Show #9216 - Monday, December 2, 2024

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Mike Ross, a teacher from Kansas City, Missouri

Evan Jones, a software designer from Seattle, Washington

Susan Beachy, a news researcher from Queens, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,300)

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Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE CARIBBEAN
CHEERS TO BEERS!
THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME!
SPORTS STAR RECORDS
ANAGRAMMED OCCUPATIONS
FLORIDA WOMAN
(Ken: You've heard of Florida Man; well, here's [*].)
    $200 26
The Trench Town neighborhood of Kingston is considered the birthplace of this music genre
    $200 23
After being honored at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, this brand added "Blue Ribbon" to its name
    $200 21
This kid who deals with Olympians is the "I" in chapter 1: "I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher"
    $200 24
From his 1963 spoken-word album: "The fistic world was dull & weary/ With a champ like Liston things had to be dreary"
    $200 8
Edifice planner:
TIRE CATCH
    $200 13
Florida naturally produces its share of astronauts, like Nicole Stott, who took the last flight home from the ISS aboard one of these
    $400 25
At over 10,000 feet Pico Duarte in this nation on Hispaniola is the highest mountain in the Caribbean
    $400 10
The 4 main ingredients in beer are water, hops, yeast & this germinated barley grain, beer's main source of sugar
    $400 16
"Live and Let Die", chapter 2, is an "Interview with" this letter-perfect head honcho
    $400 27
Now a Colorado football coach, back in 1994, he dropped the rap album "Prime Time"
    $400 4
Problem solver: THEMATIC MANIA
    $400 12
This body-shaping brand began when former Disney World employee Sara Blakely had the idea to cut the feet off her pantyhose
    $600 14
Andros Island in the Bahamas sits alongside one of the world's largest of these, over 120 miles long & a scuba divers' paradise
    DD: $1,000 1
The name of this bodybuilding title was inspired by a beer, of all things
    $600 9
Chapter 10 of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is an "Extract from the Diary of" this man
    $600 28
His records include best men's single season win-loss rate in the Open era & a cover of "Rock & Roll" with the Full Metal Rackets
    $600 5
Rock critic:
GIGOLO SET
    $600 11
She was born in the Florida panhandle & at school in Gainesville was named "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi"
    $800 15
In 2016 President Obama traveled to this Caribbean nation, the first visit by a sitting U.S. president in nearly 90 years
    $800 2
Pilsner originated in this European republic that some consider the most beer-drinking nation on Earth
    $800 17
A charming Chapter 4 is entitled "In Which" this animal "Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One"
    $800 29
In 2022 this former Laker aka DJ Diesel joined Steve Aoki on the electronic song "Welcome To The Playhouse"
    $800 6
Java Man:
AIR TABS
    $800 18
Betty Mae Jumper from Indiantown was the first female head of this tribe of Florida
    $1000 3
The small town of Kralendijk is the capital of this Caribbean island, the "B" of the ABC territories of the Netherlands
    $1000 22
This popular 400-year-old Dutch brand of beer is known for its distinctive green bottle with a swing-top cap
    $1000 19
Chapter 6 of "The Wind in the Willows" is named for this character, who gets hustled away from taking a wild ride in a car
    $1000 30
In 2011 this boxer & Philippines politician released a cover of "Sometimes When We Touch"
    $1000 7
Beast mounter:
TIMID EXTRAS
    $1000 20
Feminist activist Roxcy O'Neal Bolton of Coral Gables was the driving force behind making August 26 this annual day

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

Susan Evan Mike
$0 $4,400 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Susan Evan Mike
$1,000 $6,000 $3,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE WEDDED OPERA CATEGORY
FIELDS
AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
GEOGRAPHIC MOVIE TITLES
MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
ADD VERBS
    $400 27
The title of this Mozart opera promises a wedding & includes the name of the groom
    $400 12
Someone who excels in multiple fields might be called a modern-day this man or woman, throwing it back to 15th c. multi-hyphenates
    $400 30
New Hampshire got its own governor in 1741 after being a part of this colony for several decades
    $400 24
Chris Rock is the voice of Marty the Zebra who goes from the Central Park Zoo to this title place
    $400 28
Dwarf planet Haumea & its moons, Hi'iaka & Namaka, are named for the goddess of fertility & her 2 daughters in this language
    $400 29
Pardon me while I ____ on & on, also a noun for a stingless male bee
    DD: $3,000 19
The Verdi opera named for this Shakespeare character ends with a double wedding & apparently an early same sex one!
    $800 6
Nearly 300 acres of rolling fields of farmland in Sullivan County, New York provided the venue for this event in August 1969
    $800 22
Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville founded this city in 1718 as a port to handle trade from the Upper Mississippi Valley
    $800 1
Kurt Russell & Val Kilmer got top billing in this movie; Stephen Lang was Ike Clanton
    $800 8
The most recently discovered moon of Pluto, it was named for a mythological river of the underworld
    $800 23
In a traditional alliterative wedding vow, "I take you to be my husband (or wife)" to ____ & to ____ "from this day forward"
    $1200 11
Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" was the basis for the opera called her "di Lammermoor" (& yes, she gets married)
    $1200 7
In Greek & Roman myth, the good, the pious & the virtuous retire to these fields in the afterlife
    DD: $5,000 13
In 1653 he established the first municipal government of New Amsterdam, modeling it after cities in Holland
    $1200 2
Rex Reed called this 1974 mechanized gorefest "the most horrifying motion picture I have ever seen"
    $1200 5
In 2024 it was announced that the "sand" dunes on this planet's moon Titan may be crushed remains of smaller moons
    $1200 15
I wish my darn phone wouldn't ____, reflexively "fix" words it thinks I've Mississippi... misspelled
    $1600 17
The traditional "Here Comes The Bride" used at weddings is from his opera "Lohengrin", where Elsa marries the title character
    $1600 9
Faraday viewed one of these fields as a series of lines of induction, then created a law
    $1600 14
On October 19, 1752 Benjamin Franklin published results of his kite/electricity experiment in this newspaper he bought 23 years earlier
    $1600 25
Daniel Day-Lewis is the very bad Bill the Butcher in this Scorsese film
    $1600 3
This largest moon of Mars orbits only 3,700 miles from the surface, the closest to a planet of any moon in the solar system
    $1600 16
Hey, cowboy, it's time to ____ that horse, also the word for the gear you'll use to hitch it to the wagon
    $2000 18
One of Smetana's best-known pieces is his overture to this opera leading up to a wedding
    $2000 10
Named for the 2nd president of the Tuskegee Institute, this field in Alabama was used to train Black pilots during World War II
    $2000 21
Wampanoag chief Metacom, aka this "King", was killed at the 1676 Battle of Mount Hope in the war named for him
    $2000 26
Keith Carradine's "I'm Easy" from the soundtrack of this music-centric movie won a 1975 Oscar for Best Song
    $2000 4
Voyager 2 discovered in 1989 that this largest moon of Neptune is one of the coldest objects in the solar system at -391 degrees F.
    $2000 20
In the fall new students ____, a Latin-derived synonym for enroll or register

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Susan Evan Mike
$5,000 $21,800 $13,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

POETIC CHARACTERS
In an 1842 poem, it is said of this legendary character that his "quaint attire" is much admired

Final scores:

Susan Evan Mike
$3,000 $17,199 $10,100
3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $17,199 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Susan Evan Mike
$6,000 $19,600 $9,400
9 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 25 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $35,000

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Game tape date: 2024-10-02
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