Show #9244 - Thursday, January 9, 2025

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

Contestants

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Enzo Cunanan, a student from Orlando, Florida

Sam Cameron, a finance manager from Fargo, North Dakota

Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, Hawaii

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD HISTORY
ALL AROUND THE U.S.
FOIA & FIND OUT
(Ken: This is a category about documents released through the Freedom of Information Act.)
WE SHALL ENDURE
MOVIE LINES
"DIS" IS HOW YOU SAY IT
    $200 11
Around 200 A.D. Axum in Ethiopia was a trading power using resources like rhino horn & more vitally, this material from a larger mammal
    $200 30
Most of Willamette National Forest is covered with the Douglas this, the state tree of Oregon
    $200 29
A list of personalized these checked for obscenity in Florida, including KIDNAPN, 0NMETH & (wow) MR DUI
    $200 23
Unfortunately killed by researchers trying to determine its age, an ocean quahog type of this turned out to have been 507 years old
    $200 28
The 2010 remake of "Clash of the Titans" gave us Liam Neeson as Zeus intoning, "Release" this beast
    $200 13
Expelled from the legal profession, like Jeff Winger before he began teaching community college
    $400 7
The Chinese invented this in the first millennium & suffered one of its deadliest explosions as noses rained on Beijing in 1626
    $400 27
Borealis Basecamp in Alaska is a prime place to view this "directional" atmospheric display (& don't talk your Latin to us!)
    $400 21
A 1938 fan letter to the Reds' Johnny Vander Meer from this man noting the FBI won the U.S. Government League Championship
    $400 22
"Hello!" Audiences have been going to this Broadway show religiously since 2011 to hear songs like "You & Me (But Mostly Me)"
    $400 19
Emily Blunt, working at a fashion magazine in this film: "I'm just one stomach flu away from my goal weight"
    $400 12
You're in "dis" state of fear & faintheartedness, also da month when da horses will run da Kentucky Derby
    $600 4
Erzherzog, German for this, was a bad luck title for some, like Rudolph, the heir to the Austrian throne who died at age 30 in 1889
    $600 24
Called "America's Dead Sea", in Nov. 2022 it hit its lowest recorded water level at 4,188 feet above sea level
    $600 10
A complaint to the FCC suggesting that these 2 creators of "South Park" "should be fined 5,000.00 per word"
    $600 16
In 2019 machines from Caterpillar were used to move 27 8-foot-long beams to play this game for 28 hours; the pile reached 20 feet
    $600 18
As "Citizen Kane" begins, Orson Welles whispers this dying word & drops a snow globe
    $600 3
Aha! Eureka! Seville's 1992 World's Fair had the theme "The Age of" this
    $800 5
The historical play "The White Rose" is largely a conversation between an anti-Nazi student & a member of this police force
    DD: $3,800 25
Colorado Springs' website for this nearby attraction dubs it "America's Mountain"
    $800 9
A photo of President Obama laughing at the meme "Sorry it took so long to get you a copy of" this document--"I was too busy killing Osama"
    $800 15
Dating back to the 11th century, this landmark was Sir Walter Raleigh's unwelcome address for 13 years
    $800 17
Tom Hanks gave this iconic 5-word don't to the right fielder played by Bitty Schram in "A League of Their Own"
    $800 1
With better drug testing, the women's winning throw in this event at 2004's Summer Olympics was 30' shorter than the 1988 world record
    $1000 6
Starting in 1947, millions fled what's now Bangladesh to this capital of India's West Bengal state, increasing its crowding issues
    $1000 26
A passageway called the Rigolets helps connect the Gulf of Mexico with this large 13-letter lake
    $1000 8
With redactions, artwork of detainees at this prison camp that opened on Jan. 11, 2002
    $1000 14
In the "Odyssey", this man of myth "thrust the stone toward the crest of a hill, but... the weight would turn it back", over & over
    $1000 20
In 1980, watching this movie we thought was the second in a series, we learned "Do or do not. There is no try"
    $1000 2
On Wikipedia, it's differentiating same-named entries, like Anne Hathaway, actress & Anne Hathaway, Mrs. Shakespeare

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

Drew Sam Enzo
$1,200 $2,400 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Drew Sam Enzo
$3,200 $400 $3,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

WORD HISTORY
LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
ALL IN THE FAMILY
OCEANIA
FABRICS & TEXTILES
CLASSIC TV
    $400 28
Going back to steam-engine cars, this word for a limo driver is from the French for "to heat" or "to stoke"
    $400 24
A bio of Zane Grey, best known for this genre, says perhaps his "most memorable trip" was to Arizona's Rainbow Bridge in 1913
    $400 27
He's the famous father seen here with his daughter Anna who helped found her own field of child psychoanalysis
    $400 29
In 1952 the U.S. detonated "Ivy Mike", one of these weapons, on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands
    $400 26
Seen on everything from dresses to bags to men's ties, this fabric design was back in fashion in 2024
    $400 30
"And Just Like That", in 2021 this series began a new chapter
    $800 23
We borrowed this word for a desire to travel from German
    $800 4
The first Pulitzer-winning bio was of this woman & said she was asked by a friend to write lyrics to the tune "John Brown's Body"
    $800 16
Art patron Anna Maria Luisa, who died in Florence in 1743, was the last descendant of this ruling house
    $800 19
In 1995 Kiribati moved the location of this cartographic feature to the east so all its islands would be on the same day
    $800 25
What the "L"? This synthetic fiber that gives a little stretch to some jeans was originally called "fiber K"
    $800 22
In the '80s Crockett & Tubbs were fashionably on the beat on this series
    $1200 9
From the name of an ancient philosopher, it's someone with discriminating taste in food & drink
    $1200 1
"The Early Years", including birth in Prague in 1883, is the final volume of Reiner Stach's 3-volume bio of this author
    $1200 15
This astronomer discovered Uranus; his sister Caroline found 3 nebulae & 8 comets
    $1200 11
Fiji's main commercial export is this product, collected from natural sources & sold globally
    $1200 6
Viscose is another name for this 5-letter fiber made from cellulose & developed in the 1880s as an artificial silk
    $1200 5
He played Pa Ingalls on "Little House on the Prairie" & a probationary angel on "Highway to Heaven"
    DD: $2,800 7
William Makepeace Thackeray coined both of these mashups of 2 top British universities
    $1600 2
"Dharma Lion" is a 1992 biography of this Beat-nik, then America's most famous living poet
    $1600 13
Actress Oona Chaplin is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin & the great grand-daughter of this Nobel-winning playwright
    $1600 10
A former Navy lieutenant commander, King Tupou VI has been the monarch of this island kingdom since 2012
    $1600 17
This sheer, lightweight fabric with a light sheen shares its name with a type of fluffy lemon pie
    $1600 20
A tribute to TV moms at the 2024 Emmys included Meredith Baxter, who played Elyse Keaton on this sitcom
    $2000 8
This silvery-white metallic element was named for an asteroid that bears the name of an epithet of Athena
    $2000 3
The fifth volume of Leon Edel's biography of this fiction writer is "The Master", also the title of a 2004 novel about him
    $2000 14
Charles Darwin's maternal grandfather was a master potter who gave his name to this collectible ceramic ware
    $2000 12
This traditional war dance of New Zealand's Maori people is performed by some Rugby teams today as a pre-game ritual
    $2000 18
Originally a stiff fabric made of horsehair & cotton or linen, during the Victorian era it became the name for hooped petticoats
    DD: $100 21
"It's no place like home" was a tagline for this series about prison life, HBO's first original hour-long drama

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Drew Sam Enzo
$10,400 $1,700 $13,600

Final Jeopardy! Round

ANIMALS IN SCIENCE
The first mammal species sent on a rocket to space, it's perhaps more famous for an antigen in its blood

Final scores:

Drew Sam Enzo
$5,000 $3,400 $21,800

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Drew Sam Enzo
$9,200 $7,400 $13,600
18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 15 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $30,200

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Game tape date: 2024-11-05
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