Show #9231 - Monday, December 23, 2024

Contestants

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Jenifer Miller, a freelance web developer from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Sean Maguire, a commercial real estate manager from New York, New York

Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 2-day cash winnings total $17,000)

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Jeopardy! Round

WHO? WHERE? WHEN?
BODY PARTS' BETTER KNOWN NAMES
AT THE PET STORE
"C" FOOD
TELEVISION CITY
WORDS FROM HINDI
    $200 27
Lord Nelson, August 1, 1798, defeating Napoleon's forces & isolating them in Egypt; the Battle of this river
    $200 29
Umbilicus
    $200 1
In the 1940s Ed Lowe wrote these 2 words on 10 bags of granulated clay to sell to cat owners; now they sell bags at pet stores
    $200 30
These crunchy cubes come in a Parmesan version for your Caesar salad
    $200 25
"iCarly" is set in this city & Skybucks Coffee is a major brand in Carly's world
    $200 22
This item of headwear was originally made from tie-dyed silk in India
    $400 26
This woman; filling up the empty treasury in Russia by secularizing clergy property;
1764
    $400 28
Patella
    $400 15
At least twice as wide as the wingspan is a rule of thumb if you're buying one of these
    $400 8
In the same genus as broccoli, it's grown for its large, white curd, or head
    $400 24
TV shows set in San Diego over the years include "Simon & Simon", "Drake & Josh" & this comedy starring Jane & Lily
    $400 21
This name for a "hot" whiskey drink that your Auntie Minzie thinks will get you over a cold is partly from a Hindi word
    $600 2
This novelist meeting Lincoln in D.C. represented in statue form in Hartford, 1862
    $600 5
Scapula
    $600 14
You can get the smaller members of this lizard family at a pet store but its largest member, the Komodo dragon, is illegal to sell
    $600 9
They're not technically nuts, though so called, but the curved edible seeds of a tropical evergreen
    $600 23
Fictional White Pine Bay, Oregon, is the setting for this drama, featuring young Norman & his mother, Norma
    DD: $1,400 18
The name of this relish that accompanies a meal in Indian cuisine goes back to a word meaning "to lick"
    $800 3
Alfred Eisenstaedt; in Times Square playing photo-voyeur as a sailor kisses a nurse; this month, 1945
    $800 4
Sternum
    $800 6
Add another "T" to the second letter of the Greek alphabet to get the name of this fish that's ubiquitous at pet stores
    $800 10
Boston cream pies are traditionally filled with a layer of this, vanilla flavor
    $800 16
Garry Marshall created this nostalgic sitcom about the Cunningham family in 1950s Milwaukee
    $800 17
Jamaica's govt. set up a group to make recommendations on cannabis laws--the National Commission on this word from the Hindi
    $1000 12
A future philosopher named William; around 1285; being born in this village in Surrey, now near Heathrow Airport
    $1000 13
Pollex
    $1000 7
A golden or robo type of this animal would work out great on a wheel with a Niteangel pedometer to track its steps
    $1000 11
This darling member of the mandarin family has a thin peel & is often seedless
    $1000 20
From 2006 to 2013, it was all fun in the sun for forensic expert Dexter Morgan in this city
    $1000 19
This word for a large heavy vehicle & a villain in "Deadpool 2" comes via Hindi from Sanskrit for "lord of the universe"

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

Laura Sean Jenifer
$1,800 $3,000 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Sean Jenifer
$6,200 $3,400 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

NAME THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
INTERNATIONAL CITIES
AFRICAN AMERICANS
WORLD WAR I WORDS
THE CINEMATIC VAMPIRE
(Nicholas: I'm Nicholas Hoult.) (Lily-Rose: And I'm Lily-Rose Depp; vampire movies are a very old genre, though not as old as some vampires.) (Nicholas: And we'll have clues about some of the most notorious ones in celebration of our upcoming film, Nosferatu.)
    $400 23
A 1921 newspaper article says, this "former president... realized his life's ambition to head the Judicial Branch"
    $400 21
Based on Thornton Wilder's play "The Matchmaker", this beloved musical was back where it belonged--back on Broadway in 2017
    $400 5
Come to Sydney for the opera house, stay for SXSW, this festival that's gone pretty far in that direction from its Austin roots
    $400 6
Sweet potatoes became a vital food item, with many cooks calling them these, a different tuber with an African name
    $400 11
To be zigzag was to be this, perhaps from too many French 75s
    $400 16
(Nicholas Hoult presents the clue.) Some vampires just ooze elegance, like this charming bloodsucker played by Tom Cruise on the big screen; de Lioncourt is his last name & he turned in the 18th century
    $800 24
In 1986, weeks after becoming a justice, he received an award from the National Italian American Foundation
    $800 22
After a famous opera singer passes out & can't perform, another man takes his place in ken Ludwig's comedy "Lend Me a" this
    $800 1
The economic center of northern Italy, it's also home to some great art, like "The Last Supper" on the wall of a convent
    $800 7
An early Sharon Jones recording had the alliterative title "The" this gesture "Dip"
    $800 15
In 1917 the London Times wrote of "the unity of the fighting front and" this civilian parallel
    $800 17
(Lily-Rose Depp presents the clue.) Playing the delightful death-dealer Selene in this franchise, Kate Beckinsale showed she can kick all kinds of ass
    DD: $1,000 25
A college on West 59th Street in Manhattan is named for this man
    $1200 2
Once the center of a vanished kingdom, Benin City isn't in Benin, but in this bigger neighbor to the east
    $1200 8
This 2024 Olympic gold medalist is carrying on a tradition of Black nail art, including among track stars
    $1200 12
British soldiers were Tommies; U.S. soldiers were these, from the name of a national symbol
    $1200 18
(Lily-Rose Depp presents the clue.) Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein & Lance Henriksen chewed the scenery & drank blood as creepy vamps in "Near Dark", an early featured directed by this woman, who went on to win an Oscar
    $1600 26
This former dean of Harvard Law School was pictured with a robe & gavel in her 1977 New York high school yearbook
    $1600 3
The name of this Israeli economic center is Hebrew for "spring hill"
    $1600 9
Many at HBCUs, the "Divine 9" are important BGLOs, short for these, & include Omega Psi Phi
    $1600 13
In Britain, "conchie" was a derisive term for one of these
    $1600 19
(Nicholas Hoult presents the clue.) Ages-old Miriam in "The Hunger" was played by this Paris-born actress; her sanguine tastes ran from David Bowie to Susan Sarandon
    DD: $2,000 4
For its tourist-friendly mix of cultures, this "Lion City" south of Malaysia has been called "Instant Asia"
    $2000 10
In 1966 this dept. had the 1st African-Amer. Cabinet secy., Robert Weaver; 5 others since have also been Black, including Ben Carson
    $2000 14
Adapted from German, this word originally meant to punish but soon came to mean to shoot at the ground from the air
    $2000 20
(Nicholas Hoult presents the clue.) Max Schreck starred as the dastardly Count Orlock, whose fingernails & fangs set the template for the future in the grandfather of vampire films, 1922's "Nosferatu", directed by this man

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Sean Jenifer
$15,600 $4,200 -$2,000
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LEADERS
In 2009 this leader gave Barack Obama the book "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent"

Final scores:

Laura Sean Jenifer
$13,200 $4,187 -$2,000
3-day champion: $30,200 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Laura Sean Jenifer
$15,000 $4,200 -$2,000
22 R
(including 3 DDs),
3 W		 10 R,
2 W		 8 R,
6 W

Combined Coryat: $17,200

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Game tape date: 2024-10-30
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