Show #8845 - Friday, April 7, 2023

Brian Henegar game 4.

Contestants

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Rachel Clark, a director of client strategy from Washington, D.C.

Brandie Ashe, a personal assistant from Panama City, Florida

Brian Henegar, a guest services agent from LaFollette, Tennessee (whose 3-day cash winnings total $68,202)

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Jeopardy! Round

NORWAY IS FAMOUS FOR...
AMERICANA
LANDING ON PLANET FRANCHISE
(Ken: You'll name the franchise.)
DE-COMPOSING
GOOD "E"
TWO SHOES
    $200 22
Exporting & eating this fish that can be made into gravlax
    $200 27
According to this song, the title guy "went to town a-riding on a pony"
    $200 5
Tatooine, where the womp rats roam
    $200 9
Doing anything to avoid tax day, this "Messiah" composer departed Earth on April 14, 1759
    $200 11
Meaning concerned with moral principles, this word is used to describe a type of veganism
    $200 16
Capezio is a premier maker of the soft flat shoes called these, prized by certain dancers
    $400 23
These long, narrow inlets like the Sogne, Norway's longest & deepest one
    $400 28
A 1952 song inserted "the" into this character's name, but the Forest Service insists it's just two words
    $400 2
Romulus &
("Give me") Genesis
    $400 10
After taking aim at "William Tell" & then quitting theater entirely at age 37, he quit more than that on Nov. 13, 1868
    $400 12
The Las Vegas Raiders are known for their "Commitment to" this 10-letter word--in fact, it's their motto
    $400 17
The sneakers bearing his name are often identified by Roman numerals; he wore the XVIII the year he retired from the Wizards
    $600 24
These mythical beings that are hostile to humans & may live in the mountains or underground
    $600 13
A few things about this iconic item; its strike note is E-flat, it weighs a ton & Pennsylvania is missing the second "N" on it
    $600 1
Caprica;
we're talking about frakkin' Caprica
    $600 6
This "Peter & the Wolf" music maker stopped Russian around in March 1953
    $600 14
Seen here is Bernini's sculpture called this of "Saint Teresa", capturing a rapturous moment
    $600 18
Australian surfer Brian Smith chose sheepskin for these comfy boots, which became ever-present in the SoCal beach scene
    $800 25
Its great dramatist Henrik Ibsen & for this composer whom Ibsen asked to write music for his play "Peer Gynt"
    $800 29
Try a lattice top for this dessert, long a symbol of America even though it originated elsewhere
    $800 3
Mobius,
where Dr. Robotnik schemed
    $800 7
This Frenchman died on Dec. 28, 1937, never knowing he'd play a crucial musical part in a Bo Derek film
    $800 15
This word from Greek can refer to a perfect model of how to act or be, or to a summary of a literary work
    $800 19
The men's brogues seen here can be described this way, also the title of a Carl Perkins classic
    $1000 26
Being the home of this explorer who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole
    $1000 30
You can ride in a Model T in this "Village" of historic Americana created by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan
    $1000 4
Mongo:
Ah-ah! He'll save every one of us!
    DD: $1,000 8
On March 25, 1918 the sun set on this "Moonlight" composer in Paris
    $1000 21
Also a type of apartment, it's the competent quality by which you carry out your job
    $1000 20
This maker of the Skyline cowboy hat also makes cowboy boots

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

Brian Brandie Rachel
$2,400 $1,600 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Brian Brandie Rachel
$8,000 $2,800 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

YOU TOTALLY RULED!
LIFE & DEATH IN LITERARY TITLES
SCIENCE
THE SECRET OF ACRONYM
POP CULTURE
ANIMALISTIC WORDS
    $400 20
The man who would be Wilhelm II found himself with this royal 6-letter title at age 29 in 1888
    $400 6
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" is a Hemingway tale of life & death on one of these African expeditions
    $400 25
Advanced microchips are produced using EUV light, short for extreme this, with wavelengths of 13.5 nanometers
    $400 22
A series of nearby computers are connected to form a LAN, short for this
    $400 5
He gave us the "Produce Pete" segment of "The Daily Show" before becoming "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"
    $400 17
Meaning sly or crafty, vulpine also means resembling one of these animals
    $800 13
The Aztec Empire was expanding under this 9th emperor in 1519, but the Spanish showed up; he's dead by 1520 & the empire, in 1521
    $800 7
A man awakens from a coma with the power to see a terrible fate awaiting humankind in this Stephen King work
    $800 26
Some confused 19th century guy named all the mammals in an order these shrews even though relatively few of them are arboreal
    $800 11
PEN International originally took its name from an acronym for "poets, essayists", these
    $800 1
Edie Falco thought a 2022 sequel to this 2009 film had flopped, having shot it 4 years prior & not realizing it had never been released
    $800 28
Simian, meaning resembling one of these primates, comes from Simia, a name for an obsolete genus
    $1200 14
There went the Sun King on Sept. 1, 1715 as Louis XIV died in his bedroom at this palace; you can visit that room today
    $1200 12
"Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card is the 2nd book in the series about this character & his genocidal "Game"
    $1200 23
Some protozoans that cause dysentery move & gather food using these 5-letter small projections that resemble hairs
    $1200 8
FSBO stands for this, meaning no real estate agent need be involved
    $1200 2
The TV series about this character that began NPH-mania has been shown in Latin America as "El Doctorcito"
    $1200 21
This word for a covering suspended over a bed comes from Greek konops, or mosquito, which it was meant to keep out
    DD: $3,000 18
He finally got the crown he craved on July 6, 1483 but just 2 years later, Henry VII would open the very first Tudor garage
    $1600 15
In Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop", Father Jean Marie Latour serves in this southwest U.S. state capital
    DD: $4,000 24
Fireworks went off July 4, 2012 with the announcement of a boson consistent with the predictions of this British particle physicist
    $1600 9
The "K" in Pakistan represents this often contested region
    $1600 3
Kids of the '70s, this is for you! This character--"a man barely alive... we can rebuild him... better, stronger, faster"
    $1600 29
Now applied mostly to noses, this adjective means curved like the beak of an eagle
    $2000 19
A true "Undercover Boss" in Zaandam in 1697, Peter the Great was Pyotr Mikhaylov, learning shipbuilding at this trading company
    $2000 16
Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of" this character is the story of an inmate struggling to survive in a Soviet prison camp
    $2000 27
The naphthalene in mothballs is one substance that undergoes this change from solid to gas without becoming liquid
    $2000 10
ENSO stands for El Niño -Southern this fluctuation
    $2000 4
In this 2019 X-Men movie, Sophie Turner dealt with absolute power corrupting absolutely
    $2000 30
Used to describe giraffes & big snakes, it means having net-like markings

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Brian Brandie Rachel
$15,200 $10,000 $12,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY
Of the 13 nations through which the equator passes, it's the only one whose coastline borders the Caribbean Sea

Final scores:

Brian Brandie Rachel
$6,400 $6,000 $6,500
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $6,500

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Brian Brandie Rachel
$13,800 $10,000 $10,600
24 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
1 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $34,400

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Game tape date: 2023-01-17
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