Responses for Show #9272 - Tuesday, February 18, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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Jaskaran Singh, a consultant from Plano, Texas

Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Skyler Hornback, a chemical engineering Ph.D. student originally from Sonora, Kentucky

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ON THE HISTORIC TOP 40
"ISM"s
THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE
GIVING YOU THE CREEPS
SLINGING SLANG
BORDERLINE
    $200 10
Ford

Skyler
    $200 22
(Ken: Yes, from our youngest player, I think.)
[Laughter]

ageism

Skyler
    $200 1
[Ken added "Hmm" to his reading of the clue.]

Ford

Skyler
    $200 4
(Ken: Yeah, from Ghostbusters.)

the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

Margaret
    $200 27
[Laughter]
(Ken: You were very serious about that, too.)
(Margaret: Yeah, I feel it.)

snitches

Margaret
    $200 30
the Mississippi

Skyler
    $400 11
Little Rock

Jaskaran
    $400 21
alpinism

Triple Stumper
    $400 2
Dawson's Creek

Margaret
    $400 29
the Scarecrow

Jaskaran
    $400 26
caspering

Margaret
    $400 18
(Jaskaran: What is the... Democratic Republic of the Congo?)

the Central African Republic

MargaretJaskaran
    $600 12
(Jaskaran: Who is... Anne Boleyn?)
(Skyler: Who is Catherine of Aragon?)
...
(Ken: Margaret, four wives left.)
[Laughter]

Anne of Cleves

SkylerMargaretJaskaran
    $600 7
(Jaskaran: What is... determinism?)

fatalism

Jaskaran
Triple Stumper
    $600 3
the War Department

Skyler
    $600 28
The Chicks

Skyler
    $600 25
(Ken: LOML, you got it.)

love of my life

Margaret
    $1,500 17
(Ken: And a chance for you to move into the lead. I promise not to be skeptical like Alex, if you want to make a big wager here.)
(Skyler: I don't think I have the confidence that 12-year-old Skyler had. Uh, I wish I did.)
[Laughter]
...
(Ken: Skyler?)
(Skyler: Mmm... it's not coming to me.)
(Ken: That was the year that Vietnam was unified--[*] were the two countries.)

North & South Vietnam

Skyler
    $800 13
(Margaret: What is Athens?)
...
(Ken: There we go, the Lighthouse.)

Alexandria

SkylerMargaret
    $800 8
existentialism

Jaskaran
    $800 20
(Ken: R.I.P. [*].)

the Tropicana

Triple Stumper
    $800 6
Negan

Jaskaran
    $800 24
[Laughter]

a potato Western

Margaret
    $800 15
Yucatán

Jaskaran
    $1000 14
the Gang of Four

Jaskaran
    $1000 9
Romanticism

Skyler
    $1000 23
a Velociraptor

Jaskaran
    $1000 5
Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jaskaran
    $1000 19
vox pop

Jaskaran
    $1000 16
Luxembourg

Skyler

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

Skyler Margaret Jaskaran
$2,200 $400 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Skyler Margaret Jaskaran
$2,700 $2,800 $5,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE '80s: WHO SAID IT?
LIBRARIES
TV SITCOMS
RUSSIAN LITERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE
TRIPLE "A"
    $400 30
Ronald Reagan

Skyler
    $400 29
the Rhode Island School of Design

Jaskaran
    $400 1
Ricky Gervais

Margaret
    $400 6
The Brothers Karamazov

Skyler
    $400 28
the magnetic field (of the Earth)

Skyler
    $400 26
an alpaca

Jaskaran
    $800 19
Sally Ride

Jaskaran
    $800 15
George III

Jaskaran
    $800 2
Boy Meets World

Skyler
    $800 7
(Ken: Poor [*], right, you're in the lead.)

Uncle Vanya

Margaret
    $800 27
the core

Skyler
    $800 25
faraway

Triple Stumper
    $1200 16
Sandra Day O'Connor

Margaret
    $1200 11
New Hampshire

Jaskaran
    $1200 3
Mike & Molly

Jaskaran
    $1200 8
The Gulag Archipelago

Jaskaran
    $1200 14
strata

Margaret
    $1200 23
paralegal

Margaret
    $1600 17
Cesar Chavez

Jaskaran
    $1600 12
Dinesen

Jaskaran
    $1600 4
[Ken imitates Pinchot when reading "cousin".]

Perfect Strangers

Margaret
    $1600 9
Pasternak

Jaskaran
    $1,000 20
(Jaskaran: What is the... magnetosphere?)
(Ken: Oh, no, I'm sorry, [*].)
(Jaskaran: Oh, that would make sense.)
(Ken: Good thing you only wagered $1,000.)

the ionosphere

Jaskaran
    $1600 21
(Jaskaran: What is... agricultural?)

agrarian

SkylerJaskaran
    $2000 18
Jesse Jackson

Jaskaran
    $2000 13
(Ken: That's right, let's hear it for library bats.)

Portugal

Jaskaran
    $2000 5
The Girlie Show

Margaret
    $2000 10
Gogol

Jaskaran
    $2000 22
the Triassic, the Jurassic & the Cretaceous

Jaskaran
    $5,000 24
(Margaret: What is a guru?)
...
(Ken: That's where [*] Gandhi got that.)

mahatma

Margaret

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Skyler Margaret Jaskaran
$7,100 $6,200 $21,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
(Ken: [To Jaskaran] The notorious segregation case overturned by Brown v. Board was about railroad car segregation.)
MargaretWhat is ?
$6,200
SkylerWhat is Pullman v. United Sta
$3,500
JaskaranWhat is Plessy v. Ferguson
$0
Plessy v. Ferguson

Final scores:

Skyler Margaret Jaskaran
$3,600 $0 $21,800
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Skyler Margaret Jaskaran
$8,600 $11,200 $22,800
15 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $42,600

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Game tape date: 2025-02-04
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