Show #7632 - Tuesday, November 14, 2017

2017 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Lisa Schlitt, a microbiologist from Berwyn, Pennsylvania

Jason Sterlacci, a fourth grade teacher from Somerset, New Jersey

Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California

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Jeopardy! Round

POETS & POETRY
11-LETTER WORDS
MEET YOUR AUTOMAKER
SENATOR JOHN
FASHION: 1900 TO 1950
"M" TV SHOWS
(Alex: Each correct response, of course, begins with that letter.)
    $200 30
This Scot's first poetry collection included "To a Mouse" & "To a Louse"
    $200 24
Fear of water
    $200 28
The Escalade
    $200 26
Better-known name of longtime West Virginia senator John D. Rockefeller IV
    $200 29
Mr. Christian, oh the time has come, to name this designer whose 1940s "New Look" made shoulders less NFL-like
    $200 27
Sitcom with Anna Faris & Allison Janney
    $400 11
"Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?" asks T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of" him
    $400 23
A government led by 3 co-rulers, like Caesar & pals
    $400 4
The Tundra
    DD: $3,000 25
This Vietnam vet was senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013
    $400 22
Spreading their "wings", '20s women known as these wore hems at (gasp!) knee level, with bobbed hair under a cloche
    $400 16
Sometimes with duct tape, Richard Dean Anderson saved the day
    $600 13
This poem about a prince & a monster is preserved in a single manuscript from about 1000 A.D.
    $600 10
Adverb meaning once every 2 weeks
    $600 1
The Forester
    $600 9
We trust that you recognize this trust-busting senator of the 1880s and 1890s
    $600 15
It's the rhyming '40s ensemble seen here
    $600 12
On Discovery Channel, a "Bear" dropped in the middle of nowhere told you how he survived
    $800 14
One of Australia's most beloved poems is Banjo Paterson's "The Man from" this river
    $800 19
In German Schmerz is "pain" & this is "world pain", denoting sentimental pessimism
    $800 2
The S-Class Maybach
    $800 7
Father & son, John & Lincoln Chafee represented this state from 1976 to 2007
    $800 18
In the 1930s this rigid undergarment spawned a lighter-weight elastic variety, the girdle
    $800 5
'80s show about the Blue Moon Detective Agency
    $1000 21
This Matthew Arnold poem begins, "The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair"
    $1000 20
It's grape science, especially with regard to winemaking
    $1000 3
The S90 sedan
    $1000 8
This Texan is Majority Whip, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate
    $1000 17
Get your knickers in a twist or really get 'em baggy like these numeric golfing pants of the '20s
    $1000 6
Dennis Weaver cowboyed up as a cop in New York City

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Buzzy Jason Lisa
$3,600 $3,000 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Buzzy Jason Lisa
$5,400 $8,200 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

COLORFUL AMERICAN CITIES
PRECIOUS TIME
DOCUMENTARIES
WIDOWS IN THE BIBLE
ART
HIDDEN FIGURES
(Alex: Each correct response contains a number spelled out in the response.)
    $400 26
The Menominee & the Winnebago once lived on the site of this football-mad city situated on Lake Michigan
    $400 27
"Listen, my children, and you shall hear of" this "ride of Paul Revere"
    $400 29
2015's "Amy" traces the too-short life of this British singer
    $400 30
The widow of Phinehas had a baby named this, also a character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
    $400 23
This 1889 van Gogh work depicts a crescent moon in a swirling sky, a church spire & a cypress tree
    $400 20
Gym equipment-wise, a dumbbell is a free type of this
    $800 25
The statue of Adolph Coors seen here is in this Colorado city
    $800 24
A nursery rhyme begins, "A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock" this person
    $800 3
The birds in this 2005 nature documentary walk single file to their Antarctic breeding grounds
    DD: $2,000 28
A book of the Bible is named for this widow of Mahlon & ancestor of David
    $800 22
His childhood in Vitebsk influenced his work, which often includes fiddlers on roofs
    $800 18
From the Italian for "middle", it's where one might go to watch a play upstairs
    $1200 1
2-word name for the N.J. city that's home to Thomas Edison's estate & laboratory
    $1200 10
This 4-letter word is defined as "the dark part of twilight"
    $1200 4
The title "Citizenfour" refers to an email alias used by this man who revealed NSA secrets
    $1200 9
In 1 Kings 17:22 this happens to the son of the widow of Zarephath, thanks to the prophet Elijah
    DD: $4,000 8
Edgar Degas did many works using this medium whose name is also used for subdued shades of color
    $1200 13
Pluperfect is one
    $1600 2
Skiing & Glacier National Park may lure you to this Montana city named for an aquatic creature
    $1600 11
6 of these in the forenoon watch is 11 A.M. to you, ya scurvy landlubber
    $1600 6
"The Fog of War" told "Eleven Lessons from the Life of" this 1960s Secretary of Defense
    $1600 21
Paul's first epistle to this Greek city's church says widows may remarry
    $1600 14
He coined the term ready-made for everyday objects he designated as art, like the one he titled "Fountain" (actually a urinal)
    $1600 17
A piece of lumber in the sea
    $2000 5
Willa Cather drew her portraits of frontier life from her hometown, this Nebraska city named for an Oglala chief
    $2000 12
"You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth", begins a prayer to divine mercy named for this P.M. hour
    $2000 7
Some wondered if this film about street artists like Banksy was a documentary or a hoax
    $2000 16
Making Bathsheba a widow, King David sent her husband, this Hittite, to his death in battle
    $2000 15
Edward Hicks' Quaker faith is evident in this painting, a favorite theme of his
    $2000 19
This word meaning "burdensome" starts with the first positive integer

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Buzzy Jason Lisa
$16,200 $15,800 $2,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

THEATRE
Despite objections from the playwright's estate, a 1991 French production of this 1952 play had a small all-female cast instead of male

Final scores:

Buzzy Jason Lisa
$31,601 $1 $0
Finalist 2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Buzzy Jason Lisa
$15,400 $13,200 $2,000
22 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 8 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $30,600

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Game tape date: 2017-09-19
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