Show #9193 - Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Contestants

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Jacqui Kaplan, a high school English teacher from Sandy Hook, Connecticut

Joseph Carlstein, a graduate student from Chapel Hill, North Carolina

John Liu, a marketing analyst from Santa Monica, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,801)

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Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC AMERICANS
SHE'S GOT THE POWER
UTOPIA
WHERE TO GO WHEN...
1980s CATCHPHRASES
SPEAKING REVERSIBLY
    $200 27
John Adams & Thomas Jefferson both died on this date, exactly 50 years after the Decl. of Independence was adopted
    $200 17
In 2024, for the first time in its 200-year history, this nation elected a female president, Claudia Sheinbaum
    $200 26
Utopia Planitia, a boulder-strewn lava plain on this planet, was the landing site of the Viking 2 probe in 1976
    $200 30
You want to see all-female Pembroke College, where grandma went: this Rhode Island Ivy League school, as they merged in 1971
    $200 23
Regarding bills he'd be willing to veto, President Reagan quoted Clint Eastwood: "Go ahead," do this
    $200 10
A not-fun-to-change piece of babywear
&
gave back the loan in full
    $400 9
In 1921 Bessie Coleman became the first Black woman to earn her license as one of these
    $400 16
Karen Lynch is CEO of this 3-letter pharmacy chain that has a red heart as a symbol
    $400 25
This sea-named company's cruise ship Utopia of the Seas often takes its 5,600 guests to a private island called Cococay
    $400 29
You want to see Tyler O'Neill play & maybe catch a home run ball off his bat: this ballpark's Green Monster seats
    $400 22
Holding a deadly weapon, Tony Montana in "Scarface" made this 6-word introduction
    $400 11
A pilsner
&
relating to royalty
    $600 6
Mathew Brady's studio photographed him as a senator before he was elected President of the Confederacy
    $600 8
In 2024 Mary Barra, CEO of this company, said the plan to pivot its fleet to all electric cars will take decades
    $600 24
2023's blockbuster "Utopia" was this rapper's first solo album in five years
    $600 18
You crave a sack of yummy original or 1921 sliders:
this chain
    $600 21
"Pardon me, would you have any" of this condiment? inquired a commercial actor from one Rolls-Royce to another
    $600 12
Sherlock Holmes' sister in 2 Netflix movies
&
without assistance
    DD: $2,000 5
At his death in 1915 this school founder was laid to rest in a tomb built by students, on a hill overlooking the Tuskegee campus
    $800 7
Maura Healey, a Democratic governor from this state, is the first openly lesbian governor in history
    $800 15
You can probably get a red dragon tattoo somewhere on Utopia Parkway before it ends at Jamaica Estates in this New York City borough
    $800 13
You want to take a little hike to the highest spot on Greece:
this mountain (sounds mythic!)
    $800 19
The movie "Heathers" popularized "What is your" this word instead of "What is your problem?"
    $800 28
A minor dispute or tiff
&
a military bugle call
    $1000 4
After surrendering to General Miles in 1877, this Nez-Perce chief said, "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever"
    $1000 3
Born in the Bronx in 1954, she wrote in a 2024 dissent, "The president is now a king above the law"
    $1000 2
This author's first book, "Player Piano", about a futuristic society run by machines, was reissued as "Utopia 14" in 1954
    $1000 14
You're Cain in the Bible & you just "went out from the presence of the Lord":
"the Land of" this
    $1000 20
This pair of rhymingly named "SNL" bodybuilders said, "We want to pump you up"
    $1000 1
To drop off a package FedEx-style
&
defamed or ridiculed

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

John Joseph Jacqui
$200 $5,200 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

John Joseph Jacqui
$1,800 $5,600 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH!
FRENCH AUTHORS
"B" IN SCIENCE
NO, NOT THE DOG
SONGS
BEFORE & AFTER
    $400 15
Kali Gandaki is a more than 3-mile-deep gorge between Mount Annapurna & Mount Dhaulagiri in this range
    $400 5
In cetaceans it serves as an insulating layer to guard against hypothermia
    $400 23
Basaseachic Falls is a waterfall in this northern state of Mexico
    $400 29
This song by Olivia Rodrigo says, "But you made me look so naive the way you sold me for parts, as you sunk your teeth into me"
    $400 28
Spooky ghost-filled dwelling that's England's current reigning dynasty
    $800 14
Forming part of the border between Serbia & Romania, the Iron Gate is a 2-mile-long gorge on this river
    $800 26
The movie "Time Regained" is about this memory-obsessed French novelist
    $800 4
Indium is in the periodic table group named for this element
    $800 22
A type of movie "Falcon", or an Arabic dialect using many Italian words
    $800 21
"1979" & "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" are songs from their double album called "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
    $800 24
Kids' way of saying "I promise" about literary Marlow's search for Kurtz in Africa
    $1200 8
Liechtenstein Gorge in this Alpine nation, not the principality, has a staircase for great views & is not for the vertigo-prone
    $1200 9
Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux has written intensely personal memoirs & melded her own history with France's in "Les années", i.e. these
    $1200 3
This igneous rock often formed from lava flows is also the bedrock of most of the ocean floor
    DD: $2,400 17
Charles Darwin sailed around the world in this ship from 1831 to 1836
    $1200 12
In 2010 Bruno Mars tossed out this No. 1 hit that begins, "Easy come, easy go"
    $1200 16
A maybe-not-here-tomorrow business that sends a legion of zombies to attack a farmhouse
    $1600 11
Peru's Colca Canyon is home to a number of villages & is advertised as the best place to see this largest raptor
    $1600 25
This 16th century French doctor-author is a symbol of raunchy humor class="nobreak">--just add "-ian"
    $1600 2
Not quite star material & actually appearing red, these astronomical objects can't reach stable luminosities
    $1600 18
Edgar Allan Poe describes this chasm as "the ultima thule of all... punishments"
    $1600 13
"When it gets dark I tow your heart away", says this Beatles song
    $1600 7
A sophisticated fellow who frequents nightspots & by day, shouts the village's news to the people
    DD: $2,000 10
This canyon sinks about 8,000 feet below the rim to the Snake River below on the Oregon-Idaho border
    $2000 27
This infamous author of "Justine" & "Juliette" was a prisoner in the Bastille
    $2000 1
The theorem named for Daniel of this Swiss math & physics dynasty involves pressure, velocity & elevation in a moving fluid
    $2000 20
10-S tennis supply sells all sorts of these items for balls, from baskets to mowers to tubes
    $2000 19
Ariana Grande says "Cinderella" by this late alliterative rapper is about her
    $2000 6
A truck with a trailer attached to haul the most ancient collection of Hindu sacred hymns

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

John Joseph Jacqui
$7,000 $10,000 $8,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

ARTIFACTS
Roughly, 180 of these were made & 50 remain; the man who created them was given a pension by the Archbishop of Mainz in 1465

Final scores:

John Joseph Jacqui
$13,999 $16,001 $2,000
2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $16,001 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

John Joseph Jacqui
$9,000 $7,600 $8,000
14 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 14 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $24,600

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Game tape date: 2024-09-18
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