Show #8834 - Thursday, March 23, 2023

Melissa Klapper game 4.

Contestants

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Daisy Donohue, an actor and artist originally from St. Paul, Minnesota

Alec Chao, a management and program analyst from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Melissa Klapper, a professor from Merion Station, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $59,100)

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Jeopardy! Round

THAT'S COLD!
ON THE "J.V." SQUAD
(Ken: We're gonna need the first and last names of these famous "J.V."s.)
WITH A SCULPTURE ON TOP
5-LETTER LITERARY CHARACTERS
POST
APOCA-LIPSTICK
    $200 3
This chilly word can precede shoulder, daiquiri or yogurt
    $200 10
This Navy SEAL later went into the wrestling ring, movies & Minnesota politics
    $200 16
A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building
    $200 6
In "The Maltese Falcon" his name is this. Sam this.
    $200 28
Originally a French cavalry call, the bugle song known as "Call To The Post" is commonly heard several times a day at one of these
    $200 29
Blend in with the other rampaging monsters with Le Monster Lip Crayon, fittingly from this pop superstar
    $400 20
This word precedes "hare" in the name of the animal shown, or "Dreams" in the title of Barry Lopez's book that mentions the critter
    $400 19
He played Dawson Leery on "Dawson's Creek" & his last name means "of the creek"
    $400 7
Philly's city hall is topped by a 37-foot tall statue of this colony founder; for a time no building there was built higher than his hat
    $400 5
Shakespeare's Goneril kills herself after poisoning this sister
    $400 26
In addition to her classic works on etiquette, she wrote the 1949 book "Motor Manners"
    $400 12
As society crumbles around you, you'll look posh in the vice lipstick line from the edgy company called "Urban" this
    $600 4
Outside, this tapered spike is formed by solid water; inside, one can be found on a Christmas tree
    $600 14
Someone dropped a statue of this "Friday the 13th" slasher in a lake in Minnesota; not cool, man
    $600 24
The colossal Christ the Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado towers over this South American city
    $600 1
He teaches the wolf cubs & Mowgli the law of the jungle
    $600 30
John Rewald's book about this movement is subtitled "From van Gogh to Gauguin"
    $600 11
Did aliens cause the fuss? In that case, try this numeric lipstick shade whose name comes before "from Outer Space" in a 1957 film title
    $800 21
In 1998 Michael Keaton was nipping at your nose as this title guy, a dad brought back to life as a snowman
    $800 17
He's been nominated for 4 Oscars, winning for 1978's "Coming Home"
    DD: $1,000 23
Commissioned by brewer Carl Jacobsen, a sculpture of this fairy-tale figure sits atop a rock in Copenhagen harbor
    $800 8
Last name of Edith Wharton's title farmer Ethan
    $800 2
I do say, dear courier, please complete your task in this manner that ends with a word meaning speed
    $800 27
You can still look good in the end times with the lipstick shade named this, the word young Danny repeats in "The Shining"
    $1000 13
The purchase of Alaska was derided as "Seward's Folly" & "Seward's" this kitchen appliance
    $1000 18
Seen here off the mound, this downtown man eventually married an Upton girl
    $1000 22
A column topped by a 17-foot statue of this man is the centerpiece of London's Trafalgar Square
    $1000 9
Unstable skipper of the minesweeper U.S.S. Caine who faces a mutiny
    $1000 15
In 2017 the Washington Post adopted the slogan this "dies in darkness"
    $1000 25
Hail Cthulhu, this tattoo artist & model may have opened up a portal to another dimension with her lipstick shade Lovecraft

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

Melissa Alec Daisy
-$600 $4,400 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Alec Daisy
$3,200 $7,200 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES
SCIENCE
PULITZER PRIZES
TV SHOW LINGO
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY
(Amor: I'm Amor Towles, my latest novel is The Lincoln Highway, and I'll have clues about the book and the U.S.A.'s first coast-to-coast road.)
    $400 7
For his services in fighting this fleet, British explorer Martin Frobisher was knighted in 1588
    $400 30
The mass of gas around a planet, this word is also used as the unit of air pressure equal to 14.7 psi at sea level
    $400 28
Seen here, he was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism, doing so in 1975
    $400 11
Plinko was unveiled on this game show in 1983
    $400 29
When Don Quixote says, "He owes you nothing", he uses this as the last word
    $400 13
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) The Lincoln Highway, which starts at Times Square, originally included a ferry across this river
    $800 6
While in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he became the first European to sight New Zealand & the Fiji islands
    $800 3
There are more than 3,000 species of this insect in 3 main genera; genus Culex carries encephalitis
    $800 21
In 1947 a special Pulitzer went to this university's graduate school of journalism, for its administration of the Pulitzer prizes
    $800 16
This Roy family epic taught us "prekend", starting Thursday after lunch
    $800 26
Coup de foudre, literally "stroke of lightning", is the French equivalent of this 4-word phrase for instantaneous romance
    $800 8
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) Figuring prominently in my novel is a 1948 Studebaker Land Cruiser, a car manufactured in this Lincoln Highway Indiana city, which is also home to students attending Notre Dame
    $1200 1
As queen of the Netherlands, she saw her country through both World Wars
    $1200 14
Sulfur dioxide & nitrogen oxides react with other elements to create this harmful precipitation
    $1200 9
This historian, noted for his biographies of John Adams & Harry Truman, won 2 Pulitzers
    $1200 4
Marshall, played by him on "How I Met Your Mother", coined "Revertigo"
    $1200 12
Italian for what you say when squeezing past someone in a theater, it rhymes with "juicy"
    $1200 27
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) Near the end of the book, Emmett & Billy finally set out for the Western Terminus of the highway, which is still at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in this city
    $1600 2
After his troops captured the Alamo, this Mexican general was captured after the Battle of San Jacinto
    $1600 24
Of the 3 main types of rock, it's what shale is
    $1600 10
In 2014 Jason Szep & Andrew R.C. Marshall shared a Pulitzer for reporting on the violent persecution of this Muslim minority in Myanmar
    $1600 15
This substance powers spaceships on "Star Trek"
    DD: $4,000 19
An Architectural Digest headline said this term "dictated the layout of" a "light-filled residence in Beijing"
    $1600 25
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) In Pennsylvania, the Lincoln Highway follows the route of the Lancaster, one of these toll roads which back in its day was also an innovative long-distance highway
    $2000 5
Before he got the boot for good in 41 A.D., this emperor wanted a statue of himself placed in the Temple in Jerusalem
    DD: $4,000 22
Atomic number 87, this element named for a country by Marguerite Perey is the heaviest of the alkali metals
    $2000 18
Early in his career, this playwright won 3 Obies; he also won a Pulitzer for his play "Buried Child"
    $2000 17
In the '60s this comedy mishmash from Dan Rowan & Dick Martin introduced bippy, as in "You bet your sweet..."
    $2000 20
It comes before "Ukraini" to mean "glory to Ukraine"; it's also a common nickname
    $2000 23
(Amor Towles presents the clue.) The setting for my novel's first chapter & also for Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!", where I got my epigraph, is in this state, which happens to be the midpoint of the Lincoln Highway

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Melissa Alec Daisy
$6,800 $15,200 $4,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MOVIE THEME SONGS
Monty Norman, the composer of this character's theme, said the staccato riff conveyed sexiness, mystery & ruthlessness

Final scores:

Melissa Alec Daisy
$1,800 $15,505 $2,100
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $15,505 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Melissa Alec Daisy
$14,600 $15,200 $4,600
17 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 26 R,
6 W		 7 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $34,400

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Game tape date: 2023-01-10
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