Show #9247 2025-01-14 (taped 2024-11-12) Champions Wildcard

2025 Champions Wildcard quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

Evan Dorey — a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Stevie Ruiz — an assistant front office manager from Montauk, New York

Davey Morrison — an actor and filmmaker from Provo, Utah

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
davey! $3,400 $3,800 $8,800 $0
3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$11,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Stevie $1,200 $2,200 $7,000 $5,199
2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated
$7,000
13 R, 2 W
Evan $3,600 $9,800 $20,600 $20,600
Automatic semifinalist
$18,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

MOVIE PROFESSION IN COMMON AS THEY SAY... LIT-POURRI ICELANDIA THE COLD TRUTH 1980s MONSTER TRUCKS
$200 [25]
Harrison Ford in "Air Force One"&Bill Pullman in "Independence Day"
President of the United States
davey!
$200 [24]
It is d'Artagnan who reminds the Three Musketeers that this 6-word phrase "is our motto"
all for one, one for all
davey!
$200 [22]
Quoting from this 1845 poem, "'Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil!--prophet still, if bird or devil!--"'
"The Raven"
Evan
$200 [21]
More than half of Iceland's population lives in or near this capital city
Reykjavík
Stevie
$200 [29]
Chionophobia is an extreme fear of this cold substance
snow
Stevie Evan
$200 [30]
Yea, this "biblical" Ford shall be 12'6" high & contain 500 horses, & a sling & a stone shalt not slayeth it; it 100% slayeth on its own
Goliath
Stevie
$400 [16]
Will Ferrell in "Blades of Glory"&Jon Heder in "Blades of Glory"
figure skaters (ice skaters)
Evan
$400 [23]
A proverb says, "A new broom" does this
sweeps clean
$400 [13]
This "Beloved" author was the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Morrison
Evan
$400 [20]
Like Norway's, the Icelandic coastline has many of these deep inlets carved by glaciers
fjords
Evan
$400 [28]
Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the scientific term for this sensation when you consume something very cold & wish you hadn't
brain freeze
Evan
$400 [27]
Not monkeying around, Jeff Dane donated this beast which "ain't got stuff on me", to the International Monster Truck Museum & Hall of Fame in 2023
King Kong
Stevie
$600 [3]
Jack Nicholson in "Chinatown"&Russell Crowe in "The Nice Guys"
detective
davey!
$600 [12]
"At" this kind of table, "there's no dispute of place"
round
davey!
$600 [5]
At the end of this 1922 novel, Leopold Bloom describes his day to his wife Molly
Ulysses
davey!
$600 [7]
She ranks as the country's most famous personality & it seems that everyone there has a story about this former Sugarcube
Björk
Stevie
$600 [8]
The winter sport biathlon combines these 2 activities into one event
shooting & skiing
Evan
$600 [14]
An '83 Chevy bore the name of this weapon of legend, but it ends in -er vs. -ur, of which we do not approve
Excaliber
Stevie
$800 [1]
Sally Hawkins in "The Shape of Water"&Matt Damon in "Good Will Hunting"
a janitor
Stevie
$800 [10]
You might want to reconsider this type of biblical retribution; it "will leave everyone blind"
an eye for an eye
Evan
$800 [4]
Queen Guinevere attends a New Year's feast in the Middle English poem about this title sir & the Green Knight
Sir Gawain
davey!
$800 [11]
Soak in the geothermal sea water of this attraction, one of Iceland's most popular; it's also the name of an '80s film
the Blue Lagoon
Evan
$800 [9]
A word from the Sámi language gives us this name for thezoneof cold, treeless ground found north of the Arctic Circle
tundra
davey!
$800 [15]
A Camaro body? Why not? Also, why not give it the name of this Roy Scheider helicopter film? Boy, that was some heavy '80s goin' on!
Blue Thunder
Stevie
$1,000 [2]
Rick Moranis in "Ghostbusters"&Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff (the title profession)
accountants
DD $3,000 [19]
No backsies with this phrase, iacta alea est in Latin
the die is cast
Evan
$1,000 [6]
Emily Dickinson was known as "The Belle of" this city as well as "The Nun of" it
Amherst
Evan
$1,000 [17]
One of the world's oldest parliaments, it makes our heart sing, it makes everything groovy, c'mon...
the Althing
Evan
$1,000 [18]
The historic cradle of Russia, this river can be icebound & often impassable in some areas for as long as 5 months a year
the Volga
Evan
$1,000 [26]
The original car crusher was this vehicle created by Bob Chandler that put the monster in monster truck
Bigfoot

Double Jeopardy! Round

WE'RE JUST GONNA CALL HIM HERCULES FASHIONABLE NAMES AMERICAN HISTORY A WILD SONG FOR YOU BOTANY CROSSWORD CLUES "O"
$400 [25]
Half-horseman, pass by! Hercules killed Nessus, this type of creature, but Nessus' blood would later prove fatal to our boy
a centaur
Evan
$400 [5]
She's the DK in DKNY, a line launched in 1989
Donna Karan
Stevie
$400 [28]
This half of an exploring duo was Thomas Jefferson's personal secretary & aide-de-camp; later, gov. of the Upper Louisiana Territory
Lewis
davey! Evan
$400 [29]
This "Man in Black" had a 1968 hit with "Rosanna's Going Wild", the year his daughter Rosanne turned 13
Johnny Cash
Stevie
$400 [30]
Poppies & primroses are this type of persistent plant whose name also begins with a "P"
a perennial
davey!
$400 [26]
Hidden or supernatural(6 letters)
occult
davey!
$800 [24]
Hercules labor-ed to catch the mad bull who fathered the Minotaur with King Minos' wife on this island
Crete
davey!
$800 [1]
This clothing designer has also launched a fragrance called Daisy & a bookstore cleverly called Bookmarc
Marc Jacobs
Stevie
$800 [6]
In his first State of the Union speech, President Lyndon Johnson declared a "War on" this condition
poverty
davey!
$800 [10]
The movie "Easy Rider" used this tune that mentions "heavy metal thunder"
"Born To Be Wild"
davey!
$800 [27]
Ask Mr. Alpert--a plant that doesn't produce wood is usually referred to as one of these
herbaceous (herb)
Evan
$800 [20]
Cranial nerve to smell ya later(9 letters)
olfactory
Evan
$1,200 [19]
Hercules spent a year trying to capture this creature of Arcadia, sacred to Artemis, who was less than pleased
a (Arcadian) stag
$1,200 [2]
"I.M." is the memoir of this American designer who has been on "Sex & the City" & our show, too
Isaac Mizrahi
Stevie
$1,200 [14]
Spain called dibs on this Pacific island in 1565 &, with some persuasion from the U.S.S. Charleston, gave it to the U.S. in 1898
Guam
Evan
$1,200 [9]
Back in 1989, this rapper had a big hit letting us know "I need $50 to make you holler, I get paid to do the Wild Thing"
Tone Lōc
Stevie
$1,600 [21]
In some species this process by which a seed sprouts is us here d along by exposure to light of proper wavelengths
germination
Evan
$1,200 [11]
King of the fairies or moon of Uranus(6 letters)
Oberon
Evan
$2,000 [17]
Hercules had to go on a mythological panty raid to relieve this warrior queen of the fierce Amazons of her girdle
Hippolyta
davey!
$1,600 [3]
Ground Y & Y's for Men are brands from this designer, who does Yves Saint Laurent one "Y" better
Yohji Yamamoto
Stevie
$1,600 [15]
More than 5,000 perished in the hurricane that struck this Texas island community in September 1900
Galveston
Evan
$1,600 [8]
Rihanna & Bryson Tiller teamed with this DJ/performer/producer for the 2017 smash "Wild Thoughts"
DJ Khaled
Stevie
$2,000 [22]
One or more carpels make up this part of a flower with all the female reproductive bits
the pistil
davey!
$1,600 [12]
Straight-up hatred(5 letters)
odium
Evan
DD $4,600 [7]
Hercules had a hand in the Trojan War, as his slaying of Laomedon made this man Troy's king
Priam
davey!
$2,000 [4]
Billionaire philanthropist known for her preppy Bohemian designs, this womanherewears a few hats
Tory Burch
$2,000 [16]
What the North called the Battle of Bull Run, the South called this for a town in Virginia
Manassas
Evan
$2,000 [23]
Meshell Ndegeocello went to Indiana to record a cover of "Wild Night" with this guy from Seymour
John Mellencamp
DD $2,800 [18]
The agave is this type of plant whose name comes from the Latin for "juice"
a succulent
davey!
$2,000 [13]
An oven for drying hops(4 letters)
an oast

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

"Bilady, Bilady, Bilady", its national anthem, replaced a more militaristic one following a 1979 peace treaty

Egypt

Stevie "What is Ireland?" — wagered $1,801
davey! "What is... Iran??????" — wagered $8,800
Evan "What Vietnam?" — wagered $0

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