Show #8847 - Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Contestants

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Kat Jepson, an artist originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia

Mark Sutch, a theatre professor from Concord, North Carolina

Robbi Ramirez, a writer from Orlando, Florida (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,800)

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Jeopardy! Round

BAD BOYS IN BOOKS
ARCHITECTURALLY SPEAKING
I GOT THE RECEIPTS
A PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAME
WHALES
TIME FOR A "LITTLE" MUSIC
    $200 16
Archie Costello leads the Vigils, a gang of school kids enforcing the sale of this title sweet treat in a Robert Cormier "War" novel
    $200 24
To become involved with something lucrative before a larger group of people learns about it is to "get in" here
    $200 23
My friend, I can put you in a Ghost from this British car maker today... if you happen to have $400,000
    $200 25
Dam, it's a vacuum, too!
    $200 30
These whales sing complex courtship songs that can last up to 20 minutes & be heard miles away
    $200 11
This rock & roll legend passed away in 2020
    $400 15
Luke, the son of Hermes, betrays this title kid at Camp Half-Blood by poisoning him; not cool
    $400 21
It's what you should avoid doing proverbially if you live in a glass house
    $400 26
Folks were not happy he went electric at 1965's Newport Folk Festival but in 2013 the Fender Strat he used went for $965,000
    $400 18
Baseball's Mookie & Hack (who had 191 RBIs in 1930--you should know his last name!)
    $400 7
Including the pilot & beluga whales, the suborder Odontoceti is characterized by this feature
    $400 1
In 1983 Prince drove into the Top 10 for the first time in this title conveyance
    $600 12
In this S.E. Hinton novel, it's the Socs vs. the Greasers, & Dally is a bit of a thug
    $600 20
In other words, "when one won't tolerate temperature, remove oneself from food-making facilities"
    $600 27
In 1989 Jerry Jones bought this NFL team for $140 million; a decent investment, as it's worth more than $7 billion today
    $600 17
A place where a river is shallow enough to be crossed by wading
    $600 5
After about a year in its mother's womb, a baby of this whale species is born weighing up to 3 tons & as long as 25 feet
    $600 3
This country quartet has won 3 Grammys, including one in 2016 for "Girl Crush"
    $800 13
With a name fit for a Roman emperor, this rude boy falls into Willy Wonka's river & gets sucked up by a super pipe
    $800 19
Curiosity, a good memory & some wagering skill are this colorful plan "for success" on "Jeopardy!"
    $800 28
Symbolically hot off the press, this book--one of roughly 50 left in the world--was auctioned in 1987 for $5.39 million
    $800 2
An animated "Show" formerly on Fox, or an Ohio city
    $800 4
These small whales have occasionally been known to grow 2 tusks instead of one
    $800 6
"I'll keep you my" this, sang the All-American Rejects, though having a No. 1 hit might not be the best way to do that
    DD: $1,200 14
"You've been brought up bad... Fagin will make something of you", says this rascal to Oliver Twist
    $1000 22
To reinforce a viewpoint, idiomatically as in "you need to" this structural support "your argument with hard facts"
    $1000 29
In 2014 a golden oval item a man hoped to sell as scrap metal was actually this Russian treasure & worth $33 million
    $1000 9
Synonyms for this include prick, perforate & puncture
    $1000 8
The largest member of the dolphin family, it's easy to identify by its black & white coloring
    $1000 10
Be cool, relax & name this 1980 chart-topper by Queen

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Robbi Mark Kat
$5,400 $1,400 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Robbi Mark Kat
$7,400 $3,200 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

NO, PRIME MINISTER
ADAPTERS
ONE HOT MoMA
(Ken: The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.)
THE I.V. LEAGUE
QUEEN VICTORIA GEOGRAPHY
A LANGUAGE OF CONSONANT PLUS VOWEL
(Ken: Each response is those two in that order.)
    $400 28
On live TV, Dutch PM Mark Rutte said don't perform this greeting ritual due to COVID, but forgot & put 'er there moments later
    $400 30
(I'm Joel Kim Booster.) In 2022, I wrote & starred in "Fire Island", a modern retelling of this Jane Austen novel in which I find myself in the shoes of Elizabeth Bennet
    $400 26
Jeff Koons' version of this colorful feline made famous by Peter Sellers on film is on floor 2
    $400 27
Most of it below sea level, the Imperial Valley in this U.S. state is noted for vast acres of irrigated farming
    $400 4
Africa's Lake Victoria is home to a plethora of wildlife, including these "water horses"
    $400 29
In English, it's a pronoun of the first person plural
    $800 17
In 1975 Malcolm Fraser, after 2 hours as Australia's PM, received a vote in Parliament of "no" this
    $800 25
Novelist Dave Eggers helped Spike Jonze adapt Maurice Sendak's classic book into this 2009 film
    $800 1
Her 1977 oil on canvas "From a Day with Juan II" was a bequest of this painter from New Mexico
    $800 21
Latin term for the type of fertilization of an egg that takes place in a lab dish
    $800 6
2 Australian states are named for her: Victoria & this one whose territory includes part of the Great Barrier Reef
    $800 3
"Yes",
in German
    $1200 16
In 1938 this prime minister abandoned British naval bases in Ireland & stood by as Italy took over Ethiopia... oops
    $1200 24
Not busy enough with "Downton Abbey", he adapted "Mary Poppins" & "School of Rock" as stage musicals
    $1200 2
Gordon Parks' "Excerpt from" this film about a "Black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks" is at MoMA & we can dig it
    $1200 20
An immigrant one of these documents can enable the holder to travel to the U.S. intending to stay permanently
    $1200 11
Victoria Peak rises nearly 3,700 feet in this English-speaking Central American nation
    $1200 5
In Latin it's a form of the word for "thing"; it follows "in" to mean "concerning"
    $1600 15
In 1973 Luis Carrero Blanco became PM, taking power in Spain from this man, but was assassinated 6 months later
    $1600 23
Neil Druckmann, creator of this video game partly inspired by the book "The World Without Us", helped adapt it for HBO in 2023
    $1600 9
Mais oui, you can take a trip back in time to 1899 & survey his "Tahitian landscape"
    $1600 18
In German, "in vertretung" means to do this, like voting "by" it on behalf of someone not present
    $1600 12
Victoria is the main town on Gozo, the second-largest of this Mediterranean country's islands
    $1600 7
En français, it means "of"
    $2000 14
In 2014 this nation said no to PM Fredrik Reinfeldt & Stefan Lofven, running for the Riksdag for the 1st time, got the job
    $2000 22
This novelist did not adapt his own novel "About a Boy" as a movie but did adapt other writers' "Wild" & "Brooklyn"
    DD: $5,000 10
His "Number 1A, 1948", which includes some of his handprints, has been on exhibit in the David Geffen Galleries
    $2000 19
This valve in a car engine opens to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder
    $2000 13
This explorer was the first known European to see Victoria Falls & named them for the monarch
    DD: $3,000 8
This rhyming pair are the 12th & 13th letters of the Greek alphabet

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Robbi Mark Kat
$7,400 $13,600 $23,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS
At times they each lived on Vilakazi St. in Soweto, so it claims to be the world's only street home to 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners

Final scores:

Robbi Mark Kat
$100 $0 $20,399
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $20,399

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Robbi Mark Kat
$7,200 $13,600 $19,800
15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 17 R,
3 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $40,600

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Game tape date: 2023-01-18
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