“JEOPARDY!” 6/7/24

Challengers:
Amogha Tadimety (Cambridge): Biotech startup founder
Kevin Stuhlmann (Rochester Hills, MI): Pastor

JR:
THAT’S SO 1990s
MICHIGAN
4-SYLLABLE WORDS
I GOT RHYTHM
THE MAIL PERSPECTIVE
TV COUPLING

$200 TV Coupling:

Carrie & Big in the Big Apple

Amogha: “What is ‘sex and the city’?”

$400 4-Syllable Word:

This type of institution could be called a monk-y house.

Adriana: “What is a monastery?”

$200 ’90s:

A ’91 senate resolution decried this country’s “illegal occupation of & brutal aggression against Kuwait”.

Adriana: “What is Iraq?” ($600)

$600 TV Coupling:

Stede & Blackbeard on the high seas

Adriana: “What is ‘Our Flag Means Death’?” ($1200)

$800 TV Coupling:

Carol & Mike combining forces

Adriana: “What is ‘The Brady Bunch’?” ($2K)

$1K TV Coupling:

Missandei & Grey Worm- more than pawns.

Adriana: “What is ‘Game of Thrones’?” ($3K)

$400 TV Coupling:

Meredith & Derek- smooth operators.

Amogha: “What is ‘Grey’s Anatomy’?” ($600)

$400 ’90s:

The Jul. ’97 “Cool Britannia” party w/ rockers & designers as guests was hosted by this new prime minister.

Adriana: “Who is Tony Blair?” ($3400)

$200 Rhythm:

Also a unit of measurement it refers to systematically arranged poetic rhythm measured in feet.

Adriana: “What is meter?” ($3600)

$600 ’90s:

It was checkmate for Garry Kasparov who lost to Deep Blue made by this co.- Garry, I can totally relate.

Kevin: “Who is IBM?”

$800 ’90s:

Atlanta hosted the ’96 Summer Olympics & built the facility called this Olympic Park as part of the festivities.

TS: Centennial

$1K ’90s:

This Texas city was in the news in ’93 for a raid on a nearby compound; in ’23 Donald Trump held his 1st campaign rally there.

Adriana: “What is Waco?” ($4600)

$600 4-Syllable Word:

That word’s the DD.

Let’s “walk” over to this word describing something ordinary or commonplace.

Minus $2K because she’s drawing a blank- what’s pedestrian?

$800 4-Syllable Word:

It can be a natural disposition to do something or a degree of slope.

Kevin: “What is inclination?” ($1400)

$1K 4-Syllable Word:

It’s the adjective for an exaggerated fear of a dead body.

TS: Necrophobic

HS:
Adriana: $2600/Kevin: $1400/Amogha: $600

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $400 (I Got Rhythm)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $3400
TOTAL LT: $3800

CS:
Adriana: $5800/Kevin: $4400/Amogha: $1K

DJ!:
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY
BRAVING THE ELEMENTS’ SYMBOLS
MOVIES’ OPENING LINES
AMERICANA
A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE
DANGEROUS THING

$800 Elements’ Symbols:

Going w/ atomic #8 this single-letter symbol represents something you just can’t live w/o- literally.

Amogha: “What is oxygen?” ($200)
Adriana: “What is O?” ($6600)

$800 Movies’ Opening Lines:

’10: “I had the craziest dream last night. I was dancing the white swan.”

Adriana: “What is ‘Black Swan’?” ($7400)

$1200 Movies’ Opening Lines:

’85: “Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School. Shermer, Illinois. 60062. Dear Mr. Vernon.”

Adriana: “What is ‘The Breakfast Club’?” ($8600)

$1600 Movies’ Opening Lines:

’86, narration: “I was 12 going on 13 the 1st time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the Summer of 1959.”

Adriana: “What is ‘Stand By Me’?” ($10,200)

$2K Movies’ Opening Lines:

Those lines have a DD attached- she’s betting $3K.

’70: “Be seated. Now I want you to remember no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.”

“What is ‘Patton’?”…bang.

$400 Movies’ Opening Lines:

’95, narration: “I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a liar.”

Kevin: “What is ‘Braveheart’?” ($4800)

$400 Biblical Geography:

King Herod ordered the murder of all children aged 2yrs or under in this city.

Kevin: “What is Bethlehem?” ($5200)

$800 Biblical Geography:

Joseph died at age 110 “and he was put in a coffin in” this country where he had held high power.

Adriana: “What is Egypt?” ($14K)

$1200 Biblical Geography:

Jesus’ 1st recorded miracle was turning water into wine at a marriage feast in this town in Galilee.

Kevin: “What is Cana?” ($6400)

$1600 Biblical Geography:

St. Paul wrote epistles to the Christian community he had founded in this Greek city on an isthmus of the same name.

Kevin: “What is Corinth?” ($8K)

$2K Biblical Geography:

King Nebuchadnezzar gave Daniel many great gifts & “made him ruler over the whole province” of this.

Kevin: “What is Babylon?” ($10K)

$400 Americana:

For a dry-cleaning process Thomas Jennings was believed to have been the 1st black American to be granted 1 of these in 1821.

Amogha: “What is a patent?” ($600)

$1200 Elements’ Symbols:

Answer there: the final DD this wk.

Alphabetically it’s the 1st element w/ a single letter as its symbol.

“What is argon?”…not right, dropping her to $400 on the bad side- what’s boron?

$1600 Elements’ Symbols:

We’re not a rock band but we’re playing this element, Pd, anyway- it’s used in dental fillings & catalytic converters.

Amogha: “What is palladium?” ($1200)

$2K Elements’ Symbols:

Hip replacements can utilize titanium or this element right below it on the periodic table.

Amogha: “What is zirconium?” ($3200)

$400 Elements’ Symbols:

Let’s substitute this symbol into some familiar names & phrases- the Ag surfer, an Ag-tongued devil, hi-ho, Ag! Away!

Adriana: “What is silver?” ($14,400)

ATTEMPTED LT: $3200
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: $2K (Americana)
TOTAL DJ! LT: $5200

Pre-Final S:
Adriana: $19,600/Kevin: $13,600/Amogha: $3600 (OUT)

CORYATS ON FEMALE SIDE:
Adriana: $18,600/Amogha: $6600

FJ!: WORLD LEADERS

During a ’72 presidential visit Richard Nixon discussed a poem by this leader called “Ode to the Plum Blossom”.

AMOGHA: “Who is Zhedong?” (acceptable for Mao Zedong)($1600) = $5200
KEVIN: “Who is Deng?” ($6300) = $7300
ADRIANA: “Who is Mao Zedong?” ($7800) = $27,400 $183,100