Show #9053 - Wednesday, March 6, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 9.

Contestants

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Sean McShane, a tour guide from South Boston, Massachusetts

Deb Bilodeau, a restaurant server from San Francisco, California

Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, Florida

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Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE!
OLYMPIC HISTORY
ISLANDS
MIDDLE X
(Ken: "X" will be the exact middle letter in each response.)
WAITS
MEASURES
    $200 30
To sum things up, this title guy passes over a very vengeful dude for the chief Lt. gig & does not get to live to regret it
    $200 29
The 1924 Games saw the debut of the motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius"--faster, higher, this
    $200 26
Monuriki, an uninhabited island of Fiji, became a tourist attraction after the release of this Tom Hanks film
    $200 25
A cheerful & tricky sprite, or in a different sense, Black Francis, as one of a group
    $200 24
Jane Seymour served as one of these to Anne Boleyn, who had served as one to Katherine of Aragon
    $200 23
A mercury one of these devices measures atmospheric pressure in pounds per square inch
    $400 28
This character says, "Make thick my blood; stop up the access & passage to remorse"; it's not her last experience with blood
    $400 27
This sport got ugly in 1956 as recently invaded Hungary beat the USSR in the "Blood in the Water" match
    $400 19
The most populous island in the world, it's home to more than half of Indonesia's people
    $400 20
Term for reproduction by an organism making copies of itself, or an orientation without carnal desire
    $400 21
Bernadine, Robin, Savannah & Gloria were "Waiting to" do this in a 1992 book title
    $400 22
In the 1670s Danish astronomer Ole Roemer was the first to show this was finite, now defined as 186,282 miles per second
    $600 15
Awaking, this weaver says, "I have had a dream... man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream"
    $600 17
In 1912 Martin Klein pinned Alfred Asikainen after an epic 11-hour, 40-minute bout in this hyphenated wrestling style
    $600 18
I took a pill in this third-largest of Spain's Balearic islands--what'd I miss?
    $600 7
Multiple blaring horns or warning hooters (that means put an S at the end of this high-score Scrabble word, y'all)
    $600 3
He had a Top 20 hit singing, "You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is the hardest part"
    $600 8
For a measured pour, a bartender might rely on this double-sided metal cup; a versatile one is 2 oz. on one side, 1 on the other
    DD: $1,000 2
Her last speech includes "Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper... thy sovereign"
    $800 11
She took a silver medal in women's figure skating in 1994; Tonya Harding finished a medalless eighth
    $800 1
In 1863, the ancient statue seen here was discovered on this Greek island
    $800 14
This math adjective that means having a common axis often precedes "cable"
    $800 4
At Jefferson's Monticello, the dining room fireplace conceals one of these that's linked to the wine cellar
    $800 13
A blood test to measure cholesterol should calculate total cholesterol, LDLs, HDLs & these, named for a trio of molecules
    $1000 16
This early play features Proteus & Valentine in the title roles (& it's not "Proteus & Valentine Take Manhattan")
    $1000 12
In 1904 Ralph Rose & Martin Sheridan broke a tie with a "throw-off" in this field event; Sheridan won with a spin of 127' 10 1/4"
    $1000 6
Sapporo is the capital of this Japanese island that also has double letters
    $1000 10
The ore of aluminum
    $1000 5
Clifford Odets got it right with his one-act play "Waiting for" him
    $1000 9
A unit of weight in the apothecaries' system, it equals 20 grains; in another sense, it's a synonym for a moral principle

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

Troy Deb Sean
$4,200 $1,200 $3,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Troy Deb Sean
$7,000 $1,600 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

1924
UNUSUAL WORDS
THE ARTS
OCCUPATIONS
MOVIE TAGLINES
THE HEAVENS & EARTH
    $400 30
Thanks to Freud, this 2-letter word entered the English language in 1924
    $400 28
Those on the Big Island of Hawaii are familiar with the basaltic lava whose name consists of just this letter twice
    $400 25
This famed chorus ends part II of Handel's "Messiah"
    $400 29
At the L.A. County Museum of Art, Stephanie Barron is a senior one of these in the Department of Modern Art
    $400 24
This 2023 holiday horrorfest promised, "There will be no leftovers"
    $400 27
It's the type of rock found in many of Yosemite's rock formations & in New Hampshire's nickname
    $800 7
This future president was born June 12 in Milton, Massachusetts
    $800 21
Don't be stingy with the Cabernet at one of these parties of mass revelry named for everyone's favorite wine god
    $800 18
Nicole Kidman starred in the 2006 film "Fur", "an imaginary portrait of" this female photographer
    $800 22
More so than a nanny, this female employee concentrates on teaching the children in a home, not chaperoning
    $800 23
The title male fashion model in this comedy had "3% body fat. 1% brain activity"
    $800 26
The Cassini Division & the Roche Division surround this celestial body
    $1200 5
Working on a deadline, George Gershwin composed this piece in just a few weeks' time
    $1200 17
You'll need 3 "F"s to spell this word for a disorderly confusion given to us by the Scots
    $1200 1
His many paintings of ballerinas include "The Dance Class", an oil from the 1870s
    DD: $4,000 11
With a name from Latin for "copyist", this type of insurance specialist calculates risks & premiums
    $1200 20
It was "No goats. No glory" for "The Men Who Stare at Goats", starring him as out-there Army officer Lyn Cassady
    $1200 14
The name of this volcanic vent through which steam & gas are emitted comes from the Latin for "smoke chamber"
    $1600 4
Published in 1924, her novel "So Big" was so big that it would win a Pulitzer Prize the next year
    $1600 15
Giant monsters like Rodan or Mechagodzilla are these creatures in Japanese
    $1600 2
A 2024 show at the National Gallery of Art called "The Anxious Eye" focuses on this moody style, a nationality plus an -ism
    $1600 9
Longshoreman or this word that begins with a male name can be used for a worker who loads & unloads ships in a port
    $1600 10
It's part of a film series & we'll even front you "Harold & Kumar": "This time they're running from the joint"
    DD: $11,800 6
Cepheids are the pulsating type of these stars that fluctuate in brightness
    $2000 8
This "Flying Finn" was the first athlete from his country to win 5 gold medals at a single Olympics
    $2000 16
Something that moves counterclockwise or off course is said to have gone this manner that ends with some leg parts
    $2000 3
Ooh! The romantic 1841 ballet named for this doomed heroine always gives me "the Wilis"
    $2000 13
Terms for shoemakers include cobbler & this more archaic one derived from a type of Spanish leather
    $2000 19
"Revenge never looked so promising", promised this 2020 film starring Carey Mulligan
    $2000 12
In these seismically active zones, one of Earth's tectonic plates sinks as another one slides over it

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Troy Deb Sean
$38,400 $8,400 $7,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY
"The country is celebrating 100 years of freedom 100 years too soon", says "The Fire Next Time", published in this year

Final scores:

Troy Deb Sean
$38,400 $8,400 $5,999
Winner: semifinalist 2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Troy Deb Sean
$25,400 $9,400 $7,200
28 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 12 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $42,000

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Game tape date: 2024-02-07
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