Show #9058 - Wednesday, March 13, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions final game 2.

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

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS
VIRTUO-SO GOOD
"BIT"TING AT THE CHAMPS
THE CLOCK & THE CALENDAR
REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE
SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON
    $200 18
The Fryderyk Chopin Museum & the Copernicus Science Center
    $200 26
Berlioz mastered this 6-string instrument but said the sound of a dozen of them playing in unison "is almost absurd"
    $200 28
To live together as if married, even if not
    $200 27
An impatient Mandarin speaker might tap his wrist & say di da, where an American would say this
    $200 29
Archie's pal Forsythe P. Jones III goes by this unflattering name
    $200 30
A 1992 Pulitzer went to the Morning News of this city for its reporting on extensive misconduct by Texas police
    $400 5
The Silver Pagoda & the Memorial Stupa to thousands of victims at the former Tuol Sleng Prison
    $400 25
Improvising woodwind virtuoso Eric Dolphy was a pioneer in the genre known as free this
    $400 21
A substance that suppresses the activity of another; the protease type combats HIV
    $400 24
Months on the Islamic calendar traditionally begin when this type of moon is sighted in the western sky
    $400 23
Horatio Magellan are the first & middle names of this cereal seller & man of the sea
    $400 22
A 1957 issue of Apparel Arts Magazine had this subtitle, which would eventually be shortened--or refitted?--to GQ
    $600 3
Noryangjin Fish Market & Samsung's Leeum Museum of Art
    $600 16
Like members of the Bach family, Marcel Dupré was a master of this weighty instrument & wrote extensively on technique
    $600 20
Every bartender needs these aromatic compounds that add flavor & complexity to cocktails
    $600 17
Fittingly given its name, the U.S. Navy began using this kind of time in 1920 & the Army in 1942
    $600 19
Robert Underdunk Terwilliger is the real name of this vengeful "Simpsons" character
    $600 15
This publication that later Rockwell & rolled was named for being printed in time to make a weekend mail delivery in Philly
    $800 2
St. Michael's Orthodox Cathedral & Marshal Tito's mausoleum
    $800 11
On the album "Songs from the Labyrinth", Sting went strings, reviving centuries-old songs from John Dowland, master of this
    $800 10
"Geographic" term for an array of binary data used to create an image
    $800 9
On the French Revolutionary calendar, Dec. 21 was the 1st day of Nivôse, a month named for this weather condition
    $800 7
On "Gotham" Robin Lord Taylor walked the walk as this villain, aka Oswald Cobblepot
    $800 8
Anna Wintour had the fashion sense to become editor-in-chief of this publication in 1988
    DD: $1,400 4
Museo Botero &
Plaza de Bolívar
    $1000 12
This composer and violin virtuoso revolutionized playing technique, including new methods of fingering & tuning
    $1000 13
Grossly excessive, like tuition at the Ken Jennings School of Necromancy & Horticulture
    $1000 14
The Julian calendar had leap years--Feb. 23 lasted 48 hours--& the first one was this last full year of Julius Caesar's life
    $1000 1
Please, Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs is so formal! Just call the character this
    $1000 6
Roger Ebert was just 24 when he began to light up the Chicago movie scene as the film critic for this newspaper

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

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$3,400 $4,200 $4,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$4,800 $5,800 $5,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

"H" IS FOR HISTORY
OFFICIAL STATE STUFF
17th CENTURY WRITING
SKY & SEA
SINGERS
DIACRITICAL THINKING
    $400 26
The period of time from March to July of 1815 when Napoleon escaped Elba & ran wild in France is known as this
    $400 27
Connecticut likes this burly beast as its state animal; Mocha Dick was a notorious 19th century one
    $400 28
In his first speech in "Paradise Lost", he says let's not rebel against one prohibition--we have pruning to do!
    $400 29
Not always circular, this type of coral reef encloses a lagoon
    $400 30
This singer's 2023 N.Y. Times obituary said her biggest hit was "a breathtaking rendition of... 'Nothing Compares 2 U"'
    $400 24
To be fully correct in this language, you have to put a little hook over the R in the name of its native speaker Antonin Dvořák
    $800 9
"Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" was perhaps sung by citizens of these ramshackle areas named for a Depression-era prez
    DD: $21,800 19
Arizona's state fossil is this tree product; Arizona is also home to a forest full of it
    $800 21
As you see, there are geese in France but Jean La Fontain's book of fables included the hen that laid these valuables
    $800 22
The EPA gives us the AQI, short for this index, which goes from "good" to "hazardous"
    $800 25
This Spanish singer with a flamenco background has hits like "Malamente" & "Con Altura", a collab with J. Balvin
    $800 23
In Hawaiian, the single open quote mark called the 'okina is a this stop, a sound made by opening & closing a certain body part
    $1200 3
It's the term for the migration of Muhammad & his followers to Medina before Mecca's fall in the year 630
    $1200 13
Oregon's state fish is this type of salmon, also a name for a wind that blows in the Rockies
    DD: $9,200 10
In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England, he included the famous story of his rescue
    $1200 7
At the beach, beware of riptides, rip currents & this, which despite its name won't drag you offshore into deep water
    $1200 18
In 1999 she had a hit with "Candy" & would later get to sing as the voice of Rapunzel in "Tangled"
    $1200 11
This mark under the C in soupçon (a little bit) softens that sound & makes things much classier than saying "soup-con"
    $1600 2
What's known as this New England city's "Convention" was spurred by dissatisfaction in the War of 1812
    $1600 12
Alaska's state gem is this green one, a historically important crafting item to the Inupiaq
    $1600 6
Loving a good sequel like the rest of us, this author completed "The Pilgrim's Progress Part 2" around 1684
    $1600 8
Bioaerosols are microbes that flourish in this innermost part of the atmosphere
    $1600 1
This singer's "Dance The Night" appears in "Barbie"; she also makes an appearance in the movie as a mermaid
    $1600 15
I'm getting a sense of déjà vu; I feel like I've said it's l'accent grave over the A & l'accent this over the E, like, a second ago
    $2000 4
The "March of the 10,000" involved the heavily armored Greek soldiers known by this name, trapped behind enemy lines
    $2000 14
From Boulder to Pueblo, Colorado residents celebrate this as their state flower
    $2000 20
In "To Althea, from Prison", poet Richard Lovelace wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars" one of these
    $2000 16
The Arabic for "wind" gives us this 2-syllable word for a Sudanese wind that produces violent sandstorms
    $2000 5
Michelle Zauner, lead vocalist of this band, named it for a meal that might include tamago kake gohan (rice mixed with raw egg)
    $2000 17
Umlaut is a German word; this, for the 2 dots as in Zoë to show a vowel is in a separate syllable, comes from Greek

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$20,400 $46,800 $10,400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
This book is named for a tribe of Israel that carried out judgment of the idolaters of the golden calf

Final scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$40,800 $46,800 $10,400
2nd place Winner: 1 match point 3rd place: 1 match point

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$12,400 $25,400 $10,400
18 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 25 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 14 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $48,200

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Game tape date: 2024-02-08
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