>1>Show #9030 - Friday, February 2, 2024>div>
>2024 Champions Wildcard Group 1 final game 2.

Contestants

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> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17300" rel="external">Michael Menkhus>, a data analyst from Kansas City, Missouri (subtotal of $0)

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17276" rel="external">Andy Tirrell>, a political science and international relations professor from San Diego, California (subtotal of $14,800)

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17281" rel="external">Juveria Zaheer>, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada (subtotal of $20,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

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>JUST PLAYING>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr>
>A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr>
>ETCH & SKETCH>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr>
>A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr>
>THE GAME OF LIFE>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> able> >Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):
>BUILDING IN LAGOS>tr> <tr>>td>tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513616" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">15>td>
> href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-02-02_J_15.jpg" target="_blank">She> played Nanisca, an Agojie general, in the 2022 film, "The Woman King" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513631" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">24>td>
>In the early 1890s President Cleveland wasn't "sweet" on one company controlling 98% of American refining of this <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513633" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">27>td>
>In a letter from 1888 he included a sketch> of his bedroom at Arles, the painting he was working on <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513634" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">30>td>
>Pliny the Elder mentions Scipio Africanus was born through this surgical delivery method <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513636" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>
>Life can be like putting together one of these, invented in the 1760s though the tool didn't exist for another century <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513638" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">29>td>
>With collections of art & archaeology, the Nigerian National this was founded by Kenneth Murray, grandson of the OED's 1st editor <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513624" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>
>"Funny how, I mean, funny like I'm a clown?" Joe Pesci asks Ray Liotta in this film <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513632" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">23>td>
>Both the English & Dutch companies with this name began around 1600 with their minds on monopoly & monopoly on their minds <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513618" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>
>He reproduced his etching of "Black Lion Wharf" in a famous painting of his own mother <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513635" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>
>For nerve injuries, a transplant surgery uses this technique that shares its name with a horticultural one <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513637" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">25>td>
>Ancient playwright Terence compared life to playing with tesserae, Roman these; you have to work with the throw you get <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513620" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">12>td>
>Nigeria's tallest building is NECOM House>, the "COM" for this industry <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513625" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17>td>
>This "Arrested Development" alum was pitch perfect as Allan, Ken's buddy in "Barbie" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513628" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22>td>
>Having gotten a 20-year monopoly for steamboat navigation in New York, Robert Livingston paired with him to, y'know, build a boat in 1802 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513619" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">8>td>
>Seen here> is one of this Dutch master's earliest attempts at a self-portrait <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513614" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">5>td>
>Swann-Morton notes that the No. 10 size of this surgical tool is used "for making varying sizes of incision in skin" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513629" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21>td>
>The first Saturday in August is a national day for these, which get washed away despite our work, so go build another one! <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513621" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11>td>
>Odion Ighalo got a Lagos mansion by playing this goal-scoring position in soccer; enjoy your studio apartments, midfielders <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513626" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">18>td>
>A 2022 biopic starred Austin Butler as Elvis; a 2023 biopic had Cailee Spaeny playing her <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513617" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14>td>
>In the 1400s the Germans led the league in having a near monopoly in the Baltic's long-distance trade; this league, specifically <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513612" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>
>Not surprisingly, among her drawings are "Antelope Horns" & flowers like the poppy <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513609" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1>td>
>While a mastectomy removes the whole breast, this surgery takes out the cancerous cells & conserves part of the breast <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513630" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>
>With its ups & downs, life has often been compared to one of these, such as Steel Vengeance or the Twisted Colossus <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513622" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">10>td>
>Two front doors are separated by a narrow hall> in Face-Me-I-Face-You buildings, a phrase from this blended language <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513627" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">19>td>
>Dr. John Prentice (played by Sidney Poitier) was the answer to this title, a much bigger surprise back in 1967 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513611" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>
>Founded in 1851 stop this company dominated the telegraph biz in the early 1900s stop but the telephone changed things stop <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513613" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6>td>
>Seen here> is the first in a series of six prints making up "A Harlot's Progress" by this 18th century Brit <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >DD: $1,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513610" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">2>td>
>Part of biliary surgery, the operation to remove this, now one of the most common, was first done by Dr. Langenbuch in 1882 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513615" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4>td>
>In a commencement address, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger noted "You can't climb" this with your hands in your pockets <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 9>td>
A palace said to have 34 entrances is the residence of the Oba of Lagos; Oba, a title of this late-in-the-alphabet ethnic group
>Juveria >Andy >Michael!
>$3,600 >$600 >$0>td>
>Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
>Juveria >Andy >Michael!
>$6,200 >$2,000 >$2,800
>Double Jeopardy! Round ble class="round">
<tr>d class="category_name">TALKING ABOUT TOLKIEN>tr> <tr>
>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">WE'VE GOT HISTORY>tr> <tr>
>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">>BILLBOARD'S 500 BEST POP SONGS>tr> <tr>
>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">WEIGHTS & MEASURES>tr> <tr>
>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">EXPLORING U.S. CITIES>tr> <tr>
>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER>tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> able> >Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
>td>tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 30>td>
From 1925 to 1959 J.R.R. Tolkien was a popular language & literature professor at this university <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513659" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">29>td>
>A descendant of Tamerlane, Babur founded this dynasty that ruled in India from 1526 until 1858 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513661" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22>td>
>At No. 1, Billboard picked this Whitney Houston hit that made hitting the floor "feel like an issue of life-or-death urgency" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513666" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>
>On the water, it's about 1.15 miles per hour <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513641" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">5>td>
>Chicago's throne-shaped theatre building> with this kind of work in its name, opened with "Aida" in 1929 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513644" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6>td>
>Hollandaise-laden breakfast entree known as a traitor in the United States <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513652" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17>td>
>Tolkien's son Michael once listed his father's occupation as this, also Gandalf's job <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513660" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>
>Queen Anne was the first monarch of a united Great Britain & the last from this ruling house <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513662" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">23>td>
>"I'll tell you something", the Beatles got No. 10 with this 1964 hit, "a force the likes of which pop had never encountered" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513667" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">27>td>
>A bag of the Portland type of this can be one cubic foot, about 94 pounds <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513642" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4>td>
>Memphis harkens back to ancient times with a Bass Pro Shops in one of the world's largest of these, worthy of the mighty pharaohs <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513645" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>
>"Amphibian" British sausage dish cooked in batter that's an ace on the golf course <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513653" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14>td>
>In "The Hobbit" he thinks of picnics below during his trip over the Misty Mountains, inspired by one Tolkien took to Switzerland <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513648" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">8>td>
>The Aztecs claimed descent from these people who dominated Central Mexico from about 900 to 1200 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513663" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21>td>
>Can't you hear that boom-badoom-boom of her "Super Bass", making the list's top 20 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513654" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>
>A full this measure of depth is 72 inches, so 5 of them would be 30 feet <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513643" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>
>Get a kick out of some kicks at the Giant Shoe Museum in Pike Place Market in this Western city <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513651" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">10>td>
>"Vernal" tubular Chinese appetizer that is also a casual bit of canoodling in the barn <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=513646" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>
>To his family & close friends, Tolkien was known by this name, the first "R" in his initials <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 9>td>
An estimated 36,000 people in & around Indonesia lost their lives due to the eruption of this volcano in 1883 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 24>td>
No. 3 was this Temptations classic about a lover, "immediately recognizable from the opening bass line" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $3,600 19>td>
This unit of force named for a 17th century man is equal to about .225 pound-force <tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $2,000 2>td>
Area 15 in Las Vegas houses art installations originally built for this annual festival held in the Black Rock Desert <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 15>td>
"Pastoral" lamb & mashed potato casserole that's a fanciful dream not likely to be attained <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 12>td>
Humphrey Carpenter's bio of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis & like-minded friends has this title, like their literary circle <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 11>td>
While searching for the Northwest Passage, >this British explorer & his crew perished during an expedition in 1847 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 25>td>
At No. 5, this 2005 Kelly Clarkson Grammy winner, "the 21st century's greatest contribution to the pop canon so far" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 20>td>
In this system used for precious metals, an ounce is heavier than a standard ounce, but a pound is lighter than a standard pound <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 1>td>
This Manhattan hotel popularized by Warhol & Dylan calls itself "a decadent palace of peculiarity" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 18>td>
Blue cheese-accompanied poultry products that are on the marquee as a Wim Wenders film
>Juveria >Andy >Michael!
>$11,800 >$4,400 >$13,200
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>Final Jeopardy! Round
</tr> <tr>
>ARMY TECHNOLOGY
>td>tr> </table> <tr> <td id="clue_FJ" class="clue_text">Bearing the name of a man who died in Iowa in 1838, these began service in 1979 & today number in the thousands able> >Final scores:
>Juveria >Andy >Michael!
>$11,800 >$0 >$2,799
>Cumulative scores:
>Juveria >Andy >Michael!
>$31,800 >$14,800 >$2,799
>Tournament champion: $100,000 + advance to the 2024 Tournament of Champions >1st runner-up: $50,000 >2nd runner-up: $25,000
>Game dynamics: Game dynamics graph

>Coryat scores:

>Juveria >Andy >Michael!
$12,800 $4,000 $11,200
20 R,
>2 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R
>(including 1 DD),
5 W		 18 R
>(including 1 DD),
4 W

>Combined Coryat: $28,000

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Game tape date: 2024-01-05
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