Show #8998 - Wednesday, December 20, 2023

2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Jake Garrett, a football coach and teacher from Trussville, Alabama

Sam Claussen, a history professor from Santa Clarita, California

Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

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Jeopardy! Round

LET'S TAKE A PEEK
QUITE A SITE
MOVIE VIEWING
A LOOK BACK
OH, "IC"
IT'S A VISION BOARD
    $200 26
The grouping of peacock feathers is called this, like the part of a bride's dress that follows behind her
    $200 30
Dynamite was used for 90% of the carving of this South Dakota landmark named for a New York lawyer in 1885
    $200 29
Sung in this movie:
"I'm just Ken (& I'm enough), & I'm great at doing stuff"
    $200 28
Antitrust suits led to the 1984 breakup of the Bell system, which had long monopolized this service across the United States
    $200 27
It's the term for a 200th anniversary; what's the traditional gift?
    $200 21
3 children in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 are among those who have had visions of this place of much fire & groaning
    $400 24
In 1994, this vaunted race ventured across La Manche for a bit, taking an excursion through Dover
    $400 23
Peace be with you in this French royal residence; originally used as a hunting lodge, it began getting super fancy in 1661
    $400 25
She auditioned for "Twilight", but said she didn't even get a callback; eh, she's done okay since then
    $400 22
In the 1630s a bulb of Semper Augustus, a type of this, is said to have sold for 13,000 florins, or about the price of a house
    $400 7
This form of poem might begin, "There once was a man from Kentucky" & get... saucy
    $400 20
St. Catherine of Siena had many visions of Jesus; in one he removed this from her body & in another, replaced it with his own
    $600 9
Hagia Sophia has four of these tapered structures that stretch into the sky; the red one is thought to be the oldest
    $600 3
In 1886 the circle got taken out of this landmark "Circus" with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue
    $600 16
The line in the script for this 1942 classic was "Here's good luck to you, kid", but Bogie made a slight adjustment
    $600 11
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton signed the 1866 "Petition for Universal" this, addressed to Congress
    $600 6
It's a difficult situation that leaves you with a tough choice; you've gotten into a fine 11-letter one
    $600 19
In the first book in English by a woman, Julian of Norwich lists visions including the universe as the size of this
    $800 8
The group in the lab includes Alexander Fleming who discovered this antibiotic
    $800 1
Ah, the wonder of this lost city! See the Intihuatana, hitching post of the Sun!--a 6' sundial damaged in 2000 in a beer ad film shoot!
    $800 18
Ellen Burstyn used her salary for "Believer", a sequel to this '70s horror film, to fund a scholarship for actors at Pace U.
    $800 10
Outraging many whites, in 1901, Teddy Roosevelt invited this eminent Black educator to dine with him at the White House
    $800 4
You're responding correctly so often, you're "putting on a" this! We're gonna call you Mayo!
    $800 12
The prophet Zechariah envisions 4 of these, pulled by horses of different colors, but they don't race each other
    $1000 13
Moscow's Red Square is home to a cathedral named in honor of this saint, Wonderworker of Moscow
    $1000 2
Let's take a 2.1-million-year trip through time & examine exposed deposits in this gorge, the "cradle of mankind"
    $1000 17
He not only played the title role in "Creed III", he also made his directorial debut
    DD: $3,000 14
6 days before Robert E. Lee's surrender, the Confederate government fled this city, & Confederate troops burned much of it down
    $1000 5
Generally speaking, the president appoints this "General" to assist the Attorney General
    $1000 15
In his "First Vision", in New York State in 1820, he asked Jesus which church had the truth & Jesus said none of them

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 14):

Juveria Sam Jake
$3,800 $8,200 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Juveria Sam Jake
$5,600 $10,400 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

A REAL SOB STORY
2020s TV
DON'T EAT WITH YOUR HANDS
FAMOUS FINNS
OPERA
GOING TO THE DOG BREED WORDS
    $400 27
In a 1594 play he tells his brother Marcus Andronicus that a woman's tears are like "honey-dew upon a gather'd lily"
    $400 25
Arrrrgh! The manga-based Netflix show "One Piece" follows Monkey D. Luffy on his quest to become the king of these
    $400 30
Technology historian Henry Petroski said that little frill on these in the party meatballs probably began as an anti-swallowing warning
    $400 29
In her first term, Tarja Halonen, Finland's first female president, had one of these of 88%, which, wow...
    $400 21
In this Rossini opera, the title character's son, Jemmy is quite the archer himself
    $400 23
A pugilist
    $800 26
Fern Arable bawls her eyes out after this runty pig is marked for the axe in a 1952 book, but her dad relents & Fern is happy
    $800 24
You can't swing a stick without hitting an assassin in "The Continental", set in the world of this Keanu Reeves guy
    $800 28
This type of fork has a special leftmost tine for cutting the treat, maybe while standing
    $800 12
While still a student, Linus Torvalds created this computer operating system & it's not quite a stupid answer
    DD: $15,200 10
Macchiato means coffee spotted with milk & "Una Macchia" is a Verdi aria about a spot from this Shakespeare woman
    $800 22
Human job of the guard of ewes
    $1200 13
This ghost who haunts a Hogwarts bathroom earned her name crying rivers of tears & wailing
    $1200 1
Set in a school for wannabe superheroes, "Gen V" is a spinoff of this hard-hitting Amazon Prime show
    $1200 19
KFC has introduced fit-on-your-finger versions of these hybrid items to eat sides such as coleslaw
    $1200 7
Marshal Carl Mannerheim gave his name to Finland's main line of defense in the 1939-40 war with this country
    $1200 3
In a Bela Bartok opera, Judith comes to live in this man's "Castle" & discovers its room of his previous wives
    $1200 20
Gotta think small... Juarez is in this Mexican state
    $1600 8
As they left Lórien, all the members of this title Tolkien group were "filled with tears. Gimli wept openly"
    $1600 2
A true miscarriage of justice, "Jury Duty" found this actor seen here playing himself as part of a fake trial
    $1600 6
Petrossian suggests a spoon made of mother-of-pearl is the material of choice for serving this
    $1600 5
Born Johan & known by the nickname Janne, this great composer took the French form of his first name
    $1600 4
The first Paris production of this composer, an 1861 "Tannhäuser", was a debacle due to dog whistles (the audible kind)
    $1600 15
A short piece of advice on how to do something, or a long stick used to note an item
    $2000 14
In this dystopian novel, Mrs. Phelps is brought to tears when Guy Montag reads "Dover Beach"
    $2000 18
Rosario Dawson wields dual lightsabers as this title hero, a former Jedi out to help a galaxy far, far away
    $2000 17
This Spanish dish is traditionally eaten from a communal pan with a wooden spoon to scrape out the crispy rice called socarrat
    $2000 11
His dad, Eliel, designed Helsinki's railway station; he designed St. Louis' Gateway Arch
    $2000 9
Anna Netrebko shot to world fame as Donna Anna in a va-va-voom 2002 production of this Mozart opera
    DD: $7,300 16
Nationality of one from Valletta

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Juveria Sam Jake
$32,400 $18,000 $17,900

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES
Of the 14 countries that border China, it's the only monarchy & the only one with a population under 1 million

Final scores:

Juveria Sam Jake
$36,400 $36,000 $35,800
Finalist 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Juveria Sam Jake
$18,000 $16,000 $12,600
24 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $46,600

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Game tape date: 2023-11-28
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