Show #8922 - Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Contestants

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Julie Sisson, a library circulation assistant from Everett, Washington

Andrew Knowles, a psychologist resident from Portland, Oregon

Taylor Clagett, a marketing director originally from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland (whose 2-day cash winnings total $31,800)

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Jeopardy! Round

JUST GOOGLY IT
THAT CAN BE A GREEK LETTER
THE OED DESCRIBES THE ANIMAL
RHYME THE TIME
(Ken: Each response is a rhyming phrase containing the word "the".)
SOMETHING'S ROTTEN
IN DENMARK
    $200 30
You could put googly eyes on each end of the name of this province here, & you're welcome for the logo idea, northern neighbors
    $200 28
These "blockers" are used to help prevent angina & heart attacks
    $200 9
"A large hornless ruminant quadruped, distinguished by its humped back, long neck, and cushioned feet"
    $200 17
To turn down that delicious glass of Burgundy
    $200 22
The first film to get a score on this now 25-year-old website was "Star Trek: Insurrection" back in 1998
    $200 7
Denmark claims the longest-used one of these--the Dannebrog, which legend says fell to Earth in a 1219 battle
    $400 29
Check out this planet checking you out; it was once known as Hermes, but times & beliefs changed
    $400 27
The first passenger flight of this airline took off in 1929, going from Dallas to Jackson, Mississippi
    $400 16
Of the carp family, "native to China... commonly kept in ponds, cold-water tanks, or... glass globes"
    $400 18
To have joint custody of a grizzly
    $400 26
Valentine in "Army of the Dead" was rotten all over, as a zombie one of these that would make Joe Exotic squeal
    $400 6
Danish beermaster J.C. Jacobsen named this brewery for his son
    $600 8
Here's the brilliant Marty Feldman who played Igor in this 1974 classic film comedy & we haven't done a thing to the picture
    $600 12
This name of China's president since 2013 is spelled the same way as the Greek letter
    $600 15
"Mouse-like quadrupeds... having the fingers extended to support a thin membrane"
    $600 19
To surprise--nay, absolutely astound--a convent sister
    $600 25
In this film, Miracle Max warns, "You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles"
    $600 5
Den Gamle By, an open-air museum representing an early Danish town, is an attraction in Arhus on this peninsula
    $800 3
It's an equilateral parallelogram, & it's 7 letters; one thing it's not--a type of public transport
    DD: $1,800 10
Instead of the end, the beginning: this luxury watch brand traces its roots back to 1848 in the Swiss village La Chaux-de-Fonds
    $800 14
"One of several large eared seals" including "the distinct species (Zalophus) californianus"
    $800 20
To give up to another your foremost position in a race
    $800 24
Steve Martin & Michael Caine were these title conmen in a 1988 remake of a comedy starring David Niven & Marlon Brando
    $800 2
Copenhagenize is an urban planning firm specializing in making cities friendly to these transports, the way Copenhagen is
    $1000 4
All eyes were on him when he gave his first presidential inaugural address in 1885
    $1000 11
Eastern philosophy calls this a life force; some also spell it with a Q, but we're going with the Greek letter style
    $1000 13
"Popular name of various acalephs, medusas, or sea-nettles, from their gelatinous structure"
    $1000 21
To abandon that scrumptious butterkuchen
    $1000 23
After the Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten, now John Lydon, fronted this band, PiL for short
    $1000 1
This trade organization declared war on Denmark in the 14th century

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

Taylor Andrew Julie
$4,200 $3,600 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Taylor Andrew Julie
$6,200 $4,400 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR
SOMEBODY WROTE THAT
THIS AMERICAN LAKE
KISS & TELL
WRITER-DIRECTORS
THE IDIOMS GO THATAWAY
    $400 16
Sam Houston, until 1859
    $400 10
"Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility" (we're practically giftwrapping this one!)
    $400 9
A 2023 report said that without emergency measures, this "Great" lake in Utah "would likely disappear in the next five years"
    $400 11
Washington Irving gave one of the earliest written accounts of the yuletide tradition of kissing under this plant
    $400 26
Born while her dad was making "The Godfather", she's won an Oscar for screenwriting & been named best director at Cannes
    $400 21
This phrase describes a plane flying low to evade enemy detection, or anything that's not getting attention nowadays
    $800 20
Stephen A. Douglas, happy in 1858, sad in 1860, dead in 1861
    $800 3
"'He shows himself; he's a hunchback. He walks; he's bandy-legged. He looks at you; he's one-eyed. You speak to him; he's deaf"'
    $800 8
Lying entirely in the U.S., this Great Lake that made Milwaukee famous reaches a great depth of 923 feet
    $800 12
The musical "Kiss Me, Kate" was based on this Shakespeare play
    $800 27
7 months after he died in 2009, Molly Ringwald & Anthony Michael Hall were part of a tribute to him at the Oscars
    $800 22
Meaning somewhat liberal, this 3-word phrase describes how you've moved from the median
    $1200 19
Henry Clay--don't compromise on your response!
    $1200 1
"The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb"
    $1200 7
The name of this freshwater lake shared by 2 western states is from a Washoe word for "lake"; hope you win big at Harrah's too
    $1200 13
As the story goes, after performing for Maria Theresa at age 6 in 1762, this wunderkind jumped into the empress' lap & kissed her
    $1200 28
He & Joe Robert Cole wrote the scripts for "Black Panther" & its sequel, & he directed both films, too
    $1200 23
While tubing down a river, you do this, which can also be a rhyming idiom for accepting a situation
    $1600 18
John C. Calhoun & John E. Colhoun, but what's in a name, Y'all?
    DD: $4,000 2
"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me"
    DD: $2,300 6
Most of the length of this French-named lake separates New York & Vermont
    $1600 14
In Genesis 29, on first meeting his beloved Rachel, he kissed her "and lifted up his voice, and wept"
    $1600 29
Born in Austria, he learned English while rooming with Peter Lorre, so it's lucky the people in "Some Like It Hot" don't talk like I am
    $1600 24
There's a member of genus Corvus in this phrase that means "in a straight line"
    $2000 17
Charles Sumner, a free stater nearly beaten to death on the Senate floor by a southerner
    $2000 4
"The summer range lay above the tree line on Forest Service land on Brokeback Mountain"
    $2000 5
Let's fire up our RV & head for this lake, Wisconsin's largest inland one, & catch some northern pike & largemouth bass
    $2000 15
Beginning around 1908, this Romanian carved several versions of "The Kiss" from blocks of stone, including the one seen here
    $2000 30
Lorelei Linklater aged from 9 to 21 over the 12-year shoot of this film from her father, Richard
    $2000 25
Tennyson gave a poem about a ferry trip this title, now an idiom for dying

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Taylor Andrew Julie
$9,700 $6,400 $8,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

COMPOUND WORD ORIGINS
This compound word meant an astronomical object of exceptional brightness in 1910; it was soon applied to actors & athletes

Final scores:

Taylor Andrew Julie
$978 $6,701 $11,210
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $11,210

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Taylor Andrew Julie
$8,000 $6,400 $12,200
14 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 17 R,
8 W		 14 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $26,600

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Game tape date: 2023-05-19
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