“JEOPARDY!” 5/24/24

Challengers:
Anna Marie Cunningham (Sellersville, PA): Market research account mgr
Has Karbalai (Calgary): Public health advisor

JR:
LITERARY SIMILES
CROSSWORD CLUES “2”
I’LL JUST NEED TO VERIFY YOUR IDENTITY
DATE OF BIRTH
MOTHER’S MAIDEN NAME
YOUR 1ST CONCERT

$400 Identity:

Based on a 1936 decision the 1st 3 of its 9 digits dealt w/ geographical coding.

Anna Marie: “What is your Social Security Number?”

$200 Date of Birth:

Apr. 24, 1800: early on only the President & V-P had borrowing privileges.

Has: “What is the Library of Congress?”

$1K Literary Simile:

In his Farewell, My Lovely a man about 6’5″ in a yellow tie was “as conspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food”.

Has: “Who is (Raymond) Chandler?” ($1200)

$1K Crossword Clues “2”:

Enclosed Earth-like research facility in Arizona (10 squares)

Has: “What is Biosphere 2?” ($2200)

$1K Identity:

In 1935 a criminologist & an ophthalmologist used the pattern of blood vessels in this eye as an identifier.

Has: “What is the retina?” ($3200)

$600 Date of Birth:

This force: Nov. 10, 1775, a month after the Navy it rides w/.

Has: “Uh, who are the…SEALS?” ($2600)
Amar: “Who are the Marines?”

$800 Date of Birth:

Sept. 13, 1957: the 1st group meeting of this organization for those w/ a problem at the track or the tables.

Has: “What is Gamblers Anonymous?” ($3400)

$1K Date of Birth:

Jul. 26, 1848: this university w/ alumni like Bud Selig & Frank Lloyd Wright.

TS: Univ. of Wisconsin

$400 Mother’s Maiden Name:

He said he used his mom’s maiden name because double S names work for artists- Matisse, Poussin, Rousseau.

Amar: “Who is Picasso?” ($1K)

$600 Mother’s Maiden Name:

Answer: DD.

Maiden name of the political mom seen here.

“What is…Nixon?”…that’ll cut his score in ½- what was Milhous?

$800 Mother’s Maiden Name:

Born in the USSR he was just a little wood pusher when he adopted a Russified version of his mom’s maiden name Gasparyan.

Amar: “Who is Gary Kasparov?” ($1300)

$400 1st Concert:

I’ll never forget this trio’s ’86 “Raising Hell” tour that saw the Beastie Boys & LL Cool J open.

Anna Marie: “Who is RUN-DMC?” ($800)

$600 1st Concert:

I rang in ’00 w/ this Vermont band as they lit the morning sky incorporating “Sunrise” from “Also Sprach Zarathustra” in a jam.

Has: “Who are the Grateful Dead?” ($2800)

TS: Phism

$800 1st Concert:

I survived the legendary deluge at Glastonbury in ’97 & heard an epic version of “Creep” by these Brit rockers.

Amar: “Who is Radiohead?” ($2100)

$200 Mother’s Maiden Name:

Maiden name of Elizabeth who got her author son James Cooper to add it as a middle name so it would be preserved.

Anna Marie: “What is Fenimore?” ($1K)

$1K 1st Concert:

I didn’t sleep after I saw “The Rust Never Sleeps” tour by this man in Crazy Horse in ’78.

Anna Marie: “Who is Neil Young?” ($2K)

$200 1st Concert:

I was there in ’07 when this original lead singer for Van Halen reunited w/ the band for a concert tour.

Anna Marie: “Who is Sam Kinison?” ($1800)
Has: “Who is (Eddie) Vedder?” ($2600)
Amar: “Who is Eddie Van Halen?” ($1900)

TS: David Lee Roth

ATTEMPTED LT: $1600
UNATTEMPTED LT: $1600
TOTAL LT: $3200

CS:
Amar: $4.5K/Has: $4K/Anna Marie: $1400

DJ!:
UP IN THE AIR
INDIGENOUS ACTORS & ACTRESSES
AMERICAN HISTORY
GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER
BRITISH PARLIAMENT
RAMBLING WORDS

$400 Indigenous Actors & Actresses:

Of Maori heritage Temuera Morrison has played both Jango Fett & this cloned son of Jango in the “STAR WARS” franchise.

Has: “Who is Boba Fett?” ($4400)

$800 Geographic Anagrams of Each Other:

Answer there: TDD.

A South American capital city followed by Pizarro & a largely desert country of western Africa

Nothing there- what are Lima & Mali?

$2K Rambling Word:

Tristram Shandy calls these tangential departures from the main subject “the sunshine…the life, the soul of reading”.

Amar: “What are digressions?” ($6.5K)

$1200 British Parliament:

Smoking’s prohibited in Parliament but the entrance to the chamber has a box for this smokeless tobacco.

Amar: “What is snuff?” ($7700)

$1600 British Parliament:

Neither the House of Commons nor the House of Lords can pass laws w/o the presence of this ornamental club.

Has: “What is the mace?”

$2K British Parliament:

Answer there’s the final DD this wk.

The Houses of Parliament are located in this London borough.

“What is Westminster?”…Has just avoided going into the red w/ that $2K response.

ATTEMPTED LT: $3200
UNATTEMPTED LT: $10,800
TOTAL DJ! LT: $14K

Pre-Final S:
Amar: $15,300 (LOCK)/Has: $6800/Anna Marie: $1400

CORYAT SCORES:
Amar: $15,800/Has: $11,200

FJ!: LITERATURE

Preserved in a single manuscript called Cotton MS Vitellius A XV this epic began w/ the word “Hwaet”, often translated as “listen”.

ANNA MARIE: “What is this has been a dream come true!” (BUSTS)
HAS: “What is Beowulf?” = $10,799
AMAR: SAME AS HAS = $16,800