Show #9155 - Friday, July 26, 2024

Last game of Season 40.

Contestants

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Rachel Bradley, an ESL instructor from Greenbelt, Maryland

Steve Babish, a marketing content strategist from San Jose, California

Davey Morrison, an actor and screenwriter from Provo, Utah (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,012)

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Jeopardy! Round

A DATE IN HISTORY
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS
A WORD FROM YOUR DOCTOR
ALSO A FISHING TERM
A THING FOR FEATS
WE CRACK OURSELVES UP
    $200 4
After this couple's first date in 1894, she went home to Poland while he wrote her letters about his "dream for science"
    $200 26
In a sporty idiom, to make expectations higher is to do this, from field events like the pole vault
    $200 27
When I ask if you have this kind of pain, I mean is it sharp or sudden, not from an angle of less than 90 degrees
    $200 13
Just scoop ice cream on root beer for this type of beverage
    $200 29
It took Russ Cook 352 days to run the length of this continent, from Cape Agulhas to the Mediterranean
    $200 30
Tom Felton said Rupert Grint was fined 2,500 pounds (going to charity) over the 1st 2 films in this series for laughing mid-scene
    $400 18
In Tarsus in 41 B.C. Cleopatra wooed this beefy Roman by arriving to a date dressed as Venus
    $400 12
Someone of unappealing visage is said to have "a face for" this medium; Fred Allen said it of himself
    $400 10
I'm afraid you've broken a brachial bone, brachial meaning a part of this body part
    $400 9
Serling or Steiger
    $400 5
In 2024 Anouk Garnier beat a record by rope climbing 361 feet to the second floor of this French landmark
    $400 7
You can see Matt LeBlanc try to hide real laughter as Joey ducks behind a panicked Ross, in search of a ring on this sitcom
    DD: $1,000 3
In the summer of 1989, this not-yet-famous couple went on a movie date in Chicago & saw a Spike Lee film
    $600 2
Completing "give him his...". it means to free him, but completing "hand him his...". it means to beat him
    $600 19
I've got one of these forecasts for you, from Greek for "prediction"
    $600 14
Per the OED, "a well-known conjecture is that" this friendly word "was a familiar abbreviation of chamber-fellow"
    $600 8
In 2007 Alain Robert climbed an 88-story building with only his hands & feet while wearing this superhero costume, naturally
    $600 6
On "SNL", Heidi Gardner could not take Mikey Day's makeup when he & Ryan Gosling played this animated MTV duo
    $800 24
On one of this duo's early dates in 1930, he crashed on her couch & in the morning, the Dallas police arrested him
    $800 1
You'll find the French word for "beautiful" in this phrase for the most attractive person in a given setting
    $800 20
When I say this is "thready", I mean it's barely perceptible & feels kind of like a thin fiber moving under my finger
    $800 16
This baseball pitch gets batters to hit a lot of ground balls
    $800 21
In 1955 Tex Johnston did this "roll"-ing aerial maneuver in a big Boeing plane & later wrote, "The airplane never knows it's inverted"
    $800 15
After Tim Conway's ad-lib story about Siamese elephants, Vicki Lawrence broke this show's cast w/ "Sure that little (bleep) is through?"
    $1000 25
A tale of a medieval hookup: this pair met in Paris around 1115, had a son, but lived on separated as monk & nun
    $1000 11
This 2-part phrase meaning "completely settled" has a variation that's been used as a hair salon name
    $1000 23
I need to examine your ear--hold on while I grab this doohickey with a handle & a light that lets me look inside
    $1000 17
In computing, it's an acronym for a transfer of data to a temporary storage area
    $1000 28
Jeanne Baret in the 1700s is credited with being the first woman to do this; she had to transfer ships to accomplish it
    $1000 22
Jack Nicholson, who may or may not have been under the influence, cracks up while talking about Venusians to Dennis Hopper in this film

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

Davey! Steve Rachel
$2,400 $400 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Davey! Steve Rachel
$4,000 $2,400 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

CANALS
"I" + 4
(Ken: "I" will be the first letter of these 5-letter words.)
TOO MUCH OF SOMETHING
TICK TOCK
FACE BOOKS
INSTA-GRAHAM
    $400 26
Arriving at New York City Nov. 4, 1825, the Seneca Chief became the first boat to travel the length of this canal
    $400 27
Typically found at the end of a book, it's an alphabetical listing of items in the book, with page numbers
    $400 28
Oxfam thinks Taylor Swift has too much money, as "every" one of these people "is a policy failure"
    $400 29
A major monument of Rouen, France is a Renaissance clock that has fabulous decorations & machinery, but only one of these
    $400 30
He published both "The Eye Book" & "The Tooth Book" as Theo. LeSieg, the last name being an anagram of Geisel
    $400 24
It wasn't until March 17, 2024 that she joined Instagram, posting a picture from "Gilmore Girls"
    $800 21
Scotland's Caledonian Canal runs through lakes, including this largest by volume in Britain that's also otherwise famous
    $800 2
This Texas-based company has been making its iconic plastic ice chests since the 1960s
    $800 17
You're feeling wired, your heart is racing--you're this 15-letter word & probably should have skipped that third espresso
    $800 20
The mysteriously named Ohio Clock has stood in the U.S. Senate for two centuries; here, it's adjusted for this for the first time in 1918
    $800 11
Hawthorne's story "The Great Stone Face" refers to a natural landmark that was in the White Mountains of this state
    $800 22
She describes herself on Instagram as an actress, filmmaker & big nerd
    $1200 3
Although very short at 748 feet, this city's picturesque Winter Canal is crossed by three bridges, including the Hermitage Bridge
    $1200 1
Last name of Max, son of a famous actor father & famous actress mother, Sinéad Cusack
    $1200 4
Hi, I'm shame. Do you know my cousin, this? He has a complex named after him, when one is awash with feelings of having done wrong
    $1200 5
An iconic tower in this capital city has displayed a clock made by local company Seiko since 1966
    $1200 12
He deciphered the power (& plot) of hero myths in his 1949 work "The Hero with a Thousand Faces"
    $1200 16
Honey Maid Graham crackers posted a hack for making these treats: put the chocolate inside the marshmallow, then roast
    $1600 9
When the Elbe Lateral Canal opened in 1977, it allowed ships traveling to this port to avoid passing through East Germany
    $1600 8
William Butler Yeats got nationalistic as he urged these "Poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made"
    $1600 7
Hyperlipidemia, too much fat in the blood, is caused by an excess of this substance provided by your own liver plus pork & donuts
    DD: $1,500 6
A victim of sexist obscurity, this kind of timepiece stands between 5 & 6' tall, like one appraised on "Antiques Roadshow" in 2012
    $1600 13
Tea Cake is Janie Crawford's third husband in this classic by Zora Neale Hurston
    $1600 15
The official account of her dance company posted a video of her dancing in "Appalachian Spring" in 1947
    $2000 25
This Asian capital has been called the "Venice of the East", though most of the smaller khlongs or canals have been filled in
    $2000 19
In "Doctor Faustus" Christopher Marlowe uses this name for Troy
    DD: $2,000 18
To us this Greek word means excess pride; to Aristotle, it meant shaming others for one's own pleasure (perhaps out of pride)
    $2000 10
In the early '60s this Greek-letter brand was a big deal with JFK's Slimline & Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra's Speedmaster
    $2000 14
Cultural appropriation is at the heart of this novel by R.F. Kuang; a white woman steals a manuscript written by her Asian friend
    $2000 23
He often posts about his BBC chat show & his GN wine

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Davey! Steve Rachel
$6,400 $11,500 $11,800

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT ANIMALS
The first fossils of these creatures with an elongated 4th digit were described in 1784 by naturalist Cosimo Collini

Final scores:

Davey! Steve Rachel
$999 $10,100 $23,597
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $23,597

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Davey! Steve Rachel
$6,000 $13,600 $11,800
12 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $31,400

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Game tape date: 2024-05-29
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