Show #9069 - Thursday, March 28, 2024

2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinal game 7.

Contestants

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Monica Thieu, a postdoctoral scientist from Atlanta, Georgia

Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Marino, Italy

Sam Kavanaugh, an educator from Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Jeopardy! Round

LGBTQ+ WRITERS & THEIR WORKS
HOP ON THE INTERSTATE
FREE FOR ALL
2-WORD POP CULTURE
ALPHANUMERICS
(Ken: And finally, the satirical work by Ambrose Bierce...)
DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
    $200 29
"Tomorrow Will Be Different" is by Sarah McBride, the first openly trans state senator from this state, known for being first
    $200 30
After visiting Michael Jackson's family home in Gary, Ind., enjoy views of this Great Lake off I-94 East as you enter Benton Harbor
    $200 28
Monopoly once added a few house rules, including all fees & taxes stashed in the middle of the board are yours when you land on this spot
    $200 15
In the preface to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" we learn that these calming words are on the front of the reference book
    $200 17
A mix of tomatoes, oranges, garlic & more, this bills itself as "the perfect complement to burgers, steak, chicken..."
    $200 26
Under C:
"A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head"
    $400 27
"The House of Hidden Meanings" is a 2024 memoir from this TV host & pop culture icon, both far from & totally a drag
    $400 22
Put Kingman in your rear view, cruise I-40 & you'll be in Standin' on the Corner Park in this Arizona city in 3 hours
    $400 21
The nonprofit Free Software Foundation promotes this hyphenated type of software that, by definition, can be modified & shared
    $400 20
This catchphrase of Ed McMahon was uttered with creepy efficiency in "The Shining"
    $400 7
The U.S. spent $100 billion to defend against this glitch that threatened to doom us all as 1999 ended
    $400 9
Under H:
"An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another"
    $600 10
This writer's "test" on gender disparity in Hollywood movies began as "The Rule" in a 1985 comic strip
    DD: $1,000 18
Columbia is about midway between these 2 same-state Midwest cities that squared off in the I-70 World Series in 1985
    $600 6
R.E.M. titled a 1981 song for this broadcasting service that aimed to inform people under the grasp of the Soviets
    $600 5
Barney on "How I Met Your Mother" often implored his friends with this command that superheroes might receive
    $600 12
The first movie with this designation was "Henry & June" in 1990
    $600 11
Under P:
"A play in which the story is told without violence to the language"
    $800 14
Oscar Wilde wrote 2 plays of "importance" but sadly, also a "Ballad" about this place of confinement
    $800 2
Enjoy 1,700 miles of the I-95 system, south from Bangor to this 2-word city whose name comes from Spanish for "mouse's mouth"
    $800 1
The Wilmot Proviso, which wanted no slavery in newly acquired Mexican lands, was a precursor to this political party
    $800 3
This memorable 1997 Apple ad campaign notably didn't end with a "-ly"
    $800 8
This technology introduced in 2019 brought faster connectivity all over an area
    $800 24
Under N:
"Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party"
    $1000 23
This playwright has used his uniquely gravelly voice to speak about gay rights & wrote the book for "La Cage aux Folles"
    $1000 16
It's about 2 1/2 hours going west on I-80 from Davenport to this state capital
    $1000 19
The "free" type of this refers to an atom or molecule with a loose electron that can destabilize other molecules
    $1000 4
Written by Sia, this Shakira song from "Zootopia" can be heard in commercials for Disney World
    $1000 13
The Russian creator of this ubiquitous weapon was quoted as saying, "I would prefer to have invented... a lawnmower"
    $1000 25
Under Q:
"A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it"

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

Sam Chuck Monica
$200 $1,000 $3,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Chuck Monica
$200 $2,600 $8,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

BRITISH EXPLORERS
ART TERMS
SCIENCE
ROUND HERE
TOUGH VOCAB
HIP-POP
    $400 24
William Baffin was the first to determine degrees of this by watching the Moon pass in front of a star in 1615
    $400 26
A painting on 2 panels, often hinged together; London's National Gallery of Art has the Wilton one
    $400 27
Eccentricity measures how much this planetary path deviates from a circle
    $400 29
Since 1908, the roundel has been a symbol of this system that also contains "round"
    $400 30
In film when characters explain the plot verbally, it's called this, also the name of a big public fair
    $400 18
Cordell Broadus, son of this rapper who, like us, asked "Who am I?", was a WR for UCLA & became a streetwear fashion designer
    $800 20
In 1610 he reached Canada's James Bay; his crew soon mutinied & cast him & 8 others adrift, never to be seen again
    $800 25
It means a picture made of inlaid tile, or pertaining to the guy to whom the 10 Commandments were revealed
    $800 23
A "false thumb" or enlarged wrist bone on this animal helps it grasp bamboo stalks
    $800 28
This numeral is topmost center on a standard circular dartboard
    $800 12
In Latin "fuscus" meant dark, hence this verb meaning to deliberately bewilder
    $800 17
Willow Smith, daughter of Will, hit the Top 40 by doing this title quite repeatedly, "back & forth"
    $1200 5
In 1776 James Cook received the Copley Medal for a paper on preventing this disease by feeding his crew cress & an orange extract
    $1200 15
Sculptors sometimes use heat & chemicals to produce this green surface film on their bronzes
    DD: $2,200 3
Devised by a 19th century German scientist, this scale measures a mineral's resistance to abrasion
    $1200 9
In legend, the Siege Perilous was a seat at King Arthur's round table reserved for the knight destined to do this
    $1200 21
It can mean a horse carriage for rent; add -ed to mean made commonplace by frequent use
    $1200 13
Kanye's 10-year-old daughter, she raps on her dad's 2024 track "Talking/Once Again"
    $1600 6
Born in the county of Devon, Francis Drake was knighted in 1581 & made mayor of this English Channel port there
    DD: $2,000 2
Jean Arp coined this term for Alexander Calder's inert sculptures, often made from sheet metal
    $1600 1
In thermodynamics this letter stands for entropy
    $1600 10
These alliterative items seen here are used to reduce friction
    $1600 19
An attorney doesn't need to establish cause to exclude a prospective juror with this type of challenge
    $1600 14
This Compton rapper died in 1995, but his son Lil this is carrying on the hip-hop name
    $2000 7
In 1823 Hugh Clapperton & his party explored Nigeria & became the first Europeans to see this nearby large lake
    $2000 8
Marcel Duchamp used mass-produced items for objects called these, like a bicycle wheel on a stool
    $2000 4
CMEs for short, these blasts from the aura of plasma around the Sun can occur with solar flares
    $2000 11
The Aldar Headquarters building, 23 stories tall & presumably, 23 stories wide, too, is in this emirate, southwest of Dubai
    $2000 22
Meaning reverse or opposite, it's also a rhetorical device using contrast, such as "Give me liberty or give me death"
    $2000 16
Hip-hop artist Chris Rivers is the son of this "Big" guy born Christopher Rios, the first Latino solo rapper to go platinum

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Chuck Monica
$12,000 $11,000 $15,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY BOOKS
TIME mentioned "cruelty & enforced conformity" when summing up this novel with a "stonily silent narrator"

Final scores:

Sam Chuck Monica
$7,600 $6,199 $7,599
Winner: semifinalist 3rd place: $5,000 2nd place: $5,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Sam Chuck Monica
$11,600 $11,000 $15,800
13 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R,
2 W		 23 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $38,400

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Game tape date: 2024-02-27
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