>1>Show #8408 - Wednesday, May 26, 2021>div>
>2021 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 3.

Contestants

>[&lt;< previous game]

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=13987" rel="external">Nibir Sarma>, a junior at the University of Minnesota from Eden Prairie, Minnesota

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=13985" rel="external">Jason Zuffranieri>, a math teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=13991" rel="external">Jennifer Quail>, a wine tasting consultant from Dowagiac, Michigan

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Jeopardy! Round

ble class="round"> <tr>
>THE CIVIL WAR>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr>
>TRANSPORTATION>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr>
>YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr>
>ONES & ZEROS>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr>
>OLYMPIC SPORTS EQUIPMENT>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> able> >Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):
>IN THE DICTIONARY>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409637" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4>td>
>"High-ranking" name of the Confederate locomotive hijacked by Union troops in 1862 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409638" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">2>td>
>One of the highest systems using these alliterative transports takes you from Chamonix up 8,900' almost to the summit of Mount Midi <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409659" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>
>The name of this quirky alliterative character was inspired by a boomerang toy Roald Dahl had as a boy <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409662" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">29>td>
>The Jaguar I-PACE & the Fiat 500e are both examples of these, ZEVs for short <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409664" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">30>td>
>Goal,
swimsuit		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 19>td>
There's a silent "B" in this adjective meaning mysterious & faint, like the Mona Lisa's smile <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 25>td>
The >Dictator, an enormous one of >these artillery weapons that fire high-arcing shells, was used in the Siege of Petersburg <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 12>td>
First built in 1936, Oscar Mayer's distinctive promotional >vehicle has this appropriate name <tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $1,000 7>td>
Chapters in this work include "The Mock Turtle's Story" & "The Lobster Quadrille" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 28>td>
This base-2 notation system uses only 2 digits, one & zero <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 27>td>
Rocks,
>brooms		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409655" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>
>This optical device that uses mirrors & colored glass gets its name partly from the Greek for "beautiful" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409658" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">24>td>
>At Gettysburg James Longstreet was actually in command of the disastrous Confederate attack known as this <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409652" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">18>td>
>This 1,900-mile-long interstate travels by Jacksonville, Florida, Washington, D.C. & Portland, Maine <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409646" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">8>td>
>"Last Sacrifice" was the finale of Richelle Mead's series about special young people attending this school <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409651" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>
>0 K, not to be confused with OK, is also known by this phrase <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409636" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1>td>
>Hoops,
ribbons		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409660" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22>td>
>This portmanteau word for a women's 2-piece bathing suit that provides more coverage than a bikini dates to 1985 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409643" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">15>td>
>After this bloody 1862 battle, President Lincoln> visited McClellan on the battlefield & urged him> to pursue retreating rebels <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409639" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>
>In 1871 this railroad & shipping tycoon built the first depot at what became Grand Central Terminal <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409647" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>
>In a story by Mary Mapes Dodge, the sister of this title boy wins the silver skates <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409649" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11>td>
>The bran cereal called this "One" says it provides 65% of your daily value of it <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409641" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6>td>
>Bindings & a tube with 22-foot-high walls <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409661" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">23>td>
>Tilt, prejudice & diagonal are synonyms of this 4-letter word <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409644" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">9>td>
>U.S. Grant got his "Unconditional Surrender" nickname at the 1862 capture of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River in this state <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409653" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17>td>
>Named for its three tiers of oars>, it was the principal warship> with which the Greek city-states vied for control of the seas <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409648" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14>td>
>Melinda Sordino is the heroine of this novel by Laurie Halse Anderson; the last name Sordino can mean "mute" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409650" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">10>td>
>ZIRP is short for this banking "policy" that encourages low-cost credit to companies & individuals <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409642" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">5>td>
>Horse,
epee		 Jennifer>d class="right">Jason>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 21>td>
Geometry has cool words like rhombus & this one for a quadrilateral with only 2 parallel sides
>Jennifer >Jason >Nibir
>$2,000 >$3,400 >$600
>Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
>Jennifer >Jason >Nibir
>$4,200 >$4,800 >$3,400
>Double Jeopardy! Round ble class="round">
<tr>d class="category_name">SEEING RED>tr> <tr>
>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">IT'S A MIRAGE>tr> <tr>
>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">3 "D">tr> <tr>d class="category_comments">(Buzzy: Each response contains 3 "D"s.)>tr> able>
<tr>d class="category_name">U.K. PLACES>tr> <tr> </tr> <tr>
>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">FICTIONAL GAME SHOWS>tr> <tr>
>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">THE ANCIENTS SPEAK>tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> able>

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

>td>tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 30>td>
>She's draped in red in a 16th century >work by Giorgione <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 29>td>
Mirages are a common sight in Namibia's >Etosha Pan, a vast, dry plain mainly covered in this mineral <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 25>td>
A female who's partly divine <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 28>td>
Associated with a group of poets, this scenic area gets its name from multiple bodies of water including Derwent Water <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 27>td>
"How Did I Get Here?" is an interdimensional game show on the animated series named for this pair <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 26>td>
Anaxagoras pointed out that "The descent to" this Greek underworld "is the same from every place" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 23>td>
The title of >this work is Spanish for the man wielding the red cape Jennifer>d class="right">Jason>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 24>td>
The French-made Mirage fighter jet is known as Shahak, or "heavens", in this country that's used it to great effect <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 19>td>
2-word term for flawed, unsalable merchandise <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 8>td>
Donegall Square is in the heart of this capital city >Jason>d class="wrong">Nibir>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409684" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>
>On an episode of the cartoon called "The Real" this group, Ray & Winston play "Race the Devil"; Venkman is in the audience <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409695" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22>td>
>From this female poet: "The Moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409673" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11>td>
>A painting> by Kazamir Malevich in the Russian State Museum has this appropriate geometric title <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409676" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>
>A mirage in which the Sun appears to have another sun below it is called this> type, after the Greek letter it resembles <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409681" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">18>td>
>If you've interfered in someone else's affairs, you've done this <tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $3,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409671" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>
>Doing something redundant is like "carrying coals" to this city, formerly a coal-mining center <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409667" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4>td>
>A sequel to this mind-bending 1975 movie musical, "Shock Treatment" finds Brad & Janet as contestants on "Marriage Maze" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409670" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">5>td>
>Lao-tzu said, "I have just three things to teach", not "Love! Valour!" This! but "simplicity, patience" & this <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409674" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">9>td>
> href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2021-05-26_DJ_09.jpg" target="_blank">"Red Virginia Creeper"> is by this great Scandinavian <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409677" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">12>td>
>The name of this city that's home to Western Michigan University may be from a Potawatomi word for "mirage" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409682" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17>td>
>The text of this document begins with "When" & ends with "honor" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409672" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6>td>
>In 1910 6 pottery-making towns got together & formed what became Stoke-on-this river <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409668" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>
>In this 1987 film Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to survive a public execution game show <tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $5,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409685" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21>td>
>Augustus Caesar said he "found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of" this, which was much nicer! <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409675" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">10>td>
> href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2021-05-26_DJ_10.jpg" target="_blank">"Red, Yellow, Red"> is one of this abstract artist's color field paintings <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409679" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">15>td>
>This half sister & adversary of Arthur in "Le Morte d'Arthur" gave her name to a type of mirage <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409683" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14>td>
> href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2021-05-26_DJ_14.jpg" target="_blank">This> breed of terrier was named for a character in a 19th century novel <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409666" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1>td>
>Lewis & Harris is the largest of the Scottish islands known as the Outer these <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409669" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">2>td>
>"What Do Kids Know?" is a game show in this Paul Thomas Anderson film with a tree for a title <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=409686" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>
>In one of his famous comedies, he asked, "Haven't you sometimes seen a cloud that looked like a Centaur?"
>Jennifer >Jason >Nibir
$15,000 $13,400 $2,800

>[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ble class="final_round">
<table> <tr>d class="category_name">CLASSICAL COMPOSERS>tr>
>td>tr>
iv> 		<tr> <td id="clue_FJ" class="clue_text">Monsieur Crescendo & Signor Vaccarmini ("Mr. Racket") were derisive nicknames for this composer whose last opera dates from 1829 able>

Final scores:

>Nibir>d rowspan="2" valign="top">Who is Verdi??>tr>r>d>$2,799>tr>>d class="right">Jason>d rowspan="2" valign="top">Who is Rossini?>tr>r>d>$7,000>tr>>d class="right">Jennifer>d rowspan="2" valign="top">Who is Rossinni?>tr>r>d>$14,999>tr>table>m class="correct_response">(Gioachino) Rossini>td> </tr> able> >var>
>Jennifer >Jason >Nibir
$29,999 $20,400 $1
Finalist 2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph > href="help.php#coryatscore">Coryat scores>:</h3>
>Jennifer >Jason >Nibir
>$14,400 >$18,400 >$5,800
>19 R
(including 1 DD),
>2 W		 >23 R,
4 W
>(including 1 DD)		 >11 R,
7 W
>(including 1 DD)
> href="help.php#combinedcoryat">Combined Coryat>: $38,600 > href="showgameresponses.php?game_id=7031&highlight=..." rel="external">[game responses]> <a href="showscores.php?game_id=7031&highlight=..." rel="external">[game scores]> <a href="suggestcorrection.php?game_id=7031" rel="nofollow">[suggest correction]>h4>
>Game tape date: 2021-04-14
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