Show #9167 - Tuesday, September 24, 2024

David Erb game 2.

Contestants

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Carter Scott, an outdoor guide and educator from Suwanee, Georgia

Rachael Crawley, a described video writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

David Erb, a puzzle designer from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,655)

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Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY
I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE
3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 SYLLABLES
HERBS & SPICES
BRIT LIT SITS
BESPECTACLED ANIMATED CHARACTERS
    $200 24
Before a March 12, 1933 radio broadcast, he portentously remarked, "I think this would be a good time for beer"
    $200 28
His annual letter to the shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway is "the investment world's equivalent of a Harry Potter book release"
    $200 22
One or some, it matters none
    $200 30
Used to flavor a certain ale, its name is from the Sanskrit meaning "horn body", referring to the shape of its root
    $200 26
The chapter "Down the Rabbit-Hole" opens with her "beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank"
    $200 29
In 2009's "Up", gruff & bespectacled Carl Fredricksen is a retired salesman of these
    $400 23
2 months before he lost his head in 1794, this leader established the Cult of the Supreme Being in France
    $400 27
In the 19-teens he established a partnership with Edmund C. Lynch
    $400 21
It can mean unfriendly or hostile as well as bitterly cold
    $400 9
The elephant type of this can weigh a pound or more per bulb & is more closely related to the leek than to "the stinking rose"
    $400 25
In chapter 1 of this book, Mole sees a river for the first time & "sat on the bank, while" it "chattered on to him"
    $400 4
This animated kid was named for our 37th president
    $600 11
U.S. Army troops massacred hundreds of Lakota near this South Dakota creek on December 29, 1890
    $600 13
A poster boy for the Gilded Age, this mega-rich guy founded the company that controlled most of Cleveland's refineries by 1872
    $600 1
By way of, from the Latin for "road"
    $600 7
Used to flavor stews & stuffing, this aromatic leaf comes from a laurel tree
    $600 17
As Elizabeth Bennet sat, this character "had been standing near enough for her to overhear a conversation between him and Mr. Bingley"
    $600 16
As one who likes his beer, it seems appropriate that Peter Griffin works at a brewery in this Fox series
    $800 10
In 1411 Chinese admiral Zheng He captured the king of this island south of India & took him to China
    $800 15
Oil & mining tycoon & multi-billionaire Mohammed Al-Amoudi was born in the Amhara region of this African country
    $800 3
For example, the Cenozoic or the Paleozoic
    $800 6
Other names for this herb include black sugar & sweet root
    $800 20
This dystopian novel opens as "We sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening"
    $800 18
The brains of the "Scooby-Doo" gang, she really can't see without her glasses, which are always falling off her face
    $1000 12
Others insisted they were just following orders, but this obese Nazi took "100% responsibility" at Nuremberg in 1946
    $1000 14
He founded his publicly owned investment firm in Baltimore in 1937; perhaps you've seen its bighorn sheep logo?
    $1000 2
Extinct, flightless Down Under creature depicted here
    $1000 8
Similar to marjoram, it's native to the hills of the Mediterranean & has a name that goes back to Latin for wild marjoram
    DD: $1,000 19
Winston Smith found "while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing... 'down with"' him, in all caps, 5 times
    $1000 5
This bespectacled pair have misadventures while traveling through time

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

David Rachael Carter
$3,600 $2,000 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

David Rachael Carter
$5,800 $2,800 $5,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

A SEASON IN HELSINKI
THIS & THAT
ANCIENT SCIENCE
GIVING IT YOUR "ALL"
PEOPLE IN POEMS
WALT, WIT MAN
    $400 22
Say "kippis" & enjoy lonkero, a drink made with grapefruit soda & this spirit from Finland's juniper berries
    $400 30
Ménière's disease sufferer Dr. Carol Foster has developed a home method to stop this state of dizziness
    $400 29
Democritus believed these tiny particles were inert solids that interact mechanically
    $400 25
A network security device that can block incoming data traffic
    $400 23
In a commemorative poem of 1623, Ben Jonson was the first to refer to him as "the Sweet Swan of Avon"
    $400 28
In this 1968 film Walter Matthau as Oscar says Jack Lemmon as Felix "wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie"
    $800 3
Temppeliaukio, built directly into rock, is a church of this Protestant denomination, Finland's largest religious group
    $800 27
The name of this West African antelope seen here can also refer to one of a set of connected hand drums
    $800 26
Greek physician Praxagoras noted that pulsation is found in these, not veins; he did, however, believe they carried air
    $800 24
A comedy genre; "His Girl Friday" & "Bringing Up Baby", for example
    $800 21
In "Paradise Lost", Milton wrote, "As when by night the glass of" this man "observes imagined lands & regions in the moon"
    $800 14
On this show, Walton Goggins as Boyd tells Raylan Givens, "If a book could only be judged by its cover, you'd be a bestseller"
    $1200 1
Public these in Helsinki are literal hot spots; Uusi & Löyly are 2 in town that embrace the spirit of steam
    $1200 5
It resulted in part from a merging of a version of the flamenco & the milonga, a fast, sensual Argentine dance
    $1200 7
In book V of "The History of Animals", this longtime pupil of Plato discusses in some detail the sex lives of animals & insects
    DD: $10,000 11
A government's often one-time tax on a company's excessive profits
    $1200 20
In "Losers", Carl Sandburg mentions him: "I who have fiddled in a world on fire, I who have done so many stunts not worth doing"
    $1200 13
"Sweetness" was the nickname of this Chicago Bears running back who said, "Tomorrow is promised to no one"
    $1600 2
As a young man this "Four Legends" composer studied law at what is now the University of Helsinki
    $1600 17
This word can refer to an idealized concept of a loved one formed in childhood, or the final developmental stage of an insect
    $1600 6
Using the displacement of water, this Greek discovered that King Hieron II's gold crown wasn't entirely gold
    $1600 10
In 1972 routine vaccinations against this disease were discontinued in the United States
    $1600 19
Longfellow's sonnet about this poet begins, "The young Endymion sleeps Endymion's sleep"
    $1600 12
In "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", this Walt tells his compadre, "Good medicine men are born, not made"
    $2000 4
Eero's dad, this Finnish-American architect helped design the National Museum in the National Romantic style
    $2000 16
This capital city on the island of Hispaniola was founded in 1498 by Christopher Columbus' brother Bartholomew
    $2000 8
Around 150 A.D. this Egyptian astronomer recorded 48 of the 88 constellations in his book "Almagest"
    $2000 9
9-letter word meaning to anticipate & prevent
    DD: $6,000 18
Moved by an exhibit about his life & work, Linda Bierds wrote, "He was halfway between the war's last enigmas & the cyanide apple"
    $2000 15
This Knicks guard & broadcaster, also known as Clyde, once called center Chris Kaman, "265 pounds of fiasco"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

David Rachael Carter
$30,600 $10,800 $3,800
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY AMERICA
In a state of shock, on November 27, 1978, she announced that "both Mayor Moscone & Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot & killed"

Final scores:

David Rachael Carter
$39,488 $13,300 $3,000
2-day champion: $57,143 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

David Rachael Carter
$21,800 $10,800 $9,800
23 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 14 R,
2 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $42,400

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Game tape date: 2024-06-03
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