Show #9217 - Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Contestants

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Stevie Ruiz, an assistant front office manager from Montauk, New York

Luca Gerace, a chef from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Evan Jones, a software designer from Seattle, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,199)

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Jeopardy! Round

A WALT WHITMAN SAMPLER
SOCIAL MEDIA
BRITSPEAK
OCCUPATIONAL TV
SECTS
"N", THE CITY
    $200 29
In his preface to this collection, Whitman wrote, "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem"
    $200 17
In 2023 Elon Musk renamed Twitter this
    $200 27
If someone asks you to "give me a tinkle on the blower", they're asking you to do this; don't forget!
    $200 24
On "Sex and the City", this character was a newspaper columnist writing about her experiences
    $200 28
The Clapham sect was a group of Anglicans that helped abolish this in England
    $200 11
It's the capital of the Campania region
    $400 30
Of this "noiseless, patient" creature Whitman wrote, "It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself"
    $400 16
This platform traces its roots to an online service at Harvard that got students to rate each others' attractiveness
    $400 26
Blimey is an alteration of this 2-word phrase, something that the Philistines did to Samson
    $400 15
Newman on "Seinfeld" & Cliff Clavin on "Cheers" both had this job
    $400 22
One of the differences between these 2 branches of Islam is how the passage of power was handled after Muhammad's death
    $400 10
The New Jersey Devils play their home games in this city
    $600 18
Whitman's "Passage to India" inspired the title of a 1924 novel by this author
    $600 4
This Chinese-owned platform has its own version in China called Douyin
    $600 13
In "The Waste Land" T.S. Eliot used this double-talk farewell between several "goonight"s
    $600 14
Alan Harper, Charlie's brother on this sitcom, was a chiropractor
    $600 21
Fuso-Kyo is a mountain-worshipping sect of this religion
    $600 8
Looks awfully pleasant to visit this city on the Baie des Anges
    $800 1
Whitman began a poem, "Beat! beat! drums!--"Blow!" these! "blow"
    $800 2
End-to-end encryption is the hallmark of this messaging app whose creator was recently arrested in France
    $800 5
In Brit slang, a quod is one of these, like Newgate or Wormwood Scrubs
    $800 12
On "Gilligan's Island", Roy Hinkley was the name of the character better known by this occupation
    $800 6
Vaishnavism is a form of Hinduism devoted to this god whose name also starts with a "V"
    $800 7
The southern edge of this East African capital has a small national park known as the "Kifaru Ark", kifaru meaning rhino in Swahili
    $1000 19
"A Child's Reminiscence" was later retitled "Out of the Cradle" these 2 words
    $1000 3
Celebs get design inspo online too! Diane Keaton wrote a book called "The House That" this visual discovery platform "Built"
    $1000 25
Just ask spindly comedian Daniel--"a load of" this 4-letter stuff is garbage, subpar
    $1000 23
Real-life crisis management specialist Judy Smith inspired this character with the same job on "Scandal"
    DD: $2,200 20
In the 19th century the Namdhari sect of this religion began wearing turbans straight across the forehead--no more jaunty angles
    $1000 9
The Hu-Ning Highway connects this port on the Yangtze River with Shanghai

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

Evan Luca Stevie
$1,400 $2,600 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Evan Luca Stevie
$5,200 $2,800 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

ADMISSIBLE EDIFICE
A MIX OF SCIENCE
ARTIST BY ALBUMS
CAMERAS & PHOTOGRAPHY
ITALIAN EXPLORERS
6 LETTERS, ENDS IN "Y"
    $400 14
The Geisel Library at UCSD / Nifty & wondrous, you really must see / Honors a man of ozecular fame / Under this greatly familiarer name
    $400 24
It's a facula that a facula is a bright spot in the photosphere of this body
    $400 6
"Parachutes" &
"X&Y"
    $400 29
A type of lens where the focal length is shorter than the lens' length is called this, partly from Greek for "afar"
    $400 30
November 3, 1493, gimme a sec, was a... Sunday. No, I'm not a savant, I just know that's when this man sighted the island of Dominica
    $400 13
Once thought to be influenced by the Moon's phases, it's a word for sheer craziness
    $800 23
Seen here living up to its name, The Egg is a performing arts center at Empire State Plaza in this capital
    $800 18
This mammalian-sounding unit of measurement is equal to Avogadro's number
    $800 2
"Unorthodox Jukebox" &
"24k Magic"
    $800 27
A DSLR camera is a digital single-lens this
    $800 26
In 1503 Ludovico di Varthema dressed as a Muslim & joined a caravan to this holy city with a "temple similar to the Colosseum"
    $800 12
It's the difference between your home's value & how much you still owe on it
    $1200 22
Let's talk Turkey... also known as the Church of the Divine Wisdom, this Istanbul structure dates back to the 6th century
    $1200 17
This effect named for an Austrian man manifests itself in receding siren noises & cosmic red-shifting expansion
    $1200 1
"Reasonable Doubt" &
"The Black Album"
    DD: $4,000 20
His first roll of pictures from a Brownie camera was developed at Pillsbury's Pictures in Old Yosemite Village
    DD: $5,900 16
Last name of Niccolò & Maffeo, who in 1271 were given papal letters to present to Kublai Khan
    $1200 10
This large bird of prey is known for plucking fish right out of the water
    $1600 15
A Cleveland Clinic center for brain health isn't in Ohio, but in this glitzy city whose call Frank Gehry long resisted
    $1600 7
Part of a Canadian province is in the name of this current that usually meets the Gulf Stream around Cape Hatteras
    $1600 4
"Utopia" &
"Astroworld"
    $1600 19
To get a stick motion blur, you can allow more light to pass through your cam by setting a slow speed of this device
    $1600 3
In 1524 he sighted New York Bay & then "bridged" the Atlantic once again in 1528, when he was eaten by cannibals in the West Indies
    $1600 9
Differing by a first letter, one word means to gather data or opinions from a group of people; the other, to provide goods or services
    $2000 21
In a few hours Frank Lloyd Wright drew the plans for this getaway right on the Bear Run River in Pennsylvania
    $2000 8
About 1.5% of any quantity of the isotope uranium-238 decays to this element every 100 million years
    $2000 5
"Awaken, My Love!" &
"Because the Internet"
    $2000 28
The name of this German camera company bears the first 3 letters of the company's early leader Ernst Leitz
    $2000 25
In 1497, sailing for the British, he landed in eastern Canada--not sure where--anyway, not Asia as he thought
    $2000 11
In England, it referred to people of high birth, high social class, wealthy landowners ranking just below the nobility

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Evan Luca Stevie
$15,100 $2,000 $18,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY EUROPEAN LITERATURE
An early version of this novel was first published as a serial under the title "The Year 1805"

Final scores:

Evan Luca Stevie
$11,799 $1,980 $17,987
2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000 New champion: $17,987

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Evan Luca Stevie
$13,200 $2,000 $18,400
19 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R,
4 W		 20 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $33,600

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Game tape date: 2024-10-02
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