Show #9186 - Monday, October 21, 2024

Contestants

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Tristan Brown, a re-entry employment advocate from Richmond, Virginia

Marcus Ghiringhelli, a record store clerk from Portland, Oregon

Kelly Gates, a librarian from Medford, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,201)

Jeopardy! Round

IRAN, SO FAR AWAY
LOSE A LETTER
(Ken: Each response will be two words.)
A PUP QUIZ
FASHION, DEFINED
(Ken: By the Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion.)
NURSERY RHYME LINES
GREAT MOVIE ROM-DRAMS
(Andrew: I'm Andrew Garfield. Florence: And I'm Florence Pugh--romantic comedy is all well and good but sometimes a cry feels better than a laugh. Andrew: We'll have clues about great romantic dramas and our new movie in that field, "We Live in Time".)
    $200 9
The "P" in I.P.A., an Iranian trade association, is for these green nuts, a big export for the country
    $200 16
A product's cost loses a letter & becomes a starchy staple
    $200 20
It's this breed, Charlie Brown, that one study showed could detect lung cancer in humans with astonishing accuracy
    $200 25
"Two-piece swimsuit introduced in 1946 by designer Jacques Heim, who called it the atom because of its small size"
    $200 30
"Hey, Diddle, Diddle" sets up a possible sequel featuring the dish as it runs away with this
    $200 22
(Andrew Garfield presents the clue.) It's still the same old story, but this 1942 film about Rick & Ilsa remains not just one of the great love stories but one of the greatest films of all time
    $400 8
The poet Firdawsi's epic chronicle of early Persian history is the "Shahnameh", or "Book of" these
    $400 3
A member of the Corps loses a letter & becomes a New England state
    $400 17
Bred in ancient China, this dog (or dog dog) is known for its unusual blue-black tongue
    $400 24
They're the geographic-named, tight-fitting, three-quarter-length pants seen here
    $400 28
"Sing a Song of Sixpence" & include this somewhat imprecise amount of rye
    $400 21
(Florence Pugh presents the clue.) When they meet on an ocean liner voyage, Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr agree to rendezvous six months later atop the Empire State Building in this 1957 weepy, but fate intervenes
    $600 7
Biblical personages traditionally said to be buried in Iran include this dream interpreter who had been exiled to Babylon
    $600 11
Lose a letter from a word meaning a sorceress to become a preposition
    $600 18
A descendant of the English one, the American breed of this dog was brought to the States by 19th century immigrants
    $600 23
Perfect for school days? "Now a basic style of low shoe usually fastened with shoe laces"
    $600 27
"Old King Cole" doesn't need much to be merry--his pipe, his bowl & this musical act
    $600 4
(Andrew Garfield presents the clue.) Before his final goodbye, Sam tells Molly he's always loved her, & the love inside, you take it with you, in this 1990 film
    $800 5
Also called Persian, this language is not related to Arabic, though it is written with the same characters
    $800 10
A word for an abundant banquet loses a letter & becomes a compass direction
    $800 13
The Australian stumpy tail cattle dog traces back to a crossing of an English Smithfield with this local wild dog
    $800 15
"Leather shorts usually made with bib top, originally a Tyrolean style"
    $800 26
"There was an old lady who swallowed a fly", but shockingly, this is next on the menu
    $800 1
(Florence Pugh presents the clue.) Debra Winger gets her guy as a uniformed Richard Gere carries her off at the end of this film to the tune of "Up Where We Belong"
    $1000 6
After puberty, all Iranian females are controversially required by law to wear one of these Arabic-named items in public
    DD: $1,200 12
Lose a letter from a word meaning to declare allegiance & get a projection from a wall of rock
    $1000 19
Despite a fluffy white coat, the Bichon Frisé is considered this 14-letter adjective, making it easy on the sneezy
    $1000 14
"Pattern... creating a continuous V-shaped design... used in tweeds"
    $1000 29
The talkative "bells of St. Clement's" articulate this fruity pair
    $1000 2
(Andrew Garfield & Florence Pugh present the clue.) Andrew: In "We Live in Time" we play Tobias & Almut, who experience the ups & downs of life first as a couple & then as a family.
Florence: It's directed by John Crowley who also did this rom-dram in which Saoirse Ronan plays an Irish immigrant who finds love in America

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

Kelly Marcus Tristan
$3,000 $3,200 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kelly Marcus Tristan
$5,200 $3,000 $3,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

GETTING INVESTED
NONFICTION
ROCK & POP FIRSTS
ASSASSINS
IN CONSEQUENTIAL
(Ken: These are responses made up of letters in the word "consequential".)
COASTING
    $400 20
Bonds with a credit rating of BB+ or below are known as "high-yield" or, less flatteringly, this
    $400 14
In a 1987 book Robert Ballard detailed his quest to find this at the bottom of the Atlantic
    $400 15
She deserves a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T for being the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, back in 1987
    $400 21
It's a tradition to leave pennies atop this assassin's tombstone at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore
    $400 25
It means resembling the animal seen here, even when not going off at 150 to 1
    $400 26
A near dozen limestone stacks by the Great Ocean Road in Australia are collectively called the Twelve these biblical folks
    $800 28
Measuring the performance of 2,000 smaller companies, the Russell 2000 is a "small cap" one of these indicators
    $800 10
Shunmyo Masuno offers 100 ways to bring yourself happiness & calm in this form of Buddhism: "The Art of Simple Living"
    $800 6
In 1998 this Cher song became the first hit record to use auto-tune to distort the music
    $800 3
In 1984 2 of her Sikh bodyguards shot her outside her home in New Delhi
    $800 24
That's so high school! It's a tiny, exclusive group, like the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, wasteoids, dweebies...
    $800 17
Vestlandet, a region of this Scandinavian country, features rugged North Sea coastline
    $1200 27
Term for investors trying to change a firm's direction; in a Feb. 2024 letter, Disney's board warned against that type of hedge fund
    $1200 11
Inspiring a Leonardo DiCaprio film, this Frank Abagnale memoir is subtitled "The True Story of a Real Fake"
    $1200 7
The first pop song featuring a sitar was this 1965 Beatles tune that begins, "I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me"
    $1200 1
In 1977 this assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. escaped from prison but was recaptured after 54 hours
    DD: $2,500 4
We rarely start a clue with "from the Anglo-Norman", but this legal verb is from the A-N for "to exonerate"
    $1200 5
The Cabot Trail takes you by some epic coastal views of this "Cape" (actually an island) in Nova Scotia
    $1600 29
The "knock in" type of this is a contract that allows the holder to buy a stock once the price reaches a certain level
    $1600 12
In "The Demon of Unrest", this "Devil in the White City" author writes about the months between Lincoln's election & the start of the war
    $1600 8
In 1987 Los Lobos took this Ritchie Valens hit to No. 1, the first Spanish language song to top the Hot 100 chart
    $1600 2
Just days after stabbing Jean-Paul Marat through the heart, she lost her head on the guillotine
    $1600 16
Diplomatically, one of these can function like an embassy, but on a smaller scale
    $1600 18
Californians are used to hearing of road closures due to erosion in this coastal community between San Simeon & Carmel
    $2000 30
No investor wants to get this "call" in which a broker demands additional deposits be made in the same-named type of account
    DD: $2,500 13
The epigraph to this classic 1962 book quotes Keats: "The sedge is wither'd from the lake, and no birds sing"
    $2000 9
In 1957, they became the first rock & roll duo to have a No. 1 hit with "Wake Up Little Susie"
    $2000 22
In 222 eccentric Roman emperor Elagabalus was assassinated by this group that was supposed to protect him
    $2000 23
I say, old chap, let's toss small, circular ropes onto a peg in a game of this
    $2000 19
The name of these cliffs on the coast of County Clare comes from a Gaelic word meaning "ruined fort"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kelly Marcus Tristan
$11,300 $5,700 $14,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES
This theme tackled in art by Bellini & Michelangelo isn't explicitly mentioned in the Bible, but is part of the "Seven Sorrows of Mary"

Final scores:

Kelly Marcus Tristan
$10,800 $3,300 $22,700
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $22,700

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Kelly Marcus Tristan
$10,800 $8,000 $14,600
14 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 18 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $33,400

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Game tape date: 2024-09-17
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