Challengers:
Joyce Yang (Germantown, MD): Data analyst
Michael Richter (Portland, OR): Elections officer
JR:
GOLDEN AGE
CELEBRITIES
SAME 3 LETTERS, 2 DIFFERENT MEANINGS
HELLO, WALLS
BIG GEO
ALSO A COLLECTIVE NOUN
$800 Big Geo:
It’s a 7900ft plunge down this giant gorge into the Snake River below.
TS: Hells Canyon
$1K Big Geo:
Answer: DD– way too early.
At just shy of 500K sq. miles of mountains, jungle & arid coastline it’s the 3rd-largest country in South America.
“What is…Chile?”…incorrect- what’s Peru?
$1K Golden Age:
This police rank must look over clues carefully- it was common in British golden age detective novels: Grant, French, Cockrill…
TS: Inspector
$800 Golden Age:
The pretty items being offered in a painting from Spain’s Golden Age told you the goddess was this Roman 1.
TS: Flora
$600 Walls:
Through name & deed Nikolai Khabibulin earned the nickname “The Bulin Wall” playing this position professionally.
Joyce: “What is (NHL) goalkeeper?”
$600 Big Geo:
This Alaskan peak rises 18Kft from a base just 2Kft above sea level, leading some to say it’s the world’s tallest mountain.
Joyce: “What is Denali?” ($1200)
$400 Big Geo:
At nearly 600K sq. miles it’s Canada’s largest province.
Will: “What is Quebec?” (-$600)
$1K Also a Collective Noun:
A church area w/ singers for Zachariel & Selaphiel
Michael: “What are wings?”
TS: Choir
$800 Walls:
Found in the wall of the pharynx these can partially grow back from tissue that remains after their removal.
Michael: “What are the…vocal cords?” (-$1800)
Joyce: “What are tonsils?” ($2K)
$600 Same 3 Letters, 2 Different Meanings:
A college of Gamecocks & a college of Trojans
Will: “What is USC?”
$800 Same 3 Letters, 2 Different Meanings:
A food additive common in Chinese cuisine & an indoor venue atop Penn Station
Will: “What is MSG?”
$1K Same 3 Letters, 2 Different Meanings:
Texting shorthand for disbelief or disappointment & a major newspaper Down Under
Michael: “What is SMH?” (Sydney Morning Herald)(-$800)
$200 Same 3 Letters, 2 Different Meanings:
A level of special affectionate attention & a cable TV network now feat. shows like “90 Day Fiance” (also the name of a musical group known for “Waterfalls”)
Michael: “What is TLC?” (-$600)
$400 Same 3 Letters, 2 Different Meanings:
A stat for a pitcher to keep low & a change to the Constitution 1st proposed in 1923
Michael: “What is ERA?” (-$200)
$200 Walls:
This pilgrimage site in Jerusalem’s the only remaining section left from what surrounded the Temple Mount.
Will: “What is the Wailing Wall?” (aka Western Wall)($1K)
HS:
Will: $1K/Michael: -$200/Joyce: $2K
ATTEMPTED LT: $2K
UNATTEMPTED LT: $4K
TOTAL LT: $6K
CS:
Will: $2400/Michael: -$400/Joyce: $5200
DJ!:
LITERARY TITLE OCCUPATIONS
____ FROM THE ____
COLONIAL AMERICA
LEXICONGRESS
MEN OF MEDICINE
TV’S FANTASTICAL PLACES
$400 ____ from the ____:
A woman who has given birth has gotten this- an avian idiom.
Will: “What is a visit from the stork?” ($2800)
$1600 Literary Title Occupation:
In a James Patterson novel an attorney was incarcerated & became literally this type of title behind-bars advocate.
TS: Jailhouse lawyer
$2K Colonial America:
In 1630 John Winthrop sailed west from England to become the governor of this colony & a key leader of the puritans.
Michael: “What is Massachusetts? What is…Plymouth Colony?” (-$2400)
Will: “What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?” ($4800)
$1600 Colonial America:
The 1st governor of the separate colony of North Carolina, he didn’t have a loathsome face like the same-named Stevenson character.
TS: Mr. Edward Hyde
$1200 Colonial America:
This political pamphleteer’s works like Common Sense did much to rally the cause of American independence.
Will: “Who is Paine?” ($6K)
$1200 TV’s Fantastical Places:
This undersea abode of cartoon fame’s based on an actual atoll used for atomic testing between 1946-58.
Michael: “What is ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’?” (-$3600)
Will: “What is Bikini Bottom?” ($7200)
$1600 Men of Medicine:
Answer: there it is, the 1st of 2 DDs.
In 1853 this British anatomist wrote On the Structure and Use of the Spleen; his more famous work came 5yrs later.
“Who is (Henry) Gray?”…correct for another $1K.
$2K Literary Title Occupation:
Holocaust survivor Sol ran a shop whose customers were often desperate in this novel made into a Rod Steiger movie.
Will: “What is Little Shop of Horrors?” ($6200)
TS: The Pawnbroker (by Edward Lewis Wallant)
$1600 ____ from the ____:
Meaning to speak frankly this saying alludes to Old West gunslinger days.
Will: “What is shoot from the hip?” ($7800)
$2K ____ from the ____:
To recover from devastating defeat is to “rise like” this bird of myth.
Will: “What is phoenix from the ashes?” ($9800)
$1600 TV’s Fantastical Places:
“Veronica Mars” was set in this town that also had a planetary name.
Will: “What is Jupiter?” ($8200)
TS: Neptune, CA
$2K TV’s Fantastical Places:
1st seen in ’69 this planet on “Doctor Who” was caught up in a time war w/ the Daleks.
Will: “What is Gallifrey?” ($10,200)
$800 Colonial America:
New York’s colonial village of Bedford is today joined in a neighborhood name w/ this last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam.
Michael: “Who’s Harlem?” (-$4400)
Joyce: “Who is (Peter) Stuyvesant?” ($6K)
$800 Literary Title Occupation:
In a special edition J.K. Rowling did her own illustrations for the story collection titled The Tales of Beedle the this.
Michael: “What is the Bard?” (-$3600)
$400 Literary Title Occupation:
Emily Chambers was 1 of these spiritual intermediaries in a C.J. Archer novel hunting a demon & talking to a ghost.
Will: “What is medium?” ($10,600)
$1200 Literary Title Occupation:
In The Magician’s Nephew animals talked like humans & Jadis, an evil witch, fled from Charn & reached this fantasy land.
Will: “What is Narnia?” ($11,800)
$1200 ____ from the ____:
This colorful phrase meaning “unexpected” invokes visions of lightning.
Michael: “What is a bolt from the blue?” (-$2400)
$800 ____ from the ____:
This rhyming phrase is evoked when someone or something from long ago evokes a feeling of nostalgia.
Will: “What is a blast from the past?” ($12,600)
$1600 Lexicongress:
Since 1975 the CBO, this nonpartisan agency, has told lawmakers how much their programs & pork will cost or save.
Joyce: “What is the Congressional Budget Office?” ($7600)
$2K Men of Medicine:
His name’s a homophone of a childhood bone disease but it was epidemic typhus for which he identified the micro cause.
TS: Howard Ricketts
$800 Lexicongress:
Although it sounds like congress goes to play on swings & seesaws it actually means a brief pause in proceedings.
Will: “What is a recess?” ($13,400)
$2K Lexicongress:
The answer there’s DD #2– double the face value is at stake.
Jason Smith currently holds this title incl. the name of the legislature of the United Kingdom.
“What is the parliamentarian?”…ca-ching.
ATTEMPTED LT: $4K
UNATTEMPTED LT: $5200
TOTAL DJ! LT: $9200
Pre-Final S:
Will: $18,600 (BARELY A LG)/Michael: -$400/Joyce: $9200
WILL’S CORYAT: $18,200
Had Michael not missed that $400 Colonial America clue at the very end he would’ve been around for FJ!; instead, he’ll have to leave w/ $2K.
FJ!: CINEMA HISTORY
Films made outside the U.S. in the ’50s like “3 Coins in the Fountain” & “Quo Vadis” led to an era dubbed “HOLLYWOOD on” this river.
BOTH WROTE “WHAT IS THE TIBER?”
Final wagers:
JOYCE: $800 = $10K
WILL: $100 = $18,700
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