Show #8986 - Monday, December 4, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts quarterfinal game 4.

Contestants

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Kristen Thomas-McGill, a graduate student and historian originally from Louisville, Kentucky

Finn Corrigan, a student and postal clerk from Vista, California

Julia Markham Cameron, an attorney from Brooklyn, New York

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Jeopardy! Round

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
BRITISH BANDS
I THINK WE LEFT SOMEONE OUT
A GREEN THUMB
GIVE THE "DEVIL"
HIS 'DO
    $200 27
A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham"
    $200 22
He is the lead singer of Culture Club
    $200 28
The authors of the Bible's gospels: Matthew, Luke, John &...
    $200 24
For cutting tall grass, "one" of these curved blades on a long, bent handle "fits all"
    $200 29
Head to a Wyoming national monument for a "close encounter" with this monolith
    $200 30
The name of this cut is also the sound of electric clippers; in 2012 Robert Pattinson made news when he got one
    $400 18
"Now We Are Six" is a collection of rhymes from this "Winnie-the-Pooh" author
    $400 21
Classics from these groundbreaking British punkers include "Anarchy In The U.K." & "Pretty Vacant"
    $400 26
The last 4 vice presidents: Harris, Pence, Biden &...
    $400 11
This exotic flower can be cultivated in a backyard hothouse
    $400 23
3-word hyphenated term for an "attitude" with a tendency to take risks
    $400 25
The clean-cut men's style known as the "Ivy League" is also called this, after a New Jersey school
    DD: $1,600 7
An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens"
    $600 16
Liam Gallagher heckled his brother Noel at an "MTV Unplugged" show for this British band
    $600 19
The Jackson 5 consisted of Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael &...
    $600 8
As their name implies, schizocarps are fruits that do this when they become ripe
    $600 1
Ecclesiastical changes in 1983 eliminated the job of this adversarial examiner first appointed in 1587
    $600 20
Moe, part of this trio, typically sported the haircut known as a bowl cut
    $800 6
As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks
    $800 2
Bananarama had a hit with this song, appropriately enough, in the mean, hot days of August 1984
    $800 15
The 4 men who served as 5-star generals during WWII were Arnold, MacArthur, Marshall &...
    $800 9
These flowers with a name partly from Greek for "water" can be blue or pink, depending on the acidity of the soil
    $800 12
To make these, mash up the yolks with seasonings & return them to the white part
    $800 4
In the '90s Kid of Kid 'n Play rocked a high top this hairstyle that's shaved on the bottom & long on top
    $1000 5
David McKee's stories of this patchwork elephant subtly convey the message that it's OK to be different
    $1000 3
The Clash had its biggest hit with this song that says, "the Sheik he drove his Cadillac"
    $1000 17
The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse are Conquest, War, Famine &...
    $1000 10
The RHS, it sponsors the famous Chelsea Flower Show
    $1000 13
Jabez Stone enlists the aid of a statesman to help save his soul in this story by Stephen Vincent Benet
    $1000 14
In the lost Leonardo work "Salvator Mundi", Jesus has the long, spiraling curls called these

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

Julia Finn Kristen
$600 $2,400 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Julia Finn Kristen
$3,000 $3,600 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

MATH
WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS
MOVIE DIRECTORS
MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE
A BIRD IN THE HAND
2 IN THE BUSH
    $400 19
It's the absolute value of negative 143
    $400 30
This crime is in Nevada's capital
    $400 25
Alfred Hitchcock, "The Master of" this tense feeling, defined it as when the audience knows more than the characters
    $400 27
Your massage oil may contain this vitamin, aka alpha-tocopherol; it's thought to promote wound healing
    $400 24
It's the bird in the hands here; Hans Christian Andersen wrote of an "Ugly" one
    $400 16
The 2 Presidents Bush were both graduates of Yale University, attending in these 2 decades
    $800 21
A sexagesimal system is based on this number
    $800 20
This wind in Maine's
    $800 6
In the '80s this sitcom actress made a successful move to directing with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" & "Big"
    $800 22
It's the fat extracted from the beans used to make chocolate; turns out it softens & lubricates the skin
    $800 23
That's not a chick in the hand but this bird with a longer name
    $800 15
In the names of both the Presidents Bush, "W" is short for this
    $1200 28
Also a type of equation, it describes functions of the form
f(x) = ax2 + bx + c
    DD: $1,800 1
This noodle in California's
    $1200 3
You'll find illustrations from "Ed Wood" & "Sweeney Todd" among the 1000+ in the book "The Art of" this director
    $1200 7
Many massage oils have the scent of this purplish plant "the herb of love" that's a member of the mint family
    $1200 9
It's perhaps the most fitting bird to hold the symbol of peace in its beak
    $1200 12
The 2 daughters of the last President Bush
    $1600 26
The area of a parallelogram equals b times h, short for these 2 measures
    $1600 2
This tree in Tennessee's
    $1600 5
This director of the miniseries "Small Axe" & the film "12 Years a Slave" is not the same guy as the movie star who married Ali MacGraw
    $1600 17
If your massage oil is scented, it may also be used for this, the use of fragrance to help with mood or behavior
    $1600 10
On its leg, the bird is undergoing this zoological process, also called ringing
    $1600 13
2 sons of George H.W. Bush have been governors, of these 2 states
    $2000 29
Calculated as the ratio of s to r, this measure of an angle is similar to the word that r stands for
    $2000 8
This Roman poet in Rhode Island's
    $2000 4
Long before "Spider-Man", he first made his name with "The Evil Dead" when he was just 22
    $2000 18
Essence of this, which Thomas More called "the herb sacred to remembrance", is used as a scent in massage oils
    DD: $3,000 11
The type of hawk seen here is found in the name of this olden occupation of the guy holding it
    $2000 14
The 2 Democratic opponents George W. Bush beat in presidential elections

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Julia Finn Kristen
$12,600 $10,400 $8,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY NOVELS
The Atlanta History Center says this novel was "both beloved & condemned from almost the moment of its publication" in 1936

Final scores:

Julia Finn Kristen
$19,600 $8,600 $17,200
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Julia Finn Kristen
$12,600 $10,400 $12,600
19 R,
2 W		 14 R,
1 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $35,600

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Game tape date: 2023-11-06
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