“JEOPARDY!” 4/24/24

Challengers:
Amy Hummel (MIL): ER doctor
Paul Drake (orig. from Grand Blanc, MI): Front desk lead

JR:
U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS
CELEBRITY MEMOIRS
HIKING GEAR
ETYMOLOGIES
THE RITE STUFF
MOVEMENT

$800 Celebrity Memoir:

This actor who turned down an OSCAR wrote the memoir Songs My Mother Taught Me.

Paul: “Who is Brando?”

$1K Celebrity Memoir:

Chapters in his All About Me! incl. “Carl Reiner and the 2000 Year Old Man” & “Kismet– Meeting Anne Bancroft”.

Paul: “Who is Mel Brooks?” ($1800)

$1K Movement:

In 1845 magazine editor John L. O’Sullivan wrote of this 2-word phrase regarding America’s westward expansion.

Mark: “What is manifest destiny?” 

$600 Celebrity Memoir:

Answer: an early DD.

Arnold Schwarzenegger aptly titled his ’12 autobiography this, the title of his ’90 film.

“What is Last Action Hero?”- oh no; that was Total Recall.

$400 Celebrity Memoir:

He called his memoir A Very Punchable Face & he’s been punched in numerous sketches on “SNL”.

Amy: “Who is Colin Jost?”

$800 Movement:

This Chinese exercise w/ flowing rhythmic movements has forms such as parting the wild horse’s mane & playing the lute.

Amy: “What is tai chi?” ($1200)

$1K Etymology:

There’s a silent P at the beginning of this word coming from the Greek for “pertaining to air” & is used of tires.

Amy: “What is pneumatic?” ($2200)

$800 Etymology:

An Italian word for “embroiled” gives us this word for a complicated situation.

Paul: “What is imbroglio?” ($2600)

$600 Etymology:

This word for a break you take’s etymologically similar to “respect” & has the same # of letters.

Mark: “What is respite?” 

$400 Etymology:

Here’s a flex- Romans thought these found all over your body resembled a “little mouse”.

Mark: “What are muscles?” ($1K)

$200 Etymology:

You may vacation in this type of cozy little building whose name derives from “the Bengali style”.

Paul: “What is a bungalow?” ($2800)

$600 Movement:

In 1965 25K people joined the 50-mile march to Montgomery from this city, an iconic event in the civil rights movement.

Paul: “What is Selma?” ($3400)

$400 Movement:

Begun in the 1950s this art movement used everyday objects like comic strips, road signs & (big hint!) soup cans.

Paul: “What is pop art?” ($3800)

$200 Movement:

Movements in this dance form incl. releve (to rise) & saute (jumping using both feet & landing that way).

Paul: “What is ballet?” ($4K)

$200 Celebrity Memoir:

Finally free to tell her story she spoke candidly about her conservatorship & Justin Timberlake in The Woman in Me.

Amy: “Who is Britney Spears?” ($2400)

HS:
Mark: $1K/Paul: $4K/Amy: $2400

CS:
Mark: $4600/Paul: $5800/Amy: $6K

DJ!:
NEAR THE EQUATOR
ESSAYS
ART & ARTISTS
ENGINEERING MARVELS
MUSIC FROM 10 YEARS AGO
FEEL “OLD” YET?

The $1200 answer about Essays is DD #1 for Mark ($9400), followed by Paul ($7400) & Amy ($7200). The new titleholder wagers his $2K lead.

In jail Gandhi would often read a copy of this 1849 Thoreau essay for inspiration.

“What is…’Self-Reliance’?”…no & the men are tied- what was “Civil Disobedience”? The $800 answer under Near the Equator is DD #2, which Amy ($16K) claims & is almost in LGT; Mark stands at $8600 & Paul’s 3rd w/ $7800. A $4K right response by Amy might do the job.

The largest living monitor lizard shares its name w/ this island in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago.

Nothing there- what is Komodo?

ATTEMPTED LT: $2K
UNATTEMPTED LT: $6400
TOTAL DJ! LT: $8400

Pre-Final S:
Mark: $8600/Paul: $9400/Amy: $13,200

CORYAT SCORES:
Mark: $11,600/Amy: $17,200

FJ!: HISTORIC TRANSPORTS

Decorated w/ an illustration of the montgolfiers’ craft the smoking room aboard this could be accessed only via an airlock.

MARK: “WHAT IS THE HINDENBURG?” ($801) = $9401
PAUL: AGREED ($7801) = $17,201
AMY: TRIPLE-GET (she almost put Zeppelin down, I think)($5700) = $18,900