Show #9060 - Friday, March 15, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions final game 4.

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

THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY
TYPES OF POEMS
FOOD & DRINK
ON THE WEB
TV DRAMA
CHAMP CHANGE
    $200 25
Russia annexed this peninsula between the Black Sea & the Sea of Azov in 1783; wouldn't be the last time they tried that, either
    $200 30
Pindar was famed for these poems; Alexander Pope wrote one "On Solitude"
    $200 29
Slightly sweet & chewy, they're the little tapioca pearls in the tea
    $200 28
"The pins you save live on your boards" on this site
    $200 27
At the Golden Globes in 2024, he said, "This is a nice moment for me", when he won for "Succession"
    $200 26
An Olympic award changes a letter & becomes this lever
    $400 15
This 12,000-foot volcano in Japan erupted in 1707 but thankfully has been dormant for the ensuing 300+ years
    $400 23
Haiku masters Buson & Issa had to master this many syllables to craft their works
    $400 22
A caffè Americano is this dark strong coffee diluted with hot water
    $400 24
This site "enables anyone to be a creator", as Noah Beck found out when 9 seconds of lip-syncing made him famous
    $400 20
Season 1 of this Netflix series focused on Pablo Escobar, played by Wagner Moura
    $400 21
A 4-games-to-0 result in the World Series changes its second letter to "T" & becomes this adjective
    $600 4
In 1789 the Marquis de Launay, gov. of this landmark, didn't give up its munitions to the people so easily; bad move
    DD: $1,000 11
A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) one of these
    $600 1
With spinach as a star ingredient, the dish seen here goes by this 2-word name, partly after a city
    $600 6
This "in the gaming community is the problem we are trying to solve", said a founder of the platform of that name
    $600 2
In the daytime drama world, Shemar Moore rose to fame in the '90s as Malcolm Winters on this soap opera set in Genoa City
    $600 19
Satisfaction taken in winning trades a "D" for a "Z" & becomes this award for winning
    $800 3
On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founded the Perfectibilists, a branch of this "enlightened" secret society... oh dear, I may've said too much
    $800 8
Famous in the sonnet-verse, Petrarch devoted hundreds of poems in his "Canzoniere" to this woman, his love
    $800 13
Aubergine caviar is another name for this smoky Mediterranean spread made with roasted eggplant
    $800 17
This search engine with a double-talk animal name emphasizes privacy, saying it doesn't track searches or collect user info
    $800 18
She starred on dramas like "The Leftovers" & "The Gilded Age"
    $800 10
A championship flag trades one of its "N"s for a "D" & becomes this dangling thing
    $1000 7
Not thrilled with the colonies in 1774, Britain's parliament passed 4 punitive measures known not so nicely as these acts
    $1000 9
For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by"
    $1000 14
They're not lemons, but this 4-letter citrus fruit from Asia, whose juice & zest are used in Japanese cuisine
    $1000 16
Called "China's Google", this search engine became the first Chinese company to be listed on the NASDAQ 100
    $1000 5
President Obama said his favorite character on "The Wire" was this stickup man portrayed by Michael K. Williams
    $1000 12
A verb meaning to admit, as into a hall of fame, changes a letter & becomes this verb meaning to infer from reasoning

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

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$3,000 $6,600 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$6,400 $8,000 $1,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

MAKING A PASS
LOST WORKS
WHAT THE "H"?
FAMOUS WOMEN
MOVIE SONGS
EXTINCT ANIMALS
    $400 25
Winter storms sometimes close the over-8,000' Sylvan Pass located in the Wyoming part of this national park
    $400 26
According to one guy who read the lost memoirs of this 19th century poet & lord, the book was "fit only for a brothel"
    $400 27
This word is medical speak for really bad breath
    $400 28
In 2023 all living first ladies gathered in Atlanta to pay tribute to this first lady who passed away at 96
    $400 30
A non-"Let It Go" song from "Frozen" says these "are better than people. Sven, don't you think that's true?"
    $400 29
The Narragansett pacer, a breed of this, became extinct sometime in the 19th century
    DD: $14,000 15
The first major U.S.-German battle of World War II took place in February 1943 at Kasserine Pass on this continent
    $800 24
In 1903 this "Maple Leaf Rag" composer lost a trunk worth of music scores that possibly contained a ragtime opera
    $800 23
Arabic gives us this word referring to food from an animal slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law
    $800 22
For over 15 years, she was one of the most powerful people in the world
    $800 21
"Now I'm laughing to the bank", rap$ thi$ man in "Am I Dreaming" over the end credits of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"
    $800 20
The Sumatran type of this predator is still around, but the Javan & Bali subspecies are no more
    $1200 3
A group of ill-fated pioneers gave this pass near Truckee in California its name
    $1200 18
The lost 9-hour cut of this Erich von Stroheim silent film with a deadly sin as its title likely showed money can't buy happiness
    $1200 19
A classic song says, "waiting 'round the bend, my" this person, "Moon River & me"
    $1200 4
In 1924 she began working with the American Foundation for the Blind & for over 40 years was its leading ambassador
    $1200 12
This song shot to No. 1, 2, 3 o'clock after being featured in the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle"
    $1200 9
In 2021 the FWS declared extinct the stirrupshell & 7 other species of these mollusks that form serious attachments
    $1600 2
Located near the foot of Mount Kallidromo, this Greek mountain pass has a name that means "hot gates"
    DD: $5,000 8
In the lost ancient epic "Aethiopis", the Ethiopian king Memnon fights for Troy & is killed by this Greek hero
    $1600 17
It's a fancy 9-letter way to say a forerunner or an omen, as of spring
    $1600 1
Subject of a 2023 film, in 2013, she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage for protection
    $1600 11
"All Is Love", "Rumpus" & "Food Is Still Hot" are numbers by Karen O & the Kids for this kids' book adaptation
    $1600 10
The Stephens Island wren on an isle just off this country's South Island was eaten to extinction by a lighthouse keeper's cats
    $2000 6
Rudyard Kipling referred to this Asian pass as a "narrow sword-cut in the hills"
    $2000 16
This Frenchman's controversial urinal from a 1917 show is lost; you can look at (but not use) a replica at the Tate Modern
    $2000 14
The Beach Boys mentioned these Mexican sandals in "Surfin' U.S.A."
    $2000 5
Referred to as the "Jackie Robinson of tennis", she was named Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 & 1958 by the Associated Press
    $2000 7
Irish singer Glen Hansard starred in this 2007 movie & won an Oscar for co-writing "Falling Slowly"
    $2000 13
This sirenian of the Bering Sea was unknown until 1741 when Georg Steller first described it; within 30 years, it was extinct

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$20,400 $33,200 $12,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC AMERICANS
Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man

Final scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$15,200 $25,599 $25,600
3rd place: 1 match point 2nd place: 1 match point Winner: 2 match points

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$20,400 $20,000 $9,000
23 R,
0 W		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 14 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $49,400

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Game tape date: 2024-02-09
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