Show #9122 - Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Adriana Harmeyer game 10.

Contestants

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Scott McCann, a math teacher from Germantown, Tennessee

Sarah Hartzell, an audiovisual archivist originally from Howell, New Jersey

Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 9-day cash winnings total $204,700)

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Jeopardy! Round

OFF WE "GO"

FROM THE AD

(Ken: You'll name the product or service.)

NEW TO THE OED

THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY

CLEANUP MEN

AKA

$200

The tiny population of this huge desert is mostly made up of Mongols & Han Chinese

$200

"Eatin' good in the neighborhood"

$200

This 2-word term can mean a place you might keep your wallet, or figuratively, someone under your control

$200

In Rossini's take on this tale, Alex Trebek's favorite opera, not a fairy but the prince's tutor gets the heroine to the ball

$200

The luckiest cleanup hitter on the face of the Earth, Lou Gehrig got to hit fourth just behind this No. 3

$200

This famous painting is also known as "La Gioconda"

$400

Formerly a city dump, this park in Moscow was named for comrade Maxim in 1932

$400

"For a streak-free shine that lets in more light"

$400

Seems like this 2-word cardiac-related term for great anguish would've been in sooner than 2024

$400

"Waltz King" Johann Strauss II also composed the comic opera "Die Fledermaus", which translates as this flying animal

$400

He earned a nickname in an October 1977 World Series game, blasting 3 homers on 3 consecutive pitches

$400

It's sometimes known as the "Land of the Inca"

$600

Near South Bend, Indiana is this city that shares a name with the "land" that Joseph told his brothers to settle in

$600

A woman wears pink pants & does a TikTok-ish dance pantomiming bodily pain

$600

In the sense "to sleep briefly", this verb was already in; 2024 saw it given a new meaning, literally to abduct a pet

DD: $1,000

In Wagner's opera about the Valkyries, there are 9 of them, led by this daughter of Wotan

$600

Johnny Bench, George Foster & Tony Pérez all cleaned up for this 1976 team

$600

Kegling is just another name for this sport

$800

Just west of Denver, it had the "metal" to be a territorial capital in the 1860s

$800

"Where are you? You're on a boat with the man your man could smell like"

$800

This unintended silence during a radio or TV broadcast isn't quite as fatal as it sounds

$800

When Charles Gounod's "Faust" is sung in the original French, this evil fiend has accents on all 3 E's in his name

$800

Good thing the Ilitch family sells lots of pizza; from 2011 to 2018 they paid Victor Martinez $118 million to hit for this A.L. team

$800

It might ring a bell that she used the pen name Currer Bell

$1000

Sweden's chief seaport, it's also the headquarters of Volvo

$1000

From the '90s--Woman: "So what's the paper say about tomorrow?" Man: "Another scorcher!" Woman: "Cool"

$1000

This Japanese word means strips of meat or vegetables coated with flour, egg & breadcrumbs & deep fried

$1000

Composer Franco Alfano finished this Asia-set opera after Puccini died

$1000

Willie Stargell, who ruled this Pittsburgh stadium as a cleanup hitter in the '70s, was at the Pirates last game there in 2000

$1000

Baking soda, which creates carbon dioxide when mixed with an acid, is also known as this 2-word chemical compound

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

Adriana	Sarah	Scott
$2,800	-$1,400	$2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana	Sarah	Scott
$3,400	-$600	$5,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC DESCENDANTS

AUTHORS BEFORE AUTHORING

OBSERVATORIES

CERAMICS

THE TITLE IS AN ADJECTIVE

A "K-A"

$400

Actress Jordana Brewster is a direct descendant of William Brewster, a leader & church elder of this colony

$400

She taught French & was on public assistance in the 1990s, but money was no longer an issue in 2023; she was worth $1 billion

$400

A telescope at the Paranal Observatory in this Chilean desert was the first to photograph an exoplanet

$400

This Cubist produced around 4,000 original ceramic pieces, including "Taureau" & "L'estocado"

$400

This song from the "Despicable Me 2" soundtrack became a global joy-inspiring phenomenon

$400

Forced to abdicate in 1918, Wilhelm II was the last German emperor with this title

$800

Growing up without her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, this author spent considerable time visiting her at her grave

$800

An ambulance driver during World War I, in high school, he was a member of the swim team & the rifle club

$800

Arizona's Kitt Peak Observatory has 2 telescopes that specialize in searching for NEOs, which stands for this

$800

The thermal protection system on this type of craft had more than 24,000 ceramic tiles, some of which could withstand 2,300º

$800

In 1988 Tom Hanks wanted to be this

$800

Not to be confused with a prayer over wine, this is the Jewish prayer for the dead, which basically praises God

DD: $2,000

In 1812 a schooner called Patriot disappeared along with passengers that included this veep's daughter Theodosia

$1200

This Alabamian was working for an airline when she got a 1956 Xmas gift: "one year off from your job to write whatever you please"

$1200

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory operates the VLA, short for this system of radio telescopes

$1200

These items that ignite the air-fuel mixture in an engine use ceramic insulators to provide greater thermal conductivity

$1200

Gnarls Barkley ruled the summer of 2006 with this song about examining your own mental state

$1200

This 10-letter adjective is used to mean frightening or confusing, like situations in works by "The Trial" author

$1600

In her film "Heir to an Execution", Ivy Meeropol explored the lives & deaths of her grandparents, this couple executed in 1953

DD: $3,000

During World War II he flew 60 combat missions as a U.S. Air Force bombardier... isn't that crazy? Or maybe not

$1600

The world's largest solar telescope is on Mount Haleakala on this Hawaiian island

$1600

Ceramics that are fired but not yet glazed are called this, like a soup

$1600

"A Human Female" & "Ritual-licious" were episodes of this Netflix show about a young man on the autism spectrum

$1600

The "K" in K2 stands for this great mountain system

$2000

A descendant of Martin Luther, this 19th century German mathematician & astronomer gave his name to the object seen here

$2000

After quitting medical school at Johns Hopkins, she moved with her brother Leo to Paris, where she met Alice B. Toklas

$2000

In 1991 the observatory at Vassar named for this 19th c. female astronomer was made a National Historic Landmark

$2000

In 1774 this British ceramicist came up with his jasperware, a very fine-grained stoneware colored throughout the body

$2000

This song about "a do-or-die situation" is the title of a musical of Pat Benatar songs

$2000

During his Munich period, this Russian painter co-founded Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider") art movement

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana	Sarah	Scott
$14,400	$5,400	$10,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. GEOGRAPHY

Of the 10 U.S. states with 2-word names, this one stretches the farthest south

Final scores:

Adriana	Sarah	Scott
$21,000	$8,400	$18,201
10-day champion: $225,700	3rd place: $2,000	2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Adriana	Sarah	Scott
$17,400	$5,600	$10,200
23 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)	8 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)	15 R, 1 W

Show #9122 - Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round

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

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Double Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Final Jeopardy! Round

Final scores:

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Combined Coryat: $33,200

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Game tape date: 2024-05-07