Show #9159 - Thursday, September 12, 2024

Contestants

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Bethany Korp, a Spanish interpreter from Laurence Harbor, New Jersey

Mark Palmere, an energy analyst from Sacramento, California

Will Weiss, a technical program manager from Islip, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $27,600)

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Jeopardy! Round

A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS
BEAR WITH US
SPORTY IDIOMS
ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS
THE CLASH
LONDON CALLING
    $200 15
Now imagine me with a mustache, less hair & Oprah-adjacent; I'm this psychologist who wrote "We've Got Issues"
    $200 11
In 1958 this bear made his debut on "The Huckleberry Hound Show"
    $200 10
In football second-guessing Sunday's strategy is the name of the game when you're one of these alliterative types
    $200 4
2003:
Locating the captain of the Nautilus
    $200 20
Some of the greatest loss of life during this war came from the third clash near the city of Ypres in West Flanders
    $200 16
443 feet high & on the south bank of the Thames, it takes 30 minutes to do one complete rotation
    $400 25
"The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle" is in a book titled this "hot" word, a state when you're emotionally spent
    $400 12
A 2021 study showed black bears shut down genes involved in the breakdown of bone during this period
    $400 3
Your task is almost done if you're on this, the second half of a golf course
    $400 5
2012:
Destroy that thing, Mr. Nader
    $400 21
William the Conqueror & Harold II duked it out near Hastings in October of this year
    $400 28
Hate to break it to you but the beloved statue in London's Piccadilly Circus called this love god actually depicts his brother
    $600 26
A William McRaven title advises you to do this 3-word daily task upon waking as a little thing that could change your life
    $600 13
Cape Krusenstern National Monument & Bering Land Bridge National Preserve are the only NPS units with sightings of this type of bear
    DD: $600 2
When you're going all out in any effort, you're employing this basketball defense
    $600 6
2006:
Jubilant tootsies
    $600 22
It's said the Battle of Pelusium between the Persian Empire & the 26th Dynasty of this kingdom was won by the clever use of cats
    $600 29
The lavish interior of London's Australia House, home to its embassy, was used as this bank in the "Harry Potter" movies
    $800 27
Ryan Holiday proposed this 3-letter word "Is the Enemy"; put your selfishness aside!
    $800 14
Before being transformed into a bear, she was a follower of Artemis
    $800 1
Mallards in their element are the basis of this phrase meaning there are runners on base
    $800 8
1999:
The ferrous leviathan
    $800 23
Also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, this Sept. 17, 1862 clash was the Civil War's bloodiest one-day conflict
    $800 18
This London street gets its rhyming name from a 17th century game similar to croquet
    $1000 30
"12 Rules for Life" is from this controversial Torontonian who also has thoughts about endangered masculinity
    $1000 19
This smallest member of the bear family has the longest tongue of the bear family
    $1000 9
Also a '90s sitcom title, this phrase means a boxer got lucky at the end of a round
    $1000 7
1989:
Every canine shows up in Elysium
    $1000 24
In 202 B.C. Scipio Africanus got one over on Hannibal at this end-of-the-alphabet clash that ended the 2nd Punic War
    $1000 17
This district in London's East End is infamous as the place where Jack the Ripper did his dastardly crimes in 1888

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

Will Mark Bethany
$3,200 $1,200 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Will Mark Bethany
$5,200 $3,000 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS
STARTS WITH "K"
A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY
TV CHARACTERS
MOUNTAINS
JOB-POURRI
    $400 19
This most beloved of Jacob's sons spends many years in Egypt but is reunited with dad in Genesis 46
    $400 21
A like-minded "spirit", or the title of a 1979 Octavia Butler novel
    $400 16
Blue litmus paper turns red when exposed to an acid; red paper turns blue when exposed to this type of substance
    $400 15
She played Rocky Blue on "Shake It Up" & Rue on "Euphoria"
    $400 26
In 1985 a peak on the border of this California national park was named for the late Ansel Adams
    $400 27
In England this dirty job was often performed by orphans known as climbing boys
    $800 28
This third son of Adam "begat Enos" at age 105 & lived another 807 years
    $800 20
Borrowed from Turkish, it means "destiny"
    $800 25
2 atoms share 3 pairs of electrons in the triple type of this
    $800 8
Erin Hannon took over as receptionist after this character briefly joined the Michael Scott Paper Company
    $800 6
Mount Chelia in northern Algeria is the highest of the Aures Mountains, a part of this greater system
    $800 10
In Iowa & Nebraska you can get a job detasseling this
    $1200 29
The angel Gabriel appeared to the priest Zacharias & told him that his wife "Elizabeth shall bear thee a son" named this
    $1200 3
Lester Shubin helped design the first vests made of this fiber from the DuPont company
    DD: $1,200 24
In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleyev wrote that when arranged via his method, the elements showed this kind of "change of properties"
    $1200 7
The child of a 2-faced man & a 4,000-year-old mummy, he was the uniquely handsome host of an HBO anthology show
    $1200 5
In 1983 authorities used dynamite in an effort to divert lava flows during a 4-month eruption of this Sicilian volcano
    $1200 9
Before it was automated, this job might have been right up your alley
    $1600 18
1 Kings says this son of David had 700 wives & 300 concubines
    $1600 1
A Japanese writing system using ideograms adapted from Chinese
    $1600 22
It's the term for a substance, usually a liquid, in which other materials dissolve to create a solution
    $1600 13
Comedian Donny Dunn is stalked by Martha Scott on this 2024 Netflix series
    DD: $2,000 4
This mountain range forms an arc from the Danube gap near Bratislava to the Iron Gate near Orsova, Romania
    $1600 11
It's the 6-letter word for a person who makes, sells or repairs knives
    $2000 30
The progeny of this son of Noah & brother to Shem & Ham settled in the "isles of the Gentiles"
    $2000 2
It's a Scottish shape-shifting mythical creature that appears as a horse & takes the gullible into the deep end of the loch
    $2000 23
Shortly after he transformed chemistry into a real science, this great Frenchman lost his head during the Reign of Terror
    $2000 14
On a sitcom in the early aughts, this actor raised a family while working at Powers & Sons Aviation
    $2000 17
This 19,551-foot Canadian peak towers about 14,000 feet above the Seward glacier in the Yukon
    $2000 12
An early name for The Beatles, or guys of past & present who drill & extract stone

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Will Mark Bethany
$14,400 $8,200 $7,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES
In 1824, President Monroe invited him back to the adopted country of his youth, which has always cherished his "important services"

Final scores:

Will Mark Bethany
$12,399 $16,199 $14,401
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $16,199 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Will Mark Bethany
$15,600 $10,200 $7,600
16 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $33,400

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Game tape date: 2024-05-30
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