Show #8738 - Wednesday, November 9, 2022

2022 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Tyler Rhode, a director at a start-up from New York, New York

Maureen O'Neil, an executive assistant from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California

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Jeopardy! Round

SUPREME COURT CASES
SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME
CHESS FOR CHAMPS
TRAVEL
I'M "EN" IT!
STANFORD ATHLETICS
(Haley: I'm Haley Jones of Cardinals women basketball with clues about the rich history of athletics at Stanford.)
    $200 23
RBG dissented in the 2000 case Bush v. him
    $200 24
Holding the dead Cordelia in his arms, he hears that Edmund is dead & is dead himself a few lines later
    $200 1
It's the only chess piece that can hop over an opposing piece when it moves
    $200 26
Stamps in your passport of this entry endorsement are a thing of the past on visits to many countries, like South Korea
    $200 28
Headed that way now
    $200 12
(Haley Jones presents the clue.) In 2018, I signed my Stanford letter of intent on national TV; in 1993, it made news when this teenager, already playing PGA tour events, declared he was going to Stanford
    DD: $4,000 22
2022's West Virginia v. this federal agency went in favor of West Virginia
    $400 25
The last words this king hears are from Hamlet: "Is thy union here? Follow my mother"
    $400 2
In 2016 Timur Gareyev played a record 48 simultaneous games wearing one of these; he won 35, lost 6 & drew 7
    $400 27
Some business road warriors bring an electronics version of this handy toiletries carrier named after Charles Doppelt
    $400 29
Term for the what the dancer seen here is
    $400 30
(Haley Jones presents the clue.) In 1896, the first intercollegiate basketball game pitted Stanford against this team, our biggest rival; with only women allowed as spectators for modesty, Agnes Morley came up big, & we beat them 2-1
    $600 19
Dobbs v. this city's Women's Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade
    $600 3
In "Romeo & Juliet", he gets the point from Tybalt, who makes worms' meat of him
    $600 9
The Ruy Lopez is also known as the Spanish opening; the Giuoco Piano, as this one (not to be confused with the Sicilian defense)
    $600 6
In 1936 the Clipper was the first of these sleek, silvery travel trailers made of aluminum
    $600 14
Type of bathroom that can only be accessed through a bedroom
    $600 13
(Haley Jones presents the clue.) The coaches wanted to move him to defensive end & later made him the sixth-stringer; but in 1970, quarterback Jim Plunkett became the Cardinal's first winner of this trophy instituted in 1935
    $800 20
1896's him (train passenger) v. him (judge) was decided 7-1 for the wrong guy
    $800 4
In "Macbeth", it's not healthy for this man to be in a scene with first, second & third murderers but at least his son Fleance escapes
    $800 10
In an anticlimax, a 1978 World Championship game was this kind of draw on the 124th move
    $800 7
This cruise line got "back to fun" in 2021, launching the fittingly named new flagship Mardi Gras
    $800 15
It's how the food seen here is being prepared
    $800 17
(Haley Jones presents the clue.) Pitcher Mike Mussina & third baseman Ed Sprague were on the 1988 Stanford team that was victorious in the first title game of this event broadcast on network TV
    $1000 21
2015's him v. him upheld the right to same-sex marriage
    $1000 5
This title guy kills Lavinia, stabs Tamora, gets killed by Saturninus, who in turn is whacked by Lucius, the said title guy's son
    $1000 11
In 1997 the chess world was shocked when world champ Garry Kasparov lost a match to this IBM computer program
    $1000 8
Eugene was the first name of this man whose series of guides made travel seem accessible to mid-century Americans
    $1000 16
Charles-Francois Daubigny was one of the first painters to work this way, meaning outside
    $1000 18
(Haley Jones presents the clue.) Just like me, she went from Archbishop Mitty High to Stanford, where she recorded more than 1,500 kills, she went on to be the most decorated beach volleyball Olympian

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

Amy Maureen Tyler
$4,400 $0 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Amy Maureen Tyler
$12,600 $400 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

RIVER RUN
GEOLOGY
3-NAMED PEOPLE
INTERNATIONAL FILM STYLE
FRONTIER FOLK
ONOMATOPOEIA
    $400 25
In Babylonian myth the eyes of the dragon goddess Tiamat were the source of these 2 rivers
    $400 30
It's the point on Earth's surface directly above the internal point where an earthquake rupture begins
    $400 1
Elected to Congress in 1830, he wrote, "My election as President of the United States was not half so gratifying"
    $400 6
Dario Argento & Bernardo Bertolucci worked on "C'era una volta il West", this "tasty" type of Western
    $400 28
Trained back east by Harriet Beecher Stowe's sister, Harriet Bishop was a frontier one of these in a single room in St. Paul
    $400 29
You might hear this hyphenated term "of little feet"
    DD: $3,000 24
Rivers that border Manhattan include the East River & these 2 "H" rivers
    $800 26
Chalk & tufa are varieties of this sedimentary rock that's mostly calcium carbonate
    $800 2
Many students learn the history of African Americans from John Hope Franklin's antonym-titled history "From ____ to ____"
    $800 7
There's Bollywood, but there's also Pollywood from India & Pakistan, with hits like "Carry on Jatta" in this language
    DD: $1,000 27
In 1874 this frontier dentist lost his practice in Dallas because his coughing alarmed patients
    $800 11
"Bible" can precede this word, also a Disney rabbit
    $1200 21
The Camargue, a wild & wildlife-rich region of France, is in the delta of this river that rises in Switzerland
    $1200 17
Used in the Stone Age for spear points & arrowheads, this form of quartz later found a use in firearms
    $1200 3
She's the first Black woman on the Supreme Court & the first justice to have been a federal public defender
    $1200 8
Before directing blockbusters like "The Professional" & "The Fifth Element", he influenced France's cinema du look era
    $1200 15
Dr. John Eisner, frontier this, a ritual circumciser, brought 169 Jewish babies into the faith from New Mexico to Wyoming
    $1200 10
Apiarists know this word can mean a rumor or enthusiasm
    $1600 22
Good Catholics know South Bend, Indiana is named for a curvature of this river
    $1600 18
A horseshoe lake is also called this kind, from a type of collar worn by a different draft animal
    $1600 4
2022 is the 150th birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the British composer of beloved works like this bird "Ascending"
    $1600 9
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" & "Metropolis" were part of the golden age of cinema in this German "Republic"
    $1600 16
William Green T'Vault, frontier editor, ran Oregon's first newspaper, with this title meaning "onlooker" or "observer"
    $1600 12
This 5-letter word that starts & ends with the same pair of letters means "be quiet"
    $2000 23
Sharing its name with a mountain range, this major river of Europe flows into the Caspian Sea at Atyrau, Kazakhstan
    $2000 19
From Greek for "fire", this "flow" is super-hot rock & gas emitted by a volcanic eruption
    $2000 5
This 3-named naturalist came up with the natural selection theory around the same time as Darwin, spurring Darwin to go public
    $2000 14
Hollywood star Choi Min-sik cemented his legacy in Korean cinema with this 2003 movie, later remade by Spike Lee
    $2000 20
Horace Vesey, frontier hotelier, ran the Gold Hill Hotel in the boomtown called this "City", biggest in Nevada Territory
    $2000 13
"The Bells" pairs clamor with this word that also starts with "C-L-A"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Amy Maureen Tyler
$19,600 $600 $7,000
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS
A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author

Final scores:

Amy Maureen Tyler
$19,664 $600 $7,000
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Amy Maureen Tyler
$15,800 $3,600 $7,000
26 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 3 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $26,400

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Game tape date: 2022-09-21
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