“JEOPARDY!” 6/13/24

Challengers:
Mike Flanagan (Winchester, MA): Nonprofit exec
Hakme Lee (SEA): Scientific instructional tech

JR:
SAINTLY U.S. CITIES
FROM A TO Z
VIVA LAS VEGAS RESIDENCES
19th CENTURY NEWSPAPERS
RECITING POETRY
RHYME TIME

$200 Rhyme Time:

A racket-&-net sport peril

Mike: “What is a tennis menace?”

$400 Rhyme Time:

Cartographic hip-hop verse

Adriana: “What is a map rap?”

$600 Rhyme Time:

A distant Gibson Les Paul

Adriana: “What is a far guitar?” ($1K)

$800 Rhyme Time:

A grizzly trap

Mike: “What is a bear snare?” ($1K)

$1K Rhyme Time:

Gorgonzola knowledge & proficiency

Mike: “What is…cheese…”

TS: Cheese expertise

$600 Reciting Poetry:

This 19th century lord & European traveler: “And all that’s best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.”

Hakme: “Who is Byron?”

$200 Reciting Poetry:

Pt. II of this ended “What evil looks had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung”.

Adriana: “What is ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’?” ($1200)

$200 A to Z:

This synonym for “vibrant” perfectly describes an active hornet nest.

Mike: “What is abuzz?”

$400 A to Z:

In a dessert it’s paired w/ leche.

Adriana: “What is arroz?” ($1600)

$600 A to Z:

Jamiroquai passes the litmus test for this type of music infusing funk & hip-hop w/ another genre.

Hakme: “What’s Afro jazz?” 
Mike: “What is alt jazz?” (-$400)

TS #2: Acid jazz

$800 A to Z:

Once home to a Civil War fortress & now a bird sanctuary it’s located in San Francisco Bay.

Hakme: “What is Alcatraz?”

$600 Saintly U.S. City:

This capital’s nicknamed “The City of Holy Faith”.

Adriana: “What is St. Paul?” ($1K)

TS #3: Santa Fe

$400 Saintly U.S. City:

Answer: DD.

A famous battle occurred in this city from Feb. 23-Mar. 3, 1836.

“What is St. Angelo?”…nope- San Antonio, which drops Hakme to -$200.

$1K Saintly U.S. City:

About 65 miles from the Twin Cities this Minnesota city completed the title of the Trisha Yearwood sob song “On a Bus to”.

TS #4: St. Cloud

$1K Vegas Residency:

This duo made up of Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak had a residency at Park MGM in ’22.

Hakme: “Who is Silk Sonic?” ($800)

$800 Vegas Residency:

On Sept. 29, 2023 U2 began its residency at this spectacular arena at the Venetian.

Hakme: “What is the Sphere?” ($1600)

$600 Vegas Residency:

“What a Girl Wants” is tickets to the residency of this singer at the Venetian.

Adriana: “Who is Christina Aguilera?” ($1600)

$1K A to Z:

A train station in Paris’ 13th Arrondissement bears the name of this 1805 battle won by Napoleon.

Adriana: “What is Austerlitz?” ($2600)

$200 Saintly U.S. City:

You can enjoy some fun in the sun all yr long on this southern California city’s beach & pier.

Adriana: “What is Santa Monica?” ($2800)

$800 Saintly U.S. City:

In the 1860s this Missouri city was the eastern terminus of the Pony Express.

Hakme: “What’s St. Louis?” ($800)

TS #5: St. Joseph

$400 Reciting Poetry:

1 of her 19th sonnets said “Behold and see what a great heap of grief lay hid in me”.

Adriana: “Who is Dickinson?” ($2400)

TS #6: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

$200 19th Century Newspapers:

The New York Times‘ sub-headline about him on Apr. 15, 1865- “no hopes entertained of his recovery”.

Adriana: “Who is Abraham Lincoln?” ($2600)

$400 19th Century Newspapers:

In 1893 the S.F. Examiner published illustrator Jimmy Swinnerton’s California Bears– considered by some the 1st of these.

Adriana: “What are political cartoons?” ($2200)

TS #7: Comic strips

$600 19th Century Newspapers:

The 1st newspaper west of the Mississippi was the Missouri Gazette published in this city on the Mississippi in 1808.

Adriana: “What is Hannibal?” ($1600)

TS #8: St. Louis

$800 19th Century Newspapers:

In 1862 this future novelist was hired at $25 a wk to be city editor of Nevada’s Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.

Mike: “Who is Mark Twain?” ($400)

$800 Reciting Poetry:

Longfellow: “Impatient to mount and ride, booted and spurred, with a heavy stride, on the opposite shore walked” him.

Adriana: “Who is ‘Paul Revere’?” ($2400)

$1K Reciting Poetry:

Kipling: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs &” doing this.

TS #9: “blaming it on you”

$1K 19th Century Newspapers:

The LDS paper called this News, a word in the Book of Mormon, was established in 1850 & is still around today.

Hakme: “What is Deseret?” ($1800)

$400 Vegas Residency:

These 2 magicians have been called the longest continuously running headliners in Vegas.

Adriana: “Who are Penn & Teller?” ($2800)

$200 Vegas Residency:

“The Million Dollar Piano” was the Vegas residency of this “Rocket Man”.

Hakme: “Who is Elton John?” ($2K)

ATTEMPTED LT: $4400
UNATTEMPTED LT: $2K
TOTAL LT: $6400

CS:
Adriana: $2800/Hakme: $2K/Mike: $400

DJ!:
SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE
COMPETITORS
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES
SCIENCE FOR “U”
FEATURE FILM DEBUTS
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES

Mike ($4800) chooses the 1st of 2 DDs on the $1200 row under Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies; Adriana leads w/ $9200 & Hakme’s 2nd w/ $6400. $2K is put at risk by Mike.

Also a CCR song the title of this memoir by Vietnam vet Lewis Puller, Jr. referred to have a legendary general as a dad.

“What is..Favorite Son?”…he was nodding for no reason- what was Fortunate Son? As we fast forward 3 choices Adriana ($10,400) gets DD #2 behind the $800 Competitors clue & bets $3K.

To fend off competition from Arkansas in 1931 this state lowered its residency requirement for divorce to 6wks.

“What is Nevada?”…ca-ching. 

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $2K (Foreign Words & Phrases)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $6800
TOTAL DJ! LT: $8800

Pre-Final S:
Adriana: $15,800/Hakme: $9200/Mike: $4400 (OUT)

CORYAT SCORES:
Adriana: $13,600/Hakme: $10,200/Mike: $6400

FJ!: 1960s BRITISH NOVELS

The author of this novel said of the last chapter left off U.S. editions “My young thuggish protagonist grows up”.

MIKE: “WHAT IS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE?” ($726) = $5126
HAKME: NOTHING ($3K) = $6200
ADRIANA: SAME AS MIKE ($4K) = $19,800 $278.5K