Show #8849 - Thursday, April 13, 2023

Ben Chan game 2.

Contestants

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Liz Jensen, a stay-at-home mom from Metuchen, New Jersey

Peter Early, a settlement consultant from Windham, New Hampshire

Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,001)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE SCENIC SOUTHWEST
LETTER PERFECT
IN THE AIR TONIGHT
FOODSTOCK
(Ken: Each response here will be an original Woodstock band altered to include the name of a food like Blood, Sweat and Pears, a band I know you love.)
TRADEMARKED SOUNDS
FISH OUT OF WATER
    $200 23
This river cutting through the Grand Canyon at sunrise makes for a truly majestic view
    $200 15
During World Wars I & II, German submarines were known as these boats
    $200 26
Earth's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen & oxygen, but the next most abundant gas is this one, symbol Ar
    $200 8
Jerry Garcia's big pink breakfast citrus fruit jam band was there
    $200 10
A lion roaring is a trademark of this movie studio
    $200 20
The vernal equinox now lies in this zodiac constellation
    $400 24
When visiting the southwest's Monument Valley, be respectful of this tribe upon whose land the ancient site sits
    $400 16
Boy bands BTS & GOT7 are big names in the music genre called this pop
    $400 27
Air pollution caused by burning coal led to the "Great" this of 1952, which killed about 12,000 Londoners
    $400 7
The third guy in the "Our House" quartet converted to Judaism & it was Yiddish snacking for all
    $400 25
This basketball team trademarked the song "Sweet Georgia Brown"
    $400 21
"Mega size mega flavor", boasts the megabites version of this Pepperidge Farms snack cracker
    $600 2
Volcanic cinder cones are a feature of the national monument called El Malpais, whose name means this, like a region of South Dakota
    $600 17
It's the symbol for the very first element on the periodic table
    $600 28
On rare occasions, these, perhaps from the Leonids, can break the sound barrier
    $600 3
An Italian meat-filled pasta square became the Indian sitar virtuoso
    $600 9
This TV network has trademarked "the ticking sound of a stopwatch"
    DD: $3,400 14
They're the southernmost Major League baseball team
    $800 1
This national park in Utah with spectacular views shares a name with a hill of ancient Jerusalem
    $800 18
Nuts, seeds & plant oils are good sources of this fat-soluble vitamin, with a recommended daily amount of 15 mg
    $800 29
"C" is for this musical insect; one type shows up in the air in 17-year cycles
    $800 5
Bowzer & his doo wop chips--I mean chaps, now covered with gooey cheese & salsa
    $800 11
This DVR company trademarked the sound here
    $800 12
In the alliterative Mattel game called this "Panic", players must avoid a feeding frenzy to claim victory
    $1000 4
Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park is home to petrified trees & these similarly named inscriptions, some 2,000 years old
    $1000 19
In 2016 Marriott acquired Starwood Hotels, which included this luxury brand that started in New York City
    $1000 30
Air turbulence can create lenticular clouds if the temperature at the crest of the wave reaches this saturation point
    $1000 6
"Everyday People" clan now fronted by a plate of mini-cheeseburgers
    $1000 13
This fast food chain trademarked a "bong" that is E below middle C
    $1000 22
As Chief Justice, he presided over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson

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

Ben! Peter Liz
$6,800 $4,000 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ben! Peter Liz
$10,200 $6,000 $800

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE BOOK OF ROMANS
HERE'S A BIT OF EVERYTHING
SECRETARIES OF STATE
TRIPLE "A"
GERMAN LITERATURE
FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV
    $400 20
Stephen Dando-Collins examined "The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor" him "and His City"
    $400 28
At 2022's World Cup in Qatar, Ecuador fans chanted, "Queremos cerveza! Queremos cerveza!", or "We want" this! "We want" this!
    $400 22
Passionately pro-British, 1790s Sec. Timothy Pickering was fired after opposing efforts to end the "quasi-war" with this nation
    $400 9
In Hinduism it's the incarnation of a deity
    $400 10
In 1929 he published an essay on Freud & won the Nobel Prize; who da this? You da this!
    $400 14
On encountering Tower Bridge, this new coaching hire says, "I got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"
    $800 29
"Ovid's Causes" by K. Sara Myers is a study of this poem of many mythic transformations
    $800 27
Here is Winston-Salem's Reynolds Building, finished in 1929, two years before this similar-looking landmark with 80 more floors
    $800 21
This 1950s anticommunist secretary is memorialized in the name of an airport serving Washington, D.C.
    $800 16
It describes the crazy-sounding "bwah-ha-ha" laughter of many a movie villain
    $800 13
Günter Grass' debut novel was 1959's "Die Blechtrommel", which translates to this instrumental title
    $800 15
Lily Collins stars as this title Chicago marketing exec & by the way, she doesn't speak a lick of French
    $1200 7
Tom Holland (not the actor) covered "The Last Years of the Roman Republic" in a book named for this river Caesar crossed
    $1200 26
A CBS headline: "Every monk in Thai temple" got this clothing-related consequence "after testing positive for meth"; well... yeah
    $1200 5
Secretary of State for most of the Reagan years, he was a mentor to future secretary Condoleezza Rice
    $1200 17
It's the British word for food to go or a place selling it
    $1200 2
Cornelia Funke sold millions of a trilogy beginning with this book & continuing with "Inkspell" & "Inkdeath"
    $1200 4
On "Futurama" he's the former pizza boy who has to adjust to things once he's unfrozen after a thousand years
    DD: $3,000 8
Hermann Broch wrote a novel titled "The Death of" this greatest Roman epic poet
    $1600 25
San Francisco police detective David Toschi said he interviewed 5,000 people in his search for this letter-writing killer
    DD: $1,600 6
Secretary 1933-1944, Cordell Hull advocated respect for Central & South American nations, a policy known by this friendly nickname
    $1600 18
Adjective found before a lavish "estate", even if not a king's or queen's
    $1600 1
After a boat trip in 1775, this Johann-of-all-trades--so many trades!--wrote the lovely poem "On the Lake"
    $1600 11
In "Two Weeks to Live", this actress plays Kim Noakes who rejects her survivalist mother to experience the world
    $2000 30
This 4-letter abbreviation of a Roman slogan is the title of Mary Beard's bestselling history of ancient Rome
    $2000 24
Locust Grove in Louisville, where Lewis & Clark & John James Audubon stayed as guests, could be called this, the state song
    $2000 23
Henry Kissinger helped diminish Soviet-U.S. tensions by negotiating the 1975 accords named for this northern European capital
    $2000 19
A spirit of good fellowship or esprit de corps
    $2000 3
In 1928 "The Threepenny Opera" sang out from composer Kurt Weill & this alliterative writer from Augsburg
    $2000 12
After getting rich off of some "bubblin' crude", he is told by his kinfolk, "Californy is the place you oughta be"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ben! Peter Liz
$27,200 $6,400 $6,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

EXPLORATION
James Cook's account of a 1774 visit here records an object "near 27 feet long, and upwards of 8 feet over the breast or shoulders"

Final scores:

Ben! Peter Liz
$30,000 $4,484 $11,000
2-day champion: $46,001 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Ben! Peter Liz
$23,000 $6,400 $6,000
22 R
(including 3 DDs),
1 W
16 R,
1 W
13 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $35,400

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Game tape date: 2023-01-18
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