Show #9302 - Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Bryce Wargin game 2.

Contestants

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Kristen Ramsey, an assistant professor from Storrs, Connecticut

Conner Huey, a student from Bremerton, Washington

Bryce Wargin, a post market surveillance coordinator from Kansas City, Missouri (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,400)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE OLD WEST
ALL PAULS
MASCOT MANIA
FILM CAMEOS
WORDS WITHIN WORDS
SOMETHING TO SNEEZE AT
    $200 17
The longest one of these on the Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,659-footer through Sierra Nevada granite
    $200 29
It was patriot leader Joseph Warren who sent him & William Dawes on their midnight rides to Lexington
    $200 13
The mascot for this pizza chain got a snazzy redesign with small LC's on his toga
    $200 30
One of his non-MCU cameos was in "The Princess Diaries 2", as a foreign wedding guest who learned English by watching the 3 Stooges
    $200 22
An adjective for stored energy shelters this outdoorsy & collapsible domicile
    $200 28
Also called achoo syndrome, photic sneezing is triggered by exposure to this
    $400 16
Let's take an excursion east to Hartford & the dome & horse statue of this company that made the gun that won the West
    $400 27
This businessman & owner of the Trailblazers & Seahawks passed away in 2018
    $400 12
In the Big Ten, Wisconsin has Bucky Badger & for Minnesota, it's Goldy, this animal
    $400 26
A 1995 film had Dan Aykroyd show up as ghostbuster Ray Stantz, trying to rid Whipstaff Manor of this title friendly ghost
    $400 21
An adjective for a fierce downpour contains this word for a monthly payment
    $400 25
An alkaloid called piperine is the sneeze-inducing part of this stuff, whether white, green or black
    $600 4
In 1842 the first ship built in Oregon by settlers sailed 5 days down the coast to this city where it was traded for 350 cows
    DD: $600 9
An animated short set to this piece by composer Paul Dukas eventually grew into the film "Fantasia"
    $600 5
The mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympics in this world capital was a bear named Misha
    $600 11
"Jurassic World" finds this singer trying to flee rampaging dinos; he's got not one but 2 margaritas in hand
    $600 20
The capital of Uzbekistan contains this last name of comic book Kansans Martha & Jonathan
    $600 23
Russian thistle is one of these plants named for how they roll in the wind, scattering their seeds & allergy-causing pollen
    $800 3
This people lived in Colorado & the state one west named for them; other Indians called them "Bad Lodges" for their ill-built tipis
    $800 8
Paul von this appointed Hitler as chancellor in 1933, so Paul's last name is associated with 2 major disasters
    $800 6
The name of this toothy MAD magazine mascot was influenced by that of a multiple Oscar-winning composer
    $800 10
He had a blast playing a womanizing, unicorn-riding version of himself in the "Harold & Kumar" films
    $800 15
A stock of goods ready for sale releases from its stock this word meaning to pour out your feelings
    $800 19
If you complain once more about this allergenic stuff from my kitty's fur, you'll get mine "up"
    $1000 2
Named for a declaration, this Missouri city was the "Queen City of the Trails" as many pioneers headed west from there
    $1000 7
He had a law degree from Columbia, but legal opportunities were few for Black people so he headed to the stage & was "The Emperor Jones"
    $1000 1
Introduced in 1965, the giggling Poppin' Fresh has this other name
    $1000 24
David Bowie has a cameo as Nikola Tesla in this 2006 Christopher Nolan film about rival magicians in Victorian London
    $1000 14
An Italian dish of mushy cornmeal contains this Christian religious observance
    $1000 18
Summer allergies are often caused by pollens from grasses like this "colorful" one with a state in its name

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

Bryce Conner Kristen
$6,200 -$800 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Bryce Conner Kristen
$9,200 -$600 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

GEOGRAPH"E"
NEW TO THE OED
BIOLOGY
I DON'T FEEL SEEN
SONGS FROM THE HIT ALBUM
A LITTLE CAUSE PLAY
    $400 19
This largest & busiest island in the Tuscan archipelago had a famous visitor from 1814 to 1815
    $400 29
Johnny Rotten said, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night" & ended a concert (& the Sex Pistols) with this move
    $400 7
The U.S. Navy relies on this technology, like to detect submerged objects, but it can make freaked-out whales beach themselves
    $400 27
Similar to a barrier to women's rise, this "escalator" coined by sociologist Christine Williams invisibly lifts men
    $400 30
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" &
"Come As You Are"
    $400 28
The cabbies in "Waiting for Lefty" are marking time until their union rep arrives & they can vote on whether to do this
    $800 18
The Badme Border War was fought between Ethiopia & this country from 1998 to 2000
    $800 21
Around since the 1700s, this term for something unwanted, like an extra person hanging out with a couple, waited until 2024 to get in
    $800 6
The Tiktaalik genus, transitional fossils from 380 mil. B.C., confusingly had elbows & wrists yet breathed with these, which had no covers
    $800 24
This Greek god of the underworld has a helmet that makes him invisible
    $800 26
"So Long, London" & "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"
    $800 9
Larry Kramer's 1985 "The Normal Heart" called for public action in the face of this epidemic
    $1200 1
At an 1813 battle in this lake, Oliver Hazard Perry defeated a British squadron at Put-in-Bay
    $1200 8
Applied to Mercury, Venus, Earth or Mars, it implies that they lie nearer to the Sun than the bodies beyond the asteroid belt
    $1200 5
PDE is programmed this elimination, an abbrev. within an abbrev; some organisms destroy part of their own genomes
    $1200 14
Finding 6 new comets, a 1983 NASA satellite probed the Milky Way in this "light" of wavelengths we can't see
    $1200 25
"Go Your Own Way" &
"You Make Loving Fun"
    $1200 23
"Woza Albert", a classic protest against this system, premiered at Johannesburg's Market Theatre in 1981
    DD: $3,400 2
Independent from 1918 to 1940, this country regained its independence from the USSR in 1991
    $1600 20
It's a 2-word term for a hinged computer or phone display that can be folded in for storage or out for use
    DD: $3,000 4
This liquid substance with no cells or clotting factors makes up more of the blood than plasma does
    $1600 13
Silicon Valley was the birthplace of this brand that's a clear alternative to braces
    $1600 11
"In Da Club" &
"Wanksta"
    $1600 10
French for "famous case", it's the title of a Terence Rattigan play about a notorious murder trial of the 1930s
    $2000 17
This river rises in the Cantabria Province of northern Spain & flows more than 500 miles southeast
    $2000 16
It denotes a computer program for which the original code has been made freely available to others
    $2000 3
It's not a shaped vessel that kids poor gooey stuff into, it's the spore-producing, forest floor-loving organism here
    $2000 12
You know who's invisible? God, as in the classic hymn "Immortal, Invisible", based on the first epistle to him, Paul's helper
    $2000 22
"Bad Guy" &
"My Strange Addiction"
    $2000 15
Audiences are challenged to confront hate by "The Laramie Project", based on the 1998 murder of this young man

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Bryce Conner Kristen
$18,800 -$600 $6,600
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ITALIAN HISTORY
3 mighty city-states roughly forming an equilateral triangle were Venice, Florence & this one where the Viscontis & Sforzas ruled

Final scores:

Bryce Conner Kristen
$23,800 -$600 $8,790
2-day champion: $39,200 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Bryce Conner Kristen
$20,000 $0 $6,600
26 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 3 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
5 W

Combined Coryat: $26,600

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Game tape date: 2025-02-11
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