Show #9127 - Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Adriana Harmeyer game 15.

Contestants

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Colleen Matthews, a speech-language pathologist from Portland, Oregon

Mark Gagliardi, an actor and podcaster originally from Knoxville, Tennessee

Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana (whose 14-day cash winnings total $326,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS
3-LETTER NOUNS
U.S. GOVERNMENT
ENTERTAINING AUTOBIOS
THE FAMILIAR SUM OF ITS PARTS
THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL
    $200 8
It was the largest Christian church until 1989, when it was surpassed by one in Côte d'Ivoire
    $200 1
It goes under your chin to protect your clothes
    $200 2
In 1966 the Supreme Court ruled that these taxes in local & state elections were prohibited
    $200 20
This legendary game show host's memoir is "Priceless Memories", but the actual retail price is $24.99 in hardback
    $200 21
A drink like McDonald's Shamrock, a baby's handheld toy & what you proverbially do "with the punches"
    $200 26
In 1995 the premier of British Columbia quit amid scandal over funds embezzled from a charity version of this game-o
    $400 9
Christopher Wren's epitaph at this London cathedral says in Latin, "if you seek his monument, look around you"
    $400 3
A small shelter, maybe of grass
    $400 13
The Constitution says the president "shall have power to grant reprieves &" these "for offences against the United States"
    $400 15
This comedian's rollicking autobiography was titled "It's Not Easy Being Me", with his catchphrase in the subtitle
    $400 22
Ridgway,
Rothko,
Skywalker & Steinbeck
    $400 27
On May 29, 2004 Archibald Cox & Sam Dash, 2 key figures who probed this '70s affair, both passed away
    $600 10
The final 4 Stations of the Cross are inside this Jerusalem church, said to be located on the site where Jesus was crucified
    $600 4
The part of a bridle that goes in the mouth
    $600 14
On June 2, 1986 this network began regular live telecasts from the Senate chamber
    $600 7
"Cancer Schmancer" is a memoir by this actress, cancer survivor & Screen Actors Guild president
    $600 23
"Spartacus" actor Douglas, pediatrician Benjamin & name following "the real" to mean the genuine article
    $600 28
1662's "The School for Wives" was just one of the works of this comic playwright to scandalize French society
    $800 11
The Chapel of the Holy Cross is built into the red rocks of this Arizona "most beautiful place on Earth"
    $800 5
A roll of bills, or a mass of gum
    DD: $2,200 16
While the National Park Service is a bureau of the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service is an agency of this department
    $800 18
There's not much this performer from the "Jackass" series wouldn't do, including titling his memoir, "Professional Idiot"
    $800 24
Last name of Sherlock Holmes' partner in (solving) crime & a real spasmodic muscle pain in the neck
    $800 29
One lump or a lot more? Also called the Oil Reserves Scandal, this 1920s imbroglio led to prison time for the Sec. of the Interior
    $1000 12
The Viennese call this cathedral "Steffl"; its largest bell is "pummerin" (boomer in English)
    $1000 6
Projecting part of a wheel that transforms rotary into linear motion
    $1000 17
The chief officer of the Government Accountability Office is given this "General" title
    $1000 19
Dracula, Frankenstein's creature & Saruman the White on film, he titled his tell-all "Tall, Dark & Gruesome"
    $1000 25
A foam you "work yourself into", to wash dishes using water & to do a task over & over & over
    $1000 30
Reagan dismissed this Marine after his role in Iran-Contra; he was later convicted of obstructing Congress

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

Adriana Mark Colleen
$1,600 $2,200 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Mark Colleen
$6,800 $2,800 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

A PLACE IN HISTORY
DIAMOND MINING
OSCAR-WINNING SONGS
BOTANY
BY LINES
(Ken: You'll name the author who penned each line.)
"CC" ME
    $400 1
With dueling illegal, Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr shot it out at Weehawken, New Jersey, a quiet spot along this river
    $400 24
This Neil Diamond hit says, "Good times never seemed so good"
    $400 8
"I'm gonna live forever, baby, remember my name" is a lyric from this 1980 winner from the film of the same name
    $400 6
Xerophytes are plants that have adapted to living in locales where this is in limited supply
    $400 15
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
    $400 20
Used as a calorie-free sweetener, this powder is hundreds of times as sweet as cane sugar
    $800 2
Rosa Parks was on the Cleveland Avenue bus in this city when she sat down for her rights in 1955
    $800 25
An extinct volcano crater, it was once a ceremonial place the ancient Hawaiians used for worship & human sacrifice
    $800 9
Oscar had a friend in this man when his song "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3" took the Academy Award for 2010
    $800 7
Common names for plants are all over the place; Kerria japonica is one of many called this Lone Star state flower of song
    $800 16
"My name is Marius. And yours?" "Cosette"
    $800 21
This Italian game similar to lawn bowling is played with wooden balls on a long, narrow gravel court
    $1200 3
Mathematician Gaspard Monge was on Napoleon's 1798 expedition to this country, where he studied the physics of mirages
    $1200 28
F. Scott Fitzgerald entitled a 1922 story "The Diamond As Big As" this swanky hotel
    $1200 10
This favorite sung by Bing Crosby from the film "Holiday Inn" took the Song Oscar for 1942
    $1200 13
Named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow, this perennial can come in "bearded" varieties
    DD: $2,000 17
"The show's not over until the mockingjay sings"
    $1200 22
Also known as the javelina, this new world piggy can weigh 60 pounds
    DD: $2,000 4
Before Hannibal could cross the Alps, he had to bring his army through this other European mountain range
    $1600 29
This type of rattlesnake of the Southwest accounts for hundreds of bites every year
    $1600 11
This 1986 film featured "Take My Breath Away", which took away the Oscar
    $1600 14
Important to botanists, it can be an arrangement of dried plants for study or a building housing those plants
    $1600 18
"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold"
    $1600 26
This type of musical composition for keyboards is written in the style of an improvisation to show off a player's technique
    $2000 5
When it became historic in 1215, the name of this spot by the Thames meant "meadow on council island"
    $2000 30
This Flemish city is a leading center of the diamond industry & where legend says the first diamond was cut in 1476
    $2000 12
This 2008 Song winner from "Slumdog Millionaire" has a title that means "may victory be yours" in Hindi
    $2000 23
Pollination begins when pollen from the anther of one flowering plant reaches this tip of the pistil of another
    $2000 19
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"
    $2000 27
This bone in the lower back section of the skull, forming part of its base

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Adriana Mark Colleen
$13,600 $7,200 $10,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S ALMOST THE SAME
Legend says in 1876 a dragon built for the first "Ring" cycle had its neck sent to this Mideast capital, not the right German city

Final scores:

Adriana Mark Colleen
$23,600 $5 $14,600
15-day champion: $349,600 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Adriana Mark Colleen
$13,600 $9,400 $14,600
18 R,
2 W		 17 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
3 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $37,600

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Game tape date: 2024-05-08
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