Show #9233 - Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Laura Faddah game 5.

Contestants

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Amber Gamrat, a software developer from Hudson, New Hampshire

Mathieu Farhoud-Dionne, a musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 4-day cash winnings total $40,400)

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Jeopardy! Round

ISLANDS & ARCHIPELAGOS
THE NOVEL CHAPTER
TRIPLE JEOPARDY!
I'M SO INDICTED
5, 5
(Ken: Each response is two five-letter words.)
FOOT BALL
    $200 1
Polar bears roam over much of this country's Svalbard archipelago
    $200 6
"An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express"
    $200 20
Alnitak, meaning "the girdle", is part of a triple star system & the easternmost star in this constellation's "belt"
    $200 26
In Washington State a charge of this in the second degree is coming if, with criminal negligence, you cause a person's death
    $200 11
A numerical way of saying half favorable, half unfavorable
    $200 25
Defenders can't approach a kicker taking this soccer penalty, whether the direct or indirect type
    $400 5
The Faroe Islands belong to Denmark, but Faroese is more closely related to the language of this nearby island
    $400 7
"The Cemetery of the Château d'If"
    $400 21
A basic margarita combines tequila, fresh lime juice & this colorless orange-flavored liqueur such as cointreau
    $400 27
Did fear of physical injury make the victim give up property? We'll see if we can use the Hobbs Act to indict for robbery or this
    $400 12
A type of bird is in this rhyming adjective meaning mushy or overly sentimental
    $400 17
In this sport, it's a 5-run penalty if a fielder deliberately kicks a ball hit by a batsman over the boundary rope
    $600 4
Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei share this big island
    DD: $1,000 8
"Eliza's Escape"
    $600 22
In 1956, this Yankee center fielder won the Triple Crown with a .353 batting average, 52 home runs & 130 RBIs
    $600 28
So you made $116 mil. but didn't pay Uncle Sam a dime (in a non-legal way)? We'll indict you for this 2-word crime, like Pete Rose
    $600 13
Nuda veritas, it goes back to a fable where falsehood personified steals some clothes
    $600 9
In kickball the pitching strip is 42 feet, 5 1/8 inches from this
    $800 3
A 22-mile-wide passage over a deep marine trench separates Grand Turk & its cays from this partner island group
    $800 18
"Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends"
    $800 23
This horse that won the Triple Crown in 1973 still has the fastest time in all 3 of those races
    $800 29
This, continuously going online to harass or threaten people with physical harm, got an ex-privacy consultant 9 years in 2024
    $800 14
It's a projection formed by the biggest part of the larynx
    $800 10
It's extremely rare now, but this play in which the ball is kicked after it hits the ground is still legal in the NFL
    $1000 2
The largest of the Shetland Islands is called Mainland, as is the largest island in this neighboring group
    $1000 19
"Wickfield and Heep"
    $1000 24
The Triple Frontier is a region shared by Brazil, Argentina & this smaller nation, where the Iguazú & Paraná rivers converge
    $1000 30
Indict someone for intent to maim that may include body-part severance & be "better protected from" this felony, "like me"
    $1000 15
Stokely Carmichael said, "We have to organize ourselves to speak for each other. That's" this slogan
    $1000 16
The AFGL is the American Foot this League, which plays the sport with kicks & soccer balls on courses across the country

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

Laura Mathieu Amber
$4,200 -$2,200 -$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Mathieu Amber
$8,800 -$1,200 $600

Double Jeopardy! Round

THINKING ABOUT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
ALL KINDS OF MUSIC
MOLLUSKS
LET'S GO TO THE PARK
HAPPY 100th, ROD SERLING
(Ken: There's another famous Jew born on Christmas.)
"A"CRONYMS & "A"BBREVIATIONS
    $400 28
17th c. leader Murad IV executed drinkers of this nonalcoholic beverage & closed the "houses" where they met, seen as hotbeds of sedition
    $400 26
The name of this music form is actually an abbreviation of an Italian phrase meaning "work in music"
    $400 14
Visit Tokyo in the spring & you can see more than a dozen varieties of these trees blossoming in Shinjuku Gyoen
    $400 13
Merry Xmas Eve! In a classic "Twilight Zone", Art Carney loses his job as this "uniquely popular American institution"
    $400 17
Check out my new ride; it's got AWD, this advantage on icy roads
    $800 27
The early leaders of the empire went by the Turkish title bey; with the caliph's blessing, Bayezid I took this Muslim title
    $800 25
In 1899 a critic wrote, "If" this "was called tempo di raga... it might win honor more speedily"
    $800 15
Kings Park in Perth features a viewing tower with this 3-letter name, structured after a scientific discovery of 1953
    $800 12
Rod served on Leyte & Luzon, then went to Antioch College on this "Bill"; a war-set story he wrote there was 1st published in 2024
    $800 18
The Internet domain code for this nation is .az
    $1200 1
Osman I, who gave his name to the empire, beat a force from this predecessor empire at the 1302 Battle of Bapheus
    DD: $4,000 6
Aubades were sung in the morning; these courtship tunes, like Mozart's, "Oh, Come To The Window", were meant to be sung at night
    $1200 7
The shiny, rainbow-colored inner layer of certain mollusk shells is called nacre or this hyphenated term
    DD: $3,000 16
Built over abandoned railroad tracks, this Chicago park opened in 2004, just a few years behind schedule
    $1200 9
The "Twilight Zone" episode "Mirror Image" inspired the movie "Us" from this recipient of Ithaca College's Rod Serling Award
    $1200 19
ABC can stand for this, the title of a Gene Luen Yang graphic novel & a Disney+ show
    $1600 2
The high-water mark of the empire's expansion came in 1683, when it rolled to the gates of this city but couldn't quite capture it
    $1600 5
Experts in this "anatomical" form of singing practiced in Central Asia can produce 2 tones simultaneously
    $1600 8
Discovered in the Great Lakes in 1988, the zebra species of this mollusk is an invasive one, originally from Russia
    $1600 22
This famed spot in London's Hyde Park has been an epicenter of free speech since the 19th century
    $1600 10
Rod's series "Night Gallery" premiered in 1969 as a 3-part TV movie, one part directed by this college dropout not yet 23
    $1600 20
Signed in 1951, a security treaty between the United States & 2 Down Under nations is known by this acronym
    $2000 3
The empire endured a brief interregnum in the early 1400s after losing a big clash with this "lame" conqueror from the East
    $2000 4
Francesco Landini composed this type of vocal chamber piece that, like him, originated in the 14th c.; "Deh, dimmi tu" is one
    $2000 24
The most intelligent & active group of mollusks are the members of this "head-foot" group that includes octopuses & squid
    $2000 23
Much of "Les Misérables" is set in these Paris gardens with the name of a small neighboring country
    $2000 11
For both TV & film, Rod wrote "Patterns", this type of drama named for a corporate spot where non-movie directors meet
    $2000 21
In 1816 Black minister Richard Allen founded the AME Church, short for this

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Mathieu Amber
$13,200 $13,400 $2,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PLACE NAMES
A trio including Andrew Jackson founded this city with a name that evokes a great city of the ancient world

Final scores:

Laura Mathieu Amber
$18,000 $399 $2,200
5-day champion: $58,400 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Laura Mathieu Amber
$13,200 $14,600 $2,200
18 R,
4 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W
(including 2 DDs)		 6 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $30,000

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Game tape date: 2024-10-30
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