Show #9042 - Tuesday, February 20, 2024

2024 Champions Wildcard Group 2 semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Jesse Matheny, a customer success specialist originally from Huntington, Indiana

Alex Gordon, a surgical resident originally from Somers, New York

Kat Jepson, an artist from Roanoke, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round

THE 13 COLONIES
PILES
THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
WHAT'S THAT SMELL?
JEWELRY
HANSEL CULTURE
    $200 5
With its oldest settlement at Jamestown, it was the first of the 13 colonies to be founded
    $200 29
H.C. Andersen's way to identify one of these: have her sleep on a pea under a pile of 20 mattresses under 20 feather beds
    $200 30
Stronger than dogs but hard to train, these animals took time off from Santa to pull sleds of mail in Alaska in the early 1900s
    $200 6
Naturally, this body part can also mean a smell
    $200 28
It's the basic 4-letter type of earring seen here
    $200 27
One-armed basketball player Hansel Enmanuel was featured in an ad campaign from this sports drink invented in Florida
    $400 3
Its city of Pawtucket was founded in 1671, in time to come in for some burning during King Philip's War
    $400 15
Regina, Saskatchewan once had an indigenous name translating to "pile of bones"--the bones of this much-hunted animal
    $400 25
One of the most famous errors in postal history occurred in 1918 when a Jenny biplane was printed on stamps this way
    $400 7
"Eau de" can precede this smelly stuff, also the fourth-largest city in Germany
    $400 23
This fancy synonym for a fancy pin sounds like a word that means "to introduce a subject"
    $400 26
In a model walk-off in "Zoolander", this actor, as Hansel, defeats Ben Stiller by doing something indescribable with his underwear
    $600 2
George Calvert was instrumental in the founding of this colony in 1632
    $600 24
The first man-made nuclear reactor was a 20-foot pile of graphite blocks with blocks of this element mixed in
    $600 8
The stamp seen here is sold at a surcharge to help raise money to find a cure for this
    $600 9
This smelly word precedes "-Eaters" in a brand that hopes to keep your feet smelling fresh
    $600 12
The succulent seen here & a Glenn Miller tune both have this name, a type of necklace
    $600 20
In 1991 3-year-old Hansel won this race, the third leg of the Triple Crown
    $800 1
Originally a single province, they became 2 distinct southern colonies after separating beginning in 1712
    $800 19
This term from late winter streets means a sad accumulation of unsolicited manuscripts
    DD: $1,600 17
As an experiment in 1959, mail was dispatched by guided missile from one of these to a naval air station in Florida
    $800 10
This 5-letter word can mean the distinct smell left by an animal & used to track prey
    $800 11
This synonym for "forever" is used for a ring with diamonds all the way around the band to symbolize everlasting love
    $800 21
This actor had a "Hawkeye" for hunting evil as Hansel in the 2013 film "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters"
    $1000 4
Saybrook was its own colony until 1644, when it joined this one
    $1000 18
In 2022, Sheikh Hasina, leader of this country, inaugurated the Padma Bridge; not shown, its anchoring piles, 400 feet deep
    $1000 16
Until this delivery service began in 1860, mail could take 25 days to get from coast to coast, some by steamship via Panama
    $1000 14
This word for a wine's smell is most appropriate before, for example, "of honeysuckle" or "of geranium"
    $1000 13
You can make your mark with this ring that has a seal on it
    $1000 22
A line from this musical says, "Herr Hansel Schmidt becomes Mrs. Hedwig Robinson"

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

Kat Alex Jesse
$4,200 $3,000 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kat Alex Jesse
$5,600 $2,600 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

TAKING FLIGHT
BODIES OF WATER
ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS
4, 4
(Ken: Responses here are two 4-letter words.)
LITERARY HELPERS
ACTION MOVIES
    $400 28
It's nicknamed "the president's office in the sky"
    $400 29
This strait narrows to about 50 miles between Asia & North America
    $400 30
In a work by John Everett Millais, young Jesus is helping out in the carpentry shop & has prophetically been cut by one of these
    $400 22
Goldilocks falls asleep in the bed of this character
    $400 21
In "Casino Royale" she's described as "M's private secretary"
    $400 15
Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham & Jet Li are among the less than precious title mercenaries in this 2010 film
    $800 27
3 major airports serve New York City including this one that's not even in the same state
    $800 11
Called Östersjön in Swedish, this sea separates Scandinavia from the rest of Europe
    $800 23
This Impressionist set the scene on the Seine with "Luncheon of the Boating Party"
    $800 19
The Eagles had a song about "Life In" this, which the California DMV says is also known as the left or number 1
    $800 20
Gandalf said to him, "You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!"
    $800 7
"Pain don't hurt" is one of Patrick Swayze's iconic (?) lines from this 1989 cheese- & slugfest
    $1200 26
For its defensive firepower, World War II's B-17 was alliteratively nicknamed the "Flying" this
    $1200 10
There's a Colorado River in the U.S. & another one in this South American nation where it flows across the Pampas
    $1200 14
Though he depicted a different river in "Rapids of the Susquehanna", Frederic Edwin Church was a big man in this "School"
    DD: $2,000 3
"Pray for us sinners" is a line from it
    $1200 16
In this Cormac McCarthy novel John Grady Cole & his pal Rawlins are hired to tame some equines
    $1200 6
Jann Mardenborough became a pro race car driver by using this racing simulation video game, also the 2023 biopic about him
    $1600 25
The first African-American woman in space, on her first shuttle mission in 1992, she carried with her a photo of pilot Bessie Coleman
    DD: $6,800 9
Extending for about 135 miles, the Yucatan Channel links these 2 smaller-than-an-ocean bodies of water
    $1600 12
Pamplona's Museo de Navarra has an 1804 portrait of the Marquis of San Adrian, a masterpiece by this Spanish painter
    $1600 2
When printing photos (yes, people still do that), the intermediate rinse called this comes before fixing & washing
    $1600 17
In this Wilde work Algernon's manservant is named Lane, while Jack has a butler named Merriman
    $1600 5
This star-filled 1963 film featuring some epic Steve McQueen motorcycle scenes was (very) loosely based on a true story
    $2000 24
King Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette were in attendance when these brothers demonstrated their hot air balloon in 1783
    $2000 8
This deepest lake in Africa has a name that may come from Swahili words for "sail" & "wilderness"
    $2000 13
Oh, her, the tale of this woman "and the Elders" is a common subject & Lorenzo Lotto's from 1517 is one of those with minimal boobage
    $2000 1
To help with physical therapy, this type of cognitive training might have a patient walk while counting by 2s
    $2000 18
Frank helps Cora kill her hubby but is wrongly convicted of a murder he didn't commit in this James M. Cain novel
    $2000 4
"El Mariachi", "Desperado" & "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" make up this director's "Mexico Trilogy"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kat Alex Jesse
$8,400 $10,200 $18,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
He's the most recent presidential candidate to have officially declared his opponent in that campaign the victor

Final scores:

Kat Alex Jesse
$0 $1,599 $20,401
3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Kat Alex Jesse
$8,400 $10,200 $14,400
10 R,
0 W		 20 R,
6 W		 20 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $33,000

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Game tape date: 2024-01-19
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