Show #9062 - Tuesday, March 19, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions final game 6.

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

SPEECHMAKING
NAME THE RIVER
(Ken: ...that runs by each of these cities.)
NEWER MACHINES & INVENTIONS
ORGANIZATIONS
SILENCE, LETTERS!
WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES
    $200 25
In 1917 Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on this country that was practicing "cruel & unmanly" submarine warfare
    $200 26
Bullhead City &
Laughlin
    $200 27
3D printers aren't great for mass production but excel with these models, whose name is partly from the Greek for "first"
    $200 28
Since the 1990s, an organization to save this animal has been entering runners in costume in the London Marathon
    $200 29
The terminal "S" in this word for pieces of trash is really just garbage
    $200 30
In 1992 England's top soccer clubs broke away from their historic football league to form this elite entity
    $400 23
In a 1951 speech General Douglas MacArthur shared that "Old soldiers never die, they just" do this
    $400 24
Aranjuez, near Madrid,
& Talavera de la Reina
    $400 21
A major advantage of using hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity is that their only byproducts are heat & this
    $400 18
The voice of CEOs in Washington is the organization called Business this, also what's seen here
    $400 19
Make no mistake--you don't pronounce either the "X" or the "S" in this French term for a slip-up
    $400 22
In 2020 MLB gave retroactive major league status to 7 of these leagues that existed from 1920 to 1948
    $600 1
Speaking to striking miners in 1912, this matronly activist warned of blood being spilled if guards were not soon called off
    $600 8
Fallujah, Iraq &
Raqqa, Syria
    $600 9
The IoT is short for this, which connects commonplace items to the web & collects data
    $600 11
Helping preserve a heritage, the British group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg is also known as this Language Society
    $600 4
I accuse the only "C" in this word meaning to charge with a crime of being useless
    $600 20
In 1924 the NHL added its first U.S. team, this New England squad
    $800 2
Following this man's death in 1948, prime minister Nehru stated, "The light has gone out of our lives"
    $800 5
Lyon &
Avignon
    $800 6
With a name like another musical instrument, the "O-" this uses an optical sensor & keyboard to make violin music
    $800 3
The headquarters for this global law enforcement group are found at 200 Charles de Gaulle Road in Lyon, France
    $800 7
Trippy! Merriam-Webster says the only silent "J" in English is in the name of this drug
    $800 10
The Indiana Pacers debuted in 1967 in this new big league; it's gone, but the team is still around
    DD: $2,800 12
In 1735 attorney Andrew Hamilton spoke in defense of freedom of the press at this man's trial
    $1000 13
Jeffersonville,
Louisville &
Evansville
    $1000 14
It's the alliterative term for a computer system based on the brain
    $1000 15
2024 marks 100 years of this group with a mission "to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke"
    $1000 16
Remember, only the first "M" is silent in this memory aid
    $1000 17
This league's 20-yard-deep end zone means Cody Fajardo has more options close to the goal line than Patrick Mahomes does

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

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$4,000 $6,600 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$5,400 $9,400 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

BOOKS & AUTHORS
CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION
JEOPORTMANTEAU!
DIRECTORS ACTING
UNDERGROUND
MIND THE GAP
    $400 30
Her sister Emily & brother Branwell are buried with her in the family vault in Haworth, England; Anne is buried elsewhere
    $400 29
This 18th century group of violin concerti is "Le quattro stagioni" in Italian
    $400 28
Buttercup in "Toy Story" films
+
item symbolizing an endless supply of food
    $400 27
Steven Spielberg showed up for a second or 2 in this John Landis comedy playing a Cook County tax assessor
    $400 26
SNOLAB, the "SNO" for Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, is way down under this Canadian province
    $400 25
The Gap stores hit Wall Street in 1976 with an IPO, short for this, of $18
    $800 4
A former chairman of CNN, he has written biographies of Steve Jobs & Elon Musk
    $800 21
Premiering in 1749, "Music for the Royal" these got set off to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession
    $800 22
Pill that cures nothing
+
Spanish dance
    $800 11
This Munich-born documentary & film legend played Keg Jeggings on "Parks & Rec" & voiced Shrimply Pibbles on "Rick & Morty"
    $800 24
Running underground for much of its course, this river with the same name as a desert ends at Soda Dry Lake
    $800 23
Diastema is the clinical term for a gap between these
    $1200 2
This author born Lula Carson Smith earned fame at the keyboard as a novelist under this married name
    $1200 9
In 1991 his "Liverpool Oratorio" premiered in the city's Anglican Cathedral, which once said no to his choirboy services
    $1200 20
A temporary stay
+
a writer for a newspaper or magazine
    $1200 8
This director of "Her" donned a dress in "Bad Grandpa .5", playing the elderly Gloria
    $1200 16
Seen here is an old elevated highway in Boston & the same area after the road was buried as part of the huge project called this
    DD: $9,600 17
Near where Virginia, Kentucky & Tennessee meet, you'll find this pass named for a son of George II
    $1600 1
A dessert made from a family recipe is the title of this Charmaine Wilkerson novel that became a Hulu series in 2023
    $1600 7
The New York Times called this piece with a name in the title "Beethoven's trifle... featured on Baby Einstein albums"
    DD: $4,200 15
A buffet in Stockholm +
a house of ill repute
    $1600 6
This director of "Out of Africa" went in front of the screen for Stanley Kubrick in "Eyes Wide Shut"
    $1600 13
It's a homophone of a word meaning the opposite of easy or soft, but this soft rock made possible the ancient tunnel city of Derinkuyu
    $1600 19
To shuck properly, look for the gap between the oyster's shell & use your knife to sever this muscle
    $2000 3
Max Brod edited this author's letters & diaries & published a 1937 biography of him
    $2000 10
There is a sense of foreboding in the overture to his 1862 opera "La forza del destino", or "The Force of Destiny"
    $2000 12
Mysterious object that propels a movie plot
+
extremely fastidious
    $2000 5
Viggo Mortensen starred in "Eastern Promises" from this horror master, who then acted in Viggo's directorial debut "Falling"
    $2000 14
You can go under this square, the heart of Old Seattle, to see bits of what the city looked like before a great fire in 1889
    $2000 18
Gap junctions allow communication between cells as molecules pass from this semifluid cell substance to another

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$16,600 $19,800 $3,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

THE HUMAN BODY
This glandular organ that starts to shrink at puberty is known for being where the cells key to adaptive immunity develop

Final scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$13,399 $6,399 $6,400
Winner: $250,000 3rd place: $50,000 2nd place: $100,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$16,600 $18,000 $10,200
21 R,
0 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $44,800

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Game tape date: 2024-02-09
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