Show #8177 - Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Paul Trifiletti game 5.

Contestants

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Lacey Davies, a casting assistant from New York, New York

Mark Nasielski, an electrical engineering student from Los Angeles, California

Paul Trifiletti, an attorney from Athens, Georgia (whose 4-day cash winnings total $83,801)

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Jeopardy! Round

LET THERE BE LIGHT
SECONDARY TITLES
YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE!
POET-POURRI
FOOTBALL
(Alex: Now last year we had some difficulty with the [*] category so we thought we would try it again but in this category, it deals entirely with referees' signals, and I'm going to be giving you three players the signals.)
STUDENT WORD LIST
    $200 1
Like electrons, visible light behaves both as particles & as these flowing fields
    $200 25
The U.S. Supreme Court has one Chief Justice & 8 of these other justices
    $200 20
This playboy's Playboy Mansion
    $200 17
Hailee Steinfeld plays this 19th century poet in an Apple TV+ series with lots of 21st century touches
    $200 7
Offensive teams love to see this sign; it means points
    $200 12
It can be a trainee working short-term without pay, or a recent medical school grad working in a hospital prior to a residency
    $400 2
Using just a few pieces of plastic cut from an old CD case, you can turn your smartphone into a projector of these 3-D images
    $400 29
As backup to Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Werner Kogler has this 4-letters-longer title
    $400 21
This author's Ozcot
    $400 18
Wanda Coleman's jazz-influenced "American" these poems sometimes have more than 14 lines, but 16 max
    $400 8
An equal opportunity foul, it can be called against offense or defense
    $400 13
From the Latin for "understand", it's someone learning a trade from a skilled employer
    $600 3
Without this process by which light is converted to chemical energy, Earth would be populated only by bacteria
    $600 28
Suzette Charles, 1984 first runner-up in this pageant, replaced Vanessa Williams
    $600 22
This tech mogul's house in Medina, Washington is sometimes called Xanadu 2.0
    DD: $2,400 6
Katharine Lee Bates' book containing this patriotic song used similar language about Mont Blanc: "O beautiful beyond all dream"
    $600 9
Just a little pre-snap movement by an offensive lineman causes this 5-yard penalty
    $600 14
In a learning sense it's not a tax accountant, but a student who attends a class informally without working towards a grade
    $800 4
This phenomenon is the change in direction of a ray of light as it moves from one medium into another
    $800 27
The appointed second-in-command to the Secretary of State has this title--no tin stars involved
    $800 23
This chemical heir's Winterthur House in northern Delaware
    $800 19
The August 1913 Poetry Magazine had "I Heard a Flute" by Ruth Gaines &, more famously, this Joyce Kilmer poem
    $800 10
Offensive teams don't like to see this sign given against them
    $800 15
A Protestant group promoting Christian unity is called these "of Christ", D.O.C. for short
    $1000 5
It's the 1-word title of Isaac Newton's landmark 1704 treatise on light
    $1000 26
In the Marine Corps just below corporal comes this corporal
    $1000 24
The Beehive House, home to this religious leader until 1877
    $1000 11
Careful if playing Green Bay--Aaron Rodgers loves to catch defenses in this foul
    $1000 16
5 letters in English, it's an Arabic word for "student", or one member of an extremist group in Afghanistan

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

Paul Mark Lacey
$800 $4,600 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Paul Mark Lacey
$1,800 $8,200 -$200

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHAT IS THAT?
THE COMICS
SHE'S A GODDESS!
THE END OF THE EMPEROR
BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE
LET ME "IN"!
(Alex: Each correct response will begin with "I-N".)
    $400 8
That's an empty reservoir for natural or coal this. An inner container rises up when it's full
    $400 1
Alice & Asok are 2 coworkers of this Scott Adams comic strip title guy
    $400 9
Tefnut was a goddess of rain & moisture in the mythology of this civilization
    $400 3
He passed away in 14 A.D. on the 19th of the month named for him
    $400 23
The town of Oymyakon, Russia in this proverbially cold region plunged to a mind-numbing -90 degrees in 1933
    $400 19
Blow up a balloon
    $800 14
These two Magi gifts smell much better than they look
    $800 18
Garfield the cat hates Mondays but loves this layered pasta dish
    $800 10
Born full grown & dressed in armor, this Greek goddess missed out on her childhood
    DD: $3,200 4
Claudius' death in 54 A.D. was due to this type of foul play, very common in the TV miniseries "I, Claudius"
    $800 24
The coldest temp ever recorded on Earth, -144 F., was found by researchers studying satellite data of this continent
    $800 20
In an election it's the person who currently holds the office
    $1200 15
Rosin is applied to these to help make sweet music
    $1200 28
In their last strip, this pair go sledding away, with the boy saying, "It's a magical world... let's go exploring"
    $1200 11
She's the Hindu goddess of wealth and good fortune but not a top chef, as TV's Padma could tell you
    $1200 2
Tyrannical Tiberius was smothered in 37 A.D. but was followed by this equally infamous successor who also needed killin'
    $1200 25
This U.S. state's Prospect Creek hit -80 in January 1971
    $1200 7
1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
    $1600 16
Once worn by the French navy, the stereotypical mime shirt is named for this westernmost French mainland province
    $1600 29
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Cartoonist Mort Walker called the stars over a drunken character "squeans", and gave the name "waftaroms" to the wavy lines indicating this
    $1600 12
May Day grew out of a festival that celebrated this Roman goddess of flowers & spring
    $1600 5
He died at his military headquarters in 180 A.D., 3 years after making Commodus his co-emperor
    DD: $2,000 26
In 1954 an historic contiguous USA low temp of -70 was recorded near Rogers Pass in this fourth-largest state
    $1600 21
A colorful Duke Ellington tune is called "Mood" this
    $2000 17
That's not caviar, but the finger type of this citrus fruit, bursting with beads of juice
    $2000 13
This earth mother & wife of Odin was attended by a dozen handmaidens
    $2000 6
Septimius Severus died in Eboracum, now this north of England city whose name is associated with white in the Wars of the Roses
    $2000 27
In Feb. 1947 temps reportedly fell to -85 at Fort Selkirk on this river that lends its name to a Canadian territory
    $2000 22
From the Italian for "to cut", it's a method in which images are carved into metal plates to make prints like the one seen here

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Paul Mark Lacey
$13,000 $16,600 $1,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY PLAYS
From the title of a British-set comedy, it completes the final line "I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital..."

Final scores:

Paul Mark Lacey
$23,000 $7,199 $2,000
5-day champion: $106,801 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Paul Mark Lacey
$13,000 $14,400 $1,000
16 R,
2 W		 25 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 6 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $28,400

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Game tape date: 2020-01-14
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