Show #9251 2025-01-20 (taped 2024-11-13) Champions Wildcard

2025 Champions Wildcard semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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

Drew Goins — a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii

Joey DeSena — a development engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joey $0 $800 $9,200 $9,811
3rd place: $10,000
$10,800
12 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Drew $4,200 $7,200 $26,800 $26,800
Finalist
$24,000
29 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jen $1,400 $2,400 $12,600 $10,000
2nd place: $10,000
$8,800
10 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

REMEMBERING MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. MUSEUMS FARM TOOLS & MACHINERY BRITISH SITCOMS THIS OR THAT BACK WORDS & FORWARD
$200 [29]
During the 1963 March on Washington, King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of this monument
the Lincoln Memorial
Drew
$200 [23]
St. Petersburg, Russia has a museum devoted to these bejeweled objects given as Easter gifts by the czar
a Fabergé egg
Drew
$200 [16]
Nebraskans may know it's a machine intended for the operator-free removal of leaves & hairs from cobs
a (corn) husker
Drew
$200 [15]
On this sitcom, Basil needed lots of help from Polly & Manuel running a seaside hotel
Fawlty Towers
Jen
$200 [27]
This item is in Pop Tarts' full name, but many choose to eschew it before chewing
toaster
$200 [30]
Your emotional disposition&ruinous fortune
mood & doom
Drew
$400 [21]
King's 1st name was originally Michael, but inspired by a visit to this country, his father changed both his own & his son's names
Germany
Joey
$400 [18]
To see Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa" in person head to the Salle Mollien in this museum
the Louvre
Drew
$400 [17]
Used worldwide, like against locusts in Africa, it's an aircraft employed for spraying pesticide over large acreages
a crop duster
Jen
$400 [14]
"I'm Alan Partridge", starred this performer as a former TV talk show host who finds himself on Radio Norwich
Coogan
Jen
$400 [26]
Even dog people sometimes mix up the Alaskan Malamute&this less bulky breed from a different northern land
a (Siberian) Husky
Drew
$400 [22]
3 feet&a sturdy cart
yard & dray
Joey
$600 [1]
King wrote, "this courageous New Englander's... choice of jail" was his first contact with nonviolent resistance theory
Thoreau
Drew
$600 [4]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an iconic image of American history: "Washington Crossing" this river
the Delaware
Joey
$600 [24]
This machine is used to gather & compress hay, straw or corn stalks into round or rectangular shapes
a baler
Drew
$600 [10]
Captain Peacock kept the retail staff on their toes on "Are You Being Served?", a show set at Grace Brothers, one of these businesses
a department store
$600 [19]
OK, coach: 4th & inches, ball on your own 45--punt or these 3 little words meaning run or pass for a first down (as the crowd wants)
go for it
$600 [20]
To exude an odor or radiation&3:47 P.M.
emit & time
Jen
$800 [5]
With a dissertation comparing Paul Tillich & Henry N. Wieman, in 1955 King earned his PhD from Boston University in this -ology
theology
Drew
$800 [8]
Opened in 1819, this museum has many paintings that were once in the collections of Spain's 16th & 17th century monarchs
the Prado
Joey
$800 [25]
This type of silo with a conveyor belt to take grain up to the top level is mentioned in the first paragraph of "O Pioneers!"
a grain elevator
Drew
$800 [11]
"As Time Goes By", about lovers who meet again after years apart, starred this Oscar winner for "Shakespeare in Love"
Judi Dench
Drew Jen
$800 [6]
They're the two basic diving options seen here; one lets a layer of water in to warm up next to your body, one lets in none
wetsuit & drysuit
Drew
$800 [2]
Met in competition&a less jittery morning beverage choice
faced & decaf
Joey Drew
$1,000 [9]
At King's funeral, this gospel singer & close friend sang the hymn "Precious Lord, Take My Hand"
Mahalia Jackson
DD $1,600 [13]
Sir Aston Webb designed this London museum of decorative arts
the V&A (the Victoria and Albert Museum)
Joey
$1,000 [28]
Often used for foraged plants this tractor attachment bores down & inserts seeds into soil with minimal disturbance
a seed drill
$1,000 [12]
This show about 2 boozy women trying to stay young began as a skit on the "French & Saunders" sketch comedy show
Absolutely Fabulous ( Ab Fab )
Joey
$1,000 [7]
In early political science government by the best, hoi aristoi, was contrasted with government by the people, them
hoi polloi
Drew
$1,000 [3]
Students&an unfortunate mistake
pupils & slipup
Drew

Double Jeopardy! Round

FRENCH GEOGRAPHY 18th CENTURY WRITING BROADWAY PSYCHOLOGY LET'S TALK ABOUT POLITICS STARTS WITH "D"
$400 [25]
This 10,000-square-mile region in the northwest sounds like it could be part of a different nearby nation
Brittany
Drew
$400 [27]
Caleb Williams, the hero of an early one of these creepy novels of crime & atmosphere, throws no TD passes but exposes a murderer
Gothic
Drew
$400 [22]
This musical that played on Broadway from 1988 to 2023 is based on a horror novel by Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera
Joey
$400 [30]
Psychology's "Hierarchy of" these says that more basic ones like food must be met before loftier ones
needs
Drew
$400 [29]
The Free Soil Party didn't want to give away dirt; it was opposed to the expansion of this
slavery
Drew
$400 [26]
To speak slowly with vowels prolonged; some might have a "Southern" one
a drawl
Jen
$800 [24]
The southern region known as the French Riviera, running east roughly from the village of Cassis, is known by this name in French
the Côte d'Azur
Drew
$800 [23]
Visionary artist & poet William Blake wrote collections titled "Songs of" these 2 opposites
Innocence & Experience
Joey
$800 [21]
"I Dreamed A Dream" & "Do You Hear The People Sing?" are songs from this show
Les Miz
Drew
$800 [28]
Freud identified this mental energy, from the Latin for "desire", with sexual drive
eros erotic (libido)
Drew
$800 [14]
Woodrow Wilson won the White House in 1912 after this former prez threw his hat in the ring, weakening incumbent William Howard Taft
Teddy Roosevelt
Drew
$800 [19]
It's a mournful song or hymn for the dead
a dirge
Drew
$1,200 [6]
France is big on 5-letter rivers; the Yonne flows northwest between the Seine &this630-mile one
the Loire
Joey
$1,600 [10]
In this satirical essay, Jonathan Swift suggested killing & eating poor Irish children to help end poverty
A Modest Proposal
Drew
$1,200 [1]
In 2024, Jim Parsons played the Stage Manager & Katie Holmes was Mrs. Webb, in a revival of this Thornton Wilder play
Our Town
Joey
$1,600 [15]
CBT is short for this therapy; psychotherapists use it to change negative thinking patterns
cognitive behavioral
Drew
$1,200 [9]
A 2015 article in the Atlantic gave us this alliterative term for a young male supporter of Senator Sanders
a Bernie Bro
Jen
$1,200 [11]
Actor Colman & singer Placido know it's the Spanish word for a day of the week
Domingo
Joey
$1,600 [7]
Glaciers cover about 40 square miles of this highest mountain in the Alps, though some in Italy claim it as theirs, not France's
Mont Blanc
Joey
$2,000 [17]
In 1774 this once-enslaved woman wrote, "Then fix the humble Afric muse's seat at British Homer's and sir Isaac's feet"
(Phillis) Wheatley
Jen
$1,600 [2]
In 2022, this entertainer became the first Black woman to have a Broadway theater named after her
(Lena) Horne
Jen
$2,000 [16]
The German for "shape" gives us this school of psychology that focuses on the whole rather than the parts
Gestalt
Drew
$1,600 [12]
"We are the 99%" was the rallying cry of this movement that took over part of Lower Manhattan in 2011
Occupy Wall Street
Joey
$1,600 [3]
It's the sale or liquidation of a corporate division, from the Anglo-French for "undress"
divestment
Drew
$2,000 [8]
The chief city of Alsace & home to several European institutions, this eastern city is just 2.5 miles from the German border
Strasbourg
DD $5,000 [18]
Pangloss & Cunegonde are characters in this satire that mocked optimism by portraying a world of folly & danger
Candide
Jen
$2,000 [5]
In 2023, Jodie Comerwon a Tony for her role as a barrister in this one-woman play whose Latin title means "at first sight"
Prima Facie
Drew
DD $4,000 [20]
Like "helicopter parents", this term from a sports-minded Danish psychologist describes parents who sweep obstacles away from kids
curling parents
Drew
$2,000 [13]
With a brain tumor & unable to speak, Clair Engle pointed to his eye to vote "aye" & end a Senate filibuster against this 1964 act
the Civil Rights Act
Joey
$2,000 [4]
This Enlightenment-era philosophy rejected miracles but believed in a divinely inspired universe
deism
Drew

Final Jeopardy!

COLD WAR CRAFT

A U.S. Navy website says its journey from New London to Norway in 1957 opened up Arctic waters previously ruled by the Soviets

the Nautilus

Joey "What is the Nautalis? Go for it, Drew!!" — wagered $611
Jen "What is — -watch more women's sports!! - ♡" — wagered $2,600
Drew "What is a mouse??? Thanks Jen and Joey ! ♡" — wagered $0

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