>1>Show #9063 - Wednesday, March 20, 2024>div>
>2024 Jeopardy!> Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 1.

Contestants

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> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17397" rel="external">Andrew He>, a stay-at-home dad from Concord, California

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17398" rel="external">Pam Mueller>, a justice researcher originally from Chicago, Illinois

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17399" rel="external">Dan Pawson>, a global health consultant from Arlington, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round

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>THE HISTORIC 1990s
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>FIRST NAMES
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>MISSION: PLAUSIBLE
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>WHEATIES ATHLETES
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>BESTSELLING BOOKS
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

>THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY>td>
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<tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517073" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1>td>
>Also known as sildenafil citrate, this little blue pill that debuted in 1998 also helps flowers stand up straight <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517093" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21>td>
>It's the first name shared by Russian heads of state in 1924 & 2024 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517095" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">23>td>
>Start on April 17, 1973 by using 14 aircraft to deliver 186 packages; become this company with $21 bil. in revenue in Q1 of fiscal 2024 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517100" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">29>td>
>When this team won Super Bowl XXXI, Wheaties produced a special 24-ounce regional box that was sold in Wisc. & parts of Minnesota <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517102" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">30>td>
>"Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins" in this novel <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517088" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>
>Mayhem is classified as this type of crime, which kinda rhymes with "dope melody" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517074" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">5>td>
>Descended from the German V-2, these missiles used by Iraq during the Gulf War had greater range & lighter weight <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517094" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22>td>
>This Spanish name for boys & old fishermen literally means "Saint James" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517096" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">24>td>
>A 35-year Broadway run-->unlikely, but Thelma Pollard did, doing makeup for the face behind the mask of this show's title character <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517082" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">12>td>
>This baseball great & the number 755 were featured on the Wheaties box in 2002 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517084" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11>td>
>We'll keep you in suspense... Jack Ryan Jr. is on the campus in "The Teeth of the Tiger" from this author <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517089" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17>td>
>"Check out the" this attention-getter in a song <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517075" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6>td>
>It didn't end well in 1997 for this cult that believed a flying saucer was following comet Hale-Bopp <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517080" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">15>td>
>Owl tell you right now, Hedy, as in Hedy Lamarr, was short for this German name <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517097" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">25>td>
>Stay pregnant for a year! Plausible for you, no, but for the Florida type of this aquatic mammal that can weigh 3,600 pounds? No prob <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517101" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>
>Often paired with Kerri Walsh Jennings on the beach, she appeared Kerriless on the Wheaties box in 2012 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517085" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">10>td>
>Chapter 1 of "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game" is about the changes caused by this> New York Giant who terrified quarterbacks <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517090" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">18>td>
>Time to rock a mic, like a this>, perhaps Gaiseric, a 5th century king of that Germanic people <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517076" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>
>A Special Counsel looked into Pres. Clinton's dealings with this real estate co. founded by the Clintons & the McDougals <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517081" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14>td>
>Borrowed from Sanskrit & reflecting her Indian heritage, this first name of a D.C. VIP means "lotus flower" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517098" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>
>Solve the this TV host problem: 3 shut doors, new car-junk-junk. You pick A. He shows you B is junk. Do you switch to C? <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517083" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>
>Joan Benoit Samuelson, an Olympic champion of this race, was honored on a box in 1996 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517086" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">8>td>
>By Feb. 2024 this juvenile journal, the first of almost 20, had spent 778 weeks on the N.Y. Times children's series list <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517091" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">19>td>
>Slang for a convertible car with a soft cover <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >DD: $1,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517079" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>
>This republic joined Serbia to fight against the secession of Slovenia & Croatia <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517077" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4>td>
>Girls' names derived from the color white include Alba & this one, like a character in "The Taming of the Shrew" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517099" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">27>td>
>Climb all 2,909 stairs to level 160 of this building that opened in 2010; you probably should get permission & remember... hydrate! <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517078" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">2>td>
>This Floridian tennis superstar appeared on a box in 1987, the year she won the first & only Wheaties Champions Award <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517087" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">9>td>
>Rhonda Byrne wrote this 2006 book, a hidden "principle of the universe", but don't tell anyone; scratch that. Tell me, now <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517092" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>
>Vanilla Ice mysteriously can "flow like" one; it's also wielded by Tashtego
Dan Pam Andrew
$2,400 $4,400 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Dan Pam Andrew
$3,200 $6,800 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round

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>19th CENTURY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS
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>THE DIRECTING BROTHERS
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>UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY
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>IT'S A BIG COUNTRY
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>VIOLENT ART
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

>OVERLAPS
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>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517121" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">19>td>
>Harrison Gray Otis served briefly as a brigadier-general in this 1898 war while still publisher of the Los Angeles Times <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517124" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">24>td>
>Jim Abrahams & the Zucker bros. piloted "Airplane!" & wrote this first "Police Squad" film that had Reggie Jackson attempt regicide <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517115" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">18>td>
>Chemists won an Ig Nobel for finding the right airborne amount of a compound from this Japanese horseradish to wake sleepers <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517129" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">27>td>
>It's about 700 arid miles across this country from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517131" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">29>td>
>A 17th century work depicts David with the rather giant head of this man, bearing the wound on his forehead that killed him <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517116" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17>td>
>Opposable digit held aloft to keep off precipitation <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517122" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>
>In 1889 the new owners of this paper had John Philip Sousa write a march about it for an awards ceremony <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517125" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">25>td>
>20 years later, Jim Carrey & Jeff Daniels were back for more Farrelly-directed fun in a sequel titled this "To" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517112" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">10>td>
>C<sub>22>H<sub>24>N<sub>2>O<sub>8> is the formula of this antibiotic that's known for fighting acne but can take on cholera too <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517130" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>
>Its 700,000 square miles of land area are spread across more than 17,000 islands <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517132" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">30>td>
>Sanguine, a blood-red chalk, is apt for the category; in the 1790s this Spaniard used it to sketch Saturn eating his son <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517117" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>
>Your self in psychoanalytic theory out in the yard digging tunnels with its paws <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >DD: $10,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517110" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">12>td>
>In 1847 Frederick Douglass founded this antislavery paper whose name refers to what guided people escaping slavery <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517128" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>
>Jay & Mark Duplass directed this very good "Superbad" actor as "Cyrus" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517104" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">5>td>
>In 1976 the first of this type of rechargeable battery was developed in part by using layers of titanium disulfide <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >DD: $8,600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517113" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11>td>
>Once claimed by Italy, Cyrenaica is an historic region & former province of this 650,000-square-mile land <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517114" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">8>td>
>Seen here> is Rembrandt's 1636 blinding of this biblical figure, bereft of hair <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517118" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">15>td>
>A holy church table made from a hairy arachnid <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517111" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">9>td>
>Before he> was the big name in New York newspaper publishing, he published "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517126" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21>td>
> href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-03-20_DJ_21.jpg" target="_blank">These> brothers co-directed "Uncut Gems" & one is also a busy actor from "Oppenheimer" & "The Curse" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517105" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4>td>
>Let's see if your Os is running properly; this element, No. 76, is used to make hard alloys for phonograph needles <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517106" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>
>It borders Russia, China & nothing else <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517108" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6>td>
>Napoleon's go-to guy, he also sort of directed a horror pic, an oil of Marat in the bath in 1793 done soon after the killing <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517119" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14>td>
>Niacin or folate reigning as the Roman goddess of the arts & war <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517123" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">23>td>
>Joseph Medill, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, was a founder of the G.O.P. & helped make these debates happen in 1858 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517127" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22>td>
>Last name of Joseph & Anthony, directors of "Avengers: Endgame"; hope they had some backend bucks <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517103" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1>td>
>The number of variables that must be fixed to define a physical state is expressed in "degrees of" this, also a noble concept <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517107" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">2>td>
>With a population of more than 100 million, it covers about 900,000 square miles in the heart of Africa <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517109" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>
>In 1637 Jusepe de Ribera painted this god, an art patron, tearing the skin off the leg of Marsyas the satyr <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=517120" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>
>Metronomic measure of music used for the medical study of tootsies
Dan Pam Andrew
$6,400 $16,800 $33,600
(>lock-tie game)

>[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

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<table> <tr>d class="category_name">TRAILBLAZERS>tr>
>td>tr>
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<tr> <td id="clue_FJ" class="clue_text">The foremost member of the "Sochi Six", which was similar to a previous U.S. group, he died in a plane crash in 1968