Show #8851 - Monday, April 17, 2023

Fourth game in which reigning champion did not return.

Contestants

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Madeleine McKenna, an attorney from Los Angeles, California

Daniel Ciarrocchi, a writer from Baltimore, Maryland

Toni Van Kampen, a retired systems analyst from Mount Prospect, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round

TEXAS STATE SYMBOLS
IN THE BOOKSTORE
BODY LANGUAGE
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
NON-BOMB ROM COMS
ENDS IN SILENT "E"
    $200 19
Cowboys & cowgirls show off their roping & riding skills in this state sport
    $200 12
Chuck Klosterman's meditation on this decade discusses Zima, Ross Perot & the band Nirvana
    $200 1
Many people with a herniated intervertebral one of these in their spine don't feel symptoms
    $200 6
One tablespoon =
3 of these
    $200 25
In "Bull Durham" this actor tells Susan Sarandon that he believes in the hanging curve ball, high fiber & good scotch
    $200 30
Over 2 nights, the first Democratic one in June 2019 had 20 candidates
    $400 20
Hot stuff! It was handpicked as the state pepper
    $400 13
The biography "The Revolutionary" notes this Bostonian who wrote under pseudonyms like Populus & Candidus never went by Sam
    $400 11
Consisting of one systole & one diastole, this happens about 100,000 times a day in humans
    $400 15
43,560 square feet =
one of these
    $400 26
In 2022 Diane Sawyer interviewed Hugh Grant, Laura Linney & much of the cast of this film, "20 Years Later"
    $400 29
Edna from "The Incredibles" is known to advise against wearing one
    $600 21
Cowboys boots are the state footwear & this is the state tie
    DD: $1,200 14
This title of Prince Harry's memoir completes a description of Prince William & him, "The Heir & the..."
    $600 10
Buccal is an adjective referring to this part of your face
    $600 16
One second =
one billion of these
    $600 2
You must remember that in 2008, Jason Segel tried "Forgetting" this Kristen Bell character by heading for Oahu
    $600 3
Seen here is a type of this, used for blood pressure
    $800 22
In 2005 Texas chose this Old West food truck as its state vehicle
    $800 18
"Mr. B." by former ballerina Jennifer Homans is a biography of this great choreographer
    $800 8
This word referring to the sole comes before "fasciitis" in an injury of the foot
    $800 7
1/8 of a circle =
this many degrees
    $800 27
This 1998 rom com starred Ben Stiller & Cameron Diaz, with an appearance by Brett Fav...ruh
    $800 4
This other name for the jack in a deck of cards fits the bill
    $1000 23
The legislature called this alliterative cactus "rugged & beautiful" in naming it the state plant
    $1000 24
The title of Gabrielle Zevin's novel about young game designers is this repetitive line from "Macbeth" expressing weariness
    $1000 9
The bony socket that surrounds the eye is also called this; sounds space-y
    $1000 17
One British thermal unit = about 1,055 of these units of energy named for a British physicist
    $1000 28
In a supporting role in "Tootsie", this comic legend correctly observed, "That is one nutty hospital"
    $1000 5
An entourage or group of retainers; it also starts with "ret"

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

Toni Daniel Madeleine
$2,400 $2,400 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Toni Daniel Madeleine
$5,200 $3,200 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE 12th CENTURY
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
3-SYLLABLE VERBS
ALPHABETICALLY FIRST
TV BEFORE & AFTER
GODS & MYTHS
    $400 25
In 1171 England's Henry II landed with a large army in this island country to assert his right of rule there
    $400 11
The Sundarbans is the swampy delta where the Ganges, Meghna & Brahmaputra rivers all flow into this bay
    $400 10
Some use their pencil to do this in textbooks to remind themselves of salient points; it can also mean to strongly assert
    $400 4
Of U.S. Cabinet departments
    $400 2
A Time Lord from Gallifrey might want to phone a friend on the way to winning a huge sum of money
    $400 16
The word "money" derives from Moneta, another name for this wife of Jupiter whose temple became a Roman mint
    $800 26
Uzbekistan's Minaret of Kalyan has stood since 1127, aided by straw packed into its foundation to protect against these events
    $800 12
As you can see, the Schwarzwald--this in English--covers a lot of ground, 2,300 square miles in area
    $800 6
It can mean to think or focus really, really hard, or to rally all forces towards one specific goal
    $800 5
In a pack of the classic 5-flavor Life Savers
    $800 1
Brenda Walsh & Donna Martin join Dorit, Kyle & the other wealthy women on a Bravo reality show
    $800 17
This top god had an 8-legged horse named Sleipnir
    $1200 27
Poets like Chrétien de Troyes turned stories of knights, kings & chivalry into romances of this type of highly idealized "love"
    $1200 13
The Attica region of Greece includes this plain, the site of a pivotal 490 B.C. battle
    $1200 7
To demonstrate the causes & reasons for having done what you did; it can also mean to make righteous in the sight of God
    $1200 20
Of the New Testament's 4 gospel writers
    $1200 3
Harry Hamlin & Susan Dey leave the courtroom to investigate sex crimes in New York with Mariska Hargitay
    $1200 18
Not just a Fleetwood Mac song, in Welsh mythology she was a goddess unjustly accused of killing her own son
    $1600 28
King Suryavarman II of this 5-letter empire built the vast temple complex of Angkor Wat
    $1600 14
The 23 provinces of this South American country include Catamarca & Mendoza, home to the highest peak in the hemisphere
    $1600 8
Pronounced one way it's an adjective describing a close friend; pronounced as a verb, it means to imply indirectly or suggest
    DD: $2,000 21
Of current justices of the Supreme Court, by last name
    $1600 22
The Tanners move to Washington, D.C., where they become ruthless & vengeful politicians
    DD: $2,000 19
Pursued by Apollo, the nymph Daphne was transformed into this tree associated with poets
    $2000 15
The Hudson Strait & the Fury & Hecla Strait are bodies of water between this large island & the Canadian mainland
    $2000 9
Meaning to understand or take into custody; we hope the police don't do it to you
    $2000 24
Of the chemical elements that begin with "C"
    $2000 23
Annalise Keating & Jessica Fletcher solve crimes or possibly cover them up & then tell about them in books

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Toni Daniel Madeleine
$8,000 $8,800 $3,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ENGLISH LITERATURE
It says, "The mind is its own place, & in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same"

Final scores:

Toni Daniel Madeleine
$7,000 $16,001 $1
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $16,001 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Toni Daniel Madeleine
$7,400 $10,800 $5,800
17 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 15 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $24,000

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Game tape date: 2023-02-07
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