Show #9209 - Thursday, November 21, 2024

Contestants

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Holly Luo, a product designer originally from San Diego, California

Jack Altman, a law student from New York, New York

Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,799)

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Jeopardy! Round

(Ken: From the new Ken Burns film...)
LEONARDO DA VINCI
NONFICTION
OTHER NAMES FOR THE CITY
CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS
ECONOMICS
COHAB VOCAB
    $200 8
Leonardo's 1473 rendering of Arno River Valley is considered by some the first of these artistic depictions of natural scenery
    $200 28
This Southerner went nonfiction with "The Innocent Man", about 2 men wrongly convicted
    $200 26
"The Athens of the South" & "Music City"
    $200 21
"Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up 3 very lovely girls"
    $200 20
The Economist publishes an index named for this fast food sandwich that helps determine if national currencies are undervalued
    $200 30
It's good before moving in together to set these, which can also be natural features like rivers that function as borders
    $400 10
Left-handed & not wishing to smudge the ink as he went, Leonardo used this form of writing, named for something used in reading it
    $400 29
Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" delves into "Mass" this "in the Age of Colorblindness"
    $400 27
George Carlin called this capital of Delaware "The City that Means Well"
    $400 22
"The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave & sure"
    $400 19
This "elemental" levy is slapped on a business that generates pollution through emissions
    $400 16
Punning on something edible, this type of "list" comes before "... the dishes", "... the laundry", etc.
    $600 12
Not to find a killer but to broaden his knowledge of anatomy, Leonardo performed many of these & drew what he discovered
    $600 18
"Brave New Words" is a new book about A.I. & education from this man famous for his nonprofit "Academy"
    $600 5
You can't miss out on "The Big 'O"' aka this city just north of the Platte River
    $600 23
"Love & marriage, love & marriage, go together like a horse & carriage"
    $600 6
Not just for us lowly citizens, these types of ratings are issued to companies & nations by S&P global & moody's
    $600 15
A censorious old phrase for a boyfriend & girlfriend sharing a home, or a book about cohabitation in Victorian times
    $800 9
Starting out as an apprentice to the artist Verrocchio as a teen, Leonardo may have been a model for his statue of this biblical slayer
    DD: $2,200 7
"Battle of Ink & Ice" details the legendary feud between Frederick Cook & this other explorer
    $800 1
In Michigan, it's "A2"
    $800 24
"In your satin tights, fighting for your rights and the ol' Red White and Blue"
    $800 3
The Latin for "death" gives us this term for the lessening of the value of assets or debts over a period of time
    $800 14
You may add this word to your "vv"ocabulary, as in "let's ____ up the chores"
    $1000 11
In his portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo blended tones to soften sharp outlines, a method known by this smoky Italian name
    $1000 17
The arrival of birds from Polynesia to the raft of this ethnologist is a great moment in his 1950 book
    $1000 4
This city on Florida's West Coast: "The Big Guava" & "Cigar City"
    $1000 25
"'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star"
    $1000 2
In 1913, this British economist published "Indian Currency and Finance", then got into government work, which is so him-sian
    $1000 13
Before big-time success, Roger Taylor & Freddie Mercury of Queen shared an apartment, so Brit-wise, they were these

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

Mehal! Jack Holly
$2,200 $1,600 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mehal! Jack Holly
$4,000 $2,200 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

NORSE MYTH
21st CENTURY CINEMA
SILENT P
A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE
HAVE FUN
STORMING THE CASTLE
    $400 11
This Norse god kept an eye on his wife Frigg, who herself presided over marriage
    $400 19
Barry Jenkins & Mahershala Ali both won Oscars for this A24 film about Chiron, who has a tough go of it in Miami
    $400 24
It's another way to refer to the United States Marines
    $400 5
It means to express a fraction in a more basic form, like simplifying 365/730 to 1/2
    $400 30
Pirates, science & outer space are popular themes for this type of place where you solve puzzles to get out
    $400 17
Unable to capture Osaka Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu made peace--then filled in these, redeclared war & took the castle
    $800 13
Not just a hamlet in New York, it's the site of slain warriors where the same unfortunate boar is eaten & resurrected daily
    $800 23
The "W" in Wall-e's name stands for this, which he's dealing with all around him on Earth
    $800 25
To the untrained eye it might be hard to tell the difference between eczema & this skin disease
    $800 4
Bone up! This element is alphabetically next after cadmium
    $800 29
Have fun at this ballpark when you go see the Baltimore Orioles play home games
    $800 18
Aries was the Roman word for this device used to assault many a castle
    $1200 16
Thought invincible, Balder got the kiss of death after getting hit with a sprig of this shrub, the one thing that could do the job
    $1200 15
In this 2004 film Kate Winslet plays Clementine, who hires Lacuna Inc. to help her forget some things
    $1200 22
In slang, these mean proof of supposed wrongdoing, usually in the form of screen caps; now "show me" them!
    $1200 3
It's a number that represents the power to which a base is to be raised
    $1200 28
We love this Hasbro game in which players must complete lists of words beginning with the same letter
    $1200 8
A Jacobite force failed to take this castle in 1715, the ladder they brought turned out to be too short to scale the ramparts
    DD: $5,600 7
The 9 realms include Alfheim, home of the light elves, Nidavellir, home of the dwarves & this, home to us puny ol' mortals
    $1600 6
This Werner Herzog documentary follows activist Timothy Treadwell, who lost his life to a bear in 2003
    $1600 21
"Flat Earthism" is often grouped under this branch of not-accepted knowledge
    $1600 2
The energy an object has by virtue of its motion is this kind, from Greek for "moving"
    $1600 27
Head to Munich & drink some suds at this festival whose origins date back to 1810
    DD: $13,200 10
Now meaning to secretly weaken, it originally meant to tunnel below a fortification in order to collapse the walls
    $2000 14
As "Watchman of the Gods", he could see 100 leagues; another skill was the ability to hear grass grow, for some reason
    $2000 12
This dystopian film from Alfonso Cuarón follows Clive Owen as he escorts a pregnant woman through unfriendly terrain
    $2000 20
She's the mortal-born goddess of the soul & wife of Eros
    $2000 1
2 sides of an angle meet at this 6-letter point
    $2000 26
A slice of Europe in the Middle East, the Louvre has a satellite location in this emirate
    $2000 9
In the event of a surprise attack, defenders could quickly lower this heavy grate

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mehal! Jack Holly
$37,600 $7,400 $9,800
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES
Following student unrest in 1968, in 1970 the University of this city was divided into 13 smaller ones

Final scores:

Mehal! Jack Holly
$36,263 $9,801 $4,799
2-day champion: $46,062 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mehal! Jack Holly
$24,200 $7,400 $9,800
27 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
1 W		 13 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $41,400

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Game tape date: 2024-09-30
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