Show #9229 - Thursday, December 19, 2024

Contestants

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Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee

Neal Bowling, a journeyman lineman from Mackinaw, Illinois

Eric Weldon-Schilling, a bar manager and sommelier from Houston, Texas (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY
500 QUESTIONS
3-LETTER, 3-LETTER
(Ken: Each response, two words of that length.)
"B" MOVIES
POETIC WOMEN
POTENT POTABLE RHYME TIME
    $200 10
In 1839 it replaced Vandalia as Illinois' capital
    $200 16
In many states, the difference between these 2 types of larceny is if money or goods worth $500 or more is stolen in the crime
    $200 15
It comes between "ready" & "go" in a preparatory phrase
    $200 21
Feathered friends become foes & attack in this Hitchcock horror that starred Tippi Hedren & Rod Taylor
    $200 26
The "Envelope Poems" of this 19th century New Englander are named for what she scribbled on
    $200 1
A bubbly locomotive
    $400 11
The 20th Amendment, which moved the presidential inauguration up from March to January, has this "avian" nickname
    $400 17
It's what the letters stand for in the S&P 500, an index thought by many investors to be the best measure of the stock market
    $400 22
In collegiate parlance, they're the first 2 words of the acronym BMOC
    $400 6
"Lads do football or boxing or wrestling, not friggin' ballet" is a line in this film
    $400 27
Elizabeth Barrett Browning asked, "How do I love thee?", then answered her own question starting with these 5 words
    $400 2
A timepiece fueled by Lagavulin or Balvenie
    $600 12
Located in Wyoming & of volcanic origin, it was the first U.S. national monument to be established
    $600 18
In a Dr. Seuss story about bullying, this young boy is somehow wearing 500 hats on his head
    $600 23
This Fred Astaire/ Ginger Rogers movie title is also something that completes a spiffy men's outfit
    $600 7
This 2022 fast-moving action film takes place aboard the imaginary Nippon Speed Line
    $600 28
A painter & a poet in her own right, Frieda Hughes still finds herself living in the shadow of her parents, Ted Hughes & her
    $600 3
Entomb the fortified Spanish wine
    DD: $1,000 13
During his tenure as chief justice of the United States, he swore in 5 presidents, including Andrew Jackson
    $800 19
The title of this quirky 2009 film referred to the length of a romance with Zooey Deschanel, not a season
    $800 24
It's a hyphenated adjective meaning "understated"; in recent slang it's an adverb too, as in "He ____ wants to go out with you"
    $800 8
In a junkyard, a young woman discovers a battle-scarred & broken Autobot in this transformative action adventure
    $800 29
In "First Fig" she wrote, "My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night"
    $800 4
A bat-logo rum brand soiree
    $1000 14
On October 10, 1973, he resigned as vice president & pleaded no contest to one count of income tax evasion
    $1000 20
One of his rags-to-riches stories is called "Five Hundred Dollars: Or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret"
    $1000 25
Nothing to do with a sober marathon, it's a term for a rehearsal or practice
    $1000 9
"The monster demands a mate" is a tagline for this 1935 sequel starring Elsa Lanchester
    $1000 30
This poet who wrote "The New Colossus" has been called one of the first successful Jewish-American authors
    $1000 5
A Mexican beer in the setting where Romeo & Juliet loved & lost

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

Eric Neal Laura
$2,800 -$600 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Neal Laura
$3,400 $400 $6,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

A WORD IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY TITLE
(Ken: Just the one word, please.)
BOOMERS
THE SCIENCE FARE
WRITE FOR TV
GO JUMP IN THE OCEAN
INITIALS FROM GREEK GOD TO ROMAN GOD
(Ken: And here we'll need both names.)
    $400 20
As a holiday it celebrates the halfway point of a harvest season
    $400 8
Famous people named Al born in NYC in 1954 who at one point lost more than 100 pounds include Al Roker & this minister & activist
    $400 13
In 2019 officials at this New Mexico lab announced a $13 billion plan to ramp up production of plutonium cores
    $400 3
Richard Price wrote gritty novels like "Ladies' Man" before writing for this Baltimore-set HBO show
    $400 2
If you want to get a book off the Barents Shelf, you'll have to jump into this ocean
    $400 1
E to C:
As mommy, Aphrodite was out & Venus was in for these 2 li'l guys
    $800 21
The short-tailed variety of this insectivore uses toxic saliva to immobilize prey
    $800 9
In 1970 Annie Leibovitz got her 1st photo assignment from this magazine & boomer Bible: Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane
    $800 14
Julius Rosenwald of the Sears company raised millions to convert a World's Fair building to a Science & Industry museum in this city
    $800 4
David Benioff wrote "City of Thieves" then co-created this fantasy show that ran from 2011 to 2019
    $800 18
Way down on the ocean floor, the process of subduction creates these, like the Java & Aleutian ones
    $800 27
H to M:
When the gods absolutely, positively needed something delivered overnight (or sooner!), they were the dudes to call
    DD: $3,000 22
Sir, please come back to the restaurant--instead of the customer copy, you kept the slip marked this "copy"
    $1200 10
Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan spent lots of time in orbit & was fittingly born on the day of the Bobby Thomson home run known as this
    $1200 15
Back in 1989, this 3-letter drug was the only one approved for use against AIDS & it cost a shocking $8,000 per year
    $1200 5
This TV show began as a script written by Michael Crichton about 24 hours in a hospital
    $1200 19
Also known as the Ganga Trough, the Swatch of No Ground is a haven for whales in this alliterative bay
    $1200 28
D to B:
With these 2, come for fruitfulness & vegetation, but stay for the wine & ecstasy
    $1600 23
Pitching for the Yankees, Tommy John once committed 3 of these on one play
    $1600 11
As well as "Sin City", he's famous for creating "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", but was a Superboy fan as a boomer kid
    $1600 16
Completed in 2003, this effort of mapping 3 billion base pairs of DNA in Homo sapiens cost about $2.7 billion
    $1600 6
This "Speed-the-plow" playwright & "House of Games" screenwriter also wrote the TV movie "Phil Spector"
    $1600 25
The North Atlantic Gyre has 4 parts: the North Atlantic Current, the Canary Current, the North Equatorial Current & this warm flow
    DD: $4,600 29
H to J:
These chief goddesses had their jealous moments in both civilizations
    $2000 24
Woman: "I'm Beatrice Reiner. I stop at the hotel"; Groucho: "I'm Ronald Kornblow. I stop at" this
    $2000 12
Oversized steel versions of inflatable pool toys are one consumer culture-influenced series by this artist
    $2000 17
Its launch date--December 25, 2021; its cost at time of launch--$10 billion
    $2000 7
Crime writer Walter Mosley lent his pen to this FX series about South Central drug dealer Franklin Saint
    $2000 26
Named for an English explorer, this passage connects the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans south of South America
    $2000 30
A to M:
A word to the wise--they were equal opportunity as war goddesses

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Eric Neal Laura
$10,000 $9,800 $13,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

SUPER BOWL HISTORY
It's the only team to play in the Super Bowl before Neil Armstrong's Moon walk that has not been back to the Big Game since

Final scores:

Eric Neal Laura
$0 $2,800 $11,200
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 New champion: $11,200

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Eric Neal Laura
$7,000 $9,000 $13,600
14 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 15 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $29,600

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Game tape date: 2024-10-29
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