Show #9183 - Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Contestants

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Rachel Cassidy, an associate professor from Providence, Rhode Island

Jay Eversman, an environmental attorney from Saint Louis, Missouri

Rishabh Wuppalapati, an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania from Vernon Hills, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,201)

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Jeopardy! Round

HEY, PUMPKIN!
A WORLD TOUR
ENJOY A CONCERTO
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
SHOW BIZ MOVIES
"OUT" WITH IT
    $200 29
In the fairy tale "Cinderella", a pumpkin is magically turned into one of these
    $200 26
Look up from the waters of the "Boiling Pot" in Zambia below this landmark & you can see folks in Zimbabwe
    $200 30
Handel's Concerti Opus 4 are for this instrument, but the smaller chamber, not the church kind
    $200 28
June 21 is world day for these lanky mammals that include reticulated & Masai species; experts warn of "silent extinction"
    $200 24
In 2017 this actor sunk his claws into the role of P.T. Barnum, "The Greatest Showman"
    $200 23
The cutthroat type of this fish gets its name from the red-orange slash on each side of the lower jaw
    $400 25
In the "Peanuts" comics, this character espouses belief in the Great Pumpkin, who rises from the patch on Halloween
    $400 22
Linking the Firth & Clyde Canal to the Union Canal 115 above, the Falkirk Wheel takes boats for a spin in this country
    $400 27
Always a jokester, he wrote on a horn concerto manuscript that he "has taken pity on (soloist Joseph) Leutgeb--ass, ox & idiot"
    $400 21
The first Friday in February is national wear this color day, promoting awareness of women's heart health
    $400 19
This 1967 movie about life in the theater gave us the immortal line "That's our Hitler!"
    $400 20
To a cop, issuing a "BOLO" has nothing to do with a thin tie; it means to keep your eyes open & stands for "be on the" this
    $600 10
Roasted pumpkin seeds are a tasty, healthy snack & called these in Spanish
    $600 2
The Electric City Trolley Museum delights visitors in this U.S. city, as did a fictional "Office"
    $600 5
Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto has this royal name, though earlier, Ludwig was upset when Napoleon gave himself that title
    $600 4
In 1964 Oct. 9 was proclaimed as this man's day, amid growing consensus that he reached North America before Columbus
    $600 16
(Jason Reitman presents the clue.) I cast 21-year-old Gabriel LaBelle in "Saturday Night" to play this producer, who was 30 in 1975, to emphasize his young genius & demonstrate the generational divide between the old network executives & the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players"
    $600 7
The agency NOAA calls it a whirling column of air & water mist
    $800 11
Some say pumpkins are vegetables, some say fruits, but either way, they're one of the "winter" varieties of this garden favorite
    $800 1
These twin buildings in Asia rise to 1,483 feet & are connected by a double-decker skybridge on levels 41 & 42
    DD: $1,000 3
Alberto Ginastera's concerto for it, Opus 25, is loaded with swooping glissandi, called the instrument's stock-in-trade
    $800 14
August 7 honors recipients of this military medal first awarded by George Washington
    $800 17
Robert Downey Jr. was, somewhat problematically, a dude playin' a dude disguised as another dude in this comedy
    $800 6
A TV show with obstacle courses & a song by The Surfaris both have this title
    $1000 15
Pumpkins are a good source of iron, potassium & this antioxidant substance converted into vitamin A in the body
    $1000 9
Each side of El Castillo, a pyramid in this ancient Maya city in Mexico, has 91 stairs; add the step on the top, & whoa, that's 365
    $1000 8
This Russian's 1881 Violin Concerto was inspired by Iosif Kotek, a young musician with whom he was infatuated
    $1000 13
Public schools in this state observe November 29 as former governor Nellie Tayloe Ross Day
    $1000 18
Johnny Depp is dressed for success but doesn't quite have the talent to back it up as this 1994 title character/director
    $1000 12
Also known as a rotary, it's a circular traffic intersection

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

Rishabh Jay Rachel
$3,000 $1,400 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Rishabh Jay Rachel
$3,200 $3,800 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
THE BOOK NOOK
ASTRONOMY
THE ____ OF THE ____
WHAT'S ON TV?
THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ!
    $400 17
In 1931 "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became the national anthem, more than a century after it was written during this conflict
    $400 30
This first name precedes "light of my life, fire of my loins" to start a classic by Nabokov
    $400 26
Baily's beads are dots of sunlight seen through the Moon's peaks & valleys during these events
    $400 29
NASA says it's some 13.1 septillion pounds; if it's "on your shoulders" idiomatically, you have tons of things to worry about
    $400 27
Amandla Stenberg doubles the fun playing OSHA & Mae on this "Star Wars" series set during the High Republic
    $400 25
Reportedly, for physicist Richard Feynman & this 3-word cliché was "this dying is boring"
    $800 13
After providing $13 billion in aid to Europe, this recovery program officially ended in December 1951
    $800 19
In this novel Amy seems to be a favorite with her aunts: a ring from Aunt March & a trip to Europe with Aunt Carrol
    $800 18
Red dwarfs fuse H into this element but don't have the mass to then produce C, so they bypass red giant stage & end up white dwarfs
    $800 21
After his son Uncas dies, Chingachgook becomes this, as in the title of an 1826 book
    $800 22
The empire is in danger in "Foundation" based on the classic sci-fi series by this author
    $800 20
Do me a favor & I'll do you one--tell us that in Latin it's "manus manum lavat"
    $1200 2
"Above & Beyond" is a true account of 2 pilots of these top secret aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis
    $1200 10
This author refreshed the vampire genre in "Interview with the Vampire", her first published work
    $1200 7
In the 18th century the recording of the transit of Venus across the Sun helped establish the value of 1 AU, short for this
    DD: $2,600 11
"Jesus falls the first time" & "Jesus is laid in the tomb" are parts of this reflective rite
    $1200 23
In 2024 Netflix released this limited series based on a tearjerker by David Nicholls about a couple's July 15s over the years
    $1200 14
To a friend who has betrayed you, you might use this Latin phrase from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"
    $1600 3
In the late 1980s government funds were used to bail out these failing financial entities to the tune of $132 billion
    $1600 1
Prince Rilian was seated in this, the title of book 4 of "The Chronicles of Narnia"
    $1600 5
In the "Sword" of this constellation is a 24 light-year-wide cloud of dust & gas--a fab-nebulous view through a telescope
    $1600 9
David Livingstone went missing searching for it in the 1860s
    $1600 24
Thomas Brodie-Sangster plays this Dickens character pulled back into a life of crime by Fagin
    $1600 15
Going back to Galatians 5:4, this expression means to lose favor or lapse into sin
    $2000 4
The first African-American senator was Republican Hiram Revels, repping this Southern state in 1870
    DD: $2,500 8
"I fell burning into the desert", explains the title character of this novel by Michael Ondaatje
    $2000 6
The constellation Cassiopeia borders Messier 31, also known as this galaxy--look out! It's coming right at us!
    $2000 12
Savonarola's infamous pyre of destruction
    $2000 28
"The Big Cigar" is a dramatization of an escape to Cuba by this Black Panther Party co-founder
    $2000 16
It's the same idea as "15 minutes of fame" & can be applied, literally, to Lady Jane Grey

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Rishabh Jay Rachel
$10,400 $4,800 $10,100

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Final Jeopardy! Round

COLLEGE TOWNS
2 schools in the Southeastern Conference are located in cities with this same name but in different states

Final scores:

Rishabh Jay Rachel
$20,201 $1 $19,701
2-day champion: $42,402 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Rishabh Jay Rachel
$11,400 $7,400 $9,600
17 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $28,400

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Game tape date: 2024-09-16
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