J! Archive - Show #9077, aired 2024-04-09

>1>Show #9077 - Tuesday, April 9, 2024>div>

>2024 Jeopardy!> Invitational Tournament final game 3.

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=17420" rel="external">Victoria Groce>, a writer and television personality from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17406" rel="external">Amy Schneider>, a writer from Oakland, California
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Jeopardy! Round
ble class="round"> <tr>

>WORLD CITIES>tr> <tr> >td>tr> able> <tr>

>VAN LIFE>tr> <tr> >td>tr> able> <tr>

>WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11>tr> <tr> >(Ken: Each has 11 letters.)>tr> able> <tr>

>LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS>tr> <tr> >td>tr> able> <tr>

>MUSICAL GENRE MASTERS>tr> <tr> >td>tr> able> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> able> >Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

>LITERARY LINES>tr> <tr> >td>tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518873" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">30>td>

>Village-sized but billed as Britain's smallest city, St. Davids is in this U.K. country with David as its patron saint >m class="correct_response">Wales>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518874" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">29>td>

>It's the monetary term for an unofficial shuttle often serving urban transit deserts >m class="correct_response">dollar vans>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518876" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>

>In this> type of triangle, all the sides are of the same length >m class="correct_response">equilateral>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518877" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">27>td>

>In July 2023 this company averted a strike by agreeing to a new deal with more than 300,000 Teamsters >m class="correct_response">UPS>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518879" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">25>td>

>Pop-punk is typified by this group with hits like "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" >m class="correct_response">Green Day>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518881" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>

>Cersei:
"When you play" this, "you win or you die, there is no middle ground" the game of thrones>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 11>td>

More than 600,000 Argentinians live in this city near the shore of the Rio de the same name La Plata>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 21>td>

The phrase "in the van" means to be in the lead, "van" being a shortened form of this word vanguard>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 19>td>

A 2012 documentary named for this pitch follows Tim Wakefield & R.A. Dickey the knuckleball>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 22>td>

An 8-year-old girl was the namesake of this frozen dessert brand known for pound cake, cheesecake & more Sara Lee>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 24>td>

After WWII a new country music style was named for this kind of roadside joint & Hank Williams was its biggest star honky-tonk>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 23>td>

Maggie, to Brick in this play: "We mustn't scream at each other. The walls in this house have ears" >>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $600 3>td>

Try some >okonamiyaki savory pancakes in this city, often referred to as the "Kitchen of Japan" Osaka>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $600 20>td>

>This political commentator hosted the CNN original series "The Redemption Project" Van Jones>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $600 18>td>

Popular in the 1800s, >these meaty-named side whiskers were rocked by folks who didn't wanna grow a full beard muttonchops>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $600 15>td>

Founded in 1965 as a mail-order veterinary supply company in San Diego, it now has its name on a stadium there Petco>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $600 1>td>

Portishead helped popularize this style of dance music that rhymes with hip-hop & has elements of jazz trip-hop>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $600 4>td>

This poet: "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" Dylan Thomas>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 2>td>

An Azerbaijani oil baron built a >replica of a Parisian palace for his wife in this capital city Baku>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 17>td>

Gillette calls this beard style named for a European artist "a full goatee with a floating mustache" a Van Dyke>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 16>td>

Admiration for England & the way they do things there Anglophilia>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 14>td>

In 2016 this sporting goods retailer got possessive & bought the assets of its bankrupt rival the Sports Authority Dick's>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 5>td>

Fitting with the band name, "Vivid" was the first album by >this hard rock band, featuring Corey Glover & Vernon Reid Living Colour>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    DD: $2,800 6>td>

From "Hamlet", "This above all:" this phrase (Victoria: What is the rest is silence?)
>(Ken: No, sorry, earlier in the play, it's Polonius, [*].)
(Victoria: Oh, of course.)
>r />to thine own self be true>r />
>able width="100%">r> Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1000 7>td>

The Atlantic port city >Essaouira in this North African country was planned by an 18th century French architect Morocco>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1000 8>td>

NASA says these radiation belts "surround the Earth like enormous donuts" the Van Allen belts>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1000 12>td>

Change the first 3 letters in a fancy word for "blessing" to get this, a curse (Ken: Not a benediction, but a [*].)
>r />malediction>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1000 13>td>

William W. of this last name founded his eponymous "for the ones who get it done" industrial supply company in Chicago in 1927 (Ken: Also new to me, what is [*]?)
>r />Grainger>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1000 10>td>

After leaving Roxy Music, he basically created ambient music with pieces like "Heavenly Music Corporation 1" Brian Eno>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1000 9>td>

He wrote the little ditty, "God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why" (Ogden) Nash>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able>

>Amy >Victoria >Andrew

>$3,400 >$2,600 >$1,400

>Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

>Amy >Victoria >Andrew

>$4,200 >$5,800 >$3,200

>Double Jeopardy! Round ble class="round">
<tr>d class="category_name">ANCIENT HISTORY>tr> <tr>

>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">REBOOTS & REMAKES>tr> <tr>

>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">NOBEL PRIZES>tr> <tr>

>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">THE MEASURE OF A MAN>tr> <tr>

>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">OPERA SETTINGS>tr> <tr>

>td>tr> able> <tr>d class="category_name">KNEEL BEFORE ZED>tr> <tr>d class="category_comments">(Ken: These words begin with the letter "Z" but they also come alphabetically before the word "zed".)>tr> able> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> able> >Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

<tr> <td>

>    $400 30>td>

Now it's a structure where Olympic events are held; in early ancient Olympics, it was the 600-foot distance of the only event, a footrace a stadium>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 29>td>

"Aloha" was the final episode of this rebooted TV series that said aloha after a 10-year run >>Hawaii Five-0>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 28>td>

Arthur Ashkin's 2018 prize was for inventing optical these, which use laser beams to grab particles & cells rather than hairs tweezers>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 27>td>

Measuring electricity? In the U.S., we use this unit that honors an Italian count a volt>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 26>td>

This 1893 classic cooked up by Engelbert Humperdinck is largely set in a dark German forest >>Hansel and Gretel>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $400 25>td>

Equus quagga crawshayi is a Crawshay's this zebra>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 6>td>

Cultivation of this fruit dates back at least to the very pre-Columbian Mokaya people & it stood for the 14th month on the Maya calendar (Andrew: What is coffee?)
>...
(Victoria: Oh, really?)
>r />the avocado>r />
>able width="100%">r> Andrew>tr>>able width="100%">>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 22>td>

Maybe CBS execs used a Swiss Army knife, a paper clip & a stick of gum to reboot this spy series >>MacGyver>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 5>td>

The 2023 Peace Prize went to women's rights crusader Narges Mohammadi, sentenced to 31 years in prison in this country Iran>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 23>td>

A degree on this other temperature scale has the same magnitude as a Celsius degree Kelvin>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 24>td>

Long before the play & film, an 1898 opera about Mozart & this composer takes place in a room in Vienna & lasts all of 40 minutes Salieri>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $800 13>td>

A fanatic, or a member of an ancient anti-Roman Jewish sect a zealot>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1200 2>td>

The Israelites' foes in the Book of Judges, these people were brought under Assyrian control by around 800 B.C. the Philistines>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1200 21>td>

>Her character is still psychic, but now a single mother in San Francisco; she's home at "that's so" her Raven>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1200 4>td>

2 scientists shared the 2023 Medicine Prize for enabling development of this type of COVID vaccine made by Pfizer & Moderna mRNA>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1200 11>td>

This device used to measure your feet at the shoe store is named for its inventor Charles a Brannock Device>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    DD: $6,200 9>td>

Verdi's "Falstaff" is set in this town during the reign of Henry IV (Amy: Gotta bet it all.)
>(Ken: You don't seem excited.)
(Amy: I'm okay at opera, we'll see.)
>...
(Amy: What is, uh... Southwark?)
>(Ken: No, I'm sorry, it's adapted from The Merry Wives of [*].)
>r />m class="correct_response">Windsor>r />
>able width="100%">r>d class="wrong">Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518896" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">12>td>

>This Yiddish adjective means plumply voluptuous >m class="correct_response">>zaftig>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518883" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1>td>

>The Southern or Shan-Yang part of this waterway may date from the 500s B.C.; the adjective-worthy part wasn't dug until much later >m class="correct_response">the Grand Canal>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518901" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>

>This 2007 film was previously made as "The Last Man on Earth" & "The Omega Man" >m class="correct_response">>I Am Legend>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518888" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>

>This American took home the 2023 Economics Prize for her studies on women in the workforce & the wage gap >m class="correct_response">(Claudia) Goldin>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    DD: $6,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=518893" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>

>You only need letters on the left side of the keyboard to type this unit of capacitance that's named for an English chap >(Victoria: What is henry?)
(Ken: No, I'm sorry, Michael Faraday gave us [*].)
>r />the farad>r />
>able width="100%">r> Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1600 10>td>

Scenes in this Mussorgsky opera take place in the czar's quarters & in a square outside of St. Basil's Cathedral >m class="correct_response">>Boris Godunov>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $1600 14>td>

A large mustache that curves down at the corners of the mouth is named for this early 20th century Guerrilla Zapata>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $2000 8>td>

Their name sounds like they wielded a reaping blade, but this people wowed ancient Asia with their riding prowess the Scythians>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $2000 19>td>

"Heaven Can Wait" was a remake of this 1941 film (Victoria: What is >Good Morning, Mr... Montgomery?)
>...
(Ken: I think it stars Robert Montgomery, but it's called [*].)
>r />m class="correct_response">>Here Comes Mr. Jordan>r />
>able width="100%">r> Victoria>tr>>able width="100%">>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $2000 7>td>

The 2013 Lit Prize went to this Canadian for her mastery of the short story (Alice) Munro>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Andrew>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $2000 18>td>

Radioactivity amounts in a sample have been measured in units called the curie & this, after a different French physicist becquerel>r />
>able width="100%">r> Amy>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $2000 17>td>

Better known for "Faust", this French composer set his last opera, "The Tribute of Zamora", in Moorish Spain Gounod>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>

>    $2000 15>td>

Compadrazgo, a ritual kinship system involving godparents, plays an important role for this people of Oaxaca the Zapotec>r />
>able width="100%">>d class="right">Victoria>tr>>td> </tr> able>

>Amy >Victoria >Andrew

>$7,200 >$11,400 >$10,000

>td> >td> >td>

> href="wageringcalculator.php?a=11400&b=10000&c=7200&player_a=Victoria&player_b=Andrew&player_c=Amy">[wagering suggestions for these scores]

>Final Jeopardy! Round

</tr> <tr> able> >Final scores:

>BODIES OF WATER

>td>tr> </table> <tr> <td id="clue_FJ" class="clue_text">The smallest inland sea in the world, it's completely within the territory of a single country & connects 2 other larger seas

(Ken: [To Amy] Yes, that's the little tiny sea in between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea in Turkey; we have a spelling error there, but it's a vowel, so the pronunciation doesn't change.)>r> >Amy What is the Sea of Marmora?>tr>r> $1,400>tr>>d class="right">Andrew What is the Sea of Marmara?>tr>r> $4,401>tr>>d class="right">Victoria What is the Sea of Marmara? Hi, Nora!>tr>r> $8,601>tr>table>the Sea of Marmara>td> </tr>
r id="clue_FJ_stuck">

>Amy >Victoria >Andrew

>$8,600 >$20,001 >$14,401

>3rd place: 1st runner-up: $50,000 >Winner: $100,000 + advance to Jeopardy! Masters>td> >2nd place: 2nd runner-up: $25,000

>Game dynamics:
>Coryat scores:

>Amy >Victoria >Andrew

$13,400 $20,200 >$10,000

15 R,
>1 W
(including 1 DD) 25 R,
>3 W
(including 2 DDs) 13 R,
>1 W

> href="help.php#combinedcoryat">Combined Coryat>: $43,600 > href="showgameresponses.php?game_id=8879&highlight=..." rel="external">[game responses]> <a href="showscores.php?game_id=8879&highlight=..." rel="external">[game scores]> <a href="suggestcorrection.php?game_id=8879" rel="nofollow">[suggest correction]>h4>
>Game tape date: 2024-02-28

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