Responses for Show #9275 - Friday, February 21, 2025

2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

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John Focht, a baseball software team lead originally from El Paso, Texas

Roger Craig, an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia

Maya Wright, a graduate student from Atlanta, Georgia

Jeopardy! Round responses

SAYETH THE BIBLE BOOK
A.P. HISTORY
HOBBIES & PASTIMES
ARE YOU INTO ASTROLOGY?
IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL
IDIOMS
    $200 29
(Roger: Now's the time--what is [*]?)
(Ken: Yeah, there are frogs in [*].)

Exodus

Roger
    $200 24
last rites

Roger
    $200 25
Zumba

Roger
    $200 26
(Ken: Just like me, they are [*]s.)

Gemini

Triple Stumper
    $200 30
Dolly Parton

Maya
    $200 28
(Roger: What is... [**]?)
[Ruled incorrect; reversed before Double Jeopardy!]

hit the nail on the head (nail it down)

MayaRoger
    $400 21
Proverbs

John
    $400 20
Pinkerton

John
    $400 14
Big Brothers Big Sisters

Roger
    $1,000 23
(Ken: He was the GOAT, the greatest of all time, yes.)

Capricorn

Roger
    $400 22
(Ken: Very sad, but "[*] Cry Too".)

"Cowboys"

Roger
    $400 27
(Ken: Yes, and you beat our baseball guru, John.)

to cover all bases

Maya
    $600 1
Revelation

John
    $600 6
(Roger: What is the 19th Amendment?)
...
(Ken: Yeah, older than we think.)

the Equal Rights Amendment

RogerJohn
    $600 13
bouldering

John
    $600 17
Leo

Triple Stumper
    $600 16
Brooks & Dunn

John
    $600 9
checks all the boxes

Roger
    $800 2
(Roger: What is Exodus?)

Leviticus

MayaRoger
    $800 5
Antietam

John
    $800 7
philately

Roger
    $800 15
(Ken: Good job knowing Logan Paul's birthday, John, I don't know how you celebrate...)

Aries

John
    $800 18
take the wheel

Maya
    $800 11
throwing caution to the wind

Maya
    $1000 3
(Maya: What is Psalms?)
...
(Ken: Yeah, he was literally in a belly.)

Jonah

MayaRoger
    $1000 4
(Roger: What is... Ivan... the Terrible?)

Boris Godunov

Roger
Triple Stumper
    $1000 10
ikebana

John
    $1000 19
Libra

John
    $1000 8
"Damn Strait"

John
    $1000 12
(Ken: You never want to be tarred with [*].)

the same brush

Triple Stumper

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

Maya Roger John
$600 $400 $5,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Maya Roger John
$2,200 $2,600 $7,800

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

PROLOGUES
MOVING WORDS
FLOWERS
OLD STUFF
THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLE
"G"EOGRAPHY
    $400 28
(Roger: What is Through the Looking-Gas--[*]?)

Through the Looking-Glass

Roger
    $400 25
transfer

Maya
    $400 27
a rambler

Triple Stumper
    $400 30
(John: What is a mammoth?)
(Ken: Can you be more specific?)
(John: A mastodon?)

a woolly mammoth

RogerJohn
    $400 22
Oppenheimer

Roger
    $400 23
Giza

John
    $800 29
(Ken: In The Glass Menagerie.)

Williams

Roger
    $800 24
relocate

Roger
    $800 26
daffodil

John
    $800 4
969

John
    $800 11
An Officer and a Gentleman

Roger
    $800 9
[The accent marks in "Wałęsa" were not shown in the clue.]

Gdansk

Roger
    $1200 16
Wuthering Heights

Roger
    $1200 20
(Roger: What is "shift", [*]?)

shifty

Roger
    $1200 14
(Maya: What is catnip?)
(John: What is a cat lily?)
(Ken: Roger's gonna try it.)
(Roger: What is a tigered lily?)
...
(Ken: Roger, you said tigered lily. Those are just [*]es.)

tiger lily

MayaRogerJohn
Triple Stumper
    $1200 5
Lascaux

John
    $1200 8
The Last King of Scotland

John
    $1200 1
the Sea of Galilee

John
    $12,000 17
(Ken: Okay, another big wager; for an even $30,000, trying to put this away, here's your clue in PROLOGUES...)

(James) Baldwin

Roger
    $9,000 13
(Ken: The count worked, yes. You are in the lead with $18,000. Classic Roger Craig double-up.)

a processional

Roger
    $1600 15
daisies

Triple Stumper
    $1600 6
Ponte Vecchio

Roger
    $1600 7
Theron

Roger
    $1600 2
Glastonbury

Roger
    $2000 18
[Roger did not include the leading article in his response.]

The Canterbury Tales

Roger
    $2000 21
(Ken: William Perry and they called him [*]. Classic Pentagon humor.)
[Laughter]

Perrypatetic

Triple Stumper
    $2000 19
snapdragons

Triple Stumper
    $2000 12
(Roger: What is The Boston Globe?)

the Hartford Courant

Roger
Triple Stumper
    $2000 10
Elmer Gantry

Roger
    $2000 3
Graz

John

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Maya Roger John
$1,400 $36,000 $13,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

COMPOSERS
(Ken: [To Maya] Yes, they played his "Pomp and Circumstance" and that's why we still hear that at graduations today... What did you wager, Maya? Just $47. Is that a lucky number?)
(Maya: It is, yeah, it's my favorite number.)
MayaWho is [something scribbled out] Elgar? Hi mom & Matt
$47
JohnWho is Elgar?
$915
RogerWho is Elgar?
$0
(Edward) Elgar

Final scores:

Maya Roger John
$1,447 $36,000 $14,715
3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Maya Roger John
$1,400 $17,600 $13,800
7 R,
2 W
26 R
(including 3 DDs),
5 W
18 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $32,800

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Game tape date: 2025-02-04
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