“JEOPARDY!” 4/30/24

Challengers:
Laura Bligh (Vienna, VA): Webmaster
Bryan Carrasco (Columbia, MO): Mortgage loan originator

JR:
A GAP ON THEIR RESUMES
QUESTIONABLE SONG TITLES
ENDS W/ “K”
STATE MAMMALS
GIVING SOME DIRECTION
COOKIES, MY FAVORITE!

$1K Cookies:

If it’s Purim it must be time for these 3-cornered cookies.

Laura: “What is hamantaschen?”

$200 Gap On Their Resumes:

Signore Marco Polo, I understand travel was arduous in the 1200s but you had no work history in this city of ours for ¼ century.

Bryan: “What is Venice?”

$1K Gap On Their Resumes:

In 1966 this future politician left college for 2 ½yrs for a mostly unsuccessful mission to make French people Mormon.

Amy: “Who is Mitt Romney?”

$800 State Mammal:

The Olympic marmot became this state’s official endemic mammal in 2009 due to the efforts of 4th & 5th graders.

Bryan: “What is Washington?” ($1K)

$1K State Mammal:

Answer: DD.

The resolution making this breed Texas’ official large mammal stated it was “once the cornerstone of” its cattle industry.

“What is a longhorn?”…also the name of a steakhouse chain, correct to double up.

$800 Gap On Their Resumes:

On his C.V. this subject of a bible parable probably would’ve skipped the time he “wasted his substance with riotous living”.

Laura: “Who is the Prodigal Son?” ($1800)

$200 Questionable Song Title:

The title line of this Whitney Houston song was followed by the line “if he really loves me”.

TS: “How Will I Know?”

$200 Ends W/ “K”:

It precedes Thurs. in an alliterative nostalgic internet trend.

Laura: “What is throwback?” ($2K)

$200 Direction:

This directional word preceded Ho! in the title of a 19th century British novel about adventures in the New World.

Amy: “What is Westward?” ($1200)

$800 Cookies:

These shortbread cookies share their name w/ the Girl Scouts’ logo.

Amy: “What are Trefoils?” ($2K)

$1K Questionable Song Title:

This Smiths song whose title was an existential question mentioned “a shyness that is criminally vulgar” (maybe Morrissey’s?).

TS: “How Soon Is Now?”

$1K Ends W/ “K”:

This job w/ a body part in its name means a laborer on an oil rig.

Laura: “What is a roughneck?” ($3K)

$400 Direction:

This “profound” term refers to a region in the U.S. incl. Alabama & Mississippi.

Amy: “What is the Deep South?” ($2400)

$600 Direction:

In a CCR song it was where Willy & the poor boys were playing “out in the street”.

TS: “Down on the Corner”

$800 Direction:

A number & measurement are in this term describing the buried dead.

Amy: “What is 6 feet under?” ($3200)

HS:
Amy: $3200/Bryan: $2K/Laura: $3K

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $600 (State Mammals)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $1800
TOTAL LT: $2400

CS:
Women: $4800 EACH/Bryan: $4200

DJ!:
THE GAP ON THEIR RESUMES
AROUND THE WORLD
BLANK VERSE
5-SYLLABLE WORDS
AFRICAN LEADERS
LAW SLAW

TDD for Bryan ($10,200) when middling out in Around the World; Laura’s up to $6K & Amy’s a close 2nd w/ $6800.

The historic castle of Chillon stands on the shore of this lake formed by the Rhone River.

“What is Constance?”- oh no; it’s Lake Geneva. Once he finds DD #2 attached to the $1200 Law Slaw he has recovered $1600 & will bet face value; Amy’s barely leading Laura $7200-$6400.

In 1919, around when prohibition began, New Mexico enacted a $1K fine for this applied to the passenger too.

“What is driving while intoxicated?”…or drunk driving, yes.

ATTEMPTED LT: $5200
UNATTEMPTED LT: $5600
TOTAL DJ! LT: $10,800

Pre-Final S:
Ladies: $7600 A HEAD/Bryan: $3200
BRYAN’S CORYAT: $13,400

FJ!: FICTIONAL GROUPS

Maybe because he was too baroque Bernini was rejected as a name for a member of this group created in 1983.

BRYAN: “Who are the ‘teenage mutant Ninja turtles'” ($3198) = $6398
LAURA: NOTHING ON BOTH PARTS
AMY: “Who are the ‘teenage mutant ninja turtles’?” (DOUBLE) = $15,200 $100,994