“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