Show #9064 - Thursday, March 21, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 2.

Contestants

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Larissa Kelly, an editor from Richmond, California

Jason Zuffranieri, an upper school mathematics faculty member from Carrollton, Texas

Leonard Cooper, a doctoral student from Little Rock, Arkansas

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Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC FIRSTS
CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES
TRANSPORTATION
THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS
THE CINEMA IN 2023
4-LETTER HOMOPHONES
    $200 30
In 1993 cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov was the first to play a video game in space, this one created by a countryman
    $200 28
Glamorous Jessica & good-natured Elizabeth are the teenage twins in this Y.A. series set at a suburban California school
    $200 29
First opened in 1900, this subway system has been called the lifeline of Paris
    $200 27
This standardized test widely used in college admissions since 1926 is introducing a digital version in March 2024
    $200 26
One of the new songs for the live-action remake of this 1989 animated film was "Wild Uncharted Waters", sung by Prince Eric
    $200 25
Money paid to release one from the hoosegow
&
a large bundle of goods
    $400 14
In 1986 this man became the first pontiff to enter the Great Synagogue of Rome
    $400 22
Ian Fleming introduced James Bond in "Casino Royale", then had him "Live" on in Jamaica in this next book
    $400 11
Reaching speeds of up to 200 miles per hour, Japan's shinkansen are better known by this name
    $400 24
An evasive maneuver test for cars in Sweden bears the name of these deer you would definitely want to avoid when driving
    $400 9
In "Dumb Money", Paul Dano plays an investor who led a surge in value for this stock, & Anthony Ramos plays an employee there
    $400 23
An adjective meaning twofold
&
a deadly contest
    $600 13
John Lombe stole silk secrets from Italy & built what's been called the 1st big factory in this period of 18th & 19th century Britain
    $600 1
At different times across more than 80 books, this quizzical simian "Takes a Train" & "Visits the Zoo"
    $600 12
Rad Power & Aventon are popular brands of these
    $600 7
The NCAA's drug testing program covers stimulants, masking agents & these, such as androstenedione
    $600 6
In "The Color Purple", the role of Mary Agnes, known as Squeak was played the singer who goes by this name
    $600 19
A warning on the links
&
what Vier means in German
    $800 15
This man banned the traditional fez hat after becoming the first president of the Republic of Turkey
    $800 3
"Allegiant" is the third & final book in this Veronica Roth series as Tris discovers new truths about her dystopian world
    $800 20
In 2002, Porsche spiced up its line of vehicles with the introduction of this model, its first SUV
    DD: $4,600 8
Used to determine if a computer can "think", the Turing test was originally known as this, also the name of a 2014 movie about Turing
    $800 2
In a 2023 film Jacob Elordi invites Barry Keoghan to his family estate called this; the visit is... unusual
    $800 18
To quote an author
&
the location of a proposed building
    $1000 16
In 1992 this man from Egypt became the first African to be Secretary-General of the United Nations
    $1000 4
The first Sherlock Holmes novel was this one involving a message written in blood
    $1000 21
The national airline of Poland is known by this 3-letter name
    $1000 10
In 1915 Emil Truog developed a test to measure the level of this property in soil, leading to restored fields & increased yields
    $1000 5
Adam Driver stars as this title automaker who tries to save his company via the Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile race across Italy
    $1000 17
An insect
&
to hurry away

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

Leonard Jason Larissa
$600 $1,200 $10,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Leonard Jason Larissa
$1,200 $4,200 $12,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE LOCALS
IN YOUR ELEMENT
(Ken: You'll need to tell us the word hidden in the element whose symbol we give you.)
NOTABLE NAMES
ON THE NOSE
CLASSIC TV
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS
    $400 25
Burqueños & Burqueñas hail from this New Mexico city
    $400 26
Br:
A possessive adjective
    $400 27
On her passing in 2005, Bill Clinton said she "sparked a movement that broke the back of Jim Crow"
    $400 28
Obstructed breathing can result from a deviated one of these nasal partitions
    $400 29
Oh, Rob... Petrie & Sally Rogers & Alan Brady were all characters on this classic sitcom
    $400 30
Check your work because "the devil's in" these
    $800 24
Born within the sound of the St. Mary-leBow church bells, you're one of these colorful-talking Londoners
    $800 1
K:
This Russian news agency
    $800 23
Called "the pastor to the presidents", he met with 12 sitting ones from Harry Truman to Barack Obama
    $800 18
Since its U.S. debut "Day" in 2015, this colorfully named campaign to end child poverty has raised more than $421 million
    $800 10
The classic overture heard here became the theme song for this Western series
    $800 9
This 4-word idiom meaning angry suggests a rope is needed
    $1200 16
B.R. Ambedkar was a leader of the people called Untouchables, Dalits or SC, short for "Scheduled" this; he urged them to move to cities
    $1200 2
Mg:
This Roman martyr, patron saint of young girls
    $1200 17
This great Italian tenor was in San Francisco when the big earthquake hit in 1906, having sung in "Carmen" the night before
    $1200 19
If you're really working hard on something, you (proverbially) have your nose to this wheel-shaped device
    $1200 6
More recently, it was Jay Leno, but back in the '50s, "You Bet Your Life" was hosted by this funnyman
    $1200 20
Alexander Pope said "To err is human", then these 3 words
    $1600 15
She's proud to say she's one of the "polentoni", the polenta-eaters of northeastern Italy
    DD: $2,400 3
P:
This solar deity
    $1600 5
A 1920 book by Thomas Looney & the movie "Anonymous" pushed the theory that this earl was the real Shakespeare
    $1600 21
National Geographic notes that the male of this primate species use their fleshy pendulous noses to attract mates
    $1600 7
In the '80s Angela Lansbury was on the case, solving crimes as Jessica Fletcher on this series
    $1600 13
In Rabelais' "Gargantua", a drinker demands that an empty cup be filled because of this scientific principle
    $2000 14
You'll be in hot water if you can't name this Mexican state where Hidrocálidos live
    $2000 4
Sb:
A title name from Shakespeare
    DD: $9,400 11
His 1936 "General Theory" suggesting government spending to lower unemployment influenced economic policy for decades
    $2000 22
In "The Nose" by this 19th century Russian author, a civil servant chases his schnozz around St. Petersburg
    $2000 8
Daniel J. Travanti was in command as Captain Frank Furillo on this drama
    $2000 12
JFK said it's a Cape Cod saying & added, "and a partnership, by definition, serves both partners"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Leonard Jason Larissa
$9,600 $19,600 $25,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY NOVELS
Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes"

Final scores:

Leonard Jason Larissa
$14,300 $13,600 $40,200
2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $5,000 Winner: semifinalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Leonard Jason Larissa
$8,800 $12,200 $21,400
13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 25 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $42,400

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Game tape date: 2024-02-26
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