Show #9040 - Friday, February 16, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 2 semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Mira Hayward, a podcast host from Portland, Oregon

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

Sriram Krishnan, a consultant from Falls Church, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL TV
(Ken: You need to name the president who is the focus of each of these TV movies or miniseries.)
FICTION & NONFICTION
A DOG'S LIFE
THAT'S GOT 2 HYPHENS
TRANSPORTATION
I'M CUBAN
    $200 30
"The Missiles of October"
    $200 24
"Oath and Honor" is a 2023 memoir & warning by this politician
    $200 29
To avoid confusion & possible danger, train your dog on the standard type of this before getting the retractable kind
    $200 25
Relatively speaking, it's your spouse's dad, to you
    $200 28
Serving 16 million passengers a year, their fleet vehicles feature a dog on the hood
    $200 27
His catchphrase "Dale" basically means "go ahead"
    $400 6
"Warm Springs"
    $400 23
Seeking le mot juste, Gustave Flaubert took 5 years to write this novel about a bleak marriage
    $400 22
Theobromine in this substance is toxic to dogs; the darker & more bitter kinds are more dangerous for the pooch
    $400 13
Benadryl & ibuprofen are this type of medication that's purchased sans prescription
    $400 26
At a value of more than $650,000, the Rolls-Royce Phantom B12 is a very spendy one of these "grave" vehicles
    $400 18
This Cuban-born man played the "I" in "I Love Lucy" opposite his wife in real life, Lucille Ball
    $600 19
"The Man from Independence"
    $600 3
She worked as a librarian before writing classic kids' books like "The Mouse & the Motorcycle"
    $600 21
This word for pellets of dry dog food comes from a verb meaning "to grind coarsely"
    DD: $1,600 12
Charles V chose to put 3 of these floral symbols on France's royal emblem
    $600 1
The special locomotives used to guide ships through the Panama Canal are nicknamed this, for a hybrid pack animal
    $600 16
Born in Cuba, this "Havana" singer came to the U.S. at age 6
    $800 5
"The Final Days"
(1989)
    $800 2
Marjane Satrapi used the name of an ancient Persian city for the title of this graphic memoir of her childhood in Iran
    $800 7
Dogs are especially vulnerable to this deadly airborne viral "dis"ease transmitted from wildlife; get your pup vaccinated!
    $800 11
It's a brawl with no rules & for our purposes, no cost
    $800 10
The first of these watercraft was the Charlotte Dundas, used to tow barges on the Forth & Clyde Canal in Scotland around 1800
    $800 15
The first Latina inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, she co-wrote her hit "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You"
    $1000 20
"The Crossing"
    $1000 4
She wrote fiction like 1970's "Play It as It Lays" & nonfiction including "The White Album"
    $1000 14
If your dog paces & whines before you leave, it may be suffering from this 2-word issue; exercise & crate training can help
    $1000 8
Where a CEO might have a personal assistant, a general has this French-named helper by his side
    $1000 9
Known for its yellow planes, this low-cost airline began flying gamblers from Detroit to Atlantic City in 1992
    $1000 17
A graduate of the National Theater School of Havana, she co-starred in "Knives Out"

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

Sriram Vince Mira
$4,000 $3,200 $5,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sriram Vince Mira
$4,600 $4,600 $8,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY
MYTHOLOGY
SCIENCE STUFF
NOTABLE NAMES
DESCRIBING THE SONG
OH, "MY" WORD!
    $400 28
The second-most populous city in Canada, it was founded in 1642 as a missionary center by Paul de Chomedey
    $400 30
The guys who sailed with Jason were called these, after the name of their ship
    $400 29
This iron-containing pigment in blood has a job to do: carry oxygen to tissue
    $400 25
On July 2, 1937 in one of her final transmissions, she reported that "gas is running low"
    $400 20
Michael Jackson warns about evil "lurking in the dark" & Vincent Price waxes poetic about grisly ghouls
    $400 16
This word can refer to physical nearsightedness or a mental lack of foresight
    $800 27
Lying between the 49th & the 60th parallels of latitude, it's the only province with no natural features defining its border
    $800 22
A bird called Aetos kaukasios ate his liver every day
    $800 23
A 1926 issue of Nature proposed this name for a quantum of light
    $800 24
Though written in the mid-1840s, this pair's "The German Ideology" wasn't published in its entirety until the 1930s
    $800 19
Drake remembers an ex who used to call him all the time but now is living her best life "running out of pages" in her passport
    $800 14
This Asian critter is known for its ability to mimic human speech
    $1200 26
The 2 principal parts of Niagara Falls are American Falls on the U.S. side & these falls on the Canadian side
    $1200 21
This nymph's unrequited love for Narcissus made her fade away until all that was left of her was her voice
    $1200 10
In 1891 Tesla unveiled his famous this, used in radio technology
    DD: $5,000 13
In 1919 this American scientist published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"
    $1200 15
Various people who live lives of quiet desperation, like Davy in the Navy, yell at Billy Joel to sing at a watering hole
    $1200 12
This polyester film from DuPont is useful in making things like survival blankets where heat retention is critical
    $1600 2
Appropriately named Terra Nova, Canada's easternmost national park is found on this island
    DD: $4,000 3
The names of these 2 goddesses, Zeus' wife & Zeus' mother, are anagrams of each other
    $1600 8
Meaning "covered seed", it's the scientific term used to designate flowering plants
    $1600 4
"Unbought and Unbossed" was a campaign slogan & an autobiography by this first African-American congresswoman
    $1600 18
Biz Markie finds out a girl named "Blah-Blah-Blah" is, in fact, having more than a platonic relationship with another man
    $1600 6
It's the muscular center layer of your heart wall, & you don't want it infarcted
    $2000 1
The world's largest freshwater archipelago, Ontario's Georgian Bay Islands are found in this Great Lake
    $2000 11
He was just a shepherd when he was asked to judge which of 3 goddesses was the most beautiful
    $2000 9
Galileo discovered this, the largest moon of Jupiter & the largest satellite in our solar system
    $2000 5
In 2022, this Antarctic explorer's ship "Endurance", which sank in 1915, was located at the bottom of the Weddell Sea
    $2000 17
Warren G has some trouble with the local roughs until Nate Dogg saves him; together they help some ladies with car trouble
    $2000 7
According to legend, this prehistoric Greek city was Agamemnon's capital

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sriram Vince Mira
$9,000 $3,200 $18,400
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THEATER
A 1955 play review noted "restless Delta folk" & "lives as uncomfortable & insecure as the proverbial" this title

Final scores:

Sriram Vince Mira
$9,000 $3,200 $18,400
2nd place: $10,000 3rd place: $10,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Sriram Vince Mira
$9,000 $7,200 $16,000
13 R,
1 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $32,200

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Game tape date: 2024-01-19
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