Show #9203 - Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Contestants

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Lois Dioro, a Realtor from West Haven, Connecticut

Evan Dorey, a data analytics director from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joey DeSena, a development engineer from Raleigh, North Carolina (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,698)

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Jeopardy! Round

GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS
ADULT CONTEMPORARY LIT
KEEPING WARM
ALSO A BEVERAGE BRAND
IT'S A SMALL WORLD
AFTER ALL
(Ken: These are words that closely follow the word "all" in the dictionary.)
    $200 7
In 2022 she laid her tennis racket down, stepping away from the sport with 23 Grand Slam singles titles to her name
    $200 28
"Queen Charlotte" by Julia Quinn & Shonda Rhimes is a novel prequel to events in this Netflix series
    $200 23
The Consumer Product Safety Commission advises that this kind of heater needs this--at least 3' from anything flammable
    $200 24
A right cross or jab on Oahu
    $200 14
It's appropriate that tiny Nauru is part of this Pacific island group that has a name partly meaning small
    $200 26
Torta Caprese is a traditional Italian cake made with chocolate & these nuts
    $400 6
She was named Swimming World magazine's American Woman Swimmer of the Year 2013-2018, 2021 & 2022
    $400 27
Buzzy on BookTok, this work about a hockey player & a figure skater is fittingly titled for a joke that relieves initial tensions
    $400 19
3-word item seen here to sleep warm on a chilly night; after 1900, people started making them out of rubber
    $400 9
This type of motor engine has an octet of cylinders
    $400 13
In 1815 the Congress of Vienna put this principality under the protection of Sardinia; it became independent in 1861
    $400 25
This 2-word phrase refers to the university you went to or the anthem sung there
    $600 3
(Billie Jean King presents the clue.) A star on four WNBA championship teams in Seattle, this woman became the league's winningest player in 2022
    $600 18
Robinne Lee wrote this novel about a 39-year-old who falls for a boy band singer; it's now a film with Anne Hathaway
    $600 20
The 1911 Boy Scout manual says 2 things "are essential in the building of a fire"--this (bits of wood or paper) "& air"
    $600 1
It's another term for an elf or a pixie
    $600 8
Falls Church, an independent city in this state, is a whopping 2 square miles
    DD: $2,000 15
Synonyms for this word of indifference include standoffish & distant
    $800 4
(Billie Jean King presents the clue.) A great all-around athlete, she excelled in many sports, but later in life, golf was her game, & in 1950 she helped found the LPGA
    $800 29
Known for another series with Anastasia Steele, this author began her "Mister & Missus" series in 2019
    $800 21
A sweater from this 6th-generation family-owned Oregon woolen mills co. will keep you warm
    $800 2
No booze in Ontario or Winnipeg?
    $800 11
The tiny island of San Michele has served as this Italian city's cemetery for the past two centuries
    $800 16
Someone who loses a political race is deemed one of these hyphenated finishers, a term borrowed from horse racing
    $1000 5
(Billie Jean King presents the clue.) Before I switched to tennis one of the team sports I played was softball; one of the most decorated collegiate, national & international players of the game is this UCLA alum & two-time Olympic gold medalist who became head coach of Liberty University's team in 2013
    $1000 30
Fans of this bestselling author of "Slammed" & "Point of Retreat" are known as CoHorts
    $1000 22
In the '60s, British store chain Habitat popularized this cozy bed item, the French word for "down" (the feathery kind)
    $1000 10
This rhyming hyphenated phrase is used to get someone's attention
    $1000 12
Chicken Rock, a rock just big enough for a lighthouse, belongs to this much bigger isle in the Irish Sea
    $1000 17
In an airplane, this portmanteau device can help determine when you're losing or gaining elevation

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

Joey Evan Lois
-$200 $4,000 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Joey Evan Lois
$1,000 $5,000 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

A PIECE OF HISTORY
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
FROM THE GREEK
MINERALS
NOTHING TO SEE HERE
YOU'LL LEARN TO ADAPT
    $400 9
On display at the National Museum of American History, his hat includes a mourning band for his son Willie
    $400 28
Baylor claims the title of oldest continuously operating university in this state
    $400 29
Many stubby little everyday words are from Anglo-Saxon, but Greek pyxos gave us this, meaning a container or to fight with fists
    $400 27
200s B.C. Chinese chemists could burn the mineral cinnabar, HgS, to get this metal, then mix that with ore to extract gold
    $400 24
Observers of the anti-consumerism buy nothing day make no purchases on the Friday following this holiday
    $400 26
From 2013 to 2017, Tom Mison kept his head during some rough situations as this TV character in "Sleepy Hollow"
    $800 8
The Babylonian map of the world, the oldest known map, includes this river, but not the Tigris
    $800 11
During WWII this New England school ran the Radiation Lab, the nation's leading center for radar development
    $800 30
In the early 1900s the makers of a new vacuum flask with a metal casing held a competition to name it & this won
    $800 23
This mineral whose crystals can be used to keep accurate time precedes "crisis" in the history of 1970s Swiss watchmaking
    $800 21
This Shakespeare play begins as Don Pedro's victorious army returns to Messina
    DD: $2,400 25
Accepting the Oscar for writing "Sense & Sensibility", she said she'd gone to Jane Austen's grave for respect & to tell her the grosses
    $1200 1
Iron Age Nigerian Nok culture is known for this type of clay-based art, a term derived from Italian
    $1200 7
Creator of "The Sex Lives of College Girls", Mindy Kaling loved shooting in "beautiful" Poughkeepsie at this college
    DD: $2,000 4
Greek for "art" originated part of the name of this process that made movies like "Gone with the Wind" glow
    $1200 6
A mineral-rich area called the Ring of Fire may have enough chromite to make Canada a century's worth of this alliterative alloy
    $1200 13
Subtract "ism" from a skeptical philosophical attitude to get this, Latin for nothing
    $1200 17
We're brainwashed to believe this Richard Condon novel was adapted starring Sinatra in 1962 & Denzel in 2004
    $1600 2
An artifact from Mycenaean Greece is called the Mask of this king from the "Iliad" & is also known as the "Mona Lisa of prehistory"
    $1600 10
In 1853 T.S. Eliot's grandfather led the founding of Washington University in this city
    $1600 5
When Oedipus vows to find his father's killer, who in fact is himself, that's the situational type of this word
    $1600 15
Chemical compound that makes up limestone & is found in mineral water
    $1600 14
In federal court, witnesses are asked to "solemnly swear" their testimony "will be" these 10 words
    $1600 18
Big stars like Marlon Brando didn't help the famously doomed shoot of the 1996 adaptation of this island-set H.G. Wells work
    $2000 3
This civilization that reached its height in the 6th century B.C. produced the Chimera of Arezzo, now on display in Florence
    $2000 12
Before spreading joy around New England, Bill Belichick played tight end at this religious-named school in Middletown, Conn.
    $2000 22
Anthony Burgess wrote, "The words slide into the slots ordained by" this, the set of rules for constructing sentences
    $2000 16
The second-hardest natural material is this gemstone producer, a form of aluminum oxide
    $2000 20
In math, it's the set with no elements represented by the symbol here
    $2000 19
Notes from James Baldwin on how to make this novel into a film helped Barry Jenkins do just that

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Joey Evan Lois
$7,400 $14,600 $14,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

POETRY & PLACES
It's the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about "the mountains... covered with snow... the straths & green valleys below"

Final scores:

Joey Evan Lois
$199 $29,200 $12,000
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $29,200 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Joey Evan Lois
$7,400 $15,200 $13,000
11 R,
5 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W

Combined Coryat: $35,600

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Game tape date: 2024-09-24
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