Show #9189 - Thursday, October 24, 2024

Contestants

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Dan Meyer, a fundraising professional from Chicago, Illinois

Kiki Jamieson, a nonprofit consultant from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,799)

Jeopardy! Round

RANDOM BOOKS IN FICTION SERIES

VEHICLES

WE STAND FOR NOTHING

"BAD" LANGUAGE

SUCCESSION

GARDEN STATE PARKWAY REST AREA NAMES

(Ken:They've all been recently renamed for famous New Jerseyans.)

$200

"A Storm of Swords" is the third book in a series by him

$200

You can pilot its CR-V or its Pilot

$200

Because it has branched out beyond cars & drivers, the organization once called this is now simply AAA

$200

This racquet sport developed after British Army officers played a game called poona in India in the 1860s

$200

In 2011 it was Jerry Brown who said I'll be back for a second run as governor, as this man left Sacramento

$200

If you're driving from Lakehurst to Bloomfield, you can fittingly say whoa, we're halfway there! at the stop named for this singer

$400

In Sue Grafton's alphabet book series, "U Is for" this, something pulling us away from safety

$400

Here's this Italian automaker's 2-door, 500e hatchback

$400

We'll take either the Original Recipe or Extra Crispy versions of the name of this brand that made those terms famous

$400

The diet of this burrowing animal includes rattlesnakes, groundhogs & insects

$400

Tiberius said no to naming a month for himself as had been done for this emperor he succeeded

$400

This late, great "Sopranos" actor was honored with a Montvale Service Area

$600

2017's "The Midnight Line" is Lee Child's 22nd book about this former military policeman who drifts across the U.S. solving crimes

$600

This Tesla load-hauling vehicle has invited DeLorean comparisons with its angular, stainless steel body

$600

This word implying that the test could measure who would do well in college used to be the middle of SAT

$600

It's an area of eroded & barren plateaus with steep gullies & ravines, like ones in the Dakotas

$600

On the Supreme Court, RBG was replaced by ACB, her

$600

A rest area honors Larry Doby, once of the Negro League's Newark Eagles & later the first Black player in this junior circuit

DD: $1,000

"The Dragon Reborn" is part 3 in this series by Robert Jordan that kept on turning

$800

This Ford's Dark Horse model gallops in at almost $65K

$800

NW of Houston, this U. officially had words in its name when Rip Torn went there that were gone when Johnny Manziel came along

$800

It's also called low-density lipoprotein

$800

Peter III abdicated in 1762 but 8 days later, got murdered anyway; now it was her time to rule

$800

What exit for the stop honoring this Asian-American woman who anchored the "CBS Evening News" with Dan Rather? Between 153A & 151

$1000

The second book in the "Outlander" series is called "Dragonfly in" this resinous substance

$1000

The Diablo succeeded this Italian carmaker's Countach

$1000

As close to half of its members are still working, in 1999 it changed its name from several words to 4 letters

$1000

Dr. King said, "America has given the Negro people" one of these "which has come back marked 'insufficient funds

$1000

On a presidential list, after him came Georges Pompidou & circumstance in 1969

$1000

A Monmouth rest area honors this woman from Elizabeth who created the book character Margaret, who lives in Farbrook

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

Will	Kiki	Dan
$1,600	$3,400	$3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Will	Kiki	Dan
$5,000	$5,400	$5,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

NATIONAL PARKS

4-LETTER OPPOSITES

PHOTOGRAPHERS & THEIR CRAFT

BALLAD

SONGBIRDS

SNAKES

$400

Feast on views of the Himalayas in Sagarmatha National Park in this country

$400

Nasty:
Pronounced another way, it's a place in France

$400

Photographers are perhaps happiest during this precious time after sunrise or before sunset when hues are warm

$400

Some medieval ballads about this legendary title hero actually take place in Yorkshire, not Nottinghamshire

$400

Bigger than crows, this relative from genus Corvus is the largest of the songbirds

$400

Paul Reiser, who played the infamous Carter Burke in this 1986 film, said his character wasn't "bad", just "misunderstood"

$800

There are more than 700 lakes in this northern Montana national park; the lower-elevation ones are dammed by end moraines

$800

Approve:
Line-item is one type

$800

In 2024 some of his iconic photos of America, including several in Yosemite National Park, were featured on a sheet of 16 stamps

$800

Dating to the 16th century, broadside ballads the size of handbills became commonplace due to the adoption of this invention

$800

This crested songbird of the Americas is also the name of a shade of red

$800

Rob James-Collier played the conniving footman Barrow on this show & earned enmity from viewers far & wide

$1200

A national park in New Zealand is a true "land" of these steep-cliffed inlets also found in northern lands, like Doubtful Sound

$1200

Industrious:
It's found in a famous sentence involving a "quick brown fox"

DD: $3,000

The Army has allowed this type of photographer, meaning they can be in the line of fire along with the troops

DD: $2,000

The subject of a famous ballad, he died in a crash with one hand on the brake, the other on the whistle

$1200

The chiffchaff & the ovenbird are this type of 7-letter songbird whose name could refer to anyone who sings with trills

$1200

Hooli head honcho Gavin Belson on this HBO comedy parodies any number of tech slime balls

$1600

This centrally located country has Tortuguero National Park on the Caribbean & Corcovado National Park on the Pacific

$1600

Sullied:
The type of reason Kant critiqued in a 1781 work

$1600

William Wegman's claim to fame--whimsical portraits of this dog breed that also starts with "W"

$1600

In "The Ballad of" this place, Oscar Wilde wrote, "Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope"

$1600

Designated the state bird of Iowa, New Jersey & Washington, this songbird, bright yellow in the male, is a strict vegetarian

$1600

The ironically named Percy Wetmore purposefully doesn't moisten the sponge before an execution in this 1999 movie & sparks fly

$2000

This park in northeastern South Africa bears the name of a president of the Transvaal

$2000

Dearth:
The oil one in the 1980s caused problems

$2000

Here's a picture of this photographer, whose first retrospective was in 1972, the year after her death

$2000

In the ballad of this man, his sister says, "Today you must die for the murder of James A. Garfield upon the scaffold high"

$2000

Shelley wrote of this songbird, "I have never heard praise of love or wine that panted forth a flood or rapture so divine"

$2000

Playing Vandamm in this Hitchcock classic, villainous James Mason plans to kill Eva Marie Saint

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Will	Kiki	Dan
$13,400	$10,800	$8,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ON THE U.K. MUSIC CHARTS

"Candle In The Wind 1997" knocked this song that asked a title question from the top spot as the U.K.'s all-time bestselling song

Final scores:

Will	Kiki	Dan
$26,799	$5,199	$8,200
3-day champion: $55,598	3rd place: $2,000	2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Will	Kiki	Dan
$12,600	$13,800	$8,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W	15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)	17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Show #9189 - Thursday, October 24, 2024

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round

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

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Double Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Final Jeopardy! Round

Final scores:

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Combined Coryat: $34,400

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Game tape date: 2024-09-17