Show #9029 - Thursday, February 1, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 final game 1.

Contestants

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Michael Menkhus, a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri

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

Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

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Jeopardy! Round

MOUNTAIN HIGH
FROM THE FRENCH
BONDS OF COMMONALITY
RAP WORDS & PHRASES
NONFICTION
I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB
    $200 14
The tenth-highest peak in the world, Annapurna I reaches 26,500 feet in these mountains
    $200 27
Prioritizing care for the wounded is the goal of the start method, a type of this, from the French for "sorting"
    $200 29
Crankshaft,
camshaft &
cylinder head gasket (just to not totally give you the shaft)
    $200 7
An early citation for this term for jewelry goes back to a song featuring Lil Wayne
    $200 30
Helen MacDonald's memoir of adopting a predatory bird is called "H Is for" this raptor
    $200 26
Shotcut is free, open-source software for this sort of video professional
    $400 13
The highest point in the Rockies is 14,440-foot Mount Elbert, southwest of Leadville in this state
    $400 16
The French for "change direction" gives us this word referring to an alternate route
    $400 28
Slippery Rock,
Case Western Reserve,
Austin Peay
    $400 6
There is no need to have a dental item for doing this, a word meaning showing off; Dr. Dre rhymed it with slauson
    $400 21
It says, "The opulent Watergate... was as Republican as the Union League Club"
    $400 25
It comes before saw & shears in the name of a gardening tool that cuts off undesired twigs & branches
    $600 12
Lesser-known conquests by Sir Edmund Hillary include 10,000-foot Mount Magellan in this, his home country
    $600 15
A term for an architectural exterior, it can also refer to any deceptive illusion
    $600 19
Cleaning up cow manure for a king, collecting golden fruit, swiping a girdle... sounds like scenes in "Animal House", but no
    $600 5
Used as an interjection in trap music, this vowelless word conveys the sound of tires screeching
    $600 20
She recently released volume 3 of her "Magnolia Table Cookbooks"
    $600 24
This word for a type of cut used by chefs is from French for round
    $800 11
Mount Pinatubo volcano erupted in this nation in 1991 for the first time in 600 years, producing a column of ash more than 20 miles high
    $800 1
Along with Bulgaria & even Cuba, Hungary was part of the "Soviet" this 4-letter word from the French
    $800 18
Anacondas,
gavials,
skinks
    $800 3
On "Otis", Jay-Z claimed to have "invented" this 4-letter term defined as bold assurance or great self-confidence
    $800 9
Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen began ladling out advice in this book in 1993
    $800 23
Subcutaneous & purse-string are types of these used by your sawbones to stitch cuts they've made
    $1000 10
This 16,900-foot mountain in Turkey is said to be where Noah's Ark came to rest & some climbers have claimed to have seen its remains
    $1000 2
The U & the E at the end of this adjective meaning indecent or off-color combine to make an "A" sound
    $1000 17
Well-marbled beef,
the 0 degree line of longitude,
the number 5
    DD: $1,800 4
Thug Passion, a cocktail that's one part Alizé & one part Cristal, is referenced on this rapper's 1996 album "All Eyez On Me"
    $1000 8
"The Professor & the Madman" is "a tale of murder, insanity, & the making of" this storied reference work
    $1000 22
Cutting fabric for hats is all part of the job for this worker whose name derives from an Italian city

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

Juveria Andy Michael!
$1,000 $3,000 $5,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Juveria Andy Michael!
$2,400 $3,800 $7,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

FOLLOW THE WORLD LEADER
BRAINY QUOTES
2-LETTER WORDS
I'M SO WAVY
"N" SCIENCE
CANADIANS INVADE OUR LIVING ROOM!
(Ken: Juveria, you're part of the problem; make a selection.)
    $400 30
He succeeded Stephen Harper up north in 2015
    $400 21
In a book from 1900, this character says, "I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all"
    $400 25
Though it's in the Bovidae family, the musk variety of this is grouped with goats & sheep, not cattle
    $400 24
A man called Krazy George Henderson claims he introduced the wave during a 1981 A.L. playoff game for this Bay Area team
    $400 14
Some elements that are ferromagnetic at room temperature include iron & this metal
    $400 11
Cobie Smulders says the writers of this sitcom told her they wanted to make her character Robin Canadian because it seemed exotic
    DD: $11,200 6
She followed Gulzarilal Nanda in 1966 & Charan Singh in 1980
    $800 20
This character is "a bear of very little brain, and long words bother" him
    $800 26
An aid to meditation, when spoken as 3 sounds, it can be symbolic of the 3 major Hindu gods
    $800 23
This wavy hairstyle is named for the way the ridges of hair go around in a circle one time
    $800 13
Bubbles of this gas can form in the bloodstream when quickly moving from high to low pressure environments
    $800 10
One of the Kids in the Hall, Mark McKinney had the memorable ability to do this devastating action to strangers at a distance
    $1200 5
In 1783 this man the Younger took over for the could-not-possibly-be-more-Britishly-named William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck
    $1200 19
In a song by Jimi Hendrix, this title phrase is followed by "all in my brain"
    $1200 27
An exclamation, or an actress who has played a doctor & an MI6 agent on TV
    $1200 22
"Heat Waves" was a 2022 No. 1 hit for this British band
    $1200 1
Messier 42 in Orion & Messier 17 in Sagittarius are these regions of dust & gas
    $1200 9
From 1994 to 2000, she made 3 "Scream" movies, but always came back to the Salinger house on "Party of Five"
    $1600 2
Eyebrows were raised in 1964 after Khrushchev gave way to this man
    $1600 18
"Miss Warren has brains: you can't deny that", says his play "Mrs. Warren's Profession"; the response: "Brains are not everything"
    $1600 28
It's Latin for "bone"
    $1600 16
In the woodblock print "Under the Wave Off Kanagawa", this big peak appears within the hollow of a large wave
    DD: $4,000 3
It's the study of the kidneys
    $1600 8
You know that TV show "Castle"? Well, this Albertan was Castle
    $2000 4
This minister of propaganda led Germany after Hitler... for a day
    $2000 17
In "A Tale of a Tub", this 18th century satirist called books "the children of the brain"
    $2000 29
A major river of the Siberian lowlands, it flows more than 2,200 miles from the Altai Mountains to the Arctic Ocean
    $2000 15
In physics, this distance is the maximum displacement of a wave from its equilibrium
    $2000 12
A BYU study on microscopic worms revealed that there are 57 billion of these roundworms for every living human
    $2000 7
The CBC launched the careers of stars like this "Bonanza" actor, known as the "Voice of Doom" on CBC Radio

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Juveria Andy Michael!
$34,000 $7,400 $16,400

Final Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY
The first city in Australia with a municipal government, this state capital bears the name of a queen

Final scores:

Juveria Andy Michael!
$20,000 $14,800 $0

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Juveria Andy Michael!
$21,200 $7,400 $15,600
23 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 11 R,
1 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $44,200

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Game tape date: 2024-01-05
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