Show #9243 - Wednesday, January 8, 2025

2024-2025 Second Chance competition week 2, semifinal game 3.

Contestants

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Lindsay Denninger, a writer from Smithtown, New York

Ferdinand Percentie, a day trader from Altamonte Springs, Florida

Sam Cameron, a finance manager from Fargo, North Dakota

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Jeopardy! Round

BEST IF USED BY DEC. 31, 1999
MAKING SOME BONES ABOUT IT
FLYING IN STATE
SPORTS BY MOVIE
YOUR NUMBER IS UP
NO RYAN, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO BUY A VOWEL
    $200 8
A Forbes headline: "Apocalypse Then: When" this alphanumeric "Didn't Lead to the End of Civilization"
    $200 25
The masseter muscle closes the mouth by elevating this jawbone
    $200 27
To be "Honest", it's only an hour flight from the Windy City to the Springfield airport named for this man
    $200 22
2017's
"Battle of the Sexes"
    $200 29
This number in the name of a motel chain reflects how much rooms cost in cash per night when it opened in 1962
    $200 30
It's a (supa cold) song by Gucci Mane & also precedes "it's cold in here" in a cheer used in "Bring It On"
    $400 7
On Dec. 3, 1999 a software issue killed the engines of the Polar Lander about 130' above this planet; that ended poorly
    $400 24
Types of bone fractures include simple (aka closed) or this (aka open)
    $400 26
Fly to Vegas from the Reno international airport that includes this lake in its name
    $400 21
"Balls of Fury"
    $400 28
While some consider this number to be unlucky, Taylor Swift says it's her favorite number & finds it very lucky
    $400 23
A 1984 humor book is titled this request for silence "Is a Four Letter Word: Laughs for Library Lovers"
    DD: $2,600 6
After 85 years, complete control of it passed to its home nation on Dec. 31, 1999
    $600 1
To reduce the risk of broken bones, do weight-bearing exercises & take calcium with this vitamin that's also a hormone
    $600 10
It's only a 337-mile flight from LAX to the airport in San Mateo County known by these 3 letters
    $600 16
"The Iron Claw"
with Zac Efron
    $600 15
The first 2-digit prime number, it can be a winning first throw in craps called a natural
    $600 20
Old ads for Campbell's said their soup was this! This! Good!
    $800 2
On Dec. 31, 1999 he became the acting president of his large country; "acting" soon went away, but he's still there
    $800 4
There are red & yellow types of this fatty tissue that lines the medullary canals of long bones
    $800 9
JFK to SLK will take you to Saranac Lake & the airport named for these Upstate New York mountains
    $800 12
"The Legend of Bagger Vance"
    $800 14
Established in 1947 as one of the original U.S. area codes, it gets you Washington, D.C.
    $800 19
It follows "Riot" in a feminist punk movement of the early 1990s
    $1000 3
On December 3, 1999, Tori Murden became the first woman to row the Atlantic solo, from Tenerife in these islands to Guadeloupe
    $1000 5
There are five of these bones between the wrist & the fingers; they are numbered 1 through 5, with 1corresponding to the thumb
    $1000 11
Island hop from the airport named for this Medal of Honor recipient & senator to Ellison Onizuka Kona Airport
    $1000 13
Based on a true story:
2004's "Miracle"
    $1000 18
A googol is 10 to the hundredth power; this number is 10 to the power of a googol
    $1000 17
This double-talk expression of disapproval sounds like it should have an "I" or 2 in it

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

Sam Ferdinand Lindsay
$1,800 $2,400 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Ferdinand Lindsay
$3,000 $5,000 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
AN EDIBLE & MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER
YOU JUST GOT MONK'D!
5 RANDOM WORDS FROM THE NOVEL
GOOD ENOUGH
GOVERNMENT WORK
    $400 30
Melbourne lies about 200 miles north of this devilish island
    $400 9
The "Brass Monkey" rap crew becomes a little fruit on a prickly bush
    $400 29
In 1505 this future reformer exclaimed, "Help me, Saint Anne! I will become a monk!" during a thunderstorm in Central Germany
    $400 28
Beast,
conch,
the,
Piggy,
asthma
    $400 27
This "ad"jective means just okay, as in "your Airbnb will be ____ to my needs"
    $400 25
The FBI doesn't have regular run-of-the-mill agents--they're all this
    $800 11
Zanzibar sultan Khalid bin Barghash is one of the many exiles to reluctantly visit this remote South Atlantic isle
    $800 8
A double-talk chocolate confection that doubles as the "You Give Love a Bad Name" power rockers
    $800 22
While studying in Kuala Lumpur, the future monk John Main learned to utilize this sacred utterance used in meditation
    $800 6
Is,
Squadron,
Nately,
Crazy,
Appleby's
(not Applebee's)
    $800 26
For University of Southern California undergrads, D- is this "grade"; in grad school, you need a C
    $800 24
In 2024 John Cornyn paid tribute on the Senate floor to Emily Costanzo for putting words in his mouth for 5 years as this
    $1200 3
Display your wisdom & name this sea that separates the same-named islands from New Guinea
    $1200 1
A Hawaiian pop star has the uptown funk as a candy item most popular in Britain
    $1200 21
Medieval monk Bernard of Clairvaux, brought to Christ by "The Queen of Heaven", appears in this poet's "Paradiso"
    $1200 7
Kerosene,
once,
if,
books,
Beatty
    $1200 15
Things are pretty good or at least not too bad, so "everything's" this first name
    $1200 23
Here's Thurgood Marshall with four of these people who help the justices with filing all the way up to drafting opinions
    $1600 2
This archipelago at the bottom of South America lends its name to a type of fox, the southernmost living canid
    $1600 4
Are we havin' fun yet? A dark German rye bread enriches the band that asks "Are we havin' fun yet?" in "How You Remind Me"
    DD: $5,000 12
In 1939 Thomas Merton opened the Bible to Luke 1:20 & read "Behold, you shall be" this & he decided to become a Trappist monk
    $1600 13
A Pulitzer winner: Maycomb,
Calpurnia,
reckon,
were,
shotgun
    $1600 16
There's a thespian trapped inside this 5-syllable good-enough word
    DD: $1,000 18
You might get a bit sick of Lincoln's face as a metal forming machine operator at this agency's production facilities
    $2000 10
This former Portuguese colony lies between Namibia & the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    $2000 5
"Not Like Us" legend whose mystique gets a little bit fluffier with a s'more ingredient
    $2000 20
In the 200s this "Father of Christian Monks" & saint "of the Desert" was compelled by God to withdraw to an Egyptian mountain
    $2000 14
Agerstown,
crumby,
school,
Phoebe,
at
    $2000 17
Robert Frost ended the poem "Fire & Ice" by rhyming "Ice" with this verb meaning "be enough"
    $2000 19
Keeping contractors from cheating Uncle Sam is your task if you're in the Office of Procurement Policy within OMB, Office of these

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Sam Ferdinand Lindsay
$19,400 $10,200 $6,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN HISTORY
The last claim awarded under this act was in 1988, 126 years after it passed, for a parcel of land in Alaska

Final scores:

Sam Ferdinand Lindsay
$20,401 $19,401 $2,199
Finalist 2nd place: $3,000 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Sam Ferdinand Lindsay
$19,200 $10,200 $6,200
20 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R,
3 W		 8 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $35,600

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Game tape date: 2024-11-05
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