“JEOPARDY!” 6/20/24

Challengers:
Jonquil Garrick-Reynolds (Ottawa): Theatrical wardrobe tech
Bob Longstreth (S.D.): Superior court judge

JR:
NAMED BY LIT LOVERS
SHORTENED WORDS
LET’S RUN THE NUMBERS
IT WAS ALL ORANGE
STEVIE WONDER
SIR DUKE

$400 Named By Lit Lovers:

The team overseeing the Curiosity rover named a “landing” after this author of The Martian Chronicles.

Drew: “Who is Bradbury?”

$600 Named By Lit Lovers:

Found in the name of a bewitching Disney show w/ Selena Gomez this street or “Place” in NYC was named for a Walter Scott novel.

Jonquil: “What is ‘The Wizards of Waverly‘s Place?”

TS (should not have added “‘s” to Waverly)

$800 Shortened Word:

In the streets it’s your rival; Maxo Keam rhymed the word w/ “drop”.

Drew: “What is Opp?” ($1200)

$800 Named By Lit Lovers:

A species of fish w/ a long snout was named for this character w/ a big ol’ nose from an 1897 play.

Bob: “What is a gar?” 
Drew: “What is Cyrano Bergerac?” ($400)

TS #2 (should’ve added “de” in between Cyrano & Bergerac)

$1K Named By Lit Lovers:

A type of trapdoor spider w/ blue eyes has this spicy fictional desert planet in its name.

Jonquil: “What is Arrakis?” ($400)

$800 Orange:

The use of these orange flowers to adorn altars called ofrendas during Day of the Dead festivals dates from Aztec times.

Jonquil: “What are marigolds?” ($1200)

$800 Stevie Wonder:

Answer: DD.

Stevie’s music evoked the circus for Smokey Robinson, who wrote the lyrics for what became this hit for Smokey & the Miracles.

“Uh, what is ‘The Tracks of My Tears’?”…no, which costs Jonquil a g-bar- what was “The Tears of a Clown”?

$1K Stevie Wonder:

Title line preceding “That’s why I’ll always stay around, you are the apple of my eye, forever, you’ll stay in my heart”.

Bob: “What is ‘You Are the Sunshine of My Life’?” ($200)

$600 Numbers:

4189 (hits) & 2130 (consec. games) fell but this hitting streak by Joe DiMaggio endures.

Bob: “What is 56 (consec. games w/ a hit)?” ($800)

$800 Numbers:

General Sherman’s special field orders, #15 reserved land for freed families in tracts of up this many acres.

Bob: “What is 40 (acres & a mule)?” ($1600)

$1K Numbers:

As the word for this number sounds like it means “certainly death” Cantonese speakers have a collective case of tetrakaidekaphobia.

Drew: “What is 13?” (-$600)
Jonquil: “Uh, what is 4?” (-$800)
Bob: “Uh, what is 52?” ($600)

TS #3: 14

$400 Numbers:

In 2024 West Conshohocken borough in Pennsylvania celebrated its sesquicentennial- this many yrs.

Drew: “What is 150?” (-$200)

$600 Shortened Word:

Short for your longtime pal it 1st appeared pre-WWII; it was also D. name of a clown in an “In Living Color” sketch.

Drew: “What is homey?” ($400)

$1K Shortened Word:

livestrong.com notes it’s better to relax your chest & then twitch the muscle under your collarbone to make these fellas bounce.

Drew: “What are pecs?” ($1400)

$400 Shortened Word:

It’s a quick way to say you want, say, the 2021 Caymus Vineyards w/ its notes of black cherry.

Drew: “What is the red?” ($1K)
Bob: “What is zin?” (or cab)($1K)

$200 Named By Lit Lovers:

In 2002 an Ankylosaurus species was named after this author of a dino-mite 1990 novel.

Drew: “Who is Crichton?” ($1200)

$200 Shortened Word:

Sugars or starches- keep ’em low in a keto diet.

Drew: “What are carbs?” ($1400)

$200 Numbers:

There are this many officially recognized constellations- same as the # of keys on a standard piano.

Drew: “What is 88?” ($1600)

$600 Orange:

The color International Orange can be seen on the Tokyo Tower & this California bridge completed in 1937.

Drew: “What is the Golden Gate Bridge?” ($2200)

$400 Orange:

This Chinese-American fast food restaurant says it served over 100Mlbs of orange chicken in 2021.

Jonquil: “What is Panda Express?” (-$400)

$1K Orange:

A shade of orange bears the name of this Ivy League university where “The Orange & The Black” is a traditional song.

Drew: “What is Princeton?” ($3200)

$200 Orange:

This root veggie was 1st domesticated in Asia around the 10th c.; in the 17th c. Dutch painters popularized the orange variety.

Jonquil: “What are carrots?” (-$200)

$600 Stevie Wonder:

Stevie wanted to add a Swahili phrase on this charity single causing Waylon Jennings to bail (good ole boys don’t sing in Swahili).

Jonquil: “What is ‘We Are the World’?” ($400)

$1K Sir Duke:

Victory by the Duc de Richelieu at Mahon on this island, not the largest of the Balearics, may have given mayonnaise its name.

Drew: “What is Menorca?” ($4200)

$800 Sir Duke:

In 1869 a royal w/ this title, later bestowed on Prince Phillip, visited Hawai’i- that was how Duke Kahanamoku got his name.

Drew: “What is, uh, Kahuna?” ($3400)

TS #4: Duke of Edinburgh

$600 Sir Duke:

In 2021 after 5 decades the Duke of Kent stepped down as a presenter of the trophies for this sporting tournament.

Bob: “Uh, what is Wimbleton?” ($400)

TS #5: Wimbledon

$400 Sir Duke:

At around age 8 in 1035 future English King William I succeeded his father as Duke of this in France.

Jonquil: “What is Normandy?” ($800)

$400 Stevie Wonder:

In ’61 Stevie was introduced to Berry Gordy, founder of this record label & many of his albums were issued by this Tamla subsidiary.

Jonquil: “What is Motown?” ($1200)

$200 Stevie Wonder:

The title of Stevie’s song “Sir Duke” referenced this member of music nobility.

Bob: “Who is Duke Ellington?” ($600)

$200 Sir Duke:

Since 2000 Grand Duke Henri has been the head of state of this European country- the world’s only grand duchy.

Drew: “What is Luxembourg?” ($3600)

ATTEMPTED LT: $3800

CS:
Drew: $3600/Bob: $600/Jonquil: $1200

DJ!:
HIT THE ROAD, JACQUES
MODERN PRODUCTS
BROADWAY’S OPENING NIGHT CASTS
MUSEUMS
BODY PARTS’ BETTER-KNOWN NAMES
YOU CAN’T SPELL

$1200 Museums:

“Ice Cold”, an exhibit on hip hop jewelry at the American Museum of Natural History, feat. this rapper’s Barbie pendant.

Jonquil: “Who is Nicki Minaj?” ($2400)

$1200 Broadway’s Opening Night Casts:

These 2 actresses were “WICKED”-ly good when their show opened in Oct. 2003.

Jonquil: “Who is, uh, Kristin Chenowith &…” ($1200)

TS: Kristin Chenowith & Idina Menzel

$1600 Body Parts’ Better-Known Names:

Coccyx

Drew: “What is the tailbone?” ($5200)

$1200 Body Parts’ Better-Known Names:

The laryngeal prominence

Jonquil: “What is the Adam’s apple?” ($2400)

$2K Body Parts’ Better-Known Names:

Hallux

Drew: “Um, the big toe? What is the big toe?” ($7200)

$1200 You Can’t Spell:

This type for a word of attachment to an item from your past w/o “time”.

Jonquil: “What is sentiment(al)?” ($3600)

$2K You Can’t Spell:

This, which roughly ¼ of Americans experience each yr, w/o “omni” (not exactly a plug for the hotel chain).

Jonquil: “What is insomnia?” ($5600)

$1600 Broadway’s Opening Night Casts:

This musical set at the turn of the century opened w/ Audra McDonald as Sarah & Brian Stokes Mitchell as Coalhouse Walker, Jr.

Jonquil: “What is ‘Ragtime’?” ($7200)

$2K Broadway’s Opening Night Casts:

In 1988 I spied BD Wong in his Broadway debut as the mysterious Chinese opera singer whom John Lithgow fell for in this play.

Bob: “Who is ‘M. Butterfly’?” ($2600)

$800 Body Parts’ Better Known Names:

Trachea

Drew: “Uh, the windpipe? What is the windpipe?” ($8K)

$400 Body Parts’ Better Known Names:

Braincase

Drew: “What is the skull?” ($8400)

$1600 You Can’t Spell:

This past tense verb meaning “cried out for” as in “the crowd ____ for an encore” w/o more.

Drew: “What is clamored?” ($10K)

$1600 Museums:

Answer’s DD #1– he’s wagering $3K & his lead.

On view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts is a self-portrait of Frida Kahlo dedicated to this Russian exile.

“Who is Trotsky?”…right.

$2K Museums:

In Berlin, a city w/ a famous gate, this museum has the Ishtar Gate & the Market Gate of Miletus.

TS #2: Pergamon

$800 Museums:

A museum in Nantucket about the history of this profession’s housed in an old spermaceti candle factory.

Drew: “What is whaling?” ($13,800)

$800 Jacques:

This explorer may have been to Brazil in the early 16th century before going west again, giving Canada its name on a later trip.

Jonquil: “What is Jacques Champlain? Jacques de Champlain? Samuel?” ($6400)

TS #3: Jacques Cartier

$1200 Jacques:

Answer: there it is- the other DD.

Philosopher Jacques Derrida was born in this African country when it was governed by France but left for Paris in 1949.

“It’s my Master’s- what is Algeria?”…too bad Drew made a face value wager because he’s right.

$1600 Jacques:

In 1960 Don Walsh & Jacques Piccard went to this spot in the Pacific- the deepest place on Earth.

Bob: “What is Mariana’s Trench?” ($4200)

$2K Jacques:

This Prussian-born French composer took a trip to the underworld w/ his 1858 opera about Orpheus.

Drew: “Who is (Christoph) Gluck?” ($13K)
Bob: “Who is Offenbach?” ($6200)

$400 Jacques:

Jacques-Pierre Brissot went to America to help the antislavery cause then back to Paris to get its keys after it was stormed.

Drew: “What is the Bastille?” ($13,400)

$400 Museums:

A Vegas museum bearing the name of this noble gas has a “boneyard” of old glitzy signs- they even have 1 w/ Vegas Vic.

Drew: “What is Neon?” ($13,800)

$800 You Can’t Spell:

This type of covenant limiting how you can use your property w/o “strict”.

Bob: “What is a restriction?” (acceptable for restrictive)($7K)

$400 You Can’t Spell:

These Christians who take the bible quite literally w/o “amen”.

Jonquil: “Who are fundamentalists?” ($6800)

$800 Broadway’s Opening Night Casts:

When this groovy “tribal love rock musical” hit Broadway in 1968 its cast incl. Paul Jabara, Melba Moore & Diane Keaton.

Bob: “What is ‘Hair’?” ($7800)

$400 Broadway’s Opening Night Casts:

Art Carney & Walter Matthau were the original Felix & Oscar in this comedy.

Bob: “What is ‘The Odd Couple’?” ($8200)

$2K Modern Products:

OpenSea is a marketplace for buying, selling & trading digital art in the form of these whose weird 1st word means unique.

Drew: “What are NFTs?” ($15,800)

$800 Modern Products:

Otterbox & Pela are on the job protecting these no matter who the manufacturer is.

Jonquil: “What are phone cases? Phones?” ($7600)

$1200 Modern Products:

This type of transport can be pedal assist or throttle only.

Jonquil: “What is an electric bike?” ($8800)

$1600 Modern Products:

Cooking on the go while fleeing your enemies? Try this kind of portable cooktop using electromagnetic energy.

Jonquil: “What is an induction plate?” ($10,400)

$400 Modern Products:

Quadcopter design & crash-avoidance are good options when considering buying 1 of these.

Bob: “What is a drone?” ($8600)

ATTEMPTED LT: $2K
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: $2K (Museums)
TOTAL DJ! LT: $4K

Pre-Final S:
Drew: $15,800/Bob: $8600/Jonquil: $10,400

CORYAT SCORES:
Drew: $14,400/Jonquil: $11,400

FJ!: AUTHORS’ WIVES

When asked if she was the inspiration for the wife in a 1922 novel this woman replied “No. She was much fatter”.

BOB: “Who is Molly Joyce” ($2202) = $6398
JONQUIL: “Who is Anais Miller?” ($9200) = $1200
DREW: “Who is Zelda Fitzgerald” (Correct: Who was Nora Joyce?)($6K) = $9800