Show #9051 - Monday, March 4, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 7.

Contestants

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Ike Barinholtz, a producer, writer, and actor from Chicago, Illinois

Melissa Klapper, a professor from Merion Station, Pennsylvania

Ray Lalonde, a scenic artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Jeopardy! Round

NONFICTION
I HEARD A RUMOR
HOBBIES & PASTIMES
"V"ACATION SPOTS
COCKTAILS
HAPPY HOUR
    $200 17
After taking on salt & cod, Mark Kurlansky peeled the many layers of this in a 2023 book
    $200 27
It can mean a rumor, or testimony in court based upon what she said she said
    $200 26
An apiarist is someone who raises & cares for these
    $200 28
You haven't seen a palace until you've seen this place & its immense gardens designed by André le Nôtre
    $200 29
Perhaps you will be fresh as a daisy after imbibing this tequila cocktail whose name is Spanish for "daisy"
    $200 30
A bit embarrassed by its success, Michael Stipe of this band called "Shiny Happy People" "a really fruity, kind of bubblegum song"
    $400 16
Michael Lewis' "Going Infinite" focuses on this man, crypto Gatsby
    $400 21
Sans accent, it means to reveal a secret; with one, it's a scandal-revealing newspaper story
    $400 25
I'm choosing something by Adele next time we go out to do this, "empty orchestra" in Japanese
    $400 18
Don't miss the Isaac-Potts House, aka Washington's headquarters, on your visit to this national historical park in Pennsylvania
    $400 22
This cocktail traditionally served in a copper mug gets its "kick" from lime juice, ginger beer & oh yeah, vodka
    $400 24
She won a Grammy for her song "If It Makes You Happy" & later wrote a cookbook, "If It Makes You Healthy"
    DD: $1,600 14
In 1513 this Florentine civil servant knocked out a handbook for rulers of his time called "Il Principe"
    $600 20
Merriam-Webster "spills" the story that using this word to mean a secret truth first gained prominence in Black drag culture
    $600 7
"RC" on a baseball card is used to stand for this & often makes it more sought after by collectors
    $600 12
Tradition says you'll have eternal love if you kiss while floating under the Bridge of Sighs in this city
    $600 4
It was inevitable that Sarah Jessica Parker would put her name on bottled & canned versions of this cocktail
    $600 23
It became the unofficial anthem of the Democratic Party after FDR used it in 1932 as his campaign song
    $800 13
Clarissa Pinkola Estes told "Myths & Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype" in "Women Who Run with" these wild animals
    $800 8
In a Klymaxx song a woman says if you want to be sure about your man, go powder your nose & have a "meeting in" this title place
    $800 5
The pastime of skimming flat stones across calm water also has this double avian name
    $800 1
View the underwater life of the Caribbean at Coral World Ocean Park in the U.S. portion of this archipelago
    $800 2
To be reductive, it's a martini with an onion instead of an olive
    $800 9
In 1988 it became the first song with no instrumental music to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100; perhaps if I whistle a bit...
    $1000 15
This New Yorker cartoonist tackled the topic of her aging parents in "Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?"
    $1000 19
It's a shortened version of a word for info; in a web article, "Jennifer Lopez Drops" them on "Achieving Celebrity Status"
    $1000 6
That's my jam! Strawberry specifically, to which I'm adding this coagulant, as the fruit naturally only has a little
    $1000 11
Cruise through Nizhny Novgorod on this waterway & maybe you'll hear the boatman singing
    $1000 3
A powerful artillery piece of World War I gave its name to this numeric cocktail made with champagne & gin
    $1000 10
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans sang this song as the closing theme to their TV series

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

Ray Melissa Ike
$2,600 $3,200 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ray Melissa Ike
$5,400 $3,800 $4,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

FRENCH HISTORY
NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES
(Ken: Each title only consists of numbers.)
LECTURING YOU ON SCIENCE
LANGUAGES
A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA
5-SYLLABLE WORDS
    $400 11
A 2023 movie led to lively debate, e.g. historians: She died when Napoleon was on Elba, not on his way back; Ridley Scott: Shut up
    $400 10
Delivery of a message of critical importance is central to the plot of this 2019 Sam Mendes war film
    $400 27
In the 2000s astronomer Mike Brown lectured on "How I Killed" this former planet "& Why It Had It Coming"
    $400 28
It's the official language of Myanmar
    $400 29
Premiering in Russia in 1890 & also known as "La belle au bois dormant", this ballet features Princess Aurora
    $400 30
One who has a compulsive impulse to steal items they don't really need
    $800 13
The Vichy regime put these in public schools; the 2004 law banning head-scarves on students also banned large these on chains
    $800 9
Loosely based on a classic legal film, this Nikita Mikhalkov drama pits a racist juror against a pensive foreman
    $800 22
The TED talk on how these bioluminescent insects communicate focuses on how they sync their flashes of light
    $800 23
Quinine & quinoa are words derived from this South American language
    $800 5
In 1967 this man joined the Kirov as a soloist but 8 years later, decided to stop Russian around & defected in Canada
    $800 26
In order to be one of these people who study the origin of words, you might want a degree in linguistics
    $1200 14
In the 5th century this eastern city, today home to the European Union's parliament, was Strateburgum, "Crossroads"
    DD: $7,600 8
Fellini felt he'd directed 7.5 films before making this 1963 gem
    $1200 21
The 1937 Nobel chemistry lecture on "The Structure of" these explains the progress in understanding starches
    DD: $8,000 19
Hindi & this language named for a region are the 2 most spoken first languages in India
    $1200 3
It's the 1-letter title of Anthony Davis' bio-opera that made its Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023
    $1200 16
If you're using metaphors & similes to make a point, you're speaking this way
    $1600 12
France's first socialist president, he served two terms from 1981 to 1995
    $1600 6
After his character gets cancer in this 2011 film, Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets by with a little help from his friends
    $1600 2
This Brit who wrote about the full circulation of the blood in the human body was a Lumleian lecturer from 1615 to 1656
    $1600 25
This country that shares an island with Indonesia has about 850 separate languages
    $1600 1
In Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", the title king & this queen spend quality music time with their 6 kids
    $1600 17
Frances Willard, founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was one
    $2000 15
In 1598 this edict named for the city where it was signed gave religious freedom to the French Protestants called Huguenots
    $2000 7
Mike Myers played legendary Big Apple nightclub owner Steve Rubell in this drama about a club Steve ran
    $2000 20
A Harvard Smithsonian lecture called "Cosmic Train Wrecks" talks about our impending collision with this galaxy
    $2000 24
Also called Euskara, it's a remnant of the languages spoken in Western Europe before the region was Romanized
    $2000 4
A word for a slender woman sometimes followed by "like", or an air-dwelling being that Scotland is full of, per a classic ballet
    $2000 18
From the Latin for "beauty", it's an adjective meaning having great beauty

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ray Melissa Ike
$13,800 $21,400 $14,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

POETS OF ANCIENT ROME
Far from Rome, this first century poet wrote, "The leader's anger done, grant me the right to die in my native country"

Final scores:

Ray Melissa Ike
$21,800 $13,199 $28,601
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Ray Melissa Ike
$13,800 $13,600 $8,400
17 R,
0 W		 14 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $35,800

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Game tape date: 2024-02-07
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