Show #8992 - Tuesday, December 12, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Henry Baer, a software engineer from San Francisco, California

Julia Markham Cameron, an attorney from Brooklyn, New York

Gary Hollis, a chemistry professor from Roanoke, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round

HAVE YOU 8?
AUTO RACING
BLACK MYSTERY & CRIME FICTION
ANIMALS
SOUNDS KINDA "IFF"-Y
I'M ABSOLUTELY SURE
    $200 23
The main part of this state is its 8 main islands
    $200 29
Designating you as the winner, it's the flag each driver wants to see first at the finish of an auto race
    $200 28
Partly set in Kingston, the plot of "A Brief History of Seven Killings" includes the attempted murder of this reggae singer
    $200 25
The distinctive shoebill is also known as the whale-headed one of these baby deliverers
    $200 26
The top county cop
    $200 27
He was the host of "Jeopardy!" back in 1964
    $400 22
Ranging in size from 2 inches in the Atlantic to 30 feet in the Pacific, they have 8 muscular tentacles
    $400 30
It's the aquatic term for the rapid side-to-side movement a car's rear end can make while racing
    $400 11
In "Blacktop Wasteland" Bug Montage is a wheelman, aka this "driver"; often idling out back during a heist
    $400 9
The bulls of these African animals can weigh more than 6 tons
    $400 10
A minor argument; I'm sorry, honey
    $400 18
There are this many feet in 2 statute miles
    DD: $600 5
The 8 ranks in this 8-letter biological classification system start with domain & end with species
    $600 24
As the lead qualifier for an auto racing event, you'll occupy this "position" in the front row at the start of the race
    $600 12
"Zora & Me" by Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon is a mystery series loosely based on the life of this early 20th century writer
    $600 7
A nide is a brood of these birds, perhaps the ring-necked ones
    $600 1
A small light boat for one person
    $600 16
It's an apple developed in Japan in the 1930s or a mountain developed much earlier
    $800 6
It's a common knot or an old compulsory move for skaters
    $800 4
This type of auto racing start bears the name of a French town famous for a 24-hour race
    $800 13
In "White Butterfly" P.I. Easy Rawlins said jazz cats came by Cadillac & bluesmen by bus or by thumb to Watts in this West Coast city
    $800 8
The Chinese zodiac's 12-year cycle begins & ends with these 2 3-letter animals
    $800 2
The first "T" in GATT, they're taxes one nation puts on goods imported from another
    $800 17
This planet is 318 times as massive as Earth
    $1000 20
When filled, the L-shell around a nucleus will have 8 of these in it
    $1000 15
Also a term for architectural drawing, it's the fuel-saving practice of one car closely following another
    $1000 21
The name of this underworld author of "Mama Black Widow" & "Pimp" inspired the "Ice" part of Ice-T's stage name
    $1000 14
Russian circuses have often featured these animals, a national symbol, trained in the art of juggling with their feet!
    $1000 3
A brief passing odor
    $1000 19
This worldwide secret society founded its first British grand lodge in 1717

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

Gary Julia Henry
$800 $2,800 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Gary Julia Henry
$3,800 $4,400 $4,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

YES, I'VE ETON
SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER
ANATOM"E"
STICKY STUFF
McPEOPLE
WORDS OF PEACE
    $400 18
He hopefully had a ball at Eton before going on to write "Thunderball"
    $400 4
This George Costanza portrayer was the first U.S. Treasury Secretary
    $400 26
Useful in nudging, this hinge joint is formed by the meeting of the humerus with the radius & ulna
    $400 29
After a rugby scrum, you might require what the Brits call a sticking plaster, one of these
    $400 30
He was first elected to the Senate from Arizona in 1986
    $400 27
This peaceful word is also a lack of wind, making sailors feel unpeaceful
    $800 5
As a student at Eton, he did not have his own laptop computer, despite being second in line to the British throne
    $800 7
Set on controlling the vichyssoise supply, TV hosts Greg Kinnear & John Henson are vying for the role of this fascist
    $800 25
This outer layer of skin is thicker on the palms of the hands & the soles of the feet
    $800 20
This brand was conceived in the 1940s by a Swiss engineer after he examined sticky burrs on his dog
    $800 22
This author has written Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of John Adams & Harry Truman
    $800 24
Be this peaceful word, also the name of a famous lake in Essex County, New York
    $1200 8
In the 1940s Marshall Field III, who had fun times at Eton, merged his Sun & Times papers in this city
    $1200 14
This Wham! frontman continually barges into the apartment of the actor who plays Kramer
    $1200 2
This hard layer that covers the crown of a tooth is not living & contains no nerves
    $1200 9
More than 1 million fossil bones have been recovered at this sticky-but-popular LA tourist attraction
    $1200 6
Ray Kroc sold milkshake mixers to these brothers & the fast-food industry was changed forever
    $1200 12
Although they meant it in another sense, Three Dog Night sang of "an old fashioned love song comin' down in three-part" this
    $1600 17
James Oglethorpe went to Eton, did other stuff, then founded this colony in America
    $1600 15
Avuncular Seinfeld relative who kvetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"
    $1600 1
The name of this flap of cartilage comes from the Greek for "upon" & "tongue"
    $1600 10
Cyanoacrylates are a family of fast-acting adhesives commonly known by this "demented" name
    DD: $4,000 13
Today an asteroid bears the name of this New Hampshire teacher
    $1600 11
The spaceship on "Firefly", or a state of peace
    $2000 19
In power in the 1720s & 1730s, this Etonian is considered England's first prime minister
    $2000 28
The Elaine actress was accused of treason against the French in this scandal
    $2000 3
This other name for the auditory tube honors an Italian anatomist
    $2000 21
The silicone type of this window-sealing material makes an excellent adhesive
    $2000 23
Get to know the real Jackie O at a 2023-2024 exhibit at the National First Ladies' Library at this woman's Canton, Ohio home
    DD: $3,000 16
When the Eagle landed in 1969, this 11-letter word of peace was mentioned

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Gary Julia Henry
$20,800 $800 $9,600
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN LITERATURE
Chapter 100 of this novel introduces the one-armed Captain Boomer of the Samuel Enderby

Final scores:

Gary Julia Henry
$20,812 $1,600 $10,834
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Gary Julia Henry
$20,400 $4,800 $9,600
26 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $34,800

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Game tape date: 2023-11-08
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