Show #9222 - Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Contestants

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Dan Sand, a law student originally from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Sara Walker, a family and sports medicine physician originally from Brighton, Michigan

Bill McKinney, a VP of restaurants and bars originally from Boston, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

LIFE IMITATES POP CULTURE
WHO WANTS HISTORY?
GALLERIES
A MEAT & POTATOES CATEGORY
GRAB BAG
KING ARTHUR'S VERY PUNNY KNIGHTS
(Ken: As befitting knights, all responses here begin with "Sir".)
    $200 6
This show correctly predicts the future: a 2000 episode shows a grown-up Lisa as U.S. president; her predecessor: Donald Trump
    $200 23
Thorkell the Tall led an invasion of England by these folks from Scandinavia in 1009
    $200 29
The Freer Gallery of this U.S. institution houses one of the most prominent U.S. collections of Asian art
    $200 4
Anyone can enjoy this beef cut taken from between the neck & shoulder blade, perhaps Messrs. Yeager, Grassley & D
    $200 28
What chalupa would be complete without some Jalapeño Noir, which was, sadly, a limited-time wine offering from this chain
    $200 27
This knight was so plump his belly was equal to pi times his diameter
    $400 26
NASA's countdown before a rocket launch can be traced to a 1929 silent German film called "Frau im Mond", "Woman in" this
    $400 21
It preceded "of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" in the title of a document adopted in August 1789
    $400 30
In 1992 Damien Hirst got jaws open at the Saatchi Gallery when he displayed a preserved tiger species of this
    $400 8
Sometimes fried in bacon fat--healthy as can be!--this "colorful" potato dish is pressed into flat cakes in a pan
    $400 24
No bull--Aldebaran is the brightest star in this zodiac constellation
    $400 25
He told everyone of his skills for when Britain became even more anarchic, like finding food & shelter & making fires in the wild
    $600 17
It wasn't called fake news yet when this 1997 film had a spin doctor creating a war to distract from a presidential sex scandal
    $600 13
On May 31 & June 1, 1921 a white mob in this city pillaged & burned a prosperous business district known as Black Wall Street
    $600 22
From 1897 to 1932 what's now called this "Britain" was known as the National Gallery of British Art
    $600 9
Omaha Steaks' private reserve of this boneless cut from the small end of the tenderloin costs $540 (for 12 10 Oz. ones)
    $600 12
The New Testament says, "Now abideth" this trio of virtues, with the last one being the greatest
    $600 18
For a boundary dispute with a rival king, King Arthur called on this knight equipped to settle the issue
    $800 14
Playing Achilles in the movie "Troy", this actor managed to injure his, yep, you guessed it, Achilles tendon
    DD: $1,000 2
Last name of Gonzalo, who as governor of Peru took up arms against Spain after his half-brother Francisco's death
    $800 5
Originally designed by Vasarai for Cosimo I de' Medici, it officially opened its doors to the public in 1769
    $800 3
A bit larger than T-bone is this sharable steak cut with meat from both the top loin & the tenderloin
    $800 16
In this novel, Major Major Major is made a major by an "I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's"
    $800 1
This knight had rhythm! Though sadly more to do with 24-hour time periods than with music
    $1000 15
(Lisa Ann Walter presents the clue.) Talk about life imitating art: after nannying identical twins played by Lindsay Lohan in this 1998 film, I had real-life identical twins & they even share the characters' birthday
    $1000 11
The black death hit this "colorful" Mongol group in 1346 & '47, & it was downhill from there
    $1000 20
Making a splash in American art, he had 3 solo shows at the Sidney Janis Gallery between 1952 & 1955, the first featuring "Blue Poles"
    $1000 10
O Canada! This type of potato with buttery yellow flesh is great for mashing
    $1000 7
As a lab-grown crystal, miassite can act as one of these, meaning it has no electrical resistance once cooled
    $1000 19
He always took the kind of route named for him--6 hours of twists & turns for what should be a 2-hour ride back to Camelot

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

Bill Sara Dan
$3,400 $3,200 $400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bill Sara Dan
$4,000 $4,800 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

ISLANDS
WOMEN WRITERS
A "W" FOR SCIENCE
ADJECTIVES
BROADWAY MUSICALS
HOW'S YOUR LEGALESE?
    $400 23
Both a city & county, Honolulu covers this entire island
    $400 30
Her books include 1936's "Murder in Mesopotamia" & 1923's "Murder on the Links"
    $400 22
Get a big W & name this unit of power equal to one joule of work performed per second
    $400 26
The original "Wizard of Oz" novel featured this adjective that's not in the film title
    $400 29
This revival starring Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee & Gayle Rankin as Sally Bowles was a hot ticket in 2024
    $400 15
Prison terms for multiple sentences are often this type, meaning they run at the same time rather than consecutively
    $800 21
Palma is the capital of this largest of the Balearic islands
    $800 28
In a book by Kate DiCamillo, young Opal goes to the local supermarket & comes home with this dog
    $800 20
It's used to describe a lunar phase where the Moon's apparent shape is gettin' thick
    $800 17
Latin for soul gives us this adjective that can describe lively people as well as cartoon characters
    $800 27
The settings for this musical are a prison in Seville & in the imagination of Cervantes
    $800 14
A real 4-letter word in some courtrooms, it's a temporary pause in a judicial proceeding until another issue is resolved
    $1200 11
Christchurch & Dunedin are the 2 largest cities on this island
    $1200 7
"Gathering Blue" is the second book in her "Giver" quartet
    DD: $2,000 16
It's the distance between 2 crests of sound or light that are next to each other
    DD: $3,000 13
Related to the word "diamond", it means unyielding or inflexible, perhaps in your opinion
    $1200 25
Mr. Mushnik gets gobbled up by a plant in his own store in this musical
    $1200 3
1983's Illinois v. Gates modified a 1969 precedent on what constitutes this, reasonable grounds for police action
    $1600 9
Curaçao, in the Caribbean is part of these "Lesser" islands
    $1600 4
Known for her "Magical Thinking", she wrote a short novel called "Democracy" & co-wrote the 1976 film "A Star Is Born"
    $1600 10
Neutrophils, the most common type of these cells, release a net-like structure to trap & kill pathogens
    $1600 12
From French for "green", it can mean green in color or inexperienced
    $1600 18
Inspired by a Seurat painting, this Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine show won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
    $1600 1
This Latin-named brief is advice offered to the court from an entity that's not a party to the case but has a friendly interest
    $2000 24
These two neighboring islands are Indonesia's most populous
    $2000 5
Known for writing about old New York, she had some of her shorter work published in the 1924 collection "Old New York"
    $2000 6
Take the word from which tungsten gets its symbol, W & add "ite" to get this principal ore of tungsten
    $2000 8
From a Latin word meaning to boil or bubble, it describes someone bubbly & enthusiastic
    $2000 19
One of Charlemagne's sons is the title character in this musical that first opened in 1972
    $2000 2
Part of the discovery process, they're written questions from one party in a lawsuit to the other, & reply is mandatory

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bill Sara Dan
$12,000 $8,800 $7,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
The running mates of this candidate included John Kern, Arthur Sewall & Adlai Stevenson I

Final scores:

Bill Sara Dan
$6,000 $5,602 $1
2-day champion: $28,000 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Bill Sara Dan
$12,000 $8,800 $11,000
16 R,
3 W		 12 R,
1 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
7 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $31,800

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Game tape date: 2024-10-28
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