>1>Show #9141 - Monday, July 8, 2024>div>
>Isaac Hirsch game 4.

Contestants

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> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17626" rel="external">Stephanie Lewis>, a project coordinator from Washington, D.C.

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17627" rel="external">Karan Menon>, a data scientist originally from Edison, New Jersey

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17621" rel="external">Isaac Hirsch>, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $70,186)

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Jeopardy! Round

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>THE SOLAR SYSTEM
>td>
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>TRUCK & TRUCKIN' SONGS
>td>
<tr> <tr>able>
>THE SPANISH ANIMAL
>td>
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>SAMUEL BECKETT
>td>
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>ENDGAME
>td>
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>WAITING FOR...
>td>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525138" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22>td>
>Due to their composition, Jovian planets like Jupiter & Saturn are called these "giants" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525147" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>
>Del Reeves sang about a trucker infatuated with a "girl on" one of these outdoor signs <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525149" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>
>A pretty flutterer:
la mariposa		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 17>td>
Born in Foxrock, a suburb of Dublin, Beckett attended this nearby college & later taught there <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 29>td>
In this game, used as a metaphor in Beckett's "Endgame", I forgot to use the Schlechter Defense against the Danish Gambit; I'm toast <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 30>td>
>this actor as I've managed to arrange an interview; hope my tape recorder works <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 21>td>
The photosphere is the surface of this as seen from Earth <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 27>td>
Not sure what Rhett Akins drove, but it wasn't a 4x4 from this brand because "that ain't my truck" in his girl's driveway >Isaac>Karan (करन)>d class="wrong">Stephanie>tr>>able width="100%">r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 23>td>
Anagram this:
>ATUN		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525145" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>
>A left-arm medium-paced bowler, Beckett claimed to play a "gritty defense" in this sport <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525151" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">25>td>
>You own all utilities, railroads & properties & your family is seething at your sheer ruthlessness in this game <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525146" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">24>td>
>some of this from Nestlé or Pillsbury; mom always said not to eat it raw, but now it's sold in edible form <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525129" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>
>Chiron, which shares properties of a comet & an asteroid, is this type of "object" named for the type of creature Chiron was in myth <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525123" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1>td>
>Kathy Mattea sang about a driver coming home from his last trucking run with "18 wheels &" one of these numeric bouquets >Isaac>d class="wrong">Stephanie>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525141" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>
>Maybe a mako:
el tiburón		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 4>td>
In 2013 people couldn't wait to see "Waiting for Godot" with Ian McKellen as Estragon & him as Vladimir; Broadway made it so <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 8>td>
The turn gave me 3 of a kind & now the river makes it 4... everyone's all-in & I'm feelin' pretty good about my chances in this game <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525135" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11>td>
>Denis Coleman; he's going to tell me how he got this big 3-letter job at Goldman Sachs managing cash flow & such <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525130" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14>td>
>In 1959 the Russian space probe Luna 3 took the first photos of this hidden hemisphere <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525124" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">2>td>
>The longtime CMA Awards co-hosts have truck songs: Brad Paisley's "Mud On The Tires" & her 2023 "Out Of That Truck" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525142" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">19>td>
>A hunter's favorite:
el venado		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 5>td>
Beckett received the Croix de Guerre after joining this as an expat in Paris in 1940; his group had the name Gloria SMH >Isaac>d class="wrong">Stephanie>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 9>td>
Sub-Zero is on the ropes, & Sonya has been told to "Finish him!!" in this video game franchise; Sonya shall indeed finish him <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 12>td>
the bus out of this run-down city area, also the name of a metal band fronted by Sebastian Bach <tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $2,200 15>td>
Once called the largest asteroid in our solar system, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 3>td>
The title of this C.W. McCall song refers to a group of trucks all moving together; ain't she a beautiful sight? <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 18>td>
A flier:
>el cuervo		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525128" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6>td>
>Beckett used the phrase "Fallor, ergo sum" in a poem about this 17th century Frenchman <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525134" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">10>td>
>I yelled the name of the game to indicate how many cards I had left, & my next play will end things <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525137" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>
>this fictional Belgian detective with a head "exactly the shape of an egg"

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

Isaac Karan (करन) Stephanie
$9,600 $1,000 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Isaac Karan (करन) Stephanie
$11,800 $2,400 $200

Double Jeopardy! Round

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<tr> <tr>able>
>20th CENTURY AMERICA
>td>
<tr> <tr>able>
>CAPES
>td>
<tr> <tr>able>
>3 OF A KIND
>td>
<tr> <tr>able>
>BOOKS
>td>
<tr> <tr>able>
>VOCABULARY
>td>
<tr> <tr>able> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> </tr> able> >Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:
> href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-07-08_DJ_Cat6.jpg" target="_blank">FLY ME TO THE MOON>td>
>(Scarlett: I'm Scarlett Johansson; my new movie is Fly Me to the Moon> and as you'll see in this category, it's not the first one about that particular trip.)
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525177" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">25>td>
>In December 1955 these 2 leading labor federations formally merged, with a combined membership of 15 million <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525172" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">24>td>
>It was briefly named after President Kennedy before reverting to its Spanish name for "place of canes" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525178" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>
>Merriam-Webster,
New Oxford American,
>Scholastic Children's		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525175" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>
>9-year-old Oskar's dad died in the World Trade Center on September 11 in the novel "Extremely Loud and" this <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525179" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>
>This word for a soccer fan you might want to avoid originated in the 1890s & someone named Hooley may have been involved <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525181" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">30>td>
>(<a href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-07-08_DJ_30.jpg" target="_blank">Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.>) In "Airplane II", Moon base commander Buck Murdock was played by this> actor; at one point, he sees the Starship Enterprise on a periscope <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525171" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">23>td>
>Drew's great aunt, she> gave a great performance on Broadway in 1905 as Nora Helmer in "A Doll's House" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525173" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22>td>
>In Chile a monument dedicated to those who perished while rounding Cape Horn depicts this seafaring bird in flight <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=525174" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21>td>
>Henry Kissinger,
Yasser Arafat,
>Médecins Sans Frontières		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 19>td>
John le Carré put the "spy" in spy novel titles with this 1974 book, the first in the George Smiley-Karla trilogy Isaac>tr>>able width="100%">r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 27>td>
An irregular past tense verb, or a minor quarrel, a squabble, a tiff Karan (करन)>tr>>able width="100%">r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>tr>>td> </tr> able> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 29>td>
(>Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) In "A Grand Day Out", >this man-&-dog stop-motion duo get a hankering for some cheese, so they decide to build a rocket & head to >the Moon for a tasting <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 6>td>
In 1968, just 2 months prior to his own assassination, he attended the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. <tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $600 18>td>
In 1602 Bartholomew Gosnold didn't just find the obvious fish at this cape, but also herring & mackerel <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 12>td>
Harpy,
>martial,
golden		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $5,000 5>td>
When Kotaro Isaka's high-speed thriller "Maria Beetle" was translated into English, it got this title <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 15>td>
Without its -ine, this word still means a percussion instrument <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 9>td>
(>Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) Ron Howard chose >Ed Harris as NASA flight director Gene Kranz in "Apollo 13"; >Ed had previously gone into orbit as John Glenn in this 1983 film <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 1>td>
In 1986, some >5 million people made a >human chain from coast to coast in this campaign to fight hunger & homelessness <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 8>td>
In 1937 this North Carolina cape was the first place to receive the designation National Seashore <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 13>td>
Asher,
>Judah,
Gad		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 3>td>
The first name of Stephen King's P.I. Gibney, it's the title of a 2023 bestseller where she takes center stage <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 16>td>
In Latin it could mean many kinds of wishes; in English today, it's the sexual instinct <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 10>td>
(>Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) "A Trip to the Moon", the 1902 classic from Georges Méliès, in which a rocket hits the >Moon in the eye was loosely based on books by Jules Verne & >this British author <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 2>td>
Established in 1946 to control the development & use of nuclear power, this commission was superseded by a new agency in 1974 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 7>td>
Cape Maclear is on the shores of this lake in southern Africa that also begins with "M" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 14>td>
Roland,
>Oliver,
Fierabras		 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 4>td>
In this Günter Grass novel, Oskar Matzerath receives the title instrument at the age of 3 & doesn't grow up <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 17>td>
A restaurant chef calls a personal arrangement of ingredients & tools mise, short for this French phrase <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 11>td>
(>Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) This title noble in a 1989 Terry Gilliam film takes a balloon to the Moon & meets the King of the Moon, played with a touch of "luna-cy" by >Robin Williams
Isaac Karan (करन) Stephanie
>$27,400 >$7,200 $5,000
>(<a href="help.php#lock">lock game>)</td> >td>
> href="wageringcalculator.php?a=27400&b=7200&c=5000&player_a=Isaac&player_b=Karan (करन)&player_c=Stephanie">[wagering suggestions for these scores]

>Final Jeopardy! Round
</table> </tr> <tr>
>OPERA
>td>
<tr> <td id="clue_FJ" class="clue_text">The melody of a traditional piece for the koto called "Echigo-Jishi" is used in Act 1 of this opera able> >Final scores:
Isaac Karan (करन) Stephanie
>$30,400 >$10,001 $5,000
>4-day champion: $100,586 >2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000
>Game dynamics: Game dynamics graph

>Coryat scores:

Isaac Karan (करन) Stephanie
$23,000 >$7,200 $5,000
30 R
>(including 3 DDs),
2 W		 10 R,
>2 W		 >9 R,
4 W

>Combined Coryat: $35,200

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Game tape date: 2024-05-22
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