Show #8917 - Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Contestants

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Chelsea Watt, a communications manager from New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

David Bederman, an attorney from Los Angeles, California

Daniel Moore, a contract compliance analyst from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,800)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE SONGS OF MAX MARTIN
(Ken: With clips from & Juliet, the musical based on the super producer's hits.)
AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY
COLLEGE TUITION: THEN & NOW
PREFIXES & SUFFIXES
STARS ON THE NATION'S FLAG
SHARK!
    $200 11
"& Juliet" imagines the Shakespeare story had the heroine lived & here she is performing this song, Britney Spears' first hit

"I must confess, that my loneliness is killing me now..."
    $200 25
b.p.:
For water it's 212 degrees Fahrenheit
    $200 28
In 1968 tuition was free for state residents at the U. of Cal., including this Bay Area flagship campus; it was $14,000 in 2023
    $200 26
Appropriately, this prefix comes before
-diluvian &
-cedent
    $200 30
The 12 stars on Uzbekistan's flag represent this group of 12, a reminder of the nation's history as a center of astrology
    $200 2
Most sharks have 5 of these openings on either side of their heads, but some species have 7
    $400 10
Juliet stops the show with "Roar", a 2013 hit from this artist

"I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter /
Dancing through the fire /
'Cause I am a..."
    $400 24
SHDC:
In order of rank at the bridge table
    $400 22
It may get your Irish up to know in 1977 this Indiana private U. cost about $3,000 but tuition & fees now go for 62 grand
    $400 27
This prefix that leads into -adroit means bad
    $400 29
In 1903 this Central Amer. country signed a treaty giving the U.S. control of a zone; it adopted a red, white & blue starry flag in 1904
    $400 4
This shark with a citrus fruit in its name often has a yellowish tinge
    $600 9
Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway performs "That's The Way It Is", a Top 10 hit for this chanteuse in 2000

"Don't give up on your faith /
Love comes to those who believe it"
    $600 23
SATB:
They're the 4 main voices in a choir
    $600 17
1985 tuition was a bit over $7,000 at this Durham, North Carolina university; in 2024, the cost will be north of $63,000
    $600 16
French gives us this 4-letter suffix that makes everything smaller
    $600 19
In the center of the flag of Dominica are 10 lime green stars surrounding one of these raucous tropical avians native to that isle
    $600 20
Whitetip & blacktip are species of these sharks named for the shallow-water structures where they live & hunt
    $800 3
The first musical number in "& Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song

"All you people can't you see, can't you see /
How your love's affecting our reality"
    DD: $2,000 13
FAANG:
Coined in 2017 by Jim Cramer to denote 5 top tech companies at the time
    $800 7
Tuition at this private univ. in Houston from its opening in 1912 to 1965? Deliciously free! Today... a bit more, at $57,000
    $800 14
Meaning pain, this suffix follows fibromy- in a very painful disease
    $800 18
Like several of its neighbors, Papua New Guinea's flag has stars in the shape of this constellation
    $800 21
In Australia, this dangerous shark with a 4-letter name has been called a "blue pointer"
    $1000 8
The finale of "& Juliet" features the cast performing this Justin Timberlake hit

"Come on /
All those things I shouldn't do /
But you dance, dance, dance /
And ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'"
    $1000 12
EPOS:
It's computer hardware used in retail
    $1000 6
This Big Ten school kept things steady for in-state Indiana residents; general service tuition was $9,992 in 2012 & in '23
    $1000 15
From the Latin for "around", this prefix hangs around "-flex" as a mark used in French words
    $1000 1
China's flag's 4 small stars stood for peasants, the petty bourgeoisie, patriotic capitalists & this manual labor class
    $1000 5
Shark skeletons are made not of bone but of this more flexible substance

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

Daniel David Chelsea
$4,800 $5,000 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Daniel David Chelsea
$4,600 $8,600 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
AUTHORS' FIRST MAJOR WORKS
AFRICAN FILMS
3-WORD RESPONSES
WORLD OF FIRST NAMES
4 LETTERS, ENDS IN "Y"
    $400 9
Founded in 1908, this agency battled less glamorous issues like copyright violations until the gangsters came along
    $400 29
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" was the first of more than 60 mysteries from her
    $400 27
The 1981 film "Lion of the Desert", about a war between Libya & Italy, was funded in part by this world leader
    $400 28
Feathers flew in the business world in 1991 when a fast food chain slimmed down to 3 letters from this name
    $400 30
The start of the Obama administration brought a doubling of U.S. girls named this Hawaiian form of Mary
    $400 25
It's the birthstone for July
    $800 5
A British Crown proclamation of 1763 forbade colonists from settling west of these mountains
    $800 1
Seen here as a boy with his dog, he hit the shelves with 1900's "The Son of the Wolf"
    $800 26
Called the first major film of South Africa after apartheid, "Cry, the Beloved Country" stars this American actor seen here
    $800 12
In 1737 Boston held its first parade celebrating what became this annual event
    $800 22
For the last several years, this name of a Dickens hero has been the most popular boys' name in New South Wales
    $800 24
Intrusively inquisitive
    $1200 2
Sally Ride rocketed into orbit aboard this Space Shuttle that shared its name with a 19th century research vessel
    $1200 14
A synonym for a drug addict, it was the title of William S. Burroughs' semi-autobiographical first published work
    $1200 6
This 2009 sci-fi film features aliens nicknamed "Prawns" living in an area of South Africa
    $1200 10
This 2018 film had a wealth of talent that included Awkwafina, Gemma Chan & Lisa Lu
    DD: $2,000 21
Take a first name meaning "gift of God", change the "th" sound to an "f" & you have this Russian name that means the same
    $1200 20
The word for this type of small flat-bottomed vessel with high sides & a sharp prow can also refer to a variety of fish
    $1600 3
The daughter of an Italian immigrant, she had been a U.S. representative for 3 terms when tapped in 1984 to be a vice presidential nominee
    DD: $2,000 23
Her 1936 effort "We the Living" is a romantic tragedy set against the perils of Soviet-style totalitarianism
    $1600 7
"Sankofa" features an American transported back in time at Cape Coast Castle near Accra in this West African country
    $1600 11
The Natl. Highway Traffic Safety Admin.'s family of these includes 50th percentile adult male & 6-year-old weighted child
    $1600 17
In 2022 she told the Senate Judiciary Committee her parents gave her an African name meaning "lovely one"
    $1600 19
To see or predict the future by gazing at a crystal ball
    $2000 4
In 1886 a riot in this city's Haymarket Square led to the deaths of several police officers & demonstrators
    $2000 15
Subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life", this novel was Herman Melville's first peep at novel writing
    $2000 8
In "Night of the Kings", a prisoner in Abidjan acts as one of these West African storytellers & spins a tale to stay alive
    $2000 13
This Elizabeth Gilbert title/set of commands spent 57 weeks as a No. 1 on the N.Y. Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list
    $2000 16
"Wave" goodbye to this boys' name & hairstyling term; it hasn't been a popular name in France since the 1920s
    $2000 18
This ancient scholar wrote a 142-volume history of Rome that includes accounts of the battles against Hannibal

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Daniel David Chelsea
$14,200 $17,800 $5,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MAN-MADE OBJECTS
Around since 1998, it's now roughly the length of a football field & travels at about 5 miles per second

Final scores:

Daniel David Chelsea
$28,400 $28,401 $10,800
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $28,401 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Daniel David Chelsea
$14,200 $16,600 $9,800
19 R,
3 W
21 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W
13 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $40,600

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Game tape date: 2023-05-18
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