Show #9235 - Friday, December 27, 2024

Laura Faddah game 7.

Contestants

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Herb Jeong, a retired pension administrator from San Francisco, California

Megan Riddell, a human resources data analyst from Linthicum, Maryland

Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (whose 6-day cash winnings total $79,400)

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Jeopardy! Round

STARTS & ENDS WITH "O"
HODGEPODGE
CUPS & GLASSES
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
THE LAST TYCOON
THIS SIDE OF PARODIES
    $200 1
Founded by King Harald Hardrada around 1050, it's home to more than 1 million people
    $200 6
At age 14 in 1976, Romanian athlete Nadia Comăneci was the first Olympic gymnast to receive one of these perfect scores
    $200 30
It's a cylindrical glass cup with an acrobatic name; back in the day, it had a pointed bottom & couldn't be set down without it rolling
    $200 18
F. Scott Fitzgerald was named for this man, a lyricist of note
    $200 24
In 2007 a Time magazine cover story called this News Corporation founder "The Last Tycoon"
    $200 25
Roger Rees was the no-goodnik Sheriff of Rottingham in this comedy subtitled "Men in Tights"
    $400 2
This type of work takes its name from a chapel in Rome where musical performances were held in the 16th century
    $400 7
The most popular TV show in the early 1950s, this sitcom pioneered the use of 3 cameras to film in front of a live audience
    $400 13
Rather than regular glasses, many hip bars use this type of canning jar named for a 19th century American tinsmith
    $400 10
A disastrous trip from Lyon to Paris was one bump in Fitzgerald's relationship with this other American author
    $400 23
This newspaper tycoon brought a Cistercian monastery over from Spain but couldn't put it together again
    $400 26
This title Swiss mountain girl is "Mad" in a 2022 parody & takes revenge against an evil cheese tyrant
    $600 3
In Spanish this palindromic word means "eye" or in slang, "watch out!"
    $600 8
First performed in 1892, "The Nutcracker" was the last of this composer's ballets
    $600 14
This Toby Keith song is named for a beer pong perennial invented by Robert L. Hulseman
    $600 9
In one of Scott's stories, a protagonist says his father has one of these "as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel"
    DD: $2,000 20
Jay Gould was so unscrupulously wealthy he could be the prototypical this, with a criminal & a noble title in the name
    $600 19
In this film Dewey Cox' Dylan phase includes the lyric "mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the Coliseum"
    $800 4
Shopping for ingredients in the marinade for souvlaki? Don't forget this essential herb
    $800 11
Founded in 2003, this auto company is named for an 1884 immigrant to the United States
    $800 15
In the late 12th century, Robert de Boron drew from the Gospel of Nicodemus to tell the tale of this holy vessel
    $800 16
Fitzgerald paired these young ladies of his day with "Philosophers" for an alliterative book title
    $800 21
Known as "The Commodore", he bought a boat in 1810 & began ferrying folks between Staten Island & NYC
    $800 27
The high school in "Not Another Teen Movie" is named for this '80s director whose films provided fodder for the parody
    $1000 5
A word coined in the 1960s, it's the segment of music heard here... making a nice capper to my clue reading
    $1000 12
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is the slogan of this newspaper
    $1000 29
This type of glass bears the name of a cocktail made with lemon juice, sugar & fizzy water
    $1000 17
Paying her respects over Scott's body, this Round Table wit quoted a line from "The Great Gatsby" that's too salty for us to say
    $1000 22
This Greek shipping tycoon died not too far from the water at 63 Boulevard Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine
    $1000 28
The sequel to this "Top Gun" parody was "Part Deux"

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

Laura Megan Herb
$1,600 $1,800 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Megan Herb
$3,400 $1,800 $400

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHOPPING FOR SOUVENIRS
SCIENCE
MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM GEOGRAPHY
THE "D.C." UNIVERSE
THE DREADED LESSER-KNOWN OPERA CATEGORY
DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS
    $400 6
From France, how about some of href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-12-27_DJ_06.jpg" target="_blank">these French-named pouches filled with dried lavender
    $400 15
The surface of our star is peppered with these planet-sized blemishes that have a central dark area called an umbra
    $400 23
The Jumbo Shrimp try not to get eaten by Jaguars in this Florida city just south of the Georgia border
    $400 21
He got into the MCU as Iron Man's sidekick Colonel Rhodes, aka Iron Patriot
    $400 16
Aka "ring-tailed bandits", these animals are known to unscrew jars, untie knots & defeat locks
    $800 7
Throughout Norway, you'll find souvenir shops with figurines of href="https://www.j-archive.com/media/2024-12-27_DJ_07.jpg" target="_blank">these mythical beings
    $800 2
In a Newtonian law, "F" is for attractive force & "G" is for this constant
    $800 11
The Southern League's Rocket City Trash Pandas play in Madison but were formerly the Bears of this other Alabama "M" city
    $800 1
She played the intrepid Janet on "The Good Place"
    $800 17
Known more for his Marches, he composed the comic opera "El Capitan" about competing Spanish viceroys in Peru
    $800 12
Job held by Tom Brady & Sir Henry Morgan
    $1200 8
Some call it liquid gold & in Morocco you can get the real deal; your silky shiny hair will thank you
    DD: $1,800 3
Gymnosperms like the pine tree reproduce via these organs also called strobili
    $1200 24
The Sod Poodles are very good boys for this Texas panhandle city whose soil color gives it its Spanish name, meaning "yellow"
    $1200 18
"Rock, Roll & Remember" is a memoir by this man who began hosting "Bandstand" at Philadelphia's WFIL-TV in 1956
    $1200 20
Originally performed by both female & castrato sopranos, Francesco Veracini's "Rosalinda" was based on this Shakespeare comedy
    DD: $2,000 13
This synonym for clown comes from the Italian for "puff out the cheeks"
    $1600 9
In India & nearby regions, you can pick up this type of shawl or scarf made from the wool of a certain cashmere goat
    $1600 4
These clotting agents form in giant bone marrow cells called megakaryocytes
    $1600 25
It's easy for the Space Cowboys to see the parent club, the Astros--the team plays for this "sweet" city in Houston's metro area
    $1600 22
In "First Man", Ryan Gosling reunited with this "La La Land" director to tell the story of Neil Armstrong
    $1600 14
A woman's name begins this verb that means to indulge or pamper excessively
    $2000 10
From Venice, hop a boat to this nearby island & buy some authentic glass of the same name--maybe a vase
    $2000 5
No. 12 on the periodic table, it's the third-most plentiful structural metal in the world after aluminum & iron
    $2000 26
The Rumble Ponies horse around in this SUNY city south of Syracuse whose name should bing a bell
    $2000 27
This late, great actor was an amoral, sexist boss in "Nine to Five" & again in "Tootsie"
    $2000 19
In Matthew 22 Jesus is confronted by members of the Pharisees & by this sect

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Laura Megan Herb
$10,000 $1,400 $3,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
In his very first appearance by name, this character comes downstairs "bump-bump-bump on the back of his head"

Final scores:

Laura Megan Herb
$8,000 $1,452 $2,900
7-day champion: $87,400 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Laura Megan Herb
$11,800 $3,400 $5,200
18 R,
5 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 9 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $20,400

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Game tape date: 2024-10-30
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