Show #8994 - Thursday, December 14, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Hearts semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Andrew Chaikin, a musician and teacher from San Francisco, California

Yungsheng Wang, a deputy public defender originally from Lafayette, Louisiana

Garrett Marcotte, a software engineer from Boulder, Colorado

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Jeopardy! Round

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY
TENNIS-Y WILLIAMS
LITERATURE
STATE OF THE COLLEGE
IT'S ALL RELATIVE
A PROVERBIAL MESS
(Ken: Please rearrange the mess we made in each of these clues into the correct proverb.)
    $200 28
Trace Jesus' steps in this city as he walked down the Via Dolorosa toward Golgotha
    $200 29
Venus & Serena grew up in this huge city's suburb of Compton, better known for rappers than groundstrokers
    $200 22
Homer begins this epic poem by telling us it's about the anger of Achilles
    $200 27
Weber State is near a "Great" lake in this state
    $200 30
It's a pendular timepiece with a case as tall as or taller than a person
    $200 21
Son father like like
    $400 23
A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East tube station
    $400 25
Venus took the 2000 & 2001 singles titles at this British Grand Slam event
    $400 18
Louis de Pointe du Lac, not Lestat, is the title undead being queried in this novel
    $400 26
It's the state of Wayne State University, attended by Jack White, Lily Tomlin & Steven Dorfman
    $400 24
In 1917 he founded Boys Town in Omaha, open to boys of all races & religions
    $400 20
Words louder than actions speak
    DD: $1,800 3
Starting at the Boston Common & ending at the Bunker Hill Monument is this 2-word path
    $600 19
In 2001 the Williams sisters got "animated" on the court in the "Tennis the Menace" episode of this Fox series
    $600 8
For telling the truth about a town's contaminated water supply in an Ibsen play, Dr. Thomas Stockmann becomes this title foe
    $600 16
Muncie in this state is home to Ball State University
    $600 11
Seen riding a flying gander, this character is usually traced back to a 1697 book by Charles Perrault
    $600 17
From a blood stone you get can't
    $800 2
Hike in the footsteps of settlers & Native Americans on the Natchez Trace, starting in Natchez in this state
    $800 13
In 2003 Serena completed a "Serena Slam", beating Venus 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 at this event in Melbourne
    $800 5
"A drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" is a line from his "Ode to a Nightingale"
    $800 7
Tufts is a centerpiece of Medford in this state
    $800 10
Covered in hair from head to foot, this member of "The Addams Family" spoke in a language all his own
    $800 15
Bright on the always side look
    $1000 1
Retracing this 1930s journey will take you thousands of miles from Ruijin to Yan'an
    $1000 12
The way this dad of Venus & Serena managed their careers brought some criticism, but turned out pretty well
    $1000 4
In this 1948 Shirley Jackson short story, a village selects a sacrificial stoning victim to ensure a good harvest
    $1000 6
The Campbell Fighting Camels are from near the Cape Fear River in this state
    $1000 9
This first novel by Theodore Dreiser tells of a young woman's rise to become a successful Broadway actress
    $1000 14
Never better than late

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

Garrett Yungsheng 永勝 Andrew
$1,400 $4,200 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Garrett Yungsheng 永勝 Andrew
$2,400 $5,400 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

BROWNIAN NOTIONS
SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT
THE SEA'S BOUNTY
A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH"
HELL
HIGH WATER
    $400 12
He soulfully sang it's a "man's world, but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl"
    $400 23
Before she was a pretty woman, this actress mopped the floor of the title joint in "Mystic Pizza"
    $400 29
They're seen here accompanying shrimp & lacking their distinctive shells
    $400 28
Bread, as the mainstay of the human diet, is known as this
    $400 27
In Norse mythology, Hel, daughter of this troublesome god, ruled Niflheim, where sinners were tormented
    $400 30
After floods in 1966, UNESCO made efforts to save this Italian city & its treasures, like the Biblioteca Marciana
    $800 11
Referring to the nickname "Governor Moonbeam", he says, "I've earned that moniker"
    $800 18
Later movies in the "Rocky" oeuvre include scenes in the restaurant Mr. Balboa opened & named for her
    $800 24
In a Japanese restaurant, kani is this crustacean & kani-kamaboko is fake this crustacean
    $800 21
A source of rescue in a crisis; phone a friend is one example
    $800 25
Delacroix depicted this Roman poet guiding Dante across the River Styx
    $800 26
The Zuiderzee Flood of 1287 killed 50,000 but also connected this then-village to the sea, & the rest is Dutch history
    $1200 2
He said he knew "slave-holders" would not give up their slaves "till they felt a big stick about their heads"
    $1200 5
Danny Aiello awkwardly proposes to Cher in an Italian restaurant in this 1987 film
    $1200 4
Boquerones, which are these, are a favorite on tapas in Spain; they've fallen out of favor on American pizzas
    $1200 20
Alliterative term used to publicize a circus performer who puts himself at great risk
    DD: $7,600 8
Milton used this word for the capital of Hell; now it means wild confusion
    $1200 22
In 1887, 1931 & 1938 northern China was devastated by flooding of the Huang He, this colorful river
    $1600 1
Before he became U.K. prime minister, he said economic & "environmental objectives now... reinforce each other"
    $1600 3
Mookie throws a trash can through the window of Sal's Famous Pizzeria in Brooklyn in this 1989 film
    $1600 19
The Dover type of this fish isn't confined to British waters; it's found in the Mediterranean
    $1600 6
Though they sound like they sit on the beach, they're the senior British army regiment & first saw action in the 1600s
    $1600 7
This French existentialist's play "No Exit" posits that hell is other people
    $1600 9
A dam collapse in this state led to the deadly 1889 Johnstown Flood
    DD: $5,000 10
She ran Vanity Fair & the Daily Beast but said, "I didn't see myself as an editor. I wanted to be a playwright"
    $2000 17
In the final scene of this film, Secondo makes a frittata for Brother Primo in the Paradise restaurant
    $2000 16
This shellfish of the family Mytilidae needs its beard removed, a little steaming & yum
    $2000 15
One of the Arabian Nights begins with a proud king who's not so proud when this heavenly being appears to him
    $2000 14
In Greek mythology the gods consigned their enemies to this region under Hades
    $2000 13
2010-11 floods in Australia were exacerbated by this Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon with a feminine name

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Garrett Yungsheng 永勝 Andrew
$4,800 $18,600 $26,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

BUSINESS
Of the Big 4 U.S. airlines, the 4 that each have over 15% of the domestic market, it's the youngest

Final scores:

Garrett Yungsheng 永勝 Andrew
$0 $37,200 $15,999
3rd place: $10,000 Finalist 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Garrett Yungsheng 永勝 Andrew
$6,600 $18,600 $17,200
12 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 22 R,
5 W		 18 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $42,400

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Game tape date: 2023-11-08
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