Show #8846 - Monday, April 10, 2023

Contestants

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P.J. Brennan, a physics teacher from Bayonne, New Jersey

Robbi Ramirez, a writer from Orlando, Florida

Rachel Clark, a director of client strategy from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,500)

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Jeopardy! Round

RECENT EVENTS
MOOSE-ELLANEOUS
À LA THE FRENCH COOKING STYLE
THE NATION IN QUESTION
MUSIC'S MISSING LINKS
"SELF-E"s
(Ken: Each correct response will begin with those five letters.)
    $200 6
In January 2023, thousands of Brazilians came to see this sporting hero lying in state in a stadium in Santos
    $200 17
Scientists have estimated that these bony body parts improve a moose's hearing by nearly 20%
    $200 26
"À la reine", meaning in this monarch's style, with puff pastry involved
    $200 5
Berbers, the first to carpet the place; discovery of oil near the Algerian border in the late '50s a big plus; care for a sirte?
    $200 21
Smells like
Teen ____
In The Sky
    $200 14
High regard for one's own worth
    $400 7
For the first time since 1984, Kilauea & this even bigger big island volcano erupted side by side
    $400 16
Morty was the moose who strolled through the opening credits of this 1990s TV show set in Cicely, Alaska
    $400 27
"À la Florentine", in the style of Florence, garnished with this vegetable
    $400 2
The Sasanian Dynasty has a 400-year run; Reza Khan... Reza Khan, let me rock you, Reza Khan; ah ah, Ahmadinejad
    $400 22
Three Times A ____
Marmalade
    $400 13
The owner of a business is this
    $600 8
Late 2022 brought protests in China by those weary of the lockdowns of this public health policy promoted by Premier XI
    $600 15
Maine's flag has a moose at the foot of this kind of tree that's in the state's nickname
    $600 28
"À la Hongroise", in the Hungarian style, with this spice & a cream sauce
    $600 1
Long, narrow & on its own since 1818; neutral in World War I & part of II; valuing Valparaiso
    $600 23
Empire State
Of ____
Games
    $600 3
The act of giving vent to one's inmost ideas, maybe artistically
    $800 9
SBF, Sam Bankman-Fried, was the onetime wunderkind founder of this now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange
    $800 18
In addition to Dudley Do-Right & George of the Jungle, Bill Scott voiced this moose, middle initial J.
    $800 29
"À la boulangère", in the style of this man's wife & implying the use of an oven
    $800 11
Established some boundaries in 1926; established a republic in 1967; you know what Amin?
    $800 24
Save Your ____
In Heaven
    $800 4
breastcancer.org advises women to perform one of these every month
    DD: $1,400 10
Jeff Bezos' 400-foot yacht had big problems getting out of this Dutch city with a shipping & shipbuilding tradition
    $1000 19
The biggest moose subspecies, 1,500 pounds or more, is named for Alaska & this adjacent Canadian territory
    $1000 30
"À la nantua", in the style of nantua, made with these crustaceans that look like tiny lobsters
    $1000 20
30 years now free of rule from Prague; the ninth letter of the alphabet is DZ; ski the Tatras
    $1000 25
Drink Country: Tennessee ____
Lullaby
    $1000 12
Obvious & easy to understand

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

Rachel Robbi P.J.
$2,800 $1,800 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Rachel Robbi P.J.
$6,200 $4,400 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY
THE MAIN CITY IN THE MOVIE
AIR TRAVEL
NOVELS BY QUOTE
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
(Ken: Each response will contain the name of a river.)
QUANTUM SCIENCE
(Spiros: I'm Spiros Michalakis of Caltech's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, and with World Quantum Day this week, I'll have clues about the tiny units that the universe is made of.)
    $400 19
Known for ruling Egypt in the 30s B.C., she was of Macedonian descent but still staked a claim as the new Isis on Earth
    $400 6
"The Untouchables"; remember, "That's the" this city "way"!
    $400 25
American Airlines recently announced it was phasing out first class on international flights but expanding this class
    $400 15
"... It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"
    $400 30
Adjective for sports played between students at the same school
    $400 11
(Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) As a consultant working with Marvel I coined this term for a world of things so tiny that Ant-Man has to shrink way down to enter it; Dr. Strange pays a visit too
    $800 16
Elis, an ancient Greek polis, or this hyphenated type of community, won a struggle for control of the Olympic games
    $800 3
"Anchorman", & we won't say what Ron Burgundy thought the name meant when translated
    $800 24
You can't take off until this part of the plane, the MCD for short, is secured
    DD: $4,000 13
"What you see there are not giants, but windmills"
    $800 27
Someone who writes computer programs
    $800 7
(Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) World Quantum Day is April 14th because Planck's constant, which is in constant use, rounds to 4.14 eV, short for electron this unit; it takes about 625 quintillion eV per second to light a 100-watt bulb
    $1200 17
This age began in Britain around 2500 B.C., led by the Beaker people named for vessels like the one here
    $1200 1
2016's
"Moonlight"
    $1200 2
The Hindenburg disaster in 1937 marked an end to regular passenger service aboard this type of rigid airship
    $1200 12
"So Tyler and I are on top of the Parker-Morris Building with the gun stuck in my mouth, and we hear glass breaking"
    $1200 26
It's misleading to put this word before "dementia" because dementia is not a necessary part of getting old
    $1200 8
(Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) In 2022, the White House announcement of the first World Quantum Day cited contributions like these super-accurate timekeepers found on every GPS satellite
    $1600 18
Mental Floss summed up the difference: "Neanderthals are more primitive but stronger"; these prehistoric humans "are us"
    $1600 4
2019's
"El Camino"
    $1600 22
Southwest Airlines' entire fleet of planes is made up of the Boeing this number, including the MAX
    $1600 14
"Mr. Trask is from New England. He plans to settle here. He's been West before though"
    DD: $2,000 28
Domesticated fowl, collectively
    $1600 9
(Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) In computing, either 1 or 0, on or off, can be represented by this unit, with "Q-U" for quantum before it, & it can be in both states at once, allowing more simultaneous operations
    $2000 21
In the 1300s B.C. the empire of this Indo-European people established itself in Syria, making the Egyptians see them as a rival
    $2000 5
"RoboCop",
original & remake
    $2000 23
Air China owns about 30% of this other carrier whose name reflects old China
    $2000 20
"His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes"
    $2000 29
Any business activity, or manufacturing in general
    $2000 10
(Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) Classical mechanics says that all physical quantities can be known at the same time; this principle, from Werner Heisenberg, sets quantum science apart by saying that the more sure you are of a particle's position, the less sure you are of its momentum

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Rachel Robbi P.J.
$10,200 $22,400 $11,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES
In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida

Final scores:

Rachel Robbi P.J.
$11,401 $23,800 $22,000
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $23,800 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Rachel Robbi P.J.
$9,800 $19,200 $11,000
12 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $40,000

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Game tape date: 2023-01-18
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