Show #8835 - Friday, March 24, 2023

Contestants

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Michael Murphy, a test engineer from Gilroy, California

Tamara Ghattas, an editor from Chicago, Illinois

Alec Chao, a management and program analyst from Fort Lauderdale, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,505)

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Jeopardy! Round

U.S. METROPOLITAN PARTNERS
CATS: THE NON-MUSICAL
FINNISH HIM!
WHAT'LL IT "B"?
CHANGE A LETTER
(Ken: Each response is two words.)
THE WWE
(Triple H: Hey, this The Game, Triple H and with my fellow WWE superstars, I'll bring you clues about the past and present of WWE.)
    $200 9
This city-Cambridge-Newton
    $200 15
Think fast! This big cat can take 3 1/2 strides per second & reach a speed of 70 mph
    $200 4
Finnish children know him as Joulupukki or "Yule Goat" & he lives in a village in Lapland
    $200 6
The vanilla cinnamon variety of this Irish cream liqueur
    $200 14
A close buddy changes a letter to become a labyrinth
    $200 1
(Kofi Kingston presents the clue.) "Awesome" doesn't even begin to describe this WWE legend; billed at 7'4" & 500 pounds he loved practical jokes & would move his friends' small cars at night--yes, move, & not drive
    $400 10
This city-Naperville-Elgin
    $400 19
In 1878 this short-haired breed was imported into the U.S. from what is today Thailand, but not then
    $400 5
Saku Koivu, Tuukka Rask & Teemu Selänne all made their Finnish names in this team sport
    $400 7
Dragonberry, a tropical flavor from this rum brand
    $400 26
A track athlete who runs 1,760 yards transforms into a friendly meeting to get to know people
    $400 30
(Alexa Bliss presents the clue.) Dave Bautista went 282 days to destroy the record for the longest single reign as world heavyweight champ before suiting up, or really stripping down, to play Drax the Destroyer in this 2014 Marvel film
    $600 11
This city-Henderson-Paradise
    $600 8
Smilodon for the camera! Known for its 2 extended chompers, this cat prowled around 40 million years ago
    $600 2
Pekka Lundmark is the CEO of this Finnish telecom giant that actually began as a single paper mill operation in 1865
    $600 13
Praise the Lord & pass me a snifter of Christian Brothers VS this
    $600 22
The edge of a garment modifies itself into a magical spell
    $600 23
(Rey Mysterio presents the clue.) Even before I could drive, I masked up & devoted myself to the highflying Mexican freestyle wrestling tradition known by this alliterative 2-word name & I bring it full force to WWE
    $800 12
This city-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin
    $800 16
A statistic commonly cited about this alliterative cat with a blotched, tortoiseshell-&-white coat is only one of 3,000 is male
    $800 17
Ex-Finnish president & Nobel Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari organized talks between Iraqi groups representing these 2 branches of Islam
    $800 21
A cocktail flavored with angostura aromatic these; they're more pleasant than they sound
    DD: $4,000 27
To leave a lover in the lurch takes on a change to become highland wear
    $800 20
(The Miz presents the clue.) A beating, a humiliation, decisive setback is how the Oxford English Dictionary defines this, with credit to WWE where it began with some violent festivities one night in 1999
    $1000 3
This city-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta
    $1000 18
Though it's known for its lack of a tail, this breed seen here can sometimes be born with one
    $1000 25
"The Kullervo Symphony" sounds like a thriller novel but in 1892, was this man's first large-scale orchestral piece
    $1000 24
A shot of this, & I don't care whether it's Booker's or Blanton's
    $1000 28
Excellence changes a letter & is now a division into 2 opposing aspects
    $1000 29
(Triple H presents the clue.) In 1997, I defeated Mankind to take this coveted, rhyming royal title that helped give me the momentum to form D-Generation X later that year

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

Alec Tamara Michael
$3,400 -$1,000 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alec Tamara Michael
$7,000 $800 $8,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE FOG OF WAR
BEFORE & ACTORS
AT REST IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
U.S. COLLEGES
REJECTED AUTHORS
6-LETTER RHYMERS
(Ken: Each response will be 2 syllables that rhyme with each other, like "Voodoo".)
    $400 15
The 1471 Battle of Barnet was decided when Lancastrians attacked their allies in the fog, thinking they were from this house
    $400 17
Will Hunting & Jason Bourne on the big screen who is Roger Murtaugh on the small screen
    $400 13
John Robinson, for many years this instrumental performer at Westminster Abbey
    $400 2
Located in Hanover, New Hampshire, it celebrated its 250th birthday in 2019
    $400 3
Working at a publishing house, T.S. Eliot wrote George Orwell a letter rejecting this novel but did praise the pigs
    $400 18
The item seen here or a prepaid hard-to-trace cellphone
    $800 16
The fog-shrouded island of Attu in this chain was the site of fierce fighting in 1943
    $800 14
Nine score & eleven years ago, our fathers brought forth in Pennsylvania this school
    $800 6
This 1931 classic was rejected because Americans were "not interested in anything on China"
    $800 26
Chili con carne is a signature dish of this style of cuisine that's a big hit on both sides of the border
    DD: $2,400 12
At the 1776 Battle of Long Island, fog helped save the defeated Continental Army as it fled to Manhattan across this river
    $1200 10
Portrayer of the baseball bat-wielding Negan on "The Walking Dead" who narrated "March of the Penguins"
    $1200 23
Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, who captured this ancient capital from the Turks during World War I
    $1200 1
About 2 miles apart in Northfield in this state are rival colleges Carleton & St. Olaf
    $1200 5
This title auntie of Patrick Dennis' novel was too irrepressible for more than a dozen publishers before it came out in 1955
    $1200 20
The Hockey Hall of Fame says at this level for little players, Wayne Gretzky had a 378-goal season
    $1600 19
"I had no real idea of what was going on", wrote Britain's Admiral Jellicoe after the Battle of Jutland, fought in the fogs of this sea
    $1600 11
"Creed" star who got involved with a drug kingpin's kitty in "Keanu"
    DD: $3,000 25
Associated with measurement, this first man made a lord for his scientific work
    $1600 8
Cleverer College? Funnier College? No, this one 15 miles from Disneyland
    $1600 4
One publisher thought no one would be interested in this man's "Kon-Tiki" because no one drowned
    $1600 21
To associate on friendly terms with someone important is to do this
    $2000 24
The fog that blanketed this Tennessee mountain during an 1863 fight led to the nickname "The Battle Above the Clouds"
    $2000 27
This 4-time 19th century prime minister & rival of Disraeli
    $2000 9
Senda Berenson became the "Mother of Women's Basketball" at this women's college in Northampton, Mass.
    $2000 7
One of this author's Navajo mysteries was rejected by an agent who said, "Get rid of all that Indian stuff"
    $2000 22
Adopted by China in 1979, it's the system of Romanized spelling for transliterating their language

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alec Tamara Michael
$7,800 $13,800 $7,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

SYMBOLS
In math, it's a rotated V; in society, it's a feeling of some marginalized or underrepresented people

Final scores:

Alec Tamara Michael
$2,999 $15,601 $599
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $15,601 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Alec Tamara Michael
$7,800 $11,200 $4,000
19 R,
3 W		 14 R
(including 2 DDs),
6 W		 11 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $23,000

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Game tape date: 2023-01-10
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