Responses for Show #9226 - Monday, December 16, 2024

Ashley Chan game 3.

Contestants

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Matt Grossman, a law student from New York, New York

Henry Barbaro, a college student from Evanston, Illinois

Ashley Chan, a publicist from Lewisville, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,100)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

ALL OVER THE WORLD
MAN-AGRAMS
3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS
COMMUNICATION
STATE HOLIDAYS
SONGWRITING WITH LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
(Lin-Manuel: I'm Lin-Manuel Miranda; as I found again on my latest project, Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King, sometimes it just comes to you, sometimes it's endless work and I'll have clues about the mystery of songwriting.)
    $200 13
the Panama Canal

Ashley
    $200 28
Charlemagne

Matt
    $200 29
paranoia

Matt
    $200 30
an email

Ashley
    $200 25
Alaska

Henry
    $200 27
(Ken: Our thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda for help with that SONGWRITING category; you can hear his new music in Mufasa: The Lion King, in theaters Friday.)

Hamilton

Henry
    $400 5
Albania

Henry
    $400 22
Robert Burns

Henry
    $400 17
a marquee

Ashley
    $400 26
an Amber Alert

Ashley
    $400 24
Martin Luther King Day

Ashley
    $400 2
(Henry: What is "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"?)

the "Circle Of Life"

HenryMatt
    $600 1
Tanganyika

Ashley
    $600 21
Salvador Dalí

Ashley
    $600 16
(Ken: Maybe you're picturing the bumper sticker.)

beauty

Triple Stumper
    $600 15
satellites

Matt
    $600 3
Harry Truman

Ashley
    $600 12
Garage Band

Ashley
    $800 4
Andorra

Matt
    $800 19
Mao Zedong

Ashley
    $800 14
cooing

Matt
    $800 9
the BBC

Triple Stumper
    $800 6
Vermont

Ashley
    $800 10
Timbaland

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 7
(Ashley: [Sighs]
(Ken: Ashley?)
(Ashley: No.)

Mount Ararat

Ashley
    $1000 20
Nostradamus

Ashley
    $1000 18
quaint or curious

Triple Stumper
    $1000 8
a semaphore

Triple Stumper
    $1000 23
Brigham Young

Matt
    $1000 11
(Ken: Who is [*]? Wrote the lyrics to West Side Story.)

Stephen Sondheim

Triple Stumper

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

Ashley Henry Matt
$800 $0 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Ashley Henry Matt
$4,600 $800 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY
(Ken: As selected by a New York Times survey of experts.)
OUTDOOR CATS
STARTS WITH "H"
WORLD WAR I
TV FOURSOMES
KABOOM!
    $400 10
Mexico

Matt
    $400 30
Texas

Henry
    $400 23
handlebar

Ashley
    $400 12
a helmet

Matt
    $400 21
Girls

Henry
    $400 29
backfire

Henry
    $800 9
My Brilliant Friend

Ashley
    $800 28
a cheetah

Ashley
    $800 22
a heartthrob

Henry
    $800 2
MacArthur

Ashley
    $800 19
[Ashley did not include the show's leading article in her response.]

The Golden Girls

Ashley
    $800 27
fireworks

Triple Stumper
    $1200 3
American Fiction

Ashley
    $1200 18
panthers

Henry
    $1200 14
houndstooth

Ashley
    $1200 1
the Sopwith Camel

Triple Stumper
    $1200 7
the Powerpuff Girls

Ashley
    $1200 24
(Ken: R.I.P. [*].)

Three Rivers Stadium

Triple Stumper
    $1600 4
(Hilary) Mantel

Matt
    $2,000 5
(Ken: Matt?)
(Matt: What is a Yeti cat?)

a snow leopard

Matt
    $1600 6
(Ken: Their colossus was a statue of [*], the sun god.)

Helios

Triple Stumper
    $4,400 13
Hindenburg

Matt
    $1600 11
Girls5eva

Ashley
    $1600 25
(Matt: What is a gong?)

a thunder sheet

Matt
Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
Bechdel

Ashley
    $2000 17
a caracal

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
(Ken: They're made from [*] and they're delicious.)

hibiscus

Triple Stumper
    $2000 16
(Ashley: What is Antwerp?)
(Henry: What is Ypres?)
...
(Ken: It was the right move not to guess, Matt; you made up ground.)

Liège

AshleyHenry
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
Girls on the Bus

Ashley
    $2000 26
Bikini

Ashley

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Ashley Henry Matt
$17,400 $2,000 $7,200
(lock game)

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

GEOGRAPHY
(Ken: You're in the right spot, Matt, but that's not correct. It's not the strait itself.)
...
(Ken: No, Matt was in the right part of the world. These are the two high points on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar; the ancients called those [*]. So it's the Rock of Gibraltar in the north, and one of these two in the south.)
HenryWhat is I had Fun
$2,000
MattWhat are Straits of Gibraltar
$2,000
AshleyWhat are Everest + K2?
$0
the Pillars of Hercules

Final scores:

Ashley Henry Matt
$17,400 $0 $5,200
3-day champion: $46,500 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Ashley Henry Matt
$19,400 $2,000 $6,400
24 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)
9 R,
2 W
11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $27,800

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Game tape date: 2024-10-29
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