Show #9218 - Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Contestants

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Gloria Nastas, a retired healthcare policy analyst from Troy, Michigan

Kimberley Debus, a unitarian universalist minister from Takoma Park, Maryland

Stevie Ruiz, an assistant front office manager from Montauk, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,987)

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Jeopardy! Round

A BIT OF EVERYTHING
WORLD HISTORY
FAST FASHION
AMERICAN TV SHOWS IN SPANISH
THE MIDWEST
VERY DEMURE, VERY MINDFUL
    $200 26
In 2024, Sage, a miniature one of these, was the top dog at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
    $200 23
Building on 1936's Axis Agreement, in 1939 these 2 European nations signed the Pact of Steel
    $200 22
The H that begins this brand's short name was originally Hennes, Swedish for "Hers"; ABBA member Anni-Frid was a face of it in the '70s
    $200 7
"Bob Esponja"
    $200 6
You can visit the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, where this political party was born in 1854
    $200 19
It precedes "& proper" in an idiom describing one shocked by rude behavior
    $400 14
In 1873 New York was the first state to proclaim this May holiday; Waterloo near Cayuga Lake claims the title of its birthplace
    $400 24
An 1864 convention in this city was the first of several to define the proper treatment of POWs & civilians during wartime
    $400 4
If you say this retailer has lured big fashion names starting with Isaac Mizrahi to its "Design for All" collabs, bull's-eye!
    $400 8
"Cómo Conocí a Tu Madre"
    $400 5
The black-tailed type of this rodent can live in Midwest "towns" of more than 100 acres with thousands of individual members
    $400 20
Don't add an E to the end of this synonym for mindful; you'd be an unlawful crime-stopper, which is too much minding
    $600 17
No business like shoe business, but after a bad earnings call in June 2024, this Oregon co. lost $28 billion in value in a day
    $600 12
This African kingdom, spelled with a "K" & not a "C" like 2 current nations, began around 1390 & lasted until 1914
    $600 1
The 1989 story that coined "fast fashion" profiled Express, the first specialty brand from this Ohio company, once LTD on the NYSE
    $600 9
"Para Toda La Humanidad"
    $600 11
Part of Hitchcock's thriller "North by Northwest" was filmed at this iconic national memorial near Rapid City
    $600 21
It often precedes a demure "bride" & also comes before "like a rose" in a Dean Martin song
    $800 16
Announcing his run for pres. on Oct. 3, 1991, he said, "We can make America great again... we can build a community of hope"
    $800 25
Sir Thomas Hardy was flag captain of the HMS Victory for this commander mortally wounded in an October 1805 battle
    DD: $1,000 2
Kanye West has a lyric about girls who "rock" this fashion brand "but just turned 30"
    $800 10
"El Rey de la Colina"
    $800 27
Starting in 1892 farmers could put their money in a Bloomington, Ill. bank named for this "Belt" stretching across 8 states
    $800 29
Meaning pretend shy & often found after "playing", it describes the person here
    $1000 18
In the KJV, the Egyptians might have been tempted to shave their heads when "all the dust of the land became" this third plague
    $1000 15
This man & his crew explored the eastern Canadian coast in the 1530s, laying the basis for French claims to the region
    $1000 3
One of the pioneers of fast fashion is this end-of-the-alphabet chain, perennially listed among Spain's most valuable brands
    $1000 13
"Las Chicas de Oro"
    $1000 28
Mimicking the name of a prehistoric site in England, this monument is just outside of Alliance, Nebraska, along Highway 87
    $1000 30
This 2-word French term means fully informed & up-to-date

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

Stevie Kimberley Gloria
$3,000 $600 $0

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Stevie Kimberley Gloria
$7,600 $3,000 $1,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORLD OF DANCE
"ISM"s
A REAL SOB STORY
GEOLOGY
MOVIE CREATURES
PLAINS, RAINS & AUTOBAHNS
    $400 16
Bamboo poles are used in performing the tinikling, performed on Cebu & the others islands of this country
    $400 6
It's what being performed here
    $400 21
The sisters in "Little Women" sob a lot; this sister sells her hair & then cries about how it looks
    $400 26
This layer of the Earth makes up more than 80% of its volume
    $400 12
On Dagobah this green creature tells a neophyte with a ship stuck in the muck, "size matters not"
    $400 1
Passenger cars ride for free on Germany's Autobahn, but since 2005, trucks must pay a maut or this
    $800 17
This dance of Andalusia is Spanish for "a wading bird"
    $800 7
This term for opposition to war & violence to settle disputes can be traced back to an international conference in 1901
    $800 22
(Jason Kelce presents the clue.) Crying is no biggie to me & check it out in some classic lit--Alexei Alexandrovich was weeping, "kissing her hands and saying", "How happy we are now", & Alexei Vronsky was there too, in this novel
    $800 27
A Spanish word for a cooking pot gives us this term for a type of volcanic crater
    $800 8
We slept with one eye open after watching Mike Wazowski in this animated film from 2001
    $800 2
The Central Magdalena Valley of this nation gets more than 100 inches of annual rainfall; is that why their coffee's so good?
    $1200 18
In 1894, Native Americans were filmed doing this circle dance meant to reunite the living with the dead
    $1200 13
Simple-living duo Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus are proponents of this, where less is more
    $1200 23
Michelle Zauner's essay on loss for the New Yorker became this memoir; spoiler alert: there is sobbing near dry goods
    DD: $2,000 9
Ricou Browning's ability to hold his breath underwater came in handy playing a creature in this 1954 film
    $1200 3
A95 runs between Garmisch-Partenkirchen & this Bavarian city, hosts of the Olympics 36 years apart
    $1600 19
The Adumu is the traditional jumping dance of these nomadic people of Kenya & Tanzania
    $1600 14
Leonora Carrington, whose work is seen here, was one of the leading women painters of this art movement
    DD: $4,000 24
She sobs a lot, but imprisoned unjustly & sexually harassed by Frollo, she has just cause
    $1600 10
A pop-up storybook gives birth to the monster that terrifies Essie Davis & son in this 2014 movie
    $1600 4
This U.S. city near the Pacific coast gets quite a bit of rain in winter & some seems to be moving in here
    $2000 20
An East Asian dance is called the Thousand-Hand this, named for an enlightened being on the path to Buddhahood
    $2000 15
It's a relapse into criminal behavior, especially after serving time for a crime
    $2000 25
Little Nell sobs herself to sleep in this "Old" Dickens novel
    $2000 11
Partly from Greek for "stranger", this word is used by fans to describe the chestbursters & facehuggers from a film franchise
    $2000 5
A historic 1759 battle site, southern Quebec's Plains of Abraham overlook this river

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Stevie Kimberley Gloria
$18,000 $8,600 $1,600
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY
This country's national radio launched in 1925; 14 years later, it fell into a long silence following a piano nocturne

Final scores:

Stevie Kimberley Gloria
$18,000 $5,100 $3,195
2-day champion: $35,987 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Stevie Kimberley Gloria
$17,000 $12,600 $1,600
24 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W		 10 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $31,200

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Game tape date: 2024-10-02
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