Show #8915 - Friday, July 14, 2023

Contestants

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Allison Madson, a health policy professional from Reston, Virginia

Daniel Moore, a contract compliance analyst from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ittai Sopher, a digital journalist and news producer from New Orleans, Louisiana (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,202)

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Jeopardy! Round

FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY
MODERN FANTASY LIT
3,3
(Ken: Each response is two 3-letter words.)
GOOD AFTERNOON!
BANDS ACROSS THE DECADES
A TOUCH OF GREY
    $200 13
Last name of William Howard, the 27th president, & his brother Charles Phelps, owner of the Chicago Cubs
    $200 30
Monza Murcatto, thrown from a great height & left for dead, later gets revenge in Joe Abercrombie's "Best Served" this
    $200 29
The Pleistocene glacial epoch is also known as the great this
    $200 25
From the French for "morning", it somehow became a term for a show's afternoon performance... let's take one in!
    $200 9
The Wilson brothers, Mike Love & Al Jardine, surfin' over '60s high notes
    $200 28
Macropus giganteus, the eastern grey type of this marsupial, can cover 30 feet in a single bound
    $400 10
The company founded by this publisher & politician still includes Men's Health, A&E & our own affiliate KSBW Monterey-Salinas
    $400 26
In a book by Gail Carson Levine, obedience is the curse of this title girl, "Enchanted"; she also pines for Prince Charmont
    $400 22
The CDC describes it as "a temporary sleep problem that usually occurs when you travel across more than three time zones"
    $400 24
Most African cats are nocturnal hunters, but these fastest ones can be "spotted" on the prowl in the late afternoon
    $400 8
"Don't Lie"--will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo & Fergie totally hip-hopped through the 2000s
    $400 27
Won by the Toronto Argonauts in 2022, this championship trophy of the Canadian Football League was first awarded in 1909
    $600 2
Marjorie Durant, who set out to popularize airplane travel in 1931, was the daughter of the founder of this Big 3 car company
    $600 23
S.A. Chakraborty's "City of Brass" has Nahri team up with Dara, one of these mystical creatures whose name starts with a silent "D"
    $600 19
A killer for hire, like TV's Barry Berkman
    $600 18
In "Anchorman" Will Ferrell sang "Afternoon Delight"; in 2022 Will & Ryan Reynolds sang "Good Afternoon" in this Dickens of a film
    $600 7
Here come Annie Lennox & Dave Stewart again, falling on your heads like an '80s memory
    $600 11
This mustachioed fictional detective relied on his "little grey cells" to solve mysteries
    DD: $1,000 4
A week after this rich guy IV perished on the Titanic, an inquiry into the disaster began in a hotel with his name on it
    $800 21
In P. Djèlí Clark's "Ring Shout", klansmen summon demons during a viewing of this 1915 D.W. Griffith film
    $800 14
Beastly term for someone who religiously works out at, let's say, Planet Fitness
    $800 17
This drama that aired on PBS inspired an official "Afternoon Tea" cookbook with recipes & etiquette tips
    $800 6
Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, giving robot-ic performances in the 2010s
    $800 1
Known for Old West novels, Zane Grey died in 1939, the year he published an "Epic of a Single Strand of Wire" about this company
    $1000 3
This old Boston family produced poet Robert & Harvard president A. Lawrence
    $1000 20
This "Remains of the Day" author wrote fantasy with "The Buried Giant", set years after the death of King Arthur
    $1000 15
This Scottish outlaw spent time in Newgate Prison but was pardoned before he was to be sent to Barbados
    $1000 16
Really covering all the bases, this painter gave us "Morning Sun", "Cape Cod Afternoon" & "Nighthawks"
    $1000 5
Last name, nickname, last name of Ricky, Michael, Ronnie, the R&B trio who dripped "Poison" in the '90s
    $1000 12
The daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, she was only 15 when she ascended the throne

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

Ittai Daniel Allison
$600 $5,600 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ittai Daniel Allison
$1,200 $9,200 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

DYING IN THE CAPITAL CITY
WHO'S WHO IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
SCIENCE
AROUND THE HOUSE
TV SHOWS
IN SYNDICATION
(Ken: These are all words that you can make out of the letters in the word "syndication".)
    $400 22
Wolfgang Mozart, beginning to decompose in 1791
    $400 9
This long-liver was the grandfather of Noah
    $400 30
This precious metal, symbol Pt, is used in catalytic converters & petroleum refining
    $400 29
You can get a dining room table that easily converts for pool, Ping Pong & even this plastic puck game patented in 1969
    $400 18
In 2023 Kevin Costner wrangled a Golden Globe Award for his role as John Dutton on this series
    $400 27
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, you got down to this type of dance music in the 1970s
    $800 21
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, not that the event affected the entire world or anything
    $800 8
For helping 2 of Joshua's spies, Rahab & her family were spared when Joshua captured this city
    $800 24
If your test paper is reading a 7, you know your garden soil's pH is this, neither acidic nor basic
    $800 28
Use newspaper to stay warm without burning it with the blown-in cellulose type of this, which can fit small & curved spaces
    $800 17
Lester Holt is the principal anchor for this NBC newsmagazine & Andrea Canning & Keith Morrison are correspondents
    $800 26
Switzerland consists of 26 states called these
    $1200 11
Niels Bohr, quantum leaping in 1962
    $1200 6
Following this king's death, David laments, "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!"
    $1200 23
The synthetic slippery resin polytetrafluoro-ethylene, or PTFE for short, has been trademarked under this name
    $1200 20
Useful in home offices & guest rooms, they've been around for centuries as in the 18th century painting of a lady on one
    $1200 7
The original of this series focused on Kevin Arnold; in the reboot, it's an African-American youth named Dean Williams
    $1200 25
It's a royal horse race! It's a neck scarf! It's both!
    DD: $6,000 10
Suddenly ex-president for life Papa Doc Duvalier
    DD: $5,000 5
Armed with trumpets & torches inside jars or pitchers, he led an army of 300 in victory over the Midianites
    $1600 14
Your helpful radius bone enables your hand to pronate & to do this opposite motion meaning "to face upward"
    $1600 19
Mark Twain wrote of a "vestibule, where they used to keep" this; today, we'd more likely have the coat version
    $1600 4
John Amos played the father on this '70s sitcom until he was killed off & J.J. became the man of the house
    $1600 16
It's another name for vitamin B3, which helps convert food into energy
    $2000 1
August Strindberg, going way heavy on the drama in 1912
    $2000 2
When Sarah thought she was unable to give Abraham children, she gave him this handmaid, who bore Ishmael
    $2000 13
Inside protons & neutrons, quarks are bound by these particles whose name reveals their sticky nature
    $2000 12
Also a word for mosaics, it refers to a distinctive flooring pattern of teeny squares or tiles
    $2000 3
As a teen, Claire Danes starred as Angela Chase in this series about the trials & tribulations of being a teen
    $2000 15
It's the shortened 5-letter name of the raccoon cousin seen here, found in Arizona, New Mexico & further south

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ittai Daniel Allison
$6,000 $29,000 $12,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS
In 1930 this author wrote "Murder at Full Moon", a horror-mystery novel set in a fictional town in Central California

Final scores:

Ittai Daniel Allison
$11,000 $25,000 $12,383
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $25,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Ittai Daniel Allison
$6,000 $21,000 $12,200
10 R,
2 W		 30 R
(including 3 DDs),
2 W		 13 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $39,200

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Game tape date: 2023-05-17
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