Show #9007 - Tuesday, January 2, 2024

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

Contestants

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Michael Cavaliere, a consultant from New York, New York

Sharon Bishop, a high school Spanish teacher from Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Sophia Weng, a senior social studies major at Harvard College from Chevy Chase, Maryland

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Jeopardy! Round

AT THE MUSEUM
STOCKS & INVESTMENTS
GEOGRAPHY TEST
CONCERT TOURS
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
THE CHARLES III KIND
    $200 27
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has the Sons of Liberty Bowl, produced by this silversmith, along with a portrait of him by Copley
    $200 17
Munis are one type of these debt securities issued by many governments
    $200 26
This river rises in Burgundy about 180 miles southeast of Paris & empties into the English Channel
    $200 2
2023:
Her Renaissance Tour
    $200 12
It's the rhyming term for a nonserious close encounter between vehicles
    $200 22
Charles was born on November 14, 1948 at this residence; his sons & grandchildren were born in a hospital
    $400 18
A visit to Philly isn't complete unless you visit the Rodin Museum, home to this statue whose pensive pose you can imitate for photos
    $400 28
Also used in a different type of gambling, this colorful term describes a stock with a history of paying out
    $400 10
Viangchan is an alternate spelling of its capital Vientiane
    $400 24
1984:
A reunion of these brothers for the Victory Tour
    $400 13
If something is approximately correct, it's "in" this place, like Chase Field
    $400 21
Charles' mother said it was her wish that this woman have the title queen consort; the "consort" part has gone away
    $600 1
The former Radium Institute is now a Paris museum where you can see her old chemistry lab, which was decontaminated in 1981
    $600 11
This alliterative event occurs when a company repurchases its own stock, increasing the value of the remaining shares
    $600 9
It's the country highlighted here
    $600 25
2021-2023:
He gave us Love on Tour
    $600 14
It's a word for a woman's garment that can also mean to go around the edge of an area
    $600 19
This actor, who was Charles in "The Crown", says he'd like to ask the king about his experience as a fellow sticky-out-eared man
    $800 4
Vienna's Belvedere Museum has several of his "Golden Period" paintings, including "The Kiss"
    $800 6
A rule that halts trading in the case of a sudden decline is called this, like a switch that trips to stop an electric overload
    $800 7
This strait named for an explorer separates Tierra del Fuego from mainland South America
    $800 29
2023:
Her Celebration Tour
    $800 15
A decent approximation is "close enough for" this improvisation-based musical genre
    DD: $2,600 16
Charles' coronation on May 6, 2023 at this location was the first British coronation in 7 decades
    $1000 3
The Chiswick Table & the Chichester Grille are at this decorative arts museum in London
    $1000 5
Basic goods like grains, beef & oil are traded as these & usually sold as derivative contracts called futures
    $1000 8
Cuba is about 90 miles south of the U.S.; this 4,200-square-mile island is about 90 miles south of Cuba
    $1000 30
2017-2019:
He split us up with the ÷ (Divide) Tour
    $1000 23
You get an "A" plus 7 letters in geometry, if you know it describes 2 angles with a common side & vertex; it can also just mean "next to"
    $1000 20
Charles helped design the traditional look of Poundbury in this duchy of his that shares its name with a southwest England county

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

Sophia Sharon Michael
$1,000 $1,400 $6,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sophia Sharon Michael
$2,400 $3,400 $10,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHAT'S "NEW"?
THOSE WHO CELEBRATE
LET'S TALK ASTRONOMY
CHILD PERFORMERS
ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE
HISTORIC LASTS
    $400 6
It consists of 27 books, from Matthew through Revelation
    $400 26
Don't pester your Pagan friends on May 1st; it's Beltane, a Pagan spring festival celebrating this quality of creating life
    $400 18
An astronomical unit, or AU, is the average distance between these 2 bodies, or about 93 million miles
    $400 13
Darby Camp was Reese Witherspoon's daughter on "Big Little Lies" & had this dog of problematic size in a 2021 movie
    $400 11
This city of "Hamlet" is on the northeast tip of a Danish island just a few miles across the water from Sweden
    $400 25
At a Marseilles prison in 1977, Hamida Djandoubi became the last person executed using this
    $800 7
Edward Yang's 1985 "Taipei Story" was part of a movement in Taiwanese cinema with the same name as this '50s trend
    $800 27
Just before a big U.S. holiday, our northern neighbors celebrate Canada Day on this date
    $800 19
An asterism is a recognizable star pattern that isn't a full constellation, like this familiar one within Cygnus
    $800 14
Donnie Dunagan spent 25 years in the Marine Corps, telling no one he'd been the voice of this fawn
    $800 12
In Act I of this ordinal play, a ship captain informs Viola, "This is Illyria", which is in the Balkans
    $800 23
Designed for parades, the 1939 Packard Super 8 Phaeton was the last car that this Argentine heroine rode in in public
    $1200 8
This deliberately ambiguous language was invented by George Orwell for "1984"
    $1200 28
In 1772 the British sent HMS Gaspee to patrol this bay; Rhode Islanders burned it & now celebrate by burning it again
    DD: $4,800 3
When 2 celestial bodies appear close together, they're "in" this, also a part of speech
    $1200 15
On this FX series, Keidrich Sellati was Henry, the only Jennings who didn't know the truth about his family
    $1200 2
"Pericles" is partly set in a palace in this ancient Phoenician seaport, now a World Heritage Site in Lebanon
    $1200 22
The "Angel of Rome", Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1922, was the last of these singers, many "sold" by poor parents
    $1600 9
This more dance-oriented band was formed by original members of Joy Division
    $1600 29
Constitution Day is also Citizenship Day & DHS celebrates with this ceremony of gaining citizenship for several thousand
    $1600 20
"Edgeworth" sometimes precedes another name in the name of this belt of distant objects
    $1600 16
In this movie child actor Jonathan Lipnicki told Tom Cruise the human head weighs 8 pounds
    DD: $1,400 1
"The Winter's Tale" alternates between Sicily & this Czech region that gave us a word for an unorthodox, often arty person
    $1600 5
Dying in 1914, Martha was the last of these alliterative birds; a monument to them said, "It died due to avarice of man"
    $2000 10
It sounds like the latest fad, but it means using the Gregorian calendar for reckoning dates
    $2000 30
Those who follow this religion celebrate Hola Mohalla with pretend fights 1 day after the Hindu festival of Holi
    $2000 21
This word for when the Moon is between half & full can be pronounced with either a hard or soft "G" sound
    $2000 17
Roman Griffin Davis had a breakout role in this film as a German boy whose imaginary friend is Hitler, played by Taika Waititi
    $2000 4
This wood in eastern Scotland is about 12 miles from the peak of Dunsinane, to which it "comes" in "Macbeth"
    $2000 24
Rome put Carthage on the mat for the final time with the third of these wars in a campaign that lasted from 149 to 146 B.C.

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sophia Sharon Michael
$14,600 $5,800 $28,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

LANDMARKS
During Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to Los Angeles, pranksters covered up this letter in a local landmark

Final scores:

Sophia Sharon Michael
$399 $6,800 $28,300
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Sophia Sharon Michael
$14,800 $5,800 $23,400
18 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
9 R,
1 W
25 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $44,000

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Game tape date: 2023-12-05
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