Show #9246 2025-01-13 (taped 2024-11-12) Champions Wildcard

2025 Champions Wildcard quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

Jen Feldman — a high school teacher from Brooklyn, New York

Paul Clauson — a tax analyst from Madison Heights, Michigan

Will Yancey — a lecturer of history from Banquete, Texas

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will $1,400 $2,600 $9,800 $13,800
Automatic semifinalist
$9,800
14 R, 2 W
Paul $0 $4,600 $4,000 $8,000
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$11,200
26 R, 7 W (including 2 DDs)
Jen $1,800 $2,800 $10,200 $8,200
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$13,200
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

2015: 10 YEARS AGO LATINAS OTHER USES OF TEXTING ABBREVIATIONS TV THIS CENTURY SCIENCE THAT PHRASE IS MONEY
$200 [27]
Al Gore visited Paris for thetalksthat resulted in a 195-nation accord aimed at reducing this & its worst effects
global warming (climate change)
Jen
$200 [28]
Astronaut Ellen Ochoahas logged nearly 1,000 hours in space & in 2013, becamedirectorof Johnson Space Center in this city
Houston
Paul
$200 [29]
LOL, without JK:This company that grew by selling butter in sticks
Land O'Lakes
Paul
$200 [24]
In 2014 "The Tonight Show" turned 60 & got this new host who turned 40
Fallon
Paul
$200 [30]
Newton's third law of motion states that "for every action there is" one of these
an equal & opposite reaction
Paul
$200 [13]
If you come from a wealthy family, you're said to have been born with this alliterative item "in your mouth"
a silver spoon
Paul
$400 [22]
This Afghan group announced the death of its leader Mullah Omar, which had happened sometime around 2013
the Taliban
Paul
$400 [19]
An advocate for more Latinas in the arts, she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "Barbie"
(America) Ferrera
Jen
$400 [26]
IRL:What an NFL player goes on if he severely hurts his elbow, knee or--very painful--undisclosed
injured reserve list
Paul
$400 [23]
This Kristen Bell show is set in a a spot where people couldn't use curse words & ended up saying "shirt" & "fork" instead
The Good Place
Jen
$400 [25]
The Nicobar pigeonof Southeast Asia is the closest living relative to this animal that had gone extinct by 1681
the dodo
Paul
$400 [12]
Cent & sensibility; this phrase involves a curiosity about what's going on in a pal's mind after they've been silent for a while
a penny for your thoughts
Will
$600 [1]
Leaving many stunned, in August these 2 Muppets announced the end of their romantic relationship on Twitter
Kermit the Frog & Miss Piggy
Will
$600 [18]
The first Hispanic person on the Supreme Court, she says her law career was partly inspired by "Perry Mason"
Sotomayor
Will
$600 [17]
BTW:Drivers' ed talk for actually taking control
behind the wheel
Will
$600 [10]
As Valery Legasov, Jared Harris starred in this 2019 miniseries about the aftermath of a real-life deadly accident
Chernobyl
Will
$600 [21]
Giving a clue to their age, galaxiescome in three basic shapes--elliptical, irregular & this one like M74 in Pisces seen here
spiral
Paul
$600 [11]
A 2014 TV movie had this title that describes both tardiness & having not quite enough cash to cover a cost
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Will
$800 [2]
This former gov. was an early front-runner for the GOP nomination after announcing his presidential run at Miami Dade College
Jeb Bush
Will Paul
$800 [7]
Sandra Cisneros is known for her depiction of Mexican-American life in Chicago, as in this 1983 novel
The House on Mango Street
Jen
$800 [6]
ETA: Formal name for someone in a white jumpsuit who says, "Thank you, thank you very much" & sings "Love Me Tender"
an Elvis tribute artist
Paul
$800 [3]
Vhagar, Seasmoke & Arrax are among the airborne creatures on this show
House of the Dragon
Paul
$800 [4]
Though An & Ay were available, this element used in alloys has the chemical symbol Sb, from its Latin name stibium
antimony
$800 [5]
A word of advice from Shakespeare... actually, let's make it 2 words: "Neither a" this word "nor a" this 2nd word "be"
borrower & lender
Paul
$1,000 [8]
In March, NASA's Dawn probe began orbiting this dwarf planet found between Mars & Jupiter
Ceres
Paul
$1,000 [20]
The first Latina inducted into the National Women's HOF, Dolores Huerta helped Cesar Chavez start this labor organization
the United Farm Workers
Paul
$1,000 [16]
IMO:ThisUN agency responsible for secure shipping
the International Maritime Organization
Paul
$1,000 [9]
"Slough" must be a U.K. punchline--it's the town of "The Office" & Slough House is for failed spies on this Apple TV+ show
Slow Horses
Jen
DD $3,800 [15]
The recoil of a gun is an example of conservation of this, mass times velocity
momentum
Paul
$1,000 [14]
A 1906 telegram from a mom to her boxer son told him to do this "meaty" 4-word phrase, provide money for the family
bring home the bacon
Paul

Double Jeopardy! Round

ARE YOU SURREAL? ANATOMICAL SONG TITLES PEOPLE OF THE BOOK MacARTHUR FELLOWS THERE IN THE WORLD IS THAT ENDS IN "UE"
$400 [30]
This artist described his own mustache as "very gay, very pointed, very aggressive"
Dalí
Paul
$400 [21]
This song was part of the Weeknd's set list at the Super Bowl in 2021
"Can't Feel My Face"
Paul
$400 [26]
Fresh-out-of-prison Tom, strong & loving Ma, apostate preacher Casy
The Grapes of Wrath
Jen
$400 [29]
Jason Reynoldswrote the YA Marvel novel titled "Miles Morales:" this superhero
Spider-Man
Paul
$400 [7]
You can round up pals in Calgary, party in Keg River & visit your friend Ron in Sexsmith in this Canadian province
Alberta
Will Paul
$400 [28]
Mark your calendar--August 15 is the day to celebrate this type of lemon pie
meringue
Paul
$800 [23]
Black surrealist Ted Joans named his 1958 painting "Bird Lives!" honoring this saxophonist who had died a few years before
Charlie Parker
Paul
$800 [11]
Not inspiring us to dance but to continue on after hard times, Gloria Estefan encouraged us to "Get on" these
"Your Feet"
Paul
$800 [25]
Private dicks Sam & Miles; sexy, deceitful client Miss Wonderly; acquisitive Caspar Gutman
The Maltese Falcon
Jen
$800 [24]
Fellow Emily Wilson is the first woman to publish an English translation of this Homer epic about a voyage
the Odyssey
Paul
$800 [6]
About an hour from Wilkes-Barre, the Centralia mine fire in the Buck Mountain coal bed in this state has been ablaze since 1962
Pennsylvania
Will
$800 [27]
Claudio Monteverdi was the first great composer of opera & an early master of this musical style that began in the 1600s
Baroque
Will
$1,600 [15]
In this Belgian's painting "The Son of Man", a man in a bowler hat has his face obscured by a green apple
Magritte
Jen
$1,200 [8]
"I like big butts & I cannot lie", to quote Sir Mix-a-Lot in this hip-hop song in praise of fuller bottoms
"Baby Got Back"
Will
$1,200 [17]
Con men the Duke & the Dauphin; the civilizing-bent Widow Douglas
Huckleberry Finn
Paul
$1,200 [20]
Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro delivered a Google lecture about cloning this Pleistocene pachyderm
a mammoth
Will
$1,200 [1]
Boasting 1,500 miles of southern coastline for its 6.5 million residents, it's the Aussie state highlighted here
Victoria
Will Paul
$1,200 [12]
In estate planning this word refers to a person's lineal descendants
your issue
$2,000 [18]
Erik Satie & Jean Cocteau collabbed on a Surrealist ballet for this "national" company founded by Sergei Diaghilev
the Ballets Russes
Paul Jen
$1,600 [9]
According to Hall & Oates, they're "watching you, they see your every move"
"Private Eyes"
Will
$2,000 [16]
From 2009:Thomas Cromwell, Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey
Wolf Hall
Jen
$1,600 [14]
Anna Deavere Smith's play "Twilight: Los Angeles" chronicles the aftermath of the 1992 trial of the cops who arrested this man
(Rodney) King
Paul
$1,600 [2]
The name of this Russian city just a 2-hour flight from Tokyo means "control the east"
Vladivostok
Paul
$1,600 [3]
In antiquity, a slave escorting kids to school was called this, from Greek for "child" & "lead"; now it means a dogmatic teacher
a pedagogue
Jen
DD $3,000 [19]
Leonora Carrington's crocodile sculpture in Mexico City was inspired by a poem a little girl recites in an 1865 novel by this man
Lewis Carroll
Jen
$2,000 [10]
Demi Lovato sang, "The day I first met you, you told me you'd never fall in love"; now she wants to do this
"Give Your Heart A Break"
DD $3,400 [13]
Paralyzed Clifford, amorous Constance, manly Oliver
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Paul
$2,000 [22]
This "Finding Your Roots" host became a jolly good fellow in part for investigating "Language Use in the Black Vernacular"
Gates
Jen
$2,000 [5]
Rutherford B. Hayes' 1878 arbitration in a dispute between Argentina & this landlocked nation gave it 60% of its present territory
Paraguay
Will Paul
$2,000 [4]
Remove an "R" from a word meaning to squabble to get this old term for malaria & the feverish symptoms that accompany it
ague
Will

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC CURRENCY

Henry VII minted the first pound coin in 1489, which was called this, also a term for what Henry was

a sovereign (coin)

Paul "What is sovereign?" — wagered $4,000
Will "What is a sovereign?" — wagered $4,000
Jen "What is a Tudor Crown? hi Loma!" — wagered $2,000

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