Show #9164 - Thursday, September 19, 2024

Contestants

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Fr. Steve Jakubowski, a Catholic priest originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan

Jen Feldman, a high school teacher from Brooklyn, New York

Chris Lindsay, an attorney from Carmel, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,600)

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Jeopardy! Round

BIRTHSTONES
ART & ARTISTS
BUGGING OUT
FIX THE PROVERB
MEMORY
CATS' SONGS
    $200 28
April is said to be cruel, but it also be expensive as the pink star version of this birthstone sold for $71.2 million in 2017
    $200 27
In an early sketch of "American Gothic", Grant Wood chose a rake, but later placed one of these in the man's hand
    $200 30
Named for jaws that resemble antlers, the male stag is the largest species of this insect in Europe
    $200 25
"Its book by a judge don't cover"
    $200 29
A 1974 experiment showed this type of testimony including a body part varied if a question was about a car hitting vs. smashing another
    $200 26
This noted cat lover & co-star of the movie version of "Cats" sang "Karma is a cat purring in my lap 'cause it loves me"
    $400 20
Displaying "vivid red hues", the 55.22-carat Estrela de Fura is this kind of gem that's July's stone
    $400 22
Delacroix commemorated the Paris Revolution of 1830 by depicting this symbolic figure "Leading the People"
    $400 23
In 2011 the Cockerell's variety of this large bee was rediscovered after 55 years in the White Mountains of New Mexico
    $400 10
"To cleanliness godliness is next"
    $400 1
An actor who has all the lines memorized is said to be "off" this
    $400 15
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle" this happens in the title of a hit based on a Zulu hunting song
    DD: $600 21
An '80s song rhymed, "Take your baby by the wrist, & in her mouth" this February stone
    $600 6
Marilyn Monroe was a familiar subject of his, & his Factory Additions Print Shop featured her image as its first effort
    $600 7
In 2024, for the first time since 2015, both a 13-year & 17-year brood of this insect emerged in the same year
    $600 9
"And soon a fool are his parted money"
    $600 5
This type of memory is held in employees' personal recall of the history & culture of an organization
    $600 2
Obviously a fan of felines, this rapper called her 2014 EP "Purrr!"
    $800 8
March swims in with this pale greenish blue birthstone; one healthy specimen from Brazil weighed nearly 250 pounds
    $800 3
This artist's panic after seeing "fire and blood" over a "bluish black fjord" led to his most famous painting
    $800 19
Although it has a reputation as a predator, this spider, Loxosceles reclusa, prefers to eat dead insects whenever possible
    $800 11
"Desperate desperate measures for call times"
    $800 12
Also meaning "aloof" or "far off", this 6-letter type of long-ago memory is stored differently & may be less affected by dementia
    $800 4
This movie tune says, "It's the thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rival"
    $1000 16
Cleopatra's mines near the Red Sea coast yielded this May stone
    $1000 14
Manet seems to be inviting us to step right up & partake of the bounty at this hyphenated Parisian nightclub
    $1000 24
In the Amazon, butterflies flock to river turtles to drink their tears, which supply them with this much-needed element
    $1000 17
"Brain workshop is the devil's an idle"
    $1000 13
An example of this mental device is "I wish I knew" for the square root which is 1.414
    $1000 18
Harry Chapin's only No. 1 hit, it begins, "My child arrived just the other day, he came to the world in the usual way"

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

Chris Jen Fr. Steve
$3,800 $1,200 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Chris Jen Fr. Steve
$3,800 $1,000 $7,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY
FROM THE TV SHOW'S THEME SONG
(Ken: You'll name the show.)
LITERARY EPITAPHS
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY CHANGE?
U.K. CITIES
TOUGH VOCAB
    $400 8
Barack Obama & John Boehner, who held this post from 2011 to 2015, nearly reached a grand bargain on taxes & spending
    $400 25
"From the town of Bedrock, they're a page right out of history"
    $400 21
Keats' tombstone in Rome's Cimitero Acattolico reads, "Here lies one whose name was writ in" this
    $400 27
It's a directional verb meaning to change to a lower gear when driving
    $400 30
Add 5 letters to the U.K.'s largest city to get this name of Northern Ireland's second-largest
    $400 28
An adjective meaning unsympathetic; or 1 letter shorter, what forms on a hard worker's hands
    $800 5
George Washington set a precedent in 1796 when he decided not to do this; FDR broke with the precedent in 1940 by saying, I'm doing it
    $800 22
"Yeah, it might be all that you get, yeah, I guess this might well be it, but heaven knows I've tried"
    $800 3
Her grave bears her married name, Hughes, & says, "Even amid fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted"
    $800 26
Ivanka Trump called this change she made after getting together with Jared Kushner "a great life decision"
    $800 14
Dunfermline, Scotland, birthplace of this industrialist, even has its own theatre & concert "hall" named for him
    $800 18
3-syllable word for compulsory military enrollment; it can also mean a payment taken by a government during wartime
    $1200 6
Many think Arthur Burns, chair of this body, cut interest rates under pressure from Richard Nixon, permitting inflation
    $1200 23
"She was working in a bridal shop in Flushing, Queens, 'til her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes"
    $1200 1
For his epitaph, he wrote, "A poet lies, or that which one seem'd he,--O, lift one thought in prayer for S.T.C."
    DD: $1,000 10
On her journey "across Italy, India & Indonesia", she writes, "One must always be prepared for... endless waves of transformation"
    DD: $4,000 12
It's where you can visit the Ulster Museum & nearby Botanic Gardens
    $1200 15
The Greek word hemera, meaning "day", gave us this adjective for something short-lived
    $1600 7
"Ignorant" nickname for the American Party, anthmmigrant, anti-Catholic & active in the 1850s
    $1600 24
"Now your hope & compassion is gone, you've sold out your dream to the world, stay dead, stay dead, stay dead... & out of this world"
    $1600 2
In the chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Shakespeare's epitaph ends, "Curst be he that" does this
    $1600 11
A video about butterflies by the AMNH calls this "the process of transformation in distinct stages"
    $1600 13
The Church of England has 2 archbishops--the one of this city ranks second to the Archbishop of Canterbury
    $1600 16
To reprove is to scold; this word from the same roots as reprove refers to a scoundrel who likely needs scolding
    $2000 9
Thomas Dewey was elected governor of this state 3 times
    $2000 29
"Sing me a song of a lass that is gone; say, could that lass be I?"
    $2000 4
Before invoking the names of these 2 Roman poets, Alexander Pope wrote, "In peace let one poor poet sleep"
    $2000 20
It's the conversion of a substance from a solid to gas without messing with that liquid nonsense
    $2000 19
Dylan Thomas called this "sea" city of his birth "an ugly, lovely town... crawling, sprawling by a long & splendid curving shore"
    $2000 17
The French word for "hand" comes at the end of this word for a skill dextrous magicians possess

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Chris Jen Fr. Steve
$9,200 $9,800 $5,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

NEW YORK MOVIES
Frank Sinatra got upset that a photo of him caught fire in a Brooklyn pizzeria in this film

Final scores:

Chris Jen Fr. Steve
$10,801 $13,800 $99
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $13,800 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Chris Jen Fr. Steve
$10,200 $10,400 $9,400
14 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $30,000

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Game tape date: 2024-05-31
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