Show #9126 - Monday, June 17, 2024

Adriana Harmeyer game 14.

Contestants

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Kelsey Kaunisviita Vockrodt, a stay at home mom from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ty Patton, a communications specialist from Des Moines, Iowa

Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 13-day cash winnings total $299,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

STATE SONGS
CANDY IS DANDY
BON JOVI
RELIGION
THE "LAST" SHALL BE FIRST
THE HUMAN RACE
    $200 10
The third verse of this state's song begins, "I love your old gray missions, love your vineyards stretching far"
    $200 19
A 1950s song named for this goodie says, "Sweeter than candy on a stick, huckleberry, cherry or lime"
    $200 14
(Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) In 2000, "It's My Life" took us back to the top of the charts; in the song, I refer to this man, born 30 miles from where I was, a role model as a singer who later got into acting, and like he said, "I did it my way"
    $200 24
A temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka is said to house a very special relic: a tooth belonging to this religious founder
    $200 1
We'd better get one more round--barkeep just said it was this
    $200 11
Treatment of the dead varies; some South Koreans make these into beads, in contrast to scattering dad at midfield
    $400 8
This state's song is about its flag, "The Simple Flag Of A Last Frontier"
    $400 20
There are about 420 grains of rice in each of these milk chocolate bars Nestlé introduced in 1938
    $400 15
(Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) In 1989, we flew over the Iron Curtain to play a concert in Moscow with Mötley Crüe, Skid Row & others, including this legend
    $400 25
An upside down cross is an ancient symbol of this sainted apostle who tradition says was crucified upside down
    $400 4
Something you turn to when nothing else works, or, heading south on the Las Vegas Strip, Mandalay Bay
    $400 12
They're the 2 main human language modalities; one might have begun 2 million years ago, the other 5,000
    $600 3
In 1960 Ray Charles took this "old sweet song" to No. 1
    $600 21
First sold in 1928, they were sometimes called Penny Cups because they were sold for a penny
    $600 16
(Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) It was at the house where Richie Sambora was still living with his mom & dad that we wrote about life on the road; for the record the steel horse I ride in this song was our tour bus
    $600 26
Sajjadat salat is an Arabic name for a prayer rug used by Muslims, placed so that the top points towards this holy city
    $600 5
A famous one happened June 25, 1876
    $600 13
One of the oldest Homo sapiens skulls, now thought to be pushing 240,000, was found in Ethiopia by Richard of this family
    DD: $1,000 2
"The shot heard 'round the world" goes off " in the third line of this state's official song
    $800 22
The bee on its wrappers calls the product "nutty little honey chews"
    $800 17
(Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) I wrote "Blaze Of Glory" for Emilio Estevez's character in the sequel to this 1988 Western; I even had a cameo as an inmate who, as fate would have it, got shot through the heart
    $800 27
The custom of hanging this on the doorpost of a Jewish home comes from a commandment in Deuteronomy
    $800 6
There's a shout of approval in this term for a swan song or final campaign
    $800 28
Skin, eye & hair color are all largely determined by the chemistry of this biochrome pigment
    $1000 9
John Philip Sousa was an admirer of this college song about the "grand old badger state"
    $1000 23
In a strange case of evolution, the eagle on the wrapper of this prism-shaped Swiss chocolate bar changed to a bear
    $1000 18
(Jon Bon Jovi presents the clue.) I love Elvis, so it was a big deal to meet this man; he was Elvis' manager, & he had an unforgettable question for ours, "How do you make any money on five of them there Bon Jovis?"
    $1000 30
It's the collective name for the oldest & most sacred books of Hinduism
    $1000 7
The sacrament of extreme unction is also known as this
    $1000 29
Using animal fat & sticks, a team of Spanish researchers tried to solve this kind of obvious question about cave paintings

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

Adriana Ty Kelsey
$2,800 $1,200 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Ty Kelsey
$7,000 $2,800 -$600

Double Jeopardy! Round

A HISTORY LESSON
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT RHYME TIME
SCIENTISTS
LABOR UNIONS
BOOK SEQUELS
THE HUMANS RACE
    $400 10
In 1886, after 3 wars with the British, Upper Burma was made a province of this colony
    $400 26
The incorrect disk-shaped metal bell
    $400 5
He, Huck Finn & Jim try to cross the ocean in a balloon in Mark Twain's sequel him "Abroad"
    $400 27
Not Charles Barkley but Lucy Charles-Barclay was your 2023 women's winner of this race in Hawaii with a time of 8:24:31
    $800 11
In 1649 this English king's disagreements with the Roundheads led to his little ol' round head rolling off the chopping block
    $800 1
A laid-back bass member of the violin family
    $800 23
Now widely used in medicine, this process of filtering particles in liquids was first developed by Thomas Graham in the mid-1800s
    $800 18
NALC is the National Association of these postal workers; rural workers have their own union, NRLCA
    $800 6
Boris Johnson had a Jack Russell; the prime minister's dog in Dodie Smith's sequel "The Starlight Barking" is this breed
    $800 28
The 1998 Daytona 500 & 7 NASCAR championships were won by this "Intimidator"; Jr. did pretty well, too
    $1200 12
When founded in 1922, the USSR consisted of Russia, Belorussia, the Transcaucasian Federation & this Black Sea nation
    $1200 2
An anesthetized tabla
    $1200 22
We hope Louis Pasteur washed his hands a lot while pioneering this theory of disease transmission in the 19th century
    $1200 15
The International Association of these first responders sponsors a "fill the boot" campaign to raise funds for muscular dystrophy
    $1200 7
The best thing from the Swiss Alps besides Ricola, she "Grows Up" in a sequel from 1938
    $1200 17
Starting in 2008, this American skier seen here won 3 straight World Cup overall championships
    $1600 13
A 1960s Florida society lady in the TV series "Palm Royale" is raising money for loyalists to this exiled Cuban dictator
    $1600 3
A transverse woodwind instrument argument
    $1600 24
Brenda Milner's pioneering work helped show that these lobes named for being on the side of the brain are key to memory
    DD: $5,000 16
In 2024 Jalen Reeves-Maybin, president of this union, said he'd like to see all stadiums switch to natural grass
    $1600 8
Name that concludes the title "Auntie..." & the sequel title "Around the World with Auntie..."
    $1600 19
In 1977 this TV mogul captained Courageous, defending America's Cup 3 years before CNN could cover it
    $2000 14
An emperor of this Chinese dynasty at its height in the early 1400s took the reign name Yongle, "perpetual happiness"
    $2000 4
A genuine device of graduated metal bars
    $2000 25
In 1871 John William Strutt, later Lord this, explained that atmospheric scattering makes the sky blue
    $2000 21
The full name of the carpenters union is the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & these cabinetmakers of America
    DD: $4,000 9
William Goldman wrote "Brothers", a sequel to this thriller about a young runner in which Agent Scylla is alive
    $2000 20
Just 2 men have had a season winning all 3 of cycling's grand tours, those being the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia & this a España

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Ty Kelsey
$16,200 $13,400 $2,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

2 LAST NAMES, SAME FIRST LETTER
Born 344 years apart, they are the 2 real people mentioned by name in the titles of 1990s Best Picture Oscar winners

Final scores:

Adriana Ty Kelsey
$27,000 $26,799 $2,200
14-day champion: $326,000 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Adriana Ty Kelsey
$14,200 $9,800 $2,200
19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 16 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 8 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $26,200

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Game tape date: 2024-05-08
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