Show #8999 - Thursday, December 21, 2023

2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Michael Vaz, a tutor from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Karen Morris, a veterinary student from Christiansburg, Virginia

Iris Masucci, a pharmacist from Rockville, Maryland

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Jeopardy! Round

A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE
BOOK TOCK
TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE
UNION ACTIONS
SAY, "BUSTER"
LEGEND DAIRY
    $200 30
Danica McKellar is a big-city event planner who goes home to Tenn. to work a "Christmas at" this theme park... & maybe find love
    $200 28
Cinderella is warned by her godmother that if she stays at the ball after midnight, her coach will be one of these again
    $200 25
Songs from this 2016 film include "Another Day Of Sun" & "City Of Stars"
    $200 29
Cemetery Ridge was the site of the decisive action at this 1863 battle, with the Union emerging victorious
    $200 26
Harry Houdini was called one of these in 1930, half a century before Bill Murray
    $200 13
If you wanna give your cream cheese some pizzazz, add some of these, which are related to the onion
    $400 24
A woman falls for the son of the man out to close her toy store in the alliteratively titled this Mass. island "Noel"
    $400 22
In "Peter Pan", this pirate's arm was eaten by a crocodile that also swallowed a ticking clock
    $400 18
Originally a small linen store in New Jersey, this home furnishing chain filed for bankruptcy in 2023
    $400 27
Union General Sheridan said, "No one did more to win the war than this "Boy General" & sent his wife the Appomattox surrender table
    $400 23
Originally meaning a very big bomb, now it's a movie that's a very big not bomb
    $400 11
Back in 1936 Louis Meyer drank buttermilk on Victory Lane after winning this auto race & a tradition was born
    $600 4
Writer of many a Christmas film, Anna White got down to business in 2021 with "Christmas" this 3-letter top job at a company
    $600 17
This author created Tik-Tok of Oz, a mechanical man who ran on clockworks
    $600 1
Seen here, it's a mix of Hawaiian & Asian-themed appetizers
    $600 20
Union victory at the September 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam emboldened President Lincoln to take this historic action 5 days later
    $600 16
To "come on like" these law enforcers means to do something with great force or speed
    $600 10
P.T. Anderson said the line in "There Will Be Blood" about drinking this was inspired by testimony in the Teapot Dome scandal
    $800 6
A bit after going on a bender in "The Breakfast Club", this actor met Santa Jr. in 2002; don't you forget about him
    $800 21
Published in 1930, "The Secret of the Old Clock" was the first mystery this teen detective solved
    $800 2
When you buy one of these, like a McDonald's or an Arby's, you might have to pay the parent company a percentage of sales
    $800 14
Outnumbered & outgunned, Union Major Robert Anderson surrendered this Charleston harbor spot April 13, 1861
    $800 5
In the 1850s, it meant an American who caused conflict in Latin America; a bit later, it came to mean a tactic in a legislature
    $800 9
Since 1911, a hallmark of its state fair is a cow sculpted from about 600 pounds of butter
    $1000 7
It's not the Magi--nor Selleck, Danson & Guttenberg--but a trio of brothers who find themselves caring for a tot in this 2022 film
    $1000 19
In "Great Expectations", all the clocks in her house stopped at 20 minutes to 9, when she learned of her fiancé's betrayal
    DD: $1,000 3
4 young men of Navarre face off against 4 ladies in a game of courtship in this Shakespeare comedy
    $1000 15
Black Union sailors John H. Lawson & James Mifflin got the Medal of Honor for their actions at the 1864 battle of this Alabama bay
    $1000 8
A 1906 newspaper article examined Teddy Roosevelt's record as one of these, based on enforcement of the Sherman Act
    $1000 12
Jamie Lee Curtis said she did ads for this yogurt brand so that she could spend more time at home with her family

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

Iris Karen Michael
$1,800 $200 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Iris Karen Michael
$2,800 $3,600 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

FOLKLORE & LEGEND
SAMPLING
FIRST LADIES' MAIDEN NAMES
PHILOSOPHY
WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS
EUR"O"s
    $400 28
Also called Bigfoot, it's the Salish word for a huge, hairy man-monster said to inhabit Pacific Northwest woods
    $400 26
When searched by works as an artist, whosampled.com lists 8,840 tracks that sampled this "hardest working man in show business"
    $400 30
Better known as Pat: Thelma Ryan
    $400 29
It's the English translation of René Descartes' dictum "cogito, ergo sum"
    $400 25
Once used to mean lust, it's now a 2-syllable synonym for indigestion
    $400 18
This town in Provence gave its name to a Dutch royal house
    $800 6
This mythical giant whose camp stove was said to cover an acre got credit for creating Puget Sound & the Black Hills
    $800 10
Dua Lipa's "Love Again" samples a cover of "My Woman", a song co-written by this "White Christmas" crooner
    $800 27
A distant relation of an 1850s president:
Barbara Pierce
    $800 23
Thomism is a school of thought named for this 13th c. theologian who tried to reconcile Aristotle with Christianity
    $800 20
Now meaning able to use both hands equally, it once denoted deceit
    $800 17
This capital of France's Loiret départements is old, not new
    $1200 5
There's a statue of this guy, hammer in hand, outside the Great Bend Tunnel in West Virginia
    $1200 7
Okurrr! This woman samples the boogaloo song "I Like It Like That" on a 2018 hit
    $1200 11
Wife of a war hero:
Julia Dent
    $1200 19
Tranquility of mind is important in this -ism taught by its founder Zeno from a porch in Athens
    $1200 2
An Italian word for "baby boy", it meant a man, especially one who was inept or dumb, before it meant an attractive but dumb woman
    $1200 16
What's that smell? Must be all the industrial pollution in this big river that forms part of the Poland-Germany border
    $1600 1
West Virginia has a statue of this half-human, half-insect creature supposedly first sighted in Point Pleasant in the mid-1960s
    $1600 8
Grooves from bands like Parliament gave this West Coast subgenre of rap from the early '90s its letter-perfect name
    $1600 12
Stepmom of Alice: Edith Carow
    $1600 24
It may produce the greatest good for the greatest number to know this philosopher was a great advocate of utilitarianism
    DD: $2,500 3
Before it meant any chain of islands, Archipelago was another name for this arm of the Mediterranean Sea
    $1600 14
From northern Scotland, cross the Pentland Firth to get to these islands
    DD: $4,800 13
Legend says the woman with this nickname crucially carried water at the Battle of Monmouth
    $2000 9
"Levels" by this late Swedish DJ samples "Something's Got A Hold On Me" by Etta James
    $2000 22
A big help to her disabled husband:
Edith Bolling
    $2000 21
Attributed to this mathematician & philosopher of ancient Greece is the observation that "all things are numbers"
    $2000 4
This adjective that means moody or readily evaporating comes from Latin for "to fly"; it once meant a flying creature
    $2000 15
It's home to the immersive digital museum Viking Planet

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Iris Karen Michael
$7,700 $10,400 $2,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

FROM PAGE TO STAGE
The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates

Final scores:

Iris Karen Michael
$5,400 $5,399 $2,000
Finalist 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Iris Karen Michael
$7,800 $10,400 $6,800
13 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
3 W		 15 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $25,000

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Game tape date: 2023-11-28
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