Show #9242 - Tuesday, January 7, 2025

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

Contestants

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Josh Heit, a government relations professional from Silver Spring, Maryland

Zoe Grobman, a therapist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Enzo Cunanan, a student from Orlando, Florida

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Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CITIES
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HALL OF FAMERS
A GAME OF RUTH OR BLAIR
SCRAMBLED EGG LAYERS
VOWEL, CONSONANT, VOWEL
    $200 27
An architectural masterpiece, the Duomo in this Italian city is a sight to behold
    $200 29
A 2024 proof silver dollar coin minted in Philly features this abolitionist, long considered for our $20 bill
    $200 9
The professional hall of fame for this sport opened in 1963 with an inaugural class including Red Grange & George Halas
    $200 30
The subtitle of "Justice on the Brink" mentions "The Death of" this woman & "The Rise of Amy Coney Barrett"
    $200 19
Traditional symbol of happiness:
RIDE BULB
    $200 22
An article in The Ringer called "In My" this, a period of personal history, "The Defining Phrase of 2023"
    $400 4
With temps reaching 70 below zero, Yakutsk in this region of Russia ranks among the world's coldest cities
    $400 28
In 2005, this country honored its native son, Pope John Paul II, with a gold-on-silver coin
    $400 8
The Intl. Swimming Hall of Fame calls this 2023 inductee the "greatest athlete/swimmer in the history of the Olympic Games"
    $400 20
The Economist nicknamed this Labour Party British prime minister "the strangest Tory ever sold"
    $400 26
It can reach a ground speed of 15 mph:
ORDER AN URN
    $400 21
The night before, or a rapper
    $600 1
Lugano in this country hosted the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956: Basel is scheduled to host in 2025
    $600 10
Not pocket change, six 220-pound Canadian coins, with a face value of $1 million, had Elizabeth II on one side & this national symbol on the other
    $600 5
Already in as a player & Olympian, in 2024 this late legend was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame for the third time, as a contributor
    $600 12
In 1926 a Daily News article about him declared, "The Bambino finds his bat!"
    $600 23
Might be probing for insects:
CROOKED PEW
    $600 18
An expression of surprise; with a hyphen, it's the name of a Norwegian '80s synth-pop band
    $800 2
Now the capital of Carabobo State, the South American city of Valencia was thrice the capital of this country
    $800 14
In 2024 an 82 B.C. Roman silver coin with this Homer-ian man walking his dog Argos on one side was found near an ancient bathhouse
    $800 6
After becoming this race's first 4-time winner in 1977, A.J. Foyt cruised into the Intl. Motorsports Hall of Fame
    $800 11
In 1948, she was trained as a sniper by the Israeli Haganah, long before she became an expert on relationships
    $800 24
Its crest can be raised & lowered at will:
TACO COOK
    $800 17
Multiple eggs, scientifically speaking
    DD: $1,000 3
Though its name means "place of the thunderbolt", this city in West Bengal is better known as a city of tea
    $1000 15
One of the 13 known 1933 Saint-Gaudens double this coins still in existence got one lucky owner $18.9 million
    $1000 7
Charter members of the Hockey Hall of Fame include this eponymic lord inducted as a "Builder" in 1945
    $1000 13
Eric Blair felt it necessary to use this pen name before the publication of "Down & Out in Paris & London"
    $1000 25
Can open quite wide:
IN PLACE
    $1000 16
It's a sea urchin treat at a Japanese restaurant

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

Enzo Zoe Josh
$800 $600 $3,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Enzo Zoe Josh
$400 $3,800 $5,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
POTENT QUOTABLES
OPERA SETTINGS
THE FATHER OF
THAT'S SHOWBIZ
BRAIN "ROT"
    $400 21
On June 24, 1948 the Soviet Union cut off Western rail, road & water access to sections of this city
    $400 26
In 1958, referring to a vodka martini, this author wrote the immortal words "shaken and not stirred"
    $400 27
An elderly doge is forced to abdicate & dies disgraced in "I due Foscari", set in this city
    $400 28
Nicéphore Niépce & Louis Daguerre are both considered fathers of this field
    $400 30
Minor studios like Republic specialized in the low-budget productions familiarly graded as these
    $400 29
It's inferior & maybe toxic liquor; it sounds like what it might do to your innards
    $800 10
From September 5 to 17, 1978, Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat hammered out accords at this spot
    $800 25
In a Chekhov short story, this title drink is "2 bottles of... the real thing, with the label of Veuve Clicquot", for New Year's Eve
    $800 20
Thea Musgrave's opera about this liberator is set, of course, in South America
    $800 17
This American inventor is "The Father of the Steel Plow"
    $800 24
A Broadway show is usually considered successful if it hits $1 million in GWBOR, gross weekly these receipts
    $800 19
Bob Hope & Nelson Mandela were honorary members of this basketball team
    $1200 3
In 70 B.C. he staked his claim as Rome's leading orator when he argued a possibly corrupt Sicilian governor right into exile
    DD: $6,000 12
This pale dry sherry gets title billing in a Poe tale
    DD: $2,000 8
Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" takes place in 18th century Vienna during the reign of this empress
    $1200 9
This "Father of Method Acting" taught some of the best of the best, including Al Pacino, James Dean & Marilyn Monroe
    $1200 22
Your server will bring tap beer & more to your seat at this Texas-based theater chain acquired by Sony Pictures in 2024
    $1200 18
Its maritime museum holds a collection of more than 850,000 objects from Dutch history
    $1600 2
In 1521 an imperial assembly called the Diet met in this German city, & centuries of jokes at the name ensued
    $1600 11
This detective is instructed in "The Long Goodbye" that a real gimlet is "half gin & half Rose's lime juice & nothing else"
    $1600 7
"King Priam", an opera by Sir Michael Tippett, is set in this city of antiquity
    $1600 6
This Swedish naturalist is classified as the "Father of Taxonomy"
    $1600 13
In 1929 Paramount tried to merge with this sibling-owned studio, but the Justice Department said no
    $1600 16
Used in Spain for executions until 1978, it's an iron collar slowly tightened to the point of strangulation
    $2000 1
A U.S. destroyer clashed with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in this gulf on August 2, 1964
    $2000 23
"The Sun Also Rises" describes it as "greenish imitation absinthe. When you add water, it turns milky. It tastes like licorice"; yum!
    $2000 4
In a Puccini opera set in Peking, this cruel princess agrees to marry the man who can answer 3 riddles
    $2000 5
This 17th century Englishman who enjoyed fishing & writing about it is known as the "Father of Angling"
    $2000 14
RKO Radio Pictures went down the tubes, following its 1948 purchase by this increasingly reclusive magnate
    $2000 15
Richard Lewis made comedy out of this one of the Big 5 personality traits characterized by anxiety, sadness & irritability

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Enzo Zoe Josh
$15,600 $6,600 $9,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES
(Ken: Hope you know some of those.)
It has 40,000 people & a workforce of 42,000, more than half commuting from nearby, including Vorarlberg state in a neighbor country

Final scores:

Enzo Zoe Josh
$19,400 $12,001 $5,999
Finalist 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Enzo Zoe Josh
$15,800 $12,600 $9,600
17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)		 17 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $38,000

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Game tape date: 2024-11-05
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