Responses for Show #8926 - Monday, September 11, 2023

First game of Season 40.
2023 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 1.
Ken Jennings hosts.

Contestants

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Derek Allen, an accountant originally from Cassopolis, Michigan

Gabriel Ostler, a script writer from Orinda, California

Jill Tucker, an operations manager from Mulino, Oregon

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Jeopardy! Round responses

SCIENCE CLASS
WELCOME TO MIAMI
A LATIN BESTIARY
SOUNDS LIKE FOOD
WORLD OF BARBIE
KIN
(Ken: "He's just 'Kin'.")
    $200 25
(Jill: What's carbon?)
...
(Ken: More than 60% of you is [*].)
(Jill: Exciting.)

oxygen

Jill
Triple Stumper
    $200 30
(Ken: That's right--"Dewey Defeats [*]".)

Truman

Derek
    $200 29
(Jill: What is a frog?)

the hare (jackrabbit)

Jill
Triple Stumper
    $200 23
(Ken: [*] in your browser, yeah.)

a cookie

Gabriel
    $200 28
Margot Robbie

Derek
    $200 27
Sally Field

Jill
    $400 24
opium

Jill
    $400 1
Royal Caribbean

Derek
    $400 21
an owl

Triple Stumper
    $400 22
a whine

Derek
    $400 26
Mattel

Jill
    $400 18
Pocahontas

Gabriel
    $1,600 9
(Jill: Wow.)
(Ken: Jill?)
(Jill: I don't know, Ken.)
(Ken: It's an [*] ore, that's unfortunate.)

iron

Jill
    $600 12
(Dwyane) Wade

Gabriel
    $600 2
an orca

Gabriel
    $600 4
(Ken: Yeah, you don't wanna eat that.)
(Jill: Not so much.)

petroleum jelly

Jill
    $600 5
her Dreamhouse

Derek
    $600 8
(Gabriel: Who is Joyce?)
...
(Ken: It would be Joyce Kilmer's distant relative, [*].)

Val Kilmer

Gabriel
Triple Stumper
    $800 10
nitroglycerin

Jill
    $800 13
(Ken: Yeah, [*] to Miami.)

Tampa

Derek
    $800 6
Equus

Derek
    $800 3
(Ken: He was a drummer--he held [*].)

drumsticks

Triple Stumper
    $800 19
curvy

Triple Stumper
    $800 16
(Cornelius) Vanderbilt

Derek
    $1000 11
a fruit fly

Derek
    $1000 14
Little Havana

Derek
    $1000 7
a pullet

Jill
    $1000 15
noodling

Gabriel
    $1000 20
UNICEF

Jill
    $1000 17
Franklin Pierce

Jill

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

Jill Gabriel Derek
$800 $1,600 $4,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jill Gabriel Derek
$3,400 $2,200 $6,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

HONORARY HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS
HISTORICAL FILMS
GREEK GEOGRAPHY
RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
MISSISSIPPI LEARNING
STARTS WITH "G"
    $400 30
[Ken reads the clue in the voice of a basketball announcer.]
(Ken: [*] is indeed an honorary Harlem Globetrotter; I couldn't tell you why.)
[Laughter]
(Jill: Wow.)

Pope Francis

Gabriel
    $400 21
Joan of Arc

Jill
    $400 27
Mount Olympus

Jill
    $400 28
sonnets

Gabriel
    $400 29
Elvis Presley

Derek
    $400 24
a gazebo

Derek
    $800 19
Whoopi Goldberg

Jill
    $4,000 20
(Ken: In Jackie, that is correct.)

Jacqueline Kennedy

Jill
    $800 22
Macedonia

Gabriel
    $800 26
the soliloquy

Triple Stumper
    $800 25
the Magnolia State

Derek
    $800 23
a Gingham Dog

Triple Stumper
    $1200 18
Abdul-Jabbar

Gabriel
    $1200 2
Rachel Weisz

Jill
    $1200 13
the Peloponnesian (Peninsula)

Gabriel
    $1200 12
Orlando

Triple Stumper
    $1200 7
Jackson

Gabriel
    $1200 8
a galleon

Triple Stumper
    $1600 9
Robin Roberts

Derek
    $1600 3
the Boxer Rebellion

Gabriel
    $2,600 16
(Gabriel: What is Alexandria?)

Thebes

Gabriel
    $1600 14
(Gabriel: What is Zion?)

the Mount of Olives

Gabriel
Triple Stumper
    $1600 6
mud

Derek
    $1600 5
the Gamecocks

Derek
    $2000 10
(Ken: Globetrotters legend [*] is correct.)
[Laughter]

(Henry) Kissinger

Jill
    $2000 11
Chevalier

Jill
    $2000 17
the Ionian

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
(Derek: Who is Dante?)
...
(Ken: It's the author of The Decameron, [*].)

Boccaccio

Derek
Triple Stumper
    $2000 4
(Medgar) Evers

Gabriel
    $2000 1
(Derek: What's a geranium?)
(Gabriel: What's a gladius?)

a gladiola (gladiolus)

JillGabrielDerek

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jill Gabriel Derek
$16,200 $4,800 $8,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

BRITISH MONARCHS
(Ken: [To Derek] Yes, she was actually [*] I, I'm afraid, Gabriel.)
...
(Ken: Wow, wagered everything. $32,400--took a big chance and it paid off.)
GabrielWho is Victoria II?
$4,800
DerekWho was Queen Victoria?
$7,601
JillWho is Queen Victoria?
$16,200
Queen Victoria

Final scores:

Jill Gabriel Derek
$32,400 $0 $16,201
Finalist 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Jill Gabriel Derek
$14,600 $7,400 $8,600
16 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 13 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $30,600

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Game tape date: 2023-08-15
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