Show #9237 - Tuesday, December 31, 2024

2024-2025 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Mike Ferguson, a chemistry professor from Edmond, Oklahoma

Kaitlin Tarr, a ceramic artist from Denver, Colorado

Scott Tcheng, an ER doctor from San Francisco, California

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Jeopardy! Round

THE CITIES' TIME ZONE
QUOTABLE WOMEN
NOT FOR THE MONEY
ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS
NONFICTION
MILITARY CELEBS
    $200 12
Puyallup,
San Jose
    $200 5
In a 2016 speech, she said, "When someone is cruel... you don't stoop to their level--No... when they go low, we go high"
    $200 23
You can help the elderly by driving, like Hoke does for Miss Daisy; you can help adults learn to do this, like Miss Daisy does for Hoke
    $200 17
In a 2024 thriller by Kate Brody, a woman investigates her sister's murder & falls down this proverbial place, the book's title
    $200 30
"This Is the Voice" talks about the importance of this, also called the voice box, in human evolution
    $200 16
Seen here is this TV host, a field radio operator in the 25th Marine Regiment from 1980 to 1986; his "Price" would grow in showbiz
    $400 13
Paducah,
Sheboygan
    $400 4
At a climate change conference in 2018, she said, "The first thing I have learned is that you are never too small to make a difference"
    $400 24
A chair one of these may oversee a tennis match at all levels; the USTA gives awards for those who really do it for love
    $400 18
Anything that diverts you from the real issue, particularly in a mystery, is this fishy term
    $400 29
This longtime "NCIS" star co-wrote "Ghosts of Honolulu", an untold story of Pearl Harbor
    $400 11
Leaping away from the 101st Airborne, this '60s legend had enough experience to land on his feet as a guitarist
    $600 14
South Hadley,
Rehoboth Beach
    $600 3
This creator of "Grey's Anatomy" repeats the advice her father gave her: "The only limit to your success is your own imagination"
    $600 25
Folks at the potluck will appreciate your meatballs or queso dip whether or not they're in this original brand of slow cooker
    $600 19
A young shepherd in an Aesop fable tricked villagers by doing this, now a term for any false alarm
    $600 28
In her memoir "Be Ready When the Luck Happens", she tells of turning the Barefoot Contessa from one Hamptons shop into an empire
    $600 10
Post-Marines, he enlisted at Juilliard before meeting "Girls" & living in the "House of (Maurizio) Gucci"
    $800 15
Fort Collins,
Deadwood
    $800 1
She said, "Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them... have enriched my life beyond measure"
    $800 26
Especially since a purge of old white ladies, the Art Institute of Chicago has openings for volunteer educators, aka this word
    $800 20
Beware, you might get stung if you kick or stir up this, the domicile of a type of wasp
    $800 6
"The Barn" recounts the brutal murder of this 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, in Mississippi to visit relatives
    $800 9
After serving 4 years in the 25th Infantry, he got into music, then put in his 20 (& still counting!) as a cop on NBC
    $1000 22
Klamath Falls,
North Las Vegas
    $1000 2
Prime minister who in 1983 said, "I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end"
    $1000 27
In 1971 CSUN accounting professor Gary Iskowitz began VITA, a program still serving folks who need help preparing these
    $1000 21
An old medical aphorism says, "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not" these
    DD: $3,600 7
"King of the Osage Hills" & "For the Betterment of the Bureau" are chapters in this 2017 bestseller
    $1000 8
A radar repairman in the Air Force in the '50s, he went off to "The Electric Company", an Oscar win & a ton of voiceovers

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

Scott Kaitlin Mike
$1,200 $2,400 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Kaitlin Mike
$2,200 $7,800 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

KNOTTY ENTERTAINMENT
MYTHOLOGY
SINK, SANK, SUNK
MODERN ABBREVIATIONS
SCIENCE TEST
FROM "M" TO "Y"
(Ken: Those will be the first and last letters, respectively of each response.)
    $400 23
Audrey Horne ties a cherry stem with her tongue to prove her dexterity at the One-Eyed Jacks brothel on this David Lynch TV show
    $400 11
If you gazed into the face of this mortal Gorgon, you would be turned to stone
    $400 28
Maybe with the decisive shot at B-3, Japan sank the Petropavlovsk, this mighty type of vessel, at Port Arthur in 1904
    $400 24
WSG is short for this, like when you're inquiring as to how another's day is going
    $400 13
The field of organic chemistry is the study of compounds that contain this element
    $400 15
This project was the USA's first manned space program
    $800 22
One sketch in this show has Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein going to Jeff Goldblum's wacky artisan knot store
    $800 10
In an awkward turn of events, Jocasta's second husband, him, was her son
    $800 30
More than 100 luckless ladies perished in 1835 when the Neva, this type of transport, sank en route from Cork to Sydney
    $800 25
MMA for short, it uses techniques from jujitsu & Muay Thai, to name a few
    $800 4
When a ray of light strikes a mirror, the angle of incidence equals the angle of this
    $800 14
A Robert Burns poem says, "O my love is like" this "that's sweetly played in tune"
    $1200 21
This duo behind the viral hit "The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)" made a song & a dance around doing a trucker's hitch knot
    $1200 9
This first woman in Greek myth was actually a prank on man, who should have asked, what's in the box?
    $1200 18
Adios, San Jose, this type of Spanish ship sunk by the English; its wreck under the Caribbean is said to hold $20 billion of treasure
    $1200 26
In February you'll probably run into the abbreviation BHM, short for this observance
    $1200 1
Thomas Hunt Morgan discovered that genes are carried on these structures
    $1200 12
Despite its name, the winged existence of this insect might last only a few hours, not a month
    $1600 17
In "Jaws" this actor as Chief Brody gets a knotty lesson from Robert Shaw's Quint: "Little brown eel comes out of the cave..."
    $1600 5
In Greek myth, the Furies, goddesses of vengeance, are the daughters of Uranus & this Earth goddess
    DD: $1,400 19
Vermont scuba divers (a hardy lot) can explore the Water Witch, a schooner at the bottom of this lake since 1866
    $1600 16
Disrupting a computer site by overwhelming it with a flood of fake traffic is a DDOS, one of these attacks
    $1600 2
Newton's second law, F = ma, says that net force acting on a body is equal to its mass times its this, abbreviated a
    $1600 7
A refectory is what you call a dining room in a convent or this place
    $2000 20
In this 2016 war film, Andrew Garfield uses a double-loop knot to lower injured soldiers down a cliff
    DD: $2,000 6
It's said of these twins of myth that one of their pops was Zeus & the other was Tyndareus
    $2000 29
Name of the BP oil rig that sank in 2010, & of the movie about it with Kurt Russell as rig supervisor Jimmy Harrell
    $2000 27
As in an Oscar-winning 2021 drama, CODA is short for these offspring
    $2000 3
This debris-filled area with a meteorological name marks the limit of the Sun's gravitational influence
    $2000 8
The study of the form & structure of living things

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Kaitlin Mike
$11,400 $14,400 $8,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

THEATER ETYMOLOGY
A centuries-old type of performance, this word includes Greek roots meaning "imitator of all"

Final scores:

Scott Kaitlin Mike
$6,399 $8,401 $0
2nd place: $3,000 Finalist 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Scott Kaitlin Mike
$13,400 $18,200 $8,200
15 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 27 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $39,800

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Game tape date: 2024-11-04
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