Show #9174 - Thursday, October 3, 2024

Ryan Manton game 4.

Contestants

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Emily Stowell-Bui, a children's librarian from Charleston, South Carolina

Adam Stewart, a power enginer from Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada

Ryan Manton, a systems administrator from Columbus, Ohio (whose 3-day cash winnings total $67,379)

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Jeopardy! Round

PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE
KIDDY LIT
BRAND MASCOTS
BEASTLY RHYME TIME
IT'S TECHNICAL
ALSO A PAPAL NAME
    $200 30
2016's cover duly reported this part-time pro wrestler was "sweet, smart--and sculpted!", if you smelllll... what the Ken... is cookin'
    $200 14
Jamie journals in Jim Benton's alliterative bestselling series "Dear Dumb" this
    $200 22
A twin-tailed mermaid is the mascot of this behemoth chain
    $200 6
A ceasefire between ganders
    $200 19
A technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer is used in this process; in 1996, it resulted in a sheep named Dolly
    $200 25
It follows "salt" in the name of a gunpowder component
    $400 29
He's got the EGOT, he's a master musician, he's married to Chrissy Teigen, so why not also be the S.M.A. in 2019?
    $400 13
Edward Bear is this character's more formal name
    $400 15
The full name of this Planters mascot is Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald-Smythe
    $400 4
A plastered polecat
    $400 18
Einstein patented an innovative refrigerator but couldn't sell it after DuPont came up with this "Fr"eezing stuff
    $400 24
It follows "Presumed" in the title of a Scott Turow thriller
    $600 28
Great Scot! In 1989 this actor was "older, balder... and better!"; we only wish he'd really played "Celebrity Jeopardy!"
    $600 9
Fast friends Jess & Leslie create their own secret kingdom in the woods, then tragedy strikes, in "Bridge to" this place
    $600 12
"Oh, yeah!" Richard Berg was the original voice of the pitcher-shaped mascot for this drink brand
    $600 3
A "pocket" burrower's slip-on shoe
    $600 17
William Harvey attempted this process in 1628, but it wasn't safe until the advent of donor compatibility tests in the early 1900s
    $600 23
When "in" comes before this word meaning "merciful", it often describes nasty weather
    $800 27
2 years after "Creed II", this actor was sexy man No. 1 in 2020
    $800 8
Among the characters created by this beloved author were Ramona Quimby & Henry Huggins
    $800 11
This big dude is a brand mascot whose name was inspired by a type of large pea
    $800 2
An equitable Kodiak
    DD: $1,000 16
The drum in a clothes dryer is an example of the basket type of this spinning device seen in many a lab
    $800 21
As far as astrological signs go, this one fits the bill
    $1000 26
He was hunking up "L.A. Law" when chosen in 1987; now he's even sexier on "In the Kitchen with" him, am I right?
    $1000 7
In a fairy tale this title bird is brought to the emperor of China but is eventually replaced by a mechanical one
    $1000 10
Is he a sailor or a genie? Unclear, but he's fastidious & he reps the brand that makes Magic Erasers
    $1000 5
A krait blunder
    $1000 1
From Greek for "beyond" & "heavy", it's a type of chamber used to treat decompression sickness
    $1000 20
From Latin for "good" & "fate", it's an old-timey word for any innkeeper

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

Ryan Adam Emily
$1,000 $4,400 -$800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Adam Emily
$5,400 $5,600 -$800

Double Jeopardy! Round

A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST
FILM FROM FICTION
ARCHIPELAGOS
ANCIENTLY DRAMATIC
POSSESSIVE TERMS
FLIP THE FIRST & LAST LETTER
(Ken: Each response is two words like "over" and "rove" where the last letter of one moves to be the first letter of another.)
    $400 5
Early baseball star Harry Wright stands with his English-born dad Sam, a star in this sport
    $400 12
In 2019 Greta Gerwig directed an adaptation of this Louisa May Alcott novel
    $400 1
Just 5 islands but worth a visit, the Tremiti Archipelago is off Italy's "Heel", in this sea
    $400 21
Though he was born in Africa, the plays of Terence were long considered to be models of this language & were used to teach it
    $400 29
A Greek myth gives us this anatomical term for a vulnerable point
    $400 23
A rental contract
&
an artist's canvas supporter
    $800 4
This great Sioux leader often wore tinted-glass goggles, as in the 1881 portrait seen here
    $800 11
Quincy Jones produced a 2023 movie musical & a 1985 film both based on this novel
    DD: $2,000 2
This archipelago about 60 miles off the coast of Morocco is Spain's southernmost autonomous community
    $800 20
In Euripides' play about this beauty, only her phantom runs off to Troy; the real her waits faithfully for her husband's return
    $800 28
The eponymous man's 1889 formulation of this dictum: "One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off"
    $800 24
A male duck
&
collected the leaves
    $1200 3
To show Columbus wasn't first across the Atlantic, in 1893, a Viking ship replica sailed from Norway to a big party in this city
    $1200 10
Writer Stephenie Meyer pictured Henry Cavill & Emily Browning in these 2 "Twilight" roles
    $1200 13
The Lucayan Archipelago consists of the Turks & Caicos Islands & this British Commonwealth nation to the northwest
    $1200 18
In Sophocles' "Trachinian Women", this semi-divine hero sends his mistress to live with his wife, & bad stuff happens
    DD: $6,400 22
A structure of ropes & wooden steps for ascending a ship's rigging, or something that appears in Genesis 28:12
    $1200 25
A Spanish cattle farm
&
what holds a ship in place
    $1600 6
The Place Vendôme was the site of many street barricades set up during the 1871 revolt known as the Paris this
    $1600 9
Loosely based on a Martin Amis novel, this film set just outside of Auschwitz won the Best Intl. Feature Oscar in 2024
    $1600 14
The world's largest number of giant tortoises is found on Aldabra Atoll in this nation N.E. of Madagascar
    $1600 17
This word for a tragedian or other actor comes from the name of the man said to be Greek tragedy's first actor
    $1600 30
Named for a Frenchman, it's the argument that you should gamble on the belief in God, as the potential upside is so big
    $1600 26
One from Earth
&
word to describe a wandering knight
    $2000 7
In the 1880s, daring New Yorkers rode of these early cycles named for the resemblance of the wheels to two old British coins
    $2000 8
This Mexican auteur, who won an Oscar for "Gravity", directed "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
    $2000 15
The world's largest archipelago, it contains thousands of islands including those of the Philippines & Indonesia
    $2000 16
In a play by Aeschylus, Eteocles defends this city against the forces of Polyneices & 6 other chieftains
    $2000 19
A British actor named Simon Prebble gave the motion law-demonstrating science toy seen here this name
    $2000 27
Above an intended pitch musically
&
the instruments that might attempt it

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ryan Adam Emily
$15,800 $2,000 -$400
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY NAMES
Shrunken auditory nerves were seen in his autopsy after his 1827 death in Vienna

Final scores:

Ryan Adam Emily
$15,800 $2,100 -$400
4-day champion: $83,179 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Ryan Adam Emily
$15,600 $10,400 -$400
21 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 14 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 5 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $25,600

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Game tape date: 2024-06-04
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