Show #9025 - Friday, January 26, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

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Ittai Sopher, a news producer and journalist from New Orleans, Louisiana

Michael Menkhus, a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri

Tamara Ghattas, an editor from Chicago, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round

TOUCH SOME GRASS
"C" IN THE MIDDLE
(Ken: The exact middle of each response, in fact.)
THAT'S JUST TEARABLE!
FULL-COURT PRESS
2-3 ZONE
COACHING BASKETBALL
    $200 28
That's bent grass on the greens of this famed Georgia golf course formally opened in 1933
    $200 24
An advantage kept in reserve is this "up your sleeve"
    $200 30
Here's the satisfying sound of this fastening brand that was founded in 1952 getting unfastened
    $200 29
In 2000 the New York Daily News printed "Bush wins" after the Supremes rejected a recount in this state
    $200 27
Billings & Albuquerque are in this time zone centered on the 105-degree west meridian
    $200 19
Tex Winter, mentor to Phil Jackson, became famous for this type of offense with a geometric name
    $400 22
This grass used in fine Asian cuisine is also known as citronella
    $400 18
You want this to work when you exit a Skyvan at 10,000 feet
    $400 25
Steve Wynn accidentally put a "$40 million elbow" through "Le Rêve", a 1932 painting of the mistress of this Spaniard
    $400 14
The Sandusky Register affirmed this as the law of the land with 1920's "court declares that dry amendment is constitutional"
    $400 26
Recently, the Green Zone, a fortified area with government buildings & the U.S. embassy, has opened up to this Mideast city's people
    $400 13
Fittingly, NBA great Michael Cooper led the Sparks of this city to a pair of WNBA championships
    $600 2
No wonder this "grouchy" weed is so hard to eradicate; each individual plant can produce up to 150,000 seeds
    $600 3
You get to stick people with 1-inch needles & for their own good too if you become this specialist
    $600 21
Shred, split & sever are 5-letter synonyms for tear that begin with S; so is this, which doubles as a name of a noted guitarist
    $600 9
The L.A. Times: Overturning it in 2022 was the "most significant curtailing of an established constitutional right"
    $600 8
Losing other habitat, the Asiatic black bear & the monk vulture are surviving in this 155-mile-long strip with few humans
    $600 12
In "I Came As a Shadow", John Thompson diagrammed his life as basketball coach at this D.C. university
    $800 6
This healthy "grass" food is prepared from the freshly sprouted leaves of the grain Triticum aestivum
    $800 1
A peptic one of these is an erosion in the lining of the stomach or intestine
    $800 15
After tearing this, aka the calcaneal tendon: 3 or 4 weeks of immobilization, then high-heeled shoes should be a no-no for a while
    DD: $2,600 11
In 1803 the National Intelligencer covered the court case between James Madison & this "midnight appointee"
    $800 23
In the 1970s, a section of Boston had this name more suited to a place where wars are fought
    $800 5
Coaching 1899-1907, this pioneer of the sport is the only basketball coach in Kansas Jayhawks history with a losing record
    $1000 7
A type of grass that thrives near southern coasts shares its name with this oldest city in Florida
    $1000 17
Spanish for a place to board a ship; San Francisco has one on its eastern shore
    $1000 20
Shakespeare plot twist! "Let the angel... tell thee" this man "was from his mother's womb untimely ripped"
    $1000 10
The Pittsburgh Courier told of Justice Harlan's lone dissenting opinion on this "separate but equal" case from 1896
    $1000 16
When what's now this country was South West Africa, its southern 2/3 was a "police zone" set aside for white settlers
    $1000 4
Real first name Glenn, this man had the prescription for the Celtics in 2008, taking them to the championship

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

Tamara Michael! Ittai =)
$1,800 $6,600 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tamara Michael! Ittai =)
$5,000 $8,000 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC BATTLES
DASHIELL HAMMETT
GAS EVERYWHERE
WHAT'S IN A NAME
THE TV SPIN-OFF SOURCE
(Ken: You'll name the origin show.)
SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS
    $400 5
The first major combat engagement for helicopter-transported U.S. troops was the battle of Ia Drang in this conflict
    $400 12
Hammett is famous for his 1930 novel about this coveted title object that was made by Turkish slaves in the castle of St. Angelo
    $400 11
A 2022 U.N. report on this gas said it has the same climate impact "whether it is emitted by a cow, or by a leaky valve in an oilfield"
    $400 29
A bestseller across the ages, this book gets its name from the Phoenician port city where paper used to make it was traded
    $400 28
More monster mash: "Angel"
    $400 30
This verb is used for working on dough, clay or muscles
    $800 4
490 B.C.'s Battle of Marathon showed the Greeks for the first time that they could defeat a force of this mighty empire
    $800 27
In 1953 Hammett went before a committee chaired by this man & was asked about his association with the Communist Party
    $800 16
Boyle's law states that at a constant temperature the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its this
    $800 17
Put this letter at the beginning of "organization" to get a monopolization technique named for a turn of the 20th century financier
    $800 26
"The Jeffersons", moving on up from Queens
    $800 25
As a verb it means "to become angry"; as a noun, it's a hair on a brush or a pig
    $1200 1
During the Battle of Britain, the air force with this German name tried to smash England's defenses to prep for an invasion
    $1200 9
This L.A.-based hard-boiled novelist said Hammett's work took "murder out of the Venetian vase & dropped it into the alley"
    $1200 15
Oganesson & radon are 2 radioactive members of this gas group on the periodic table
    $1200 6
After Romeo y Julieta cigars made a splash, in 1935 a competing brand was named this, after a Dumas character
    $1200 19
Far-flung fiction: "Caprica"
    $1200 22
In ancient Greek theater, Aeschylus reduced the number of the performers in this from 50 to 12
    $1600 2
A cavalry force of 3,000 Polish Hussars helped break the 1683 Siege of Vienna by forces of this empire & to win the ensuing battle
    $1600 23
Many of Hammett's stories take place in this inner-city San Francisco neighborhood that shares its name with a cut of beef
    $1600 13
Exoplanets a bit bigger than ours are "super Earths"; 51 Pegasi B, a gas giant that orbits near its star, is a "hot" this planet
    DD: $4,500 7
The name of this ocean liner was a Roman province that included what is now Portugal & western Spain
    $1600 18
"The Winchesters" were paranormal parents
    DD: $7,000 20
Relevant or suitable, it comes from a French phrase meaning "to the purpose"
    $2000 3
In 1862's Battle of Fredericksburg, Union troops crossed this long-named Virginia river, then may have wished they hadn't
    $2000 24
Hammett's long-time love, this playwright of "The Little Foxes", was happy to hear she was the inspiration for Nora Charles
    $2000 14
Emitted from trash mountains, these gases, LFGs for short, are a natural byproduct of organic decomposition
    $2000 8
The Comtesse du Cayla rose, seen here, was named for a mistress of this king who survived Napoleon's Hundred Days
    $2000 10
Hometown hockey heroes:
"Shoresy"
    $2000 21
This word meaning poise ends with its silent B

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tamara Michael! Ittai =)
$8,500 $20,800 $5,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

LEADING LADIES: NEXT IN LINE
Janet Gaynor,
Judy Garland,
Barbra Streisand,
her

Final scores:

Tamara Michael! Ittai =)
$8,500 $20,800 $6,001
2nd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Tamara Michael! Ittai =)
$12,600 $19,000 $5,400
14 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 28 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $37,000

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Game tape date: 2024-01-04
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