Show #9049 2024-02-29 (taped 2024-02-06) Tournament of Champions

2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

Juveria Zaheer — a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Kevin Belle — a trail planner from Silver Spring, Maryland

Luigi de Guzman — an attorney from Arlington, Virginia

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Luigi	$1,800	$1,600	$22,000	$43,999 Winner: semifinalist	$11,200 17 R (including 2 DDs), 6 W
Kevin	$1,400	$2,200	$5,800	$5,800 2nd place: $5,000	$5,800 10 R, 1 W
Juveria	$9,000	$11,400	$23,400	$2,400 3rd place: $5,000	$20,200 26 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE WORLD	AN ONOMATOPOEIA ROMANCE	DETECTIVE FICTION	LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE	COLORS OF THE RAINBOW	NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS
$200 [25] Unlike its larger neighbor to the west, Switzerland still uses this as its monetary unit a franc Juveria	$200 [24] When I see you, my beating heart does this, like the wings of a black swallowtail as it flies flutter Luigi Juveria	$200 [27] She followed up "Sharp Objects" with "Dark Places", in which a secret society wants to solve a 25-year-old murder Gillian Flynn Juveria	$200 [28] Love:This Greek goddess of beauty had a thang goin' on with Adonis, but sadly, he got boar-ed Aphrodite Juveria	$200 [29] Featured in multiple Icelandic sagas, he was exiled from Iceland in the 10th century & set up camp in Greenland Erik the Red Juveria	$200 [30] It's the nickname of Alabama CB Ga'quincy McKinstry, whose smile resembled this pitch "man"; now he has an NIL deal with the drink, oh yeah Kool-Aid Kevin
$400 [20] Onthis November holiday in Mexico, families gather to celebrate & remember their loved ones who have passed on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Kevin Juveria	$400 [23] Ah, yes, my dearest, I can't wait to say words of love to you as we "bill &" do this, like pigeons coo Kevin	$400 [26] G.K. Chesterton based this detective on his friend John O'Connor, who was a priest Father Brown Juveria	$400 [19] Laugh:Baseball announcer Jack Brickhouse didn't get this music term quite right when the national anthem was sung "Acapulco" a cappella Juveria	$400 [21] In 2023, Xolo Maridueñaplayed Jaime Reyes, also known as this multi-limbed DC superhero the Blue Beetle Luigi	$400 [22] It's the big-legacy last name of Arch, who signed an NIL deal before throwing his first pass in college football Manning Luigi
$600 [3] Part of a British overseas territory, this huge limestone monolith is a habitat for Europe's only wild monkey, the Barbary ape the Rock of Gibraltar Juveria	$600 [15] Darling, they're playing our song, this one by Charli XCX from "The Fault in Our Stars" soundtrack, & the beat goes on & on "Boom Clap"	$600 [6] Ganache is a mix of chocolate & cream; this is a detective in Quebec created by Louise Penny & played on TV by Alfred Molina Gamache Juveria	$600 [18] Live:You'll be squatting and/or thrusting doing this exercise a burpee Kevin	$600 [12] It was coined in the 1890s to describe the sensational tactics used by NYC newspapers the World & the Journal yellow journalism Luigi	$600 [11] Auburn QB Bo Nix made an NIL deal with Milo's, maker of this 2-word sugary drink--then transferred out of the South to Oregon sweet tea Kevin
$800 [1] China's longest river, it's also the longest river in Asia the Yangtze Juveria	$800 [14] I desperately await this sound of you at the doorbell; it's the title of a Thoreau poem with "song" as one of the rhymes "Ding Dong" Kevin	$800 [4] The detectives are sheep, investigating the murder of their shepherd, in this bestseller with a title from a nursery rhyme Three Bags Full	$800 [17] Live:Vegan? You may need to give this cobalt-containing vitamin a shot, as animal products are the main dietary source of it B12 Kevin	$1,000 [8] In the 1740s growers of this dye plant in South Carolina benefited from government subsidies indigo Luigi	$800 [10] In 2021 the first-ever NIL store opened in Lincoln Park, giving players on this "Fighting" team a cut of each jersey sold the Fighting Illini Luigi
$1,000 [2] You can get a good feeling for Denmark, literally, with a this & happiness tour, this being a Danish concept for coziness & comfort hygge Juveria	$1,000 [13] When you ended things between us, it felt like this word that can precede "happy", with you as Moe & me as Larry slap Luigi	$1,000 [5] In 1972 this British woman "initially" introduced Cordelia Gray in "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman"; a follow-up came 10 years later P.D. James Juveria	$1,000 [16] Love:After his death in 1142, he would be buried next to his beloved Héloïse in Père Lachaise Abelard Juveria	DD $4,000 [7] Judo practitioners should know this term for land where building is prohibited & nature flourishes a green belt Juveria	$1,000 [9] Part of the NIL deal of UNC basketball star Armando Bacot Jr. was a part on this Netflix show set on a N.C. island chain Outer Banks Juveria

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT'S A PARTY!	COMPOUND WORDS	SCI. ABBR.	NAME	IMAGE	"LIKE"NESS
$400 [25] This president was gifted with a 1,400-pound block of cheese; on Feb. 22, 1837 he threw a party for the public to chow down Jackson Juveria	$400 [30] Today, fewer cars have this installed from the factory; you'll pay extra to have one put in to stash your gum wrappers an ashtray Luigi	$400 [23] Biologically speaking, it's what the N-A stands for in RNA & DNA nucleic acid Luigi	$400 [29] By the 1910s he had adopted a last name derived from the Russian for steel Stalin Kevin	$400 [28] Limiting his palette to mostly blacks & whites, Marc Chagall painted "The Praying Jew", also known as this holy man "of Vitebsk" Rabbi Juveria	$400 [20] This series that premiered in 2021 is billed as "a new chapter of 'Sex & the City"' And Just Like That Kevin
$800 [24] The North Side Skull & Bone Gang has been waking people up to party for 200+ years on this day down in New Orleans Mardi Gras Juveria	$800 [21] A giant city edifice stretching toward the heavens, usually with more than 40 or 50 stories a skyscraper Luigi	$800 [22] sec is short for this trig function secant Luigi	$800 [26] The Apache leader given the name Goyathlay, meaning "one who yawns", took on this name, perhaps the Spanish version of Jerome Geronimo Luigi	$800 [27] Called Anna-Lou by her family, shehas photographed subjects from Queen Elizabeth II to Sienna Miller Leibovitz Juveria	$800 [19] P!nk is backed up by columns of flame when she performs this 2016 hit in concert "Just Like Fire"
$1,200 [3] On October 24, 2022 it was a real lituation when Joe Biden celebrated this Hindu festival at the White House with 200+ guests Diwali Juveria	$1,200 [7] Thiscondiment can be white if bottled in vinegar or red if bottled in beet juice horseradish Juveria	$1,600 [1] If you're a web developer, you probably use HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) & CSS, short for this Cascading Style Sheets Luigi	$1,600 [11] This billionaire was born György Schwartz in Budapest; his family changed their surname to avoid persecution as Jews George Soros Luigi	$1,200 [17] MoMA describes this 1889 van Gogh painting as having a "churning sky" & a "quiet village below" Starry Night Luigi	$1,200 [18] In 2002 Tony Curtis toured in a stage version of this film comedy in which he co-starred years earlier Some Like It Hot Kevin
$1,600 [4] This Brit writer of "Private Lives" sang of a marvelous party where Elsie, age 74, swung upside down from a glass chandelier Noël Coward Juveria	$1,600 [10] Grade No. 10 is the most porous type of this fabric used to strain liquids cheesecloth Kevin	$2,000 [2] PTX can be short for this condition of air in the pleural space a pneumothorax Luigi Juveria	$2,000 [13] This 18th century French writer may have derived his mononym from an anagram of a Latinized version of his surname, Arouet Voltaire Juveria	$1,600 [8] This self-taught naïve painter was known for his lush, tropical images, though he never left France Rousseau Juveria	$1,600 [15] Fittingly, it was in the year of the USA's bicentennial that Steve Miller put out the album with this soaring title track "Fly Like An Eagle" Luigi
$2,000 [5] In May 1664 this French king held a days-long party with ballet in honor of his mom & wife & (possibly) his mistress Louis XIV Luigi	$2,000 [16] Thisphosphorescent glow is produced by certain fungi found on decaying wood foxfire Luigi	DD $3,200 [6] Cis short for this unit of electric charge named for a French physicist a coulomb Luigi	DD $10,000 [12] Born Tafari Makonnen, this emperor died in Addis Ababa in 1975 Haile Selassie Luigi	$2,000 [9] Norman Rockwell's oft-parodied image of a Thanksgiving meal has this title, one of a quartet in FDR's 1941 State of the Union speech Freedom from Want Luigi Juveria	$2,000 [14] In song, "You really know how to dance", among other qualities "What I Like About You" Luigi Juveria

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD TRAVEL

The name of this service that began Nov. 14, 1994 echoes the Étoile du Nord, which linked Paris, Brussels & Amsterdam from 1927

Eurostar

Kevin "What is Eurail?" — wagered $0

Luigi "What is Eurostar?" — wagered $21,999

Juveria "What is the chunnel?" — wagered $21,000

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