Show #7886 - Monday, December 17, 2018

Contestants

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Josh Demby, a real estate agent from Denver, Colorado

Alex Cervenak, a historical interpreter from Hamtramck, Michigan

Jackie Fuchs, an attorney and writer from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,200)

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Jeopardy! Round

75 YEARS AT THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ART-ICLES
COMING AT YOU IN 3 T
ON THE SLAB
SPORTY BRAND NAME MEANINGS
WRITERS EXPOSED
(Alex Trebek: From their first and middle names, which we will give you as clues. All right?)
    $200 13
A new staging of this Kander & Ebb musical at City Center moved to Broadway, where it's still going 9,000 shows later
    $200 7
"Visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by... Picasso and Georges Braque"
    $200 19
We see aliens, & it means originating outside Earth's limits
    $200 2
Jerome David
    $400 14
In 1954 George Balanchine mounted this ballet for Christmas at the City Center & a new tradition began
    $400 25
He "felt and heard a 'scream throughout nature'"
    $400 20
Honeywell's mid-20th century round ones are in museums as masterworks of industrial design
    $400 24
Square slabs of cobblestone, red sandstone & bricks are available for building use in this video game
    DD: $3,000 15
This brand started as a catalog in 1983 & was meant to evoke preppy things like rowing--its original logo was an oarsman
    $400 3
Elwyn Brooks
    $600 16
This actress is joined by puppets on the midway as Lili in a 2002 City Center production of "Carnival"
    $600 1
"Though it was reconstructed to a standing posture, the statue's arms were never found"
    $600 10
You can "pay" it as you "stand at" it
    $600 21
SLAB is the stock symbol for this element Laboratories, Inc., a tech company making semiconductors
    $600 28
This outdoor clothing brand is named for the coldest side of the mountain
    $600 4
Clive Staples
    $800 17
In 1971 this African American's dance company moved downtown to City Center where they still perform today
    $800 8
"In 1894 he conceived a plan to publish a book of his impressions of Tahiti, illustrated with his own woodcuts"
    $800 11
For Cub Scouts, this word meaning reliable is No. 1 on the Scout law list
    $800 22
The slab is a synonym for this item on a pitcher's mound
    $800 27
This Portland, Oregon-based sportswear company is named for a river that flows through the city
    $800 5
Kids' author Robert Lawrence
    $1000 18
In "Little Shop of Horrors", Taran Killam is the dentist, & Jake Gyllenhaal is "suddenly" this lead character
    $1000 9
"He created works that cantilevered off bases that allowed the mobile element to rotate 360 degrees"
    $1000 12
Time to make this settlement by giving an equal amount of cash to cover any damage you caused
    $1000 23
Sliced this meat has been trimmed, sliced & packaged; slab this comes in one chunk that must be sliced
    $1000 26
Twin brothers Bob & Bill Meistrell named this brand for how its wetsuit fit one's figure
    $1000 6
Poet Wystan Hugh

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

Jackie Alex Josh
$0 $1,400 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jackie Alex Josh
$2,600 $4,000 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN IN MATH & SCIENCE
EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES
IN THE DICTIONARY
THE MEXICAN WAR
MUSICIANS' MEMOIRS
"RITE" YOU ARE
    $400 19
In 1923 Edith Quimby devised a way to use this type of radiographic film to accurately gauge exposure to radiation
    $400 8
This "Queen of the Danube" is found where the hills of western Hungary meet the nation's eastern plains
    $400 11
The Greek name of a king of Ithaca is the source of this word for a long trip
    $400 21
Early in the war, Mexican troops crossed this river to fight the battle of Palo Alto
    $400 24
2016:
"Born to Run"
    $400 14
For Catholics near death, confession, anointing of the sick & communion make up these
    $800 20
For WWII Katharine Blodgett found a way for 2 quarts of oil to make this cloaking "screen" cover several acres
    $800 7
If you like cold beet soup & stuffed potato dumplings, you vill enjoy Vilnius, the capital of this Baltic nation
    $800 12
We hope you've got a lock on this name for the decorative cutout on the neckline seen here
    $800 22
This exiled general offered help to the U.S., but double-crossed them--didn't they remember the Alamo?
    $800 23
2015:
"Reckless: My Life as a Pretender"
    $800 15
In 2017 this drugstore chain sold 2,000 stores to Walgreens
    $1200 6
In its long history, the Zytglogge Clock Tower in this Swiss capital has also served as a guard tower & a women's prison
    $1200 13
A quick solution to a difficult problem is this, the special item that can kill a werewolf
    $1200 26
2 future presidents fought in the Battle of Buena Vista:
Zachary Taylor & this Confederate man
    $1200 1
2014:
"Dancing With Myself"
    $1200 16
I'm not saying this Stravinsky work is old, but "Fantasia" did animate dinosaurs to it
    DD: $3,800 4
You'll find NATO's world headquarters on Boulevard Leopold III in this capital city
    $1600 9
The name of this device for punishment, a wooden framework, also means to ridicule
    DD: $2,000 25
In 1847 Mexico City had its independence day under occupation as this general took the city 2 days before
    $1600 2
2004:
"Tommyland"
    $1600 17
Xhosa boys wear a blanket with red stripes after undergoing this type of 3-word transition to manhood
    $2000 5
The eventful history of this Balkan city includes being sacked in a Mongol invasion in the 13th century
    $2000 10
A passionate plea can be described as this, from a French phrase meaning "cry of the heart"
    $2000 3
2014:
"Anger is an Energy"
    $2000 18
It's not a secret--one of the 2 branches of advanced freemasonry; both have British names

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jackie Alex Josh
$10,000 $2,800 $9,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

NORSE MYTHOLOGY
After turning himself into a mare, he gave birth to an 8-legged horse that was later the prized steed of Odin

Final scores:

Jackie Alex Josh
$19,889 $2,800 $17,000
2-day champion: $34,089 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jackie Alex Josh
$12,800 $2,800 $9,000
17 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 2 DDs)		 11 R,
3 W		 12 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $24,600

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Game tape date: 2018-11-06
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