Show #8991 - Monday, December 11, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

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Emma Saltzberg, a campaigns director from Brooklyn, New York

Donesh Olyaie, a marketing director from Los Angeles, California

Amal Dorai, a venture capital investor from San Francisco, California

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Jeopardy! Round

GOT YOUR NAME TAG?
IT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION
THE MUSIC OF CANADA
HYDROLOGY
CIRCLE TIME
F-STOP
(Ken: All these responses will end with the letter F.)
    $200 27
Here you go, Mr. Winner of this decisive 1805 naval battle
    $200 15
Article 1 of the 1864 first convention called for protection of military hospitals & these vehicles
    $200 19
You oughta know Flea & Dave Navarro played on this Ottawa singer's "You Oughta Know"
    $200 17
This term for the surface flow of excess rainwater sounds like an additional contest after a tie
    $200 29
If you saw the movie "Signs", you know the formation seen here is one of these geometric feats
    $200 30
The nape of the neck
    $400 25
May I just say you're an inspiration to millions & richly deserve this 2014 award
    $400 11
When Geneva is cited on "Hogan's Heroes", it's usually the 1929 convention devoted to protection of them
    $400 28
We'll give you more than 5 cents if you know this Alberta band hit No. 1 in 2001 with "How You Remind Me"
    $400 16
A structure such as the Pont du Gard, designed to transport water from a remote source, usually by gravity
    $400 26
In target archery hitting this center circle garners you 10 points
    $400 2
A recurring theme in a musical or literary work
    $600 21
We hope you'll be signing copies of this work, your fullest description of the ideal state
    $600 14
This country signed in 1949 with the reservation that it could use the red shield of David as a symbol
    $600 23
It was all about "Love" as this crooner from British Columbia was on top of the jazz albums chart in 2019
    DD: $3,000 7
The gradual movement of water through porous openings in rock or soil, it's also a way to make coffee
    $600 9
All official distances from New York City are measured from this point at the intersection of 59th Street, 8th Avenue & Broadway
    $600 1
A role in "Rocky Horror", or low-class folks
    $800 4
You might not want to wear your tag if there's anyone here from this land you ruled from 1971 to 1986
    $800 12
The 1906 convention called for ratifications to be filed in this nearby national capital
    $800 10
This Ontario rocker ruled the '80s with hits like "Cuts Like A Knife"
    $800 8
Effluent is wastewater that flows from one of these facilities, like NYC's Bowery Bay
    $800 24
In the U.K., a sign with 3 arrows going around in a circle indicates one of these, also called a traffic circle
    $800 3
To take off--your hat, for example
    $1000 6
Oops, they left off your last name; that's okay, Mr. 10th President, everyone knows it's this
    $1000 13
A 1977 protocol covers peoples fighting "against racist regimes in the exercise of their right of" this hyphenated choice
    $1000 20
This "Fly By Night" power trio formed in Toronto in 1968; Neil Peart joined in '74 (cue the drum solo)
    $1000 18
In the Americas this hydrological line stretches from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska down to southern Patagonia
    $1000 22
Parallel to the equator, it runs along 66 degrees, 30 minutes south latitude
    $1000 5
To interrogate a friendly spy after a mission

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

Amal Donesh Emma
$7,800 $3,200 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Amal Donesh Emma
$8,600 $4,600 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER…
DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES
THE 7 DEADLY SIN-ONYMS
HOME ON THE RANGE
ARTS
CRAFTS
    $400 20
Lies in a Tasmanian blackwood coffin, with a slouch hat & a sprig of wattle
    $400 30
"Citizen Kane"
(1941)
    $400 1
"O, beware, my lord, of" this synonym for envy
    $400 28
Let's give thanks to Kraft for making the Stove Top brand of this all year long
    $400 23
This architect fell in love with the Arizona desert & built Taliesin West, his winter home, in Scottsdale
    $400 25
It can refer to an open-air freight car, a cable car conveyance for skiers or a craft on the Canale Grande
    $800 22
Is honored with a pyramid-shaped memorial in Nasr City
    $800 29
"Play Misty for Me"
(1971)
    $800 19
A talking gecko might tell you it's a 5-letter synonym for avarice
    $800 27
This creamy pasta dish was created in the early 1900s; the Italian chef created it for his wife, but put his own first name on it
    $800 24
Mozart's Serenade No. 13 in G major has this nickname that includes the time of day it was intended for
    $800 26
Before powered airplanes, the Wright brothers built a successful type of this 6-letter flying craft in 1902
    $1200 4
Has a monument flanked by inscriptions from Pericles' funeral oration
    $1200 21
"The Virgin Suicides"
(1999)
    DD: $2,000 18
"Pride" synonym paired with "The Id" in a Freud title
    $1200 14
Also a way to cook eggs, it's an easy way to prepare salmon--simmer it in a liquid
    $1200 13
As in Louis Comfort Tiffany's work, an undulating line, often in the form of vine tendrils, is characteristic of this style
    $1200 10
In 1976, with Gene Roddenberry looking on, this Space Shuttle was rolled out of an Air Force hangar
    $1600 3
Is entombed in Plac Pilsudskiego
    $1600 5
"Eraserhead"
(1978)
    $1600 9
For lust:
A perfume from Alfred Dunhill
    $1600 15
Use whatever combination of seafood that you prefer for this stew created by Italian immigrants in San Francisco
    DD: $3,000 8
The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes "Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts"
    $1600 11
With "craft" in their name, these crafts, such as the PACV, were used by the U.S. in Vietnam to cross marshes & paddies
    $2000 2
Lies in Hietaniemi Cemetery near the tomb of Marshal Mannerheim
    $2000 6
"The 400 Blows"
(1959)
    $2000 17
Meaning sloth, it's from the Latin negative of dolere, "to feel pain"
    $2000 16
One of the mother sauces, brown sauce also goes by this more sophisticated ethnic name
    $2000 7
The one-syllable name of this Japanese theatrical form comes from a word meaning "talent" or "skill"
    $2000 12
Jason & his band of heroes sailed on this ship while in search of the Golden Fleece

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Amal Donesh Emma
$11,200 $12,600 $15,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY LITERATURE
Thomas Pynchon wrote that this novelist "in 1948 understood that despite the Axis defeat... fascism had not gone away"

Final scores:

Amal Donesh Emma
$22,400 $0 $25,201
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Amal Donesh Emma
$11,800 $12,600 $14,200
16 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R,
4 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $38,600

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Game tape date: 2023-11-07
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