Show #8870 - Friday, May 12, 2023

Hannah Wilson game 8.

Contestants

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Victoria Ford, an independent bookstore owner from St. Paul, Minnesota

Skyler Gailing, an editorial and community associate from Exeter, New Hampshire

Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois (whose 7-day cash winnings total $189,801)

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Jeopardy! Round

STATE CAPITAL TO STATE CAPITAL
TRIPLE RHYME TIME
COMPANY HEADQUARTERS
A BIRTHDAY TO REMEMBER
GAME SHOW HOSTS
ARMY "ANT"s
    $200 2
Capitals don't get much closer than Providence & this one; it's about a half-hour train trip to Back Bay Station on the Acela
    $200 1
The summary of recent events aboard a party boat with alcohol
    $200 7
This airline is based in Mascot, a suburb of Sydney
    $200 17
Her 1962 rendition of "Happy Birthday" included "Thanks, Mr. Pres., for all the things you've done, the battles that you've won"
    $200 30
Dick Clark hosted "The $10,000 Pyramid"; on the version with Michael Strahan in charge, the prize money is this amount
    $200 16
This branch of the U.S. Army is its principal land combat force
    $400 3
The contiguous U.S. remains untrod if you go directly from Honolulu to this capital
    $400 12
An elevation lower than a mountain named after Uma Thurman's revenge film series
    $400 8
Get the picture--Konica Minolta is based in this country
    $400 18
On St. Helena in 2022, Jonathan, one of these animals, moved slowly at his 190th birthday fete--but then again, he's always slow
    $400 23
On Oct. 15, 2007 he debuted in the Bob Barker Studio with fun scuba equipment as the first prize
    $400 26
AAA is this type of artillery used to defend against attack from above
    DD: $1,000 4
Just like Peyton Manning did, head west from this second state capital in the name of a Super Bowl champion team to this first
    $600 13
A bird of prey that has been crowned king aboard Darwin's ship
    $600 9
Drive safely to this car company's HQ in Gothenburg, Sweden
    $600 19
In 2022 the TV industry celebrated the 100th birthday of this creative legend & the 50th of his show "Maude"
    $600 22
In 2020 "The Weakest Link" was rebooted with this star hosting the humiliation duties; goodbye!
    $600 27
A 3-star general is also known as this type & somewhat surprisingly, outranks a major one
    $800 5
In search of weather extremes? St. Paul was a brisk -34 in 1936 & this southwest capital topped out at 122 in 1990
    $800 14
Perhaps the Compton rapper with a medical nickname will go, or...
    $800 10
This all-inclusive resort company is based in Paris, not on its namesake sea
    $800 24
A birthday fete for Herod Antipas gave his wife Herodias a chance for revenge against this man; his head ended up on a platter
    $800 21
He was a regular on "Hogan's Heroes" & "Laugh-In" before getting the hosting gig on "Family Feud"
    $800 28
The Army of the Potomac turned back the Army of Northern Virginia at this famously bloody 1862 battle
    $1000 6
It's a 29-hour, 2,000-mile drive from Oklahoma City to this state capital, the only other that begins with "O"
    $1000 15
A speedy type of dress found at Goodwill
    $1000 11
Puma & this rival are both based in the German town of Herzogenaurach
    $1000 25
For his 50th, Piet Mondrian's pals in this capital feted him with a retrospective of his works at Stedelijk Museum
    $1000 20
The love of Betty White's life, he met her when she was a guest in the third week of "Password"
    $1000 29
In the U.S. Army, a WO1 is this type of officer, the army's tactical & technical experts

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

Hannah Skyler Victoria
$6,200 $0 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Hannah Skyler Victoria
$9,200 $2,000 -$1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

LIFE IS PICARESQUE
SOLVE FOR "EX"
LESSER-KNOWN FILM TRILOGIES
7-LETTER ANIMALS
HYMNS & SPIRITUALS
THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER...
    $400 6
Describing episodic exploits of a roaming character, the picaresque genre began in the literature of this country of Quixote
    $400 1
Can you dig it? An archaeologist can, with this term for an archaeology dig
    $400 21
This word precedes "Sunrise", "Sunset" & "Midnight" in the names of a romantic trio of films from Richard Linklater
    $400 11
It's also called a lightning bug
    $400 26
Title that precedes "How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me"
    $400 16
...became Europe's first female prime minister in 1979
    $800 7
This Voltaire work includes a shipwreck, torture by the Inquisition, El Dorado & cultivating a garden
    $800 2
I have a million reasons to tell you that this 10-letter verb means to overstate
    $800 22
Krzysztof Kieslowski's classic 3 Colors trilogy contains these 3 films, named for the colors of the French flag
    $800 15
This alternate name for a wolverine sounds like it could eat everything in sight & if it had its way, it just might
    $800 27
It's where "I'm goin' to lay down my burden", & "my sword & shield"
    $800 17
...was born in Georgia in 1878 (but not the first Georgia you'd think of)
    $1200 8
The picaresque "Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" features a character modeled after this "Tom Jones" author
    $1200 3
I'm giving only you the story as this because you're my favorite reporter & also I want it out there & otherwise no one might run it
    $1200 23
Before Marvel really started trilogizing, this hero of theirs sunk his teeth into 3 films, the last being 2004's "Trinity"
    $1200 14
Every year in the Yukon, 200,000 of these deer embark on the longest land mammal migration on Earth, sometimes up to 1,300 miles
    $1200 28
A hymn & anthem, "Lift" this "and sing, till earth and heaven ring"
    $1200 18
...was one of the 12 women in the first Knesset in 1949
    DD: $2,000 9
Allen Ginsberg said all the "running around in an automobile" in this work by his pal was "a great picaresque literary device"
    $1600 4
This Latin legal phrase means "from one side only, with the other side absent", not "left the fiesta"
    $1600 24
Whit Stillman's yuppie trilogy of the 1990s includes "Metropolitan", "The Last Days of Disco" & this film named for a Spanish city
    $1600 13
Also called a rorqual, a type of whale takes this name from its prominent dorsal appendage
    $1600 29
"We shall come rejoicing, bringing in" these
    DD: $3,000 19
...the former Nguyen Sinh Cung, took a name that means "he who enlightens"
    $2000 10
In a 1722 work by this author, a woman under the alias Moll Flanders commits various crimes as she climbs a ladder to success
    $2000 5
Still existing, like an artwork luckily not lost over the centuries
    $2000 25
The middle film of Robert Rodriguez' El Mariachi trilogy, it's also the title of an Eagles hit song
    $2000 12
This obscure 7-letter ape is found in the tropical rainforests of Malaysia & Indonesia
    $2000 30
Asking for comfort & guidance, do this, "fast falls the eventide", "in life, in death, O Lord" do this
    $2000 20
...went by one name & didn't live to see the collapse of the Yugoslav nation he built

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Hannah Skyler Victoria
$29,000 $0 $800
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

NEW WORDS IN THE 18th CENTURY
Describing these, Captain Cook wrote, "The manner in which" they're done "must certainly cause intollerable pain"

Final scores:

Hannah Skyler Victoria
$40,000 $0 $1
8-day champion: $229,801 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Hannah Skyler Victoria
$28,200 $0 $800
33 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 6 R,
2 W		 3 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $29,000

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Game tape date: 2023-02-28
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