“JEOPARDY!” 4/23/24

Challengers:
Mark Lashley (PHI): Professor
Lianne Schaffer (Newton, MA): Piano teacher & musician

JR:
PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES
CULTURE, POPULARLY
ITALIAN PRODUCTS
WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS
WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
RELAX, IT’S MATH

$1K Math:

These coordinates named for a 17th c. man describe the position of points in space in relation to an x-axis & y-axis.

Nam: “What are Cartesian?”

$800 Math:

It’s a constant that multiplies a variable; in physics there’s a well-known 1 “of friction”.

TS: Coefficient

$600 Math:

In a Tom Lehrer song a movie called “The Eternal Triangle” starred Ingrid Bergman as this longest side of a right triangle.

Mark: “What is a hypotenuse?” 

$600 Words & Their Meanings:

From Italian it can mean a daring desperado as well as a cheer.

Lianne: “What is…um, ole?”

TS: Bravo

$800 Culture:

It was a letter-perfect day on Jimmy Kimmel’s show when Warren G welcomed this sax man to help out on “Regulate”.

Nam: “Who is Kenny G?” ($1800)

$400 Math:

“Like fractions” have the same this making it easy to add & subtract ’em.

Nam: “What are denominators?” ($2200)

$1K Presidents & First Ladies:

Not highly regarded by historians he was the 19th century President seen here.

Nam: “Who is (James) Buchanan?” ($3200)

$800 Presidents & First Ladies:

In the 1860s his great-grandfather George Washington Baines served as president of Baylor Univ.

Nam: “Who is LBJ?” ($4K)

$600 Presidents & First Ladies:

A shopaholic who enjoyed lavish clothes & redecorating the White House, by 1864 she had spent over $27K.

Mark: “Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?” ($1200)

$400 Presidents & First Ladies:

The last First Lady in the 1800s, she passed away in 1979 outliving Dwight by 10yrs.

Lianne: “Who is Mamie Eisenhower?” (-$200)

$600 Italian Product:

Answer: DD.

This car brand’s name begins w/ the 1st phonetic letter of the NATO alphabet & ends w/ another.

“What is Alfa Romeo?”…correct for $1K; she now has $800.

$800 Italian Product:

Acc. to the New York Times a marketing blitz by Campari Group made this orangey spritz the drink of the Summer in 2018.

Mark: “What is an Aperol spritz?” ($2K)

$1K Culture:

Heirs got split 1 by 1 in this ’23 NETFLIX miniseries based on a Poe short story & starring Mary McDonnell as Madeline.

Nam: “What is ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’?” ($5K)

$1K Words & Their Meanings:

It once meant a light fast ship but has come to mean 1 that’s old & worn-out & possibly dismantled.

Mark: “What is junk?” ($1K)

TS: Hulk

$200 Math:

From Latin for “twice” & “cut” it means to divide a line or figure into 2 equal parts.

Nam: “What is bisect?” ($5200)

$1K What Are You Afraid Of?:

Porphyrophobia: this, literally, also the title of a 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Nam: “What is The Color Purple?” ($6200)

$800 What Are You Afraid Of?:

Samhainophobia: this holiday

Nam: “What is Halloween?” ($7K)

$600 What Are You Afraid Of?:

Chorophobia: this activity

TS: Dancing

$400 What Are You Afraid Of?:

Coulrophobia: these performers & please don’t send ’em in.

Nam: “What are clowns?” ($7400)

$200 What Are You Afraid Of?:

Glossophobia: this, especially in public.

Nam: “What is speaking?” ($7600)

ATTEMPTED LT: $1600 (3rd & last clues in Words & Their Meanings)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $1800
TOTAL LT: $3400

CS:
Nam: $8600/Lianne: $2600/Mark: $1800

DJ!:
THE PICTURE OF SOMEONE NAMED GREY
SHARED INTERNATIONAL LAKES
NAME THAT AUTHOR
20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD
I’LL REMEMBER LATE APRIL
“PRO” NOUNS

$1600 20th Century Song, 21st Century Ad:

“Good Times Roll” by this group turned up in a Capital One ad.

Mark: “Who are the Cars?” ($3400)

$2K 20th Century Song, 21st Century Ad:

Bud Light Seltzer & put this KC & the Sunshine Band footwear in a commercial.

Mark: “What is ‘Boogie Shoes’?” ($5400)

$1200 20th Century Song, 21st Century Ad:

This lodging service founded in 2007 built an ad around Bob Dylan’s “Shelter From the Storm”.

Mark: “What is airbnb?” ($6600)

$800 20th Century Song, 21st Century Ad:

Perhaps hearing “You’re My Best Friend” from this band’s album “A Night at the Opera” got you to book that Carnival cruise.

Nam: “Who is Queen?” ($9400)

$2K Author:

“I got in a couple of hassles at the work farm, to tell the pure truth, and the court ruled that I’m a psychopath.”

Mark: “Who is Salinger?” ($4600)

TS: Ken Kasey (known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)

$2K Late Apr.:

That answer’s a DD– Nam looks to add $3K to his fairly strong lead.

This organization was founded 80yrs ago on Apr. 25 to benefit institutions incl. Howard & Morehouse.

“What’s UNICEF?”…no- what is the United Negro College Fund?

$1600 Late Apr.:

On Apr. 29, 1945 the 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. 7th Army arrived to liberate this concentration camp near Munich.

Nam: “What is Dachau?” ($8K)

$1200 Late Apr.:

This Swiss-based super lab released the World Wide Web free to all Apr. 30, 1993 having considered charging a user fee.

TS: CERN

$1600 Author:

Answer there: DD #2– if Nam’s right on this for $2K extra he’ll be once again in Lock Game Territory.

“It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics…but this slaughtering machine ran on.”

“Who is Sinclair?”…sounds good to me.

$2K Someone Named Grey:

As PM the Second Earl Grey, a leader of the liberal party called this, passed the democratizing 1832 Reform Bill.

TS: Whigs

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $2K (Name That Author)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $4400
TOTAL DJ! LT: $6400

Pre-Final S:
Nam: $17,600/Lianne: $7K (OUT)/Mark: $9K

CORYAT SCORES:
Nam: $20,200/Lianne: $6600

FJ!: BUSINESS

In the 1850s the .925 sterling silver standard was instituted by this co., the 1st American 1 to do so.

LIANNE: “What is Tiffany?” (DOUBLE) = $14K
MARK: AGREED W/ HER ($8601) = $17,601
NAM: “What is Wells Fargo?” = $17,199