Champions Wildcard play-in game #1 - Friday, January 12, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard play-in game 1.
Hosted by Buzzy Cohen.
Game entered from TuneIn audio presentation.

Contestants

Nik Berry, a social studies teacher from Baltimore, Maryland

Julie Sisson, a library circulation assistant from Everett, Washington

Anji Nyquist, a hand model and podcast host from Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Jeopardy! Round

GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE
LETTER PERFECT
THE COLORS OF MUSIC
BREAK-UPS
STOP!
HAMMER TIME
    $200 27
This legendary animator was grand marshal in 1966; he died later that year
    $200 6
This letter was used by the Romans to represent 1,000
    $200 23
Van Morrison:
"____ Eyed Girl"
    $200 22
This power couple wed March 9, 1796; being the emperor of France has its perks: he nullified the marriage in 1809
    $200 26
Around 1900 in Kansas, she wanted folks to stop drinking, so she began taking a hatchet to local saloons
    $200 30
Known for its cephalofoil, this fierce fish can grow 20 feet long
    $400 13
This beloved voice of the Dodgers did the honors in 2014
    $400 9
This letter is used to define a generation & also as a label for superhero mutants
    $400 4
John Mellencamp:
"____ Houses"
    $400 21
This plastic couple got together in 1961; they split in 2004, but in 2011 she welcomed him back to her dream house
    $400 25
In 1780, British lieutenant colonel Bannister Tarleton & his raiders tried to stop this "Swamp Fox" in the Carolinas
    $400 29
Countless hammers have swung since this org.'s founding in 1976, helping to house millions worldwide
    DD: $3,000 8
He got the nod in 1953 as a senator from California; he rode again in 1960
    $600 10
Sometimes it's a consonant, sometimes it's a vowel & its homophone is an interrogative
    $600 2
Chris de Burgh:
"The Lady In ____"
    $600 19
Rob in this Nick Hornby novel deals with Laura's departure as with most things, by thinking a lot about old records
    $600 24
In the early 1790s Haydn stopped in Bonn, Germany & met this young musical genius who would become Haydn's pupil
    $600 28
Christopher Lee played this bloodthirsty immortal 7 times for Britain's Hammer Films
    $800 7
She was grand marshal as a child star in 1939 & also got the call in 1989 & '99
    $800 11
This letter stands for the currency of Albania; when it comes before F in English words, it's often silent
    $800 1
R.E.M.:
"____ Crush"
    $800 18
These Mexican painters wed in 1929 & divorced after a volatile decade; remarried in 1940, they had a rocky 2nd marriage
    $800 17
In the 1960s the French military stopped using this fortified line of defense named for a war minister
    $800 3
House majority whip from 1995 to 2003, this Texas Republican was known as "The Hammer"
    $1000 14
In 1955, shortly after becoming chief justice of the U.S., he served as grand marshal
    $1000 12
It looks just like the Greek letter rho, but it's not "R"
    $1000 5
Sting:
"Fields Of ____"
    $1000 15
This couple fell in love while filming "Cleopatra"; they wed in '64, divorced after a decade, remarried in 1975--& split again in 1976
    $1000 16
On Nov. 5, 1605 he tried to blow up Parliament to stop the persecution of Roman Catholics in England
    $1000 20
The tomb of this English king, the victor at Agincourt, calls him "Hammer of the Gauls"

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

Anji Julie Nik
$0 $1,000 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Anji Julie Nik
$2,000 $1,000 $5,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

A CITY ON THE WATER
WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS
GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES
OVER CASTE
IAMB WOMAN
HEAR ME ROAR
    $400 5
Daytona Beach,
Florida:
this ocean
    $400 29
Although it sounds like it has to do with a Southern peanut, it really pertains to the job held by Newsom & DeSantis
    $400 30
The all-too-simple premise of the game show in this 2012 film--kids murder each other
    $400 28
These creatures of the genus Apis have a strict caste system with male drones, female workers & a queen on top
    $400 27
George Eliot's poem "God Needs Antonio" praises this master maker of musical instruments
    $400 20
It's not just carnivores--the harts of the red type of this roar to drive rival males away
    $800 1
Easton,
Maryland
    $800 22
Though it sounds like a laughing beer, it's really a hubbub, maybe in a pub, bub
    $800 21
The all-too-simple premise of the game show hosted by Richard Dawson in this 1987 film--criminals are murdered
    $800 12
Taking their name from words meaning "oak" & "wizard", they were the priestly upper caste of the ancient Celts
    $800 26
Lady Mary Chudleigh's "To the Ladies" warns fiancees that this "and servant are the same / But only differ in the name"
    $800 19
The Kalolo-Lozi people call the roar & mist that the Zambezi River makes as it forms this "the smoke that thunders"
    $1200 2
Montreal,
Quebec
    $1200 8
Meaning to throw out of a window, this term gained fame after a 1618 incident in Prague where 2 officials were so thrown
    $1200 11
Dev Patel wins big on a game show in this 2008 film
    $1200 13
A term for a member of the New England cultural elite, it's also the name of the highest Hindu caste
    $1200 23
She loved her iambs, as in "Because I could not stop for Death"
    $1200 16
Written in 1792, this French song asks, "Do you hear in the countryside the roar of those savage soldiers?"
    $1600 3
Pierre,
South Dakota
    $1600 9
Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was mentioned in "King Lear" as a demon's name
    $1600 6
In "Quiz Show" this Brit had all the answers on "Twenty One" as Charles Van Doren; do you have the question?
    $1600 14
The naked type of this hyphenated rodent lives in a colony that uses a caste system with one breeding female
    DD: $8,600 24
The 44 sonnets in an 1850 volume by her are largely in iambic pentameter
    $1600 17
Akira Ifukube used a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin & a double bass to create this character's roar in 1954
    $2000 4
Shelburne,
Vermont
    DD: $5,400 10
Sigmund knows that this is from the German for "damage" & "joy" & I'm getting a certain amount of it right now
    $2000 7
In "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", a woman has the choice of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon or Bachelor No. 3 on this classic show
    $2000 15
The mid-19th century "Caste War" of this peninsula pitted native Mayans against Ladinos of European descent
    $2000 25
Her 1883 "1492" celebrates "A virgin world where doors of sunset part, / Saying, 'Ho, all who weary, enter here!'"
    $2000 18
Alphabetically first in Old Testament books comes this prophet who says, "The Lord will roar from Zion"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Anji Julie Nik
$400 $1,600 $17,200
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

TOURIST SPOTS
Originally known as Longacre, it got its name after a newspaper moved its offices there in 1904

Final scores:

Anji Julie Nik
$0 $2 $17,199
3rd place 2nd place Winner: advance to Champions Wildcard

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Anji Julie Nik
$400 $13,200 $13,800
6 R,
3 W
18 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)
20 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $27,400

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Game tape date: 2024-01-03
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