COMPOSER OF GOLDEN AGE HOLLYWOOD
(Ken: Bet he gets up to some crazy adventures.)
    $400 16
(Isaac: What is... Germany?)
...
(Ken: That's right, for the Romans.)

Romania

AdrianaIsaac
    $400 8
Bloom

Adriana
    $400 30
(Ken: [*]s is correct, taking you to an even $30,000. Neilesh, you made the biggest Daily Double wager of the season in that round, breaking your own record, and you have a big lead heading into Final Jeopardy!)

mite

Neilesh
    $400 29
the Supreme Court

Adriana
    $400 28
medieval

Isaac
    $400 27
Vienna

Isaac
    $800 11
Verrazzano-Narrows

Adriana
    $800 4
SaldaƱa

Neilesh
    $800 20
the soy(bean)

Adriana
    $6,400 25
(Ken: What do you want to do here, Isaac?)
(Isaac: It doesn't really matter what I do, Ken, but I'll go all-in.)
[Ken laughs.]
...
(Isaac: What is the... Commerce Committee?)
...
(Ken: You're still a beautiful person, but you have $0, Isaac.)

Ways and Means

Isaac
    $800 26
a war hawk

Isaac
    $800 22
UCLA

Isaac
    $1200 9
Seoul

Isaac
    $1200 2
Leslie Odom Jr.

Adriana
    $1200 17
corona

Neilesh
    $1200 14
(Isaac: What is Defense?)

Homeland Security

IsaacNeilesh
    $1200 1
bellicose

Adriana
    $1200 12
a clarinet

Isaac
    $1600 10
(Ken: It is, in Rome.)

Tiber

Neilesh
    $1600 3
They pull me back in

Neilesh
    $14,800 19
hydra

Neilesh
    $1600 6
the (White House) chief of staff

Neilesh
    $1600 21
(Ken: That's called [*], or so Urban Dictionary tells me.)

(the friendly) fade

Triple Stumper
    $1600 13
Bourbon

Adriana
    $2000 15
(Neilesh: What is the Mersey?)
(Adriana: What is the Tyne?)

the Severn River

AdrianaNeilesh
Triple Stumper
    $2000 7
(Melanie) Lynskey

Adriana
    $2000 18
tardigrade

Neilesh
    $2000 5
Tyler

Neilesh
    $2000 24
a chip on their shoulder

Triple Stumper
    $2000 23
pizzicato

Isaac

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$14,000 $1,600 $30,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS
(Ken: What author would be thinking about Scotland and time travel?)
...
[The audience laughs when Isaac's response is revealed.]
(Ken: That is correct, as far as it goes. It's not quite specific enough, though. You were on the right track, Isaac.)
...
(Ken: [To Adriana] She remembered the name of the Outlander lady, [*]; that is right.)
...
(Ken: [To Neilesh] He was unsure in Final, but it probably won't matter.)
...
(Ken: Two wins for Neilesh to one for Adriana; Isaac has yet to mark the scoreboard. That means Neilesh will be trying to put this thing away tomorrow. Adriana and Isaac need to stop him. We'll see you right back here then.)
IsaacWho is the Outlander lady?
$300
AdrianaWho is Gabaldon?
$0
NeileshWho is Unsure
$0
(Diana) Gabaldon

Final scores:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$14,000 $1,300 $30,000
2nd place: 1 match point 3rd place Winner: 2 match poings

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Adriana Isaac Neilesh
$13,600 $8,000 $16,800
20 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
14 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)
20 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $38,400

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