Show #9230 - Friday, December 20, 2024

Contestants

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Maria Lauro, a contract specialist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Joe Asaminew, an ER physician from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $11,200)

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Jeopardy! Round

FOUNTAINS
TV
SMOOTH AS SILK
BUSINESS NAMES
SCIENCE BOOKSHELF
NUMERIC PHRASES
    $200 24
Prometheus gazes down from his fountain on winter skaters at this New York City landmark
    $200 20
Most of Sunnydale was swallowed into the Hellmouth on this series finale; the title girl & her pals left for a more normal life
    $200 18
Scientifically Bombyx mori, these larvae, are only 1/12 an inch long at birth & fed mulberry leaves
    $200 1
In Pasadena, California in 1967, a Mr. Coulombe started this grocery chain that's full of unique & interesting products
    $200 12
A book by Riley Black tells about the asteroid impact that brought on "The Last Days of" these
    $200 25
The usual number in this nautical phrase for being very drunk is 3, but feel free to get as high as you want
    $400 14
More than 1,000 fountains shoot water 400 feet in the air in front of this Las Vegas hotel near Caesars Palace
    $400 19
"Strictly Come Dancing" hosted by Tess Daly in the U.K. came to the U.S. as this show now co-hosted by Julianne Hough
    $400 21
Used at least since the 1930s, to "hit the silk" is slang for using this, once made of silk
    $400 2
We predict you'll know that Israeli-born Safra Catz succeeded Larry Ellison as co-CEO & later became sole CEO of this company
    $400 11
Buzz Lightyear's catchphrase, it's also a Neil deGrasse Tyson book that takes readers to the farthest reaches of space
    $400 26
Aussies & Kiwis often flip our term for a standard piece of construction lumber & call it this
    $600 15
A 19th century novel says, "a parting draught" at this Italian fountain "insures the traveller's return"
    $600 6
Bill Bixby studied philosophy at Cal before playing a scientist exposed to a massive dose of radiation on this 1970s TV show
    $600 22
Meaning "thing to wear", this term for a T-shaped garment often made of silk dates back to the reign of Emperor Meiji
    $600 3
In 1980 he launched the world's first 24-hour TV news channel, CNN
    $600 10
Andrew Hodges' "The Enigma" is a bestselling biography of this mathematician & computer pioneer
    $600 27
It precedes "exercise" to mean a piano practice piece, or "discount" to mean an act of shoplifting
    $800 16
Longer than 2 football fields, a fountain named for this city sways & sprays in Burj Khalifa Lake
    $800 7
Her TV roles have included Alex Russo, resident of Waverly Place, & Mabel Mora, resident of a murder-rife building
    $800 23
A sheen known as silk causes the asterisms in the star type of these, like a 70-carat one in Joan Crawford's engagement ring
    $800 4
Anne Wojcicki co-founded this genetics company that wants to tell you about you
    $800 9
A 1994 bestseller, "The Hot Zone" tells the "Terrifying True Story of the Origins of" this deadly virus from Africa
    $800 28
Debunked theories about the origin of this phrase meaning all the way: cement truck cubic volume, ammunition belt length & many more
    $1000 17
A foliage-covered giant spews water at the entrance of this crystal company's theme park in Austria
    $1000 13
Anecdotal evidence suggests most viewers are hate-watching this series with Lily Collins & Lucien Laviscount
    $1000 30
This composer & lyricist of songs like "I Get A Kick Out Of You" also composed musicals, like 1955's "Silk Stockings"
    $1000 5
They're the two discount chains founded by & named for the retail magnate seen here
    DD: $1,000 8
It's the structure of DNA & the title of James Watson's book about the discovery of it
    $1000 29
Dice gambling lingo gave us this doubly numerical phrase meaning in a state of disorder or confusion

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

Laura Joe Maria
$2,400 $2,000 $4,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Joe Maria
$4,800 $3,800 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC SONGS OF THE BRITS
COMPUTER TECH
WORLD RELIGION
MR. & MRS. LIT
POP CULTURE PHYSICS
"HOG" CALLING
    $400 30
Handel composed many coronation anthems, including "Zadok The Priest" in 1727 for the second British king of this name
    $400 29
With bowling, boxing & more, in 2006 this home console from Nintendo pioneered the use of motion sensors
    $400 17
Prithviraj Chauhan, who ruled in Rajasthan in the 12th century, is sometimes called the last emperor of this religion
    $400 16
"Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room" at his first appearance in this novel
    $400 18
Episodes of this physicist-heavy show included "The Septum Deviation" & "The Skank Reflex Analysis"
    $400 13
Punxsutawney Phil, for one
    $800 5
Once thought to have been penned by Henry VIII, this "colorful" tune is now believed to come from Elizabethan times
    $800 23
You must have attached a PDF to an email once in your life, right? Then you know the "D" stands for this, right?
    $800 8
With more than 100 million adherents, the Moscow Patriarchate is also called this "National" church
    $800 10
Mrs</span>. Hudson, "a long-suffering woman", is his landlady in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective"
    $800 19
This film character says that as a kid, he wished he could mix physics with New Mexico, for then his life would be perfect
    $800 14
The opposite of sedate, this hyphenated adjective means wildly enthusiastic or unrestrained
    $1200 6
A jaunty tune in the less jaunty times of WWI was titled "Belgium Put The Kibosh On" this German leader
    $1200 2
In 1991 a University of Helsinki computer science student completed his first version of this open source computer operating system
    $1200 1
Way up in the Orkney Islands, Britain's northernmost cathedral is named for this saint, whose name is Latin for "big" or "great"
    DD: $2,000 7
In the opening line of a novel, this Woolf woman "said she would buy the flowers herself"
    $1200 26
As Sheriff Hopper on "Stranger Things" he finds science can't explain everything like it did when he worked in physics on TV's "Manhattan"
    $1200 15
Big party planned? Get one of these, a large barrel or cask of wine equal to 63 gallons
    $1600 24
In 1905 Sir Henry Wood arranged a "Fantasia on British Sea Songs" to celebrate the centennial of this battle
    $1600 9
Cryptocurrency transactions are recorded using this database technology that sounds like a defensive strategy
    DD: $2,000 3
Confucianism is more a philosophy--so this, with Beijing temples 1,300 years old, is China's only recognized home-grown religion
    $1600 11
The talents of this Patricia Highsmith character include the ability to kill with oars & ashtrays
    $1600 28
Jane Foster likens the Asgardian Bifrost to an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, but Thor says it's more like this kind of bridge
    $1600 20
From the Greek for "straight writing", it's the study of the principles of correct spelling in a language
    $2000 25
The "azure main" (that's the ocean) is in this patriotic song traditionally played at the Last Night of the Proms at Royal Albert Hall
    $2000 22
It's the acronym for the "prove you're not a robot" tests encountered when accessing some websites
    $2000 4
This people whose religion has Islamic & gnostic elements live in Lebanon & Syria but also make up about 2% of Israel's people
    $2000 12
Mrs</span>. Organ Morgan runs a grocery shop in a seaside village in Wales in his play "Under Milk Wood"
    $2000 27
On "Deep Space Nine" the prophets hung out in the Bajoran this that connected the Alpha & Gamma Quadrants
    $2000 21
Aye, laddie, it's what the Scottish call New Year's Eve

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Joe Maria
$10,400 $9,000 $10,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

MOVIES & THE LAW
"Drafters... have to have a little fun sometimes", said the author of this law when asked if he was inspired by 1931's "Little Caesar"

Final scores:

Laura Joe Maria
$5,800 $5,000 $799
2-day champion: $17,000 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Laura Joe Maria
$12,400 $11,000 $10,800
16 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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Game tape date: 2024-10-29
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