Show #9038 - Wednesday, February 14, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 2 quarterfinal game 8.

Contestants

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Elliott Kim, a television editor from Los Angeles, California

Ilhana Redzovic, an investment associate from Chicago, Illinois

Vince Bacani, a risk manager from Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Jeopardy! Round

ALSO A MAGAZINE TITLE
LOW TECH
THE COMPOSER CONDUCTS
5 FOR THE ROAD
I RAN
SO FAR AWAY
    $200 25
Lizzo sang, "It's About Damn" this
    $200 24
A seesaw is an example of this simple machine, which is just a long beam on a fulcrum
    $200 29
In 1915 Richard Strauss brought in wind & thunder machines to conduct his work depicting a climb in these mountains
    $200 28
The road to hell is proverbially paved with these, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to be nice
    $200 30
Stop, thief! Though we think of him just trotting around the bases after his home runs, Mike Trout led the A.L. in these in 2012 with 49
    $200 21
Here's the Alexander Mosaic with Darius III vs. the Great, nicely preserved as it was found in 1831 in this doomed Italian city
    $400 23
Lawyers use it as a courtesy title
    $400 17
One book in the "Fold & Fly" series teaches how to make these; a 2007 M.I.A. song is named for them
    $400 22
Hear tunes from "E.T.". "Jaws" & "Always" on the album he "Conducts His Classic Scores for the Films of Steven Spielberg"
    $400 26
Now an idiom for any sort of adventurous path, this colorful route in a 1900 novel was "very uneven" at times
    $400 27
In 1995 Emmitt Smith ran for 25 touchdowns for this team but was far from its Lone Star
    $400 20
Hardanger, Bokna & And (yes, And!) are these long narrow sea arms in Norway
    $600 9
From the French, it basically means "enjoy your food!"
    $600 16
During World War I Edith Wilson had a flock of these on the White House lawns--to cut the grass
    $600 12
Prokofiev conducted the U.S. premiere of his own "classical" symphony (less redundant than it sounds) at this NYC hall in 1918
    $600 10
Ray Charles started off a song with these 4 words; now it means scram!
    $600 19
In 2011 this Jamaican sprinter was too fast for some school zones, hitting a top speed of 27.33 mph in a race
    $600 15
This Winter Olympics city is on the coast of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains
    $800 13
It's now also a verb meaning to strike poses like a model
    $800 4
The original cover for The Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" came with a functioning one of these fasteners
    $800 8
The first time audiences were taken on this "ride" was when Wagner conducted extracts from his "Ring" cycle in 1862
    $800 1
A child's game fronts this phrase used in politics for postponing a needed action
    $800 18
Badwater & the Lake Saroma 100K are two of these races whose name indicates you've got to run farther than 26.2 miles
    $800 14
We heart this heart-shaped island state 150 miles south of Victoria where you can have a devil of a time
    $1000 11
Irish playwright J.M. Synge wrote of this "of the Western World"
    DD: $1,000 3
A French word for "hook" gives us the name of this craft that uses a hooked needle
    $1000 7
You can hear him lead the Columbia symphony in his "Rite of Spring" or the Columbia jazz combo in his "Tango"
    $1000 2
You may have an enlightening moment on the "road to" this city, like Saul did in the Bible
    $1000 5
This Manchester City goal scoring master from Norway has been clocked at 22.5 miles per hour running down the field
    $1000 6
This wedge-shaped country seems small next to its 2 giant S. Amer. neighbors, but it has 5x more land than Holland & 5x fewer people

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

Vince Ilhana Elliott
$4,000 $3,000 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Vince Ilhana Elliott
$5,600 $3,400 $2,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

SNAKES IN A BOOK
"AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS
TOUGH 10-LETTER WORDS
THE AIR THAT I BREATHE
1970s MOVIES
THOSE MEDDLING KID KINGS & QUEENS
    $400 30
To tempt Eve in this 17th century epic poem, Satan takes the form of a serpent (he sneaks into its mouth as it sleeps)
    $400 29
This organization founded in 1881 was inspired by one based in Switzerland
    $400 20
To shorten so that a part stands for the whole
    $400 19
In the 1970s Nik-O-Lok, pioneer of pay toilets, began making folks pay for air at these facilities
    $400 8
"Dammit Janet" & "Over At The Frankenstein Place" are songs from this 1975 movie; can you sense my antici...pation?
    $400 26
In 1547 this teen became the first crowned czar of Russia; later on, he had filicide to his name
    $800 28
On his third voyage, this hero of "The Arabian Nights" lands on an island home to a man-eating snake as big as a palm tree
    $800 27
The third Thursday in November is the Great American Smokeout, hosted by this organization for more than 40 years
    $800 25
Geometric name for an open square found on many a campus
    $800 18
Meteorologist Cindy Day says that like an honest talk, thunderstorms do this when dry westerly winds are behind them
    $800 7
2 things about this 1971 guy--he's "the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about" & "no one understands him but his woman"
    $800 24
The life of child emperor Puyi & his time in this "City" in Beijing is the subject of the film "The Last Emperor"
    $1200 23
In the 4,000-year-old epic of him, this hero finds a plant that grants immortality, but a snake snatches it away & eats it
    $1200 1
This organization, the AOS for short, is literally for the birds
    $1200 21
The artwork seen here is titled this, a weird-looking baby substituted by fairies for a newborn
    $1200 17
The main gas from an erupting volcano is this 2-word one that also forms clouds, but there's also less benign sulfur dioxide
    $1200 6
Reaching for a gun to take on Mongo, Sheriff Bart gets warned in this film: "No, no... if you shoot him, you'll just make him mad"
    $1200 22
An 1889 New York Times article called Alphonso XIII "the happiest living monarch"; he would go on to rule this country until 1931
    $1600 16
In Kipling's "The Jungle Book", this old python is a friend & savior to Mowgli
    DD: $2,000 2
Chartered by Congress in 1919, it's the largest veterans' organization in the U.S., with nearly 2 million members
    $1600 14
This 10-letter word for a means for producing copies comes from the Greek for "dry" & "written"
    $1600 10
140 bucks worth of propane will keep you aloft in this specific type of craft for about 2 hours
    DD: $5,000 5
This 1976 drama ends with the typed out words "Gerald Ford to become 38th president at noon today"
    $1600 12
In 1543 she was crowned queen at 9 months old at a ceremony officiated by the Archbishop of St. Andrews
    $2000 15
The Green Witch turns into a snake to attack Prince Rilian in this Narnia book whose title refers to what Rilian sits in
    $2000 3
In 1972 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a founder of this organization's Women's Rights Project; full name, please
    $2000 13
"O", it means excessively compliant or servile
    $2000 9
The first noble gas discovered on Earth, it makes up almost 1% of standard dry air
    $2000 4
In a space oddity, this singer was "The Man Who Fell to Earth" to save his own dying planet
    $2000 11
Crowned at 13, King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem was known as this "King", since he had Hansen's disease

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Vince Ilhana Elliott
$16,600 $10,600 $4,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

BROADWAY PLAYS
Rita Moreno & Sally Struthers were the first to star in the female version of this comedy, their characters becoming Olive & Florence

Final scores:

Vince Ilhana Elliott
$21,600 $0 $4,599
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Vince Ilhana Elliott
$13,200 $10,600 $6,600
18 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 21 R,
6 W		 12 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $30,400

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Game tape date: 2024-01-18
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