Show #9136 - Monday, July 1, 2024

Contestants

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Zoe Strassfield, a park ranger and writer from Water Mill, New York

Matt Brooks, a healthcare IT analyst from Fredericksburg, Virginia

Cat Pisacano, a nurse from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,500)

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Jeopardy! Round

STRANGE CURRENCIES
RHYME TIME
NOVELLAS
TAKING YOU TO SCHOOL
LAST CENTURY
BASED ON A TRUE STORY
    $200 30
Per The Wall Street Journal, Sam Bankman-Fried uses this fish as clink currency; they call 'em "macks" in the joint
    $200 1
A fat-free monarch
    $200 29
Richard Wright wrote a series of novellas titled this Harriet Beecher Stowe character's "Children"
    $200 28
English:
Amidst & into are amidst & into this part of speech
    $200 13
In 1989 Winfried Freudenberg was the last person who died while trying to escape over this, in a balloon
    $200 6
Caitlin Carver played Nancy Kerrigan when Margot Robbie starred as this rival in a 2017 film
    $400 17
Using cheese as "cheese", a dairy cooperative near Bologna backed loans with wheels of this hard cheese
    $400 2
A merciless academy
    $400 21
This 1902 novella tells the story of a man assigned by an ivory company to take command of a damaged boat
    $400 27
Anatomy:
There are both false & true vocal cords in this hollow, tubular structure, also called the voice box
    $400 12
A 1906 N.Y. Times headline announced President Teddy Roosevelt was "off for the ditch" to visit this country
    $400 11
In "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", Kirk Douglas played Doc Holliday & Burt Lancaster played this lawman
    $600 16
It's the silver type of currency in the "Harry Potter" series that shares its name with a farming tool
    $600 3
A violin conundrum
    $600 20
Truman Capote said Holly Golightly in this novella of his was not a call girl but an "American geisha"
    $600 26
Phys Ed:
Hit the field of track & field & see if you can throw this a little over 323 feet, like Jan Zelezný
    $600 14
Here's a 1975 photo of a CIA worker helping evacuees onto an Air America helicopter during the fall of the city then known as this
    $600 8
An excerpt from "The Master of Disguise" & the article "Escape from Tehran" were the basis for the screenplay of this 2012 film
    $800 7
In the 1940s this country's Magyar Nemzeti Bank printed the million billion pengő note to fight inflation
    $800 4
A kayak inspection
    $800 19
At the end of this Hemingway tale, the title character's former helper Manolin agrees to go fishing with him again
    $800 23
French:
Say "that's life" en Français, s'il vous plaît; it's also a B*Witched song
    $800 15
What's now this fossil fuels giant began in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
    $800 9
Jack O'Connell played Olympic runner & World War II P.O.W. Louis Zamperini in this film based on a nonfiction bestseller
    $1000 18
Named for a signature sandwich, it was a cryptocurrency launched by the Russian branch of Burger King in 2017
    $1000 5
Someone more rapid of movement when he begins fly fishing
    $1000 22
In "Berlin Stories" Christopher Isherwood wrote a novella about her, a nightclub singer in the Weimar Republic
    DD: $1,000 24
History:
This congressional committee created in 1938 became the Internal Security Committee in 1969 & was dissolved in '75
    $1000 25
In 1966 a stuck thruster & an uncontrollable spin nearly killed Neil Armstrong on Mission 8 in this Apollo precursor program
    $1000 10
Mark Rylance won an Oscar for playing spy Rudolf Abel in this Spielberg film

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

Cat Matt Zoe
$2,000 $2,600 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Cat Matt Zoe
$5,200 $6,600 -$1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT'S ALIVE
GUESTS ON HOT ONES
(Ken: As you may know, that's the talk show where guests answer questions while eating ever-spicier wings.)
SAME FIRST & LAST CONSONANT
O CANADA
(Ken: Happy Canada Day to all who celebrate.)
WE STAND ON GUARD
FOR THEE
    $400 6
Scientists think some dolphins use these creatures to protect their snouts while foraging along the ocean floor, not for cleaning it
    $400 22
Look at him! Who would have thought he'd go on "Hot Ones" & talk about "Living with Yourself"? Not me
    $400 20
Hopefully, you don't have to use your winnings to buy back the family jewels at this kind of store
    $400 10
Rising sea levels threaten the isthmus that connects Nova Scotia, "New Scotland", & this province with "New" in its name
    $400 26
Guard Jerry Kramer's book "Instant Replay" chronicled this NFL team's 1967 season, including the "Ice Bowl" & Super Bowl II
    $400 14
President Obama wrote "A Letter to My Daughters" titled this phrase that follows "sweet land of liberty"
    $800 4
It's the 4-letter word for some 30 genera of brown algae that grow big in cold sea water
    $800 21
This boy band told host Sean Evans how Swedish songwriters insisted the line "it's gonna be me" sound like "it's gonna be may"
    $800 13
It's a lack of harmony, or a gamer-friendly online gab zone
    $800 9
Once a part of the Northwest Territories, it became its own territory in 1898
    $800 27
The motto of this service branch is Semper Paratus, "Always Ready"
    $800 15
Centuries ago, "you" was used to a social superior, but this religious group founded by George Fox thou-ed & thee-ed everyone
    $1200 5
That's not moss, but a species of usnea, the beard type of this
    $1200 3
In her episode she spoke on the ageless staying power of her film "13 Going on 30"
    $1200 12
It's a portmanteau word for a fiend for Lindt or Ghirardelli
    $1200 1
The Ottawa River is a tributary of this one that becomes a seaway
    $1200 28
In 1789 this hero of America's Revolution became colonel-general of the National Guard of Paris
    $1200 16
Melville's Ahab says, "From hell's heart I stab at thee" & this other 4-letter character in a classic sci-fi movie repeats it
    DD: $1,400 7
The "B" in B. cereus, which causes food poisoning, stands for this nasty type of bacteria
    $1600 2
JLaw teared up from the wings--or the memory of meeting this director at 18; he'd later direct her in "Don't Look Up"
    $1600 11
army.mil says this battle cry can mean "anything & everything except 'no'"
    $1600 18
Canada recognizes more than 600 groups of indigenous people known by this ordinal term
    $1600 17
This 1888 Gilbert & Sullivan opera set in the Tower of London is subtitled "The Merryman and his Maid"
    $1600 24
She loved the hymn "I Vow To Thee My Country" by British composer Gustav Holst & it was heard 16 years apart at her wedding & funeral
    $2000 8
Many protozoans get around using these, aka false feet
    $2000 23
On his Adult Swim show, this host destroys his set every episode, but says he is sedated in real life--"I meditate, jog, I eat salad"
    DD: $2,500 29
Weltanschauung in German, it can be optimistic or pessimistic
    $2000 19
More "O Canada" lyrics! In 2018 this kind of love "in all thy sons command" became "in all of us command"
    $2000 30
Rome breathed a sigh of relief in January of 41 A.D. after Caligula was assassinated by a member of this guard
    $2000 25
Polonius' rather windy advice to this son of his in "Hamlet" ends, "Farewell: My blessing season this in thee!"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Cat Matt Zoe
$12,300 $10,600 $1,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

GERMAN BOOKS
First published in 1812, this anthology included "The Water Nymph" & "The Booted Tom Cat"

Final scores:

Cat Matt Zoe
$3,399 $10,600 $3,100
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $10,600 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Cat Matt Zoe
$14,800 $10,600 $3,000
22 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 9 R,
7 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $28,400

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Game tape date: 2024-05-15
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