Show #9006 - Monday, January 1, 2024

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

Contestants

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Christopher Pennant, a sports journalist and announcer from Chicago, Illinois (subtotal of $16,000)

Xanni Brown, a postdoctoral researcher originally from Cincinnati, Ohio (subtotal of $29,600)

Greg Czaja, a cardiologist from San Diego, California (subtotal of $35,200)

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Jeopardy! Round

HAUNTING LITERATURE
NATIVE AMERICANS
MOVIES BY GOOGLE SEARCH
(Ken: That might be made by a character in each film.)
PEOPLE
IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON
CROSSWORD CLUES "C"
    $200 30
Scrooge hears from this man that even after being dead for 7 years, he found "no rest, no peace. incessant torture of remorse"
    $200 26
Mescalero Apaches refer to this big predator as "my grandfather" & forbid bringing its claws or skins onto their reservation
    $200 29
"Kansas to Emerald City distance in miles, no traffic"; "red slippers from witch, curse?"; "winged monkeys unionized?"
    $200 27
Crop scientist M.S. Swaminathan helped end famine in this country & was known as the father of its green revolution
    $200 19
The Corvair from this make that also gave us the Corvette got bad PR from being declared "unsafe at any speed"
    $200 28
A container like the Igloo Party Bar
(6 letters)
    $400 5
The ghost of Delbert Grady advises Jack Torrance on family matters in this novel; that does not work out well for anybody
    $400 25
The people of Red Mountain are battling to protect their Nev. homeland at Thacker Pass from an open-pit mine for this battery element
    $400 14
"Makeup that makes you look like a rock"; "Panem child labor laws"; "are these berries I found poisonous?"
    $400 24
Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to take this woman's seat in the U.S. Senate after her death at age 90
    $400 20
This company's underpowered energy crisis-era Mustang II is, per Motor Trend, "the Mustang everyone loves to hate"
    DD: $3,800 16
Ohio hoopster or offhand attitude
(8 letters)
    $600 18
The ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff until he himself exits the land of the living in this 1847 novel
    $600 17
For 1968 actions at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, in 2022 Dwight Birdwell became the most recent of the 33 recipients of this
    $600 2
"Vegas flight for bachelorette but cheap"; "stomach hurts trying on dresses, why?"; "'Hold On' by Wilson Phillips lyrics"
    $600 8
Ernie Barnes' 1976 painting "The Sugar Shack" was used in the credits of this dyn-o-mite '70s sitcom
    $600 22
J.D. Power: "Even budget buyers have their standards, so as 2021 dawns", this "Grand" Dodge "is finally going to the last roundup"
    $600 11
A merchant of Gouda
(12 letters)
    $800 6
In a sequel, this character plays for the New Orleans Saints, crashes the Exxon Valdez & sees the ghost of Jenny, his childhood friend
    $800 1
Mohawk "Skywalkers" helped build much of Manhattan's skyline & this bridge to Fort Lee, New Jersey
    $800 3
"How to get rid of fairy tale creatures in swamp", "can you cook waffles if you have hooves?", "donkey-dragon power couples"
    $800 9
CUT is the Beverly Hills steakhouse of this celebrity chef seen here
    $800 21
An auto writer found the Aztek from this GM brand looked "like a Transformer figure based on a Dust Buster"
    $800 12
An official rebuke in Congress
(7 letters)
    $1000 7
166 ghosts, one the president's son, exist in a sort of pre-afterlife in George Saunders' "Lincoln in" this space
    $1000 4
Thunderbird Park in Victoria, B.C. is renowned for its collection of these monumental carvings, some more than 40 feet high
    $1000 13
"Cabbie weekly salary"; "Charles Palantine campaign woman name"
    $1000 10
She first gained fame for her Vietnam Veterans Memorial; more recently she designed New York City's Museum of Chinese in America
    $1000 23
Road & Track said this 3-letter brand's Gremlin, launched on April Fools' Day 1970, "stretched the definition of car"
    $1000 15
A squid or nautilus
(10 letters)

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

Greg Xanni Christopher
$1,200 $3,800 $4,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Greg Xanni Christopher
$3,000 $8,200 $5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

RELIGION
TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS
RETIRED
MISHEARD LYRICS
LONG TIME
KNOW SEA
    $400 30
In Hinduism, it's the law of cause & effect by which one's actions influence one's present & future lives
    $400 14
Idiomatically, you don't wanna be naked like this feathered fellow seen here
    $400 24
With 23, this NBA team has retired the most uniform numbers, including Kevin Garnett's No. 5 & Larry Bird's No. 33
    $400 27
This Beatles song has a lot of levels, but it's "a girl with kaleidoscope eyes" rather than "a girl with colitis goes by"
    $400 29
The Era of Good Feelings reigned from 1815 to 1825, more or less lining up with this president's two terms
    $400 28
This peninsular nation is surrounded by 4 seas, including the Ligurian & the Tyrrhenian
    DD: $3,000 25
Perun was the thunder god of the ancient Slavs, Perundan was this day of the week
    $800 26
There's a body part in this term for a legislative provision directing funds to specific projects
    $800 23
This Ben & Jerry's flavor, vanilla ice cream with a nutty brittle, was sent up the Amazon river in 1999
    $800 15
Many have sung along to the radio, "I left my brains down in" here
    $800 19
Arising in Aquitaine in the 10th century, the Pax Dei, which translates as this, aimed to protect pilgrims & others from violence
    DD: $6,200 20
There are 19 active volcanoes in this sea, including ones on Saba & Montserrat
    $1200 6
The name of this religion means "way of the gods", or kami
    $1200 21
Going all the way from A to C, this scientific term means not associated with living organisms
    $1200 7
In 1990 Crayola's first group of crayons to be permanently retired included lemon yellow & this "raw" brown
    $1200 16
A classic by this singer turns out not to be about a hip minister called "the reverend blue jeans"
    $1200 10
The Mesolithic is part of this prehistoric stage of human development, centered on the use of material-specific tools
    $1200 3
The Gulf of Finland, bordered by Finland, Russia & Estonia, is an arm of this sea
    $1600 4
A Christian doctrine says that humans are born in this 2-word fallen state
    $1600 13
This murder tool, a thin wire with handles, allows one to get up close & personal when strangulation is the goal
    $1600 8
2 of the 3 Space Shuttles that were retired in 2011, ending the 30-year Space Shuttle program
    $1600 17
We're glad to say that in a 2008 hit, this band did not sing about "dyslexics on fire"
    $1600 11
Humanism was an integral part of this period in Europe sometimes said to have ended with Rome's fall in 1527
    $1600 1
Travel southwest from this country across the Sulu Sea & you'll hit Malaysia
    $2000 5
In Judaism the high holy days begin with this 2-day observance & end with Yom Kippur
    $2000 22
"U" do this & you howl like a wolf or hoot like an owl
    $2000 9
Alphabetically, the list of retired hurricane names in the Atlantic runs from Agnes (1972) to this "W"oman (2005)
    $2000 18
This Juice Newton plea to a departing lover does not ask, "Just brush my teeth before you leave me, baby"
    $2000 12
Mao's Red Guards shut down schools & attacked thinkers during this decade-long period in China's history
    $2000 2
Both the cute critter seen here & a sea off Antarctica have this 7-letter name, after a British explorer

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Greg Xanni Christopher
$10,600 $13,800 $8,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

LANDMARKS
213 feet wide, this late 18th c. European structure has 5 portals, the middle of which was--at first--for royals only

Final scores:

Greg Xanni Christopher
$10,600 $27,600 $0

Cumulative scores:

Greg Xanni Christopher
$45,800 $57,200 $16,000
1st runner-up: $20,000 Tournament champion: $35,000 + advance to the Champions Wildcard tournament 2nd runner-up: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Greg Xanni Christopher
$8,200 $10,400 $8,600
17 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 15 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $27,200

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Game tape date: 2023-11-29
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