Show #9002 - Tuesday, December 26, 2023

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

Contestants

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Myles Karp, a journalist and consultant from Weston, Florida

Emily Kawaler, a bioinformatician from New York, New York

Christopher Pennant, a sports journalist and announcer from Chicago, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round

TIMES: NEW ROMAN
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
FORKS, KNIVES, SPOONS
JUST "E"AT IT
    $200 29
In 2015 this man with some degree of pull in the Rome area inaugurated a year of jubilee which drew 20 million pilgrims
    $200 28
Besides her cat, a witch ends up giving a ride to a dog, a bird & a frog in the rhymingly titled "Room on the..."
    $200 2
Reese Witherspoon won for her work in "Walk the Line" playing this country music singer & songwriter
    $200 25
A beloved moose
    $200 30
Forks, Washington is the setting for this saga that you can really sink your teeth into
    $200 24
In the U.S., this French word signifies the main course, but in France it means the first course
    $400 19
In 2004 in Rome, the 25 member states of this organization signed a treaty that established a Constitution for the continent
    $400 27
A Newbery Medal winner, "The One and Only" him tells the story from the perspective of a captive gorilla
    $400 1
17 Best Actress nominations & 2 wins puts Meryl Streep in a class by herself, with her last win so far for playing this political leader
    $400 9
To select doggie treats
    $400 26
In 2020 this umlauted ice cream brand got rid of those cute little non-recyclable plastic spoons from some mini cups
    $400 16
This member of the nightshade family is technically a fruit
    $600 4
1998's Rome statute establishing the ICC, or this, came into play in 2023 when Armenia signed on, angering Putin, who has a warrant
    $600 13
A beloved 1964 book by him begins, "Once there was a tree... and she loved a little boy"
    $600 10
The ayes had it for Jessica Chastain in 2022 for her Best Actress-winning role in this movie about TV evangelists
    $600 8
Failed to arrive in time for the light fog
    $600 14
This iconic product from the Victorinox Company was created by Cutler Karl Elsener in 1897
    $600 5
This type of milk has had its water content reduced by 60%, giving a creamy taste when used in desserts
    $800 3
Talk about a circus! In 2023 historians were not happy after fans caused a 1.3 shake at a Travis Scott show at this Rome landmark
    $800 6
"The Bad Beginning", written under this pen name, is dedicated to the "unfortunate" Beatrice, "darling, dearest, dead"
    DD: $4,800 17
In 1997, picking up her first of 3 Oscars for Best Actress, she thanked her son Pedro & her husband Joel
    $800 7
A more heavily fleshed falling star
    $800 15
A classic TV commercial showed that this brand of knife could cut through a tin can & still slice a tomato with precision
    $800 11
This round yellow Dutch cheese is partly made from skimmed milk & coated in red paraffin
    $1000 20
In 2023, "P" was for the 2,000-year-old palazzo reopened to the public after 50 years of restoration, as well as this Roman hill it's on
    $1000 18
In "Ghost Boys" the ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the civil rights movement
    $1000 23
In 2002, Halle Berry made history taking the Best Actress award for her role as a grieving mother in this film
    $1000 21
To employ ornamental evergreen trees of the Taxus genus
    $1000 22
This Edgar Lee Masters "Anthology" is a collection of epitaphs of residents of a fictional small town
    $1000 12
These can be purple to black in color, sour right off the tree, but good in a jam or pie

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

Christopher Emily Myles
$1,800 $4,400 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Christopher Emily Myles
$3,600 $2,200 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

MUSIC TERMS
TV COMEDIES BY WORKPLACE
YELLOW STONE
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
LITERAL NATIONAL NAMES
ADDEND"UM"
(Ken: The "U-M" combo will appear at the end of each response.)
    $400 29
A countertenor is an adult male voice that mostly lies within this female register
    $400 11
The Dunder Mifflin Paper Company
    $400 30
The insects seen here are forever encased in this fossilized resin
    $400 19
Following this disaster in 2005, Tulane was forced to close for several months, the first time since the Civil War
    $400 27
Almost as big as the continental U.S., it's the "southern" land
    $400 28
A government will sometimes grant this protection from extradition to a political refugee from another country
    $800 5
As a symbol, it means the next note should be lowered by a semitone; as a disparaging word, it's applied to out-of-tune singers
    $800 10
The Sunshine Cab Company
    $800 25
In the Bible brimstone refers to this yellow stone whose compounds can be quite stinky
    $800 12
Confusingly, the University of Miami is in Florida, while Miami University is in this state
    $800 26
Not Italy's but this other country's name means "people from Rome"
    $800 15
This word for a final demand is in the title of the third Jason Bourne film
    $1200 4
Haydn's "The Creation" is a famed one of these large-scale compositions for solo singers, chorus & orchestra
    $1200 9
CONTROL, a D.C.-based counter-intelligence agency
    $1200 24
The most common type of gallstones is made up of bile & this waxy fatty substance (though we're not sure if it's HDL or LDL)
    $1200 6
This school's Brigade of Midshipmen regularly present formal dress parades accompanied by its band
    DD: $4,400 2
Throughout its history, it's been the "island of copper"
    $1200 16
It can be something especially desirable, or a dark reddish purple color
    DD: $2,200 1
You can use the black notes on a keyboard to play this common 5-note scale
    $1600 7
Cleveland's Winfred-Louder Department Store
    $1600 23
Named for its lemony yellow color, it's one of two birthstones for November
    $1600 17
This college located in Emily Dickinson's hometown runs a museum that celebrates her life & work
    $1600 21
This Middle East nation is the "land of the Aryans"
    $1600 14
In Germany this secondary school prepares one for higher education, not athletics
    $2000 3
Italian for "going", it means to play at a walking pace--not too fast, not too slow
    $2000 8
Sacred Heart Hospital
    $2000 22
Like emerald, heliodor is a variety of this hard, 5-letter mineral
    $2000 18
Site of the Scopes Monkey Trial, Dayton, Tennessee has a college named for this statesman who assisted the prosecution
    $2000 20
According to legend, you've made it "there" when you get to this southeast Asian sultanate
    $2000 13
Peat moss is dead moss at the bottom of a bog, while this moss is found still growing on the surface

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Christopher Emily Myles
$10,800 $7,600 $10,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

BOOK CHARACTERS
Early on in a 1966 novel, this title character beats the protagonist in maze races; later on he bites him

Final scores:

Christopher Emily Myles
$20,800 $10,900 $4,799
Finalist 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Christopher Emily Myles
$10,800 $16,200 $10,000
17 R,
3 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 12 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $37,000

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Game tape date: 2023-11-29
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