Show #9152 - Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Neilesh Vinjamuri game 3.

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

For decades Pop-Tarts' No. 1 bestselling flavor has been frosted this fruit

$200

Pharoah or Leno

$200

An order from Gimbels department store helped elevate sales of these sticks, a 1920s fad

$200

This 1973 Lois Duncan thriller was turned into a 1997 slasher film with Jennifer Love Hewitt

$200

In 2024 he stepped into some Majors shoes as stunt man Colt Seavers in "The Fall Guy"

$200

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

Traditionally, marzipan gets its unique flavor from these nuts & is often enhanced with the extract

$400

A jolly escapade, or a prank

$400

A nursery rhyme concerns nimble, quick Jack & this feat of his

DD: $4,600

The nonfiction "The Boys of Summer", about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s, mentions this ballpark in the subtitle

$400

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

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

Calbee makes Japanese snacks, including Kappa Ebisen crackers, flavored with this shellfish, the ebi

$600

Any New Zealander

$600

The reptile Phrynocephalus guttatus can jump 8 inches, so a group would qualify for this Little Orphan Annie catchphrase

$600

Cousins Beach is the setting for "The Summer" I did this, the basis for an Amazon Prime series

$600

On "SNL", Chevy Chase took many clumsy pratfalls while playing this president who, ironically, was a great athlete

$600

James Clark was brutally killed in a garage at 2122 North Clark with other Bugs Moran gang members in 1929 on this date

$800

Cinnamon, cardamom & ginger are the predominant flavors in this type of tea, Hindi for "tea"

$800

A poke in the buttocks

$800

Call it puma, cougar or by this 2-word name, it has a 40-foot horizontal & 20-foot vertical leap

$800

R.L. Stine takes a stab at the bard with his horror tale called "A Midsummer Night's" this

$800

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

After dealing with dysentery & disease-bearing mosquitoes the year before, this Virginia colony was decimated by a fire in January 1608

$1000

Used in a variety of confections, these seeds are usually described as having a licorice flavor

$1000

Type of number like 1 or 7

$1000

There's bouncing & leaping aplenty in "Alegría", called this troupe's most iconic show

$1000

"Farewell Summer" was this sci-fi author's 2006 sequel to "Dandelion Wine", written almost 50 years before

$1000

Here's this silent movie star, taking a fall as only he could

$1000

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

The flag of the Northern Mariana Islands features a latte stone surrounded by a Carolinian mwáár, this floral garland

$400

Oceanus & Thea are among these gods who are the children of primordial earth & heaven

$400

Telescopes can be reflectors, which use mirrors to focus light, or these, which use lenses

$400

In 1921, in Atlantic City, 16-year-old Margaret Gorman became the first woman to win this national beauty title

$400

Quentin Tarantino wrote dialogue for this Denzel-Hackman submarine movie; the Silver Surfer art argument scene, just maybe

$400

Drop "in" from the end of a synonym for start & get this verb that goes with "borrow or steal"

$800

Though the olive branch does rep peace, the arrows of this Antillean territory are for its three large land masses

$800

Using his chops on the lyre to charm this canine guard of Hades, Orpheus was able to enter & attempt to rescue Eurydice

$800

Carbon atoms can form 4 of these with other atoms; in carbene molecules, they form just 2

$800

By 1920 bobbed hair was becoming a big thing, so much so that he wrote the short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"

$800

JCR (John C. Reilly) & PSH (Philip Seymour Hoffman) had associations with PTA (this director) going back to "Hard Eight"

$800

Steal "in" from a Hood who stole to get this synonym for steal

$1200

The Latin phrase "Joannes est nomen ejus", meaning "Juan is its name", is on this commonwealth's seal

DD: $3,000

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

The dynamo theory says that movement of liquid iron in Earth's core creates this protective blanket around the planet

$1200

Named for a city, this dance swept the nation

$1200

Everything about this sci-fi epic that Francis Ford Coppola began writing in 1983 & premiered at Cannes in 2024 is big

$1200

A word meaning added together subtracts its "in" to get this word for what you did to your hair

$1600

Despite the name, these birds aren't dumb--the masked & brown types make their homes on Johnston Atoll, a Nat. Wildlife Refuge

$1600

With a little help from Apollo during the Trojan War, this prince shot an arrow into Achilles' heel, killing him

$1600

Most elements exist in multiple forms called these; beyond No. 83 on the periodic table, there are no stable ones

$1600

This "saintly" resort town in the Alps hosted 25 countries for the 1928 Winter Olympics

$1600

The TV series "Queen Sugar" is from this auteur who also directed "Selma"

$1600

Lose "in" from a small statuette to get this shape of the human body

$2000

Swains Island, part of this territory south of the equator, was claimed by Eli Jennings in 1856 & has remained in the family since

$2000

A skilled yet boastful artisan, she was transformed into a spider after challenging Athena to a weaving contest

$2000

Early electronics used bulky vacuum tubes; beginning in the late 1940s, these compact successors made things portable

$2000

In 1926 this L.A. evangelist was the subject of a scandal when she disappeared for a month & claimed to have been kidnapped

$2000

TV's "Sense8", which followed 8 psychically connected people, was from the "Matrix" siblings with this last name

DD: $2,000

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:

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

Show #9152 - Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round

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

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Double Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Final Jeopardy! Round

Final scores:

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Combined Coryat: $28,400

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Game tape date: 2024-05-29