“JEOPARDY!” 6/26/24

Challengers:
Maryl Harris (PHI): Study operations mgr
Natalie Miliano (Portland, ME): Manufacturing engineering mgr

JR:
AROUND THE WORLD
THEY WROTE THE BOOKS
YOU DON’T HEAR AS MUCH ABOUT…
HATS ON
GRAPPLE SAUCE
IN YOUR DREAMS!

$600 They Wrote the Books:

Prince Lestat & The Queen of the Damned

Maryl: “Who is Anne Rice?”

$800 They Wrote the Books:

Grey & The Missus

Drew: “Who is E.L. James?”

$1K They Wrote the Books:

Absalom, Absalom! & Light in August

Drew: “Who is (William) Faulkner?” ($1800)

$600 In Your Dreams!:

The “truth”? This lifesaver was from the Latin for “watery fluid”.

Drew: X ($1200)
Natalie: “What is serum?”

$800 In Your Dreams!:

While you ponder, weak & weary its synonyms incl. dismal & gloomy.

Natalie: “What is dreary?” ($1400)

$1K In Your Dreams!:

I’m filled w/ this, the heat of desire or passion from Latin for “burn”.

Drew: “What is ardor?” ($2200)

$600 You Don’t Hear As Much About…:

…these people- the title of a book by Cokie Roberts about Revolutionary War female heroes like Molly Pitcher.

Maryl: “Who are the Daughters of Liberty?” 
Natalie: “Who are the Daughters of the Revolution?” ($800)

TS: The Founding Mothers

$800 You Don’t Hear As Much About…:

…this London landmark dating from 1892.

Drew: “What is Little Ben?” ($3K)

$1K You Don’t Hear As Much About…:

…a bad Samaritan- how about this wicked biblical queen who tried to establish idol worship in Samaria.

Drew: “Who is the Queen of Sheba?” ($2K)
Maryl: “Who is Jezebel?”

$800 Hats On:

Answer: DD.

In the 1860s he designed an all-weather felt hat he called “The Boss of the Plains”.

“Who is (John) Stetson?”…ties her up w/ Drew at $2K.

$400 Around the World:

In India it’s customary for brides to wear this color assoc. w/ the goddess Durga & a symbol of power & strength.

Natalie: “What is red?” ($1200)

$600 Around the World:

This annual event in Munich kicks off w/ the exclamation “O’zapft is!”- “It’s tapped!”.

Drew: “What is Oktoberfest?” ($2600)

$800 Around the World:

The Buryats & Yakuts are among the indigenous groups occupying this 5M-square-mile region of Russia.

Natalie: “What is Siberia?” ($2K)

$1K Around the World:

The special admin. region of Macau has 2 official languages: Chinese & this colonial 1.

Natalie: “What is Portuguese?” ($3K)

$1K Hats On:

You wear this Scottish cap anywhere- not just to a David Mamet play about real estate salesmen.

Natalie: “What is a tam?” ($2K)
Drew: “What is a glengarry?” ($3600)

$400 They Wrote the Books:

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle & The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

Drew: “Who is Potter?” ($4K)

$200 They Wrote the Books:

The Pelican Brief & The Client

Maryl: “Who is Grisham?” ($2200)

$600 Hats On:

This stiff felt hat w/ a rounded crown & narrow brim got its name in 19th century America- not from a big British horse race.

Drew: “What is the Churchill?” ($3400)
Maryl: “What is a derby?” ($2800)

$400 In Your Dreams!:

This 5-letter verb means to wake someone up from sleep & get ’em moving.

Maryl: “What is rouse?” ($3200)

$400 You Don’t Hear As Much About…:

…these, “also very much a thing for women before or during menopause” per a Cleveland Clinic webpage.

Drew: “What are cold flashes?” ($3800)

$200 You Don’t Hear As Much About…:

…this state’s inner banks where you’ll find the lovely town of Beaufort & the Rachel Carson Reserve.

Maryl: “What is North Carolina?” ($3400)

$400 Grapple Sauce:

The 2 ways to win a match in this form of wrestling are to force an opponent to the ground or out of a 15ft circle.

Natalie: “What is sumo?” ($2400)

$600 Grapple Sauce:

In Genesis this patriarch wrestled all night w/ God & wouldn’t stop until he received a blessing.

Drew: “Who is Jacob?” ($4400)

$800 Grapple Sauce:

The 2 types of wrestling in the Olympics are freestyle & this hyphenated variety.

Maryl: “What is Greco-Roman?” ($4200)

$1K Grapple Sauce:

In 1938 in what was billed as the 1st women’s match in this, when a winner was declared it took time to figure out who she was.

TS #2: Mud wrestling

$200 Around the World:

In their native tongues these 2 neighbors are Norge & Sverige.

Drew: “What are Norway & Sweden?” ($4600)

$400 Hats On:

A Sarah Bernhardt play gave us this word for a soft felt hat later favored by many a movie mobster.

Maryl: “What is a fedora?” ($4600)

$200 Hats On:

The name of this broad-brimmed hat was from Spanish for “shade”.

Drew: “What is a sombrero?” ($4800)

$200 Grapple Sauce:

He was already a popular pro wrestling star when he made the leap into movies like “The Scorpion King” & “FAST FIVE”.

Natalie: “Uh…who is John Cena?” ($2200)
Drew: “Who is Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson?” ($5K)

$200 In Your Dreams!:

Greaves were part of a suit of this.

Maryl: “What is armor?” ($4800)

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $800 (You Don’t Hear As Much About…)
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: $1K (Grapple Sauce)

CS:
Drew: $5K/Natalie: $2200/Maryl: $4800

DJ!:
HISTORIC NAMES
DOUBLE TALK
ELLIS ISLAND
FROM THE GERMAN
SCIENC”E”
ALL THAT JAZZ

$400 Historic Names:

On May 19, 1536 this 2nd wife of Henry VIII very suddenly became his ex-wife.

Maryl: “Who is Anne Boleyn?” ($5200)

$1200 Jazz:

“Ornithology” by this saxophonist was sort of a jazzy remix of the standard “How High the Moon”.

Drew: “Who is (Charlie) Parker?” ($6200)

$1200 Historic Names:

The answer’s the 1st of the DDs in this rd- he’ll wager $3K.

The Pax Romana (or Roman peace), which lasted for more than 200yrs, began w/ his reign in 27 B.C.

“Who is Augustus?”…well done.

$1600 Historic Names:

Empress Wu Zhao, the only woman to rule China in her own right, added a little zest to this dynasty beginning in 690.

TS: Tang

$1200 “E”:

When an electron absorbs a photon & moves to a higher energy state it’s said to be in this agitated condition.

Maryl: “What is excited?” ($6400)

$1600 Jazz:

Live in Berlin Ella Fitzgerald scatted her way through this standard from “The Threepenny Opera”.

Maryl: “What is ‘Mack the Knife’?” ($8K)

$2K Jazz:

Dizzy Gillespie played in the band of this alliterative scat singer who wasn’t hip to Diz’s bebopping.

Maryl: “Who is Ellington?” ($6K)

TS #2: Cab Calloway

$1600 “E”:

Acids & bases are among these current-conducting fluids.

Natalie: “What are electrolytes?” ($3800)

$2K “E”:

Partly from Greek for “heat” it’s a cold-blooded animal.

Drew: “What is an ectotherm?” ($11,200)

$1200 From the German:

A German “car path”; I feel like this word will come to you super-fast.

Maryl: “What is autobahn?” ($7200)

$1200 Ellis Island:

In 2008 the museum’s library was named for this ski-nosed comedian who came through Ellis Island as a 4-yr-old.

TS #3: Bob Hope

$1600 Ellis Island:

More detainments occurred due to trachoma- a contagious condition of this organ than any other ailment.

Maryl: “What are…the lungs?” ($5600)

TS #4: Eye

$1200 Double Talk:

The French author Colette created this title girl whose story was turned into an OSCAR-winning film in ’58.

Drew: “Who is Gigi?” ($12,400)

$1600 Double Talk:

Dorado can also be called dolphinfish or this Hawaiian name.

Drew: “What is mahi-mahi?” ($14K)

$2K Double Talk:

The repeating name of this island in French Polynesia came from words meaning “first born”.

Natalie: “What is Bora Bora?” ($5800)

$2K Historic Names:

Builder of Egypt’s 1st pyramid & later worshipped as a god of medicine; his name lives on in the “MUMMY” movies.

TS #5: Imhotep

$800 Historic Names:

This captain for whom a large Canadian city was named mapped the coast of California & Puget Sound.

Drew: “What is Vancouver?” ($14,800)

$1600 From the German:

Answer there’s the other DD– this is for $3K extra.

Meaning synthetic, artificial or fake this German word could’ve been in an ends w/ Z category.

“What is ersatz?”…boom.

$2K From the German:

This word for broken-down & completely useless ends w/ a double T in German- we use just 1.

Maryl: “What is kaput?” ($7600)

$2K Ellis Island:

Emma Goldman, who wrote a book titled this political -ism, didn’t enter the U.S. at Ellis Island but was deported via it in 1919.

Maryl: “What is anarchism?” ($9600)

$400 From the German:

It’s heeeeeeere…it being this type of ghost causing physical disturbances.

Drew: “What is a poltergeist?” ($18,200)

$800 From the German:

U2 could tell you it’s a German word for “attention” baby!

Drew: “What is Achtung?” ($19K)

$800 “E”:

There are dynamic, thermodynamic & chemical types of this state of balance.

Drew: “What is equilibrium?” ($19,800)

$800 Jazz:

Kansas City jazz in the ’30s feat. arrangements w/ these repeated syncopated phrases- a word possibly from “refrain”.

TS #6: Riff

$800 Double Talk:

Toulouse-Lautrec immortalized Jane Avril doing a high kick of this dance.

Maryl: “What is the cancan?” ($10,400)

$400 Double Talk:

In 1928 Donald Duncan had the idea to market this toy & saw its popularity explode.

Drew: “What is the yo-yo?” ($20,200)

$400 “E”:

By definition it’s a substance that can’t be chemically decomposed into a simpler 1.

Drew: “What is an element?” ($20,600)

$400 Jazz:

King Oliver mentored this jazz great nicknamed “Satchmo”, bringing him up to Chicago.

Natalie: “Who is Armstrong?” ($6200)

$800 Ellis Island:

It’s been debunked this often happened at Ellis Island- inspectors just verified info from ship manifests.

Maryl: “What is quarantining?” ($9600)

TS #7: Names changed

$400 Ellis Island:

Ellis Island immigrants Abe Beame & William O’Dwyer rose to this office like Florello La Guardia, who was an interpreter there.

Drew: “Um, um…inspector?” ($20,200)
Maryl: “What is mayor? Mayor of New York City?” ($10K)

ATTEMPTED LT: $4400
UNATTEMPTED LT: $5600
TOTAL DJ! LT: $10K

Pre-Final S:
Drew: $20,200 (BARELY A LOCK)/Natalie: $6200/Maryl: $10K

CORYAT SCORES:
Drew: $17K/Maryl: $9800

FJ!: LITERATURE

The British Library said of this 19th c. man “One of his most famous poems…is a warning about the arrogance of great leaders”.

NATALIE: “Who is (William) Blake?” = $4700
MARYL: “Who is (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge?” = $6201
DREW: “Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?” = $20,318 $111,601