“JEOPARDY!” 3/1/24

This Wk Ends W/: Josh Saak, Brian Henegar (3 wins) & Stephen Webb (8 wins)

JR:
PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES
GETTING SEAL-Y
FOOD, FAST
POP CULTURE PRINCESSES
DECADES
RHYMES W/ RHYME

1K Place Name Etymology:

This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula came from words for “cauldron” & “mountain”.

Stephen: “What’s, uh, Inchon?”

TS: Pusan

1K Seal:

These large pinnipeds were named for the trunk-like schnozz of the adult male; they make more of a belch noise than an awooga.

Brian: “What are elephant seals?”

600 Pop Culture Princess:

In the “SHREK” films she voiced Princess Fiona.

Josh: “Who is Diaz?”

800 Decade:

The Dirty these saw extreme weather, economic collapse & pre-code movies like “She Couldn’t Say No”.

Brian: “What are the Dirty 30s?” (1800)

800 Pop Culture Princess:

In “The Princess Diaries” Mia Thermopolis found out she was the crown princess of this (fictional) country.

TS #2: Genovia

600 Food:

1 member of the beet family’s Swiss this.

Josh: “What is chard?” (1200)

600 Decade:

A 1926 editorial in the Oakland Tribune put “rip-” before this timely phrase.

Stephen: “What are Roaring 20s?” (-400)

800 Place Name Etymology:

The name of this capital city derived from a Maasai expression for “cool water”.

Brian: “What is Nairobi?” (2600)

800 Food:

Bottom line- it’s a burrito that’s been deep-fried.

Brian: “What is…an enchilada?” (1800)
Stephen: “What is a chimichanga?” (400)

600 Place Name Etymology:

Answer: DD.

A conquistador combined the name of a local people & the Spanish word for water to name this country.

“What’s…Paraguay?”…not it- Nicaragua, which sends him back in the hole to the tune of -600.

1K Food:

Liquid smoke, not coffee liqueur, is in this shredded pork dish, the star of many luaus.

Josh: “What is kalua?” (2200)

1K Decade:

In Britain they were Naughty; in the U.S. they were Gay.

Josh: “What are the 90s?” (3200)

400 Rhymes W/ Rhyme:

This pungent herb’s used to flavor stuffing & Benedictine liqueur.

Josh: “What is thyme?” (3600)

400 Decade:

The Philadelphia Daily News used this alliterative term for a decade long before miniskirts took over London.

Brian: “What are the Singing 60s?” (2200)

600 Rhymes W/ Rhyme:

To make this at home mix 8oz Elmer’s glue w/ 2tbsp saline solution & 1tbsp baking soda- have fun!

Brian: “What is slime?” (2800)

800 Rhymes W/ Rhyme:

Before “in” it can mean to break into a conversation to express an opinion.

Brian: “What is chime?” (3600)

1K Rhymes W/ Rhyme:

In computer jargon it’s an extension that allows the transfer of different types of data files via email.

TS #3: MIME

1K Pop Culture Princess:

In a ’53 film she played a princess who took a “Roman Holiday” from her royal duties.

Stephen: “Who is Taylor?” (-1600)
Brian: “Who is Audrey Hepburn?” (4600)

800 Seal:

This elite military unit took part in a raid in Abbottabad in the early hours of May 2, 2011.

Stephen: “What is SEAL Team 6?” (-800)

600 Seal:

This song from “BATMAN FOREVER” won Seal multiple Grammys.

Josh: “What is ‘Kiss From a Rose’?” (4200)

400 Pop Culture Princess:

She was actually adopted into the royal family of Alderaan raised by senator Bail Organa & his wife, the queen of Alderaan.

Brian: “Who is Princess Leia?” (5K)

400 Food:

This cool Indian side dish’s often made w/ cucumber & a yogurt or curd called Dahi.

TS #4: Raita

200 Food:

Dutch gives us the name of these baked treats, an afternoon tea staple.

Brian: “What are crumpets?” (4800)

TS #5: Scones

ATTEMPTED LT: 1200
UNATTEMPTED LT: 2200
TOTAL LT: 3400

CS:
Stephen: -800/Brian: 5200/Josh: 5600

DJ!:
THAT’S A LONG STORY
ARCHITECTURE
COVER ME
“N”OWLEDGE
CHEMISTRY CLASS
GENDERED LANGUAGE

2K Architecture:

An immigrant from Austria & from the “N”owledge category he helped define midcentury California w/ modernist buildings.

TS: Richard Neutra

1600 Architecture:

Frank Lloyd Wright worked for 5yrs w/ the Chicago firm of Dankmar Adler & this “father of skyscrapers”, leaving in 1893.

Josh: “Who is (Louis) Sullivan?” (7200)

1200 “N”:

The “TL” sound was an important feature in this language of the Toltecs & Aztecs.

Josh: “What is Nahuati?” (8400)

800 Chemistry:

Fe2O3 represents this 4-letter compound, something to avoid on your Rolls-Royce.

Stephen: “What is rust?”

2K Chemistry:

The heroine of TV’s “Lessons in Chemistry” had ideas about this concept that inorganic compounds could’ve led to life.

Stephen: “What is..spontaneous generation?”

TS #2: Abiogenesis

1600 Chemistry:

The Arrhenius equation shows the rate of collisions of particles increasing w/ this measure for the solution they’re in.

Stephen: “What is pH?” (-3600)
Brian: “What is saturation?” (3600)
Josh: “What is density?” (6800)

TS #3: Temperature

2K “N”:

Answer: Stephen’s 2nd DD tonight.

Henry Fonda played this admiral in the ’76 film “Midway”.

“Who is (Chester) Nimitz?”…correct to take 2K off his negative score.

2K Cover Me:

That was Urge Overkill’s version of this song in “PULP FICTION”, not Neil Diamond’s original.

Brian: “What is ‘Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon’?” (5600)

1600 Cover Me:

The Beatles recorded this dance classic at the end of their 1st album session; good idea as it blew out John’s voice.

Brian: “What is ‘Twist and Shout’?” (7200)

1200 Cover Me:

At a ’18 event honoring Fleetwood Mac Miley Cyrus brought the house down w/ this Mac classic about “snow-covered hills”.

Brian: “What is ‘Landslide’?” (8400)

800 Cover Me:

In ’23 Dolly Parton unveiled a cover of this anthemic Queen hit that should resonate w/ you, my friends.

Stephen: X (-2400)
Josh: “What is ‘We Are the Champions’?” (7600)

1600 “N”:

Because its pelt was impervious to arrows Hercules had to strangle this beast as the 1st of his labors.

Stephen: “What is the Nemean lion?” (-800)

1200 Chemistry:

This silvery-white element, atomic number 31, took its name from an old name for France.

Brian: “What is gallium?” (9600)

1200 Long Story:

This 1996 David Foster Wallace novel wasn’t quite as long as its title suggested but did run 1K+ pages.

Brian: “What is Infinite Jest?” (10,800)

1600 Long Story:

The answer’s the final DD of the wk.; he’s betting his 3200 lead.

“Yes I said yes I will yes” were the last of this 1922 story’s many, many words.

“What is…Las Miserables?”…I don’t think so- what was Ulysses by James Joyce?

1200 Gendered Language:

Change the 2nd syllable in the alter ego of Princess Adora to get this word for a powerful female.

Brian: “What is…She-Ra?” (6400)

TS #4: Shero

1600 Gendered Language:

This word combines slang for a man & a type of cosmetic.

Stephen: “What’s mascara?” (-2400)

TS #5: Guyliner

2K Gendered Language:

Gynoid is another word for this type of automaton that “Austin Powers” confronted.

Brian: “What is a fembot?” (8400)

2K Long Story:

A Nobel Prize winner, in 1962 she published The Golden Notebook which ran to nearly 700 masterful pages.

TS #6: Doris Lessing

400 Cover Me:

Aretha Franklin’s version of this Otis Redding tune topped Rolling Stone‘s ’21 list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Brian: “What is ‘RESPECT’?” (8800)

ATTEMPTED LT: 6400
UNATTEMPTED LT: 4K
TOTAL DJ! LT: 10,400

Pre-Final S:
Stephen: -800/Brian: 12,800/Josh: 8400

CORYAT SCORES:
Stephen: 200/Brian: 16K

FJ!: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

Fearful of independence in 1975 around 200K of this country’s people, a 3rd of the population, fled to the Netherlands.

JOSH: “What is Papua New Guinea?” (4405) = 3995
BRIAN: “WHAT IS Belgium?” (Correct: What is Suriname?) = 8799

“JEOPARDY!” 3/2/07

Challengers:
Doug Tibbs (Columbus, OH): Firefighter
Margaret Tennison (Vienna, VA): Retired paralegal

JR:
WHAT A BOHR!
TAKE A WOK ON THE WILD SIDE
ORDINAL PEOPLE
HEADS UP!
CAST
THE 1ST “STONE”

HS:
Brian: $2600/Margaret: $3600/Doug: $1600

At the end of the rd Margaret ($6600) was left w/ the DD behind the $1K What a Bohr! clue, followed by Brian ($4800) & Doug ($3800). She wagered $600.

Bohr was 1 of the 1st to see the importance of this which gives an element’s position in the periodic table.

She didn’t know it’s the atomic number.

SOLE TS: $1K (Heads Up!)

DJ!:
AMERICAN POETS & POETRY
JOHNS IN FILM
GLAND TIDINGS
FURNITURE
ALLITERATIVE ARTISTS
SYNONYMS

Doug ($5K) took off DD #1 from the $1600 Furniture; Margaret remained on top over Brian $9200-$8400. Doug bet $3K.

Louis XIV’s style was baroque; Louis XV’s style was this style that followed baroque.

“What is rococo?”…correct to make this game tighter. Doug ($10,400) chose the last DD that wk at the $2K end of Gland Tidings; he was just $400 behind 2nd-place Brian ($10,800) & $4K off of leader Margaret ($14,400). Doug tried for a 1st-place tie.

In humans T cells develop in this gland under the breastbone.

“What is the pituitary gland?”…he was still in 3rd- what is the thymus gland?

TECH. TS: $800 (Furniture)
ATTEMPTED LT: $3200
UNATTEMPTED LT: $3200
TOTAL DJ! LT: $7200

Pre-Final S:
Brian: $10,800/Margaret: $14,400/Doug: $6800

CORYAT SCORES:
Margaret: $15K/Doug: $9400

FJ!: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Elected President twice he beat his 2 opponents by a combined Electoral College tally of 1014-62.

DOUG: “Who was Ronald Reagan” ($6799) = $13,599
BRIAN: “Who is Reagan?” ($7800) = $18,600
MARGARET: “Who is Ronald Reagan?” = $21,601

“JEOPARDY!” 2/29/24

Involved in This Game: Juveria, Kevin Belle (3 wins) & Luigi (5 wins)

JR:
AROUND THE WORLD
AN ONOMATOPOEIA ROMANCE
DETECTIVE FICTION
LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE
COLORS OF THE RAINBOW
NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS

800 Around the World:

China’s longest river, it’s also the longest river in Asia.

Juveria: “What is the Yangtze?”

1K Around the World:

You can get a good feeling for Denmark, literally, w/ a this & happiness tour, this being a Danish concept for coziness & comfort.

Juveria: “What is hygge?” (1800)

600 Around the World:

Part of a British overseas territory this huge limestone monolith’s a habitat for Europe’s only wild monkey, the Barbary ape.

Juveria: “What is the Rock of Gibraltar?” (2400)

800 Detective Fiction:

The detectives were sheep investigating the murder of their shepherd in this bestseller w/ a title from a nursery rhyme.

TS: Three Bags Full (by Leonie Swann in 2005)

1K Detective Fiction:

In 1972 this British woman “initially” introduced Cordelia Gray in An Unsuitable Job for a Woman; a follow-up came 10yrs later.

Juveria: “Who is P.D. James?” (3400)

600 Detective Fiction:

Ganache’s a mix of chocolate & cream; this was a detective in Quebec created by Louise Penny & played on TV by Alfred Molina.

Juveria: “Who is Gamache?” (4K)

800 Colors of the Rainbow:

She might be making a big jump down that path because the answer’s the TDD.

Judo practitioners should know this term for land where building’s prohibited & nature flourishes.

“What is a green belt?”…green result.

HS:
Luigi: 1800/Kevin: 1400/Juveria: 9K

ATTEMPTED LT: 2K
UNATTEMPTED LT: 1400
TOTAL LT: 3400

CS:
Luigi: 1600/Kevin: 2200/Juveria: 11,400

DJ!:
IT’S A PARTY!
COMPOUND WORDS
SCI. ABBR.
NAME
IMAGE
“LIKE”NESS

1600 Sci. Abbr.:

If you’re a web developer you probably use HTML & CSS, short for this.

Luigi: “What are cascading style sheets?” (3200)

2K Sci. Abbr.:

PTX can be short for this condition of air in the pleural space.

Luigi: X (1200)
Juveria: “What is the pneumothorax?” (13,400)

1200 Party:

On Oct. 24, 2022 it was a real lituation when President Biden celebrated this Hindu festival at the White House w/ 200+ guests.

Juveria: “What is Diwali?” (14,600)

1600 Party:

This Brit writer of “Private Lives” sang of a marvelous party where Elsie, age 74, swung upside down from a glass chandelier.

Juveria: “Who is Noel Coward?” (16,200)

2K Party:

In May 1664 this French king held a days-long party w/ ballet in honor of his mom & wife & (possibly) his mistress.

Luigi: “Who is Louis XIV?” (3200)

1200 Sci. Abbrev.:

Answer: a much-needed TDD.

C is short for this unit of electric charge named for a French physicist.

“What is a coulomb?”…named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

1200 Compound Word:

This condiment can be white if bottled in vinegar or red if bottled in beet juice.

Juveria: “What is horseradish?” (17,400)

1600 Image:

This self-taught naive painter was known for his lush tropical images though he never left France.

Juveria: “Who is (Jean-Jacques) Rousseau?” (19K)

2K Image:

Norman Rockwell’s oft-parodied image of a Thanksgiving meal had this title, 1 of a quartet in FDR’s ’41 State of the Union speech.

Juveria: “What are ‘The Four Freedoms’?” (17K)
Luigi: “What is ‘Freedom from Want’?” (8400)

1600 Compound Word:

Grade No. 10 is the most porous type of this fabric used to strain liquids.

Kevin: “What is cheesecloth?” (3800)

1600 Name:

This billionaire was born Gyorgy Schwartz in Budapest; his family changed their surname to avoid persecution as Jews.

Luigi: “Who is George Soros?” (10K)

1200 Name:

Answer there: the final TDD of this game!

Born Tafari Makonnen this emperor died in Addis Ababa in 1975.

“Who is Haile Selassie?”…was it to be the new 1st-placer!

2K Name:

This 18th century French writer may have derived his mononym from an anagram of a Latinized version of his surname Arouet.

Juveria: “Who is Voltaire?” (19K)

2K “Like”:

In song, “You really know how to dance” among other qualities.

Luigi: “What is…’A Simile’?” (18K)
Juveria: “What is ‘What I Like About You’?” (by The Romantics)(21K)

1600 “Like”:

Fittingly it was in the yr of the USA’s bicentennial Steve Miller put out the album w/ this soaring title track.

Luigi: “What is ‘Like An Eagle’? What is ‘Fly Like An Eagle’?” (19,600)

2K Compound Word:

This phosphorescent glow’s produced by certain fungi found on decaying wood.

Luigi: “What is bioluminescence?” (17,600)

TS: Foxfire

1200 Image:

MoMA describes this 1889 van Gogh painting as having a “churning sky” & a “quiet village below”.

Luigi: “What is ‘Starry Night’?” (18,800)

1200 “Like”:

In ’02 Tony Curtis toured in a stage version of this film comedy in which he costarred several yrs earlier.

Kevin: “What is ‘Some Like It Hot’?” (5K)

800 “Like”:

P!nk was backed up by columns of flame when she performed this ’16 hit in concert.

TS #2: “Just Like Fire”

400 “Like”:

This series that premiered in ’21 was billed as “a new chapter of ‘sex and the city'”.

Kevin: “What is ‘And Just Like That’?” (5400)

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 2K (Compound Words)
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: 800 (“Like”ness)

Pre-Final S:
Luigi: 22K/Kevin: 5800/Juveria: 23,400

CORYAT SCORES:
Luigi: 11,200/Juveria: 20,200

FJ!: WORLD TRAVEL

The name of this service that began Nov. 14, 1994 echoes the Etoile du Nord which linked Paris, Brussels & Amsterdam from 1927.

KEVIN: “What is Eurail?” (0)
LUIGI: “What is Eurostar?” (21,999) = 43,999
JUVERIA: “What is the chunnel?” (21K) = 2400

“JEOPARDY!” 3/1/07

Challengers:
Jennifer Nield Cameron (NY): Exec. assistant
Brian Morris (Vancouver, BC): Account mgr

JR:
RECONSTRUCTION
GIVING YOU THE MUSICAL TIME OF DAY
MATH PROBLEMS
MY MAINE MAN!
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES
FIX THE MALAPROPISM

$200 Math Problem:

If 1 bus can hold 50 tourists then at least this many buses are needed for 210 tourists.

Robert: “What is 5?”

$400 Math Problem:

The total # of yds on an NFL football field goal line to goal line + the # of minutes in an NFL game.

Robert: “What is 160?” ($600)

$600 Math Problem:

To pay $200 in rent a worker getting 50¢ per bucket of tomatoes must pick this many buckets.

Robert: “What is 400?” ($1200)

$800 Math Problem:

A $2 3pc carton contains 1 breast & 2 legs; if breasts cost twice as much as legs this is the price of 1 leg.

Robert: “What is 50¢?” ($2K)

$1K Math Problem:

If you bought 5 6-packs of beer & drank 60% of it before halftime you have this many beers left for the 2nd half.

Robert: “What is…25?” ($1K)
Brian: “What is 6?”

$200 Reconstruction:

By the end of Reconstruction production of this “king” crop in the south was nearly equal to pre-war levels.

Robert: “What is cotton?” ($1200)

$400 Reconstruction:

In Apr. 1866 this President vetoed a bill granting citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.; Congress overrode his veto.

Robert: “Who is Andrew Johnson?” ($1600)

$600 Reconstruction:

The Freedman’s Bureau aided in establishing black colleges incl. this Washington, D.C. school.

Robert: “What is Howard?” ($2200)

$800 Reconstruction:

Once a term for a worthless farm animal it referred to white southerners who supported the Republicans.

TS: Scalawags

$1K Reconstruction:

Reconstruction produced 2 black senators: Hiram Revels & Blanche Bruce, both from this state.

TS #2: Mississippi

$200 England, Scotland or Wales:

The Angus breed of cattle was developed there.

Robert: “What is Scotland?” ($2400)

$400 England, Scotland or Wales:

Regions there incl. Gwent & Gwynedd.

Robert: “What is Wales?” ($2800)

$600 England, Scotland or Wales:

The Glengarry is a popular men’s hat from there.

Robert: “What is Scotland?” ($3400)

$800 England, Scotland or Wales:

Canute reigned there in the 11th century.

Brian: “What is England?” ($1800)

$1K England, Scotland or Wales:

The building of Caernarfon Castle, a medieval fortress, was begun there in 1283.

Robert: “What is Wales?” ($4400)

$200 Fix the Malapropism:

To do well on “JEOPARDY!” you must consecrate on the task at hand.

Jennifer: “What is concentrate?”

$200 Maine Man:

In 1966 this Portland-born author published his 1st short story “I Was a Teenage Grave Robber”.

Brian: “Who is Stephen King?” ($2K)

$400 Fix the Malapropism:

The score was so close in the Lakers game last night it was a real cliff-dweller right to the end.

Jennifer: “What is cliffhanger?” ($600)

$600 Fix the Malapropism:

Following the robbery the police rounded up several auspicious characters.

Jennifer: “What is suspicious?” ($1200)

$800 Fix the Malapropism:

When my daughter grows up I suspect I’ll see plenty of illegible young men at my front door.

Brian: “What is eligible?” ($2800)

$1K Fix the Malapropism:

By definition countries right next to each other are contagious.

Robert: “What are contiguous?” ($5400)

$400 Maine Man:

Listen my children & you shall hear he was born Feb. 27, 1807 in Portland (hey, he was the poet, not me).

Robert: “Who is Longfellow?” ($5800)

$600 Maine Man:

Born in Bar Harbor on Jul. 8, 1908 he succeeded Gerald Ford as V-P.

Robert: “Who is Rockefeller?” ($6400)

$800 Maine Man:

Answer: DD.

Raised in Maine this Bowdoin alumnus hired Matthew Henson in 1887 to assist a Nicaraguan survey.

“Who is (Admiral) Peary?”…he rang the bell for $1200 more.

$1K Maine Man:

The 1st Democrat elected to the Senate by Maine voters he was Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter.

Robert: “Who is (J.D.) Vance?” ($6600)

TS #3: Edmund Muskie

$200 Musical Time of Day:

Bill Haley ran down a full 12hr cycle in this ’55 #1 hit.

Brian: “What is ‘Rock Around the Clock’?” ($3K)

$400 Musical Time of Day:

Elton John sang “She packed my bags last night pre-flight, zero hour, 9 A.M.” in this hit song.

Jennifer: “What is ‘Rocket Man’?” ($1600)

$600 Musical Time of Day:

Debbie Harry sang “It’s 11:59 and I want to stay alive” fronting this band.

Robert: “What is Blondie?” ($7200)

$800 Musical Time of Day:

“Six o’clock already I was just in the middle of a dream” began this ’86 Bangles hit.

Robert: “What is ‘Manic Monday’?” ($8K)

$1K Musical Time of Day:

Matchbox Twenty sang “She says baby, it’s” this title time “I must be lonely”.

Jennifer: “What is 3 A.M?” ($2600)

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $1K (My Maine Man!)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $1800 (last 2 Reconstruction clues)
TOTAL LT: $2800

CS:
Robert: $8K/Brian: $3K/Jennifer: $2600

DJ!:
PLASMA PHYSICS (CC clues from the Plasma Physics Lab at Princeton)
MOVIE MANIA
INTERNATIONAL BOOKSTORE
“O”
BROTHER
WHERE ART THOU?

$400 International Bookstore:

It was Mexican author Laura Esquivel’s sweet tale of young Tita de la Garza & it was full of recipes & home remedies.

Jennifer: “What is Like Water for Chocolate?” ($3K)

$800 International Bookstore:

A collection of the works of this French comic playwright should’ve incl. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

TS: Mollere

$1200 International Bookstore:

Kisses were in order for this 1976 Argentinian novel whose film version won William Hurt an OSCAR.

Brian: “What is Kiss of the Spider Woman?” (by Manuel Puig)($4200)

$1600 International Bookstore:

This influential 1842 Nikolai Gogol novel indicted the “dead” & stultifying influence of serfdom in Russia.

Brian: “What is Dead Souls?” ($5800)

$2K International Bookstore:

Stevens the butler narrated this 1989 novel by Japanese-British author Kazuo Ishiguro.

Robert: “What is Remains of the Day?” ($10K)

$400 Plasma Physics (Cheryl):

“To produce energy scientists are experimenting with plasma, a charged medium, sometimes called the fourth one of these after solid, liquid & gas.”

Robert: “What is phase of matter?” ($10,400)

$800 Plasma Physics (Cheryl):

“As fuel fusion reactors use deuterium & tritium, isotopes of this element that contains 1 proton & 1 electron.”

Robert: “What is hydrogen?” ($11,200)

$1200 Plasma Physics (Sarah):

“Scientists are experimenting with plasma as a means to sterilize food containers & destroy spores of these microorganisms of the kingdom Monera.”

TS #2: Bacteria

$1600 Plasma Physics (Sarah):

The answer there was his 2nd DD of this game.

“In generating fusion energy scientists are experimenting with this lightest metal also used in cellphone batteries.”

“What is lithium?”…Robert was right for an additional $2K.

$2K Plasma Physics (Sarah):

“The plasma in the reactor is heated to about 100 million degrees Celsius, more than 6 times hotter than the Sun & has to be confined using this type of field.”

Brian: “What is magnetic?” ($7800)

$400 Movie Mania:

His inspired cinematic lunacy incl. turns of the big screen as Inspector Clouseau & Dr. Strangelove.

Brian: “Who is (Peter) Sellers?” ($8200)

$800 Movie Mania:

’52’s “Bwana Devil” was the 1st film released in this process & pitted man-eating lions vs. unlucky railway builders.

Brian: “What is 3-D?” ($9K)

$1200 Movie Mania:

In this ’87 film Cheech Marin got deported to Mexico & had to make his way back to the U.S. w/o any ID.

Robert: “What is ‘Born in East L.A.’?” ($14,400)

$1600 Movie Mania:

French soldiers were accused of cowardice in the Stanley Kubrick WWI film “Paths of” this.

Brian: “What is ‘Glory’?” ($10,600)

$2K Movie Mania:

The title of this ’57 Bergman film referred to what Bibi Anderson picked.

Brian: “What is ‘Wild Strawberries’?” ($12,600)

$400 “O”:

Though this big bird lives in other regions the Arabian or Syrian type’s extinct.

Brian: “What is an ostrich?” ($13K)

$800 “O”:

A closed plane figure specifically like a standard American stop sign.

Brian: “What is an octagon?” ($13,800)

$1200 “O”:

This Japanese city hosted the World’s Fair in 1970.

Robert: “What is Osaka?” ($15,600)

$1600 “O”:

There were no gold medals at the 1st modern Olympics; a winner received a diploma & this, a symbol of peace.

Brian: “What is an olive branch?” ($15,400)

$2K “O”:

1st name of the 19th century Prussian chancellor known for his “iron & blood”.

Brian: “Who is Otto?” ($17,400)

$1200 Brother:

The 19th century portrait of these 2 literary German brothers was no folk tale.

Brian: “Who are the Brothers Grimm?” ($18,600)

$800 Brother:

In this big band family Tommy was a trombonist & Jimmy was a saxophone player & clarinetist.

Jennifer: “What is Dorsey?” ($3800)

$1600 Brother:

Answer there: TDD.

Of Henry VIII’s 6 wives the 1 who had been married to his brother.

“Who was Anne of Cleves?”…not her- who was Catherine of Aragon?

$2K Brother:

On Jun. 5, 1783 these brothers publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon for the 1st time.

TS #3: Montgolfier

$400 Brother:

Takanohana & his brother Wakanohana sparked a new craze for this Japanese sport.

Robert: “What is sumo?” ($16K)

$1200 Where Art Thou?:

Dippin’ my tootsies in this sea that’s also known as the Lake of Gennesaret.

Brian: “What is the Dead Sea?” ($17,400)

TS #4: Sea of Galilee

$1600 Where Art Thou?:

Herdin’ some sheep in Abraham in this Sumerian city w/ a 2-letter name.

Brian: “What is Ur?” ($19K)

$800 Where Art Thou?:

Spending time in this city where Jesus grew up.

Robert: “What is Nazareth?” ($16,800)

$2K Where Art Thou?:

Chillin’ w/ the Israelites in the Land o’ this, a section of lower Egypt where they lived as captives.

Robert: “What is Cain?” ($14,800)

TS #5: Goshen

$400 Where Art Thou?:

Swimmin’ for my life in this body of water w/ the pharaoh’s army being destroyed in Exodus.

Robert: “What is the Red Sea?” ($15,200)

ATTEMPTED LT: $3200
UNATTEMPTED LT: $4K
TOTAL DJ! LT: $7200

Pre-Final S:
Robert: $15,200/Brian: $19K
ROBERT’S CORYAT: $14,400

FJ!: WORLD LEADERS

In 1946 she said “We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples…to be masters of our own fate”.

ROBERT: “Who is Golda Meier” (a future PM of Israel)($7601) = $22,801
BRIAN: “Who is Golda Meir?” = $30,401

“JEOPARDY!” 2/28/24

Returnees for This Game: Yogesh (3 wins), Jake DeArruda (3 wins) & Nick Cascone

JR:
SHALL WE DANCE?
ALLITERATIVE PHRASES
THAT’S IN ASIA
THE EMMYS 
FEELING CHARITABLE
A LITTLE HISTOR”E”

HS:
Jake: 4800/Yogesh: 3200

Jake (6600) hits the TDD under the 600 Feeling Charitable clue, followed by Yogesh (4800) & Nick (800).

May 28, 1961, when the newspaper story “The forgotten prisoners” ran, was considered the founding date of this organization.

“What is Amnesty International?”…yes, sir. 

LT: 1600

CS:
Nick: 1K/Jake: 14,400/Yogesh: 5600

DJ!:
NEW U.S. STAMPS IN 2024
WOMEN IN LIT
NAME THAT TOMB
BRITISH ACTORS & ACTRESSES
IN THE DICTIONARY
LESSER-KNOWN SCIENCES

Last-place Nick (5800) has a TDD of his own coming out of the 1200 Name That Tomb answer; Jake’s 2nd w/ 10,800 & Yogesh has hopped in front w/ 12,400.

Cyrus the Great’s tomb still stands at Pasargadae in this country but his gold sarcophagus is gone.

“What is Iran?”…boom. And once again we have back-to-back DDs in this rd of play, the last of which was attached to the 1600 spot under In the Dictionary; Nick’s gambling 10K & this is an audio clue.

Spur-of-the-moment or a piano piece that’s meant to sound spontaneous like Chopin’s “Opus 29”.

“What is an improvisation?”…yet again somebody overwagered on the final DD- that’s an impromptu.

SOLE DJ! TS: 1600 (Lesser-Known Sciences)

Pre-Final S:
Nick: 2400 (CAN’T WIN)/Jake: 14,400/Yogesh: 26,800

CORYAT SCORES:
Nick & Jake: 7800 A HEAD

FJ!: 1950s POLITICS

In ’59 Bob Barlett & Hiram Fong each won a coin flip to gain this alliterative title.

NICK: “WHAT IS A STATE SENATOR?” (2399) = 1
JAKE: AGREED W/ NICK (12,401) = 1999
YOGESH: “WHAT IS PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE” (Correct: What is senior senator?) = 24,799

“JEOPARDY!” 2/28/07

Challengers:
Rosanna Cavaliaro (Brookline, MA): Law professor
Robert Ashley: Psychiatrist

JR:
DAVID
BURN
MORE SONGS
ABOUT BUILDINGS
AND FOOD
TALKING “HEAD”s

$200 “Head”:

The forward section of a missile containing the explosive (& it also makes you think of some candy).

Rosanna: “What is the warhead?”

$200 David:

Like another important biblical figure many yrs later David was born in this small city just south of Jerusalem.

Marc: “What is Bethlehem?”

$400 “Head”:

There were 5 during the invasion of Normandy incl. Utah & Omaha.

Rosanna: “What were beaches?” (-$200)

TECH. TS: Beachheads

$600 “Head”:

The general fixed costs of running a business

Marc: “What are overheads?” ($800)

$800 “Head”:

It can be the name of a newspaper at the top of the 1st page or a list of its staff.

Robert: “What is a masthead?”

$1K “Head”:

17th century British anti-royalists

Robert: “What are roundheads?” ($1800)

$400 David:

David killed the hero of these people at the Valley of Elah.

Marc: “Who are the Philistines?” ($1200)

$600 David:

David succeeded this man as the leader of Israel around 1010 B.C.

Marc: “Who is Saul?” ($1800)

$800 David:

Ambitious & handsome this son of David led a rebellion against him that almost succeeded.

Robert: “Who is Solomon?” ($1K)

TS #2: Absalom

$1K David:

David was anointed king in the 2nd book of this prophet.

Marc: “Who is Samuel?” ($2800)

$200 Burn:

The 1st volunteer fire dept in the U.S. was organized by Ben Franklin in this city.

Rosanna: “What is Philadelphia?” 

$400 Burn:

It’s how influential philosopher & priest Giordano Bruno died in 1600.

Robert: “What is burned at the stake?” ($1400)

$600 Burn:

Stovetop term for where 1 puts matters of lower priority.

Robert: “What is the backburner?” ($2K)

$200 Song:

In ’83 David Byrne & the Talking Heads were “fighting fire with fire” w/ this top 10 song.

Marc: “What is ‘Burning Down the House’?” ($3K)

$400 Song:

John Lennon said this movie title tune was a plea on his own behalf.

Marc: “What is ‘Help!’?” ($3400)

$600 Song:

In a ’86 anti-war song Sting hoped these title people “love their children too”.

Marc: “Who are the ‘Russians’?” ($4K)

$800 Song:

A Van Morrison tune said “Well it’s a marvelous night for” 1 of these “with the stars up above in your eyes”.

Marc: “What is a ‘Moondance’?” ($4800)

$1K Song:

This Billy Joel song said “Sinners are much more fun”.

Marc: “What is ‘Only the Good Die Young’?” ($5800)- RAN

$800 Burn:

A popular WWI song urged Americans to keep these “burning” in support of the troops overseas.

Marc: “What are the home fires?” ($6600)

$1K Burn:

Answer: DD– he went for face value.

1 of these famously burned in Alexandria in 47 B.C. & also in Los Angeles in 1986.

“What is a library?”…his roll continued.

$200 Food:

Popular soul food side dishes are mustard, collard & turnip these, a word for leaves.

Marc: “What are greens?” ($7800)

$400 Food:

This minced meat-filled Chinese dumpling’s simmered & served in the soup named for it.

Marc: “What are wontons?” ($8200)

$600 Food:

This Italian name for squid’s a reference to its ink.

Marc: “What is calamari?” ($8800)

$800 Food:

Types of this fruit incl. the French nicoise & the Greek kalamata.

Marc: “What are olives?” ($9600)

$1K Food:

It’s Middle Eastern dip made from chickpeas often flavored w/ sesame.

Robert: “What is hummus?” ($3K)

$200 Buildings:

This type of building can be a place to stay while on a hunting trip or a place where freemasons meet.

Robert: “What is a lodge?” ($3200)

$400 Buildings:

“Moistureless” name for the material also known as plasterboard.

Marc: “What is drywall?” ($10K)

$600 Buildings:

It’s a mixture of lime & cement w/ other substances used to bond bricks together when building.

Marc: “What is mortar?” ($10,600)

$800 Buildings:

They’re the slender towers part of a mosque from which Muslims are called to prayer.

Robert: “What are the minarets?” ($4K)

$1K Buildings:

From the French for “to push” it’s the type of building support seen here.

Rosanna: “What is a buttress?”

TECH. TS: $400 (Talking “Head”s)
SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $800 (David)

CS:
Marc: $10,600/Robert: $4K/Rosanna: $1K

DJ!:
SCIENCE
TV BEFORE & AFTER
YOU WROTE IT
NICKNAMES
THE SOUTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY
15-LETTER WORDS

$400 15-Letter Word:

This type of doctor will see how you see & see you now.

Robert: “What is an ophthalmologist?” ($4400)

$800 15-Letter Word:

It’s the removal of harmful substances such as radioactive material or poisonous gas from an area.

Robert: “What is decontamination?” ($5200)

$1200 15-Letter Word:

Though not used technically it’s another term for the upper troposphere.

Marc: “Um, what is the stratosphere?” ($9400)
Rosanna: “What is the atmosphere?” (-$200)

TS: Substratosphere

$1600 15-Letter Word:

You can find 3 different words within this word meaning “in spite of”.

Rosanna: “What is notwithstanding?” ($1400)

$2K 15-Letter Word:

“Ante” up, it’s 3rd from the end.

Rosanna: “What is the antepenult…” (-$600)
Robert: “What is antepenultimate?” ($7200; Rosanna gave the remainder of the word after being ruled wrong)

$400 Science:

The universe’s background radiation is thought to be left over from this primordial event.

Robert: “What is the Big Bang?” ($7600)

$800 Science:

Electrically speaking it’s the opposite of resistivity.

Robert: “What is conductivity?” ($8400)

$1200 Science:

Ossification, the formation of this, begins in the embryo at the end of the 2nd month.

Robert: “What is bone?” ($9600)

$1600 Science:

C2H5, it’s found before “alcohol” & is a homophone of a female 1st name.

Robert: “What is ethyl?” ($11,200)

$2K Science (Kelly):

“In Newton’s law ‘F’ is the attractive force, ‘G’ is the gravitational constant, ‘m’ is the masses of 2 bodies & ‘d’ stands for this.”

Robert: “What is distance?” ($13,200)- SWEEP

$400 Southernmost Capital City:

Pretoria, Rabat, Mogadishu

Robert: “What is Pretoria?” ($13,600)

$800 Southernmost Capital City:

Caracas, Buenos Aires, Quito

Rosanna: “What is Buenos Aires?” ($200)

$1200 Southernmost Capital City:

Brussels, Paris, Madrid

Rosanna: “What is Madrid?” ($1400)

$1600 Southernmost Capital City:

Guatemala City, Panama City, Mexico City

Robert: “What is Panama City?” ($15,200)

$2K Southernmost Capital City:

Helsinki, Oslo, Riga

Robert: “What is Riga?” ($17,200)

$400 Nickname:

Nickname of the Spanish-American War volunteer regiment incl. Teddy Roosevelt.

Rosanna: “What is the Lincoln Brigade?” ($1K)
Marc: “What are the Rough & Readies?” ($9K)

TS #2: Rough Riders

$800 Nickname:

This fabric was in nicknames for Robert Louis Stevenson & Mel Torme.

Rosanna: “What is velvet?” ($1800)

$1200 Nickname:

Similar to Fannie Mae it’s the popular nickname for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

Robert: “What is Freddie Mac?” ($18,400)

$1600 Nickname:

Answer: DD #1– he wagered a slim $1K.

W/ this heavenly nickname Louis XIV must’ve brightened up the lives of his subjects.

“Who is, what is the Sun King?”…no matter how he phrased it, he was right.

$2K Nickname (Jon):

“The theatrical mind behind Radio City was Samuel Rothafel, better known by this nickname also found on a movie palace he opened.”

TS #3: Roxie

$400 Wrote It:

Thoreau wrote this essay in 1849 to inform others how & why to protest against government misdeeds.

Robert: “What is ‘On Civil Disobedience’?” ($19K)

TECH. TS: “Civil Disobedience”

$800 Wrote It:

Bank teller Joseph K. was put on trial in this author’s The Trial.

Rosanna: “Who is (Franz) Kafka?” ($2600)

$1200 Wrote It:

Behind that answer: DD #2– she went for $2K.

It was Edith Wharton’s tragic novel of a New England farmer who fell in love w/ his wife’s cousin.

“What is The House of Mirth?”…nope- what was Ethan Frome?

$1600 Wrote It:

As well as novels he wrote rags-to-riches nonfiction like the James Garfield biography From Canal Boy to President.

Marc: “Who is Horatio Alger?” ($10,600)

$2K Wrote It:

She penned A Raisin in the Sun & The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.

Rosanna: “Who is Lorraine Hansberry?” ($2600)

$400 TV Before & After:

Sitcoms collide when a Debra Messing show spins off into Brett Butler’s.

TS #5: “Will & Grace Under Fire”

$800 TV Before & After:

The Hank, Peggy, Luanne & Bobby show that took a dramatic turn w/ Capt. Frank Furillo & friends.

Robert: “What is ‘Hill Street Blues’?” ($18,200)
Marc: “What is ‘King of the Hill Street Blues’?” ($11,400)

$1200 TV Before & After:

A sketch show’s dead parrot lives to soar through a flaming hoop held by Cathy Lee Crosby on a ’70s celeb variety show.

Marc: “What is ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus of the Stars’?” ($12,600)

$1600 TV Before & After:

Show in which Paris Hilton teams up w/ the developmentally disabled Corky.

Marc: “What is ‘The Simple Life Goes On’?” ($14,200)

$2K TV Before & After:

This show’s Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs takes a wrong turn & ends up on a ’70s Rod Serling anthology series.

Rosanna: “What is ‘In the Heat of the Night Gallery’?” ($4600)

TECH. TS: $400 (You Wrote It)
ATTEMPTED LT: $1600
UNATTEMPTED LT: $2400
TOTAL DJ! LT: $4400

Pre-Final S:
Marc: $14,200/Robert: $18,200/Rosanna: $4600

CORYAT SCORES:
Robert: $18,800/Rosanna: $6600

FJ!: PLAY & FILM TITLES

Erasmus called an English friend of his “omnium horarum homo”, which became this title of a play & film.

ROSANNA: “What is ‘A Man for All Seasons’?” (Sir Thomas Moore)($4K) = $8600
MARC: “What is ‘a man for all seasons’?” ($4K) = $18,200
ROBERT: “What is ‘a man for all seasons'” = $28,401

“JEOPARDY!” 2/27/24

3rd Trio: Yungsheng, David Sibley (4 wins) & Hannah (8 wins)

JR:
INAUGURAL ADDRESSES
CLOTHES
CLASSICAL MUSIC
TELEVISION
ANTONYMIC PAIRS
LITTLE GNOME FACTS

800 Little Gnome Fact:

On Dec. 10, 1961 Project Gnome in this state’s Edddy County became the 1st nuclear test designed for peaceful purposes.

Hannah: “What is Nevada?” 

TS: New Mexico

1K Little Gnome Fact:

1 of this composer’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” was “The Gnome”.

David: “Who is (Modest) Mussorgsky?” 

800 Inaugural Address:

He didn’t believe that “The Great Society is the ordered, changeless & sterile battalion of the ants”.

David: “Who is Lyndon Baines Johnson?” (1800)

1K Inaugural Address:

In ’69 Nixon was referring to this APOLLO mission when he said astronauts “flew over the Moon’s gray surface on Christmas Eve”.

David: “What is APOLLO 8?” (2800)

600 Inaugural Address:

The answer there’s the TDD.

Taft talked of the building of this “controlled by General Goethals & his fellow Army engineers”.

“What is the Panama Canal?”…right again.

HS:
Hannah: 1400/David: 6K/Yungsheng: 1400

David sweeps the Inaugural Addresses.

ATTEMPTED LT: 3200

CS:
Hannah: 3800/David: 7600/Yungsheng: 2400

DJ!:
“B”EGINNINGS
WHERE IS THAT?
ARTISTS ON FILM
A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS
AWARDS & HONORS
A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED

2K Artist On Film:

Yes, dahling, that was Zsa Zsa Gabor playing dancer Jane Avril to Jose Ferrer’s Toulouse-Lautrec in this ’52 film.

TS: “Moulin Rouge!”

1600 Artist On Film:

“Midnight in Paris” found Owen Wilson’s character bumping into Salvador Dali, portrayed by this OSCAR-winning actor.

Yungsheng: X (800)
Hannah: “Who is (Adrien) Brody?” (5400)

2K “B”:

Nautically speaking it’s the case where the ship’s compass is kept.

Hannah: “What is the binnacle?” (7400)

1600 “B”:

The long-nosed type of this marsupial uses its schnoz to get at insects in holes (think of the video game franchise starting w/ “Crash”).

Hannah: “What is a bandicoot?” (9K)

1200 “B”:

Answer: DD #1– 7K on the line.

A Norse god began this word meaning a nonsensical jumble of words (it’s a famous board game).

“What is balderdash?”…not literally at all.

2K “B”:

Just found the other DD! 10K & the lead at stake.

A research center established by Jane Goodall: a national park in Tanzania named for this stream.

“What is Olduvai?”…is regrettably not correct- what is Gombe?

DJ! LT: 5200

Pre-Final S:
Hannah: 13,200/David: 18,800/Yungsheng: 3200 (OUT)

CORYAT SCORES:
Hannah: 17,400/David: 16,600

FJ!: MILITARY HISTORY

A prototype of this craft was deployed in Aug. 1955; it made headlines in May ’60.

YUNGSHENG: “What is the U-2 spyplane? (Love you Chris!)” (DOUBLE) = 6400
HANNAH: “What is the U-2?” (13,195) = 26,395
DAVID: “What is the U-2? ♥ you Norabug!” = 26,401

“JEOPARDY!” 2/27/07

Challengers:
Claire Ward (Richmond, VA): Project mgr
Jim Waldo (Medina, MN): Consultant

JR:
HISTORIC AMERICANS
BRAND NAMES
POLITICAL SCIENCE
WHO SAYS
ALSO A 3-LETTER TREE
PRIME MADONNA

$200 WHO:

A variant of BSE, a disease of these animals, can be found in mink; we guess that would be mad mink disease.

Marc: “What is mad cow disease?”

$400 WHO:

90% of Argentina’s supply of this comes from people donating to members of their own families.

Jim: “What is blood?”

$600 WHO:

Research shows no increased risk of brain cancer from using these but they do cause traffic accidents.

Marc: “What are cellphones?” ($800)

$800 WHO:

He selected the DD too early.

Malignant melanoma, which is on the rise, is strongly related to one’s history of this painful affliction.

“What is sunburn?”…that doubled him up.

$1K WHO:

In 2000 Rift Valley fever scared WHO by making its 1st appearance outside this continent.

Claire: “What is Africa?”

$200 Historic American:

On Feb. 9, 1861 he was elected provisional president of the Confederacy.

Marc: “Who is Jefferson Davis?” ($1800)

$200 Brand Name:

Japanese film brand whose blimp debuted at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Claire: “What is Fuji?” ($1200)

$400 Historic American:

Alphabetically he was the 1st U.S. Vice-President.

Marc: “Who is John Adams?” ($2200)

$200 Also a 3-Letter Tree:

A type of eucalyptus or something kids chew

Jim: “What is gum?” ($600)

$400 Also a 3-Letter Tree:

A member of the olive family or the residue of something burned

Marc: “What is ash?” ($2600)

$600 Also a 3-Letter Tree:

A variety of California laurel or a body of water forming an indentation of a shoreline

Marc: “What is bay?” ($3200)

$800 Also a 3-Letter Tree:

English is 1 variety of this tree that’s also a nightmare-ridden movie street.

Jim: “What is elm?” ($1400)

$1K Also a 3-Letter Tree:

“It Had to Be” this evergreen tree that’s a homonym for a 2nd-person-singular pronoun.

Jim: “What is yew?” ($2400)

$200 Political Science:

Schwarzenegger’s 1st inaugural address pledged his governorship “to your” these, “not to special” these.

Claire: “What are ‘interests’?” ($1400)

$600 Historic American:

A slave called Isabella at birth adopted this unusual name in 1843 & became an itinerant preacher.

Claire: “Who is Sojourner Truth?” ($2K)

$800 Historic American:

This American educator born in 1796 favored the abolition of corporal punishment in schools.

Jim: “Who is Daniel Webster?” ($1600)

TS: Horace Mann

$1K Historic American:

Farmer Jabez Stone sold his soul in his classic story The Devil and Daniel Webster.

Claire: “Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?” ($1K)

TS #2: Stephen Vincent Benet

$400 Political Science:

Anthony Downs’ theory of these groups had ’em habitually moving toward the middle to win elections.

Marc: “What are political parties?” ($3600)

$600 Political Science:

The thrust of secularism in the 16th & 17th centuries was to separate politics from this.

Claire: “What is religion?” ($1600)

$800 Political Science:

“Every community is established with a view to some good”, said this ancient man’s Politics.

Jim: “Who is Plato?” ($800)
Claire: “Who is Socrates?” ($800)

TS #3: Aristotle

$1K Political Science:

In 1921 the black flag flew at the funeral of Peter Kropotkin, philosopher of this government-negating ideology.

Marc: “What is anarchy?” ($4600)

$400 Brand Name:

This “flowery” brand used the slogan “the milk from contented cows”.

Claire: “What is Carnation?” ($1200)

$600 Brand Name:

It’s the rhyming brand name of a popular slender jerky snack that comes in TABASCO & nacho flavors.

Jim: “What is Slim Jim?” ($1400)

$800 Brand Name:

This meatless brand started w/ a veggie burger created by chef Paul Wenner.

Claire: “What is Boca Burger?” ($400)

TS #4: Gardenburger

$1K Brand Name:

This 5-letter word follows “Marshmallow” in the name of Durkee-Mower’s marshmallow creme.

Marc: “What is Fluff?” ($5600)

$200 Madonna:

In Jan. ’85 Madonna & this actor had their 1st date; they’d be married by Aug.

Marc: “Who is Sean Penn?” ($5800)

$400 Madonna:

In ’92 Madonna’s Mae Mordabito took the field w/ Geena Davis in this film.

Marc: “What is ‘A League of Their Own’?” ($6200)

$600 Madonna:

“Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it; strike a pose, there’s nothing to it”; come on, it was this hit song.

Claire: “What is ‘Vogue’?” ($1K)

$800 Madonna:

Madonna was Breathless (Mahoney) in this ’90 detective flick.

Marc: “What is ‘Dick Tracy’?” ($7K)

$1K Madonna:

In ’77 Madonna won a scholarship to this studio of this alliteratively named NY choreographer.

Claire: “Who is Alvin Ailey?” ($2K)

ATTEMPTED LT: $3400

CS:
Marc: $7K/Jim: $1400/Claire: $2K

DJ!:
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
WHERE AM I? (CC clues)
ROMAN AROUND AT THE MOVIES
ANAGRAMMED BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
DOUBLE “Z”
PRIMA DONNA

Jim ($4200) saw DD #1 behind the $2K Double “Z” & needed to be correct because Marc had 3 times his score ($12,600); Claire only had $800 left. Jim wagered $4K.

In ’05 1 of these people crashed his car into Lindsay Lohan’s (also the title of a Lady Gaga song).

“What is the paparazzi?”- yes. Marc (19 grand) wrapped up the rd w/ DD #2 out of the $2K Where Am I? box w/ his chance to ice the game; Jim was 2nd at $10,600 & Claire was last for $6K. Marc bet $3K on the following by Cheryl.

“This state capital was the subject of a 20-year boundary dispute & gets its name from the fight’s peaceful outcome.”

“What is Minneapolis/St. Paul?”…no lock game for him- what is Concord, NH?

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $2K (Anagrammed Books of the Bible)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $2K
TOTAL DJ! LT: $4K

JIM’S CORYAT: $8600

FJ!: PHRASE ORIGINS

Meaning “not working properly” it may date back to a character in the comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids.

CLAIRE: “What is catty wumpus” ($3001) = $2999
JIM: “What is ‘on the fritz'” (DOUBLE) = $21,200
MARC: “What is on the fritz?” = $21,201

“JEOPARDY!” 2/26/24

Playing in This Game: Jared Watson (3 wins), Ben Goldstein (5 wins) & Cris (21 wins)

JR:
LET’S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE
ALL THINGS DISNEY
HISTORY
THE NEW TESTAMENT
MEMORY
SPEECH! PARTS OF SPEECH!

800 History:

This Italian family gave the world 4 popes: Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV & Leo XI.

Cris: “Who are the Medici?”

1K History:

Japan returned to the control of an emperor in the 19th century in what was called this 5-letter restoration.

Cris: “What is Meiji?” (1800)

600 History:

In 1546 the council of this Italian city added Judith, Tobit & other books to the Catholic bible.

Cris: “What…is…Tre, uh…Milan?” (1200)

TS: Trent

800 New Testament:

Acts 7 reported he was stoned to death for speaking what the council thought was blasphemy against God.

Jared: “Who is Stephen?”

600 New Testament:

John 15:13 said “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for” these people.

Jared: “Who are ‘his friends’?” (1400)

1K New Testament:

This apostle drew his sword & “smote the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear”.

Jared: “Who is Peter?” (2400)

600 Disney:

Inspired by “The Princess and the Frog” Disneyland has a new eatery feat. southern dishes & named for this character.

Cris: “Who is Tiana?” (1800)

800 College Course:

Is anyone here a marine biologist?! Here, being this Jesuit university in Spokane & you could be after learning about it in Bio 403.

Cris: “What is Gonzaga?” (2600)

600 College Course:

Taking 340.612.01, epidemiologic basis for tuberculosis control at this U. in Baltimore? Thank you as that sounds kinda important.

Cris: “What is Johns Hopkins?” (3200)

1K College Course:

History 383 at this military college of South Carolina examined patterns of war to 1763.

Cris: “What is the Citadel?” (4200)

800 Parts of Speech:

Betwixt, between, beyond

Cris: “What is preposition?” (5K)

400 History:

The litter of broken glass in the streets of Germany gave this name to the pograms of 1938.

Ben: “What is Kristallnacht?”

400 New Testament:

St. Paul wrote his epistle to the Philippians from here, also a creative spot for Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ben: “What is jail?” (800)

600 Memory:

A hafiz or hafiza is someone who has memorized this.

Cris: “What is the Quran?” (5600)

600 Parts of Speech:

Xem, xyrs, xemself

Cris: “What are (neo)pronouns?” (6200)

800 Memory:

A vivid memory of learning big news is a this “memory” named for a lighting accessory of mid-20th century news photography.

Cris: “What is flashbulb?” (7K)

400 College Course:

Math 0407, linear algebra & matrix theory, doesn’t sound like an easy A at this HBCU founded by Booker T. Washington.

Jared: “What is Tuskegee?” (2800)

1K Memory:

In comparing computer memory info think before you give us this, the # of megabytes in a gigabyte.

Cris: “What is…1000?” (6K)
Jared: “What is 1024?” (3800)

800 Disney:

This song from “Three Little Pigs” became a rallying cry against the Great Depression & the rise of Hitler.

TS #2: “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”

1K Disney:

“A Spoonful of Sugar” & “It’s a Small World” were among the more than 200 songs these siblings wrote for Disney.

Cris: “Who are the Shermans?” (7K)

1K Parts of Speech:

Yowza! Zoinks! Shazbot!

Cris: “What are interjections?” (8K)

400 Parts of Speech:

Neither, &, nor

Cris: “What are functions?” (8400)

400 Memory:

This actress has an autobiographical memory like only 100 other humans & has no trouble remembering her lines either.

Jared: “Who is Marilu Henner?” (4200)

400 Disney:

The answer is: the TDD for the rd.

At Walt Disney World in ’75 Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper & Jim Irwin attended the grand opening of this ride.

“What is Space Mountain?”…they were astronauts so he’s right to tie the game.

200 Disney:

Naturally he was the 1st animated character to get a star on the HOLLYWOOD Walk of Fame.

Cris: “Who is Mickey?” (8600)

200 History:

Lasting from Aug. 1786-Feb. 1787 Shays’ Rebellion in our young republic was in protest of economic conditions, mainly high these.

Cris: “What are taxes?” (8800)

200 Parts of Speech:

Fred Flintstone, Sweden, Roomba

Jared: “What are nouns?” (8600)

200 New Testament:

Agreeing to crucify Jesus he washed his hands & said “I am innocent of the blood of this just person”.

Jared: “Who is Pontius Pilate?” (8800)

200 Memory:

So you have a good memory for these? So do chimps who in a 2023 study could recognize ones they hadn’t seen for 25yrs.

Ben: “What are faces?” (1K)

200 College Course:

It was a safe bet this state U. offered Gaming Management I & also TCA 471, practicum in hotel education.

Ben: “What is UNLV?” (1200)

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 600 (History)
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: 800 (All Things Disney)

CS:
Cris: 8800/Ben: 1200/Jared: 8800

DJ!:
WORLD CITIES
DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL
ALLOYS
ITALIAN AMERICANS
LITERARY GROUPS
THE ’70s TOTALLY ROCKED

2K ’70s:

I want you want me to say Cheap Trick’s ’78 live album “at” this arena in Japan was a hard rock masterpiece.

Jared: “What is Budokan?” (10,800)

1600 ’70s:

The ’70s totally rocked long hair as seen on this rock & roll band from Massachusetts whose ’76 debut album incl. “Rock & Roll Band”.

Jared: “Who is Boston?” (12,400)

1200 ’70s:

“Fire in the sky”! After Montreux Casino burned during a Zappa gig Deep Purple wrote this top 5 hit w/ a killer lick.

Jared: “What is ‘Smoke on the Water’?” (13,600)

800 ’70s:

This quartet gave us a tour of “Kashmir” in ’75 & enjoyed some “Custard Pie”.

Ben: “Who is Led Zeppelin?” (2K)

400 ’70s:

Only months after releasing ’79’s “Highway to Hell” this group lost lead singer Bon Scott to acute alcohol poisoning.

Ben: “Who is AC/DC?” (2400)

1200 Double the Same Vowel:

Traveling 3rd class over 700 passengers on the TITANIC were in this cheapest section below decks; about 180 survived.

Jared: “What is steerage?” (14,800)

1200 World City:

We are marching to this city where the Peace of Vereeniging was signed in 1902, ending the Boer War.

TS: Pretoria

1600 World City:

Answer: there it is, the 1st of 2 DDs in the rd- he’s betting 6K.

Fittingly this capital’s the Yukon headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

“What is Whitehorse?” says Jared…right to leap to 20,800.

1200 Alloy:

Stellite, which coats saw teeth & lathes, got its name because its brilliance was like these.

Ben: “What are stars?” (3600)

1200 Italian American:

He’s in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ice rink resurfacing machine.

Jared: “Who is (Frank) Zamboni?” (22K)

1600 Alloy:

The answer there is DD #2– he’ll risk 5K.

This 7-letter word for an alloy used in dentistry is also used to mean any combination of 2 or more substances.

“What is amalgam?”…yeah.

ATTEMPTED LT: 4400
UNATTEMPTED LT: 3200
TOTAL DJ! LT: 7600

Pre-Final S:
Cris: 14K/Ben: 4400/Jared: 32,200 (LOCK)
JARED’S CORYAT: 20,600

FJ!: ART HISTORY

The Royal Academy of Arts has this man’s “La Fornarina” & in the 1800s the RAA’s love of him made some artists retreat to an earlier style.

BEN: “Who is El Greco?” = 100
CRIS: “Who (Sandro) Botticelli” (FINISHES AT 0)
JARED: “Who is Raphael?” (0)

“JEOPARDY!” 2/26/07

Challengers:
Marc Spraragen: Grad student
Chuck Newell (Chattanooga): English teacher

JR:
LITERARY LONDON (CC clues)
HERE’S WALDO
FINISH THE REALLY LOOSE RHYME
THIS MEANS WAR!
AT THE DRUGSTORE
THET IZN’T SPELED RITE

HS:
Sri: $1200/Chuck: $2400/Marc: $4800

Chuck ($4K) hits the DD in the $600 This Means War! window w/ only 2 clues left in the rd; Marc ($8400) couldn’t be caught at this time & Sri was last w/ $2600. Chuck wagered ½.

The French Revolution inspired a similar 1 in this Caribbean country in 1791.

“What is Haiti?”…he was correct.

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS AT END OF RD: $1K (This Means War!)

CS:
Sri: $2600/Chuck: $6K/Marc: $8200

DJ!:
OPERA
BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS
MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS
EDUCATION
THAT’S GONNA COST YOU
AN “ARM” OR A “LEG”

Sri ran An “Arm” or a “Leg” right away. 4 selections later 3rd-place Chuck ($7200) chose his 2nd DD of this game assigned to the $1600 Best Picture In Other Words; Marc’s lead was getting lower as he had $9400 to Sri’s $8600. Chuck bet $2300 to go for a $100 lead.

’45: “Saturday & Sunday Gone Astray”

“What is ‘Lost Weekend’?”…sensible & right. Just before the end of the rd Marc ($15,400) revealed DD #2 back of the $1200 Opera answer (the category’s last 2 clues were claimed by the Beeps of Time), followed by Sri ($13K) & Chuck ($12,700). The risk Marc made was $2K.

The Franco-Prussian war delayed this Verdi opera’s premiere; scenery couldn’t leave besieged Paris for Cairo.

“What is Aida?”…oui. 

ATTEMPTED LT: $2K
UNATTEMPTED LT: $2800
TOTAL DJ! LT: $4800

CHALLENGER CORYATS:
Chuck: $10,600/Marc: $16,600

FJ!: AMERICANA

In a Feb. 22, 1936 reenactment retired star pitcher Walter Johnson threw this across the Rappahannock (think of a kind of pancake).

CHUCK: “What is a baseball?” ($4800) = $7900
SRI: “What is a cannonball?” ($12,800) = $200
MARC: AGREED W/ SRI WITHOUT THE ? (Correct: What was a silver dollar?) = $8799