Show #9059 - Thursday, March 14, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions final game 3.

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

LOOK AT THE MAP
HEALTH & MEDICINE
KHAN YOU DIG IT?
FESTIVALS
SONGS OF YOUTH
CROSSWORD CLUES "R"
    $200 30
Let's look at the two main islands of this alliterative Caribbean country
    $200 29
Doing this lifesaving procedure to the beat of "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees can help keep a proper rate
    $200 28
To improve London's natural biodiversity Mayor Sadiq Khan released a family of these dam rodents into a wetland in West London
    $200 27
Traditionally, the lights sent aloft in Taiwan's Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival are made from this paper
    $200 26
In 2004 Natasha Bedingfield sang, "Today is where your book begins, the rest is still" this title word
    $200 25
What's all this noise?
(6 letters)
    $400 9
This Mediterranean capital has endured for more than two millennia
    $400 20
As seen in the X-ray, the patient has this sideways curvature of the spine that's often diagnosed in adolescence
    $400 21
In 2021 Lina Khan began serving as chair of this agency, FTC for short
    $400 22
It's held for about 2 weeks each May, & in 2023 awarded its Palme d'Or to "Anatomy of a Fall"
    $400 23
Inspired by her bestie, Tay Tay sang when "somebody tells you they love you" at this title age "you're gonna believe them"
    $400 24
A clever trick or stratagem
(4 letters)
    $600 4
More than 40 inhabited islands make up the groups known as the Inner & Outer these
    $600 10
Jaundice can be a symptom of this liver inflammation that has 5 main viruses labeled A-E
    $600 11
This singer lent her voice to the band Rufus in the 1970s; as a solo performer, she had a hit with "I'm Every Woman"
    $600 14
An art studio called Poetic Kinetics created the ginormous floating astronaut for the 2014 edition of this SoCal music festival
    $600 12
"No regrets, just love, we can dance until we die", sang Katy Perry, who was "livin"' one of these, also her album title
    $600 17
A spinning spit for cooking meat
(10 letters)
    $800 2
It's the geographically appropriate name for the troubled country seen here
    $800 7
In this early stage of periodontal disease, your gums may become swollen & bleed
    $800 8
According to a 13th century "Secret History", this leader was born clutching "a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone"
    $800 5
Every summer the Bayreuth Music Festival in Bavaria presents works by this composer
    $800 1
Nate Ruess & this band implored, "We are young so let's set the world on fire"
    $800 19
The nose knows it's inflammation of its mucous membranes
(8 letters)
    $1000 3
Much of Argentina is covered by these vast plains that extend from the Atlantic coast to the foothills of the Andes
    $1000 13
Most recover fully from this syndrome, GBS for short, that affects the peripheral nervous system & is named for 2 French Drs.
    DD: $2,600 15
The Aga Khans hold this title as leaders of the Shiite Nizari Ismaili sect
    $1000 6
Blue for Krishna is just one of the hues in this festival of colors on the day of the full moon
    $1000 16
Fresh out of high school, this R&B singer's smash debut album "American Teen", had songs like "Young Dumb & Broke"
    $1000 18
Fishie doing a ridealong on a shark
(6 letters)

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

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$3,200 $0 $4,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$4,600 $2,800 $5,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT HISTORY
BOOKS BY REPORTERS
MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS
IT'S A FACT!
THE NAME ON THE OSCAR
ENDS IN "IX"
    $400 30
It's thought Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang died after ingesting this liquid element that he believed would make him immortal
    $400 29
In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he'd later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy
    $400 28
A real high point of this city is the nearly 360-foot-tall memorial to José Martí in Revolution Square
    $400 27
As of January 1, 2024, California has a new state this, a golden chanterelle
    $400 26
Best Actor, 2012, for "Lincoln"
    $400 25
To make a new version of something, like The Chemical Brothers' adaptation of "Voodoo People" by The Prodigy
    $800 3
Crimes punishable by death in this 282-law collection included robbery, false accusation & priestesses drinking with commoners
    $800 12
Newspaperman Ben Hecht wrote the novel "Erik Dorn" & then wrote for the movies with this director's "Spellbound"
    $800 23
This national monument & natural wonder attracts people from all over to Utah; the one for our dearly departed pets is different
    $800 14
Unlike other cats, this fastest one doesn't have fully retractable claws
    $800 17
Best picture, 2019, starring Song Kang Ho & Cho Yeo Jeong
    $800 24
This 2-syllable word means to attach, like a postscript to a letter or a label to a package
    $1200 2
In "Meditations" this Roman emperor reminds himself not to be irritated at other people's bad breath: "That's the way his mouth is"
    $1200 7
Willard Motley wrote novels as well as Bud Billiken newspaper columns for this city's Black weekly The Defender
    $1200 22
Native American leaders want the name of this first U.S. natl. monument changed, saying it's offensive & based on a mistranslation
    $1200 10
Belize, in Central America, was formerly a colony called this
    $1200 16
Best Supporting Actor, 2019, for "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood"
    DD: $12,200 20
This town at the foot of Mont Blanc hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924
    $1600 1
Praising the defense of democracy, Pericles' funeral oration of 431 B.C. was given for soldiers fallen in this conflict
    $1600 6
This New Journalism leader wrote the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons", about early 21st century college life
    DD: $5,600 9
Dedicated to the memory of great Frenchmen, it's the final resting place of women too, including Marie Curie & Simone Veil
    $1600 8
In the U.S. a quadrillion has this many zeros
    $1600 15
Best Supporting Actress, 1973, for "Paper Moon"
    $1600 19
This comic book hero who battles the Romans with his pal Obelix was introduced in 1959
    $2000 4
The Pyramids of Meroë in modern-day Sudan were built in the land of this 4-letter ancient kingdom
    $2000 13
This scribe worked the baseball beat for a N.Y. paper but got his potatoes with the story collection "Guys & Dolls" & whatnot
    $2000 21
Located on Israel's Mount of Remembrance, this memorial center commemorates the victims & the heroes of the Holocaust
    $2000 11
Stepping down in 2024 after 52 years on the throne, she had the longest reign of any Danish monarch
    $2000 5
Best Director, 2014, for "Birdman" & 2015, for "The Revenant"
    $2000 18
It means verbose or redundant

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$29,600 $15,200 $17,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THE UNITED NATIONS
Of the 9 countries that have produced a U.N. Secretary-General, this nation is the only one from its hemisphere

Final scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$35,601 $30,400 $30,401
Winner: 1 match point 3rd place: 1 match point 2nd place: 1 match point

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$18,600 $13,800 $17,800
22 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $50,200

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Game tape date: 2024-02-09
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