Show #9008 - Wednesday, January 3, 2024

2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 3, semifinal game 2.

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Rachel Cohen, a consultant originally from Chevy Chase, Maryland

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Jeopardy! Round

(Ken: We start out with some clues presented by...)
JOHN GREEN
TV CONNECTIONS
WHERE'D YOU GO?
____ & ____ BUSINESS
BIG & LITTLE GEOGRAPHY
STARTS & ENDS WITH "T"
    $200 30
(John Green presents the clue.) I co-created Crash Course which offers hundreds of free educational videos on YouTube; in one video, I discuss this female poet from New England, just a bit obsessed with death, who began a poem, "I heard a fly buzz when I died"
    $200 27
L.A.
____
& Order
    $200 28
Three generations of the d'Aluye family were on these expeditions to the Holy Lands; the effigy of one shows him in armor with praying hands
    $200 29
On its website, it boasts of being "the Internet's largest bookstore"
    $200 21
Named for a hometown general, MacArthur Park in this Arkansas city contains his birthplace
    $200 19
It controls the temperature in your house
    $400 26
(John Green presents the clue.) Two books that I often recommend & that inspired me to write for teens are "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson & one by Walter Dean Myers; Steve is on trial for murder, but is he really this, the title of the book?
    $400 15
In the Heat of the
____
Court
    $400 24
The departure of the Israelites from Egypt is fittingly covered in this second book of the Torah
    $400 13
This root beer has been around since 1919 & offers "float how-tos" & "float recipes"
    $400 22
Little & Big Diomede islands are found in this strait that separates the U.S. & Russia
    $400 20
A small piece of food, or a small juicy piece of gossip
    $600 25
(John Green presents the clue.) In my podcast "The Anthropocene Reviewed", I review very different human-centered facets of our world, including prom, the plague & this keyboard, named for a series of 6 letters on the left
    $600 5
Modern
_____
Is Blind
    $600 16
This "Great" northward move by Black Americans ramped up with the need for industrial workers in World War I
    $600 14
This company's dizzying array of brands includes Old Spice, Pepto Bismol, Gillette & Cascade
    $600 2
Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park lies within this scenic California region that's just south of Monterey
    $600 9
Some runners favor this ensemble seen here
    $800 6
(John Green presents the clue.) In "The Grass", part two of my novel "Paper Towns", a copy of "Leaves of Grass" by this poet may hold clues to Margot & her whereabouts
    $800 4
Orphan
____
Mirror
    $800 12
Back in the 1880s Wellesley College specified this type of leave from teaching should be spent in Europe, with 1/2-year pay
    $800 3
The Black Eyed Peas song "My Humps" mentions this upscale fashion brand, then Fendi & Donna Karan
    $800 1
Thought to have been used by Hannibal, Little Saint Bernard Pass lies between the Graian Alps & this 15,800-foot French-Italian peak
    $800 10
This violent windstorm is sometimes found "in a teacup"
    $1000 23
(John Green presents the clue.) In my first novel, "Looking for Alaska", Miles "Pudge" Halter has an obsession with famous last words; my favorite are those of this Irish writer in 1900, something to the effect of, "Either this wallpaper goes, or I do"
    $1000 7
Ash vs. Evil
____
Ringers
    DD: $1,600 8
This term for a trip taken by a politician at public expense can also be used for a P.R. event for a film or TV show
    $1000 17
This jeweler bears the last names of a married couple, the son of a diamond broker & the daughter of a dealer in precious stones
    $1000 18
Big Cypress National Preserve abuts this more expansive national park in Florida
    $1000 11
Joel Osteen's résumé includes author, pastor & this 13-letter word

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

Andrew Randall Rachel
$2,600 $4,400 $4,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Andrew Randall Rachel
$4,400 $6,400 $6,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS
11-LETTER WORDS
SCIENTISTS
PAINT, BY NUMBERS
MIL. ABBREV.
WILLIAM BLAKE IN POP CULTURE
    $400 25
This empire of the Andes had some 25,000 miles of roads & a relay system that was like the Pony Express but on foot
    $400 26
Let's horse around on this far straightaway on an oval racecourse; it might also be a way to limber up your lumbar region
    $400 28
Marine biologist Sylvia Earle's work with these creatures was documented in the film "Gentle Giants of the Pacific"
    $400 27
In 2015 "Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)", his 1892 oil painting, sold for more than $200 million
    $400 30
AWOL:
i.e., not where you're supposed to be
    $400 29
The title of this band's album, "Songs of Innocence", references a Blake poetry collection
    $800 23
Canada's biggest city, Toronto once had this name, in honor of the same noble title as the USA's biggest city
    $800 20
Keep up! The son of your brother's child is this relationship to you, old-timer
    $800 24
Captain Robert FitzRoy had doubts inviting this naturalist aboard an 1831 voyage due to the shape of his nose
    $800 10
In 2011 a portrait of surrealist poet Paul Éluard by this Spaniard sold for more than $21 million
    $800 22
LZ:
Another name for an airfield
    $800 8
The name of this band fronted by Jim Morrison comes from a Blake passage via Aldous Huxley
    $1200 2
In 1590 one of the only traces of the "Lost Colony" on this island off North Carolina was the word "Croatoan" carved on wood
    $1200 6
A college football player normally gets 5 years of it, & can compete in 4 seasons
    DD: $9,200 19
In 1843 this genetics pioneer awoke & found himself transformed into a novice in an Augustinian monastery in Brno
    $1200 4
Nature can be expensive! In 2014 "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1" by this New Mexico woman went for $44.4 million
    $1200 3
XO:
He's second in command to the CO
    $1200 9
Replicant Roy Batty adapts a passage from Blake's book "America, a Prophecy" in this futuristic film set in 2019 Los Angeles
    DD: $3,600 1
In 1899 an intl. ruling gave the oil-rich Essequibo region to Britain; now it's part of this country & some Venezuelans covet it
    $1600 14
Flammable, but with 2 more letters, & if you even think of saying inflammable, I'm coming over there
    $1600 5
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are made primarily of these 2 elements
    $1600 11
In 2022 "Empire of Light" set a record for a canvas by this 20th century Belgian artist: almost $80 million, including fees
    $1600 7
OCS:
If you graduate from this, expect to be ready to lead
    $1600 17
A chapter that follows Rorschach in this graphic novel draws inspiration from William Blake's poem "The Tyger"
    $2000 13
El Pípila is the nickname of a Mexican folk hero who was said to have aided this revolutionary priest in 1810
    $2000 15
It's--sob!--an 11-letter word for weeping, or the secretion of tears
    $2000 16
Born into freedom in Maryland, this surveyor & astronomer successfully calculated a solar eclipse in 1789
    $2000 12
Looted by Nazis, "The Father", a 1911 work by this Russian Empire-born painter, got $7.4 million for the rightful heirs in 2022
    $2000 18
MOS:
It's what your job is
    $2000 21
Francis Dolarhyde is obsessed with a Blake painting in "Red Dragon" by this author

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Andrew Randall Rachel
$6,400 $19,600 $13,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FROM THE FRENCH
With murder, shadows, a nosy reporter & Peter Lorre, 1940's "Stranger on the Third Floor" is the first example of this, some say

Final scores:

Andrew Randall Rachel
$12,800 $26,401 $12,801
3rd place: $2,000 Finalist 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Andrew Randall Rachel
$10,000 $11,600 $12,600
14 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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Game tape date: 2023-12-05
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