Show #9275 2025-02-21 (taped 2025-02-04) Invitational

2025Jeopardy!Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 5.

Contestants

John Focht — a baseball software team lead originally from El Paso, Texas

Roger Craig — an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia

Maya Wright — a graduate student from Atlanta, Georgia

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Maya	$600	$2,200	$1,400	$1,447 3rd place: $5,000	$1,400 7 R, 2 W
Roger	$400	$2,600	$36,000	$36,000 Winner: semifinalist	$17,600 26 R (including 3 DDs), 5 W
John	$5,400	$7,800	$13,800	$14,715 2nd place: $5,000	$13,800 18 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

SAYETH THE BIBLE BOOK	A.P. HISTORY	HOBBIES & PASTIMES	ARE YOU INTO ASTROLOGY?	IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL	IDIOMS
$200 [29] "And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people" Exodus Roger	$200 [24] Lifelong Catholic Alexander Pope received these prayers & sacraments the day before his death last rites Roger	$200 [25] Get your salsa or merengue on while getting in a good workout with this program launched by Alberto Pérez Zumba Roger	$200 [26] People of this sign tend to be chatty, like early June babies Anderson Cooper & Amy Schumer, who make their living talking Gemini	$200 [30] A "Greatest Hits" album by this legend included "I Will Always Love You" & "Old Flames (Can't Hold A Candle To You)" Dolly Parton Maya	$200 [28] To describe a situation exactly is said to be achieving this level of triumphant hammering hit the nail on the head (nail it down) Maya Roger
$400 [21] "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" Proverbs John	$400 [20] Allan was the first name of this Scottish-born founder of an American detective agency Pinkerton John	$400 [14] Maybe you'd like to volunteer & become one of these mentors through the organization abbreviated BBBS Big Brothers Big Sisters Roger	$600 [17] Fans of Malibu beaches & TV's "The Cisco Kid" know this first name of actor Carrillo, matching his sign Leo	$400 [22] Mammas tried not to let their babies become them, but Kelsea Ballerini & Noah Kahan taught us that they "Cry Too" "Cowboys" Roger	$400 [27] This phrase meaning to do everything possible to ensure success specifically invokes a baseball diamond to cover all bases Maya
$600 [1] In chapter 20 "and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire" Revelation John	$600 [6] In 1923 suffragist Alice Paul drafted & had introduced into Congress the first version of this proposed amendment the Equal Rights Amendment Roger John	$600 [13] Now included at the Olympics, it's a form of rock climbing on shorter routes without ropes or harnesses bouldering John	$800 [15] It's your sign if, like Logan Paul, your birthday is on a day noted for pranks Aries John	$600 [16] Last names of Kix & Ronniewho provided "Boot Scootin' Boogie" & "Little Miss Honky Tonk" Brooks & Dunn John	$600 [9] Someone who is everything you were hoping for does this checks all the boxes Roger
$800 [2] "The seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein"; sorry, college & pro football players! Leviticus Maya Roger	$800 [5] General A.P. Hill led reserve troops on a forced march to save a Confederate Army from destruction at this gory 1862 battle Antietam John	$800 [7] It was a stamp collector who proposed this word for the hobby of stamp collecting philately Roger	DD $1,000 [23] Think of the 4-letter acronym describing Muhammad Ali & it makes sense this was his sign Capricorn Roger	$800 [18] Carrie Underwood sang, "She was drivin' last Friday", hit some black ice, then implored, "Jesus" do this take the wheel Maya	$800 [11] Throwing idioms include... the baby out with the bathwater & this breezy one about saying to heck with being careful throwing caution to the wind Maya
$1,000 [3] "Out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice" Jonah Maya Roger	$1,000 [4] Alexander Pushkin dramatized Russian history in this play about a 17th century czar Boris Godunov Roger	$1,000 [10] Rikka & moribana are styles of this, the classical Japanese art of flower arranging ikebana John	$1,000 [19] Always seeing both sides equally, it's "the diplomat of the zodiac" & was the sign of Ebenezer Bassett, the USA's first Black diplomat Libra John	$1,000 [8] A Scotty McCreery country megahit puts together a cussword & the last name of singer George for this title "Damn Strait" John	$1,000 [12] To be lumped in with wrongdoers, undeservingly or not, is to be "tarred with" this the same brush

Double Jeopardy! Round

PROLOGUES	MOVING WORDS	FLOWERS	OLD STUFF	THEIR OSCAR-WINNING ROLE	"G"EOGRAPHY
$400 [28] Carroll's preface to this sequel includes a chess problem that underlies the book's action Through the Looking-Glass Roger	$400 [25] It's done by a student moving from one college to another, or a subway rider getting on a bus transfer Maya	$400 [27] Aclimbing rose with numerous flowers is called this, like a person who talks on & on & on at length a rambler	$400 [30] In 2022 the perfectly preserved remains of a 30,000-year-old baby one of these tusked animals were discovered in the Yukon a woolly mammoth Roger John	$400 [22] Robert Downey Jr., Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis Strauss, in this film Oppenheimer Roger	$400 [23] This suburb of Cairo is home to a zoo; the University of Cairo moved there in 1924 Giza John
$800 [29] This playwright had his character Tom Wingfield speak directly to the audience as a prologue Williams Roger	$800 [24] If you're applying for a job far away, right after the address on your résumé, put "willing to" do this relocate Roger	$800 [26] This cheerful yellow flower is the national flower of Wales; wear it on St. David's Day daffodil John	$800 [4] The oldest person in the Bible, Methuselah lived to this ripe old palindromic age 969 John	$800 [11] Louis Gossett Jr., a gunnery sgt. & tough drill instructor in this 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman Roger	$800 [9] In 2004 this city's airport was renamed to honor Lech Walesa Gdansk Roger
$1,200 [16] An 1850 preface says this British novel "was hewn in a wild workshop... the statuary found a granite block on a solitary moor" Wuthering Heights Roger	$1,200 [20] Add a "Y" to a synonym for "move" & you get this word for a tricky person or their untrustworthy eyes shifty Roger	$1,200 [14] Ironically, the pollen of this flower seenhereis toxic to cats tiger lily Maya Roger John	$1,200 [5] The paintings discovered in this French cave Sept. 12, 1940 likely date to the Upper Paleolithic period Lascaux John	$1,200 [8] For 2006:Helen Mirren as "The Queen" & Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in this film The Last King of Scotland John	$1,200 [1] Lake Tiberias is another name for it the Sea of Galilee John
$2,000 [18] This poem has a general prologue that introduces the pilgrims, beginning with the Knight The Canterbury Tales Roger	$2,000 [21] More foreigntravelthan any previous sec def got William Perrythis punning adjective, from his name & a word for moving a lot Perrypatetic	$1,600 [15] In "You've Got Mail", Meg Ryan says, "Don't you think that" these "are the friendliest flower?" daisies	$1,600 [6] Completed in 1345 this bridge that spans the Arno River in Florence has a name meaning "old bridge" Ponte Vecchio Roger	$1,600 [7] This actress for her 2003 portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in "Monster" Theron Roger	$1,600 [2] This town in Somerset is said to be the burial place of Queen Guinevere Glastonbury Roger
DD $12,000 [17] His intro to "Nobody Knows my Name": "In America, the color of my skin had stood between myself & me; in Europe, that barrier was down" (James) Baldwin Roger	DD $9,000 [13] 12-letter word for the group of people walking down the aisle at the start of a wedding a processional Roger	$2,000 [19] Theseflowers named for the shape of their snout are a favorite in gardens snapdragons	$2,000 [12] Founded in 1764 this New England newspaper is the oldest continuously published paper in America the Hartford Courant Roger	$2,000 [10] For 1960:Burt Lancasteras this fast-talking salesman turned preacher Elmer Gantry Roger	$2,000 [3] This city on the Mur River is the second-largest in Austria Graz John

Final Jeopardy!

COMPOSERS

Yale takes credit for starting a commencement tradition when it gave this composer an honorary doctorate in 1905

(Edward) Elgar

Maya "Who is [something scribbled out] Elgar? Hi mom & Matt" — wagered $47

John "Who is Elgar?" — wagered $915

Roger "Who is Elgar?" — wagered $0

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