Show #9214 - Thursday, November 28, 2024

Kevin Laskowski game 4.

Contestants

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Laurel Day, a project manager originally from Austin, Texas

Debbie Mercer, a retired special education teacher from Oak Park, Illinois

Kevin Laskowski, an Episcopal priest from Falls Church, Virginia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $52,999)

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Jeopardy! Round

HOW CONVENTIONAL
LIFE SCIENCE
3-WORD PHRASES
FUN WITH ZIP CODES
(Ken: Yeah, what could be more fun than that?)
SPORTS-POURRI
TURKEY DAY
    $200 6
Adopted in 1886, the Berne Convention gives international protection to these; the standard term is author's life plus 50 years
    $200 1
A life-size 20-foot-tall rock carving of this animal in Niger shows that the Sahara supported more varied life 5,000 years ago
    $200 14
Our relationship is strictly NSA, this
    $200 21
89109 is the ZIP Code for most of the hotels on this city's strip
    $200 8
The deuce, the hook &amp; Uncle Charlie are baseball slang for this type of breaking pitch
    $200 24
A symbol of Turkey since Ottoman times, this flower has inspired decorative motifs on carpets, clothing &amp; ceramics
    DD: $1,000 7
The 1899 Hague Convention explicitly forbade dropping bombs from these; nice idea, but technology soon passed it by
    $400 2
Fish need shade too, sometimes provided by these, the floating leaves of plants such as Nuphar advena
    $400 15
The Atlantic gets a lot smaller in this phrase meaning over in America to a Brit, or vice versa
    $400 22
Batter up &amp; head to this Chavez Ravine ballpark that's not in 90210 but in its anagram, 90012
    $400 9
Muhammad Ali KOed George Foreman in the 1974 fight called "The Rumble in" this
    $400 25
Yagli gures, one of the most popular sports in Turkey, is a variety of this one, but with the grapplers covered in oil
    $600 12
In a stirring speech, she rebuked mobs disrupting an 1853 women's rights convention in New York City
    $600 3
A desire to work in the kelping professions may lead you to phycology, defined as the study of these
    $600 16
An uneasy accord has been reached when you do this rhyming phrase, politely let go of a dispute without resolution (you're still wrong)
    $600 23
The city of Schenectady has 11 ZIP Codes; the highest in number is this, &amp; it's easy as...
    $600 10
In cricket, the only defensive player who wears gloves is the guy in charge of keeping this vital thing
    $600 26
Made with molten glass, a nazar boncuğu is a Turkish amulet used for protection against this negative force
    $800 13
184 countries are signatories to CITES, the Convention on Intl. Trade in these plants &amp; animals, the E.S. of CITES
    $800 4
Geneticist Polly Fordyce dislikes this term for the 98% of DNA that is non-coding; much of it does come out in gene expression
    $800 17
To pine for someone, or more literally, to participate in a pre-Olympics ceremony
    $800 29
When writing to this famous residence, use the ZIP Code 20500
    $800 11
Any castaway knows this brand makes the NCAA official beach championship game volleyball
    $800 27
Producing more than 70% of the world's supply, Turkey is the world's largest grower of these nuts, aka filberts
    $1000 20
On Jan. 16 &amp; 17, 1793 France's National Convention voted to sentence this man to death
    $1000 5
All of a manatee's teeth, which gradually move forward in its jaw, are these
    $1000 18
It means doing everything right, or getting a hit every time up, though the math doesn't strictly work on that last one
    $1000 30
ZIP Codes go up to 99950, which belongs to a city in this state
    $1000 19
In 2014, 260 years after its founding, this legendary golf club finally agreed to accept female members
    $1000 28
Before Turkey's largest city was renamed Istanbul, it was Constantinople &amp; just before that, known as this

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

Kevin Debbie Laurel
$200 $2,400 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kevin Debbie Laurel
$3,400 $1,400 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHY
ASIAN LITERATURE
DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A BUILDING?
A REAL SMOKE SHOW
A PROJECT
-OLOGY
    $400 17
In 1964 the island of Zanzibar, with its own subspecies of leopard, became part of this East African country
    $400 4
In the Iraqi novel "The President's Gardens", Abdullah spends 2 decades as a P.O.W. in this country after the 1980s war
    $400 8
In 1873 Daniel Burnham &amp; John Root started a firm to build together in this city; 2 decades later, Burnham built a fair there
    $400 16
We're still not too sure about a lot that happened on this ABC show, but for sure the Man in Black is also the Smoke Monster
    $400 26
This project was designed as a bridge between the Mercury &amp; Apollo programs
    $400 19
Robert L. Kelly began collecting arrowheads at 10 &amp; is co-author of a standard text on this subject
    $800 6
This alliterative Central American capital has been ruined multiple times by earthquakes since 1854
    $800 3
In 2024 Netflix adapted this Chinese sci-fi novel named for a conundrum involving a trio of celestial objects
    $800 9
Mughal histories say it had around 37 designers, including Ustad Ahmad from Lahore &amp; Turkish dome-builder Ismail Afandi
    $800 15
Here's the straight dope: "Up in Smoke" was the first film starring this pair of comics
    $800 27
A WSJ post asked, "He couldn't run a hamburger stand. How did Oppenheimer run" this project's "secret lab?"
    $800 20
In "Middlemarch" Mr. Casaubon is writing a book on this &amp; in debating "the solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight"
    $1200 7
This body of water divides Maryland into 2 parts, the eastern &amp; western shores
    DD: $400 1
"Frog" by Mo Yan follows Gugu, a midwife during China's implementation of this policy
    DD: $1,200 10
In 1943 this art collector asked Frank Lloyd Wright to build a building for a museum unlike any other in the world
    $1200 18
Set in Mississippi, his play "Summer &amp; Smoke" is about a repressed minister's daughter in love with the hedonistic boy next door
    $1200 28
In "Project Hail Mary" by this author, the amnesiac Ryland Grace has to save the Earth &amp; find out how he got "beach-bod buff"
    $1200 21
At the university campus building seen here, students work toward their degree in this subject
    $1600 13
Maxing around 160 feet deep, the relatively shallow Korea Bay is the northeastern arm of this "colorful" sea
    $1600 2
This Pulitzer Prize-winner by Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen begins, "I am a spy... a man of two faces"
    $1600 11
King Charles II approved this man to repair St. Paul's Cathedral; he went ahead &amp; gave it a major dome
    $1600 24
Official videos for this Deep Purple classic include an animated one &amp; one live at Montreux, where the song is set
    $1600 29
The CIA called this project "the code name for a covert... mind-control & chemical interrogation research program"
    $1600 22
The first 3 letters are an abbreviation some have discarded, but this is still the study of flying saucers &amp; the like
    $2000 14
This forest that can be spelled with or without an S at the end is located in both France &amp; Belgium
    $2000 5
In "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" by Yukio Mishima, a Buddhist monk burns down the title temple in this old capital
    $2000 12
In the late 19th c. Eusebi Güell became a patron of this architect, leading to a pavilion, a park &amp; a palace in Spain
    $2000 25
The Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical "Roberta" is best remembered for this classic song about a "lovely flame"
    $2000 30
Born Ephraim Goldberg, this architect designed Seattle's Experience Music Project now the Museum of Pop Culture
    $2000 23
King James I of England published a guide to witchcraft &amp; devilry titled this "-ology"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kevin Debbie Laurel
$9,400 $9,400 $14,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. BUSINESSES
In 2024 this company said only 4 of its 400+ locations will let Mr. Munch, Helen Henny, Jasper T. Jowls &amp; its namesake still perform

Final scores:

Kevin Debbie Laurel
$18,799 $14,602 $18,801
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $18,801

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Kevin Debbie Laurel
$10,400 $9,400 $15,400
14 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
8 W

Combined Coryat: $35,200

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Game tape date: 2024-10-01
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