Show #9208 - Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Contestants

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Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington

Elizabeth Little, a writer from Los Angeles, California

Mikey McCullough, a librarian from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,200)

Jeopardy! Round

21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS
ROAD TRIP
IN THE ZEITGEIST
(Ken: These are responses made up of letters in the word "zeitgeist".)
TAROT-A-GO-GO
STOCK SYMBOLS
GLADIATORS
(Connie: I'm Connie Nielsen, and I return as Lucilla in Gladiator II; I hope you give thumbs up--or is it thumbs down?--to the clues I present about famous gladiators in history.)
    $200 10
A street brawl between rival news teams was to be cut from the script of this comedy; it quickly escalated into an iconic scene
    $200 27
Visiting Germany? Remember, there actually are speed limits on about 30% of this road network
    $200 20
An early one of these golf devices was a nail or peg with a rubber ring attached
    $200 15
A trump card, the High Priestess is also known as the Papess, or female this
    $200 30
Get the door. It's DPZ, this chain that expanded from one location in 1960 to more than 20,000 today
    $200 28
(Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) The most successful gladiator revolt began in a brutal gladiator school; the captives escaped using knives & spits from the school's kitchen & soon this man became their leader
    $400 11
Somehow Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh made tossing a coin seem malevolent in this film
    $400 26
Crossing the continental divide at Logan Pass, Mt., Going-to-the-Sun Road is the major route through this national park
    $400 19
It's a cousin to rigatoni but usually with a smooth surface
    $400 1
The tarot suit known as wands, rods or batons equates to this suit in the modern playing card deck
    $400 29
This cloud storage & file-transfer provider goes by DBX
    $400 6
(Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) The wealthy got to see the bloodshed & bravery close up from the lowest level of the Coliseum; it had this Latin word for a platform you stand on that some use for what you're standing behind
    $600 12
Melissa McCarthy's memorable moments in this 2011 film include hitting on an air marshal on a flight to Vegas for a bachelorette party
    $600 25
No visit to Paris is complete without a stroll along this avenue that runs from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe
    $600 16
A soap brand, or hearty enjoyment, perhaps for life
    $600 7
Not necessarily a bad thing, the character on this card is often portrayed riding a white horse or holding a sickle
    $600 23
Grab a BUD, this hyphenated beverage giant
    $600 5
(Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) Romans won the love of the people with gladiator shows; in 46 B.C., this conqueror of Gaul put on a gory extravaganza & also introduced to Rome the giraffe, later used in the combats
    $800 13
"Another Day Of Sun" was a song-and-dance number on a ramp from the 105 to 110 freeway in this 2016 film
    DD: $1,000 2
The southernmost portion of U.S. Highway 1, the Overseas Highway runs about 100 miles between these two islands
    $800 17
It can be the grounds for legal action or the main point of something, if you get the...
    $800 8
If this tarot card also known as "Le Pendu" is upside down when drawn, the namesake figure on it appears upright
    $800 22
CVS is, well, CVS; CVX is this energy giant
    $800 4
(Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) Another "Gladiator II" cast member from the original film is Derek Jacobi, who famously starred in a miniseries as this emperor, the only one known to have been told, "Those about to die salute you"
    $1000 14
What does "I drink your milkshake" have to do with oil? Drainage, we learn from Daniel Day-Lewis in this 2007 film
    $1000 24
A 150-mile route known as the Pilgrims Way connects Winchester with this other English cathedral city
    $1000 18
In proofreading it means to "let it stand" & ignore a previous correction
    $1000 9
The tarot deck is divided into the Major & Minor this, a Latin plural meaning "secrets"
    $1000 21
The price of this, CRWD, dropped about $50 a share in the week after a July 2024 computer outage
    $1000 3
(Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) Maybe you think, "If it was me, I'd play dead"; no, the god Mercury would enter with a branding iron to make sure you weren't faking & then this ferryman of Hades would hit you with the hammer he carried in Etruscan myth

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

Mikey Elizabeth Mehal!
$600 $3,000 $5,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mikey Elizabeth Mehal!
$2,400 $4,600 $7,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANIMAL PLANET
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
MMM, LEFTOVERS
3 OF THE SAME LETTER
AUTHORS' EPITAPHS
A CAPITAL HAPPENING
    $400 28
Reaching two inches in length, the world's largest wasp, the Northern Giant this, is a deadly predator of honeybees
    $400 27
"The walls were shaking, the earth was quaking" in this AC/DC Top 40 hit
    $400 24
Dairy is big in this state that has a cow & a big block of cheese on its state quarter
    $400 22
In 1976 possession of less than 30 grams of cannabis was decriminalized & coffee shops in this city were never the same
    $800 1
With a lung capacity 3 times that of domestic cattle, they come in handy on Himalayan expeditions
    $800 19
This singer admitted that some of the foreign-sounding words in his 1983 song "All Night Long" were gibberish
    $800 23
This American cook was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2000
    $800 26
A law enacted by a legislature
    $800 8
The P. stood for Phillips & he's in the Phillips family plot in Providence under the inscription "I am Providence"
    $800 21
In 1927 the International Piano Competition named for him began in Warsaw
    $1200 11
North America's fastest land animal, it gets its name from the backward-curving projections on its head
    $1200 2
The name of this 2024 song by Post Malone & Taylor Swift sounds just like a popular video game
    $1200 13
In 1606 Guy Fawkes went to the gallows near this building he had tried to blow up with 36 barrels of gunpowder the year before
    $1200 5
Blessings on these fact checkers; we heart ours!
    $1200 9
This author of "Goodnight Moon" is described on her tombstone as "writer of songs and nonsense"
    $1200 16
In 1944 construction of Kemal Atatürk's mausoleum began in this city & lasted 9 years
    $1600 10
Manatees can weigh as much as 3,000 pounds; these Indo-Pacific relatives top out around 1,000
    $1600 3
Ring in as soon as possible if you know that this rapper collabed with Skrillex on "Wild For The Night"
    $1600 14
September 10 is St. Barloc's Day but is unlikely to have a parade, since St. Barloc was a well-known one of these recluses
    DD: $4,000 6
To fail to see something, or in another sense, a spot where you can see for miles
    DD: $800 20
Her East Sussex grave says, "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death! The waves broke on the shore"
    $1600 17
2011 protests in Cairo led to the ouster of this longtime president on February 11
    $2000 12
The cnidarians include jellyfish & this stinging animal named for its fancied resemblance to an old-time fighting ship
    $2000 4
"Fight Night" was a 2014 hit for this trio of Quavo, Offset & the late Takeoff
    $2000 15
In 1879 in Mannheim, this inventor completed work on his 2-stroke gasoline engine
    $2000 7
Of or relating to the smallest independent units of living matter
    $2000 25
A quote from his "The Deer Park" about the importance of continual growth adorns the grave of this controversial American novelist
    $2000 18
It was formally divided into municipalities of Thon Buri & Krung Thep in 1937

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mikey Elizabeth Mehal!
$7,600 $3,800 $12,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FIGURES OF MYTH
Ovid says he "toppled, beating wild with naked arms the unsustaining air... shrieking for succour from his sire"

Final scores:

Mikey Elizabeth Mehal!
$2,600 $3,800 $9,799
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $9,799

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Mikey Elizabeth Mehal!
$7,600 $7,800 $13,400
10 R,
2 W		 11 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 22 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $28,800

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Game tape date: 2024-09-30
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