Responses for Show #9291 - Monday, March 17, 2025

Alex DeFrank game 2.

Contestants

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Brett Aresco, a writer and content strategist from Fairhope, Alabama

Clare Murray, an articling student from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alex DeFrank, an inventory specialist from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $42,401)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
"BAD" ENTERTAINMENT
ALSO A NEW WAVE BAND
COMMON BONDS
IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S A NEBULA!
I SAID WHAT I SAID!
    $200 28
Android

Alex
    $200 2
Bad Santa

Alex
    $200 1
Blondie

Alex
    $200 30
(Brett: What are lakes?)
(Alex: What are falls? Waterfalls?)

deserts

AlexBrett
Triple Stumper
    $200 23
albatross

Alex
    $200 3
Churchill

Clare
    $400 26
(Ken: Yeah, long receipts.)

CVS

Brett
    $400 19
"Super Bad"

Alex
    $400 27
talking heads

Alex
    $400 17
glasses

Alex
    $400 10
the boomerang

Alex
    $400 29
JFK

Brett
    $600 14
LinkedIn

Alex
    $600 7
Bad Monkey

Triple Stumper
    $600 24
squeeze

Brett
    $600 6
(fictional) robots

Brett
    $600 4
(Clare: What is a shrew?)

harpy eagles

Clare
Triple Stumper
    $600 25
Mother Teresa

Alex
    $800 20
Whole Foods

Alex
    $1,400 8
(Ken: Yes, Brett is a Swiftie.)

"Bad Blood"

Brett
    $800 18
B-52s

Alex
    $800 12
agreements

Alex
    $800 5
the Spitfire

Brett
    $800 22
Douglass

Alex
    $1000 15
Pfizer

Alex
    $1000 11
The Bad Seed

Clare
    $1000 16
[Brett did not include the leading article in the band's name.]

A Flock of Seagulls

Brett
    $1000 13
waltz

Brett
    $1000 21
the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters)

Triple Stumper
    $1000 9
(Alex: Who is Zola?)

Dreyfus

AlexBrett

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

Alex Clare Brett
$2,200 $600 $4,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Clare Brett
$6,600 $600 $7,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

AROUND THE WORLD
INSTRUMENTS YOU CAN PLAY
FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT
DANCING IN NON-MUSICAL MOVIES
IT'S ALL GREEK ALPHABET TO ME
(Ken: Because there's a Greek letter in each response.)
YVES DROPPING
    $400 22
Russia

Clare
    $400 23
a harp

Clare
    $400 30
On the Road

Alex
    $400 26
Pulp Fiction

Alex
    $400 29
Pi Day

Clare
    $400 28
Yves Saint Laurent

Clare
    $800 21
the Canary Islands

Alex
    $800 20
trombone

Alex
    $800 15
(Ken: Yes, and I apologize for saying "fittin' to rizz up Cathy".)
(Brett: Ken, don't apologize to me for that.)
(Ken: They made me do it.)

Wuthering Heights

Brett
    $800 25
Chris Pratt

Alex
    $800 24
(Alex: [Sighs] What is a... beta particle?)
(Clare: What is a cation?)

an alpha particle

AlexClare
Triple Stumper
    $800 27
Lafayette

Alex
    $1200 11
(Ken: Pilgrims, because they're headed to [*].)

Mecca

Triple Stumper
    $1200 10
(Alex: What's banjo?)

the fiddle

Alex
Triple Stumper
    $1200 2
(Brett: What is The Sun Also Rises?)

For Whom the Bell Tolls

AlexBrett
    $1200 14
(Ken: Your Gen-X friends and loved ones are very sad with you right now--[*] is the song.)

"Tequila"

Triple Stumper
    $1200 1
(Alex: What's Planet of the Apes?)

The Omega Man

Alex
Triple Stumper
    $1200 7
Pope St. John Paul II

Clare
    $3,400 12
(Clare: I would hate myself it I didn't say it, True Daily Double.)
...
(Clare: What is... Nairobi?)

Mombasa

Clare
    $1600 9
piano

Clare
    $1600 8
Brave New World

Alex
    $1600 16
Napoleon Dynamite

Alex
    $1600 6
Delta Force

Brett
    $1600 13
Jacques(-Yves) Cousteau

Brett
    $2000 3
(Ken: You are correct.)
(Alex: Oh, wow.)
(Ken: And no one's more surprised than you.)

Santo Domingo

Alex
    $2000 19
(Alex: What's oboe?)

clarinet

AlexClare
    $5,000 4
(Alex: [Sighs])
(Ken: Alex?)
(Alex: I don't know.)

the Epic of Gilgamesh

Alex
    $2000 17
Kung Fu Hustle

Triple Stumper
    $2000 5
(Alex: What's a tau... [*]?)

a tau cross

Alex
    $2000 18
(Ken: Tough one, actor and singer, [*].)

Yves Montand

Triple Stumper

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Clare Brett
$8,800 $2,800 $9,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

TOYS & GAMES
(Ken: [To Alex] The Cube, one of the five Platonic solids.)
ClareWhat is Quirkle? Love you Bill & Ron! ♡
$2,800
AlexWhat is Rubik's Cube?
$5,200
BrettWhat is Tetris?
$8,000
Rubik's Cube

Final scores:

Alex Clare Brett
$14,000 $0 $1,800
2-day champion: $56,401 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Alex Clare Brett
$13,800 $6,200 $9,200
26 R,
7 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $29,200

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Game tape date: 2025-01-28
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