Show #9236 - Monday, December 30, 2024

2024-2025 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 1.
A large Jeopardy! logo is added to the set, hanging above upstage center.

Contestants

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Tekla Sauter, a nonprofit strategist from Chicago, Illinois

Will Yancey, a lecturer of history from Banquete, Texas

Alex Michev, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia

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Jeopardy! Round

A EUROCENTRIC CATEGORY
RHYME TIME
TRANSPORTATION
COLOR MY WORLD
BOOK "OF"
MERMAN
    $200 15
If you're headed to Monaco, it's probably for its beaches or its Grand Casino in this resort area
    $200 8
Bird of prey chatter
    $200 25
And let's get right into it; that's inventor Dean Kamen demonstrating his human transporter, better known by this name
    $200 14
If you show up at work wearing nothing but this item, you might get one of these dismissals with the same name
    $200 20
"Repression is the only lasting philosophy" is a quote from this 1859 book set in both Paris & London
    $200 26
Maine lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry is the father of this DC comic book hero
    $400 6
Large for a European desert, Błędówska Desert in this country is only about 13 square miles of shifting sand
    $400 10
An incorrect ballad
    $400 24
Since 2012, this SpaceX craft has carried cargo to the International Space Station & since 2020, humans
    $400 9
Living primarily in forests, this omnivore is scientifically Ursus americanus
    $400 19
It's the third installment in a Middle-earth trilogy
    $400 27
In this film Merman/model Ben Stiller reminds us, "Moisture is the essence of wetness & wetness is the essence of beauty"
    $600 1
It's mainland Europe's only active volcano
    $600 11
A solitary one of a brand of stackable potato chips
    $600 23
In 2016 Google's self-driving car project adopted this company name
    $600 4
In 2023 the 49ers led the NFL by scoring a TD 67% of the times they entered this area within the opposing 20-yard line
    $600 18
Curly, a sweet Newfoundland, is put to work as a sled dog along with Buck in this classic
    $600 28
This animated king tells his daughter, "I consider myself a reasonable merman" before destroying a grotto of human objects
    $800 2
The coat of arms on Slovenia's flag has representations of mountains & this arm of the Mediterranean
    $800 12
Hark! Something audible from where the pitcher stands
    $800 22
From Japanese for "human-powered vehicle", it's largely been replaced by the pedicab
    $800 5
It originates at Lake Tana in Ethiopia & then ultimately flows north about 1,000 miles
    $800 17
This Thomas Hardy novel is subtitled "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented"
    $800 29
Fry meets mermen & mermaids in the fabled lost city of Atlanta on this animated show set in the 31st century
    DD: $1,000 3
Unter den Linden in Berlin is a tree-lined avenue running westward nearly a mile to this 5-portal monument
    $1000 13
A superior impact depression
    $1000 21
The airline known by these 3 letters has its main hubs in Copenhagen, Oslo & Stockholm
    $1000 7
Expressing the folly of long-term plans, some say "don't buy" these, but Chiquita says they have more fiber that way
    $1000 16
A semi-autobiographical novel from W. Somerset Maugham
    $1000 30
As a merman in "Barbie", this pro wrestler guzzles a brew & serenades Dua Lipa

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

Alex Will Tekla
$1,600 $2,800 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Will Tekla
$4,800 $3,200 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

ISSUING A CETACEAN
ART & ARTISTS
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
THE 13th CENTURY
THINKERS & THEIR THOUGHTS
MOOD INDI-GO-GO
    $400 24
During courtship fights, male humpback whales use the coating of these crustaceans like brass knuckles
    $400 23
Klimt used gold leaf & bronze paint in this masterpiece at the Belvedere in Vienna showing 2 life-size figures in an embrace
    $400 1
Term for what's left over after subtraction or division
    $400 11
In 1291 cantons in what became this nation, including Uri & Unterwalden, joined in a perpetual covenant
    $400 30
Gayle Rubin is among those who separate this from a person's biological sex, calling it "socially imposed division of the sexes"
    $400 29
This Korean group's 2017 album "Love Yourself: Her" included the songs "DNA" & "Go Go"
    $800 14
The distinctive enlarged tooth on the males of this whale seems to have a sensory use, maybe to note changes in salinity
    $800 22
In 1930 Georgia O'Keeffe detailed a "Black Mesa Landscape," this state
    $800 2
There are one & a half liters floating around inside this size wine bottle
    $800 10
Mamluk Sultan Baibars seized the Syrian strongholds of this murderous sect, effectively stamping them out
    $800 18
To John Cacioppo this ‑ness, the title of his book, is an evolutionary benefit; isolated, sad cavemen sought connections
    $800 28
Not go-go dancing but the jitterbug is mentioned in this duo's hit "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
    $1200 13
Foraging on the sea floor, this type of dolphin was observed using a protective sea sponge over the feature it's named for
    $1200 19
Giotto opened a cool can of fresco in "Noli me tangere", meaning this, what the risen Christ is saying to Mary Magdalene
    $1200 3
Those worshipping only one deity are practicing this belief system
    DD: $1,200 6
This phrase in the title of an Indiana Jones movie has also been used about a useless effort by King Edward I in 1271
    $1200 7
To both Nietzsche & Clarkson, it's what makes me (says Friedrich) or you (says Kelly) stronger
    $1200 27
The Whisky A Go Go is one of the storied rock clubs along this "Strip" named for a more than 20-mile-long boulevard
    $1600 15
Scientists are using AI to notice patterns in the clickety-clack chitchat of this largest toothed whale
    $1600 20
An expat painter, she delivered "Mother & Child" around 1899... at least that's the Impressionist I get
    $1600 4
Known for brutal repression, this system of Soviet labor camps made corpses out of enemies of the state
    $1600 8
This dynasty took control in Austria under Rudolf I & would rule in Europe into the 20th century
    $1600 12
Economist G.D.H. Cole named this concept of universal free checks; the TV characters seen here enjoy it
    $1600 26
A Broadway musical featuring music of the Go-Go's includes the tunes "Vacation", "We Got The Beat" & this title one
    $2000 16
Southern right whales have been observed using their tails, actually 2 lobes called these, as a sort of sail to catch the wind
    $2000 21
Not staying out of politics after being called "Robespierre of the Brush", he painted "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" in 1801
    DD: $2,400 5
To do this is to drain a body of all of its blood
    $2000 9
Sundiata Keita left his father's kingdom on the upper part of this "national" river & founded the Mali Empire
    $2000 17
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the entire Torah", per this sage for whom Jewish campus chapters are named
    $2000 25
This animated lawman would yell, "Go go" before launching the name of a contraption attached to his body

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alex Will Tekla
$12,800 $14,800 $5,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPHIC NAMES
In 1492 Columbus visited this island that he named for the country whose flag he flew

Final scores:

Alex Will Tekla
$14,300 $25,601 $11,198
2nd place: $3,000 Finalist 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Alex Will Tekla
$12,800 $14,400 $5,600
20 R,
2 W		 20 R
(including 3 DDs),
4 W		 8 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $32,800

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Game tape date: 2024-11-04
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