Show #9153 - Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Neilesh Vinjamuri game 4.

Contestants

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Davey Morrison, an actor and screenwriter from Provo, Utah

Wendy Zaballos, a mechanical engineer from Seattle, Washington

Neilesh Vinjamuri, a software engineer from Lionville, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $53,099)

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Jeopardy! Round

MEDALISTS IN PARIS
IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES
TELE VISION
DANGER BIRD
THEY CALL ME...
MELLOW YELLOW
(Ken: Each response will also be a rhyming color phrase.)
    $200 26
Richard Norris Williams won Olympic gold in 1924, 12 years after jumping off this ship into icy water & almost losing his legs
    $200 1
Norway &
Mongolia
    $200 9
In Season 2 of this show, Kali, aka Eight, has psychic powers & mentors Eleven
    $200 6
The feathers of the hooded pitohui secrete the same toxin as the skin of these frogs named for deadly projectiles
    $200 16
Margaret Thatcher, & I was actually quite chuffed when a Moscow newspaper gave me this nickname
    $200 21
When an ace is combined with any card from a 2 through 9 in this game, it's a soft hand
    $400 27
Chemist Jean-Marie Tarascon won a 2022 gold medal for work on the lithium-ion type of these
    $400 2
Luxembourg &
Andorra
    $400 10
As Ed Glosser, the trivial psychic on "SNL", he warned someone they're gonna get an ice cream headache for 8 or 9 seconds
    $400 7
Found on Canadian coins, it's known to kill ducks & even others of its own kind that enter its territory
    $400 17
Jehanne la Pucelle, or Joan of Arc, but I'm quite fond of the moniker "Maid of" this lovely city on the Loire
    $400 22
Before June gloom & no sky July, sun-loving Southern Californians have to suffer through this related period
    $600 28
The Institut de France houses 5 of these scholarly bodies & the medals of the one of sciences are awarded under its dome
    $600 3
Kenya &
Eritrea
    $600 11
In a time-traveling vision, this character sees his father Ned as a younger man & learns a thing or 2 about Jon Snow
    $600 8
In 2013 a Kansas zoo went viral with a video of one of these big birds honking & chasing a gorilla around its enclosure
    $600 18
Benjamin Siegel--I'm a gangster & friends gave me this nickname; enemies who use it are cruising for a bruising
    $600 23
Steadfastly loyal, as in the title of a 1986 Madonna hit
    $800 29
Born during the French Open in 1986, he grew up to dominate the event & receive the Grand Vermeil Medal of the City of Paris
    DD: $1,000 4
Ecuador &
Bolivia
    $800 12
In this series based on a Stephen King novel, Anthony Michael Hall wakes up from a coma with psychic abilities
    $800 14
Mimus polyglottos, it's notorious for dive-bombing humans & other animals that approach its nests
    $800 19
"Uncle Sam"; you may be familiar with a historic WWI recruiting poster in which these 3 words implored Americans to join up
    $800 24
A chilled beverage from Starbucks with coconut milk, açaí & strawberry is called this
    $1000 30
Military medal ceremonies are often held in the courtyard of this complex that was begun to serve injured veterans
    $1000 5
Guatemala &
Nicaragua
    $1000 13
I have a vision that you'll name this show that starred supernaturally gifted Patricia Arquette as a crime solver
    $1000 15
Called the world's most dangerous bird, this emu relative has dagger-like toes & can run 30 miles per hour or more
    $1000 20
"La Divina", & I'm this soprano who made a sizzling headliner at La Scala in 1951
    $1000 25
In French, this veggie is un haricot vert

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

Neilesh Wendy Davey!
$3,000 $3,200 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Neilesh Wendy Davey!
$6,200 $4,200 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
HODGEPODGE
MY ART IS FULL
4-LETTER WORDS
HOLLYWOOD FAMILIES
NOVEL CHANGE A LETTER
    $400 26
An 1882 Exclusion Act barred immigrants from this country, though many had built the Central Pacific Railroad
    $400 21
The earliest known flag of orange, white & green stripes to represent this country dates from 1848
    $400 14
Keeping art very local from the 1890s until 1926, Monet's series of about 250 oil paintings focused on a pond of these in his garden
    $400 20
Fix your female kitty
    $400 11
(Michael Douglas presents the clue.) With showbiz roots that go back to his maternal great grandfather, Harry Warner, of Warner Brothers fame, Cole Hauser plays tough guy ranch foreman Rip Wheeler on this series
    $400 10
Ranch hands George & Lennie embrace a Buddhist state of calm
    $800 27
Before succeeding Thomas Jefferson as president, James Madison served for 8 years in TJ's Cabinet in this post
    $800 22
Pope Siricius is remembered for a 4th c. edict requiring this practice for priests, among whom he was probably not popular
    $800 13
2 big events for this woman in 1958: she painted "Making Apple Butter" & also turned 98
    $800 16
That's some nerve; it's also another word for bile
    $800 3
Kate & Oliver Hudson have praise for mom Goldie Hawn & this actor-stepdad who helped raise them
    $800 9
Upton Sinclair's magnum opus about one man's attempt to write the perfect catchy advertising tune
    $1200 28
This epidemic came to the U.S. in 1918 & spread rapidly in densely populated barracks, like at Fort Riley in Kansas
    $1200 23
Candy Lightner led a movement against this after it led to her daughter's death while walking to a church carnival
    $1200 12
Here's a classic sample of this '80s artist who opened The Pop Shop in New York City before dying far too young in 1990
    DD: $2,000 17
Sometimes preceding probandi, this burden is on you
    $1200 2
(Michael Douglas presents the clue.) Early in their careers, these two brothers appeared on their father Lloyd's TV adventure series "Sea Hunt"
    $1200 7
H.G. Wells' sordid tale of a man who creates a device capable of making a distressing number of clones of Marcel Marceau
    $1600 29
In 1916 this Mexican bandit & revolutionary attacked Columbus, New Mexico, killing 18 U.S. citizens
    $1600 24
Scientifically Chironex fleckeri, the sea wasp is a deadly Pacific variety of this
    DD: $5,800 5
In 1796 this artist may not have finished painting George Washington's head, but the image was on the money in 1869
    $1600 18
Osculate
    $1600 1
An actress & now a singer, she made the cover of People magazine as an infant, "Elvis's First Grandchild"
    $1600 6
Simon & Piggy, in desperate need of cooking supplies, render some fat from winged insects
    $2000 30
In the years before the Revolution, the colonies stayed in touch via the alliterative Committees of this
    $2000 25
Founded as a British Colonial post in 1893, Entebbe, Uganda is located on the northwest shore of this body of water
    $2000 15
One of the jollier Dutch masters, Jan Steen painted everyday scenes like players of this 9-pin bowling game outside an inn
    $2000 19
A street urchin or ragamuffin
    $2000 4
(Michael Douglas presents the clue.) In the 2015 Western film "Forsaken", this father & son played father & son on screen for the first time
    $2000 8
Cormac McCarthy's saga of an aged, female chicken caught up in a world of drugs & killers

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Neilesh Wendy Davey!
$15,400 $5,800 $12,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PLACE NAMES
This name of a national forest means "fool" & may be one Apache group's name for another group; it's also a problematic TV character

Final scores:

Neilesh Wendy Davey!
$5,199 $0 $15,500
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $15,500

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Neilesh Wendy Davey!
$15,200 $7,800 $8,600
19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 11 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $31,600

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Game tape date: 2024-05-29
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