Show #9241 - Monday, January 6, 2025

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

Contestants

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Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii

Steve Miller, a retired medical transcriptionist from Eugene, Oregon

Jonquil Garrick-Reynolds, a theatrical wardrobe technician from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC HISTORY
ALBUMS
PALINDROMIC WORDS
KICKIN' BRASS
FLAGS!
SOY WHAT?
    $200 15
Most Chinese subjects were barred from entering this imperial palace complex in Beijing, hence its name
    $200 30
In 2014 Taylor Swift gave us this album named for a different year
    $200 17
A bomb that fails to explode
    $200 19
Rise, shine & name this instrument heard here
    $200 26
The flags of both the Isle of Man & this Italian island feature the triskelion, three bent legs joined at the center
    $200 21
Starbucks made this ingredient a menu option in 1997
    $400 14
This "Great" pharaoh battled the Hittites & was one of ancient Egypt's most prolific builders
    $400 29
The soundtrack to this 2018 film includes the duet "Shallow"
    $400 6
This short word comes before "economy" in the name of the transitory workforce world
    $400 10
Needing a theme for his new show, Larry David chose "Frolic", featuring this instrument; the piece debuted in a 1974 Italian film
    $400 25
The Rolling Stones song "She's a Rainbow" helped inspire the creation of what's called this 5-letter flag
    $400 20
Kikkoman ages it for several months before it comes to your supermarket
    $600 13
The plot to murder Abraham Lincoln included an attempt on the life of this secretary of state
    $600 28
This Beatles album was first reissued on CD June 1, 1987, making the lyrics of the title track accurate
    $600 5
A female Merino
    $600 9
In a university marching band tradition, a Buckeye sousaphone player dots the "I" in this word
    $600 24
The flag of the Vatican depicts a three-tiered tiara & the keys of this saint
    $600 1
We're sitting down at your basic American Japanese restaurant & here comes a bowl of this soy soup
    DD: $3,000 11
The 1973 Arab-Israeli War occurred during these 2 periods, one Jewish & one Islamic, both of which involve fasting
    $800 18
"Montero", from 2021, is his official full-length debut album
    $800 4
Horizontal, or to make something flat
    $800 7
Tommy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden & New Orleans' Mr. Shorty are known for their mastery of this instrument
    $800 22
In 2024 this U.S. state got a new flag, the Beehive Flag
    $800 2
Soy poultry was pioneered by this company, started by an Oregon hippie, which hit it big with a holiday roast in 1995
    $1000 12
"South" is this explorer's story of his 19-teens expedition: it was stranded for 2 years but his party lost none of its 28 men
    $1000 27
"Stoney",
"Hollywood's
Bleeding" & "Beerbongs & Bentleys" were all on the charts for this rapper
    $1000 3
It's found before "cuff" in your shoulder
    $1000 8
Among the differences between it & the trumpet are its less compact shape & the umlaut over its "U"
    $1000 23
The Ikurriña is the name of the flag of this people who live in the foothills of the Pyrenees
    $1000 16
Kraft bought this soy burger brand in 2000

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

Jonquil Steve Drew
$2,200 $2,200 $7,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jonquil Steve Drew
$2,600 $3,400 $11,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

ALLITERATION ON THE MAP
A LITTLE LOVE POETRY
STARS OF STAGE & SCREEN
MANUAL EVENTS
RECENT SCIENCE NOBEL PRIZES
SOY QUE?
    $400 14
This "colorful" waterway stretches from New Mexico to Louisiana
    $400 28
Nikki Giovanni wrote, "I love you / Because the Earth turns round the Sun... I love you / Because no two" these "are alike"
    $400 30
His N.Y. Times obituary said "he gave life to characters like Darth Vader... and Mufasa" & won numerous awards
    $400 22
The first convention of these people was held in Ohio in 1926 & opened by Jean Foley & his "Trained Pack of Cards"
    $400 29
Neural networks named for laureate John Hopfield give machines associative this, like when the smell of bread makes you think of grandma
    $400 8
Sov guía turístico, your tour guide, & just look at the very old & beautiful iglesia, this
    DD: $8,200 13
Mustang & Padre Islands lie between this Texas town & the Gulf of Mexico
    $800 24
You may not think of this Milton epic as a love poem, but in one passage, Eve tells Adam, "With thee conversing I forget all time"
    $800 16
For her role as Troy's wife, Rose, in "Fences", she won both an Oscar & a Tony
    $800 21
Every other year France hosts the world's largest gathering of these artists the French call marionnettistes
    $800 27
The 2022 Prize in Economic Sciences honored 2 men who developed a model of this mass withdrawal of funds leading to a bank collapse
    $800 6
Soy bibliotecario, this professional, & though he died in 2002 I'd love to introduce you to Camilo José Cela
    $1200 12
This capital is a major port on the Mekong River
    $1200 23
Ben Jonson began a classic love poem with the anatomically impossible request, "Drink to me only with thine" these
    $1200 1
She was in her "Prime" when she won the first of her two Oscars for playing Scottish schoolteacher Miss Jean Brodie
    $1200 20
If you can do this real good, consider entering the triennial Franz Liszt Competition held in Utrecht since 1986
    $1200 26
A 2023 prize was for quantum dots; one is to a soccer ball as the ball is to the Earth, enabling medical use of this teensy technology
    $1200 5
Soy delantero, forward, like Cristiano Ronaldo & my dream is to play on this Spanish team for which he scored 450 goals
    $1600 10
The highest peak east of the Mississippi River is this picturesque one in North Carolina
    $1600 7
In "The Raven", the name of this lost love rhymes with "before", "adore" & more
    $1600 2
This Hollywood family by way of Sweden includes father Stellan & sons Alexander, Gustaf & Bill
    $1600 15
Tools, timber & veneers are among the products exhibited at Atlanta's IWF, International this activity Fair
    $1600 9
Honored in 2019, a 1995 discovery was of the first extrasolar planet, often shortened to this, orbiting a Sun-like star
    $1600 4
Soy el santo patrón, patron saint, of sufferers from this glucose-related disease like me, Rafael Arnáiz Barón
    $2000 11
In between the Philippines & Borneo is this vast body of water with a name fit for a Starfleet officer
    $2000 18
This Shakespeare contemporary worked fast; "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" begins, "Come live with me and be my love"
    $2000 17
His Broadway roles include Max Bialystock in "The Producers" & Walter Burns in "The Front Page"
    DD: $5,000 19
See junipers & pines as you never have before at Kokufu-ten, a major exhibition of skills in this art
    $2000 25
The 2021 Chemistry winners discovered the enviro-friendly organic type of these substances that accelerate chemical reactions
    $2000 3
Soy taquero, & my tacos are not ready for you to eat without a few leaves of this parsley family herb, a word from Spanish

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jonquil Steve Drew
$9,800 $18,400 $33,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

21st CENTURY BUSINESS
An early version of this app was called Matchbox but that name was too similar to another company that offered the same service

Final scores:

Jonquil Steve Drew
$9,800 $33,401 $36,801
3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000 Finalist

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jonquil Steve Drew
$9,800 $11,000 $28,200
11 R,
0 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 30 R
(including 2 DDs),
0 W

Combined Coryat: $49,000

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Game tape date: 2024-11-05
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