Show #9149 - Thursday, July 18, 2024

Contestants

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Meredith Miller, a labor economist from Arlington, Virginia

Micah Rahn-Tiemeyer, a mental health crisis therapist from Grand Rapids, Michigan

Jay Fisher, a government relations manager from Lisle, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $16,199)

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Jeopardy! Round

AMERICA ON STAMPS
THAT'S "AA"WESOME
GEOLOGY
AN ASIAN CAPITAL IDEA
THEY MAKE THAT
THE OSCAR & RAZZIE WINNER
    $200 14
The Wonders of America Superlative Series includes Steamboat, the tallest active one of these
    $200 27
Mr. Judge or Mr. Sorkin
    $200 30
18th century German geologist Abraham Werner was called a neptunist because he believed all rocks originated from here
    $200 11
The job of guarding the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in this capital is a high honor
    $200 26
The Coppertop battery
    $200 17
Let's just say his work was more well-received for "The Godfather" than "The Island of Dr. Moreau"
    $400 13
The Historic Preservation stamps of the 1970s included Decatur House in Washington, D.C. & a cable car in this city
    $400 22
The animated star of his own show on PBS, Arthur Read is just an average 8-year-old one of these insectivores
    $400 4
This word is followed by "-ification" when plants transform into a combustible solid with increased carbon content
    $400 10
A Friendship Bridge across the Mekong River connects Nong Khai, Thailand with this capital of Laos
    $400 15
Baseball Nut & Gold Medal Ribbon ice cream
    $400 18
Some days, you're golden in "The Revenant"; others, you're just another metal in "The Man in the Iron Mask"
    $600 12
This tall monument has been featured on its own stamp as well as on the Greetings from Missouri stamp
    $600 21
Cape Dutch is another name for this language
    $600 3
250 million years ago at the start of this period without a movie "Park", all the land masses were basically one supercontinent
    $600 8
Highlighted here, this city is known as Al-Fayha, "the fragrant", perhaps for its orchards
    $600 16
The WetJet mop starter kit
    $600 20
Life was an Oscar "Cabaret" for her but she also won a Razzie with a Z for "Arthur 2: On the Rocks"
    $800 1
A 1996 stamp celebrating the 150th anniversary of Iowa's statehood was based on this native son's "Young Corn" painting
    $800 23
You can take your Saab to this transmission service center co-founded by Robert Morgan
    DD: $1,600 5
An attraction at Carlsbad Caverns is one of these long formations known as the Sword of Damocles
    $800 7
Before containing "stan" like its country, this city was known over time as Akmolinsk, Nur-Sultan & also Aqmola
    $800 19
The trademarked version of Tater Tots: this brand
    $800 28
For her, "The Hours" was time well-spent but "Bewitched" bothered & bewildered people
    $1000 2
Inspired by its official bird, the scissor-tailed flycatcher, this state's Skydance Bridge spanned a stamp in 2023
    $1000 24
This region is mentioned in Phoenician writings from about 1500 B.C. as a land west of the Jordan River
    $1000 6
Aeolian landforms such as dunes & ripple ridges are shaped by the action of this
    $1000 9
The downtown of the central part of this city on the Mediterranean was destroyed by a civil war that ended in 1990
    $1000 25
The Artisan Series 5 Quart Tilt-Head Stand Mixer
    $1000 29
His producing "12 Years a Slave" was a triumph; playing Louis in "Interview with the Vampire", a different type of "win"

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

Jay Micah Meredith
$3,200 $600 -$800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jay Micah Meredith
$3,400 $2,400 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

SOME HATS, SOME CATTLE
POP CULTURE GRAB BAG
HISTORY
WORLD HERITAGE SITES
IN THE BOOKSTORE
NUDE, TO THE OED
    $400 29
The medieval Latin birretum gives us this word for a soft, round, flat hat, oui?
    $400 1
A team of 4 created this 2009 physics-based Rovio game in which you adjust the trajectory of a slingshot; how addictive!
    $400 8
Based on a concept agreed to at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, this intl. association was formed to maintain world peace
    $400 30
6 sites in Colombia make up a "cultural landscape" devoted to the growing & processing of this crop
    $400 23
"Moby-Dick" begins with one of the most famous first lines in literature--these 3 words
    $400 24
The OED uses both the R-E & E-R spelling for this word referring to a person appearing nude in a magazine
    $800 10
This "helmet" popular with explorers & postal workers gets its name from the dried tree substance it's made from
    $800 11
"Atomic Shakespeare" & "Maddie Hayes Got Married" were episodes of this 1980s TV series
    DD: $1,000 2
In 1899 in his mid-20s, Winston Churchill was captured & imprisoned during this war, escaping a short time later
    $800 9
Armenia's Azat Valley is home to one of these religious retreats cut from rock between the 4th & 13th centuries
    $800 22
This Stephen King novel about a world blasted by plague was reissued in 1990, restoring some 150,000 deleted words
    $800 18
When you've stripped down, you're "wearing" this festive-sounding outfit (that really means you're nude)
    $1200 12
Want coverage from the sun? Try this hat named for a beach job
    $1200 25
This 2020 Switch game from Nintendo was subtitled "New Horizons"
    $1200 3
In August 1947 these 2 Asian nations gained independence from Great Britain
    $1200 26
Come with me to this section of Algiers, with palaces & the remains of the Old Citadel
    $1200 17
His "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" takes place nearly a century before the events of "A Game of Thrones"
    $1200 19
"Death Becomes Her" used Catherine Bell as one of these, defined by the OED as a stand-in for nude or explicit movie scenes
    $1600 13
The name of this cattle breed prized for its marbled beef literally means "Japanese cow"
    $1600 27
Sam Esmail created this TV drama about a computer programmer by day who's a hacker in his off hours
    $1600 4
Succeeding his grandfather Maximilian in 1519, Charles I of Spain ascended to this more lofty imperial title as Charles V
    DD: $3,400 7
The great spa towns of Europe encompass 11 towns in 7 countries, including this French one of World War II infamy
    $1600 15
The cruel Mrs. Reed loathes this niece, the title character of a Brontë novel, & deprives her of an inheritance
    $1600 20
Naked may be used on its own or be preceded by this 5-letter word that can mean harsh or severe
    $2000 14
Henry Clay introduced this popular cattle breed to the U.S. from England in 1817
    $2000 28
It was fire on ice when D.B. Sweeney & Moira Kelly paired up in this 1992 film, the ultimate love-skate relationship
    $2000 5
While searching for treasure, this explorer & conquistador became the first European to document the Mississippi River
    $2000 6
Australia's Shark Bay is notable not just for sharks but for these Indo-Pacific sea cows with a name from Malay
    $2000 16
In 1993 this African-American sci-fi writer published "The Parable of the Sower", about chaos in 2020s California
    $2000 21
Turns out this story (& the title outfit) by Hans Christian Andersen leave both too little & too much to the imagination

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jay Micah Meredith
$6,600 $8,000 $6,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

SHOW BIZ MARRIAGES
Married since 1977, the year of this band's 1st album, 2 members referenced another album with their 2023 "Remain in Love" tour

Final scores:

Jay Micah Meredith
$12,001 $2,799 $1,500
3-day champion: $28,200 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jay Micah Meredith
$6,600 $12,800 $6,000
15 R,
3 W		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
8 W
(including 2 DDs)		 10 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $25,400

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Game tape date: 2024-05-23
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