Show #8881 - Monday, May 29, 2023

Contestants

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Niranjan Murali, an education policy professional from Washington, D.C.

Travis Lee, a systems engineer from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Diandra D'Alessio, a technical writer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $3,299)

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Jeopardy! Round

POETIC SUBJECTS
THE ROCKEFELLERS
TREES COMPANY
WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?
YES, OUI
(Mayim: Give us the language.)
CANNERY
    $200 22
Stephen Crane wrote, "Fast rode" one of these men, "ever waving an eager sword, 'to save my lady!"'
    $200 30
One of the world's wealthiest men, John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in this business
    $200 29
It can refer to the uppermost layer of overlapping tree branches, or a cloth covering suspended over a bed
    $200 6
In 2004's "Spider-Man 2", this actor gets unmasked in front of Kirsten Dunst, James Franco & a trainload of New Yorkers
    $200 1
Evet
in Izmir & Istanbul
    $200 10
This brand with an insect name cans a few varieties of albacore tuna including chunk white
    $400 16
"Maître corbeau, sur un arbre perché", begins a Jean de la Fontaine poem about this type of bird
    $400 24
In the 1970s this member of the Rockefeller family served briefly as vice president
    $400 25
FBI is shorthand for 3 common decomposers of dead trees: fungi, bacteria & these
    $400 21
In 2017's "Spider-Man: Homecoming", this actor accidentally appears unmasked in front of his pal Ned
    $400 2
Hai
on Hokkaido
    $400 28
Just outside of Porto in this country, Conservas Pinhais has been canning sardines in tomato sauce since 1920
    $600 23
In haiku, hana are blossoms in general but most likely these, as in Buson's these "having fallen the temple belongs to the branches"
    $600 19
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was a founder of this NYC museum in 1929 & her son David was a longtime donor & trustee
    $600 12
Pine trees are evergreens & also classified as these, for the scaly structures that house seeds
    $600 14
In 2012's "The Amazing Spider-Man", this actor gets unmasked by NYPD captain Denis Leary
    $600 3
Tak
in Gdansk
    $600 17
A high-pressure machine is called this type of retort since it cooks fish in the cans with water vapor
    $800 27
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame", says Emma Lazarus' poem called "The New" this
    $800 15
From 1985 to 2015 Jay Rockefeller, also known as John D. Rockefeller IV, was a senator from this state
    $800 8
One of the 3 gifts of the Magi, this aromatic resin whose very name suggests sweet aroma comes from trees of the genus Boswellia
    $800 11
(I'm Shameik Moore.) In "Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse" I once again don the spider-mask as this Brooklyn teenager who follows in Peter Parker's webbed footsteps
    $800 4
Nai
in the Cyclades
    $800 13
Seen here is a moody photo of a cannery on this Alaskan island that lends its name to a brown bear
    $1000 26
Time to release this sea creature, a Tennyson poem subject said to be a mile & a half wide with ship-crushing tentacles
    $1000 20
Living to the age of 97, John D. was born when this man of Dutch descent was president, & died during FDR's second term
    $1000 9
"Green is the plane-tree in the square, the other trees are brown / They droop & pine for country air / The plane-tree loves it" here
    $1000 7
He's the other title guy alongside Chris O'Donnell in 1997's "Batman & Robin", & he wishes we hadn't reminded you
    $1000 5
Bai
in Bilbao & the Western Pyrenees
    DD: $1,400 18
This author said of Monterey, "The corrugated iron of the canneries glows with the pearly lucence of platinum"

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

Diandra Travis Niranjan
$2,400 $800 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Diandra Travis Niranjan
$2,800 $2,800 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY
THE GULF OF MEXICO
CHEMISTRY
POP INSTRUMENTALS
MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED
PLAY "FREE" WORDS
    $400 4
To protect an ancestral cemetery, in 1910 attorney Lyda Conley became the 3rd woman & 1st Native American to argue a case here
    $400 27
This powerful warm current flows north from the Gulf into the Atlantic Ocean
    $400 12
Water hardness is determined by the amount of minerals it contains, mostly carbonates of magnesium & this element
    $400 20
In January 2000 Kenny G blew into the Top 10 with a version of this New Year's favorite
    $400 2
A monthly person herself, Louisa May Alcott gave her characters Jo & Meg this last name
    $400 22
In 1993 Gerald Perry became the first NFL player to sign with a new team as one of these under a new unrestricted system
    $800 17
Fake guns nicknamed for this peaceful religious group fooled the Union into canceling an 1862 attack on Centerville, Virginia
    $800 28
The western end of this island forms a partial divider between the Gulf & the Caribbean Sea
    $800 13
Formerly used as an anesthetic & still used by bad guys on TV, it has the chemical formula CHCl3
    $800 29
A hit from "Deliverance" is called "Dueling" these, though in the movie, one duellist is playing guitar
    $800 21
Aubrey Plaza, getting married as this character on "Parks & Rec": "I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Is that cool?"
    $800 23
Also in the title of a classic Miles Davis track, it's a person who likes to mooch complimentary food & drink
    $1200 3
The byname of this 11th century Castilian military leader, a national hero of Spain, is from Arabic for "lord"
    DD: $6,000 26
This 76,000-square-mile peninsula juts up into the Gulf's south end
    $1200 10
The Haber process was developed prior to World War I to produce this pungent gas from nitrogen & hydrogen
    $1200 19
This almost lyric-free 2013 hit by Brooklyn producer/DJ Baauer has part of Manhattan in its title
    DD: $3,800 8
The first woman to chair the U.K. Conservative Party, she led even more after becoming prime minister in 2016
    $1200 5
This cable channel was once known as ABC Family
    $1600 14
This paramilitary group of young people was used in the 1960s to enforce the Cultural Revolution
    $1600 15
The world's largest fish, these Gulf residents, can gather in large groups to feed near the mouth of the Mississippi River
    $1600 11
Lighten "lightning" by a few letters & you have this polymer that bonds with cellulose to make wood
    $1600 24
This monster hit by the Edgar Winter Group got its title from the way it was pieced together in the editing process
    $1600 1
This was revealed as Offred's real name on TV's "The Handmaid's Tale", but not in the novel
    $1600 6
C.S. Lewis wrote that this ability is "the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having"
    $2000 18
A 6th c. outbreak of bubonic plague bears the name of this Byzantine Emperor; it nearly killed him & devastated his empire
    $2000 16
In 1559 a Spanish expedition settled for about 2 years at what is today this city near the western end of Florida's Panhandle
    $2000 25
This Italian's law says that equal volumes of gases at the same temp. & pressure have the same "number" of molecules
    $2000 30
In 1958 The Champs had a No. 1 hit with this sax-heavy tune whose only lyric is the title booze
    $2000 7
"Married", an 1884 collection of stories by this Swede, got him prosecuted for blasphemy
    $2000 9
A kind of shoe is in this name for a pirate

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Diandra Travis Niranjan
$8,800 $12,400 $8,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MEMORIALS
The Vietnam War crypt at this memorial has been empty since the remains once there were identified & moved to St. Louis

Final scores:

Diandra Travis Niranjan
$12,401 $7,199 $8,800
2-day champion: $15,700 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Diandra Travis Niranjan
$8,800 $9,000 $5,400
10 R,
1 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
8 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $23,200

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Game tape date: 2023-03-24
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