Responses for Show #9237 - Tuesday, December 31, 2024

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

Contestants

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Mike Ferguson, a chemistry professor from Edmond, Oklahoma

Kaitlin Tarr, a ceramic artist from Denver, Colorado

Scott Tcheng, an ER doctor from San Francisco, California

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Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CITIES' TIME ZONE
QUOTABLE WOMEN
NOT FOR THE MONEY
ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS
NONFICTION
MILITARY CELEBS
    $200 12
Pacific

Scott
    $200 5
(Mike: Who is... Clinton?)

Michelle Obama

ScottMike
    $200 23
read

Kaitlin
    $200 17
a rabbit hole

Kaitlin
    $200 30
(Mike: What is the larnyx?)
(Ken: Yes... the [*] is right.)

the larynx

Mike
    $200 16
(Kaitlin: Who is Bob Barker?)

Drew Carey

ScottKaitlin
    $400 13
Central

Kaitlin
    $400 4
Greta Thunberg

Kaitlin
    $400 24
an umpire

Scott
    $400 18
a red herring

Scott
    $400 29
(Ken: It is, [*]'s a writer.)

(Mark) Harmon

Kaitlin
    $400 11
(Ken: It is [*], looking good.)

(Jimi) Hendrix

Mike
    $600 14
Eastern

Kaitlin
    $600 3
Shonda Rhimes

Kaitlin
    $600 25
a Crock-Pot

Kaitlin
    $600 19
to cry wolf (cried wolf)

Mike
    $600 28
Ina Garten

Kaitlin
    $600 10
Adam Driver

Kaitlin
    $800 15
Mountain (Time)

Scott
    $800 1
Jane Goodall

Kaitlin
    $800 26
a docent

Kaitlin
    $800 20
a hornet's nest

Kaitlin
    $800 6
Emmett Till

Kaitlin
    $800 9
Ice-T

Kaitlin
    $1000 22
Pacific

Mike
    $1000 2
Thatcher

Kaitlin
    $1000 27
[Ken reads "CSUN" as "Cal State Northridge".]
(Mike: What is a résumé?)

(income) taxes

KaitlinMike
    $1000 21
zebras

Kaitlin
    $3,600 7
(Kaitlin: I've always wanted to make it a True Daily Double, Ken. Let's do it.)
(Ken: This is the time, okay. You'll have $7,200 if you're right. Your clue in NONFICTION is this...)
...
[Kaitlin shakes her head and mouths "I don't know".]
(Ken: Kaitlin?)
(Kaitlin: No.)
(Ken: Aw, that a shame; great movie recently made of [*].)

Killers of the Flower Moon

Kaitlin
    $1000 8
Morgan Freeman

Triple Stumper

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

Scott Kaitlin Mike
$1,200 $2,400 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Kaitlin Mike
$2,200 $7,800 $1,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

KNOTTY ENTERTAINMENT
MYTHOLOGY
SINK, SANK, SUNK
MODERN ABBREVIATIONS
SCIENCE TEST
FROM "M" TO "Y"
(Ken: Those will be the first and last letters, respectively of each response.)
    $400 23
Twin Peaks

Scott
    $400 11
Medusa

Kaitlin
    $400 28
(Ken: Sunk their [*], yes.)

a battleship

Mike
    $400 24
(Ken: That's how you say, [*]; like what's up?)

What's good?

Triple Stumper
    $400 13
(Ken: You beat the chemistry professor to [*], yeah.)

carbon

Kaitlin
    $400 15
Mercury

Scott
    $800 22
(Ken: Of course, yes.)

Portlandia

Kaitlin
    $800 10
Oedipus

Kaitlin
    $800 30
(Mike: What is a ferry?)
...
(Ken: Cork to Sydney would be a long ferry ride; these were prisoners, it was [*].)

a convict ship

Mike
Triple Stumper
    $800 25
mixed martial arts

Kaitlin
    $800 4
reflection

Scott
    $800 14
a melody

Kaitlin
    $1200 21
(Ken: They're called [*], it's been a minute.)

Ylvis

Triple Stumper
    $1200 9
Pandora

Mike
    $1200 18
a galleon

Kaitlin
    $1200 26
Black History Month

Scott
    $1200 1
(Mike: We'll go with, uh, SCIENCE TEST for $1,200, please.)
(Ken: From our chemistry professor.)

chromosomes

Scott
    $1200 12
a mayfly

Mike
    $1600 17
(Roy) Scheider

Mike
    $1600 5
(Kaitlin: Who's Terra?)

Gaia

ScottKaitlin
    $1,400 19
(Lake) Champlain

Kaitlin
    $1600 16
(Scott: What is [**]?)
(Ken: N... no, that's not it.)
...
(Ken: I was with you right up to the end, Scott; it's [*], singular.)
[Ruled incorrect; reversed before the Daily Double at clue 19]

a distributed denial-of-service (a distributed denial-of-services)

Scott
    $1600 2
acceleration

Mike
    $1600 7
monastery

Kaitlin
    $2000 20
Hacksaw Ridge

Triple Stumper
    $2,000 6
(Scott: Who... are... Athena... and...)
(Ken: I'm sorry, no, that's not it; wrong set of twins, [*] had different dads--half brothers, apparently, still twins somehow, it's all confusing.)

Castor & Pollux

Scott
    $2000 29
the Deepwater Horizon

Scott
    $2000 27
(Scott: What are children or--[*]?)

children of deaf adults

Scott
    $2000 3
(Ken: Mike thought of it too late.)

the Oort cloud

Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
morphology

Mike

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Scott Kaitlin Mike
$11,400 $14,400 $8,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

THEATER ETYMOLOGY
(Ken: Looks like it was going to be "soliloquy"; it's not correct, Mike, don't sweat the spelling.)
...
[The audience laughs when Scott's response is revealed.]
(Ken: Well, we may see you there because I'm afraid that's incorrect, Scott.)
...
(Ken: [To Kaitlin] That's not correct; it's probably the closest. The roots here are "pan" and "mimo" so [*] is correct.)
MikeWhat silog siloquiy
$8,200
ScottWhat is 3rd Chance Competition?
$5,001
KaitlinWhat are impressions?
$5,999
pantomime

Final scores:

Scott Kaitlin Mike
$6,399 $8,401 $0
2nd place: $3,000 Finalist 3rd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Scott Kaitlin Mike
$13,400 $18,200 $8,200
15 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)		 27 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $39,800

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Game tape date: 2024-11-04
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