Show #9152 - Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Contestants

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Tim Herd, a Ph.D. student originally from Detroit, Michigan

Lindsay Denninger, a writer from Smithtown, New York

Neilesh Vinjamuri, a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $41,100)

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Jeopardy! Round

FLAVORS
ALSO A BIRD
SPRING IN YOUR STEP
SUMMER READING
TAKING A FALL
THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT
    $200 1
For decades Pop-Tarts' No. 1 bestselling flavor has been frosted this fruit
    $200 4
Pharoah or Leno
    $200 27
An order from Gimbels department store helped elevate sales of these sticks, a 1920s fad
    $200 28
This 1973 Lois Duncan thriller was turned into a 1997 slasher film with Jennifer Love Hewitt
    $200 7
In 2024 he stepped into some Majors shoes as stunt man Colt Seavers in "The Fall Guy"
    $200 23
Not learning from history & bewaring some ides, King Odoacer of Italy went to a banquet he would not survive on this date in 493
    $400 2
Traditionally, marzipan gets its unique flavor from these nuts & is often enhanced with the extract
    $400 26
A jolly escapade, or a prank
    $400 14
A nursery rhyme concerns nimble, quick Jack & this feat of his
    DD: $4,600 29
The nonfiction "The Boys of Summer", about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s, mentions this ballpark in the subtitle
    $400 30
This "Commando" actor, holding a guy by his leg over a cliff: "Remember... when I promised to kill you last?" (lets go) "I lied"
    $400 8
In Feb. 62 A.D. this city & Herculaneum were hit by a big earthquake, but that was nothing compared to what was coming up 17 years later
    $600 10
Calbee makes Japanese snacks, including Kappa Ebisen crackers, flavored with this shellfish, the ebi
    $600 25
Any New Zealander
    $600 5
The reptile Phrynocephalus guttatus can jump 8 inches, so a group would qualify for this Little Orphan Annie catchphrase
    $600 12
Cousins Beach is the setting for "The Summer" I did this, the basis for an Amazon Prime series
    $600 24
On "SNL", Chevy Chase took many clumsy pratfalls while playing this president who, ironically, was a great athlete
    $600 9
James Clark was brutally killed in a garage at 2122 North Clark with other Bugs Moran gang members in 1929 on this date
    $800 15
Cinnamon, cardamom & ginger are the predominant flavors in this type of tea, Hindi for "tea"
    $800 11
A poke in the buttocks
    $800 13
Call it puma, cougar or by this 2-word name, it has a 40-foot horizontal & 20-foot vertical leap
    $800 20
R.L. Stine takes a stab at the bard with his horror tale called "A Midsummer Night's" this
    $800 6
This cop falls down the stairs with--& breaks the neck of--a terrorist, but it's still gonna be a long night for him at Nakatomi Plaza
    $800 17
After dealing with dysentery & disease-bearing mosquitoes the year before, this Virginia colony was decimated by a fire in January 1608
    $1000 22
Used in a variety of confections, these seeds are usually described as having a licorice flavor
    $1000 21
Type of number like 1 or 7
    $1000 19
There's bouncing & leaping aplenty in "Alegría", called this troupe's most iconic show
    $1000 3
"Farewell Summer" was this sci-fi author's 2006 sequel to "Dandelion Wine", written almost 50 years before
    $1000 18
Here's this silent movie star, taking a fall as only he could
    $1000 16
In Dec. 1894 this French captain was convicted of selling military secrets to Germany but after an uproar, got a pardon 5 years later

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

Neilesh Lindsay Tim
$4,000 $2,200 -$1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Neilesh Lindsay Tim
$6,600 $9,600 -$3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. AREAS & TERRITORIES
IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME
TIME FOR SCIENCE
THE ROARING '20s
WRITER-DIRECTORS
DROP IN
    $400 1
The flag of the Northern Mariana Islands features a latte stone surrounded by a Carolinian mwáár, this floral garland
    $400 17
Oceanus & Thea are among these gods who are the children of primordial earth & heaven
    $400 12
Telescopes can be reflectors, which use mirrors to focus light, or these, which use lenses
    $400 15
In 1921, in Atlantic City, 16-year-old Margaret Gorman became the first woman to win this national beauty title
    $400 14
Quentin Tarantino wrote dialogue for this Denzel-Hackman submarine movie; the Silver Surfer art argument scene, just maybe
    $400 7
Drop "in" from the end of a synonym for start & get this verb that goes with "borrow or steal"
    $800 18
Though the olive branch does rep peace, the arrows of this Antillean territory are for its three large land masses
    $800 16
Using his chops on the lyre to charm this canine guard of Hades, Orpheus was able to enter & attempt to rescue Eurydice
    $800 13
Carbon atoms can form 4 of these with other atoms; in carbene molecules, they form just 2
    $800 9
By 1920 bobbed hair was becoming a big thing, so much so that he wrote the short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
    $800 2
JCR (John C. Reilly) & PSH (Philip Seymour Hoffman) had associations with PTA (this director) going back to "Hard Eight"
    $800 6
Steal "in" from a Hood who stole to get this synonym for steal
    $1200 19
The Latin phrase "Joannes est nomen ejus", meaning "Juan is its name", is on this commonwealth's seal
    DD: $3,000 8
This name applied to a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads, each head containing 3 rows of sharklike teeth, or just a rock
    $1200 24
The dynamo theory says that movement of liquid iron in Earth's core creates this protective blanket around the planet
    $1200 29
Named for a city, this dance swept the nation
    $1200 5
Everything about this sci-fi epic that Francis Ford Coppola began writing in 1983 & premiered at Cannes in 2024 is big
    $1200 3
A word meaning added together subtracts its "in" to get this word for what you did to your hair
    $1600 22
Despite the name, these birds aren't dumb--the masked & brown types make their homes on Johnston Atoll, a Nat. Wildlife Refuge
    $1600 10
With a little help from Apollo during the Trojan War, this prince shot an arrow into Achilles' heel, killing him
    $1600 25
Most elements exist in multiple forms called these; beyond No. 83 on the periodic table, there are no stable ones
    $1600 20
This "saintly" resort town in the Alps hosted 25 countries for the 1928 Winter Olympics
    $1600 4
The TV series "Queen Sugar" is from this auteur who also directed "Selma"
    $1600 27
Lose "in" from a small statuette to get this shape of the human body
    $2000 23
Swains Island, part of this territory south of the equator, was claimed by Eli Jennings in 1856 & has remained in the family since
    $2000 11
A skilled yet boastful artisan, she was transformed into a spider after challenging Athena to a weaving contest
    $2000 26
Early electronics used bulky vacuum tubes; beginning in the late 1940s, these compact successors made things portable
    $2000 30
In 1926 this L.A. evangelist was the subject of a scandal when she disappeared for a month & claimed to have been kidnapped
    $2000 21
TV's "Sense8", which followed 8 psychically connected people, was from the "Matrix" siblings with this last name
    DD: $2,000 28
Kick both "in"s out of a 2-word principal route of a railroad to get this gendered 4-letter word

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Neilesh Lindsay Tim
$19,000 $13,000 -$2,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC SPOTS
Known for a fabled event of 1881, it housed an auto repair shop after the disappearance of the horse & buggy

Final scores:

Neilesh Lindsay Tim
$11,999 $5,000 -$2,400
3-day champion: $53,099 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Neilesh Lindsay Tim
$19,000 $11,800 -$2,400
23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 1 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $28,400

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Game tape date: 2024-05-29
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