Show #8977 - Tuesday, November 21, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Clubs quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

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Sandy Olive, a high school English teacher from Saint Louis, Missouri

Ed Hashima, a community college history professor from Sacramento, California

Nick Heise, a technical solutions engineer from Madison, Wisconsin

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Jeopardy! Round

A DROP IN WHICH OCEAN?
CAR TUNES
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
CHICKEN SOUP
2B OR NOT 2B
(Ken: Each correct response here will be two words identical except that one has an extra letter "B".)
ALL ABOUT ACTING
    $200 3
Hanauma Bay, east of Waikiki
    $200 8
"Baby, you're much too fast", Prince complained in this tune
    $200 17
This Conan Doyle hero called gemstones "the devil's pet baits"
    $200 5
Chickenfoot is a multi-pronged variation of this game that uses white game tiles with pips
    $200 6
Crumbled rock /
Russian currency
    $200 20
An old superstition says, "bad" this last full run-through in costume, "good show"
    $400 13
The Gulf of Honduras
    $400 9
She's from Barbados & knows what she wants--"Shut Up And Drive"
    $400 18
Baudelaire:
"The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not" this
    $400 16
Enjoy some jerk chicken in this Caribbean country where it originated
    $400 7
One who tells lies /
moral toughness & character
    $400 21
Stage backdrops are part of this; don't crash through it & don't, by overacting, "chew" it
    $600 25
The Sulu Sea
    $600 10
"Drive" is the first track on this group's album "Automatic for the People"
    DD: $2,600 19
This 17th c. work says, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is... saw, and pined his loss"
    $600 1
An ancestor of Alex Haley, he was played on TV by Ben Vereen
    $600 14
Speech that's too fast to understand / the end of a pitched roof
    $600 22
A purse is an example of a personal one of these onstage items
    $800 4
The Laptev Sea
    $800 11
He had a 2-part request in the title of his 1988 No. 1 hit "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car"
    $800 24
The Book of Common Prayer: "From all the deceits of the world," this "and the devil, good Lord, deliver us"
    $800 2
One of this state's official symbols is seen here
    $800 15
A fun activity in "hot" water / a fun activity in fast-running rivers
    $800 23
Your line "Amanda, I'm leaving you!" is part of dialogue; your action of crossing the stage & exiting is part of this
    $1000 26
The Mozambique Channel
    $1000 12
This number follows "Rocket" in the name of a classic Oldsmobile & of a song about it, often called the first rock & roll record
    $1000 30
John Donne:
"In best understandings, sin began, / angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then" him
    $1000 27
During the 16th c. Wojna Kokosza, or "Chicken War" in this country, rebels ate nearly all of the region's poultry
    $1000 28
A British slang term meaning "swindle" / a British aristocrat such as a duke
    $1000 29
Any follow-up interview or audition for a role you've already tried out for is called this

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

Nick Ed Sandy
$1,200 $3,800 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Nick Ed Sandy
$3,400 $4,200 $5,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE
TEACHING
COMMUNICATION
A PAIN IN THE "R"s
MAKE THE PHRASE
    $400 19
This imposing American landmark is seen here as it looked in 1876
    $400 12
"Das Boot" portrayed both boredom & terror aboard one of these German craft during World War II
    $400 11
A method of assigning letter grades based on rank among the class is called "grading on" this, perhaps a bell one
    $400 14
This "fruity" smartphone was a big hit when it debuted in 2002... then came the iPhone & Android
    $400 4
Any mammal, including people, can contract this rhabdovirus disease affecting the nervous system & salivary glands
    $400 9
A boxer trying to get down to, say, 135 or 175 pounds for a fight is attempting to "make" this
    $800 23
Successful "Little" author seen here
    $800 20
"The Motorcycle Diaries" dramatized a life-changing road trip by this future ally of Fidel Castro
    $800 13
This president with only a little time at school called education "the most important subject which we... can be engaged in"
    $800 15
This wireless technology is named for a 10th century Viking king
    $800 5
A lack of phosphate, vitamin D or calcium can cause this bone disease in children
    $800 10
To discern, to complete writing a check or to engage in kissing, you "make" this
    $1200 24
A 19th century political cartoon by British cartoonist James Gillray shows this man cutting up a globe
    $1200 17
Bérénice Bejo played 1920s actress Peppy Miller in this 2011 multi-Oscar winner from France
    $1200 21
Sounding like an advantage in a foot race, this program recognizes parents as a child's first & most influential teacher
    $1200 16
Karl Ferdinand Braun shared a 1909 Nobel Prize with this man for "the development of wireless telegraphy"
    $1200 6
It's what the R in the MMR vaccine stands for
    $1200 1
To act with speed, you "make" this, also said to make waste
    $1600 25
This Russian seen here set the table for future chemists
    $1600 18
"City of God" is about 2 boys growing up in a violent favela in this South American country
    DD: $4,000 22
This term for a list of items to be covered in a course is from the Greek for "parchment label"
    $1600 30
Before home pay-per-view, if you wanted to see a big fight like Ali-Frazier, you went to a theater to watch it on CCTV, this
    $1600 7
Parents are advised not to give children aspirin because of its link to this potentially fatal syndrome
    $1600 2
An attempt that'll end in success or utter disaster is described in the rhyming phrase "make or..."
    DD: $7,000 26
Pictured here around 1890, he was the original "Iron Man"
    $2000 27
The 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Film went to director Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation", the first winner from this country
    $2000 28
This organization started in 1990 with 500 idealistic young people working in schools in low-income communities
    $2000 29
In 1962 NASA teamed with AT&T to create this, the first active communications satellite
    $2000 8
These viruses responsible for many respiratory infections share part of their name with a pachyderm
    $2000 3
Something that serves as a substitute, especially of an expedient nature, is "make-" this

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Nick Ed Sandy
$5,800 $29,600 $10,600
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

TELEVISION
This series grew out of a screenplay titled "Murdoch"

Final scores:

Nick Ed Sandy
$1 $29,600 $0
2nd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Nick Ed Sandy
$5,800 $22,200 $8,600
11 R,
2 W		 23 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $36,600

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Game tape date: 2023-10-18
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