Show #9232 - Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Laura Faddah game 4.

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Jenna Hayes, an attorney from New York, New York

Harry Jarin, an emergency services consultant from Edgewater, Maryland

Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 3-day cash winnings total $30,200)

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Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY NOVELS
SCIENCE TIMELINE
AIR TRAVEL
JUST PEACHY
DUMB
WAITER
    $200 26
Charles Deville's idea that volcanic craters lead to a network of passages inspired this man's "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
    $200 28
1796: In a pioneering lecture, Georges Cuvier uses the mastodon to show that this can & does happen to animal species
    $200 1
In 2019 Louisville renamed its international airport for a native son, this boxing legend
    $200 30
Though he famously played for Detroit, baseball's Ty Cobb was known by this nickname based on his birthplace
    $200 15
"Don't get fooled!" became "Don't take any wooden" these coins
    $200 21
In a 2004 episode of this show, a waiter makes the fatal mistake of complaining to Christopher & Paulie about a tip
    $400 29
In 1895 he published "Almayer's Folly" & gave up on trying to teach British readers the name Józef Korzeniowski
    $400 6
1833: Anselme Payen discovers diastase, aka amylase, the first of these proteins that catalyze chemical reactions
    $400 5
With TSA precheck, you get to keep your shoes & belt on & leave these 2 "L"s in your bag
    $400 11
This video game character is the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom
    $400 16
Maybe you're "dumb as a bag of" these, like the claw or cross peen type
    $400 22
The object of Charlie Day's & Charlie Kelly's affection, Mary Elizabeth Ellis plays the waitress on this show
    $600 8
Recent translators of this Italian novel say the title character is brattier than the one in the Disney movie
    $600 27
1880: Jacques & Pierre Curie discover "piezo-" this, emitted by certain crystals when they're put under pressure
    $600 2
These seats that face a wall or curtain often mean more legroom & no one reclining in your lap
    $600 12
Using peach containers in the 1890s, James Naismith created this recreational activity
    $600 17
A great slam is saying that someone is depriving a village of its this; a Monty Python sketch featured a gathering of them
    $600 23
Steve Buscemi makes an appearance as a waiter dressed as Buddy Holly in this Tarantino film
    DD: $1,000 9
Not bad for a title too: Stephen Crane wrote that Henry "wished that he too, had a wound, a" these 4 words
    $800 7
1912: Max von Laue discovers the diffraction of these bursts of short-wavelength radiation
    $800 3
According to its website, the airport of this U.S. city is not only the world's busiest, but also the most efficient
    $800 13
One of this pair's original 31 flavors of ice cream was peach
    $800 18
Calling someone this "Hellraiser" villain is an insult that will torment them forever
    $800 24
She revisited a job from her pre-superstar days playing the sorely in need of flair Joanna in "Office Space"
    $1000 10
In this Jane Austen novel, Anne is single after some convincing--what's a better word?--got her to refuse Frederick
    $1000 20
1965: Leonard Hayflick shows that these can divide & reproduce only a finite number of times before dying
    $1000 4
In 2007, the largest passenger airliner entered service--this manufacturer's A380, which can hold up to 853 passengers
    $1000 14
Vanilla & raspberries are part of the recipe for this dessert invented at the Savoy Hotel for a famous opera singer
    $1000 19
A German word for "not" likely gave us the beginning of this 6-letter rhyming word that describes someone not so clever
    $1000 25
In this 1970 film Jack Nicholson tells a stubborn waitress to hold the chicken (between her knees!)

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

Laura Harry Jenna
$2,400 $1,800 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Harry Jenna
$2,000 $3,600 $6,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

NICKNAMES OF HISTORIC WOMEN
INSCRUTABLE WORDS
(Ken: That is, words made up of letters in the word "inscrutable".)
INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
WHEN IT'S TIME TO RHYME
READ FLAGS
HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT
    $400 30
Nicknamed "Lady Lindy", she learned to fly in the early 1920s from female pilot Neta Snook
    $400 19
The music genre of Howlin' Wolf & John Lee Hooker
    $400 1
It's the body of water between Sudan & Saudi Arabia
    $400 18
A 1784 version of "Roses are red, violets are blue" also rhymes "thine" with this amorous saint
    $400 29
After a mutiny in "Treasure Island", the Hispaniola has this "flag of piracy--flying from her peak"
    $400 28
The "Parade of Wooden Soldiers" is a highlight of their "Christmas Spectacular" at Radio City Music Hall
    $800 10
Martha was the real first name of this legendary figure of the American West who died in South Dakota in 1903
    $800 20
Most wind power facilities have an array of these 3-bladed structures
    $800 2
The Mekong River separates this country from Myanmar & Thailand
    $800 14
Reduplicative rhyming words include this "H" word meaning acting all high & mighty
    $800 6
The book "Flags of Our Fathers" is an account of Marines who raised a partly red flag on this island
    $800 24
This Dr. Seuss animated special first aired on TV in December 1966
    $1200 11
Last name of "Lemonade Lucy", the 19th century first lady who allowed no alcohol to be served in the White House
    $1200 21
An association of suppliers that restrict competition, like the Phoebus or Sinaloa
    DD: $3,000 3
These mountains extend more man 1,200 miles through Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia
    $1200 15
Rhyming mnemonics include this exception-riddled one that does help you spell "receive"
    $1200 7
In a Margaret Atwood sequel, a "flag of the erstwhile United States... has been painted over with that of" this place
    $1200 25
Natalie Wood was only 8 when she played the little Santa Clause skeptic in this classic film
    $1600 12
Later pardoned by President Ford, Iva Toguri D'Aquino was one of the DJs with this infamous nickname during World War II
    $1600 22
Artie Shaw & Pete Fountain were jazzmen who specialized in this instrument
    $1600 4
From Malmö in southern Sweden, take Route E20 across the Øresund Strait to this national capital on the west
    $1600 16
"Freak with / ...keep a secret" & "to the precinct / ...nothing' recent" are in "Turn It Up Remix" by this rapper perfect for the category
    $1600 8
Set in 1793, Victor Hugo's last novel contains the line "It is a flag"--the French one called this
    $1600 26
A 2019 album celebrating Hanukkah featured such artists as Jack Black & this band of sisters--Este, Danielle & Alana
    $2000 13
For helping advance women in the Navy, this 4-term, 3-name Maine senator was the "Mother of the Waves"
    $2000 23
A food made from gluten that's also called wheat meat; some restaurants use it to make mock duck
    $2000 5
This former Soviet republic borders Lithuania to the north, Poland to the west & Ukraine to the south
    $2000 17
My name is Ken / I am the host / Don't take my job, now, / Colin Jost... this "Roll Call" with roots in Prince & Spike Lee
    DD: $2,000 9
A book put out by MoMA highlights this artist & his "deceptively straightforward paintings of flags"
    $2000 27
This Russian-born composer counted "White Christmas" among his favorite songs that he wrote

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Harry Jenna
$5,200 $13,200 $18,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC AWARENESS
As individuals, only Santa Claus & this public service ad icon introduced in 1944 have their own ZIP codes

Final scores:

Laura Harry Jenna
$10,200 $1 $9,200
4-day champion: $40,400 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Laura Harry Jenna
$5,200 $15,200 $16,200
11 R,
5 W		 16 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $36,600

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Game tape date: 2024-10-30
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