Show #8249 - Thursday, October 1, 2020

Contestants

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Phillip Howard, a naval officer from Santa Clarita, California

Preston Wilson, a sommelier originally from New Orleans, Louisiana

Mason Maggio, a songwriter from Los Angeles, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $42,600)

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Jeopardy! Round

EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY
BESTSELLERS
THAT'S MY JAM!
NEW TO THE OED
DURING HIS PRESIDENCY
YANKEE STADIUM
    $200 11
On January 12 have a cuppa on National Hot this Day
    $200 13
Recent speeches by this young Swedish climate activist are collected in "No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference"
    $200 4
My personal fave: this type of grape jam bearing the name of a Massachusetts town
    $200 22
This zero-shaped bread product, now as a verb meaning to beat someone 6-0 in a set of tennis
    $200 1
73 million watched the Beatles' debut on Ed Sullivan & the Pueblo incident happened during his Oval Office stay
    $200 21
In 2009 Jorge Posada hit the first HR in the new Yankee Stadium; in 1923 the first in the old park was, naturally, hit by this man
    $400 12
In Japan, November the 11th is a holiday celebrating this art form
    $400 17
"The Lost World" was Michael Crichton's sequel to this bestseller
    $400 5
My jam is complicated--it's made from pluot, a hybrid of plum & this other fruit
    $400 23
This shortened word you might use to order some Sauvignon
    $400 2
The Reagan era saw Desmond Tutu win the Nobel Peace Prize & Barney Clark survive 112 days after surgery implanting this
    $400 24
All rise! On June 11, 2017, a ball landed in the bleachers 495' from home plate, off the bat of this 6'7" Yankee
    $600 14
National Thank You Note Day is on this date, the day after opening lots of gifts
    $600 18
He gave a behind-the-scenes look at his career in "The Mamba Mentality: How I Play"
    $600 6
Inna jam makes a "plenty spicy" one from these peppers named for a place the Aztecs called Xalapan
    $600 26
This name of an alarmist fowl from a folk tale
    $600 3
Silent Cal took in the founding of CBS & the publication of this 1925 novel set in East Egg, Long Island
    $600 25
It wasn't just baseball at the old stadium; this Frank Gifford team moved there in 1956 & promptly won a championship
    $800 15
August 13 is a special day for these folks, including Barack Obama, Paul McCartney & Clayton Kershaw
    $800 19
1986's "Red Storm Rising" was his second novel & his second No. 1 bestseller
    $800 7
My favorite type of this torte, named for a city in Austria, is the one made with raspberry jam
    $800 27
This word for a content creator on a certain video-sharing site, such as Yuya (beauty) or Moriah Elizabeth (crafts)
    $800 9
The Nixon era saw Hank Aaron hit home run No. 715 & this country, at times part of India & of Pakistan, gain independence
    $800 29
Stadium swan songs include this immortal center fielder's, getting the Yanks' only hit off Luis Tiant Sept. 25, 1968
    $1000 16
Held in October at the end of the week, this alliterative day celebrates Mary Shelley & her famous creation
    $1000 20
In the '90s this newsman had a nonfiction bestseller with "The Greatest Generation" about the men & women of WWII
    $1000 8
My new fave is the jam from the Meiwa type of this small fruit with a "Q" in the middle of its name
    $1000 28
This 5-letter type of kosher, for food prepared strictly in accordance with Jewish dietary law
    $1000 10
This artist's "The Persistence of Memory" & Earhart flying solo across the Atlantic happened on Hoover's watch
    DD: $1,000 30
A museum at the stadium has statues of World Series hero Don Larsen & 60' 6" away, this great Yankee

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

Mason Preston Phillip
$3,800 $800 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mason Preston Phillip
$4,800 $2,200 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE YOUNG & THE RECKLESS
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
MOVIE THRILLERS
GNAT GEO
HISTORIC WOMEN
E 1-2-3-4-5
(Alex: All responses will be 5 letters long; "E" will be the first letter in the $400 clue, the second letter in the $800 clue, the third in the $1200 clue, and so on.)
    $400 21
Wing-suited 1930s aviation daredevil Clem Sohn was nicknamed this like a caped superhero who debuted in 1939
    $400 11
George Washington Carver came up with 300 products derived from these, including dyes, flour & linoleum
    $400 1
In "Marathon Man" Laurence Olivier plays war criminal Szell, who breaks out the tools he used as one of these
    $400 16
2019 high water on this river in cities like Natchez helped bring gnats out in force
    $400 6
A mistake, like throwing the ball into left field
    $800 22
Rossa Richter was just 14 in 1877 when she was fired into the air at London's Royal Aquarium, becoming famous as the first human this
    $800 12
Tabitha Babbitt invented a circular type of this tool after seeing Shakers struggle with the long 2-handled type
    $800 2
This 2020 thriller based on an H.G. Wells novel had the title character as an abusive ex stalking Elisabeth Moss
    $800 17
Queen Victoria wrote of being "half devoured by midges" at an 1872 picnic near Dornoch Firth in this country
    $800 7
Musical rate of movement indicated by adagio or presto
    $1200 25
One story says this 1970s Daredevil got his rhyming nickname after crashing his motorcycle while being chased by police as a teen
    $1200 13
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Great
Market Hall in Budapest, Hungary.) In the tradition of Hungarian inventive geniuses like Mr. Rubik, two Hungarian scientists designed the Gömböc to prove that there can be a three-dimensional object with only one stable and one unstable point of this
    $1200 3
Tom Hardy played the title role in this high-octane flick, but Charlize Theron stole the spotlight as Furiosa
    $1200 18
The luminous larvae of Orfelia fultoni, a gnat of the Appalachians, are aka these "worms"
    DD: $3,000 26
Her services refused due to prejudice, Jamaican-born Mary Seacole helped care for British soldiers on her own during this 1850s war
    $1200 8
It describes the indentation on a chin
    $1600 23
Stunt man Bud Ekins, not Steve McQueen, made the iconic motorcycle jump over a barbed-wire fence in this 1963 P.O.W. breakout movie
    DD: $3,000 14
Donald Hings created a portable 2-way radio around 1940; today it has this rhyming name
    $1600 4
In "The Transporter: Refueled", Ed Skrein took the wheel from this British actor who starred in the previous 3 entries
    $1600 19
You might encounter the fungus gnat on safari in this country's Kwazulu-Natal province
    $1600 9
A small flock of quail
    $2000 24
World War I ace Frank Luke was famed for attacking observation these, dangerous targets ringed with antiaircraft guns
    $2000 15
This guitar legend is the only person in both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & The Inventors Hall of Fame
    $2000 5
The dreams that take place at the climax of this Christopher Nolan film are dreamed inside the first class cabin of a 747
    $2000 20
The destructive fruit fly Ceratitis capitata is better known as this, after a body of water
    $2000 10
Canadians enjoy wearing this type of heavy stocking cap

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mason Preston Phillip
$14,600 $5,000 $13,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY TERMS
In medieval times it was a long tale of a hero like Gisli or Njall; today it means any story of epic length

Final scores:

Mason Preston Phillip
$2,600 $7 $23,000
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $23,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mason Preston Phillip
$13,800 $5,000 $11,600
20 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R,
3 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $30,400

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Game tape date: 2020-08-03
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