Show #9210 - Friday, November 22, 2024

Contestants

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Adam Hersh, an attorney from Brooklyn, New York

Courtney Schooley, a preschool teacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma

Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, Washington (whose 2-day cash winnings total $46,062)

Jeopardy! Round

BARBIE THROUGH THE YEARS
ZOOLOGY GLOSSARY
OOPS!
FRENCH-NAMED FOOD & DRINK
SPEECH
GIFT OF "GAB"
(Ken: Each correct response contains those letters--"G-A-B".)
    $200 26
The Dolls of the World include a Princess of Japan Barbie dressed in a colorful one of these robes & a pair of zori sandals
    $200 12
As their name implies, decapods like crawfish or crabs have this number of legs
    $200 25
A stock market technical glitch in 2024 showed this Warren Buffett company down 99% for the day
    $200 30
It's a pre-dinner alcoholic drink, perhaps champagne, that gets you ready for the main event
    $200 24
As Chief Justice, this ex-pres. spoke on legal reform & warned his talk was "dry to the point of satisfying the Anti-Saloon League"
    $200 21
One billion bytes
    $400 27
One of Barbie's earliest careers was as one of these, like Anne Klein or Stella McCartney
    $400 3
Derived from the Greek for "living a double life", this class of animal lives on land typically but breeds in water
    $400 15
The "Wicked" Bible of 1631 famously omitted this word from the 10 Commandments in the one about adultery
    $400 11
In New Orleans you can find crab ones of these fritters, as well as the sweet kind covered with powdered sugar
    $400 23
This long-time New York governor gave an impassioned 1984 convention speech sometimes known as "A Tale of Two Cities"
    $400 20
Mission ship-possible; the Congo River is this adjective between Kinshasa & Kisangani
    $600 17
To help kids with cancer, in 2012 Mattel created Ella, aka Chemo Barbie, who notably had this feature
    $600 2
In layman's terms a marsupial's marsupium is this
    $600 13
In 1984 the Trail Blazers drafted Sam Bowie instead of this Tar Heel that the Bulls got; definite oops material
    $600 10
A cup of Joe with an equal amount of steamed or hot milk = this beverage with a rhyming name
    $600 7
In 1776 this famous cousin watered down Patrick Henry with "independence... or the most ignominious & galling servitude"
    $600 19
This country's Loango National Park protects elephants & hippos
    $800 28
Multiple Barbies appeared in the 2023 film, including President Barbie played by this funny lady
    $800 1
These small, cylindrical polyps build their limestone skeletons by drawing calcium out of seawater
    $800 5
For 164 years Anne of this literary family had the wrong age on her tombstone; in 2013, it was corrected
    $800 8
Mellower & with fewer tannins than Cabernet, this wine variety derives its name from the French word for "blackbird"
    $800 6
In 1653 Oliver Cromwell dismissed the remnant called this anatomy-named "Parliament" with abuse & "in the name of God--go!"
    $800 18
In "Can You Feel The Love Tonight", Elton John sings the power of love makes kings & these wandering folks "believe the very best"
    $1000 29
The Barbie Inspiring Women collection includes one of this NASA mathematician, no longer a "hidden figure"
    $1000 4
"C" is for this, the hard-shelled covering for the pupa of a butterfly
    $1000 14
Pat Maloney, as editor of the Chicago Tribune, okayed the headline this man "Defeats Truman"
    DD: $2,000 9
The French version of broth & a celebrated seafood stew, they both start with the same 6 letters
    $1000 22
In 1977 he said in a speech, "We are not only a Latin-American nation; we are an Afro-American nation also"
    $1000 16
A Royal Navy battlecruiser had this name meaning tireless & "in"exhaustible

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

Mehal! Courtney Adam
$4,400 $0 $5,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mehal! Courtney Adam
$7,200 $2,400 $5,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

I TINKER
BRITISH GEOGRAPHY
TV TITLE TWOSOMES BY ACTORS
(Ken: You'll give us the show's title.)
AUTHORS INITIALLY
MUSIC & WAR
IT ENDS WITH "US"
    $400 28
Tim Derk developed the cannon for these as the San Antonio Spurs' coyote mascot, with help from the Phoenix Suns' gorilla
    $400 19
A hazard to navigation, the Goodwin Sands are at an entrance to the strait of this town
    $400 15
Sprouse &
Sprouse
    $400 12
He was present at Utah Beach on D-Day; a year & a bit later, his first work featuring Holden Caulfield was published
    $400 29
The Minneapolis Symphony's landmark 1954 recording of the "1812 Overture" used a muzzle-loaded one of these from West Point
    $400 30
It's a branch of math, or another word for dental tartar
    $800 27
In 1977 he developed the Apple II computer which, aided by Steve Jobs' marketing skills, was the first affordable home PC
    $800 18
The inhabitants of this metropolis in northwest England are called Mancunians
    $800 14
Marshall &
Williams
    $800 1
This author grew up in Bexley, Ohio, though probably not on "Fear Street", which he turned into a book series in 1989
    $800 6
The experiences of U.S. Marine Christian Ellis, suffering from this in the aftermath of deployment, inspired the opera "Fallujah"
    $800 24
Gulp! The name of this body part is from the Greek for "gullet"
    $1200 11
Later one of Richard Nixon's best friends, Robert Abplanalp invented an 80% cheaper valve for this type of spray can
    $1200 3
In 2008 Sark, a part of this island group, became the last European territory to abolish feudalism
    $1200 10
Gless &
Daly
    $1200 8
In the early 20th c. he was only 8 when he started writing stories about a fantasy land called Boxen populated by animals
    $1200 5
An amputee in World War I, Paul Wittgenstein commissioned several works afterward, including Ravel's concerto for this body part
    $1200 23
Seen here is the mistletoe fig, a variety of this tree or shrub that can be grown indoors
    $1600 21
This musician created his solid-body electric guitar in 1941 & later developed overdubbing & multitracking
    $1600 2
A Latin-loving clerk who'd never been there, A.E. Housman assumed the poetic persona of a farm lad from this shire bordering Wales
    $1600 16
Foxx &
Wilson
    DD: $4,000 9
In 2017 this author said, "I grew up in a greaser neighborhood" but got put in high school classes with Socs
    $1600 4
He said composers who lived during peace couldn't write good marches such as his Spanish-American War-inspired "The Man Behind The Gun"
    $1600 22
Systemic is the most common form of this chronic autoimmune disease that affects 9 times more women than men
    DD: $4,000 25
By 1838 Alfred Vail & this man wired up a new communication system, but when it came to branding, ol' Al got tapped out
    $2000 20
The north face of this Scottish peak, called "The Ben" by the locals, is a rock climber's paradise
    $2000 17
Based on literary characters:
Fry & Laurie
    $2000 13
This "Broken Earth" trilogy novelist called herself an "obsessed space child" growing up
    $2000 7
After capturing this city in 1809, Napoleon had a guard protect Haydn's house & a French officer sang his music to him
    $2000 26
This city in what's now Turkey was the site of the original mausoleum, one of the 7 ancient wonders

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mehal! Courtney Adam
$14,400 $8,400 $16,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MOVIES & PSYCHOLOGY
In this film Paula Alquist tells Gregory Anton, "Have you gone mad, my husband? Or is it I who am mad?"

Final scores:

Mehal! Courtney Adam
$0 $16,601 $29,000
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $29,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mehal! Courtney Adam
$12,400 $8,400 $13,200
23 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 11 R,
1 W		 16 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $34,000

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Game tape date: 2024-09-30
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