Show #9124 - Thursday, June 13, 2024

Adriana Harmeyer game 12.

Contestants

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Mike Flanagan, a non-profit executive from Winchester, Massachusetts

Hakme Lee, a scientific instructional technician from Seattle, Washington

Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 11-day cash winnings total $258,700)

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Jeopardy! Round

SAINTLY U.S. CITIES
FROM A TO Z
(Ken: Those will be the first and last letters of each response.)
VIVA LAS VEGAS RESIDENCIES
19th CENTURY NEWSPAPERS
RECITING POETRY
RHYME TIME
    $200 19
You can enjoy some fun in the sun all year long on this Southern California city's beach & pier
    $200 8
This synonym for "vibrant" perfectly describes an active hornet nest
    $200 30
"The Million Dollar Piano" was the Las Vegas residency of this "Rocket Man"
    $200 22
The New York Times' sub-headline about him on April 15, 1865--"no hopes entertained of his recovery"
    $200 7
Pt. II of this ends, "What evil looks had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung"
    $200 1
A racket-&-net sport peril
    DD: $1,000 13
A famous battle occurred in this city from February 23 to March 3, 1836
    $400 9
In a dessert, it's paired with "leche"
    $400 29
These two magicians have been called the longest continuously running headliners in Vegas
    $400 23
In 1893 the S.F. Examiner published illustrator Jimmy Swinnerton's "California Bears", considered by some the first of these
    $400 21
One of her 19th century sonnets says, "Behold and see what a great heap of grief lay hid in me"
    $400 2
Cartographic hip-hop verse
    $600 12
This capital is nicknamed "The City of Holy Faith"
    $600 10
Jamiroquai passes the litmus test for this type of music that infuses funk & hip-hop with another genre
    $600 17
"What a girl wants" is tickets to the residency of this singer at the Venetian
    $600 24
The first newspaper west of the Mississippi was the Missouri Gazette, published in this city on the Mississippi in 1808
    $600 6
This 19th century lord & European traveler: "And all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes"
    $600 3
A distant Gibson Les Paul
    $800 20
In the 1860s this Missouri city was the eastern terminus of the Pony Express
    $800 11
Once home to a Civil War fortress & now a bird sanctuary, it's located in San Francisco Bay
    $800 16
On Sept. 29, 2023 U2 began its residency at this spectacular arena at the Venetian
    $800 25
In 1862 this future novelist was hired at $25 a week to be city editor of Nevada's Virginia City Territorial Enterprise
    $800 26
Longfellow:
"Impatient to mount and ride, booted and spurred, with a heavy stride, on the opposite shore walked" him
    $800 4
A grizzly trap
    $1000 14
About 65 miles from the Twin Cities, this Minnesota city completes the title of the Trisha Yearwood sob song "On A Bus To..."
    $1000 18
A train station in Paris' 13th Arrondissement bears the name of this 1805 battle won by Napoleon
    $1000 15
This duo made up of Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak had a residency at Park MGM in 2022
    $1000 28
The LDS paper called this News, a word in the Book of Mormon, was established in 1850 & is still around today
    $1000 27
Kipling:
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs &" doing this
    $1000 5
Gorgonzola knowledge & proficiency

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

Adriana Hakme Mike
$1,000 $800 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Hakme Mike
$2,800 $2,000 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round

SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE
COMPETITORS
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES
SCIENCE FOR "U"
FEATURE FILM DEBUTS
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
    $400 26
The Navy's first "super" type of this ship was named for James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense
    $400 23
"Sit-N-Snooze" was one hyphenated entry in a competition to name a 1920s reclining chair, but this one was your winner
    $400 16
Robert Caro's 2002 biography of this Texan, "Master of the Senate", covers 1949 to 1960
    $400 15
Anatomically, the navel is the site where this was once attached
    $400 2
This British actress made her film debut in 1994's "Heavenly Creatures" & has enjoyed a "Titanic" career ever since
    $400 7
In 1967 Shigeichi Negishi was teased about his singing & wished for a backing track; soon he was among this machine's originators
    $800 27
The youngest secretary, he was 43 when he took office under Ford; he got older & was 74 when he left office under George W. Bush
    DD: $3,000 21
To fend off competition from Arkansas, in 1931 this state lowered its residency requirement for divorce to 6 weeks
    $800 17
William Taubman brought home the award for writing about this shoe-slammin' Soviet premier
    $800 12
As far as quarks go, it's the type that fits the category
    $800 3
As villain Hans Gruber, this actor died hard falling from a skyscraper in his debut--a little film called "Die Hard"
    $800 8
On "M*A*S*H" Colonel Potter sometimes addressed Father Mulcahy as this, Spanish for "priest"
    $1200 28
In 1950 Truman had a "Plan" in selecting this military man as his Secretary of Defense; he needed help in preparing for the Korean War
    $1200 19
In a 2020 tribute Allen Iverson called him "the fiercest competitor I've ever seen"
    DD: $2,000 18
Also a CCR song, the title of this memoir by Vietnam vet Lewis Puller Jr. refers to having a legendary general as a dad
    $1200 1
This diagnostic technique uses high-frequency waves to produce images of places inside the body
    $1200 4
In her debut, she played second fiddle to an ape in 1976's "King Kong"; better roles & 2 Oscars were to follow
    $1200 9
It's German for "lord", not just "mister"; in an 18th century cantata, the chorus sings, "Jesu, mein..."
    $1600 29
Nuclear physicist Harold Brown served as president of this Pasadena, California school just prior to becoming Carter's Defense Secretary
    $1600 24
A 1960 design competition enabled this Chinese American to draw up the multi-airline terminal at what's now JFK
    $1600 20
Carleton Mabee won the 1944 prize for "The American Leonardo", a biography of this 19th century inventor & painter
    $1600 13
The Encyclopedia Britannica calls it the most important of the actinoids
    $1600 5
At 13, she debuted as Mattie Ross in the 2010 remake of "True Grit" winning the part over more than 15,000 other girls
    $1600 10
Several phrases use this French word for "ribbon"; before sanitaire, it means a line to prevent an epidemic from spreading
    $2000 30
His book, "Worthy Fights", documents his time as CIA Director & Secretary of Defense during Obama's presidency
    $2000 25
Hoover's Triple Vortex vacuum was found to infringe on the patent of this Brit, who won $4 million (he's worth a lot more now)
    $2000 22
The Pulitzer-honored bio of this late wide-ranging intellectual does not omit her many glamorous lovers
    $2000 14
Water is sometimes referred to as this 2-word substance, though it doesn't actually break down everything
    $2000 6
Tommy Lee Jones, who debuted in this 1970 film, knew author Erich Segal at Harvard & Segal based a character in the book on him
    $2000 11
In the KFPU ("Kung Fu Panda" Universe), Dustin Hoffman voices this role, Mandarin for "master"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Hakme Mike
$15,800 $9,200 $4,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

1960s BRITISH NOVELS
The author of this novel said of the last chapter left off U.S. editions, "My young thuggish protagonist grows up"

Final scores:

Adriana Hakme Mike
$19,800 $6,200 $5,126
12-day champion: $278,500 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Adriana Hakme Mike
$13,600 $10,200 $6,400
20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W		 12 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 11 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $30,200

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Game tape date: 2024-05-07
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