Show #8923 - Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Contestants

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Alex Muhler, a policy analyst from Oakland, California

Lucas Partridge, a school counselor from Las Vegas, Nevada

Julie Sisson, a library circulation assistant from Everett, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,210)

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Jeopardy! Round

CROOKS
RECENT TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE
ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE
WORLD OF RELIGION
I'M BLUE
"DA" OR "BA" OR "DEE"
(Ken: Each correct response will contain one of those syllables in quotation marks.)
    $200 18
Chinatown gangster Mock Duck snitched on gambling dens but got a 1912 gambling charge himself & was sent to this double-talk prison
    $200 3
"The Balmoral Test"
    $200 8
The fairy tale about this brother & sister inspired an 1893 opera by the German composer Engelbert Humperdinck
    $200 23
The Mahayana branch of this religion is more recent than the Theravada & includes the concept of adherents becoming Bodhisattvas
    $200 2
This Oscar-winning actress has a certain mystique playing Mystique, who, deep down, is all blue
    $200 14
When Santa gives these creatures P.T.O. in the summer, some travel up to 800 miles for grazing grounds
    $400 19
In 1878 this "childish" gunslinger fought in the Lincoln County War before his date with Pat Garrett in 1881
    $400 5
"Chapter 13:
The Jedi"
    $400 1
Seaside police chief Martin Brody fights a corrupt politician & a ferocious predator in this Peter Benchley bestseller
    $400 13
Kept at Chartres Cathedral in France, the "Sancta Camisa" is a garment said to have been worn by this woman in childbirth
    $400 12
In this novel, a character is described as having "the half-tint blue eyes that told of off-planet foods in his diet"
    $400 24
It's the last name of a film character played by both Gary Cooper & Adam Sandler
    $600 20
A 1949 obituary said the name of this man "whose magic would double an investment in 90 days, was heard everywhere"
    $600 15
"Dear Offred"
    $600 4
"Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, & Hal was silent forever" is a line from this sci-fi work
    $600 9
Ganesha, the Hindu god of beginnings, is traditionally depicted with the head of this animal, symbolizing breaking through obstacles
    $600 21
This company with a blue logo calls itself "one of the largest home improvement retailers in the world"
    $600 27
Its name origin is African but this instrument is now widely associated with the music of Latin America
    $800 25
In 1986 reporter Geraldo Rivera opened a vault belonging to this Chi-Town criminal; what was found? Bupkis
    $800 16
"Art of the Swoon", "Capital R Rake",
"The Viscount Who Loved Me"
    $800 6
It's him, last name Spier, "vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" in a young adult favorite
    DD: $1,000 10
From the Arabic for "struggle", this word can mean a personal effort against sin, or a holy war in defense of Islam
    $800 22
This artist's blue period began around the time of his friend Carles Casagemas' public suicide
    $800 28
It's a word describing motorcyclist Bud Ekins, or the name of a Marvel hero
    $1000 26
Meaning "shorty", it's the nickname of the Mexican drug lord who has a habit of escaping from prison
    $1000 17
"Educator of the Year"
    $1000 7
Dylan Thomas' poem about these "Boys" who "in their ruin lay the gold tithings barren" has inspired book & song titles
    $1000 11
The building of the Golden Temple in Amritsar was launched around 1604 by Arjan, the fifth guru of this religion
    $1000 30
The skinny on the flag of this South American nation is that the blue symbolizes the sky; while the white is for the snow on the Andes
    $1000 29
Herb Caen referred to San Francisco as this place "by-the-Bay"

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

Julie Lucas Alex
$1,200 $1,600 $3,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Julie Lucas Alex
$2,800 $5,000 $7,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRACE FOR LANDING
DUAL BIOGRAPHIES
PHYSICS
TAKING STOCK
LONG MOVIES
FROM THE FRENCH
    $400 10
A flight path takes you between mountains and leads to a short runway at India's Leh Airport in this 1,500-mile-long range
    $400 14
Gordon S. Wood's 2017 dual biography of these 2 feuding Founding Fathers & presidents is titled "Friends Divided"
    $400 25
February 4 is the natl. day to create one of these empty spaces, defined as having lower than atmospheric pressure
    $400 18
The rise & fall of the stock market, in good times & bad, is represented by these 2 animals
    $400 6
A year before her role in "Titanic", Kate Winslet played this doomed character in a 4-hour adaptation of "Hamlet"
    $400 1
The French for "remember" gives us this word for a memento that helps you fondly remember your travels
    $800 11
20 million live in this Brazilian city founded by Jesuits, but its domestic airport has only two runways? Tricky
    $800 15
Delve into this country's history with "Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins & de Valera"
    $800 27
Of these 2 opposite everyday words, one has a limit because you can't take away more energy than is there; the other is in theory infinite
    $800 19
Many believe this is the most volatile month for the stock market with both the great crash of 1929 & the crash of '87 occurring then
    $800 7
This man directed, co-wrote, produced & starred in the nearly 3 1/2 hour movie "Reds"
    $800 2
Media matters in this field of study that gets its name from the French for "day"
    $1200 12
You'll be thanking every saint you can think of after hitting the runway of this Caribbean island with ties to Holland & France
    DD: $4,000 22
In this book with the same title as a Shakespeare play, Adrian Goldsworthy says the 2nd person was "not really that important"--ourch!
    $1200 28
Gustav Kirchhoff showed that this travels at light speed, so a circuit connecting a motor to a switch will start the motor fast
    $1200 20
A risky venture, some people try to make a living doing this, buying & selling stocks within a matter of hours
    $1200 8
A 1962 review for this Best Picture winner called it a "camel-opera that tends to run down rather badly... into its third hour"
    $1200 3
I don't do much because I have this feeling of discontent, from the French for "boredom"
    $1600 16
Head over an 8,000-foot peak, navigate wind shear & then enjoy this Austrian city home to two Winter Olympics in 12 years
    $1600 23
Samantha Morris wrote a book about Lucrezia Borgia & this brother whom Machiavelli admired
    DD: $100 29
(Spiros Michalakis presents the clue.) A quantum is basically a small & defined unit of energy; this is the term for a light quantum, also called the quantum of the electromagnetic field
    $1600 21
This company headquartered in Omaha has the most expensive stock in the world at about $500,000 a share in April 2023
    $1600 9
It's raining frogs (hallelujah!) in this 1999 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
    $1600 4
Meaning a binding, this word can refer to a military contact or an intimate, perhaps dangerous, meeting
    $2000 17
Radar? Nope. You land manually in daylight only at Paro, not far from the capital of Thimphu in this Asian kingdom
    $2000 24
A dual bio covers Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice & this Vienna-born man who was the third
    $2000 30
In the early 1900s the "plum pudding" model for the internal structure of these was replaced by the planetary model
    $2000 26
Japan's equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average is called the this 225
    $2000 13
At some point in the 13 hours of Jacques Rivette's "Out 1", actors rehearse "Seven Against Thebes" by this ancient playwright
    $2000 5
This 11-letter word for a lover of the arts comes from the French for "know"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Julie Lucas Alex
$3,200 $20,100 $6,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL
Henri Murger, who was broke & lived in a freezing attic apartment in Paris, wrote the source material for this 1896 opera

Final scores:

Julie Lucas Alex
$3,590 $20,100 $6,100
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $20,100 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Julie Lucas Alex
$3,200 $20,200 $9,800
8 R,
2 W		 22 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $33,200

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Game tape date: 2023-05-19
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