Show #9238 - Wednesday, January 1, 2025

2024-2025 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Josh Moss, a craft distillery owner from Boston, Massachusetts

Gino Montoya, an attorney from Albuquerque, New Mexico

Colleen Matthews, a speech-language pathologist from Hillsboro, Oregon

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Jeopardy! Round

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY!

STATE PARKS

THE RACE IS ON

POTPOURRI

IT COMES IN BOTTLES

4-LETTER WORDS WITH AN "X"

$200

1877:
She is proclaimed Empress of India

$200

Head to the 55,000-acre Missouri lake named for this president to see the dam & the state park named for him

$200

A literal landmark race took place in November 1905, when a man named Forestier was the first to make it up 729 steps of this

$200

This actress is behind a line of hair care products called Blake Brown

$200

Hunt's classic tomato & Portland Organic

$200

In 2015 CNN reported 30% of teens have broken up or been broken up with this way

$400

1962:
This U.S. Navy special forces unit is established

$400

Arkansas' Crater of these State Park gave up "Uncle Sam", later cut up & sold for $150,000 in 1971 dollars

DD: $2,000

Talk about a dynasty--the New York Yacht Club won this race 24 straight times from 1870 to 1980

$400

A brand of jeans & a Jeep model both have this name that can also refer to someone who saddles horses

$400

Garnier Fructis Curl Nourish & TRESemmé Effortless Waves

$400

Passing this No. 4 on I-80 East in Utah, you might want to be aware that No. 41, the upcoming one, is 37 miles away

$600

1927:
This football game is broadcast coast to coast on radio for the first time

$600

This Delaware nickname precedes Heritage Park, an urban "park without boundaries"

$600

Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago & New York are the 6 "major" these races; men's winning times are just over 2 hours

$600

This maximum security correctional facility in New York was originally called Mount Pleasant Prison

$600

Hendrick's Grand Cabaret &
Sipsmith London Dry

$600

Someone who brings nothing but bad luck might be called a this; it's also in the title of a docuseries about Robert Durst

$800

1660: Recording that his wife burned her hand preparing a meal & other events of that day, this man makes his first diary entry

$800

Experience more than a "Trace" of some big bass fishin' in the park named for Mississippi pol Bob M. Dearing 10 miles north of this city

$800

From 1992 to 1999 Björn Daehlie won 8 Olympic & 9 World Championship gold medals in this sport also called the Nordic version

$800

This New Jersey university was founded in 1766 with a charter signed by Ben Franklin's son

$800

Bertolli extra virgin & Goya Puro

$800

If you miss the ferry on Fire Island, you can get where you need to go on a "water" this; there's no meter, though

$1000

1990: He's sworn in as the first Black mayor of New York City

$1000

Explore Warbler Road or Woodpecker Trail in the Kentucky state park named for this 19th century artist

$1000

Caeleb Dressel holds the world record in the 100m this stroke, performed with simultaneous sweeps of both arms in front of the body

$1000

Hindi & Urdu give us the name of this clay oven that uses charcoal

$1000

Blue Lizard Sensitive Mineral & Neutrogena Sport Active Defense

$1000

Casually mentioning to the deli meat guy at Costco that you made it on "Jeopardy!" might be this, slang for bragging

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

Colleen	Gino	Josh
$800	$4,200	$3,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Colleen	Gino	Josh
$3,800	$7,000	$6,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE

TV MUSIC

PEOPLE OF AFRICA

I USE 3 INITIALS

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

JANE STONE, WWII LINGUIST

(Ken: She's a hypothetical expert in the languages of the Axis Powers.)

$400

Her first line to Antony is "If it be love indeed, tell me how much"

$400

Joe Raposo wrote "'C' Is For Cookie" & co-wrote the theme to this series that used it

$400

Early 20th century King Njoya, of the Bamum, defied colonial cartographers with his own map of his land; this, at the top, denotes west

$400

John Ronald Reuel, which would have taken up waaaay too much of a book cover

$400

Cephalalgia is a medical term for this: take a couple of aspirin or ibuprofen & call me in the morning

$400

Jane knows this is the German equivalent of "wonderful", down to the 3-letter adjective suffix

DD: $2,000

Polonius saying "I hear him coming, let's withdraw, my lord" is the cue for this immortal line

$800

A song called "Nemesis" sets up the undercurrent of mistrust on this drama starring Reese Witherspoon & Jennifer Aniston

$800

Cattle are a big deal to the Nuer of the Nile region; a man is often called by the name of his prize this, a castrated bull

$800

18th century composer Carl Philipp Emanuel, no relation to 20th century composer P.D.Q.

$800

Denoting a tumor, this suffix follows lymph-, sarc- & blast-

$800

"Tocca ferro" or "touch iron", Jane clarifies, is the Italian version of this superstitious saying

$1200

Published in 1597, this Shakespeare play looks back a bit over a century to the "winter of our discontent"

$1200

Matthew Weiner used an instrumental version of RJD2's "A Beautiful Mine" for the opening of this period drama that he created

$1200

The Hutu people are the majority group in this country & Burundi

$1200

"Avatar" & "The Shield" actress, Carole Christine Hilaria

$1200

It may ring a bell that this is the medical term for ringing in the ears, though it can be other noises like buzzing or hissing

$1200

Jane doesn't know it will someday be a TV streaming platform, but she is aware that this means "six" in Japanese

$1600

Lady Macbeth thinks her husband is not ruthless enough, "too full of" this item not actually in the dairy case

$1600

"Everywhere You Look" was the theme song to this show that ran until 1995; Carly Rae Jepsen's cover was used for the Netflix sequel

$1600

Lesotho minus L-E gets you the Sotho people; the Western Sotho are called these, another country minus B-O

$1600

William Edward Burghardt, unafraid to edit things down

$1600

Ulcerative or otherwise, it's an inflammation of the large intestine

$1600

Jane explains, this word solo is a Japanese toast but after "tenno heika", a war cry meaning "may the emperor live 10,000 years"

$2000

Ralph Fiennes made his directorial debut with a modern battle gear adaptation of this play of ancient Rome with a 1-word title

$2000

This classic comedy used the haunting instrumental theme "Suicide Is Painless"

$2000

Ethiopia's 2 largest ethnic groups are the triple-O Oromo & this triple-A group whose name recalls a local language

$2000

Confederate cavalry officer James Ewell Brown

$2000

From Greek for "a knot of tissue", this type of cyst often appears along the tendons or joints of the hands or wrists

DD: $1,600

17-letter German words are child's play for Jane, who tells the Navy that Unterwasserbomben are these 2-word anti-sub weapons

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Colleen	Gino	Josh
$18,600	$11,800	$12,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

U.S. PRESIDENTS

According to his son Fred, this man first tried smoking just because it was against the rules at West Point

Final scores:

Colleen	Gino	Josh
$24,401	$22,800	$5,799
Finalist	2nd place: $3,000	3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Colleen	Gino	Josh
$17,400	$10,200	$13,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W	15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W	19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Show #9238 - Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round

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

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Double Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Final Jeopardy! Round

Final scores:

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Combined Coryat: $41,400

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Game tape date: 2024-11-04