Show #8856 - Monday, April 24, 2023

Contestants

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Dillon Hupp, a development director from North Little Rock, Arkansas

Année Tousseau, an editor from Alameda, California

Emma Hill Kepron, a librarian from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY
SYNONYMS & ANTONYMS
NON-VIDEO GAMES
AMERICAN LIT
THAT'S AN ANIMAL SOUND
BEATLES "S"ONGS
    $200 2
A tunnel to connect Spain & this African nation, with a 17-mile underwater segment, is now planned to start construction in 2030
    $200 18
Often following "in rapid", this word is synonymous with continuity, sequence & of course, concatenation
    $200 7
These are the 2 pieces that can be moved to begin a chess game
    $200 1
The title of this Ken Kesey novel comes from a children's rhyme & follows "One flew east, one flew west"
    $200 14
Bottle stoppers & wild cherry cough medicine are procured from this part of a tree
    $200 13
"So may I introduce to you the act you've known for all these years?"
    $400 3
This "colorful" body of water touches the shores of Egypt & Eritrea
    $400 20
Indoors? I'd prefer the opposite & dine this 2-word way, a borrowing from Italian... oo, Italian sounds good, let's do that
    $400 8
Drawn cards in Monopoly include Community Chest & this type that could tell you to "Advance token to Boardwalk"
    $400 10
An article in the New York Times about the gruesome murder of 4 in Kansas inspired Truman Capote to write this book
    $400 15
Social media can be hazardous to your career health! Winston Moss said he got fired as a coach in 2018 for one of these posts
    $400 17
"Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about"
    $600 4
About the size of France, this ex-French colony is seen here living up to 2 of the 3 words in its name
    $600 24
Let's set the scene:
A man in a wig works on the Constitution:
Insure domestic placidity? Nah. Repose? Ataraxia?! Woof! Got it... this!
    $600 9
With names like Sweetie & Bottomless, the hungry, hungry hippos are gobbling these
    $600 16
In a Mark Twain novel, thinking he's none too bright, the townspeople give lawyer David Wilson this title nickname
    $600 28
Turning the title around in a cheeky way, a 1965 Broadway musical was called "The" this "of the Greasepaint--The Smell of the Crowd"
    $600 21
"With a love like that you know you should be glad"
    $800 5
This nearly 20,000-foot peak is the highest point in Africa
    DD: $1,200 25
Soldier of fortune & venal are both synonyms for this word
    $800 11
Collect 6 pieces of cheese & avoid being a snared rodent to win this game
    $800 19
Who is John Galt? He's the organizer of a strike of great minds in this novel
    $800 29
So, you were supposed to have an operation on your foot & your appendix got removed?! That doctor can only be described as this
    $800 22
"I don't want to leave her now, you know I believe and how"
    $1000 6
3 of South Africa's 9 provinces, making up more than half the country's area, are called Eastern, Western & Northern this
    $1000 26
Harm, damage or pain are on the flip side for this, from the Greek for "all-healing"; do you have the universal remedy?
    $1000 12
In using your 40-piece army, a good st--um, a good plan in this game is to save your miners for the endgame
    $1000 27
Born into it herself, Edith Wharton wrote about American high society of the 1870s in this Pulitzer-winning novel
    $1000 30
To die
    $1000 23
"Sunday's on the phone to Monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me"

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

Emma Année Dillon
$800 $400 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Emma Année Dillon
$1,800 $1,200 $7,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

GREEK HISTORY
Y IS THE ONLY VOWEL
THE UNITED NATIONS
WHEREFORE ART, THOU
LOCAL BOY
MADE GOOD
    $400 25
Fought in 2 stages during the 1940s, the Greek Civil War saw those of this political philosophy try & fail to take control
    $400 15
Until the 1500s these songs were mostly sung in Latin--everybody! "Sancti, venite"
    $400 2
"We the peoples" begins the preamble to this founding U.N. document that took effect October 24, 1945
    $400 4
Pop went the art--for a big pop--when "Eight Elvises" by this artist went for $100 million in 2008
    $400 7
This actor who grew up in Massachusetts with Matt Damon called his own Boston accent on film "way better than Matt's"
    $400 20
Universally known for their timely crafting, Rolex & Longines are watchmakers based in this country
    $800 1
In 1967 Greece's politicians worried about a coup by generals, but a group of this lower rank took over for 7 years
    $800 16
Here kitty, kitty! It's the wild cat seen here
    $800 3
To do public outreach, U.N. programs & agencies name these ambassadors, something the world could use more of
    $800 5
Cast in bronze in 1904, this 6-foot naked dude is seriously going over stuff in his head in the gardens of a Paris museum
    $800 8
The rap scene in & around this city has produced Scarface, Travis Scott & local girl Megan Thee Stallion
    $800 21
Dean Zelinsky, a noted maker of these, has crafted them for Sammy Hagar, Nine Inch Nails & many other artists
    $1200 26
The cities of the Achaean League situated on the northern part of this peninsula met defeat in 146 B.C. at the hands of Rome
    $1200 17
A spacecraft does it when it passes a celestial body while close enough to gather scientific data
    $1200 6
The iconic building here is home to this body, headed by the person who's the U.N.'s main public face
    DD: $2,000 12
The installation of 7,503 gates, each 16 feet tall & financed by Christo & Jeanne-Claude for this NYC area, was completed in 2005
    $1200 9
From Kenosha, Wisc., this actor & Avengers movie mainstay is the grandson of an immigrant from Calabria, Italy
    $1200 22
An ad with an ape abusing very durable luggage wasn't for Samsonite as some recall but for this all-"American" competitor
    $1600 27
In 1864 Britain ceded to the Greeks these islands off Greece's West Coast that bespangle the sea of the same name
    $1600 18
The Maya were known to carve these symbols that represent sounds & words into blocks of rock
    $1600 29
U.N. public information officer Omar Hernández' is among those who've gone from this student simulation to the real thing
    $1600 13
Odilon Redon made an 1882 series of prints inspired by the imagery of this American author
    $1600 10
LeBron James' good works in this hometown 30 miles from Cleveland include starting the I Promise Public School
    DD: $2,500 23
You've won big playing this game at the casino; now it's time to buy one of the same-named crystal maker's chandeliers
    $2000 28
In 2010 Greece was on the financial brink dealing with these "measures" whose name comes from a word meaning "severe"
    $2000 19
Y is the only vowel in this odd word for an alignment of 3 heavenly bodies
    $2000 30
A 2022 Security Council resolution maintained an arms embargo on this country in light of the threat from the Al-Shabab group
    $2000 14
Though called a post-impressionist, he had work like "House of the Hanged Man" in the first Impressionist show in 1874
    $2000 11
He grew up in Atherton, California, near Stanford, & maybe he's never going back again
    $2000 24
This company that's still going strong made lanterns for the first night football game in the West & camping stoves for WWII

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Emma Année Dillon
$14,700 $3,200 $14,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY
Interstate 25 connects these 2 state capitals, 1st & 2nd in elevation, & in between runs through No. 3, Denver

Final scores:

Emma Année Dillon
$7,700 $1 $21,999
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $21,999

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Emma Année Dillon
$13,000 $3,200 $13,800
16 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 6 R,
2 W		 24 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $30,000

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Game tape date: 2023-02-08
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