Show #9172 - Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Ryan Manton game 2.

Contestants

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Mike McComb, a project manager originally from Dearborn, Michigan

Brooke Levine, a workforce manager from Old Bridge, New Jersey

Ryan Manton, a systems administrator from Columbus, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,178)

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Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY CULTURE TRIP
LUNAR FEATURES
TOYS & GAMES
AIRPORTS
NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING
FAMILIAR PHRASES
    $200 21
Johnny Appleseed gained fame bringing apples to the frontier, most of which were used to make this "hard" drink
    $200 23
India's Chandrayaan-3 landed near the Moon's South Pole & searched for this resource, hiding in shadowed craters
    $200 24
Players in this board game once navigated the Molasses Swamp & Ice Cream Floats on a rainbow path
    $200 26
It's the main airport serving London, & also the busiest
    $200 29
"Young man, there's a place you can go / I said, young man, when you're short on your dough"
    $200 30
No one knows where this exclamation of surprise came from but it probably was not inspired by Mrs. Ross or by Davy Crockett's rifle
    $400 20
In 1801 Alexander Hamilton launched this Big Apple paper that didn't have a Page Six yet
    $400 22
The dividing line between day & night on the Moon is called "the twilight zone" or this word, like the title of a 1984 Ahnold film
    $400 13
Undealt playing cards in this game are placed in a pile known as the ocean or the pool
    $400 25
Not surprisingly passengers are greeted with live jazz music at the New Orleans airport named for this jazz great
    $400 28
"If everybody had an ocean / Across the USA / Then everybody'd be surfin' / Like Californ-eye-ay"
    $400 16
It's what "amor vincit omnia" translates to
    $600 17
Charles Willson Peale was in the group that excavated one of these toothy behemoths & painted the scene circa 1806
    DD: $1,000 6
Nearly 30% of the Moon's near side is made of this igneous rock; its holes were formed by gas bubbles captured as lava cooled
    $600 5
This foam product was advertised as "the world's first indoor ball"
    $600 7
In 2023 this Boston airport & gateway to New England celebrated its 100th anniversary
    $600 27
"But your teacher preaches class like you're some kind of jerk / You gotta fight! / For your right! / To paaaaaar-tay!"
    $600 10
The Bible tells us, "For wisdom is better than" these gems "and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it"
    $800 19
In 1808 he registered the North River Steamboat of Clermont, & a new age was upon us
    $800 14
A mountain on the Moon is named for computer programmer Melba Ray Mouton, & is called this Latin word Mouton
    $800 11
This "game that ties you up in knots" became a hit when Johnny Carson played it with Eva Gabor on "The Tonight Show" in 1966
    $800 9
This capital's Schiphol Airport boasts a library, a park & an art museum
    $800 4
"Stop! In the name of love / Before you break my heart / Stop! In the name of love / Before you break my heart / Think it over"
    $800 2
Don't draw premature conclusions is the meaning of "one" of these birds "does not make a summer", attributed to Aristotle
    $1000 18
For Easter 1885 Czar Alexander III asked this jeweler to make a gift for the czarina; voilà, an enameled egg with jewels inside
    $1000 15
An impressive crater 53 miles in diameter in the Southern Highlands of the Moon is named for this eccentric 16th century Dane
    $1000 12
This 3-D viewer was introduced at the 1939 World's Fair but hit it big in the 1950s when it acquired the rights to Disney characters
    $1000 8
The King Abdulaziz Airport in this country has a special hajj terminal & a separate terminal for the royal family
    $1000 3
"Drivin' down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars / The topless bars / Never saw a woman / So alone... L.A. woman"
    $1000 1
Dating back to Chaucer, it's sort of the canine equivalent of "don't rock the boat"

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

Ryan Brooke Mike!
$2,800 $800 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Brooke Mike!
$6,800 $200 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

SIR WALTER RALEIGH
AVIAN POETRY
THE NAME GAME
FILM-POURRI
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
"C" TO SHINING "C"
    $400 30
From 1600 to 1603 Raleigh served as governor of this largest of the Channel Islands, improving its defenses
    $400 11
Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote, "I know why" this "sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore"
    $400 5
Going up to number XXIII, more popes have been of this name than any other
    $400 10
David Oyelowo starred as him in the 2014 biopic "Selma"
    $400 22
In spring, California comes alive with these, the state flower
    $400 17
It's a palindromic word meaning relating to cities
    $800 29
As a teenager, Raleigh fought with these French Protestants against the Catholics in France
    DD: $5,600 25
The narrator asks this title bird to "leave my loneliness unbroken!--quit the bust above my door!"
    $800 1
Angus Young said this "Highway To Hell" rock band took its name from the label on a sewing machine
    $800 9
That's Colin Farrell under layers of silicone as this baddie in "The Batman"
    $800 21
900 feet wide with a 212-foot drop, Shoshone Falls in this state has been called the "Niagara of the West"
    $800 16
Named for a town on the Charente River, it's twice-distilled wine that's been aged in oak
    $1200 28
In "I'm So Tired" The Beatles curse Raleigh for his role in bringing this substance to England
    $1200 24
10 of her 1,800 poems were published in her lifetime; one was "These Are the Days When Birds Come Back--"
    $1200 2
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristocles is better known by this name possibly derived from his broad physique
    $1200 6
Director Martin Scorsese said that Robert De Niro improvised this 4-word line in "Taxi Driver"
    $1200 20
This Vermont town, the ski capital of the East, is also famous for its fall foilage
    $1200 13
It precedes "Pride" in a '90s film where Dan Aykroyd & Daniel Stern kidnap a star Utah Jazz player
    $1600 27
In 1617, while lying ill aboard ship off South America, Raleigh sent his men up this river in search of a gold mine in Guiana
    $1600 23
Like Coleridge, French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote about these birds, calling them "skyborn kings"
    $1600 3
This middle name of President Warren Harding was also the name of a first century rabbi mentioned in the Bible
    DD: $2,400 7
A script called "Night Skies" about long-fingered aliens led to both "Poltergeist" this other 1980s hit
    $1600 19
You can drive from Yellowstone to the national park named for these "Grand" mountains in under 30 minutes
    $1600 14
Being in this "state" often involves a lack of movement & communication
    $2000 26
In this work Edmund Spenser used Raleigh as a model for Timias, a squire who woos the "heavenly born" Belphoebe
    $2000 12
This American poet began his 1943 poem "Come In", "As I came to the edge of the woods, thrush music--hark!"
    $2000 4
"Rid" is a Scandinavian root meaning "beautiful", as in Ingrid & this name of the Swedish princess seen here
    $2000 8
This real-life couple starred as the bickering George & Martha in 1966's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
    $2000 18
Named for a surveyor & flowing from the Juneau Icefield, this 13-mile-long glacier often features ice caves to explore
    $2000 15
These jars preserved the viscera of a dead person in Ancient Egypt

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Brooke Mike!
$21,600 $600 $10,000
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

SITCOMS
The first British sitcom to win a Best Comedy Golden Globe, it was remade in a U.S. version that had almost 15 times as many episodes

Final scores:

Ryan Brooke Mike!
$21,600 $1,200 $10,000
2-day champion: $43,778 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Ryan Brooke Mike!
$16,800 $600 $13,400
23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 3 R,
2 W		 18 R,
4 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $30,800

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Game tape date: 2024-06-04
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