Show #9147 - Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Isaac Hirsch game 10.

Contestants

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Erika Stromerson, an entry writer and grad student from Woodinville, Washington

Jay Fisher, a government relations manager from Lisle, Illinois

Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California (whose 9-day cash winnings total $215,390)

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Jeopardy! Round

DISTRACTIONS
AMERICAN HISTORY
GILLS, GILLS, GILLS
CLASSIC TELEVISION
ON THE GO
FROM SCREEN TO STAGE
(Ken: These are words that come between "screen" and "stage" in the dictionary.)
    $200 30
Staring upward is a pastime approved by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of these "That Look Like Things" (dolphins, Alfred Hitchcock...)
    $200 26
This marketplace for securities & other investments was formally constituted in the Big Apple in 1817
    $200 28
The branchial hearts, 2 of the 3 in an octopus, pump blood through its gills, where this is released & oxygen is absorbed
    $200 27
Will Smith lived with his aunt & uncle in a posh home on St. Cloud Road in this title place
    $200 19
For 2024 this company rolled out a special 40th anniversary edition of its Jetta GLI
    $200 29
From Latin for "to write", it's to write or draw quickly & carelessly
    $400 7
SpellTower & WordBrain are online games akin to this one with cubes & hourglass that Peggy Hill mastered
    $400 2
One of the wealthiest widows in the colonies when she remarried, she was called "Patsy" by her new hubby George
    $400 22
When you pull a leg off this crustacean to eat, the fuzzy gray part is the gill; it has several pairs & yes, I'll have it Thermidor
    $400 9
1964 saw the premieres of both "The Addams Family" & this show also named for its fiendish-sounding family
    $400 13
Coco taxis as well as old classic cars are popular ways to get around this Caribbean nation
    $400 18
2-word term for a legal authorization to inspect a premises
    $600 5
Painful memories can hamper you--beware these such as your childhood bully's cologne, APA-defined as stimuli that elicit reactions
    $600 1
1649's Toleration Act passed by this colony's assembly was designed to ensure Catholics & Protestants could freely worship there
    $600 23
Using all its tools, the scalloped type of this shark suppresses gill use during dives & can hold its breath for about an hour
    $600 10
This show about the Korean War won only one Emmy as Best Comedy Series
    $600 14
By the end of the 1930s, this company named for its founder had a fleet of more than 50 trucks to rent out
    $600 17
There's a flock animal in this adjective meaning showing embarrassment
    $800 6
Sorry son, missed your soccer tournament playing L4D2, this Deep South-set horror video game
    $800 3
Using an innovative boring technique in 1859, Edwin Drake had the first successful one of these & soon the boom was on
    DD: $3,000 24
Gills aren't part of the name of these fish, subclass Dipnoi, but they actually have them & use them
    $800 11
Beginning in 1978 Bill Bixby took no shirt after getting angry on this show
    $800 15
Now more of a tourist novelty, reindeer sledding used to be common transportation for this 4-letter people of Lapland
    $800 20
As a verb, it means to make an extravagant purchase, perhaps leading to accusations of squandering
    $1000 8
Sorry son, missed your video game tournament watching Euro 2024 soccer from this city's 1936 Olympiastadion
    $1000 4
It's the CT in the WCTU, long headed by Frances Willard, but even drunk atheists admire Fran's push for voting rights & an 8-hour workday
    $1000 25
From Greek & Latin for "naked gills", the nudibranch, better known by this alliterative name, has gills on its back
    $1000 12
A footnote to history: magician Fred Kaps followed The Beatles on his Feb. 9, 1964 show; Fred really had to make magic happen!
    $1000 16
Jennifer Aniston & Penélope Cruz have both been brand ambassadors for this luxury airline out of Dubai
    $1000 21
Abrupt or disconnected, like a music performance style

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

Isaac Jay Erika
$800 $6,000 -$600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Isaac Jay Erika
$400 $7,800 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round

DISS-TRACK-TIONS
BRITISH AUTHORS
TRIAL BY JURY
LEFTOVERS
NATIONAL FLAGS
STARTS WITH 2 VOWELS
    $400 30
In 2022 the Game released a 10-minute diss directed at this rapper also known as Slim Shady
    $400 26
Better known for her mysteries, she wrote a handful of romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott
    $400 28
In 2011 a California jury convicted Dr. Conrad Murray of involuntary manslaughter in the drug-induced death of this singer
    $400 5
The Heimlich isn't medicine's only one of these; if you have tachycardia, the doctor may ask you to perform the Valsalva one
    $400 20
The national flag of Sri Lanka features 4 bo leaves & a lion wielding one of these weapons
    $400 21
The sunny south beat the frozen north when the Hurricanes defeated this Edmonton team in the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals
    $800 29
In May 2024 these 2 competitors went back & forth with tracks like "Family Matters" & "Meet The Grahams"
    DD: $5,000 11
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he was named for explorer Amundsen
    $800 27
In 2021 a Hennepin County jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on 3 counts related to the death of this man
    $800 19
"Neither shall thou mar the corners of" this, the Lord told Moses; that's why Eastern Orthodox priests so often have one
    $800 18
The eagle that appears on Albania's flag has this unnatural distinction
    $800 22
Its atomic number is 99 & its name honors one of the most famous scientists ever
    $1200 4
On "Hit 'Em Up" this rapper dissed Biggie Smalls & repped the "Westside"
    $1200 2
This "Brave New World" author was the grand-nephew of poet & critic Matthew Arnold
    $1200 8
It took some 200 potential jurors to fill 12 seats in the case brought against Donald Trump by this Manhattan D.A.
    $1200 13
One reason rockers switch out guitars onstage is this is different for some songs, such as 1/2 step down from the standard E-A-D-G-B-E
    $1200 16
Flags depicting a map of the nation itself include this Balkan country that broke away from Serbia in 2008
    $1200 23
2-word term for the beat of Milton's "Paradise Lost"
    $1600 6
Cam'ron went in on this N.Y. rapper & even titled his diss "Curtis", his rival's government name
    $1600 1
C.S. Lewis was Clive Staples; this "Hornblower" author was Cecil Scott
    $1600 9
"The jury has spoken... you can't lie to shareholders", said a prosecutor who helped convict this Texas energy company's execs
    $1600 14
In the mid-1800s Peru brought in 100,000 Chinese laborers, many mining for this fertilizer with a name from Quechua
    DD: $1,500 12
The flag of this Central American nation has an ax, a ship & a motto meaning "I flourish in the shade", but no more Union Jack
    $1600 24
A wine connoisseur, from the Greek for wine & loving
    $2000 7
The title of this hate letter from Nas to Jay-Z that shares its name with an anesthetic drug now means "to insult publicly"
    $2000 3
This "Brideshead Revisited" author passed away on Easter Sunday in 1966, soon after returning home from mass
    $2000 10
In 1999 a Michigan jury convicted this doctor & euthanasia advocate of second-degree murder
    $2000 15
Vilified in history, this king was loved in York; in 1485 he was "piteously slain... to the great heaviness" of that city
    $2000 17
Seen here is the flag of this nation on the Black Sea that may have been in use since the 14th century
    $2000 25
A fairy who marries a mortal is the title character of this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Isaac Jay Erika
$15,300 $16,200 $600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

1960s PEOPLE
He said that California prison psych tests he took were ones he had designed, so he made himself look docile & unlikely to escape; then he did

Final scores:

Isaac Jay Erika
$1,300 $1,799 $600
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $1,799 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Isaac Jay Erika
$23,400 $16,200 $600
25 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 2 DDs)		 19 R,
0 W		 9 R,
8 W

Combined Coryat: $40,200

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Game tape date: 2024-05-23
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