Show #8997 - Tuesday, December 19, 2023

2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 1.
New opening featuring show crew.

Contestants

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Mike Elliott, a meat cutter originally from Derry, New Hampshire

Eva Thomas, an attorney from Brooklyn, New York

Jason Carpenter, a stand-up comic from Santa Rosa Valley, California

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Jeopardy! Round

MAMMALS IN LATIN
CAUTIONARY RHYMES
KING'S CROSSING
ALWAYS IN FASHION
UNOFFICIAL TEAM NICKNAMES
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
    $200 30
Porcus
    $200 27
An old adage tells us, "Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take" this
    $200 11
In a late 18th century National Convention vote he could not afford to lose, this French king was condemned to death, 387 to 334
    $200 29
This animal pattern is found in a variety of colors on everything from clothing & fashion accessories to furniture
    $200 26
The 'Aints:
This city's NFL squad during a 1980s lean stretch
    $200 1
It's the station at the end of a transport line, like Grand Central
    $400 22
Ursus
    $400 25
Scouts should know that the phrase "leaves of three, let it be" refers to this plant
    $400 15
Hark! the Harald angels sang in 1066 for Harald the Ruthless, king of this country, who was killed going up against Harold II
    $400 28
In 2023 Levi Strauss & Co. celebrated the 150th anniversary of these numeric jeans
    $400 23
The Peach Clobbers:
The hard-hitting 2013 edition of this MLB team
    $400 24
Revelation contains the line "I am Alpha &" this, "the beginning & the end"
    $600 21
Cetus
    $600 10
Do this "in white, you will have chosen all right" but do it "in green, ashamed to be seen" & worse, "in red, you'll wish yourself dead"
    $600 14
Unhorsed! Unhorsed! On Aug. 22, 1485 he lost his kingdom & his life after getting unhorsed
    $600 16
Always in fashion is this type of coat; the name referring to the color & the hair it's traditionally made from
    $600 18
The Broad Street Bullies: This NHL city's Flyers
    $600 7
Grammatically, this 2-word phrase refers to a period; California drivers are asked to come to one before a crosswalk
    $800 8
Vacca
    $800 20
"Red touch yellow, kill a fellow" refers to the lethal coral snake; "red touch black, friend of jack", to this harmless "royal" one
    DD: $2,000 12
In 1516, 11 years after losing the queen he called the "most excellent wife king ever had", this Castile royal left the castle
    $800 2
Popularly associated with Ray-Ban, these were originally created to protect military pilots' eyes from glare
    $800 17
Phi Slama Jama:
The 1983 Houston Cougars, led by this "Nigerian Nightmare" & future Hall of Famer
    $800 6
"Blow of mercy" in French, it's a finishing blow at the end of combat
    $1000 9
Cervus
    $1000 19
These 2 days of the week are rough, as day 1's "child is full of woe" & day 2's child "has far to go"
    $1000 13
On May 31, 1740, Friedrich Wilhelm I made his royal exit in Potsdam in this German-ruled kingdom founded 39 years before
    $1000 3
This French couture designer's New Look included A-line skirts & dresses in his 1955 spring collection
    $1000 4
The Greatest Show on Turf:
The late '90s-early 2000s edition of this team, then in St. Louis
    $1000 5
On televisions it refers to clarity of visual detail; legally, it's a verdict or final decision

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

Jason Eva Mike
$2,400 $2,600 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jason Eva Mike
$3,600 $4,200 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

FROM THE FRENCH
CORNERSTONES
SUPER SUCCESSFUL SEQUELS
AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS
IT HAPPENED IN 2023
COUNTRIES INSIDE OTHER COUNTRY NAMES
    $400 6
The flying Montgolfier brothers used this word for a fabric device that slows your fall
    $400 26
The cornerstone for their monument was laid atop Kill Devil Hill on December 17, 1928
    $400 27
2022:
Captain Pete Mitchell is back in the cockpit
    $400 30
Marcus Clarke's "For the Term of His Natural Life" is partly set on this island, then called Van Diemen's Land
    $400 29
Tragedy struck this island in August as wildfires ravaged the historic town of Lahaina
    $400 28
Inside the name Somalia, you can find this other conflict-plagued land to the west
    $800 5
Naturally, the French gave us this word for the year a wine was bottled
    $800 24
In the cornerstone for the Thompson Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church in Auburn, N.Y., she placed a coin with a profile of John Brown
    DD: $799 23
2015:
A new theme park creates Indominus rex, a genetically modified dinosaur
    $800 19
Patrick White's "The Eye of the Storm", about a matriarch & her children, has been called a Down Under version of this 1608 play
    $800 21
In February, one of these, reportedly carrying spy tech from China, was shot down off the coast of South Carolina
    $800 25
A nation on Hispaniola carries within its name this other Caribbean island country
    $1200 2
Words meaning "one-eyed" led to this word from French for a single eyeglass
    DD: $10,600 15
The cornerstone for this U.S. school's oldest building, the Wren Building, was placed in 1695
    $1200 7
2009:
This first "Transformers" sequel was No. 1 in domestic box office for the year
    $1200 20
The title of a novel about settler/indigenous conflict is from a quote about "a secret river of" this in Australian history
    $1200 10
On September 15, some 13,000 members of this union went on strike against Ford, G.M. & Stellantis
    $1200 12
2 of the 3 countries that carry the nation of Guinea within their own names
    $1600 3
Beans are a necessity in this dish, whose name in French originally meant a dish used on the stove
    $1600 13
In 1759 the cornerstone for the oldest synagogue in the U.S., the Touro Synagogue, was laid in this Rhode Island city
    $1600 8
2010:
Jeff Bridges & Bruce Boxleitner reprise their roles in a digital world
    $1600 22
This sweeping, multi-decade Colleen McCullough novel includes an ill-fated affair between a priest & a young woman
    $1600 1
When park rangers in Queensland found Toadzilla, a nearly 6-pound one of these invasive amphibians, they had first thought it was fake
    $1600 18
Inside the name of the most populous nation in Africa, you'll find this uranium-rich desert nation
    $2000 4
This side post of a window or doorway gets its name from Middle French for "leg"
    $2000 14
At the laying of the cornerstone for the Bunker Hill Monument, the Marquis de Lafayette & this famous orator led the ceremony
    $2000 9
2020:
Detectives played by Will Smith & Martin Lawrence fight drug lords in Miami
    $2000 16
A group of Yanks & Aussies await the arrival of nuclear fallout from the Northern Hemisphere in this Nevil Shute novel
    $2000 11
On January 8, government buildings in Brazil's capital were stormed by supporters of this ousted president
    $2000 17
This Arabian Peninsula nation's name can be found within the name of a European country with a Black Sea coast

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jason Eva Mike
$12,000 $5,800 $2,799
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

INVENTIONS
Invented in 1816, it takes its name from Greek for "chest" & "observe"

Final scores:

Jason Eva Mike
$12,000 $5,800 $2,754
Finalist 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jason Eva Mike
$12,000 $7,800 $13,400
17 R,
4 W		 15 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $33,200

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Game tape date: 2023-11-28
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