Show #9187 - Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Will Wallace game 1.

Contestants

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Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, Texas

Stephanie Cooper, a Ph.D. candidate from Baltimore, Maryland

Tristan Brown, a re-entry employment advocate from Richmond, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,700)

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Jeopardy! Round

SELLING INSURANCE
THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY
6 BY 6 NAMES
(Ken: Each response will be a 6-letter first name and a 6-letter last name.)
TV TRANSPORTS
IT'S A PENINSULA
"M" BEFORE "N"
(Ken: Each response will have those two letters in that arrangement like the word "arrangement".)
    $200 30
An alumnus of L.A.'s Groundlings, Stephanie Courtney is best known for portraying this perky pitchwoman
    $200 14
On the question of "Life, the Universe and Everything" in this book series, the answer is 42, "which is a little aggravating"
    $200 7
This daughter of a minister was chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021
    $200 16
A passenger jet from Oceanic Airlines delivered this show's characters right into the heart of a mystery
    $200 17
The Strait of Gibraltar separates the southern tip of this peninsula from Africa
    $200 29
The wythe & flue liner are parts of this household mainstay where Santa starts his B&E hijinks
    $400 27
Early in his career, Barry Manilow composed commercial jingles, including this company's "Like A Good Neighbor..."
    $400 13
"We have real dinosaurs out there now. That's what people want to see"
    $400 8
She died at age 23 in a hail of bullets along with her outlaw partner sitting in a stolen Ford outside Sailes, Louisiana
    $400 2
The S.S. Minnow was only supposed to provide a 3-hour tour for its guests, but ended up shipwrecked on this sitcom
    $400 6
Though it looks like it should be part of Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula was ceded to this state after a border war with, of course, Ohio
    $400 21
In 1924 André Breton published one of these declarations "of Surrealism"
    $600 26
In 2005 this company changed its logo to include its famous duck
    $600 12
The hero of this tale thinks, "Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one?"
    $600 9
This actress known for movies & British TV like "Fleabag" & "Broadchurch" is not related to fellow 6x6 thespian Ronald
    $600 3
In the '80s this lucky title guy got to drive a Ferrari 308 GTS around Hawaii for 8 seasons
    $600 1
Yalta see Livadiya Palace or Sevastopol on this peninsula
    $600 19
The U.S. Equestrian Federation advises scrubbing the underside when cleaning this; it's usually the dirtiest area
    $800 25
For a new ad campaign in 2019, this company introduced its dynamic duo of LiMu Emu & Doug
    $800 11
The Lady Madeline isn't the corpse we were told she was--at least not until after a family reunion--in this 1839 short story
    $800 10
In 1966 he was elected governor of California, beating the incumbent Edmund G. Brown in a landslide
    $800 4
Since 1969, Scooby-Doo & the gang have gotten around in a van with this alliterative name
    $800 18
The Western-most point of the North American continent is at the tip of this Alaskan peninsula named for a man crucial to the state's history
    $800 20
This spice, a member of the parsley family, is a key ingredient in the Indian potato dish jeera aloo
    $1000 24
In 1950 an exec at Allstate had a sick daughter but his wife reported positively on the doctor, saying Joann was "in" these
    $1000 15
It's the last name of Philip Roth's character Alexander, who has at least one issue with his mom, Sophie
    $1000 28
In 1517 he sent a letter to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz criticizing the sale of indulgences to free sinners from divine punishment
    $1000 5
The coffin-based Drag-u-la roadster made a fast & furious appearance in the "Hot Rod Herman" episode of this comedy
    DD: $2,400 23
At the tip of Pinellas Peninsula, it's nicknamed "The Sunshine City" & has a major sister city in Russia
    $1000 22
This word for a balcony level in a theater comes in part from an Italian word for "middle"

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

Tristan Stephanie Will
$5,000 $1,800 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Tristan Stephanie Will
$6,800 $3,200 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE DUTCH COLONIAL EMPIRE
POP STARS
THE CULTURAL 19th CENTURY
FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES
CHEMISTRY
SHE'S A SAINT!
    $400 30
The Netherlands' colonial empire was mainly split between these 2 directional trading companies
    $400 3
This singer has said "No Body But Yours" to wives Miranda Lambert & Gwen Stefani
    $400 28
Thomas Wilson's exhaustive work "The Treasures of Terpsichore" cataloged popular English country these
    $400 4
French for "in the manner of", it can precede neige, Suisse or king
    $400 13
The FDA calls it "a highly addictive chemical compound present in a tobacco plant"
    $400 23
Tradition says that St. Priscilla allowed this New Testament figure also called Simon to use her home as his HQ while in Rome
    $800 29
Batavia, founded in 1619 on Java, resembled a dutch town with canals; 3 centuries later, it was renamed this
    $800 9
Since her 2022 diagnosis, this Canadian singer has opened up about her battle with stiff person syndrome
    $800 27
German art moved from Romanticism to this other "R"-ism, as in Adolph Menzel's "The Iron Rolling Mill"
    $800 5
No no, my friend, quite the opposite--or in 2 French words, this
    $800 14
A substance's lowest possible energy state is this 2-word term, -273.15 degrees C. or an equally frosty -459.67 F.
    $800 22
This Nobel Prize winner reached the ranks of the blessed in the church's then shortest time & was canonized in 2016
    $1200 18
The Dutch moved into the Caribbean to mine salt used to pack & preserve this fish; they love the maatjes type
    $1200 10
This singer/rapper's "Old Town Road" used a sample from Nine Inch Nails' "34 Ghosts IV"
    $1200 1
This "Deerslayer" author came up with the Bread and Cheese Club, a meeting of early 19th century minds
    $1200 6
Another term for megalomania is the French "folie de" this
    $1200 15
Fe2O3 is the chemical formula for this 4-letter concern
    $1200 21
On May 30, 1431 the English threw her ashes into the Seine River
    DD: $2,000 19
In 1633, when New Netherland occupied part of New York state, ancestors of this 19th c. U.S. president settled in Rensselaer County
    $1600 11
Leroi Moore, Boyd Tinsley, Carter Beauford & Stefan Lessard, his "Band", are 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees
    $1600 2
Rachmaninoff's first opera, "Aleko", was based on a work by this 19th century Russian poet
    $1600 7
A big party thrown by the Vanderbilts at their home known as the Petit this inspired a storyline on "The Gilded Age"
    DD: $2,000 16
Jöns Jacob Berzelius honored the gods of his Swedish ancestors naming this element, now a powerful nuclear reactor fuel
    $1600 24
The sixth station of the cross is this saint "wipes the face of Jesus"; tradition says she used her veil
    $2000 20
The Dutch seized Fort Willoughby from the British in this future capital of Suriname & renamed it Fort Zeelandia
    $2000 12
"Snow Angel" is the debut album of this woman, who left TV's "The Sex Lives of College Girls" to focus on being a pop star
    $2000 26
French for "half world", this term described a class of women who'd lost status due to indiscreet behavior
    $2000 8
The French now use visage for "face"; an older, shorter form gave us this alternative to "regarding the matter of"
    $2000 17
It's "a" mixture or blend of mercury with another metal
    $2000 25
This Italian-born patron saint of immigrants came to New York City in 1889 to help immigrants

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Tristan Stephanie Will
$10,000 $10,400 $9,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

DETECTIVE AUTHORS
For much of the 1920s, he lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District

Final scores:

Tristan Stephanie Will
$0 $5,400 $18,799
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $18,799

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Tristan Stephanie Will
$10,000 $10,400 $11,000
20 R,
3 W		 16 R,
3 W		 13 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $31,400

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Game tape date: 2024-09-17
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