Show #9005 - Friday, December 29, 2023

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

Contestants

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

Xanni Brown, a postdoctoral researcher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio

Greg Czaja, a cardiologist from San Diego, California

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Jeopardy! Round

BEGINS WITH "S"
FEATURES OF THE PLANET
GIRL DINNER
FINANCE TERMS
TV WRITERS
CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS
    $200 23
This word follows for heaven's, for goodness' or for Pete's
    $200 28
Gale Crater, found to have evidence of past water
    $200 29
Start girl dinner off with this spicy vodka cocktail that can be made with V-8, tomato juice or even Clamato
    $200 30
Wearable term for the process of getting full rights to assets you've earned as an employee
    $200 27
Noah Kloor has written for "The Mandalorian" as well as "The Book of" this "Star Wars" bounty hunter
    $200 20
Some areas in the south have mild weather year-round:
BC
    $400 22
This hyphenated slang for a glance expressing disapproval has a body organ in it
    DD: $5,200 21
The remains of the MESSENGER probe, as of April 30, 2015
    $400 24
Thinly sliced filet mignon is flambéed tableside in the classic dish steak her
    $400 25
Differing by a number & a letter, a 403(B) has been called the lesser-known cousin of this retirement plan
    $400 26
FYI, Bill Diamond & Korby Siamis were 2 of the talented writers behind this series with Candice Bergen as the title TV journalist
    $400 19
Rich in mineral resources:
YT
    $600 3
This portmanteau word describes a holiday you take at home
    $600 4
Aphrodite Terra, a highland area the size of a continent along the equator
    $600 12
Margherita pizza reflects the colors of the Italian flag: red tomatoes, white cheese & these green leaves maybe from boy dinner
    $600 7
2-word phrase for the profits made from selling an asset like your house or your Alexander Ovechkin rookie card
    $600 18
Joshua Allen Griffith co-wrote the finale of the miniseries "Mrs. America", about the failed effort to pass this amendment
    $600 8
Its nicknames include "Million-Acre Farm" & "Spud Island":
PE
    $800 6
The name of a film genre set in ancient times pairs this weapon & footwear as seen here
    $800 1
Loxahatchee River Battlefield Park... hold on, that's in Florida; the planet? A slightly oval 10,000-mile-wide reddish storm system
    $800 11
You'll definitely wanna finish things off with these delicate sponge cakes, either on their own or in a Charlotte
    $800 15
This acronym that precedes "score" is named for a corporation that pioneered a method for calculating credit scores
    $800 14
Writers like Matt Groening & Michael Saikin brought us this animated Netflix series, sort of an anti-fairy tale
    $800 9
This territory stretches across much of the Canadian Arctic:
NU
    $1000 5
An ancient Greek word for "slanderer" became this word for a self-seeking flatterer
    $1000 2
Its unique tilt ensures 21-year winters for each pole; we'll throw in that Cupid is an inner moon
    $1000 13
Girl dinner includes girl dessert--crêpes her, in an orange butter sauce doused in Grand Marnier & set ablaze
    $1000 16
The Invesco this letter times 3 is an ETF that tracks the NASDAQ 100 index
    $1000 17
Ben Edlund & Susan Hurwitz Arneson put words into the mouth of this title blue superhero, as well as his sidekick Arthur
    $1000 10
Its 2 main parts are separated by the Strait of Belle Isle:
NL

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

Greg Xanni Christopher
$3,000 $4,600 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Greg Xanni Christopher
$11,800 $4,800 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY TOWNS & CITIES
IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER
WORDS ON THE MAP
A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY
MOVIE SCORES
GLAD-JECTIVES
    $400 21
In Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" an operative is sent to this onetime capital to help against Vietnamese Communists
    $400 27
The prizes bearing his name were first awarded on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of his death
    $400 26
It's a circle of the Earth that passes through both poles; the one through Greenwich is considered "prime"
    $400 2
A playing card begins this idiom that ends "master of none"
    $400 30
(Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) In "Inception", we dug into the French Archives for the original of this singer's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien", a melodic backbone for the film & a cue for characters to wake up from dreaming
    $400 28
"'Twas the Night Before Christmas" described St. Nicholas as "a right" this "old elf"
    $800 29
Robert Southey's poem "The Battle of Blenheim" recounts a 1704 victory at Blenheim during this war over who would be king of Spain
    $800 19
The Mayflower spent several weeks at Provincetown before arriving in Plymouth Harbor in December of this year
    $800 11
On a National Weather Service map, T.S. indicates this possible precursor to a hurricane
    $800 24
The "father of" this type of dance is Wm. Henry Lane, aka Master Juba, who used African-derived rhythms & elements of the Irish jig
    $800 20
The pioneering Philip Glass scored 2002's "The Hours", a film concerned with this equally avant-garde novelist
    $800 16
This 7-letter adjective can mean happy or able to float on liquid
    $1200 4
A writer becomes infatuated with a boy & his family in 1912's "Death in Venice" by this author
    $1200 1
Full of humor, weather predictions & practical advice, it was first published in December 1732 under a pseudonym
    $1200 8
A contour is a line on a map that connects points that have equal this
    $1200 15
The classic anti-drug song "White Lines" by Grandmaster Melle Mel was fittingly remixed for this 2023 film
    $1200 17
(Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) One of the few Spielberg films not scored by the great John Williams was this 2015 movie, in which my friend, the masterful composer, Thomas Newman, enhanced the Cold War drama through his craft
    $1200 12
This cheery adjective literally means "pertaining to Jupiter"
    $1600 3
"City Primeval" by Elmore Leonard takes place in the author's longtime home, this Midwest city
    $1600 5
Far from home, Pedro I became the first emperor of this country on December 1, 1822
    $1600 9
The Mercator is one variety of this method in which the curved surface of the earth is portrayed on a flat surface
    DD: $2,000 25
A room in this museum is home to many works by the anonymous 15th century artist called "The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet"
    $1600 22
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood has scored several of this director's films, like "There Will Be Blood" & "Licorice Pizza"
    $1600 13
Add "-ation" to the end of this adjective meaning happy & you get a stage of canonization
    DD: $6,000 7
In a Thomas Hardy tale, a man sells his wife & child; the wife later seeks him out in this city where he has become the mayor
    $2000 6
4 murderous knights came calling on him in Canterbury Cathedral December 29, 1170
    $2000 10
According to the "Rand McNally 2024 Large Scale Road Atlas" map of Arizona, one this equals about 20 these
    $2000 18
A 2009 biography about this pair was subtitled "The Couple Who Taught America How to Love"
    $2000 23
(Hans Zimmer presents the clue.) An all-time great for me was Giorgio Moroder's haunting score for this 1978 Alan Parker drama about a prisoner in a hopeless situation in a Turkish jail
    $2000 14
"Humor" us & tell us of this happy word whose name derives from the Latin for "blood"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Greg Xanni Christopher
$20,200 $17,600 $10,200

Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES
In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary

Final scores:

Greg Xanni Christopher
$35,200 $29,600 $16,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Greg Xanni Christopher
$15,400 $13,600 $9,800
23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 12 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $38,800

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Game tape date: 2023-11-29
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