>1>Show #9208 - Wednesday, November 20, 2024>div>
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Contestants

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> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17762" rel="external">Mehal Shah>, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17763" rel="external">Elizabeth Little>, a writer from Los Angeles, California

> href="showplayer.php?player_id=17761" rel="external">Mikey McCullough>, a librarian from Baltimore, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,200)

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Jeopardy! Round

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>21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS
>td>
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>ROAD TRIP
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>IN THE ZEITGEIST
>(Ken: These are responses made up of letters in the word "zeitgeist".)
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>TAROT-A-GO-GO
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>STOCK SYMBOLS
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Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

>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.)
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529183" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">10>td>
>A street brawl between rival news teams was to be cut from the script of this comedy; it quickly escalated into an iconic scene <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529200" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">27>td>
>Visiting Germany? Remember, there actually are speed limits on about 30% of this road network <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529193" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">20>td>
>An early one of these golf devices was a nail or peg with a rubber ring attached <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529188" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">15>td>
>A trump card, the High Priestess is also known as the Papess, or female this <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529204" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">30>td>
>Get the door. It's DPZ, this chain that expanded from one location in 1960 to more than 20,000 today <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$200 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529207" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>
>(<a href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-11-20_J_28.jpg" target="_blank">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 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529184" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">11>td>
>Somehow Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh made tossing a coin seem malevolent in this film <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529201" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">26>td>
>Crossing the continental divide at Logan Pass, Mt., Going-to-the-Sun Road is the major route through this national park <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529194" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">19>td>
>It's a cousin to rigatoni but usually with a smooth surface <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529178" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">1>td>
>The tarot suit known as wands, rods or batons equates to this suit in the modern playing card deck <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529205" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">29>td>
>This cloud storage & file-transfer provider goes by DBX <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529192" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6>td>
>(<a href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-11-20_J_06.jpg" target="_blank">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 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529185" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">12>td>
>Melissa McCarthy's memorable moments in this 2011 film include hitting on an air marshal on a flight to Vegas for a bachelorette party <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529202" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">25>td>
>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 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529195" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">16>td>
>A soap brand, or hearty enjoyment, perhaps for life <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529189" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>
>Not necessarily a bad thing, the character on this card is often portrayed riding a white horse or holding a sickle <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529206" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">23>td>
>Grab a BUD, this hyphenated beverage giant <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529180" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">5>td>
>(<a href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-11-20_J_05.jpg" target="_blank">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 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529186" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13>td>
>"Another Day Of Sun" was a song-and-dance number on a ramp from the 105 to 110 freeway in this> 2016 film <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >DD: $1,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529179" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">2>td>
>The southernmost portion of U.S. Highway 1, the Overseas Highway> runs about 100 miles between these> two islands <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529196" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">17>td>
>It can be the grounds for legal action or the main point of something, if you get the... <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529190" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">8>td>
>If this tarot card also known as "Le Pendu" is upside down when drawn, the namesake figure on it appears upright <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529198" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22>td>
>CVS is, well, CVS; CVX is this energy giant <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529181" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4>td>
>(<a href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-11-20_J_04.jpg" target="_blank">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" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529187" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">14>td>
>What does "I drink your milkshake" have to do with oil? Drainage, we learn from Daniel Day-Lewis in this 2007 film <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529203" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">24>td>
>A 150-mile route known as the Pilgrims Way connects Winchester with this other English cathedral city <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529197" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">18>td>
>In proofreading it means to "let it stand" & ignore a previous correction <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529191" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">9>td>
>The tarot deck is divided into the Major & Minor this, a Latin plural meaning "secrets" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529199" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">21>td>
>The price of this, CRWD, dropped about $50 a share in the week after a July 2024 computer outage <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$1000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529182" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3>td>
>(<a href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-11-20_J_03.jpg" target="_blank">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
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

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>ANIMAL PLANET
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>A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
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>MMM, LEFTOVERS
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>3 OF THE SAME LETTER
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>AUTHORS' EPITAPHS
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Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

>A CAPITAL HAPPENING
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>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529228" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28>td>
>Reaching two inches in length, the world's largest wasp, the Northern Giant this>, is a deadly predator of honeybees <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529229" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">27>td>
>"The walls were shaking, the earth was quaking" in this AC/DC Top 40 hit <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 24>td>
Dairy is big in this state that has a cow & a big block of cheese on its state quarter <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$400 22>td>
In 1976 possession of less than 30 grams of cannabis was decriminalized & coffee shops in this city were never the same <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 1>td>
With a lung capacity 3 times that of domestic cattle, they come in handy on Himalayan expeditions <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 19>td>
This singer admitted that some of the foreign-sounding words in his 1983 song "All Night Long" were gibberish <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 23>td>
This American cook was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2000 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 26>td>
A law enacted by a legislature <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 8>td>
The P. stood for Phillips & he's in the Phillips family plot in Providence under the inscription "I am Providence" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   >$800 21>td>
In 1927 the International Piano Competition named for him began in Warsaw <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 11>td>
North America's fastest land animal, >it gets its name from the backward-curving projections on its head <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 2>td>
The name of this 2024 song by Post Malone & Taylor Swift sounds just like a popular video game <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 13>td>
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 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 5>td>
Blessings on these fact checkers; we heart ours! <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 9>td>
This author of "Goodnight Moon" is described on her tombstone as "writer of songs and nonsense" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 16>td>
In 1944 construction of Kemal Atatürk's mausoleum began in this city & lasted 9 years <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 10>td>
Manatees can weigh as much as 3,000 pounds; these Indo-Pacific relatives top out around 1,000 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 3>td>
Ring in as soon as possible if you know that >this rapper collabed with Skrillex on "Wild For The Night" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 14>td>
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 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $4,000 6>td>
To fail to see something, or in another sense, a spot where you can see for miles <tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $800 20>td>
Her East Sussex grave says, "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death! The waves broke on the shore" <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 17>td>
2011 protests in Cairo led to the ouster of this longtime president on February 11 <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 12>td>
The cnidarians include jellyfish & >this stinging animal named for its fancied resemblance to an old-time fighting ship <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529211" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4>td>
>"Fight Night" was a 2014 hit for this trio of Quavo, Offset & the late Takeoff <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529219" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">15>td>
>In 1879 in Mannheim, this inventor completed work on his 2-stroke gasoline engine <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529220" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7>td>
>Of or relating to the smallest independent units of living matter <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529233" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">25>td>
>A quote from his "The Deer Park" about the importance of continual growth adorns the grave of this> controversial American novelist <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=529227" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">18>td>
>It was formally divided into municipalities of Thon Buri & Krung Thep in 1937
Mikey Elizabeth Mehal!
$7,600 $3,800 $12,800

>[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

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<table> <tr>d class="category_name">FIGURES OF MYTH>tr>
>td>tr>
iv> 		<tr> <td id="clue_FJ" class="clue_text">Ovid says he "toppled, beating wild with naked arms the unsustaining air... shrieking for succour from his sire"
>Elizabeth>d rowspan="2" valign="top">Who is Polyphemus?>tr>r>d>$0>tr>>d class="wrong">Mikey>d rowspan="2" valign="top">Who is Prometheus?>tr>r>d>$5,000>tr>>d class="wrong">Mehal!>d rowspan="2" valign="top">Who is Aeneas?>tr>r>d>$3,001>tr>table>m class="correct_response">Icarus>td> </tr> able> >var>

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:

Game dynamics graph > href="help.php#coryatscore">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)
> href="help.php#combinedcoryat">Combined Coryat>: $28,800 > href="showgameresponses.php?game_id=9052&highlight=..." rel="external">[game responses]> <a href="showscores.php?game_id=9052&highlight=..." rel="external">[game scores]> <a href="suggestcorrection.php?game_id=9052" rel="nofollow">[suggest correction]>h4>
>Game tape date: 2024-09-30
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