“JEOPARDY! Masters”- 2ND S.P.

G1:

JR:
THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM…
INTERNET SLANG
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
AMERICAN FICTION
4-LETTER TV
YOU’RE REPEATING YOURSELF

Mattea does a James (who’s not in this game) by choosing the DD right away behind the 1K Holidays & Observances clue.

Held during the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar this festival began as a search for poet Qu Yuan, who drowned in a Yangtze tributary.

“What is..the Harvest Festival?”…nope- Dragonboat.

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 1K (4-Letter TV)
UNATTEMPTED LT: 2200
TOTAL LT: 3200

CS:
Mattea: 3400/Matt: 3200/Victoria: 5K

DJ!:
REALLY TOUGH CAPITALS
CLASSIC MOVIES
DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS
AARON BURR & FRIENDS

Matt (8K) dials up a TDD on the 800 row in Inventors & Inventions; he can’t catch Victoria (16,600) at this time & Mattea’s 3rd w/ 6200.

In 1873 Helen Blanchard received a patent for 1 of these that could zigzag.

“What’s…scissors?”…no- what’s a sewing machine? Victoria (20,200) holes out DD #2 from Aaron Burr & Friends & makes a 7K bet.

In 1877 Congress commissioned the Electoral Commission after he got 184 electoral votes but needed 185- it didn’t end well for him.

“Who is Samuel Tilden?”…that should ice this game.

DJ! LT: 5200

Pre-Final S:
Mattea: 7400/Matt: 800/Victoria: 31,600 (LOCK)

CORYAT SCORES:
Mattea: 8400/Matt: 8800/Victoria: 25,800

FJ!: LATIN SCIENCE TERMS

In 1694 the latest in bio-knowledge was Joseph Tournefort’s Elements of Botany listing 698 of these like ambrosia & chrysanthemum.

MATT: “What genus” (0)
MATTEA: “What are flora?” = 7089
VICTORIA: “What are species?” = 29,867

G2:

JR:
WE’LL SEA ABOUT THAT
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO
RANKS & TITLES
MEET THE SMITHS
SPELL IT!

He doesn’t find the TDD right away but James (2800) hits it under the 800 Library of Congress answer; Yogesh’s in 1st w/ 3600 & Amy’s 3rd for 2600.

loc.gov gives access to a huge collection of this- printed documents of transitory value intended to be thrown away.

“What is rubbish?”…nothing more than that- what’s ephemera?

CS:
James: 3K/Yogesh: 7800/Amy: 3400

DJ!:
ANCIENT WORLD
KERNEL OF THE CLUE
GO FOR THE THROAT
AUTHORS’ FICTIONAL PLACES
SCIENTISTS
SUNG BY UNSUNG HEROES (clues read by Sheryl Crow)

Yogesh (9400) looks at the 2K entry about Authors’ Fictional Places for a TDD; James stays 2nd w/ 4200.

The town of Eastwick, Rhode Island

“Who is..John Updike?”…right. Yogesh (23,600) picks DD #2 assigned to the 1200 Kernel of the Clue; James (7400) & Amy (6600) are well back. Yogesh makes the min. bet of 5 (each clue in this category except for this 1 is shown at the bottom-left corner of the screen).

(1954 Sinatra song): It’s a bad idea to leave a frozen embryo unguarded, would be my major takeaway.

“What is ‘Forever Young’?”- uh-uh; what was “Young At Heart”?

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 2K (Ancient World)
UNATTEMPTED LT: 4K
TOTAL DJ! LT: 6K

Pre-Final S:
James: 10,200/Yogesh: 26,395 (LOCK)/Amy: 7K

CORYAT SCORES:
James: 13K/Yogesh: 19K

FJ!: WORLD HERITAGE SITES

This entire capital’s a World Heritage Site “linked to the history of the military & charitable order of St. John of Jerusalem”.

AMY: “What is Valetta?” (in Malta)(0)
JAMES: “WHAT IS VALLETTA” = 13,210
YOGESH: “WHATERE VALLETA” (0)