Show #9016 - Monday, January 15, 2024

2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 4, final game 2.

Contestants

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Rotimi Kukoyi, a sophomore health policy and management major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Hoover, Alabama (subtotal of $0)

Long Nguyen, a retired engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada (subtotal of $36,800)

Roy Camara, a grocery specialist from Crawfordville, Florida (subtotal of $0)

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Jeopardy! Round

DISNEY FILM TITLES VISUALIZED
WORLD HISTORY
PORTLANDIA
AROUND THE UNUSUAL HOUSE
SAY YOUR FRUITS & VEGGIES!
AUTHORS' BIRTHSTONES
    $200 24
Condition of the waterfall seen here
    $200 2
This largest Caribbean island's struggle for independence led to the Spanish-American War
    $200 23
"The magic is in the hole" is the slogan of Voodoo, an iconic Portland maker of these treats
    $200 29
So you got one of these as a pet, like Smaug or Viserion in books; well, at least you won't need any matches for the fireplace
    $200 30
A phrase of inapt correlation cites these 2 different fruits
    $200 26
Born on the 4th of July, 1804 in Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne had a scarlet birthstone: this one
    $400 14
Let your hair down & you might come up with this one
    $400 3
Around 1700 this monarch imported Western technology & turned Russia into a great European power
    $400 22
Portland is the Rose City; the Wooden Shoe Festival in nearby Woodburn celebrates these flowers
    $400 27
It's a choice to install a 20,000-seat arena featuring a cage in this shape but hosting UFC 852 could help with the mortgage
    $400 28
This veggie-&-wood combo promises either a reward or a punishment
    $400 25
L. Frank Baum was born in May, so this was his birthstone--might make a great name for a city
    $600 13
It's not exactly as it appears
    $600 12
In 1475 at Picquigny Edward IV & Louis XI agreed to a truce that seems to be holding in this war
    $600 19
Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood was the grand Overlook Hotel in this 1980 Jack Nicholson movie
    $600 21
Wow, a living room with a full-scale replica of a Huey helicopter, like the one in this musical that landed on Broadway in 1991
    $600 20
You idiomatically (we hope!) "turn into a" this when you say you have to leave a party to go to bed
    $600 16
Alice Hoffman, born March 16, 1952, wrote a novel about a mermaid called this, also the name of her watery blue birthstone
    $800 5
Made by a mouse?
    $800 11
In 1989 Japan got a new emperor for the first time in most of its citizens' lives, as Akihito succeeded this ruler
    $800 15
One of Portlandia's major attractions is this river's scenic gorge
    $800 18
I don't know if this proverbially rattled item here belongs in the kitchen cutlery, but, hey, you do you
    $800 17
You have lots of enthusiasm if you're "full of" these veggies that boast their own type of pot
    DD: $1,000 1
Would Alice Walker have called her 1982 novel something else if her February birthstone wasn't the color purple, this one?
    $1000 4
Conquer your emotions and tell us what's going on with the soccer ball
    $1000 7
This mystical form of Islam began c. 800 in part with a woman from Basra who introduced a new concept of the love of Allah
    $1000 9
This iconic "City of Books" covers a full city block of Portland's Pearl District
    $1000 8
Talk about a man cave! There's a basement modeled on this French cave designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979
    $1000 6
When it comes to this pluralized fruit, you can "go" them or be "driven" them
    $1000 10
If the author of "Push" had chosen her birthstone instead of this pseudonym, she would be Peridot

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

Roy Long Rotimi
$5,800 $2,800 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Roy Long Rotimi
$9,200 $4,200 $200

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN CITIES
RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
DESERT FLORA & FAUNA
STAY SAFE
POP MUSIC-POURRI
"G" WHIZ
    $400 14
The African Union has its headquarters in this Ethiopian capital
    $400 12
During the first millennium A.D. Brahma lost importance in the Trimurti of this religion & doesn't have tons of temples
    $400 27
The fennec, the smallest species of this canine, has unusually large ears it uses to hear prey underground & to dissipate heat
    $400 30
Follow the rule don't be the tallest object in a storm to help avoid being killed by this, like 19 Americans in 2022
    $400 29
Her "My Heart Will Go On" went on the Billboard charts in February 1998 & stayed on for another 20 weeks
    $400 28
Tell a good joke & hear giggles; tell a great one & you might hear this, a hearty, boisterous burst of laughter
    $800 13
South Africa has 3 capitals; Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein (judicial) & this one (legislative)
    $800 10
With a name meaning "right opinion", this Christian faith is practiced mainly in the Balkans, the Middle East & former Soviet countries
    $800 16
A type of cholla cactus is named for the spiny stem's resemblance to this part of a stag
    $800 24
Myth: These are triggered by loud noise. Fact: It's more often the weight of skiers. Tip: avoid slopes of more than 30 degrees
    $800 26
His "Blinding Lights" was Billboard's No. 1 song of 2020
    $800 25
A welcome development is this word, an unexpected "divine" gift
    $1200 3
Everybody comes to this city also known as Dar Al-Beïda--everybody in Morocco, that is
    DD: $5,000 8
The Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, is one of this "architectural" quintet of religious obligations
    $1200 15
This spiny shrub useful for aromatic firewood has been called the "devil with roots"; it hogs water, killing off nearby plants
    $1200 19
Mom & dad want you driving a car that has side curtain these
    $1200 23
In the 1970s 2 different songs called "Best Of My Love" topped the charts, one by The Emotions & one by this group
    $1200 22
It sounds like it means to play games of chance, but with the -ol spelling, it means to leap around joyously
    $1600 2
Windhoek is the capital of this southwest African nation that gained independence in 1990
    $1600 7
The original manuscripts of this religion's "Avesta" were said to have been destroyed when Alexander the Great conquered Persia
    DD: $10,400 4
Like the Australian marsupial it's named for, this rodent has a pouch, but for carrying seeds, not babies
    $1600 18
Small to carry & easy to use, test strips to detect this deadly synthetic opioid can save the lives of drug users
    $1600 21
"You cut me open, and I" keep doing this, sang Leona Lewis in a 2008 hit
    $1600 20
The bell-lyra & the orchestra bells are 2 of the main types of this percussion instrument
    $2000 1
Libya's second-largest city, this port on the Mediterranean sadly made international news in 2012
    $2000 9
The Jewish holiday of Sukkot includes gathering four plants, three types of branch & this lemon relative
    $2000 5
This desert bush is named for its smell, similar to the tar once used to preserve the wood of telephone poles
    $2000 17
The NRA calls them a simple option to keep your gun from being fired by an unauthorized user; they're sometimes sold with the gun
    $2000 11
"A Taste Of Honey" & "Zorba the Greek" were 2 of many '60s pop hits for this trumpeter & The Tijuana Brass
    $2000 6
Like the one seen here for "Breakfast at Tiffany's", this French designer created several dresses for Audrey Hepburn

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Roy Long Rotimi
$7,600 $19,600 $1,000
(lock tournament)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ON THE STAGE
Paul Robeson said that even as this character "kills, his honor is at stake... the honor of his whole culture is involved"

Final scores:

Roy Long Rotimi
$7,250 $19,477 $1,000

Cumulative scores:

Roy Long Rotimi
$7,250 $56,277 $1,000
1st runner-up: $20,000 Tournament champion: $35,000 + advance to the 2024 Champions Wildcard tournament 2nd runner-up: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Roy Long Rotimi
$18,000 $15,600 $1,000
24 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)
22 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
6 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $34,600

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Game tape date: 2023-12-06
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