Show #9050 - Friday, March 1, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

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Josh Saak, a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho

Brian Henegar, a guest services agent from LaFollette, Tennessee

Stephen Webb, a data scientist from Longmont, Colorado

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Jeopardy! Round

PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES
GETTING SEAL-Y
FOOD, FAST
POP CULTURE PRINCESSES
DECADES
RHYMES WITH RHYME
    $200 26
In biblical city names, Bethel is Hebrew for "house of God" & this city big in the New Testament means "house of bread"
    $200 29
This rhyming idiom is another way of saying "sign the contract"
    $200 23
Dutch gives us the name of these baked treats, an afternoon tea staple
    $200 30
Super Mario Bros. has Mario & Luigi trying to rescue her; she used to be called Princess Toadstool in the United States
    $200 25
This old-timey nickname for the 2000-to-2009 years contains an old-timey word for zero
    $200 28
Shoplifting or arson, for example
    $400 24
The name of this city comes from a French word referring to the river linking Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie
    $400 27
The seal for this U.S. capital near Troy & Schenectady includes the word "assiduity"
    $400 22
This cool Indian side dish is often made with cucumber & a yogurt or curd called dahi
    $400 21
She was actually adopted into the royal family of Alderaan, raised by Senator Bail Organa & his wife, the queen of Alderaan
    $400 14
The Philadelphia Daily News used this alliterative term for a decade long before miniskirts took over London
    $400 13
This pungent herb is used to flavor stuffing & Bénédictine liqueur
    DD: $1,000 10
A conquistador combined the name of a local people & the Spanish word for water to name this country
    $600 20
This song from "Batman Forever" won Seal multiple Grammys
    $600 6
One member of the beet family is Swiss this
    $600 3
In the "Shrek" films she voices Princess Fiona
    $600 7
A 1926 editorial in the Oakland Tribune put "rip-" before this timely phrase
    $600 15
To make this at home, mix 8 Oz. of Elmer's glue with 2 tbsp. of saline solution & 1 tbsp. of baking soda; have fun!
    $800 8
The name of this capital city derives from a Maasai expression for "cool water"
    $800 19
This elite military unit took part in a raid in Abbottabad in the early hours of May 2, 2011
    $800 9
Bottom line--it's a burrito that's been deep fried
    $800 5
In "The Princess Diaries", Mia Thermopolis finds out that she is the crown princess of this (fictional) country
    $800 4
The "Dirty" these saw extreme weather, economic collapse & pre-code movies like "She Couldn't Say No"
    $800 16
Before "in", it can mean to break into a conversation to express an opinion
    $1000 1
This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from words for "cauldron" & "mountain"
    $1000 2
These large pinnipeds are named for the trunk-like schnozz of the adult male; they make more of a belch noise than an awooga
    $1000 11
Liquid smoke, not coffee liqueur, is in this shredded pork dish, the star of many luaus
    $1000 18
In a 1953 film she played a princess who takes a "Roman Holiday" from her royal duties
    $1000 12
In Britain, they were "Naughty"; in the U.S., they were "Gay"
    $1000 17
In computer jargon, it's an extension that allows the transfer of different types of data files via email

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

Stephen Brian Josh
-$600 $2,800 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Stephen Brian Josh
-$800 $5,200 $5,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

THAT'S A LONG STORY
ARCHITECTURE
COVER ME
"N"OWLEDGE
CHEMISTRY CLASS
GENDERED LANGUAGE
    $400 26
Serialized from 1845 to 1847, the seminal & alliterative horror tale "Varney the" this runs to more than 200 chapters
    $400 27
In 1818 Charles Bulfinch began as U.S. architect of this building; during his tenure he designed its rotunda
    $400 20
Aretha Franklin's version of this Otis Redding tune topped Rolling Stone's 2021 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
    $400 28
The town of Arad in this desert is a common stopover for visitors to the Dead Sea
    $400 29
Composed of 2 or more atoms, it's the smallest particle of a substance that retains its chemical & physical properties
    $400 30
The amount of energy supplied by people's physical effort; until 1977, Canada had a minister of it & immigration
    $800 25
Ralph Ellison's posthumous second novel was culled from more than 1,500 pages of writing & titled after this now-federal holiday
    $800 22
Brutalism, popularized by Le Corbusier, refers to buildings made primarily of this material, like Boston's City Hall
    $800 11
In 2023 Dolly Parton unveiled a cover of this anthemic Queen hit that should resonate with you, my friends
    $800 23
Let's get down to business--this 3-country pact went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994 but was replaced in 2020
    $800 4
Fe2O3 represents this 4-letter compound, something to avoid on your Rolls-Royce
    $800 24
This term for a woman in charge is the title of a book by entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso
    $1200 14
This 1996 David Foster Wallace novel isn't quite as long as its title suggests but does run 1,000+ pages
    $1200 21
This architect designed the Louvre's glass pyramid; the public was initially not in love with it
    $1200 10
At a 2018 event honoring Fleetwood Mac, Miley Cyrus brought the house down with this Mac classic about "snow-covered hills"
    $1200 3
The "TL" sound was an important feature in this language of the Toltecs & Aztecs
    $1200 13
This silvery-white element, atomic number 31, takes its name from an old name for France
    $1200 16
Change the second syllable in the alter ego of Princess Adora to get this word for a powerful female
    DD: $3,200 15
"Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words
    $1600 2
Frank Lloyd Wright worked for 5 years with the Chicago firm of Dankmar Adler & this "father of skyscrapers", leaving in 1893
    $1600 9
The Beatles recorded this dance classic at the end of their first album session; good idea, as it blew out John's voice
    $1600 12
Because its pelt was impervious to arrows, Hercules had to strangle this beast as the first of his labors
    $1600 6
The Arrhenius equation shows the rate of collisions of particles increasing with this measure for the solution they're in
    $1600 17
This word combines slang for a man & a type of cosmetic
    $2000 19
A Nobel Prize winner, in 1962 she published "The Golden Notebook", which runs to nearly 700 masterful pages
    $2000 1
An immigrant from Austria & from the "N"OWLEDGE category, he helped define midcentury California with modernist buildings
    $2000 8
That's Urge Overkill's version of this song in "Pulp Fiction", not Neil Diamond's original
    DD: $2,000 7
Henry Fonda played this admiral in the 1976 film "Midway"
    $2000 5
The heroine of TV's "Lessons in Chemistry" has ideas about this concept that inorganic compounds could have led to life
    $2000 18
Gynoid is another word for this type of automaton that Austin Powers confronts

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Stephen Brian Josh
-$800 $12,800 $8,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
Fearful of independence in 1975, around 120,000 of this country's people, a third of the population, fled to the Netherlands

Final scores:

Stephen Brian Josh
-$800 $8,799 $3,995
3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Stephen Brian Josh
$200 $16,000 $8,400
8 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W
(including 1 DD)		 23 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $24,600

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Game tape date: 2024-02-07
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