Show #9017 - Tuesday, January 16, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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Sharon Stone, an early childhood intervention manager from Round Rock, Texas

Katie Palumbo, a museum membership specialist from Amawalk, New York

Andy Tirrell, a political science and international relations professor from San Diego, California

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Jeopardy! Round

WORLD GEOGRAPHY
1980s PRO WRESTLING
A MATTER OF LAW
HATS IN OTHER WORDS
OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS
MAJOR "KEY" ALERT
    $200 12
Formed at the end of the last ice age, this sea includes the Gulf of Bothnia in the north & the Gulf of Gdansk in the south
    $200 30
In 1987 a reported 93,173 filled Michigan's Silverdome to see the IIIrd holding of this "crazed" event
    $200 29
From Latin for "to let in", it describes evidence that may be considered by a judge or jury
    $200 25
A vaquero is a type of one
    $200 21
About the size of a billiard ball, the eye of this bird is the largest of any land animal
    $200 23
It's also called a love bite
    $400 7
The largest desert in Asia at about 1,200 miles long & 600 miles wide, it has a name from Mongolian meaning "waterless place"
    $400 27
Better get ready, brother! This alliterative WWE legend who flexed "24-inch pythons" played Thunderlips in "Rocky III"
    $400 28
It's the kinetic term for a litigant's request to a judge for a decision on an issue
    $400 24
Boil an egg this way if you want a solid inside
    $400 20
The rockhopper species of this flightless bird is one of the smallest & earns its name by bounding along the craggy shore
    $400 22
In "His Girl Friday" Rosalind Russell defines journalism as "peeking through" these openings & "stealing pictures off old ladies"
    $600 6
This archipelago nation is home to more than 100 active volcanoes, including Mount Bromo
    $600 13
This hold did rock when Ric "Nature Boy" Flair made Ricky Steamboat sleep like a baby in a classic 1989 match
    $600 4
Chapter 12 of this federal code covers its application to family farmers & family fishermen
    $600 9
A type of quark or kind of toy
    $600 10
For decades, these songbirds were employed in mining to detect toxic gases before miners were overcome
    $600 17
Lester "The Long Fellow" Piggott & Steve Cauthen, "The Kentucky Kid", were these track stars--a different kind of track
    $800 2
In 1889 a climber said this African mountain was 19,833 feet; re-measurements have been shrinking it ever since
    $800 14
Randy Savage went by this nickname, also the first Top 40 hit for the Village People in 1978
    $800 3
A lawsuit that's dismissed "without" this can be refiled; "with" this means it can't
    $800 5
The country with Volcán Barú as its highest point
    $800 11
Many North American lakes are named for this bird; in 1892 Pres. Harrison stayed at one in the Adirondacks & heard the bird's mad laugh
    $800 15
A detox or rehab facility is a safer & more lasting way to quit an addiction than this one
    $1000 1
Ancient geoglyphs of animals & figures, known by this name, were etched into the arid Pampa Colorada Plain of Peru more than 2,000 years ago
    $1000 26
Time to get rowdy, this wrestler who was from Canada, but had the right ancestry for the get up, hit the ring in a kilt
    $1000 18
A 1968 ruling said this amendment's unreasonable search & seizure clause doesn't prohibit frisking of suspected criminals
    $1000 8
A tin or container for tablets or lozenges
    DD: $1,800 19
With a wingspan of about 7 feet, the largest eagle in the Amazon is this species named for foul bird-like women of Greek myth
    $1000 16
It's the NATO phonetic alphabet code word that fits the category

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

Andy Katie Sharon
$5,000 $2,800 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Andy Katie Sharon
$6,400 $5,400 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AMERICANS
HALF A CATEGORY
BALLET
TV CLIFFHANGERS
AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS
RHYME TIME
    $400 30
On May 21, 1932, 5 years to the day after Lindbergh, she became the second to fly solo & nonstop across the Atlantic
    $400 29
During this "Show" seen by many on February 3, 2002, U2's Bono flashed his jacket's American flag lining
    $400 27
Choreographing the farcical ballet "The Bright Stream" helped make Alexei Ratmansky the artistic director of this famed Moscow company in 2004
    $400 25
While repeating his wedding vows in the 4th season finale of "Friends", Ross mistakenly said her name instead of fiancée Emily's
    $400 24
In Dan Simmons' novel "Drood", Wilkie Collins meets the perplexing title character while traveling with this author in 1865
    $400 18
A labyrinth fad
    $800 11
Not Mr. Fortune, but this flamboyant publisher of a major business magazine is seen here
    $800 12
Eng was half of the conjoined twosome who in the 19th century were billed as this pair
    $800 17
Oddly, Little Red Riding Hood & the Big Bad Wolf appear in the wedding scene of this Tchaikovsky fairy tale ballet
    $800 23
In its Season 5 mid-season finale, Agent Hank Schrader discovered that his brother-in-law was actually the drug lord Heisenberg
    $800 6
In Ellen Meister's "Dorothy Parker Drank Here", the plucky title scribe literally & wittily haunts the halls of this hotel
    $800 20
A random cursory look
    DD: $5,000 8
Mario Savio led the 1964 free speech protests at this California univ. & protested Sonoma State fee hikes late in his life in 1996
    $1200 13
Abe Lincoln once declared that the U.S. government "cannot endure, permanently half" this & "half" this
    $1200 16
Temps de poisson, a jump in which the legs are together with crossed feet & back arched, means "time of" this animal
    $1200 1
Season one of this series ended with Jack & Locke looking into the hatch that Locke had just blown open
    $1200 3
Part of "Becoming George Sand" details her relationship with this equally brilliant composer
    $1200 21
A flying feudal man-at-arms tethered & held by a child, hopefully, on a windy day
    $1600 9
The 2nd Armored, "Hell on Wheels", was the 1st army division commanded by father & son: this Gen. in 1940 & George S. IV in 1975
    $1600 14
This armored military vehicle looks like a tank with front wheels
    $1600 15
In this 1912 ballet the title satyr-like character is tantalized by the scarf of a lovely nymph
    $1600 2
This Apple TV+ show employed a time jump to 2003 & the reveal that a NASA director was now in... Russia
    DD: $1,500 4
"Vanessa and Her Sister" by Priya Parmar refers to Vanessa Bell & this literary sibling
    $1600 7
Mallet noise
    $2000 10
Brought back to his place in history by a 2023 movie, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington
    $2000 28
Thomas Hardy rhymed war is odd: "You shoot a fellow down / You'd treat if met where any bar is, / Or help to" this fractional coin
    $2000 26
In a comic ballet Coppélia is a life-sized one of these created by mad doctor Coppélius
    $2000 19
When Picard is assimilated by the Borg at the end of Season 3 of "Star Trek: TNG", this 1st officer gives the order to fire at him
    $2000 5
This Nobel-winning Mexican poet is a character in the meta-graphic novel "Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires"
    $2000 22
A false taipan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Andy Katie Sharon
$21,800 -$1,000 $6,100
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

NEW NATIONS
In September 2023 the U.S. recognized 2 new nations in free association with New Zealand: Niue & this archipelago

Final scores:

Andy Katie Sharon
$23,600 -$1,000 $100
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Andy Katie Sharon
$18,000 -$1,800 $6,200
21 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
10 W		 8 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $22,400

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Game tape date: 2024-01-03
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