Show #9057 - Tuesday, March 12, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions final game 1.

Contestants

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Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin

Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, Florida

Yogesh Raut, a social and personality psychologist from Vancouver, Washington

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Jeopardy! Round

FROM THE NEWSPAPERS
(Ken: Various newspapers large and small.)
INVESTING & BUSINESS TERMS
ONE-WORD BEATLES SONG TITLES
SOUP'S ON
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS
LITERARY TITLE ADJECTIVES
    $200 27
A subhead from 1929: "Istanbul, not found in recent atlases, has replaced" this old name
    $200 28
The difference between total assets & liabilities is this "worth"
    $200 29
This word can precede cake or suit
    $200 30
The name of caldo verde, a hearty Portuguese soup, means this color broth
    $200 26
Legally, it means so visible that the cops didn't have to search to find it; something obvious is "hiding" there
    $200 25
A "Jane Eyre" prequel:
"____ Sargasso Sea"
    $400 18
December 27, 2007: this "Pakistani leader killed in suicide attack"
    $400 21
A part of profits paid to shareholders, the scrip type is basically a promissory note
    $400 22
As April 15 approaches, count on seeing the jocular phrase this person "cometh"
    $400 23
New England clam chowder uses cream, while this other geographical clam chowder uses tomatoes
    $400 24
A principle based on experience or practice gave rise to this 3-word phrase mentioning a part of the hand
    $400 17
Third in a series:
"Rabbit Is ____"
    $600 15
1963: this civil rights leader "survived the Normandy invasion but died of an assassin's bullet in Mississippi"
    $600 1
For a sales team, the number of contracts signed per quarter might be one of these indicators, KPI for short
    $600 14
Chicagoans Marian & Fraser Robinson are seen here in 1964 with son Craig & this daughter
    $600 13
Vichyssoise, made with a base of potatoes & this onion relative, is said to date back to 1917 at the Ritz-Carlton
    $600 16
2021 called & wants this phrase back that means evaluating someone's mood or energy
    $600 10
A classic 1924 short story:
"The Most ____ Game"
    $800 3
From September 1933: "Nazi dominance... astounding to visitors"; this republic "irretrievably buried"
    $800 5
A military order that keeps troops in the service, in investing, it orders a broker to sell if a stock price falls to a certain point
    $800 20
A "Glorious" one occurred in England in 1688 when one monarch was replaced with a pair
    $800 7
This Vietnamese soup has its own national day in its homeland--December 12
    $800 12
This expression meaning you have to suffer to advance was used in the 17th century, in plural form, by Robert Herrick
    $800 2
A Tony winner by Larry Kramer:
"The ____ Heart"
    DD: $1,600 4
In 1921:
"Italian radicals make issue of" this pair's case
    $1000 11
The VIX, short for this, is a predictor of how fast stock market prices change
    $1000 19
In winter, the red-winged variety can congregate in flocks of several million
    $1000 6
This alliterative soup made with tripe is historically a symbol of the city of Philadelphia
    $1000 8
The version with "pipe" is later, this original phrase for something headed your way is from the type of road seen here
    $1000 9
An Ionesco absurdity: "The ____ Soprano"

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

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$0 $4,600 $5,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$3,600 $5,800 $6,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLAIN GEOGRAPHY
PROSE & CONGRESS
UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION
THE KNIGHTLY NEWS
WHO'S THE BIOPIC SUBJECT?
STARTS WITH "P"
    $400 25
The Song of Solomon speaks of the "Rose of" this coastal plain between Mount Carmel & Tel Aviv
    $400 26
In "Life on the Run" Bill Bradley talks about his pre-Senate life playing on this NBA team
    $400 28
In 1997, Pathfinder parachuted onto Mars, and cushioned its land with these, also a safety feature in your Buick
    $400 27
This holy object has been sought by knights in ancient legend & much more recently by Graham Chapman
    $400 29
"First Man"
    $400 30
It's a long, hooded jacket; Patagonia sells a nano puff one
    $800 11
This Tanzanian plain is home to the biggest mammal migrations on Earth
    $800 24
Her memoir "The Senator Next Door" is appropriately published by the University of Minnesota Press
    $800 23
In the 1990s this spacecraft named for a Portuguese explorer mapped almost the entire surface of Venus
    $800 16
Odds are you know this team led the NHL's Western Conference in points with 111 in the 2022-23 season
    $800 22
"Gorillas in the Mist"
    $800 21
Also known as the caveman diet, it's a shortened word for a diet that emphasizes lean meats & veggies
    $1200 3
Ian Frazier's travel journal "Great Plains" culminates in Montana at this kind of non-agricultural silo
    $1200 9
JFK won a Pulitzer for this book that detailed the lives of 8 fearless political leaders
    $1200 12
On July 4, 2005 Deep Impact slammed a probe into Tempel 1, one of these, creating a giant crater & a brilliant flash of light
    $1200 15
This "colorful" poem dates to the 14th century & includes the main character being tempted by a lord's wife
    $1200 5
"American Sniper"
    $1200 17
A fun color "hiding" in the bottom layer of hair is known as this, named like a game played with an infant
    $1600 2
Covering around 300 square miles in Wiltshire County, England, this plain is known for its monuments including Stonehenge
    DD: $9,000 10
In 2011 this senator published his "The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed & the Decline of Our Middle Class"
    $1600 13
The New Horizons spacecraft discovered that the surface of this largest moon of Pluto was mostly dirty water ice
    $1600 1
An equestrian knight is the longtime logo of this British brand known for its trench coats
    $1600 4
"Funny Girl"
    $1600 18
It's a line of steep bluffs like the cliffs along part of the western shore of the Hudson River
    $2000 8
3,000 years ago Mexico's Tabasco Plain was part of the trading network of these people & later the home of the Maya
    $2000 20
He won an NAACP Image Award for his autobiography "Across That Bridge"
    $2000 14
The Dawn spacecraft found a peak over 12 miles high when it reached this second-largest object in the asteroid belt (after Ceres)
    $2000 7
Jacques de Molay was the last grand master of this religious military order founded in the 1100s
    $2000 6
"A Man for All Seasons"
    DD: $6,000 19
Part of this word for a long, rambling journey nearly spells out a type of falcon

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$15,600 $22,000 $10,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD THEATER
This 1867 play has a reindeer hunt & a king dwelling in snowy mountains but its title character also spends time in Morocco & Egypt

Final scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$15,600 $12,799 $15,601
2nd place 3rd place Winner: 1 match point

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$15,600 $20,000 $10,000
20 R,
1 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $45,600

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Game tape date: 2024-02-08
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