“JEOPARDY!” 4/25/24

Challengers:
Justin Brandt (orig. from West Hills, CA): Attorney
Tyler Jarvis (orig. from Portales, NM): Researcher & PhD student

JR:
GEORGES COUNTRIES
TOP 10 BABY NAMES (acc. to the SSA in 2022)
ASSAULTS & BATTERIES
REALITY SHOW HOSTS
BRO-POURRI
“A.C.”

$800 Assaults & Batteries:

Rectangular 9V batteries used to be called this kind for the newfangled components inside the little radios they powered.

Amy: “What are transistor batteries?”

$600 Assaults & Batteries:

In 1856 South Carolina’s Preston Brooks used a cane to assault Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Capitol’s soon-to-be replaced Old this Chamber.

Amy: “What is House Chamber?” ($200)
Justin: “What is the Senate Chamber?”

$600 A.C.:

1 of these w/ hidden pictures or treats typically begins on Dec. 1 & helps kids count down to Christmas.

Amy: “What is an Advent calendar?” ($800)

$1K Gorges Countries:

Olduvai Gorge

Amy: “What is…Spain?” (-$200)

TS: Tanzania

$1K Assaults & Batteries:

A 2019 Charles River book recounted Pickett’s Charge and this: The History & Legacy of the 19th Century’s Most Famous Doomed Assaults.

Amy: “What is the Charge of the Light Brigade?” ($800)

$800 Top 10 Baby Names:

#7 for girls this 3-letter palindromic name will be 1 of the 1st called alphabetically when roll’s taken.

Tyler: “What is Ava?”

$800 A.C.:

The Gerald R. Ford 1 of these cost $13B to build & is more than 3 football fields long.

Amy: “What is an aircraft carrier?” ($1600)

$800 Gorges Countries:

Aare Gorge

TS #2: Switzerland

$600 Top 10 Baby Names:

It was #2 for males or should we say “there went in two and two unto” this name “as God had commanded”.

Amy: “What is Noah?” ($2200)

$1K Top 10 Baby Names:

This #2 name on the list for baby girls was the #1 name for Jane Austen in an 1815 novel.

Tyler: “What is Emma?” ($1800)

$600 Reality Show Host:

Julie Chen Moonves did double duty as a host of “THE talk” & of this Summer reality show.

TS #3

$800 Bro-Pourri:

Answer: DD.

These brothers bought James A. Bailey’s business in 1907.

“Who are the Ringling Bros.?”- sure to double to $3600.

$1K A.C.:

Shirley Temple sang about these in her “soup, monkeys & rabbits loop the loop”.

Tyler: “What are animal crackers?” ($4600)

$400 A.C.:

In college John Legend was a director of this kind of singing group w/o musical accompaniment.

Tyler: “What is a cappella?” ($5K)

$200 A.C.:

When it comes to electricity in our homes the AC in AC/DC stands for this.

Tyler: “What is alternating current?” ($5200)

$400 Top 10 Baby Names:

Maybe acting’s in the future for kids w/ this name, #1 for males; at least it was for Mr. Hemsworth & Mr. Cunningham.

Amy: “What is Liam?” ($2600)

$600 Bro-Pourri:

This 1954 musical centered on a septet of backwoods siblings intent on finding mates.

Amy: “What is ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’?” ($3200)

$400 Bro-Pourri:

This co. acquired the rights to the British board game Cluedo & renamed it Clue in ’49.

Justin: “What is Hasbro?” ($200)
Tyler: “What’s…Milton Bradley?” ($4800)

TS #4: Parker Bros.

$200 Top 10 Baby Names:

Maybe acting’s in the future for kids w/ this name, #1 for females; at least it was for Ms. Colman & Ms. Wilde.

Tyler: “What is Olivia?” ($5K)

$200 Reality Show Host:

Jesse Palmer was feat. on S5 of this show & in ’23 hosted a “Golden” version.

Justin: “What is ‘The BACHELOR’?” ($400)

$1K Bro-Pourri:

This outlaw band of siblings incl. Grat, Bob & Emmett were cousins of the cutthroat Younger brothers.

TS #5: Dalton Bros.

$400 Assaults & Batteries:

As the name suggests rechargeable NiCad batteries contain these 2 elements.

Amy: “What are nickel & cadmium?” ($3600)

$600 Gorges Countries:

Todra Gorge in the High Atlas

Amy: “What is Morocco?” ($4200)

$1K Reality Show Host:

This great Scot encourages bloodless murder & mayhem on “The Traitors”.

Amy: “Who is Alan Cumming?” ($5200)

$800 Reality Show Host:

This host likely refrained from calling contestants “donkeys” when hosting “MasterChef Junior”.

Tyler: “Who is Ramsay?” ($5800)

$400 Reality Show Host:

In ’18 she tweeted “After 16 incredible seasons, I am sayin auf Wiedersehen” to her hosting gig.

Justin: “Who is Heidi Klum?” ($800)

$400 Gorges Countries:

Part of a trio, the Wu & Qutang

Amy: “What is China?” ($5600)

$200 Gorges Countries:

The Avon & Cheddar Gorges

Amy: “What is the U.K.? England?” ($5800)

$200 Bro-Pourri:

The scholarly feats of the Brothers Grimm incl. compiling this type of reference work, the “Deutsches Worterbuch”.

Tyler: “What is a dictionary?” ($6K)

$200 Assault & Batteries:

Cold weather can reduce a battery’s power so a car battery’s label lists its CCA, or cold cranking these units of current.

Tyler: “What are amps?” ($6200)

ATTEMPTED LT: $1400
UNATTEMPTED LT: $2400
TOTAL LT: $3800

CS:
Amy: $5800/Tyler: $6200/Justin: $800

DJ!:
BELOW DECK: SAILING NOVEL
VOCABULARY
WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
FRENCH HISTORY
LET’S ROCK & ROLL!
D.C.

Amy ($7800) learns that the $2K Vocabulary’s the 1st of 2 DDs this rd; Justin’s up to $2K. She wagers $3K.

Italian gave us this word for an outline of what could happen, also an old word for a screenplay.

“What is…a schema?”- nope, scenario. Amy ($11,200) opens DD #2 in the $800 window of French History; Tyler’s increased his bank to $8200. $2K bet by Amy here.

Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles of 1768, the Genoese ceded this island to the French.

“What is Corsica?”…correct.

The Beeps of Time sound on:
Below Deck: Sailing Novel: $400
World Holidays & Observances: $400
Let’s Rock & Roll!: $400 & $2K

DJ! LT: $12,400

Pre-Final S:
Amy: $18,800 (LOCK)/Tyler: $8600/Justin: $2K

CORYAT SCORES:
Amy: $20,600/Tyler: $7600

FJ!: STATUES

The 42ft high statue of Athena in this state capital’s the tallest indoor statue in the U.S.

JUSTIN: “What is Juneau?” (NOTHING)
TYLER: “What is Little (Rock)” = $4001
AMY: “What is Bos Springfield?” (Correct: What is Nashville?) = $18,795