Show #9146 - Monday, July 15, 2024

Isaac Hirsch game 9.

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Brenna Sniatecki, a drama club director from Rochester, New York

James Hayakawa, a non-profit program officer and actor originally from Davis, California

Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California (whose 8-day cash winnings total $195,389)

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Jeopardy! Round

"I" ON HISTORY
TV SHOWS BY CHARACTER
COLLEGE IN NEW ENGLAND
FROM THE DUTCH
GOOD AFTERNOON
EXTREME WEATHER
(Glen: I'm Glen Powell.) (Daisy: And I'm Daisy Edgar-Jones.) (Glen: We deal with some extreme weather in the new movie Twisters.) (Daisy: And now it's your turn to deal with some in the clues we present.)
    $200 23
This "Age" occurred in Europe around 1200 B.C.; it would hit the Far East some 600 years later
    $200 26
FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner,
Teena Mulder
    $200 30
Getting into this New Hampshire Ivy? Plausible but difficult, as the acceptance rate for the 2027 class was 6.2%
    $200 27
From the Dutch for "to sail to & fro", you'll sail from island to island in the Caribbean on this pleasure trip
    $200 28
One of Esquire's "20 Greatest Day Drinks" is this 2-ingredient drink; Koval is recommended for part one & Fever-Tree for part 2
    $200 29
(Glen Powell presents the clue.) Haboob is an alternate & more fun to say word for this; in 524 B.C. a haboob is said to have buried 50,000 Persian soldiers in the Egyptian desert without leaving a trace
    $400 22
A 1988 cease-fire ended the war between these nations, both of which fit the category
    $400 21
Troy Barnes,
Señor Chang
    $400 25
Perhaps the Dominican Friars who founded this college in the same-named state capital in 1917 were inspired by divine...
    $400 19
The Dutch for "to boast" gives us this word for a maneuver at the poker table
    $400 9
In the song "Good Afternoon" from "Spirited", this funny guy calls someone a "wankerous cantankerous buffoon"
    $400 24
(Daisy Edgar-Jones presents the clue.) A lethal combination of pollution & high pressure, the Great Smog that covered this capital for 5 days in 1952 claimed thousands of lives & led to changes in law
    $600 1
This type of contract labor in which one worked for a period of time sent skilled crafters & criminals to Jamestown
    $600 2
Vault dweller Lucy MacLean,
supersoldier Maximus
    $600 10
In 1800 7 students enrolled at Middlebury College in this state; in 2024, 2,800 undergrads were roaming around
    $600 6
The Dutch gave us this word for the sound of lips tasting food or a noisy kiss
    $600 8
This afternoon, I'm going to do this portmanteau word that's restful & cold; sometimes, it's followed by "to the max"
    $600 12
(Glen Powell presents the clue.) The hottest air temperature ever recorded on Earth was here in the good old U.S.A.; 134 degrees Fahrenheit in this desolately named spot near the Panamint Mountains
    $800 7
Queen of Castile from 1474 to 1504, she sent Columbus on his way & also helped continue the Inquisition
    $800 3
Jason Mendoza,
Tahani Al-Jamil
    $800 11
This college for women in Northampton, Mass. opened in 1875 but didn't get its first female pres. until 100 years later
    $800 5
This NHL franchise turning 100 in 2024 gets its name from a Dutch color word
    $800 4
At afternoon tea, scones might be served with Devonshire cream, also called this, for a lumpy cooking process
    $800 14
(Daisy Edgar-Jones presents the clue.) Never mind the usual comparison to golf balls, how about a volleyball? In South Dakota in 2010, the largest of these ever measured, came down at 8 inches across & weighed about 2 pounds
    $1000 13
Martin Luther protested against the system of these that could be purchased by church members
    $1000 15
Billy Butcher,
Shockwave,
Mindstorm
    DD: $1,400 20
Founded in 1948, this university was named for this first Jewish justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
    $1000 18
Though the French ones are a favorite at Dunkin', this deep-fried, twisted donut is from a Dutch word
    $1000 17
Debussy wrote a musical prelude to this pastoral poem whose title includes "l'après-midi" in its original French
    $1000 16
(Glen Powell presents the clue.) The Saffir-Simpson scale categorizing hurricanes is named in part for Robert Simpson, who was interested in meteorology from age 6 when this alliterative rise in sea level interrupted his dinner in Corpus Christi

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

Isaac James Brenna
$2,400 $3,400 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Isaac James Brenna
$6,600 $2,800 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE WORLD IN 1776
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
ONE-WORD SONG TITLES
FASHION IN BOOKS
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
TO THE "NTH" POWER
    $400 25
In a hymn written during the year, this title precedes "cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee"
    $400 28
The state fruit of Texas is the Texas Red this
    $400 8
In this song Miley Cyrus says, "I can take myself dancing, yeah I can hold my own hand"
    $400 27
This ghost wore a chain "clasped about his middle" that was made of "cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, & heavy purses"
    $400 30
This state capital is known as the "Home of Abraham Lincoln"
    $400 29
This compound obtained from peppermint oil can be used as a topical ointment
    $800 24
The Revolution was struggling when the Brits took Fort Lee in this state, future home of Dr. Joyce Brothers & Mr. Richard Feder
    $800 23
Patate douce is the French name for this
    $800 7
Her No. 1 hits include "Hero", "Emotions" & "Dreamlover"
    DD: $3,000 26
Aunt Alexandra & Atticus Finch get into an argument about this narrator wearing overalls
    $800 17
The Mystic & the Charles Rivers meet at this harbor whose waters have tasted some history
    $800 19
On this type of schedule, you usually get paid on the 1st & 15th
    $1200 5
Pedro de Cevallos was named the first viceroy of this South American region that shares its name with an estuary
    $1200 20
Seen here is the white variety of this fruit still on the branches; the leaves are a favorite of silkworms
    $1200 2
"This is it, the apocalypse... welcome to the New Age" & this Top 10 hit from Imagine Dragons
    $1200 10
A "kilt skirt & a big white hat" is one outfit that made this "Little" title boy a byword for fancy dressing
    $1200 1
From Cheyenne, Wyoming, it's less than an hour south on I-25 to Fort Collins & this university, CSU
    $1200 14
This structure at Chartres Cathedral once bore an image of Theseus
    $1600 6
November 1, 1776 is observed as the founding date of this 7th mission in California; no word as to exactly when the swallows came
    $1600 21
From its scientific name, Helianthus tuberosus, the Jerusalem artichoke is also known by this one-word name
    $1600 3
It put Cher on top of the charts in 1999 & earned her a Grammy for Best Dance Recording
    $1600 11
We're told this character "always wears a single white Hermes scarf" &, we can assume from the title, she also wears Prada
    $1600 9
This bay, an inlet of Lake Huron, separates Michigan's "thumb" from the rest of the mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula
    $1600 15
It's a square block serving as a base to a sculpture
    DD: $3,000 13
Alessandro Volta noted bubbles rising from marshy water & identified this gas
    $2000 22
There's beauty in nature, even in veggies, like the cauliflower cultivar with this 9-letter Italian name
    $2000 4
In a Reba McEntire hit, a mother to her daughter: "Here's your one chance", her, "don't let me down"
    $2000 12
This "American Psycho" outlines his morning routine & puts on a suit from Alan Flusser, "an eighties drape suit"
    $2000 16
During winter, it's possible in theory but a bad idea to walk across the ice from this "Little" Alaskan island to a nearby Russian isle
    $2000 18
We thought all these fishy fellas were dead until Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer found one by the harbor & took it to her lab by cab

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Isaac James Brenna
$11,200 $4,000 $10,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

NEWER WORDS
Philosophers use it for language that accompanies an action, like "I dub thee knight"; it also means done for show or signal

Final scores:

Isaac James Brenna
$20,001 $5,200 $8,000
9-day champion: $215,390 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Isaac James Brenna
$13,800 $4,000 $7,800
20 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
5 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $25,600

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Game tape date: 2024-05-23
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