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“JEOPARDY!” 4/26/24

Challengers:
Matt Mahwinney (orig. from Ft. Lauderdale): Democracy entrepreneur
Dan Byrne (Lilburn, GA): Consultant

JR:
HUSBANDS & WIVES
JAPANESE CITIES
LAWFUL QUOTATIONS
PLURALIZE, PLEASE
FORE & AFTER
THE LIGHTNING ROUND

$800 Pluralize:

Passer-by (9)

Matt: “What are passers-by?”

$800 Lawful Quotation:

Named for an aerospace engineer it said if something can go wrong, it will.

Amy: “What is Murphy’s law?”

$600 Pluralize:

Sarcophagus (10)

Dan: “What is sarcophagi?”

$200 Fore & After:

After winning this Augusta, GA tournament 4 times Arnold Palmer wrote the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on it.

Amy: “What is the Masters?” ($1K)

$800 Japanese Cities:

For more than a century Kamakura served as the capital of Japan & as the seat of power of these military rulers.

Amy: “Who are shoguns?” ($1800)

$800 Husbands & Wives:

The answer there: DD.

Powhatan & Virginia’s governor both gave their permission for this pair to marry.

“Who are Pocahontas & John Rolfe?”…not sure why she didn’t bet it all but she’s correct to add $1K.

$600 Husbands & Wives:

In 1935 the Nobel Prize in chemistry went to a husband & wife, the son-in-law & daughter of this Nobel Prize-winning couple.

Amy: “Who are Pierre & Marie Curie?” ($3400)

$1K Husbands & Wives:

Lee Krasner was married to this fellow abstract expressionist until his death in a 1956 car crash.

Dan: “Who is Jackson Pollock?” ($1600)

$200 Lawful Quotation:

In a 1697 play Colley Cibber wrote this “is eleven points in the law”.

TS: Possession

$400 Lawful Quotation:

In 1966 the Bobby Fuller Four sang “I’m breakin’ rocks in the hot sun. I fought the law &” this happened.

Dan: “What is ‘the law won’?” ($2K)

$600 Lawful Quotation:

Kipling called “the laws of” this place “many and mighty”.

Amy: “What is ‘the jungle’?” ($4K)

$1K Lawful Quotation:

This Supreme Court justice known as the “Great Dissenter” said “Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law”.

Amy: “Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?” ($3K)

TS #2: Oliver Wendell Holmes

$1K Pluralize:

Appendix (10- none of them X)

Dan: “What are appendices?” ($3K)

$400 Fore & After:

After golf swing innovator Harry Vardon died in 1937 this organization named an annual trophy for him.

Dan: “What is the USGA?” ($2600)
Matt: “What is the PGA?” ($1200)

$600 Fore & After:

After retiring at the age of 28 in 1930 golf great Bobby Jones joined the Army & landed in Normandy on this date- D-Day + 1.

Dan: “What is June 7, 1944?” ($3200)

$800 Fore & After:

After 10 straight U.S. victories this U.S. v. Britain match was changed to U.S. v. Europe in 1979.

Matt: “What is the Davis Cup?” ($400)
Dan: “What is the Ryder Cup?” ($4K)

$1K Fore & After:

In Apr. ’23 this Spaniard shot a rd of 61 at the Mexico Open; in Dec. he signed w/ LIV Golf for a reported $500M.

Dan: “Who is Jon Rahm?” ($5K)

$200 Lightning:

Usually copper it can physically protect a structure & metaphorically describe someone used to divert an attack from another.

Amy: “What is a lightning rod?” ($3200)

$1K Lightning:

“Spark Ranger” Roy Sullivan got zapped at Shenandoah Natl. Park in this “colorful” mountain range; over time Roy took 6 more hits.

Amy: “What are the Blue Ridge Mountains?” ($4200)

$1K Japanese Cities:

In the 13th century the port of Fukuoka witnessed this “divine wind” that scattered & sank a fleet of invading Mongols. 

Matt: “What is a typhoon?” (-$600)

TS #3: Kamikaze

$800 Lightning:

A party of 2 these were Santa’s 2 reindeer whose names meant “thunder” & “lightning”.

Amy: “Who are Donner & Blitzen?” ($5K)

$600 Lightning:

If you want to catch lightning on a bottle shop for this sports drink created in ’65.

Dan: “What is Gatorade?” ($5600)

$400 Lightning:

A French courtier wrote this American “snatched the lightning shaft from heaven and the scepter from tyrants”.

Matt: “Who is Benjamin Franklin?” (-$200)

$400 Pluralize:

Hoof (6)

Dan: “What are hooves?” ($6K)

$200 Pluralize:

Sheep (5…you know, like moose is 5 letters)

Amy: “What is sheep?” ($5200)

$600 Japanese Cities:

Matsuyama’s a historical center for this type of poem & has postboxes where you can drop your own to be reviewed by experts.

Matt: “What are haikus?” ($400)

$400 Japanese Cities:

Home to the Atsuta Shrine, said to be almost 2Kyrs old, Nagoya’s found on this largest Japanese island.

Dan: “What is Honshu?” ($6400)

$200 Japanese Cities:

Known for beer Sapporo got world attention when it hosted this event Feb. 3-13, 1972.

Dan: “What are the Winter Olympics?” ($6600)

$400 Husbands & Wives:

This power couple appealed to los descamisados (the shirtless ones) in 1940s Argentina.

Matt: “Who are the Perons? Eva Peron & Juan Peron?” ($800)

$200 Husbands & Wives:

How modern! Queen Victoria proposed to him on Oct. 15, 1839.

Amy: “Who is (Prince) Albert?” ($5400)

ATTEMPTED LT: $2K
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: $200 (Lawful Quotations)
TOTAL LT: $2200

CS:
Amy: $5400/Dan: $6600/Matt: $800

DJ!:
POETRY FOR THEE
BURIED AT ARLINGTON
SCIENCE STUFF
POP CULTURE INITIALS
“R” 2 “D” 2
BEEP, BOOP, BEEP

$1200 Beep, Boop, Beep:

In 1957 this 1st Russian satellite gave us the “beep heard round the world” & the Space Age was on.

Matt: “What is Sputnik?” ($2K)

$1200 Science Stuff:

Answer: DD.

The hormones raging in you right now were secreted by this system of ductless glands.

“What is the endocrine system?”…that doubles him up.

$1600 Buried At Arlington:

Abe’s eldest son Robert Todd Lincoln served in this national defense post for 2 Presidents but today rests in peace at Arlington.

Matt: “What is Secretary of Defense?” ($2400)

TS: Secretary of War

$2K Buried At Arlington:

In uniform he developed an inoculation against encephalitis; later, live-virus polio vaccine, opposing Salk’s approach.

Amy: “Who is (Archie) Sabin?” ($7400)

$1600 Science Stuff:

A 2010 Nobel for work on graphine, this super-thin type of material? Writers have been creating that type of character for yrs.

Amy: “What is carbon?” ($5800)

TS: 2-dimensional

$1200 Buried At Arlington:

Answer there: the last DD this wk.

Interred in 1993 this Howard Univ. law school grad led the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund early in his career.

“Who is Thurgood Marshall?”…right to get $1.5K back.

$2K Science Stuff:

Wasps & crickets, not just movie monsters, have this dedicated egg-laying organ.

TS: Ovipositor

$800 Science Stuff:

W/ supplies like dry ice you can make a simple type of this chamber in which particles like the positron & muon were 1st seen.

Matt: “What is a vacuum?” ($1600)

TS: Cloud chamber

$1200 “R” 2 “D” 2:

It’s the name of the creature seen here that fits the category.

Matt: “What is a dromedary?” ($2800)

$1600 “R” 2 “D” 2:

This 9-letter instruction often comes after a text or email so you’ll ignore it.

Amy: “What is disregard?” ($8900)

$2K “R” 2 “D” 2:

Ways you might’ve lost your seat in congress: defeated, expelled or this meaning the maps were changed on you.

Dan: “What is redistricted?” ($8600)

$800 Buried At Arlington:

Lieutenant Kara Hultgreen was this military branch’s 1st female combat pilot & died flying an F-14 Tomcat.

Matt: “What is the Air Force?” ($2K)
Dan: “What is the Navy?” ($9400)

$400 Buried At Arlington:

In 1968 this former Attorney General & presidential candidate was laid to rest near his brother.

Matt: “Who is Bobby Kennedy?” ($2400)

$1200 Pop Culture Initials:

The initials in “M*A*S*H” stood for this where they worked.

Amy: “What is Mobile Army Surgical Hospital?” ($10,100)

$1600 Pop Culture Initials:

It’s faster to say these 3 letters than Maya Arulpragasam whose stage name honors a cousin who disappeared.

Dan: “Who is M.I.A.?” ($11K)

$400 Pop Culture Initials:

Founded in ’72 by TIME, Inc. the co. known by these 3 letters set cable on fire w/ “The Sopranos” & “sex and the city”.

Amy: “What is HBO?” ($10.5K)

$1600 Beep, Boop, Beep:

BOOP stands for bronchiolitis obliterans organizing this, an inflammation of lung tissue.

Amy: “What is pneumonia?” ($12,100)

$2K Beep, Boop, Beep:

The Boops boops fish is used for food & is a bioindicator for this type of pollution named for being less than 5mm long.

Matt: “What is nanoplastic?” ($400)
Amy: “What is microplastic?” ($14,100)

$2K Pop Culture Initials:

Ryan Reynolds & Jeff Bridges starred in this film playing lawmen dispensing justice from beyond the grave.

Dan: “What is ‘R.I.P.’?” ($9K)

TS: “R.I.P.D.”

$800 Pop Culture Initials:

Playing himself in “J.C.V.D.” this international superstar kicked around in Belgium.

Matt: “Who is Jean-Claude Van Damme?” ($1200)

No time for the $400 “R” 2 “D” 2 clue.

ATTEMPTED LT: $6K
UNATTEMPTED LT: $2800
TOTAL DJ! LT: $8800

Pre-Final S:
Amy: $17,700/Dan: $10,200/Matt: $4K (NON-FACTOR)

CORYAT SCORES:
Amy: $17,200/Matt: $3200

FJ!: U.S. GEOGRAPHY

At 14,410′ it’s 1 of North America’s highest volcanoes; a Puyallup name for it can be translated to “bring the water”.

MATT: “What is Mount St H Ki(lauea)” ($3998) = $2
DAN: “What is Mt. Rainier? Hi Kelly!” ($10,199) = $20,399
AMY: “What is Mt. Rainier?” ($2800) = $20.5K $58,195

Comments on: "“JEOPARDY!” 4/26/24" (2)

  1. deepscan said:

    Perfect Main Game with all 3 DDs nailed. Only one miss in the End Game, but our latest Amy goes into the weekend break a 2xC.

    Rating9 of 10 (Winning Show and, despite our shortfalls these past five days, a Winning Week—another Major in the books).

    Will we have a Majority Winning Week in Daytime? And who will be this week’s Big Winner in Week 34? The answer lies with the final BR envelope coming up next on WOF, followed by a partial end-of-week summary here, and full results on GSQ.

  2. jpgenius said:

    Things are looking up for Amy. 👍🏾

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