“JEOPARDY!” 3/19/24

JR:
SPEECHMAKING
NAME THE RIVER
NEWER MACHINES & INVENTIONS
ORGANIZATIONS
SILENCE, LETTERS!
WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES

600 Speechmaking:

Speaking to striking miners in 1912 this matronly activist warned of blood being spilled if guards were not soon called off.

Ben: “Who is Mother Jones?”

800 Speechmaking:

Following this man’s death in 1948 PM Nehru stated “The light has gone out of our lives”.

Yogesh: “Who is Mahatma Gandhi?” 

800 Organization:

The headquarters for this global law enforcement group are found at 200 Charles de Gaulle Road in Lyon, France.

Yogesh: “What is INTERPOL?” (1600)

600 Silence, Letters:

I accuse the only “C” in this word meaning to charge w/ a crime of being useless.

Ben: “What is indict?” (1200)

800 River:

Lyon & Avignon

Ben: “What is the…Seine?” (400)
Yogesh: “What is the Rhone?” (2400)

800 Newer Machines & Inventions:

W/ a name like another musical instrument the “O-” this uses an optical sensor & keyboard to make violin music.

TS: Bow (optical bow)

800 Silence, Letters:

Trippy! Merriam-Webster says the only silent “J” in English is in the name of this drug.

Troy: “What’s marijuana?”

600 River:

Fallujah, Iraq & Raqqa, Syria

Troy: “What’s the Euphrates?” (1400)

600 Newer Machines & Inventions:

The IoT is short for this which connects commonplace items to the web & collects data.

Yogesh: “What is the Internet of Things?” (3K)

800 Big Leagues:

The Indiana Pacers debuted in ’67 in this new big league; it’s gone but the team’s still around.

Troy: “What’s the ABA?” (2200)

600 Organization:

Helping preserve a heritage the British group Cymdeithas yr laith Gymraeg is also known as this Language Society.

Troy: “What’s Welsh?” (2800)

1K Speechmaking:

The answer there’s the only TDD of the rd.

In 1735 attorney Andrew Hamilton spoke in defense of freedom of the press at this man’s trial.

“Who’s Zenger?”…yes.

1K River:

Jeffersonville, Louisville & Evansville

Troy: “What’s the Ohio?” (6600)

1K Newer Machines & Inventions:

It’s the alliterative term for a computer system based on the brain.

Yogesh: “What is a neural network?” (4K)

1K Organization:

2024 marks 100yrs of this group w/ a mission “to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke”.

Ben: “What is the American Heart Association?” (1400)

1K Silence, Letters:

Remember only the 1st M’s silent in this memory aid.

Troy: “What’s a mnemonic?” (7600)

1K Big Leagues:

This league’s 20-yd-deep end zone means Cody Fajardo has more options close to the goal line than Patrick Mahomes does.

Ben: “What is the CFL?” (2400)

400 Organization:

The voice of CEOs in Washington is the organization called Business this.

Yogesh: “What is Roundtable?” (4400)

400 Silence, Letters:

Make no mistake- you don’t pronounce either the “X” or the “S” in this French term for a slip-up.

Ben: “What is a faux pas?” (2800)

600 Big Leagues:

In 1924 the NHL added its 1st U.S. team, this New England squad.

Troy: “Who are the Boston Bruins?” (8200)

400 Newer Machines & Inventions:

A major advantage of using hydrogen fuel cells to generate electricity’s that their only byproducts are heat & this.

Ben: “What is water (vapor)?” (3200)

400 Big Leagues:

In 2020 MLB gave radioactive major league status to 7 of these leagues that existed from 1920-48.

Troy: “What are the Negro Leagues?” (8600)

400 Speechmaking:

In a 1951 speech general Douglas MacArthur stated “Old soldiers never die, they just” do this.

Troy: “What is ‘fade away’?” (9K)

400 River:

Aranjuez (near Madrid) & Talavera de la Reina

Yogesh: “What is the Tagus?” (4800)

200 Speechmaking:

In 1917 Woodrow Wilson asked congress to declare war on this country that was practicing “cruel & unmanly” submarine warfare.

Yogesh: “What is Germany?” (5K)

200 River:

Bullhead City & Laughlin

Troy: “What’s the Colorado?” (9200)

200 Newer Machines & Inventions:

3-D printers aren’t great for mass production but excel w/ these models whose name’s partly from the Greek for “first”.

Troy: “What’s a prototype?” (9400)

200 Organization:

Since the 1990s an organization to save this animal has been entering runners in costume in the London Marathon.

Yogesh: “What is a rhinoceros?” (5200)

200 Silence, Letters:

The terminal “S” in this word for pieces of trash is really just garbage.

Ben: “What is debris?” (3400)

200 Big Leagues:

In 1992 England’s top soccer clubs broke away from their historic football league to form this elite entity.

Yogesh: “What is the Premier League?” (5400)

SOLE TS: 800 (Newer Machines & Inventions)

CS:
Yogesh: 5400/Troy: 9400/Ben: 3400

DJ!:
BOOKS & AUTHORS
CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION
JEOPORTMANTEAU!
DIRECTORS ACTING
UNDERGROUND 
MIND THE GAP

1600 Books & Authors:

A dessert made from a family recipe was in the title of this Charmaine Wilkerson novel that became a hulu series in ’23.

TS: Black Cake

1200 Books & Authors:

This author born Lula Carson Smith earned fame at the keyboard as a novelist under this married name.

Yogesh: “Who is Carson McCullers?” (6600)

2K Books & Authors:

Max Brod edited this author’s letters & diaries & published a 1937 biography of him.

Troy: “Who’s Kafka?” (11,400)

800 Books & Authors:

A former chairman of CNN he has written biographies of Steve Jobs & Elon Musk.

Yogesh: “Who is (Walter) Isaacson?” (7400)

2K Director Acting:

Viggo Mortensen starred in “Eastern Promises” from this horror master who then acted in Viggo’s directorial debut “Falling”.

Yogesh: “Who is (David) Cronenberg?” (9400)

1600 Director Acting:

This of “Out of Africa” went in front of the screen for Stanley Kubrick in “Eyes Wide Shut”.

Troy: “Who’s (Sydney) Pollack?” (13K)

1600 Classical Music:

The New York Times called this piece w/ a name in the title “Beethoven’s trifle…featured on Baby Einstein albums”.

Yogesh: “What is ‘Fur Elise’?” (11K)

1200 Director Acting:

This director of “Her” donned a dress in “Bad Grandpa .5” playing the elderly Gloria.

Troy: “Who’s Spike Jonze?” (14,200)

1200 Classical Music:

In 1991 his “Liverpool Oratorio” premiered in this city’s Anglican Cathedral which once said no to his choirboy services.

Troy: “Who’s Paul McCartney?” (15,400)

2K Classical Music:

There was a sense of foreboding in the overture to his 1862 opera “La forza del destino” or “The Force of Destiny”.

Ben: “Who is (Gaetano) Donizetti?” (1400)
Yogesh: “Who is (Giuseppe) Verdi?” (13K)

800 Director Acting:

This Munich-born documentary & film legend played Keg Jeggings on “Parks & Rec” & voiced Shrimply Pibbles on “Rick & Morty”.

Ben: “Who is (Werner) Herzog?” (2200)

2K Jeportmanteau:

Mysterious object that propels a movie plot + extremely fastidious

Troy: “What’s MacGuffinicky?” (17,400)

1600 Underground:

It’s a homophone of a word meaning the opposite of easy or soft but this soft rock made possible the ancient tunnel city of Derinkyu.

TS #2: Tuff

2K Underground:

You can go under this square, the heart of Old Seattle, to see bits of what the city looked like before a great fire in 1889.

Ben: “What is Pioneer Square?” (4200)

1600 Jeportmanteau:

Answer: the 1st of this rd.’s TDDs.

A buffet in Stockholm + a house of ill repute

“It’s my favorite place, what is a smorgasbordello?”…equals 8400.

1200 Underground:

Seen here’s an old elevated highway in Boston & the same area after the road was buried as part of the huge project called this.

Ben: “What is the Big Dig?” (9600)

1200 Mind the Gap:

Answer: the last TDD up there!

Near where Virginia, Kentucky & Tennessee meet you’ll find this pass named for a son of George II.

“What is the…Prince William Pass?”- sorry; it’s the Cumberland Gap.

2K Mind the Gap:

Gap junctions allow communication between cells as molecules pass from this semifluid cell substance to another.

Troy: “What is cytoplasm?” (19,400)

1600 Mind the Gap:

To shuck properly look for the gap between the oyster’s shell & use your knife to sever this muscle.

Ben: “What is the…adductor?”

1200 Jeoportmanteau:

A temporary stay + a writer for a newspaper or magazine

TS #3: Sojournalist

800 Classical Music:

Premiering in 1749 “Music for the Royal” these got set off to celebrate the end of the war of the Austrian succession.

Yogesh: “What are fireworks?” (13,800)

800 Jeoportmanteau:

Pill that cures nothing + Spanish dance

Ben: “What is a placebolero?” (2400)

800 Mind the Gap:

Diastema is the clinical term for a gap between these.

Yogesh: “What are teeth?” (14,600)

800 Underground:

Running underground for much of its course this river w/ the same name as a desert ends at Soda Dry Lake.

Yogesh: “Uh, what is Mojave?” (15,400)

400 Mind the Gap:

The GAP stores hit Wall Street in 1976 w/ an IPO, short for this, of $18.

Yogesh: “What is an initial public offering?” (15,800)

400 Underground:

SNOLAB, the “SNO” for Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, is way down under this Canadian province.

Ben: “What’s Ontario?” (2800)

400 Director Acting:

Steven Spielberg showed up for a second or 2 in this John Landis comedy playing a Cook County tax assessor.

Ben: “What’s ‘The Blues Brothers’?” (3200)

400 Jeoportmanteau:

Buttercup in “TOY STORY” films + item symbolizing an endless supply of food

Yogesh: “Uh, what is..unicornucopia?” (16,200)

400 Classical Music:

This 18th century group of violin concerti was “Le Quatro Stagioni” in Italian.

Troy: “What are the Four Seasons?” (19,800)

400 Books & Authors:

Her sister Emily & brother Branwell were buried w/ her in the family vault in Haworth, England; Anne was buried elsewhere.

Yogesh: “Who is Charlotte Bronte?” (16,600)

DJ! LT: 4400

Pre-Final S:
Yogesh: 16,600/Troy: 19,800/Ben: 3200

CORYAT SCORES:
Yogesh: 23,600/Troy: 18K

FJ!: HUMAN BODY

This glandular organ that starts to shrink at puberty’s known for being where the cells key to adaptive immunity develop.

BEN: “What is the thymus?” (DOUBLE) = 6400
YOGESH: “What is spleen?” (3,201) = 13,399
TROY: “What is pituitary?” = 6399- YOGESH WINS IT

“JEOPARDY!” 3/18/24

JR:
“K”-TOWN
ANNUAL EVENTS
MUSICAL FILMS
21st CENTURY WORDS
CHOOSE A PROTEIN
& 5 SIDES

800 Annual Event:

Each June Nebraskaland Days in North Platte feat. a golf classic & a rodeo named for this Wild West showman.

Yogesh: “Who is Buffalo Bill?”

800 Musical Film:

Renee Rapp played Regina George, head of the Plastics, in this 2024 high school musical.

Ben: “What is ‘Mean Girls’?”

1K Annual Event:

“The ride. The roar. The rally” is a motto for the annual motorcycle rally in this South Dakota city.

Yogesh: “What is Sturgis?” (1800)

1K Musical Film:

In this ’63 musical a teen idol’s fans sang “We love you, Conrad, oh yes, we do, we love you Conrad, and we’ll be true”.

Troy: “What’s ‘Bye Bye, Birdie’?”

800 “K”:

This capital of Malopolskie Province can also be spelled w/ 2 C’s.

Troy: “What’s Krakow?” (1800)

1K “K”:

Answer: DD.

It’s the capital city on the Nile that fits the category.

“What is Khartoum?”…is right to double to 3600.

1K 21st Century Word:

From the French it’s the sport of running, jumping & climbing around & over urban obstacles.

Yogesh: “What is parkour?” (2800)

800 21st Century Word:

You’ll hit this annoying thing when a website demands a fee to read content kept “behind” it.

Yogesh: “What is a paywall?” (3600)

1K Protein:

It’s high in proline so we’re giving this most abundant protein in the body that’s in tendons, bones & skin some lip service.

Ben: “What is collagen?” (1800)

1K Sides:

Done w/ this debut novel & newly wed F. Scott Fitzgerald wept as “I had everything I wanted & knew I would never be so happy again”.

Yogesh: “What is This Side of Paradise?” (4600)

800 Sides:

Carl Friedrich Gauss solved a math puzzle by constructing a regular-sided heptadecagon, a figure w/ this many sides.

Troy: “What’s 7?” (2800)
Yogesh: “What is 17?” (5400)

800 Protein:

In 1921 Banting & Best 1st isolated this hormone, a protein composed of 2 chains linked by sulfur atoms.

Troy: “What is insulin?” (3600)

600 “K”:

The largest city in Malaysia it’s just inland from the Strait of Malacca.

Ben: “What is Kuala Lumpur?” (2400)

600 Sides:

Ron Guidry, Pedro Martinez & this man, twice, are among Major Leaguers who have struck out the side on 9 pitches.

Yogesh: “Who is Nolan Ryan?” (6K)

600 Protein:

Rhinos don’t have true horns; they’re primarily composed of this fibrous protein found in hair.

Yogesh: “What is keratin?” (6600)

600 Musical Film:

Judy Garland was orig. cast to play the title sharpshooter in this musical but was let go a month into shooting.

Ben: “What is Annie Get Your Gun’?” (3K)

600 21st Century Word:

What used to be a “buddy movie” depicting an affectionate relationship between 2 guys is now this blended word.

Yogesh: “What is a bromance?” (7200)

600 Annual Event:

Named for a stalagmite each Dec. the Rock of Ages Lantern Tours take visitors through this New Mexico national park.

Troy: “What’s Carlsbad Caverns?” (4200)

400 “K”:

It’s the capital of Sindh Province, Pakistan.

Ben: “What is Karachi?” (3400)

400 Sides:

Hal Prince co-produced this NYC-set musical that opened on Broadway on Sept. 26, 1957.

Troy: “What’s ’42nd Street’?” (3800)
Yogesh: “What is ‘West Side Story’?” (7600)

400 Protein:

The Murchison meteorite that hit Earth in 1969 was found to contain organic compounds like these building blocks of proteins.

Ben: “What are amino acids?” (3800)

400 Annual Event:

Bucyrus, Ohio’s festival honoring this German sausage incl. a pigtail contest for youngsters.

Yogesh: “What is bratwurst?” (8K)

400 Musical Film:

Norman Jewelson directed the ’73 film version of this musical about the most famous Jew & son of all.

Troy: “What’s ‘Fiddler on the Roof’?” (3400)
Yogesh: “What is ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’?” (8400)

400 21st Century Word:

This word for a now-ubiquitous form of entertainment program comes in part from an Apple product.

Ben: “What is a podcast?” (4200)

200 Sides:

Perfect for the category this landmark has 6.5M sq. feet of office space but until 2011 had but 1 passenger elevator.

Yogesh: “What is the Pentagon?” (8600)

200 Protein:

This cone-shaped body organ produces blood proteins & stores glycogen for you, so easy on the Lagavulin. 

Ben: “What is the liver?” (4400)

200 21st Century Word:

To post a message orig. posted by someone else on the service now known as X.

Ben: “What is retweet?” (4600)

200 Musical Film:

In a 2023 origin story Timothee Chalamet showed off his singing & dancing skills as this iconic candy man.

Yogesh: “Who is ‘Wonka’?” (8800)

200 Annual Event:

Oulu, Finland hosts the world championships for this; contestants strut their stuff w/ invisible instruments.

Ben: “What is air guitar?” (4800)

200 “K”:

2 cities w/ this name in different states lie on the Missouri River.

Troy: “What’s Kansas City?” (3600)

PR

CS:
Yogesh: 8800/Troy: 3600/Ben: 4800

DJ!:
VICE-PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
BOOK OF MORMONS
STATUES OF THE WORLD
BUSINESS PARTNERS
HORRORS!

1600 Vice-Presidential Quote:

It’s the -ism that promotes the common man & in ’23 Mike Pence bemoaned “the siren song of” it “unmoored to” conservative ideas.

Yogesh: “What is ‘populism’?” (10,400)

1600 Book of Mormons:

Dubbed the “Empress of Soul” this singer has won 7 competitive Grammys- 4 solo & 3 w/ the Pips.

Yogesh: “Who is Knight?” (12K)

1600 Statue of the World:

In 1600 Tyco Brahe asked this German astronomer to join him in Prague; a statue there honors the pair.

Troy: “Who is Kepler?” (5200)

1200 Vice-Presidential Quote:

The answer there’s his 2nd TDD of the night.

In ’48 Hubert Humphrey said the democrats must “get out of the shadow of” these “rights” often used to counter civil rights.

“What are states’ rights?”…success.

1200 Statue of the World:

A monument to this Canadian legend known for his Marathon of Hope event stands in Burnaby, BC.

Ben: “Who’s (Terry) Fox?” (6K)

2K Statue of the World:

1 of the 7 Ancient Wonders was the statue of Zeus by this great Greek sculptor.

Yogesh: “Who is Phidias?” (14K)

1600 Business Partners:

Before launching a wellness studio Elizabeth Cutler & Julie Rice co-founded this fitness co. for indoor spinning.

Yogesh: “What is Zumba?” (12,400)
Ben: “What’s PELOTON?” (4400)

1ST TS OF NIGHT: SoulCycle (Troy didn’t have the guts to go for it)

1200 Horrors:

This horror master turned director to translate his own novella The Hellbound Heart to the screen as “Hellraiser”.

Yogesh: “Who is (Clive) Barker?” (13,600)

1600 Horrors:

H.P. Lovecraft wrote the “U”s in the name of this “hellish entity” should sound “about like that in ‘full'”.

Ben: “What’s Cthulhu?” (6K)

1600 Introductory Word:

It refers to the 1st note of a scale bringing harmony to a piece of music.

Yogesh: “What is tonic?” (15,200)

2K Horrors:

Yikes- the answer there’s the other TDD off this board!

The title of this 1962 Ray Bradbury novel was a Shakespeare line rhyming w/ “by the pricking of my thumbs”.

“What is Something Wicked This Way Comes?”…exactly.

2K Business Partners:

An audio oscillator was the 1st product from this pair who founded 1 of the orig. Silicon Valley startups in 1939.

Yogesh: “Who are (Bill) Hewlett & (David) Packard?” (32,400)

2K Book of Mormons:

In 2011 this lead singer of the Killers was part of the “I’m a Mormon” campaign.

Ben: “Who is (Brandon) Flowers?” (8K)

2K Introductory Word:

It can mean a legal right in English or right in French.

Troy: “What’s droit?” (12,400)

2K Vice-Presidential Quote:

In a ’42 speech this progressive V-P of FDR called the coming post-war period “the century of the common man”.

Troy: “Who’s Henry Wallace?” (14,400)

1200 Book of Mormons:

Raised in the LDS Church Paul Walker gained worldwide fame in this movie series before dying in a car accident in ’13.

Yogesh: “What is ‘FAST & FURIOUS’?” (33,600)

1200 Introductory Word:

Acc. to an old joke it’s what you call the person who graduates last in their medical school class.

Ben: “What is doctor?” (9200)

1200 Business Partners:

Google, “Who Founded Google?” & it’s this pair, Stanford grad students in 1998.

Yogesh: “Who are (Larry) Page & (Sergey) Brin?” (34,800)

800 Horrors:

His Christmas ghost story The Haunted Man sold 18K copies on its 1st day of publication in 1848.

Yogesh: “Who is Dickens?” (35,600)

800 Business Partners:

After meeting Rick Rubin at a party Russell Simmons became his partner in this record label that soon took off.

Yogesh: “What is Def Jam?” (36,400)

800 Statue of the World:

Atop Massachusetts’ Captain’s Hill is a statue of this pilgrim whose “Courtship” was the subject of a famous poem.

Troy: “Who’s Miles Standish?” (15,200)

800 Book of Mormons:

Though she no longer practices this star of “27 Dresses” was raised in the Mormon faith & lives in Utah.

Yogesh: “Who is Heigl?” (37,200)

800 Introductory Word:

W/ 58.33% of the letters in “introductory” it’s a pipe to carry wiring or a person to carry info between 2 others.

Yogesh: “What is conduit?” (38K)

800 Vice-Presidential Quote:

On Jun. 22, 1804 this V-P wrote to his political adversary “You have invited the course I am about to pursue”.

Troy: “Who’s Aaron Burr?” (16K)

400 Vice-Presidential Quote:

In 1992 he wrote “The global environmental crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain”.

Troy: “Who’s Al Gore?” (16,400)

400 Horrors:

Catriona Ward’s The Last House on Needless Street was partly narrated by Olivia, 1 of these animals & that couldn’t be good luck.

Troy: “What is a…pig?” (16K)
Yogesh: “What’s a cat? Black cat?” (38,400)

400 Business Partners:

In 1964 Phil Knight & Bill Bowerman founded Blue Ribbon Sports; in the early ’70s, Swoosh! It became this co.

Yogesh: “What is NIKE?” (38,800)

400 Statue of the World:

Any statue substantially larger than life-size is 1 of these like the Daibutsu or Great Buddha.

TS #2: Colossus

400 Book of Mormons:

Alan, Wayne, Merrill & Jay were some of the other members of this singing family w/ hits like “One Bad Apple”.

Troy: “Who are the Osmonds?” (16,400)

400 Introductory Word:

A state of decay can be described as “rack &” this.

Troy: “What’s ruin?” (16,800)

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 1600 (Business Partners)
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: 400 (Statues of the World)

Pre-Final S:
Yogesh: 38,800 (LOCK)/Troy: 16,800/Ben: 9200

CORYAT SCORES:
Yogesh: 25,600/Troy: 12K

FJ!: EURASIA

Zvartnots International Airport serves this capital & has the code EVN, all letters found in the city’s name.

BEN: “What is Yerevan?” = 16,801
TROY: IN ACCORDANCE = 18,401
YOGESH: “What Can I do my Game 1 wager over again?” (0) √√

“JEOPARDY!” 3/15/24

JR:
THAT’S SO 18th CENTURY
TYPES OF POEMS
FOOD & DRINK
ON THE WEB
TV DRAMA
CHAMP CHANGE

600 Food & Drink:

W/ spinach as a star ingredient the dish seen here goes by this 2-word name partly after a city.

Ben: “What is quiche Lorraine?”

TS: Quiche Florentine

600 TV Drama:

In the daytime drama world Shemar Moore rose to fame in the ’90s as Malcolm Winters on this soap opera set in Genoa City.

Troy: “What’s ‘The Young & the Restless’?”

800 18th Century:

On May 1, 1776 Adam Weishaupt founded the Perfectibillists, a branch of this “enlightened” secret society…oh dear, I may’ve said too much.

Troy: “What’s the Illuminati?” (1400)

600 18th Century:

In 1789 the Marquis de Launay, gov. of this landmark, didn’t give up its munitions to the people so easily; bad move.

Yogesh: “What is the Bastille?”

1K TV Drama:

President Obama said his favorite character on “The Wire” was this stickup man portrayed by Michael K. Williams.

Yogesh: “Who is Omar (Little)?” (1600)

600 On the Web:

This “in the gaming community is the problem we are trying to solve”, said a founder of the platform of that name.

Troy: “What’s Discord?” (2K)

1K 18th Century:

Not thrilled w/ the colonies in 1774 Britain’s parliament passed 4 punitive measures known not so nicely as these acts.

Troy: “What are the Intolerable Acts?” (3K)

800 Poems:

Famous in the sonnet-verse Petrarch devoted hundreds of poems in his Canzoniere to this woman, his love.

Troy: “Who’s Laura?” (3800)

1K Poems:

For this grave work Yeats chose words he had already written: “Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by.”

Ben: “What is Elegy in a Church Courtyard?” (-1600)
Yogesh: “What is his epitaph?” (2600)

800 Champ Change:

A championship flag trades 1 of its “N”s for a “D” & becomes this dangling thing.

Ben: “What is pendant?” (-800)

600 Poems:

Answer: DD.

A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) 1 of these.

“What is a quatrain?”…correct to be at 200.

1K Champ Change:

A verb meaning to admit, as into a hall of fame, changes a letter & becomes this verb meaning to infer from reasoning.

Troy: “What’s induce?” (4800)

800 Food & Drink:

Aubergine caviar’s another name for this smoky Mediterranean spread made w/ roasted eggplant.

Troy: “What’s baba ghanoush?” (5600)

1K Food & Drink:

They’re not lemons but this 4-letter citrus fruit from Asia whose juice & zest are used in Japanese cuisine.

Troy: “What’s yuzu?” (6600)

400 18th Century:

This 12Kft volcano in Japan erupted in 1707 but thankfully has been dormant for the ensuing 300+yrs.

Yogesh: “What is Fujiyama?” (3K)

1K On the Web:

Called “China’s Google” this search engine became the 1st Chinese co. to be listed on the NASDAQ 100.

Troy: “What’s Baidu?” (7600)

800 On the Web:

This search engine w/ a double-talk animal name emphasizes privacy saying it doesn’t track searches or collect user info.

Yogesh: “What is Duck Duck Go?” (3800)

800 TV Drama:

She starred on dramas like “The Leftovers” & “The Gilded Age”.

Yogesh: “Who is the great Carrie Coon?” (4600)

600 Champ Change:

Satisfaction taken in winning trades a “D” for a “Z” & becomes this award for winning.

Yogesh: “What is prize?” (5200)

400 TV Drama:

S1 of this NETFLIX series focused on Pablo Escobar played by Wagner Moura.

Ben: “What is ‘Narcos’?” (600)

400 Champ Change:

A 4 games-to-0 result in the World Series changes its 2nd letter to T & becomes this adjective.

Ben: “What is steep?” (1K)

400 Food & Drink:

A caffe Americanois this dark strong coffee diluted w/ hot water.

Troy: “What’s espresso?” (8K)

400 Poems:

Haiku masters Buson & Issa had to master this many syllables to craft their works.

Ben: “What is 17?” (1400)

400 On the Web:

This site “enables anyone to be a creator” as Noah Beck found out when :09 of lip-syncing made him famous.

Yogesh: “What is TikTok?” (5600)

200 18th Century:

Russia annexed this peninsula between the Black Sea & the Sea of Azov in 1783; wouldn’t be the last time they tried that either.

Ben: “What is Crimea?” (1600)

200 Champ Change:

An Olympic award changes a letter & becomes this lever.

Yogesh: “What is a pedal?” (5800)

200 TV Drama:

At the Golden Globes in ’24 he said “This is a nice moment for me” when he won for “Succession”.

Yogesh: “Who is Kieran Culkin?” (6K)

200 On the Web:

“The pins you save live on your boards” on this site.

Ben: “What is Pinterest?” (1800)

200 Food & Drink:

Slightly sweet & chewy they’re the little tapioca pearls in the tea.

Yogesh: “What are boba?” (6200)

200 Poems:

Pindar was famed for these poems; Alexander Pope wrote 1 “On Solitude”.

Yogesh: “What are odes?” (6400)

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS AT THE START: 600 (Food & Drink)

CS:
Yogesh: 6400/Troy: 8K/Ben: 1800

DJ!:
MAKING A PASS
LOST WORKS
WHAT THE “H”? (that 1’s for Norm MacDonald)
FAMOUS WOMEN
MOVIE SONGS
EXTINCT ANIMALS

1600 Famous Woman:

Subject of a ’23 film, in 2013 she became the 1st person to swim from Cuba to Florida w/o a shark cage for protection.

Troy: “Who’s (Diana) Nyad?” (9600)

1600 Pass:

Located near the foot of Mount Kallidromo this Greek mountain pass has a name meaning “hot gates”.

Troy: “What’s Thermopylae?” (11,200)

1200 Pass:

A group of ill-fated prisoners gave this pass near Truckee in California its name.

Ben: “What is the Donner Pass?” (3K)

1200 Famous Woman:

In 1924 she began working w/ the American Foundation for the Blind & for over 40yrs was its leading ambassador.

Yogesh: “Who is Keller?” (7600)

2K Famous Woman:

Referred to as the “Jackie Robinson of tennis” she was named Female Athlete of the Yr in ’57 & ’58 by the Associated Press.

Troy: “Who’s Althea Gibson?” (13,200)

2K Pass:

Rudyard Kipling referred to this Asian pass as a “narrow sword-cut in the hills”.

Yogesh: “What is the Khyber Pass?” (9600)

2K Movie Songs:

Irish singer Glen Hansard starred in this ’07 movie & won an OSCAR for co-writing “Falling Slowly”.

Ben: “What is ‘Once’?” (5K)

1600 Lost Work:

Answer’s a TDD.

In the lost ancient epic Aethiopis the Ethiopian king Memnon fought for Troy & was killed by this Greek hero.

“Who is Achilles?”…doesn’t hurt him at all.

1200 Extinct Animal:

In 2021 the FWS declared extinct the stirrupshell & 7 other species of these mollusks that form serious attachments.

Troy: “What are barnacles?” (12K)

TS: Mussels

1600 Extinct Animal:

The Stephens Island wren on an isle just off this country’s South Island was eaten to extinction by a lighthouse keeper’s cats.

Yogesh: “What is New Zealand?” (11,200)

1600 Movie Songs:

“All is Love”, “Rumpus” & “Food is Still Hot” were numbers by Karen O & the Kids for this kids’ book adaptation.

Yogesh: “What is ‘Where the Wild Things Are’?” (12,800)

1200 Movie Songs:

This song shot to 1, 2, 3 o’clock after being feat. in the ’55 film “Blackboard Jungle”.

Ben: “What is ‘Rock Around the Clock’?” (11,200)

2K Extinct Animal:

This sirenian of the Bering Sea was unknown until 1741 when Georg Steller 1st described it; within 30yrs it was extinct.

Yogesh: “What is Sellar’s sea cow?” (14,800)

2K “H”:

The Beach Boys mentioned these Mexican sandals in “Surfin’ USA”.

Troy: “What are huaraches?” (14K)

800 Pass:

Answer there’s the other TDD!

The 1st major U.S.-German battle of WWII took place in Feb. 1943 at Kasserine Pass on this continent.

“What is Africa?”…yeah!

2K Lost Work:

This Frenchman’s controversial urinal from a 1917 show’s lost; you can look at (but not use) a replica at the Tate Modern.

Yogesh: “Who is (Marcel) Duchamp?” (16,800)

1600 “H”:

It’s a fancy 9-letter way to say a forerunner or an omen as of Spring.

Troy: “What’s a harbinger?” (29,600)

1200 Lost Work:

The lost 9hr cut of this Eric Von Stroheim silent film w/ a deadly sign as its title likely showed money can’t buy happiness (also shared its title w/ a Chuck Woolery GS).

Troy: “What’s ‘Greed’?” (30,800)

1200 “H”:

A classic song said “Waiting ’round the bend, my” this person “Moon River & me”.

Yogesh: “What is ‘huckleberry friend’?” (18K)

800 Extinct Animal:

The Sumatran type of this predator’s still around but the Javan & Bali subspecies are no more.

Yogesh: “What’s a tiger?” (18,800)

800 Movie Songs:

“Now I’m laughing to the bank” rapped thi$ man in “Am I Dreaming” over the end credits of “SPIDER-MAN: Across the Spider-Verse”.

Troy: “Who is A$AP Rocky?” (31,600)

800 Famous Woman:

For over 15yrs she was 1 of the most powerful people in the world.

Ben: “Who is Merkel?” (12K)

800 “H”:

Arabic gives us this word referring to food from an animal slaughtered in accordance w/ Islamic law.

Troy: “What’s halal?” (32,400)

800 Lost Work:

In 1903 this “Maple Leaf Rag” composer lost a trunk worth of music scores that possibly contained a ragtime opera.

Yogesh: “Who is Joplin?” (19,600)

400 Pass:

Winter storms sometimes close the over-8K’ Sylvan Pass located in the Wyoming part of this national park.

Yogesh: “Where is Yellowstone?” (20K)

400 Lost Work:

Acc. to 1 guy who read the lost memoirs of this 19th century poet & lord the book was “fit only for a brothel”.

Yogesh: “Uh, who is Byron?” (20,400)

400 “H”:

This word’s medical speak for really bad breath.

Troy: “What is halitosis?” (32,800)

400 Famous Woman:

In 2023 all living First Ladies gathered in Atlanta to pay tribute to this First Lady who passed away at 96.

Ben: “Who is Rosalynn Carter?” (12,400)

400 Extinct Animal:

The Narragansett pacer, a breed of this, became extinct sometime in the 19th century.

Ben: “What’s a horse?” (12,800)

400 Movie Songs:

A non-“Let It Go” song from “FROZEN” said these “are better than people. Sven, don’t you think that’s true?”.

Troy: “What are reindeer?” (33,200)

SOLE ATTEMPTED DJ! TS: 1200 (Extinct Animals)

Pre-Final S:
Yogesh: 20,400/Troy: 33,200/Ben: 12,800

CORYAT SCORES:
Troy: 20K/Ben: 9K

FJ!: HISTORIC AMERICANS

Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man.

BEN: “Who is John Paul Jones?” (DOUBLE) = 25,600
YOGESH: “WHO (DAVID) FARRAGUT” (5,200) = 15,200
TROY: “Who is (John J.) Pershing?” = 25,599 (Ben: √ √)

“JEOPARDY!” 3/14/24

JR:
LOOK AT THE MAP
HEALTH & MEDICINE
KHAN YOU DIG IT?
FESTIVALS
SONGS OF YOUTH
CROSSWORD CLUES “R”

800 Song of Youth:

Nate Reuss & this band implored “We are so young so let’s set the world on fire”.

Ben: “What is fun.?”

800 Map:

It’s the geographically appropriate name for the troubled country seen here.

Ben: “What is East Timor?” (1600)

1K Map:

Much of Argentina’s covered by these vast plains extending from the Atlantic coast to the foothills of the Andes.

Ben: “What are the Pampas?” (2600)

600 Map:

More than 40 inhabited islands make up the groups known as the Inner & Outer these.

Yogesh: “What are Hebrides?”

800 Festival:

Every Summer the Bayreuth Music Festival in Bavaria presents works by this composer.

Yogesh: “Who is Wagner?” (1400)

1K Festival:

Blue for Krishna is just 1 of the hues in this festival of colors on the day of the full moon.

Ben: “What is Holi?” (3600)

800 Health & Medicine:

In this early stage of periodontal disease your gums may become swollen & bleed.

Yogesh: “What is gingivitis?” (2200)

800 Khan:

Acc. to a 13th century Secret History this leader was born clutching “a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone”.

Troy: “Who is Genghis Khan?”

400 Map:

This Mediterranean capital has endured for more than 2 millennia.

Yogesh: “What is Algiers?” (2600)

600 Health & Medicine:

Jaundice can be a symptom of this liver inflammation that has 5 main viruses labeled A-E.

Troy: “What is hepatitis?” (1400)

600 Khan:

This singer lent her voice to the band Rufus in the ’70s; as a solo performer she had a hit w/ “I’m Every Woman”.

Yogesh: “Who is save me, Chaka Khan?” (3200)

600 Song of Youth:

“No regrets, just love, we can dance until we die”, sang Katy Perry who was “livin'” 1 of these, also her album title.

Troy: “What is ‘Teenage Dream’?” (2K)

1K Health & Medicine:

Most recover fully from this syndrome, GBS for short, that affects the peripheral nervous system & was named for 2 French Drs.

Ben: “What is Guillain-Barre?” (4600)

600 Festival:

An art studio called Poetic Kinetics created the ginormous floating astronaut for the 2014 edition of this SoCal music festival.

Troy: “What is Coachella?” (2600)

1K Khan:

The last answer before the recess is: the TDD in the rd.

The Aga Khans hold this title as leader of the Shiite Nizari Ismailli sect.

“What is Khalif?”…I’m afraid not- what are imams?

1K Song of Youth:

Fresh out of high school this R&B singer’s smash debut album “American Teen” had songs like “Young Dumb & Broke”.

Troy: “Who is Khalid?”

600 Crossword Clue “R”:

A spinning spit for cooking meat (10)

Yogesh: “What is rotisserie?” (3800)

1K Crossword Clue “R”:

Fishie doing a ride-along on a shark (6)

Troy: “What is a remora?” (2K)

800 Crossword Clue “R”:

The nose knows it’s inflammation of its mucous membranes (8)

Ben: “What is rhinitis?” (5400)

400 Health & Medicine:

As seen in the x-ray the patient has this sideways curvature of the spine that’s often diagnosed in adolescence.

Yogesh: “What is scoliosis?” (4200)

400 Khan:

In 2021 Lina Khan began serving as chair of this agency, FTC for short.

Troy: “What is the Federal Trade Commission?” (2400)

400 Festival:

It’s held for about 2wks each May & in 2023 awarded its Palme d’Or to “Anatomy of a Fall”.

Yogesh: “What is the Cannes Film Festival?” (4600)

400 Song of Youth:

Inspired by her bestie Tay Tay sang when “somebody tells you they love you” at this title age “you’re gonna believe them”.

Troy: “What’s…’17‘?” (2K)
Yogesh: “What is ’22’?” (4200)

TS: “15”

400 Crossword Clue “R”:

A clever trick or stratagem (4)

Yogesh: “What is ruse?” (4600)

200 Crossword Clue “R”:

What’s all this noise? (6)

Troy: “What is racket?” (2200)

200 Song of Youth:

In ’04 Natasha Bedingfield sang “Today is where your book begins, the rest is still” this title word.

Troy: “What is ‘Unwritten’?” (2400)

200 Festival:

Traditionally the lights sent aloft in Tawan’s Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival are made from this paper.

Ben: “What is rice paper?” (5600)

200 Khan:

To improve London’s natural biodiversity mayor Sadiq Khan released a family of these dam rodents into a wetland in West London.

Ben: “What are beavers?” (5800)

200 Health & Medicine:

Doing this lifesaving procedure to the beat of “Stayin’ Alive” can help keep a proper rate.

Troy: “What is CPR?” (2600)

200 Map:

Let’s look at the 2 main islands of this alliterative Caribbean country.

Troy: “What are Trinidad & Tobago?” (2800)

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 400 (Songs of Youth)

CS:
Yogesh: 4600/Troy: 2800/Ben: 5800

DJ!:
ANCIENT HISTORY
BOOKS BY REPORTERS
MEMORIALS & MONUMENTS
IT’S A FACT!
THE NAME ON THE OSCAR
ENDS IN “IX”

1600 Ancient History:

Praising the defense of democracy Pericles’ funeral oration of 431 B.C. was given for soldiers fallen in this conflict.

Ben: “What is the Peloponnesian War?” (7400)

1200 Ancient History:

In Meditations this Roman emperor reminded himself not to be irritated at other people’s bad breath: “That’s the way his mouth is.”

Troy: “Who is Marcus Aurelius?” (4K)

800 Ancient History:

Crimes punishable by death in this 282-law collection incl. robbery, false accusation & priestesses drinking w/ commoners.

Ben: “What is the Code of Hammurabi?” (8200)

2K Ancient History:

The Pyramids of Meroe in modern-day Sudan were built in the land of this 4-letter ancient kingdom.

Yogesh: “What is Kush?” (6600)

2K Name on the OSCAR:

Best Director 2014 for “Birdman” & ’15 for “The Revenant”

Ben: “Who is (Gonzalez) Inarritu?” (10,200)

1600 Books By Reporters:

This New Journalism leader wrote the novel I Am Charlotte Simmons about early 21st century college life.

Ben: “Who is (Tom) Wolfe?” (11,800)

1200 Books By Reporters:

Willard Motley wrote novels as well as Bud Billiken newspaper columns for this city’s black weekly The Defender.

Ben: “What is Chicago?” (13K)

1600 Fact:

In the U.S. a quadrillion has this many 0s.

Yogesh: “What is 12?” (5K)
Troy: “What is 15?” (5600)

1600 Memorials & Monuments:

Answer: TDD #2 for him this evening.

Dedicated to the memory of great Frenchmen it’s the final resting place of women too incl. Marie Curie & Simone Veil.

“What is the Pantheon?”…there we go.

1200 Fact:

Belize in Central America was formerly a colony called this.

Troy: “What is British Honduras?” (12,400)

2K Fact:

Stepping down in 2024 after 52yrs on the throne she had the longest reign of any Danish monarch.

Ben: “Who is Margrethe (II)?” (15K)

800 Books By Reporters:

Newspaperman Ben Hecht wrote the novel Erik Dorn & then wrote for the movies w/ this director’s “Spellbound”.

Troy: “Who is Hitchcock?” (13,200)

2K Books By Reporters:

This scribe worked the baseball beat for a NY reporter but got his potatoes w/ the story collection Guys & Dolls & whatnot.

Ben: “Who is (Damon) Runyon?” (17K)

800 Fact:

Unlike other cats this fastest 1 doesn’t have fully retractable claws.

Yogesh: “What is a cheetah?” (5800)

1600 Name on the OSCAR:

Best Supporting Actress 1973 for “Paper Moon”

Yogesh: “Who is Tatum O’Neal?” (7400)

1200 Name on the OSCAR:

Best Supporting Actor 2019 for “Once Upon a Time…in HOLLYWOOD”

Yogesh: “Who is Brad Pitt?” (8600)

800 Name on the OSCAR:

Best Picture 2019 starring Song Kang Ho & Cho Yeo Jeong

Ben: “What is ‘Parasite’?” (17,800)

2K “IX”:

It means verbose or redundant.

Yogesh: “What is prolix?” (10,600)

1600 “IX”:

This comic book hero who battled the Romans w/ his pal Obelix was introduced in 1959.

Yogesh: “Who is Asterix?” (12,200)

1200 “IX”:

Answer there: the final TDD tonight!

This town at the foot of Mont Blanc hosted the 1st Winter Olympics in 1924.

“What is Chamonix?”…yeah!

2K Memorials & Monuments:

Located on Israel’s Mount of Remembrance this memorial center commemorates the victims & the heroes of the holocaust.

Yogesh: “What is Yad Vashem?” (26,400)

1200 Memorials & Monuments:

Native American leaders want the name of this 1st U.S. natl. monument changed, saying it’s offensive & based on a mistranslation.

Yogesh: “Where is Devil’s Tower?” (27,600)

800 Memorials & Monuments:

This national monument & natural wonder attracts people from all over to Utah; the 1 for our dearly departed pets is different.

Troy: “What’s Rainbow Bridge?” (14K)

800 “IX”:

This 2-syllable word means to attach like a postscript to a letter or a label to a package.

Yogesh: “What is affix?” (28,400)

400 “IX”:

To make a new version of something like the Chemical Brothers’ adaptation of “Voodoo People” by the Prodigy.

Troy: “What’s a remix?” (14,400)

400 Name on the OSCAR:

Best Actor 2012 for “LINCOLN”

Troy: “Who is Daniel Day-Lewis?” (14,800)

400 Fact:

As of Jan. 1, 2024 California has a new state this, a golden chanterelle.

Yogesh: “What is a mushroom?” (28,800)

400 Memorials & Monuments:

A real high point of this city’s the nearly 360ft tall memorial to Jose Marti in Revolution Square.

Yogesh: “Where is Havana?” (29,200)

400 Books By Reporters:

In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he’d later find success w/ this ’45 tale about a mouselike boy.

Troy: “Who is Stuart Little?” (15,200)

400 Ancient History:

It’s thought Chinese emperor Quin Shi Huang died after ingesting this liquid element he believed would make him immortal.

Yogesh: “What is mercury?” (29,600)

PR

Pre-Final S:
Yogesh: 29,600/Troy: 15,200/Ben: 17,800

CORYAT SCORES:
Yogesh: 18,600/Troy: 13,800

FJ!: UNITED NATIONS

Of the 9 countries that have produced a U.N. Secretary-General this nation’s the only 1 from its hemisphere.

TROY: “What is Peru” (DOUBLE) = 30,400
BEN: SAME W/ A ? (12601) = 30,401
YOGESH: “WHAT WHERE PERU” = 35,601 √

“JEOPARDY!” 3/13/24

JR:
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS
VIRTUO-SO-GOOD (sorry, Deonna Purrazzo)
“BIT”TING AT THE CHAMPS
THE CLOCK & CALENDAR
REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE
SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON

1K Real Names of Unreal People:

Please, Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs is so formal! Just call the character this.

Ben: “What is The Wizard of Oz?”

800 World Capital Attractions:

St. Michael’s Orthodox Cathedral & Marshal Tito’s mausoleum

Troy: “What is Belgrade?”

600 World Capital Attractions:

Noryangjin Fish Market & Samsung’s Leeum Museum of Art

Troy: “What is Seoul?” (1400)

1K World Capital Attractions:

Answer: there it is, the DD.

Museo Botero & Plaza de Bolivar

“What is Bogota?”…that’s the 1 to double up.

400 World Capital Attractions:

The Silver Pagoda & the Memorial Stupa to thousands of victims at the former Tuoi Sieng Prison

Ben: “What is Phnom Penh?” (1400)

1K Subscribe:

Roger Ebert was just 24 when he began to light up the Chicago movie scene as the film critic for this newspaper.

Yogesh: “What is the Chicago Sun-Times?”

800 Real Names of Unreal People:

On “Gotham” Robin Lord Taylor walked the walk as this villain aka Oswald Cobblepot.

Ben: “What is the Penguin?” (2200)

800 Subscribe:

Anna Wintour had the fashion sense to become editor-in-chief of this publication in 1988.

Yogesh: “What is VOGUE?” (1800)

800 Clock & Calendar:

On the French Revolutionary calendar Dec. 21 was the 1st day of Nivose, a month named for this weather condition.

Yogesh: “What is snow?” (2600)

800 “Bit”:

“Geographic” term for an array of binary data used to create an image

Yogesh: “What is a bitmap?” (3400)

800 Virtuo-So-Good:

On the album “Songs from the Labyrinth” Sting went strings, reviving centuries-old songs from John Dowland, master of this.

Troy: “What is the lute?” (3600)

1K Virtuo-So-Good:

This composer & violin virtuoso revolutionized playing technique incl. new methods of fingering & tuning.

Troy: “Who is (Niccol0) Paganini?” (4600)

1K “Bit”:

Grossly excessive like tuition at the Ken Jennings School of Necromancy & Horticulture

Ben: “What is exorbitant?” (3200)

1K Clock & Calendar:

The Julian calendar had leap yrs- Feb. 23 lasted 48hrs & the 1st 1 was this last full yr of Julius Caesar’s life.

Troy: “What is 44 B.C.?” (3600)
Ben: “What is 45 B.C.?” (4200)

600 Subscribe:

This publication that later Rockwell & rolled was named for being printed in time to make a weekend mail delivery in Philly.

Troy: “What is the Saturday Evening Post?” (4200)

600 Virtuo-So-Good:

Like members of the Bach family Marcel Dupre was a master of this weighty instrument & wrote extensively on technique.

Yogesh: “What is the organ?” (4K)

600 Clock & Calendar:

Fittingly given its name the U.S. Navy began using this kind of time in 1920 & the Army in ’42.

Troy: “What is military time?” (4800)

200 World Capital Attractions:

The Fryderyk Chopin Museum & the Copernicus Science Center

Ben: “What is Warsaw?” (4400)

600 Real Names of Unreal People:

Robert Underdunk Terwilliger is the real name of this vengeful “SIMPSONS” character.

Troy: “Who is Sideshow Bob?” (5400)

600 “Bit”:

Every bartender needs these aromatic compounds that add flavor & complexity to cocktails.

Ben: “What are bitters?” (5K)

400 “Bit”:

A substance suppressing the activity of another; the protease type combats HIV.

Ben: “What is an inhibitor?” (5400)

400 Subscribe:

A 1957 issue of Apparel Arts Magazine had this subtitle which would eventually be shortened (or refitted?) to GQ.

Troy: “What is Gentleman’s Quarterly?” (5800)

400 Real Names of Unreal People:

Horatio Magellan are the 1st & middle names of this cereal seller & man of the sea.

Yogesh: “Who is Cap’n Crunch?” (4400)

400 Clock & Calendar:

Months on the Islamic calendar traditionally begin when this type of moon’s sighted in the western sky.

Troy: “What’s a full moon?” (5400)
Ben: “What is a new moon?” (5K)

TS: Crescent

400 Virtuo-So-Good:

Improvising woodwind virtuoso Eric Dolphy was a pioneer in the genre known as free this.

Ben: “What is jazz?” (5400)

200 Virtuo-So-Good:

Hector Berlioz mastered this 6-string instrument but said the sound of a dozen of ’em playing in unison “is almost absurd”.

Troy: “What is the guitar?” (5600)

200 Clock & Calendar:

An impatient Mandarin speaker might tap his wrist & say “di da” where an American would say this.

Yogesh: “What is tick-tock?” (4600)

200 “Bit”:

To live together as if married, even if not

Ben: “What is cohabiting?” (5600)

200 Real Names of Unreal People:

Archie‘s pal Forsythe P. Jones III went by this unflattering name.

Troy: “What is Jughead?” (5800)

200 Subscribe:

A 1992 Pulitzer went to the Morning News of this city for its reporting on extensive misconduct by Texas police.

Yogesh: “What is Dallas?” (4800)

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 400 (Clock & Calendar)

CS:
Yogesh: 4800/Troy: 5800/Ben: 5600

DJ!:
“H” IS FOR HISTORY
OFFICIAL STATE STUFF
17th CENTURY WRITING
SKY & SEA
SINGERS
DIACRITICAL THINKING

1600 Singer:

This singer’s “Dance the Night” appeared in “Barbie”; she also made an appearance in the movie as a mermaid.

Troy: “Who is Dua Lipa?” (7400)

1600 “H”:

What’s known as this New England city’s Convention was spurred by dissatisfaction in the War of 1812.

Ben: “What is Hartford?” (7200)

1200 “H”:

It’s the term for the migration of Muhammad & his followers to Medina before Mecca’s fall in the yr 630.

Yogesh: “What is the Hijrah?” (6K)

2K “H”:

The “March of the 10,000” involved the heavily armored Greek soldiers known by this name trapped behind enemy lines.

Yogesh: “What are Hoplites?” (8K)

2K Singer:

Michelle Zauner, lead vocalist of this band, named it for a meal that might incl. tamago kake gohan (rice mixed w/ raw egg).

Troy: “What is Japanese Breakfast?” (9400)

1600 17th Century Writing:

Loving a good sequel like the rest of us this author completed The Pilgrim’s Progress Part 2 around 1684.

Yogesh: “Who is Bunyan?” (9600)

1200 Sky & Sea:

At the beach beware of riptides, rip currents & this which despite its name won’t drag you offshore into deep water.

Yogesh: X (8400)

TS: Undertow

1600 Sky & Sea:

Bioaerosols are microbes that flourish in this innermost part of the atmosphere.

Troy: “What is the troposphere?” (11K)

800 “H”:

“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” was perhaps sung by citizens of these ramshackle areas named for a Depression-era Prez.

Yogesh: “Who are Hoovervilles?” (9200)

1200 17th Century Writing:

Answer: the 2nd TDD of the night.

In his 1624 history of Virginia & New England he incl. the famous story of his rescue.

“Oh, I don’t know, I’ll just guess a random name; um, who is, uh, John Smith?”…he was kidding, IMO!

1200 Diacritical Thinking:

This mark under the C in soupcon (a little bit) softens that sound & makes things much classier than saying “soup-con”.

Troy: “What is a cedilla?” (12,200)

1600 Official State Stuff:

Alaska’s state gem is this green 1, a historically important crafting item to the Inupiaq.

Troy: “What is jade?” (13,800)

1200 Official State Stuff:

Oregon’s state fish is this type of salmon, also a name for a wind blowing in the Rockies (as well as a camper co.).

Troy: “What is chinook?” (15K)

2K Official State Stuff:

From Boulder to Pueblo Colorado residents celebrate this as their state flower.

Troy: “What is the columbine?” (17K)

1600 Biocritical Thinking:

I’m getting a sense of deja vu; I feel like I’ve said its l’accent grave over the A & l’accent this over the E, like, a second ago.

Troy: “What is aigu?” (18,600)

2K Sky & Sea:

The Arabic for “wind” gives us this 2-syllable word for a Sudanese wind producing violent sandstorms.

Troy: “What is haboob?” (20,600)

2K Biocritical Thinking:

Umlaut is a German word; this for the 2 dots as in Zoe to show a vowel is in a separate syllable & comes from Greek.

Ben: “What is diaeresis?” (9200)

1200 Singer:

In 1999 she had a hit w/ “Candy” & would later get to sing as the voice of Rapunzel in “Tangled”.

Troy: “Who is Mandy Moore?” (21,800)

800 Official State Stuff:

Answer there: yet another TDD!

Arizona’s state fossil is this tree product; Arizona’s also home to a forest full of it.

“What is petrified wood?”…bam!

2K 17th Century Writing:

In “To Althea, From Prison” poet Richard Lovelace wrote “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars” 1 of these.

Troy: “What’s a cage?” (45,600)

800 17th Century Writing:

As you see there are geese in France but Jean La Fontain’s book of fables incl. the hen that laid these valuables.

Troy: “What are golden eyes?” (46,400)

800 Sky & Sea:

The EPA gives us the AQI, short for this index, which goes from “good” to “hazardous”.

Ben: “What’s air quality index?” (10K)

800 Diacritical Thinking:

In Hawaiian the single open quote mark called the ‘okina is a this stop, a sound made by opening & closing a certain body part.

Yogesh: “What is a glottal stop?” (19,200)

400 Diacritical Thinking:

To be fully correct in this language you have to put a little hook over the R in the name of its native speaker Antonin Dvorak.

Yogesh: “What is Czech?” (19,600)

800 Singer:

This Spanish singer w/ a flamenco background has hits like “Malamente” & “Con Altura”, a collab w/ J. Balvin.

Troy: “Who is Rosalia?” (47,200)

400 “H”:

The period of time from March to July of 1815 when Napoleon escaped Elba & ran wild in France was known as this.

Yogesh: “What is the Hundred Days?” (20K)

400 Official State Stuff:

Connecticut likes this burly beast as its state animal; Mocha Dick was a notorious 19th century 1.

Yogesh: “What’s a whale? A sperm whale?” (20,400)

400 17th Century Writing:

In his 1st speech in Paradise Lost he said let’s not rebel against 1 prohibition- we have pruning to do!

Yogesh: “Who is, uh, Satan?” (20K)
Troy: “Who is Beelzebub?” (46,800)

TS #2: Adam

400 Sky & Sea:

Not always circular this type of coral reef encloses a lagoon.

Yogesh: “What is an atoll?” (20,400)

400 Singer:

This singer’s 2023 NY Times obituary said her biggest hit was “a breathtaking rendition of…’Nothing Compares 2 U'”.

Ben: “Who is Sinead O’Connor?” (10,400)

ATTEMPTED DJ! LT: 1600

Pre-Final S:
Yogesh: 20,400/Troy: 46,800/Ben: 10,400

CORYAT SCORES:
Yogesh: 12,400/Troy: 25,400

FJ!: BOOKS OF THE BIBLE

This book was named for a tribe of Israel that carried out judgement of the idolaters of the golden calf.

BEN: “What is Leviticus?” (0)
YOGESH: “WHAT LEVITICUS” = 40,800
TROY: TRIPLE-GET (0) √

“JEOPARDY!” 3/12/24

JR:
FROM THE NEWSPAPERS
INVESTING & BUSINESS TERMS
1-WORD BEATLES SONG TITLES
SOUP’S ON
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS
LITERARY TITLE ADJECTIVES

600 Investing & Business Terms:

For a sales team the # of contracts signed per quarter might be 1 of these indicators, KPI for short.

Ben: “What is a key performance indicator?”

800 Literary Title Adjective:

A Tony winner by Larry Kramer: “The ____ Heart”

Tory: “What is ‘Normal’?”

800 Newspapers:

From Sept. 1933: “Nazi dominance…astounding to visitors”; this republic “irretrievably buried”.

Troy: “What is Weimar?” (1600)

1K Newspapers:

Answer: DD.

In 1921: “Italian radicals make issue of” this pair’s case.

“Who are (Nicola) Sacco & (Bartolomeo) Vanzetti?”…right for the doubler.

800 Investing & Business Terms:

A military order that keeps troops in the service, in investing it orders a broker to sell if a stock price falls to a certain point.

Troy: “What’s a stop?” (2400)
Ben: “What is a stop-loss?” (1400)

1K Soup:

This alliterative soup made w/ tripe is historically a symbol of Philadelphia.

TS: Pepper pot

800 Soup:

This Vietnamese soup has its own national day in its homeland- Dec. 12.

Ben: “What is pho?” (2200)

1K Idioms & Expressions:

The version w/ “pipe” is later this original phrase for something headed your way from the type of road seen here.

Ben: “What is (coming) down the pike?” (3200)

1K Literary Title Adjective:

An Ionesco absurdity: “The ___ Soprano”

Troy: “What is ‘Bald’?” (3400)

600 Literary Title Adjective:

A 1924 short story: The Most _______ Game

Ben: “What is Dangerous?” (by Richard Connell)(3800)

1K Investing & Business Terms:

The VIX, short for this, is a predictor of how fast stock market prices change.

Ben: “What is volatility index?” (4800)

800 Idioms & Expressions:

This expression meaning you have to suffer to advance was used in the 17th century in plural form by Robert Herrick.

TS #2: No pains, no gains

600 Soup:

Vichyssoise, made w/ a base of potatoes & this onion relative, was said to date back to 1917 at the Ritz-Carlton.

Troy: “What is leek?” (4K)

600 1-Word Beatles Song Title:

Chicagoans Marian & Fraser Robinson were seen in ’64 w/ son Craig & this daughter.

Troy: “Who is ‘Michelle’ (Obama)?” (4600)

600 Newspapers:

1963: this civil rights leader “survived the Normandy invasion but died of an assassin’s bullet in Mississippi”.

Ben: “Who is (Medgar) Evers?” (5400)

600 Idioms & Expressions:

2021 called & wants this phrase back that means evaluating someone’s mood or energy.

TS #3: Vibe check

400 Literary Title Adjective:

3rd in a series: Rabbit is ___

Troy: “What is Rich?” (by John Updike)(5K)

400 Newspapers:

Dec. 27, 2007: this “Pakistani leader killed in suicide attack”.

Yogesh: “What is Benazir Bhutto?”

1K 1-Word Beatles Song Title:

In Winter the red-winged variety can congregate in flocks of several million.

Yogesh: “What is ‘Blackbird’?” (1400)

800 1-Word Beatles Song Title:

A “Glorious” 1 occurred in England in 1688 when 1 monarch was replaced w/ a pair.

Troy: “What is ‘Revolution’?” (5800)

400 Investing & Business Terms:

A part of profits paid to shareholders the scrip type’s basically a promissory note.

Yogesh: “What is a dividend?” (1800)

400 1-Word Beatles Song Title:

As Apr. 15 approaches count on seeing the jocular phrase this person “cometh”.

Yogesh: “What is the ‘Taxman’?” (2200)

400 Soup:

New England clam chowder uses cream while this other geographical clam chowder uses tomatoes.

Yogesh: “What is Manhattan clam chowder?” (2600)

400 Idioms & Expressions:

A principle based on experience or practice gave rise to this 3-word phrase mentioning a part of the hand.

Yogesh: “What is a rule of thumb?” (3K)

200 Literary Title Adjective:

A Jane Eyre prequel: ___ Sargasso Sea

Yogesh: “What is Wide?” (by Jean Rhys)(3200)

200 Idioms & Expressions:

Legally it means so visible the cops didn’t have to search to find it; something obvious is “hiding” there.

Ben: “What is in plain slight?” (5600)

200 Newspapers:

A subhead from 1929: “Istanbul, not found in recent atlases, has replaced” this old name.

Ben: “What is ‘Constantinople’?” (5800)

200 Investing & Business Terms:

The difference between total assets & liabilities is this “worth”.

Yogesh: “What is net worth?” (3400)

200 1-Word Song Title:

This word can precede cake or suit.

Yogesh: “What is ‘Birthday’?” (3600)

200 Soup:

The name of caldo verde, a hearty Portuguese soup, means this color broth.

Ben: “What is green?” (6K)

LT: 2400

CS:
Yogesh: 3600/Troy: 5800/Ben: 6K

BTW, Ben’s sister Christine was on the 1st season of “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”.

DJ!:
PLAIN GEOGRAPHY
PROSE & CONGRESS
UNMANNED SPACE EXPLORATION
THE KNIGHTLY NEWS
WHO’S THE BIOPIC SUBJECT?
STARTS W/ “P”

1600 Knightly News:

An equestrian knight’s the longtime logo of this British brand known for its trench coats.

Ben: “What is Burberry?” (7600)

1600 Plain Geography:

Covering around 300 square miles in Wiltshire County, England this plain’s known for its monuments incl. Stonehenge.

Ben: “What is Salisbury?” (9200)

1200 Plain Geography:

Ian Frazier’s travel journal Great Plains culminated in Montana at this kind of non-agricultural silo.

Yogesh: “What is a missile silo?” (acceptable for a nuclear silo)(4800)

1600 Biopic Subject:

“Funny Girl”

Yogesh: “Who is (Fanny) Brice?” (6400)

1200 Biopic Subject:

“American Sniper”

Yogesh: “Who is (Chris) Kyle?” (7600)

2K Biopic Subject:

“A Man for All Seasons”

Yogesh: “Who is Thomas More?” (9600)

2K Knightly News:

Jacques de Molay was the last grandmaster of this religious military order founded in the 1100s.

Ben: “Who are…the Knights Malta?” (7200)
Troy: “Who are the Knights Templar?” (7800)

2K Plain Geography:

3Kyrs ago Mexico’s Tabasco Plain was part of the trading network of these people & later the home of the Maya.

Ben: “Who are the Olmecs?” (9200)

1200 Prose & Congress:

JFK won a Pulitzer for this book detailing the lives of 8 fearless political leaders.

Troy: “What are Profiles in Courage?” (9K)

1600 Prose & Congress:

The answer there is: another TDD.

In 2011 this senator published his The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed & the Decline of Our Middle Class.

“Who is Bernie Sanders?”…yes, sir! 

800 Plain Geography:

This Tanzanian plain’s home to the biggest mammal migrations on Earth.

Troy: “What is the Serengeti?” (18,800)

1200 Unmanned Space Exploration:

On Jul. 4, 2005 Deep Impact slammed a probe into Tempel 1, 1 of these, creating a giant crater & a brilliant flash of light.

Troy: “What is a comet?” (20K)

1600 Unmanned Space Exploration:

The New Horizons spacecraft discovered the surface of this largest moon of Pluto was mostly dirty water ice.

Yogesh: “What is Charon?” (11,200)

2K Unmanned Space Exploration:

The Dawn spacecraft found a peak of over 12 miles high when it reached this 2nd-largest object in the asteroid belt (after Ceres).

Yogesh: “What is Pallas?” (9200)
Troy: “What is Vesta?” (22K)

1200 Knightly News:

This “colorful” poem dated to the 14th century & incl. the main character being tempted by a lord’s wife.

Yogesh: “What is ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’? ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’?” (8K)
Troy: “What is ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’?” (23,200)

However, they later find out Yogesh did correct himself in time, so he’s up to 10,400.

800 Knightly News:

Odds are you know this team led the NHL’s Western Conference in points w/ 111 in the 2022-23 season.

Ben: “Who are the Golden Knights?” (10K)

1200 “P”:

A fun color “hiding” in the bottom layer of hair’s known as this, named like a game played w/ an infant.

Yogesh: “What is peekaboo?” (11,600)

1600 “P”:

It’s a line of steep bluffs like the cliffs along part of the western shore of the Hudson River (& also the name of a Hyundai SUV).

Troy: “What is a palisade?” (24,800)

2K “P”:

Answer there: DD #2– this 6K clue could ice it for him.

Part of this word for a long rambling journey nearly spells out a type of falcon.

“What is a peregrine?”…unacceptable- what is peregrination?

2K Prose & Congress:

He won an NAACP Image Award for his autobiography Across That Bridge.

Yogesh: “Who is (John) Lewis?” (13,600)

800 “P”:

Also known as the caveman diet it’s a shortened word for a diet emphasizing lean meats & veggies.

Yogesh: “What is paleo?” (14,400)

800 Biopic Subject:

“Gorillas in the Mist”

Yogesh: “Who is (Dian) Fossey?” (15,200)

800 Unmanned Space Exploration:

In the 1990s this spacecraft named for a Portuguese explorer mapped almost the entire surface of Venus.

Troy: “What is Magellan?” (19,600)

800 Prose & Congress:

Her memoir The Senator Next Door was appropriately published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Troy: “Who is Amy Klobuchar?” (20,400)

400 Plain Geography:

The Song of Solomon spoke of the “Rose of” this coastal plain between Mount Carmel & Tel Aviv.

Troy: “What is Sharon?” (20,800)

400 Prose & Congress:

In Life on the Run Bill Bradley talked about his pre-Senate life playing on this NBA team.

Ben: “Who are the New York Knicks?” (10,400)

400 Knightly News:

This holy object has been sought by knights in ancient legend & much more recently by Graham Chapman.

Troy: “What is the Holy Grail?” (21,200)

400 Unmanned Space Exploration:

In 1997 Pathfinder parachuted onto Mars & cushioned its land w/ these, also a safety feature in your Buick.

Yogesh: “What are airbags?” (15,600)

400 Biopic Subject:

“First Man”

Troy: “Who is Neil Armstrong?” (21,600)

400 “P”:

It’s a long hooded jacket; Patagonia sells a nano puff 1.

Ben: “What’s a poncho?” (10K)
Troy: “What is a parka?” (22K)

Pre-Final S:
Yogesh: 15,600/Troy: 22K/Ben: 10K
TROY’S CORYAT: 20K

FJ!: WORLD THEATER

This 1867 play had a reindeer hunt & a king dwelling in snowy mountains but its title character also spent time in Morocco & Egypt.

BEN: “What is ‘Peer Gynt’?” (by Henrik Ibsen)(5601)= 15,601
YOGESH: “WHAT ‘PEER GYNT’ I FOR oNe welcome our new Troy overlord” (0)
TROY: “What is ‘Hedda Gabler’?” = 12,799 (Ben: √)

“JEOPARDY!” 3/11/24

JR:
RENAISSANCE WOMEN
DOWN IN THE VALLEY
ON WHEELS
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
DEALING W/ TV REALITY
ENIGMATIC ANAGRAMS

1K On Wheels:

Made w/o brakes track bicycles are designed for this type of building & here they’re going around inside 1.

Brian: “What is a velodrome?” 

600 TV Reality:

Jennifer Lawrence said she’d give her OSCAR to Heather Gay, Monica Garcia & “The Real Housewives of” here for that season finale this yr.

TS: “Salt Lake City”

800 TV Reality:

From 2012-20 Dave Navarro hosted this series that had eps. like “Drill Baby, Drill!”.

Brian: “What is ‘Black Gold’?” (200)

TS #2

800 On Wheels:

The 1911 Curtiss triad was the 1st plane to have retractable this like modern planes.

Luigi: “What is landing gear?”

1K Down in the Valley:

During the Civil War North & South battled for control of this fertile valley that extends southwest from Harpers Ferry.

Luigi: “What is the Shenandoah?” (1800)

800 Down in the Valley:

Shared by 2 countries the Valley of Cerdanya lies just east of Andorra high in these mountains.

Luigi: “What are the Pyrenees?” (2600)

600 Down in the Valley:

The answer is: the TDD.

You’ll find this Scots word for a valley before “Eagles”, “Mor” & “Coe” among many others.

“What is Glen?”…that’s it.

1K Resistance:

Readers again couldn’t resist Stephanie Meyer, working hrs after twilight w/ this 2020 bestseller told from the vampire’s POV.

TS #3: Midnight Sun

800 Resistance:

1938’s Munich agreement basically had France’s premier & this world leader leaving the Czech defenseless against Hitler.

Luigi: “Who is Neville Chamberlain?” (6K)

600 On Wheels:

The Cozy Coupe’s a classic from this co. whose 2-word name refers to its young customers.

Luigi: “What is Little Tikes?” (6600)

600 Resistance:

Just try to resist the cuteness of the Pomsky, a hybrid of these 2 dog breeds.

Luigi: “What are a Pomeranian & a Husky?” (7200)

200 Renaissance Woman:

In her 30s & already queen Isabella of Castile decided to learn this language of Renaissance scholarship.

Luigi: “What is Latin?” (7400)

1K Renaissance Woman:

Isotta Nogarola was often said to have been the 1st major female figure of this people-centric intellectual “-ism”.

Troy: “What is humanism?” 

800 Renaissance Woman:

Victor Hugo’s play about this woman popularized her image as a poisoner though there was no real evidence she was 1.

Luigi: “Who is Lucrezia Borgia?” (8200)

600 Renaissance Woman:

Sofonisba Anguissola depicted herself as a working artist in “Self-portrait at” this supporting frame.

Luigi: “What is ‘the easel’?” (8800)

400 Resistance:

This canvas overgarment will make you keep your hands to yourself but 1 used by Houdini sold for nearly $50K in 2011.

Brian: “What is a straitjacket?” (600)

1K TV Reality:

Pod save us! Lydia saw through the premise of this dating show by recognizing the voice of Uche, an ex.

Luigi: “What is “Love is Blind’?” (9800)

400 Renaissance Woman:

A contemporary described Isabella d’Este as the this “of the world” though she was the wife of a marquess, not a president.

Luigi: “What is the 1st lady?” (10,200)

400 Down in the Valley:

The “Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes” in this U.S. state was created by a gigantic volcanic eruption in 1912.

Brian: “What is Wyoming?” (200)
Troy: “What is Alaska?” (1400)

200 Down in the Valley:

The flooding of this country’s Nubian Valley in the 1960s led to an international effort to move the temples of Abu Simbel.

Luigi: “What is Egypt?” (10,400)

400 On Wheels:

The wheels on this hippie-mobile went round & round like on the 1 George Carlin voiced in “Cars”.

Luigi: “What is (Volkswagen) VW Microbus?” (10,800)

200 On Wheels:

The Maverick & GMC Sierra are this popular type of vehicle.

Brian: “What are pickup trucks?” (400)

200 Anagram:

A mind puzzle: Dr. Deli

Brian: “What is a riddle?” (600)

400 Anagram:

It’s deceptive: Bust refuge

Troy: “What is subterfuge?” (1800)

600 Anagram:

Like that “object of desire”: Eco rubs

Brian: X 
Troy: “What is obscure?” (2400)

800 Anagram:

Not clear: I am bogus- U?

Brian: “What is ambiguous?”

1K Anagram:

Adjective for specialized knowledge: So recite

TS #4: Esoteric

400 TV Reality:

Oh the Scandoval! Let’s say Ariana didn’t wish Tom well after he cheated on her w/ Raquel on this show that debuted in ’13.

Luigi: “What is ‘The BACHELOR’?” (10,400)

TS #5: “Vanderpump Rules”

200 TV Reality:

This NETFLIX show “The Challenge” used bits based on this drama series but w/ 1 important difference: players didn’t really die.

Brian: “What is ‘Squid Game’?” (1K)

200 Resistance:

When it’s time for right hand red but your left foot’s on green & a player’s in your way you’re about to hit vinyl & lose this game.

Luigi: “What is Twister?” (10,600)

ATTEMPTED LT: 1200 (2nd & 4th Dealing W/ TV Reality clues)
UNATTEMPTED LT: 2600
TOTAL LT: 3800

CS:
Luigi: 10,600/Troy: 2400/Brian: 1K

DJ!:
CIVIL WAR
BEHIND THE MUSIC
NATURE
IT’S CURTAINS
WORLD OF LIT
“AI”

2K Behind the Music:

The Beatles were just 1 of many artists w/ whom this legendary English producer crafted hit after hit.

Brian: “Who is Brian Epstein?” (-1K)
Troy: “Who is George Martin?” (4400)

1600 Civil War:

Patented in 1862 this new weapon of war feat. multiple barrels rotated by a crank.

Luigi: “What is a Gatling gun?” (12,200)

2K Civil War:

The last battlefield death of the war was Union Pvt. John Williams who was killed at Palmito Ranch in this state in May 1865.

Brian: “What is Texas?” (1K)

1600 Behind the Music:

A ’08 documentary told the story of the legendary group of L.A. studio musicians known by this destructive nickname.

Brian: “What is the Wrecking Crew?” (2600)

1200 Behind the Music:

The many Grammys of this legendary musician & producer incl. Best R&B Song for “Cuff It” in 2023.

Troy: “Who is Nile Rodgers?” (5600)

1200 Civil War:

In 1863 John Esten Cooke rushed into print w/ a biography of this Confederate general killed in May of that yr.

Troy: “Who is Stonewall Jackson?” (6800)

800 Civil War:

Answer: there it is, the 2nd TDD of this game.

When the war started this future general was helping drill a volunteer company in Galena, IL.

“Who is Grant?”…got him to take the lead.

1600 Lit:

In Hermann Hesse’s futuristic final novel Josef Knecht had long been consumed w/ mastering this title competition.

Troy: “What is The Glass Bead Game?” (15,200)

2K Lit:

The short story collection Face to Face was the 1st book by this South African woman who won a 1991 Nobel prize.

Troy: “Who is Nadine Gordimer?” (17,200)

1200 Lit:

Following the publication of this controversial 1988 novel the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie.

Luigi: “What is The Satanic Verses?” (13,400)

1200 Nature:

Ecdysis is another name for this process by which certain animals such as snakes shed their skin.

Luigi: “What is molting?” (14,600)

1600 Nature:

Found in bodies of water & other moist environments these single-celled algae have celler walls made of silica.

Troy: “What are diatoms?” (18,800)

2K Nature:

Also called a scaly anteater this exotic animal of Africa & Asia is sadly among the most trafficked mammals in the world.

Luigi: “What is a pangolin?” (16,600)

800 Nature:

Talk about going the distance! The arctic type of this bird has the longest annual migration of any, a round trip of up to 60K miles.

Brian: “What’s a penguin?” (1800)
Luigi: “What is the tern?” (17,400)

1200 Curtains:

Thinking it was Claudius Hamlet took his word & pierced through a curtain, killing this father of Ophelia.

Troy: “Who is Polonius?” (20K)

1600 Curtains:

In 1972 at the Met this Italian opera singer, later 1 of the Three Tenors, received 17 curtain calls.

Troy: “Who is Pavarotti?” (21,600)

2K Curtains:

Her 1st short story collection A Curtain of Green contained her most famous story “Why I Live at the P.O.”.

Troy: “Who is (Eudora) Welty?” (23,600)

800 Lit:

He served several yrs of hard labor in Siberia before writing about someone else’s Crime and Punishment.

Luigi: “Who is (Fyodor) Dostoevsky?” (18,200)

1200 “AI”:

A wagon or cart like the 1 for carrying “Hay” in a painting by John Constable

Brian: “What is a wain?” (3K)

1600 “AI”:

Heads up! It’s this South American cousin of the crocodile.

Troy: “What is a caiman?” (25,200)

800 Curtains:

Tiffany made a curtain of glass feat. the peaks of Itzaccihuati & Popocatepli for this capital’s national theater.

Brian: “What is Mexico City?” (3800)

800 Behind the Music:

Before he was infamous Phil Spector was famous for this elaborate production style of many ’60s hits.

Brian: “What is the Wall of Sound?” (4600)

400 Behind the Music:

Jackson Browne’s “The Load-Out” was a thank you to these folks who move & set up equip.- “Let” ’em “Take the Stage”.

Troy: “What are ‘Roadies’?” (25,600)

2K “AI”:

Answer: DD #2– surprisingly, he’s only wagering face value.

A contemporary of Buddha Mahavira was revered as a leader & organizer of this religion.

“What is Jainism?”…he might be regretting that lowball bet because he’s right once more.

800 “AI”:

In Connecticut this program’s called Husky Health; in Oklahoma it’s Soonercare.

Brian: “What is Medicaid?” (5400)

400 “AI”:

In England & other parts of Europe corn’s commonly referred to by this name borrowed from Spain.

Troy: “What is maize?” (28K)

400 Lit:

This commander of the Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea also appeared in The Mysterious Island.

Troy: “Who is Nemo?” (28,400)

400 Curtains:

While Europe had its Iron Curtain this curtain was a political barrier between China & the noncommunist countries of Asia.

Luigi: “What is the Bamboo Curtain?” (18,600)

400 Civil War:

3-letter last name of Johnny, a symbol of the typical southern soldier; in a 1905 book by a war veteran he was paired w/ Billy Yank.

Brian: “Who is Reb?” (5800)

400 Nature:

Seen here’s a lovely 1 of these hollow earth-like rocks lined w/ crystals of pink amethyst.

Brian: “What is a geode?” (6200)

PR

Pre-Final S:
Luigi: 18,600/Troy: 28,400/Brian: 6200 (OUT)

CORYAT SCORES:
Luigi: 16,600/Troy: 22,400

FJ!: WORD ORIGINS

A radical in an 1833 failed uprising in Germany Ludwig von Rochau coined this term for acts taken for practical reasons, not ethics.

BRIAN: NOTHING BUT I LOVE YOUS TO SEVERAL PEOPLE = 5
LUIGI: “WHAT IS PRAGMATISM?” (18,599) = 1
TROY: “What is pragmatic” (Correct: What is Realpolitik?) = 19,599

“JEOPARDY!” 3/8/24

JR:
LITERARY AWARDS
SUFFIXES
LEFTOVERS
WE’RE GOIN’ TO BROADWAY!
PAPER
TRAIL

600 Literary Awards:

Octavia Butler got the inaugural Infinity Award by the Science Fiction & Writers Association at these star-studded awards.

Emily: “What are the Nebula Awards?”

600 Leftover:

Partly from Greek for “horse” it was an oval track for horse & chariot races in ancient Greece.

Emily: “What is the hippodrome?” (1200)

800 Leftover:

In 2011 this country replaced its solid green flag w/ 1 feat. red, black & green stripes.

David: “What is Libya?”

1K Leftover:

This book about Natty Bumppo’s youth was chronologically 1st of the Leatherstocking Tales but was written last.

David: “What’s Last of the Mohicans?” (-200)

TS: The Deerslayer

800 Literary Awards:

This 18th century publisher who helped usher Mother Goose into the world was the namesake of a lauded medal.

Emily: “Who is (John) Newbery?” (2K)

1K Literary Award:

The Hugo Award wasn’t named after Victor Hugo but this Hugo who founded the sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories.

Yogesh: “Who is Luxembourg’s Hugo Gernsback?”

800 Broadway:

This actor could’ve been a contender for the busiest 1946- he was in at least 4 shows incl. “Candida” as Eugene.

David: “Who is Brando?” (600)

600 Paper:

This French-named arts & crafts material is repulped paper mixed w/ glue that’s used to mold masks & toys.

Emily: “What is papier-mache?” (2600)

800 Paper:

Some cardboard goes through this process w/ a name from the Latin for “wrinkle”.

Yogesh: “What is corrugation?” (1800)

1K Paper:

Collectors love prints made on this type of photographic paper from the 19th century named for the egg whites used to treat it.

David: “What’s tempera?” (-400)

TS #2: Albumen

800 Trail:

On this 1 the TDD’s there.

Surname of settler John who blazed a trail to Montana & left his name on a city there.

“Who was, uh..Bozeman?”…he was it, Yogesh.

1K Suffix:

This 4-letter suffix goes on words for types of medical exams or on Beatrix Potter rabbits.

TS #3: -opsy

800 Suffix:

The -ary suffix often means “place of” as in this type of place.

Emily: “What is a dispensary?” (3400)

600 Suffix:

As early as 1973 this suffix from a D.C. building was tacked onto “wine” to describe a scandal involving fake Bourdeaux.

Emily: “What is gate from Watergate?” (4K)

600 Trail:

A trail that runs some 3100 miles from Canada to Mexico was named for this demarcation that splits North America into 2.

David: “What is the Continental Divide?” (200)

HS:
David: 200/Yogesh: 3600/Emily: 4K

ATTEMPTED LT: 2K
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: 1K (Suffixes)
TOTAL LT: 3K

CS:
David: 600/Yogesh: 7400/Emily: 5600

DJ!:
MIDDLE AGES
13-LETTER WORDS
SHADES OF BLUE
SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR
FILM BROS
150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y

1600 South of the Equator:

Ready for some golf? Head to this very remote south Atlantic island & its 9-hole Longwood golf course.

David: “What is Saint Helen?” (2200)

2K South of the Equator:

New Britain’s the largest island in this German-named archipelago in the Southwest Pacific.

Yogesh: “What is the Bismarck Archipelago?” (9400)

1600 Film Bros:

Nicolas Cage got 1 OSCAR nomination for 2 roles when he played brothers Charlie & Donald Kaufman in this ’02 film.

Yogesh: “What is ‘Adaptation’?” (11K)

2K Film Bros:

In “The Kissing Booth” Elle Evans may have been best friends w/ Lee but got her smooch on w/ his bro Noah, played by this actor.

Yogesh: “Who is (Jacob) Elordi?” (13K)

2K Shade of Blue:

In 1999 Pantone named this peaceful 8-letter shade of sky blue its 1st Color of the Yr & of the Millennium.

Emily: “What is cerulean?” (7600)

1600 Shade of Blue:

Time now for TDD #2 tonight.

In his “Great Waves” print Hokusai used this imported blue pigment 1st made in Germany.

“What is cobalt?”…also a former Chevrolet, it is not- what is Prussian?

2K 13-Letter Word:

The International Museum for this in Maine has exhibits on Bigfoot & the Loch Ness Monster.

Emily: “What is…ichthyology?”
Yogesh: “What is cryptozoology?” (15K)

1600 Middle Ages:

The Lombard League, an alliance of Italian cities, was founded in 1167 to defend against this red-bearded holy Roman emperor.

David: “Who is Barbarossa?” (3800)

2K Middle Ages:

Not Peter the Apostle nor Peter the Great but this preacher led the People’s Crusade in filthy garments & riding a donkey.

Yogesh: “Who is Peter the Hermit?” (17K)

1600 13-Letter Word:

If you register a domain name solely w/ the intention of selling it for profit, sit down, you’re this type of intruder.

David: “What’s a squatter?” (2200)
Emily: “What is a cybersquatter?” (-400)

1200 13-Letter Word:

It’s another name for a Bachelor’s degree.

Emily: “What is a baccalaureate?” (800)

1600 92nd Street Y:

In ’48 this actor-singer of Caribbean heritage made his off-Broadway debut at the Y in a play about Sojourner Truth.

Yogesh: “Who is Belafonte?” (18,600)

2K 92nd Street Y:

“Revelations”, a signature work this choreographer set to spirituals, had its world premiere at the Y in ’60.

Emily: “Who is Alvin Alley?” (2800)

1200 92nd Street Y:

The answer there’s the final TDD of the wk.

In his U.S. reading debut in Jun. ’66 this S. Amer. poet said his country was in full Winter but his welcome was like Spring.

“Who is (Pablo) Neruda?”…success.

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 800 (Middle Ages)
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: 1200 (Shades of Blue)

Pre-Final S:
David: 6200/Yogesh: 21,400 (LOCK)/Emily: 6800

CORYAT SCORES:
Yogesh: 20,400/Emily: 12,800

FJ!: LITERATURE & RELIGION

This city now in Turkey’s the addressee of 1 of the New Testament epistles & the setting for The Comedy of Errors.

DAVID: “What is Corinth?” = 2479
EMILY: AGREED (NADA)
YOGESH: “WHAT EPHESUS Your Bracelet was my lucky charm, Emily” (ZILCH)

“JEOPARDY!” 3/7/24

JR:
GETTING HISTORICAL
BOOKS BY CHARACTERS
SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY
UNUSUAL NICKNAMES
THE MATERIAL WORLD
BEFORE & AFTER

600 Book By Characters:

In a children’s book, Stanley Yelnats & Zero.

Ben: “What is Holes?” (by Louis Sachar)

800 Book By Characters:

Sethe & Baby Suggs

Ben: “What is…Beloved?” (by Toni Morrison)(1400)

1K Book By Characters:

Squealer & Old Major

Jared: “What’s Animal Farm?”

600 Historical:

A 1493 papal decision split the New World between these 2 nations, or so they thought.

Ben: “What’s Spain & Portugal?” (2K)

800 Historical:

Calling himself an admiral in a bit of self-promotion, in 1853 he sailed 4 warships into the harbor of Uraga & refused to leave.

TS: Commodore Matthew Perry

1K Historical:

Wahunsenacawh was another name of the man the Jamestown columnists called this like the people he led.

Ike: “Who is John Smith?”
Ben: “Who is Powhatan?” (3K)

800 Material World:

Doors on ancient Greek temples were often fitted w/ girls made of this alloy of copper tin.

Jared: “What is bronze?” (1800)

600 Material World:

The answer’s the TDD.

This hard black wood from trees of the diospyros genus shares its name w/ a magazine founded in 1945.

“What is ebony?”…correct.

1K Material World:

This fabric w/ a raised design got its name from a word for “twisted thread”.

TS #2: Brocade

600 Sports Mascot History:

In ’79 Youppi! suited up for this MLB squad prior to moving across town (& sports leagues) to the Canadiens.

Jared: “Who are the Montreal Expos?” (4200)

800 Sports Mascot History:

This NFL team noets mascot Captain Fear lamented his lost ship, but friends, it was found & rebuilt at Raymond James Stadium!

Ike: “Who are the Buccaneers?” (-200)

400 Historical:

To defend against missiles Roman legions linked shields in a formation called the testudo, Latin for this land animal.

Ike: “What is a turtle?” (200)

1K Sports Mascot History:

Since the 1990s Fred the Red has been a devil indeed for this team from the north of England.

Ben: “What is Man U?” (4K)

1K Before & After:

Siam-set musical adaptation of Asimov’s book about machines that follow 3 laws.

Ben: “What’s The King and I, Robot?” (5K)

800 Before & After:

Nation’s capital newspaper-caused psychological pain following an event of actual or threatened bodily harm.

Jared: “What’s the Washington Post traumatic stress disorder?” (5K)

HS:
Jared & Ben: 5K EACH/Ike: 200

LT: 1800

CS:
Jared: 7400/Ben: 6800/Ike: 1600

DJ!:
GITALONG, OLD PAINT
ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS
BOY GENIUS
BRIDGERS
BAKER
THE TALLEST ONE

1200 Boy Genus:

By age 15 Flynn McGarry had created a culinary classic changing 1 letter in a dish named for a duke to make this vegetarian creation.

TS: Beet Wellington

800 Ends in Double Letters:

This type of heart surgery involves taking a blood vessel from elsewhere & creating a new pathway around a blockage.

Ben: “What is bypass?” (7600)

1600 Boy Genus:

That answer’s a DD– he wagers 4K.

Losing his brother Giulio in 1915 he buried his grief in math & physics & soon wowed the admissions panel at college in Pisa.

“Who is (Enrico) Fermi?”…indeed it was him. 

1200 Ends in Double Letters:

Eden, NY has a museum devoted to this mouth-blown musical toy.

Jared: “What is a kazoo?” (8600)

1600 Ends in Double Letters:

Answer there: the other TDD tonight.

Orig. a stick or spindle used in spinning it also came to mean women’s work or the female side of a family.

“What is a settee?”…incorrect- what is distaff?

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 1200 (Gitalong, Old Paint)
UNATTEMPTED LT: 8400
TOTAL DJ! LT: 9600

Pre-Final S:
Jared: 3600 (OUT)/Ben: 15,200/Ike: 10,400

CIVILIAN CORYATS:
Jared: 11K/Ben: 12,800

FJ!: ANCIENT DRAMA

From the 470s B.C. Aeschylus’ earliest surviving work had this title; he’d fought ’em repeatedly in the preceding yrs.

JARED: “What is take the online test This could be you!“ (0)
IKE: “WHAT IS ‘THE SPARTANS’?” (BUSTS)
BEN: “WHAT IS ‘THE CENSORS’???” (Correct: What was “The Persians”?) = 9599

“JEOPARDY!” 3/6/24

Last tournament entrants: Sean McShane (3 wins), Deb & Troy Meyer (6 wins)

JR:
SHAKESPEARE FOR EVERYONE!
OLYMPIC HISTORY
ISLANDS
MIDDLE X
WAITS
MEASURES

800 Island:

In 1863 the ancient statue seen here was discovered on this Greek island.

Deb: “Who is Samothrace?” 

800 Shakespeare:

Too soon for this DD.

Her last speech incl. “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper…thy sovereign”.

“Who is Desdemona?”…not her, which drops her to -200; who was Katherina?

600 Wait:

He had a top 20 hit singing “You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is the hardest part”.

Sean: “Who is Tom Petty?”

800 Wait:

At Jefferson’s Monticello the dining rm fireplace conceals 1 of these that’s linked to the wine cellar.

Deb: “What is a dumbwaiter?” (600)

1K Wait:

Clifford Odets got it right w/ his 1-act play “Waiting for” him.

Troy: “Who is ‘Lefty’?”

1K Island:

Sapporo’s the capital of this Japanese island that also has double letters.

Troy: “What is Hokkaido?” (2K)

600 Middle X:

Multiple blaring horns or warning hooters (that means put an S at the end of this high-score SCRABBLE word y’all).

Troy: “What are claxons?” (2600)

600 Measure:

For a measured pour a bartender might rely on this double-sided metal cup; a versatile one’s 2oz on 1 side, 1 on the other.

Sean: “What is a jigger?” (1200)

1K Measure:

A unit of weight in the apothecaries’ system it equals 20 grains; in another sense it’s a synonym for a moral principle.

TS: Scruple

1K Middle X:

The ore of aluminum

Troy: “What is bauxite?” (3600)

800 Olympic History:

She took a silver medal in women’s figure skating in ’94; Tonya Harding finished a medal-less 8th.

Troy: “Who is Nancy Kerrigan?” (4400)

1K Olympic History:

In 1904 Ralph Rose & Martin Sheridan broke a tie w/ a “throw-off” in this field event; Sheridan won w/ a spin of 127′ 10 ¼”.

Troy: “What’s javelin?” (3400)
Sean: “What is discus?” (2200)

800 Measure:

A blood test to measure cholesterol should calculate total cholesterol, LDLs, HDLs & these named for a trio of molecules.

Sean: “What are triglycerides?” (3K)

800 Middle X:

This math adjective often meaning a common axis often precedes “cable”.

Troy: “What is coaxial?” (4200)

600 Shakespeare:

Awakening, this weaver said “I have had a dream…man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream”.

Deb: “Who is (Nick) Bottom?” (1200)

1K Shakespeare:

This early play feat. Proteus & Valentine in the title roles (& it wasn’t “Proteus & Valentine Take Manhattan”).

Troy: “What is ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’?” (5200)

SOLE TS: 1K (Measures)

CS:
Troy: 7K/Deb: 1600/Sean: 5200

DJ!:
1924
UNUSUAL WORDS
THE ARTS
OCCUPATIONS
MOVIE TAGLINES
THE HEAVENS & EARTH

1200 Arts:

His many paintings of ballerinas incl. “The Dance Class”, an oil from the 1870s.

Deb: “Who is (Edgar) Degas?” (2800)

1600 Arts:

A 2024 show at the National Gallery of Art called “The Anxious Eye” focuses on this moody style, a nationality + an -ism.

Deb: “What is German expressionism?” (4400)

2K Arts:

Ooh! The romantic 1841 ballet named for this doomed heroine always gave me “the Wills”.

Troy: “Who is Giselle?” (9K)

1600 1924:

Published in 1924 her novel So Big was so big it would win a Pulitzer Prize the next yr.

Troy: “Who is Edner Ferber?” (10,600)

1200 1924:

Working on a deadline George Gershwin composed this piece in just a few weeks’ time.

Troy: “What is ‘Rhapsody in Blue’?” (11,800)

1600 Heavens & Earth:

Answer: TDD.

Cepheids are the pulsating type of these stars fluctuating in brightness.

“What are variable stars?”…got ’em!

800 1924:

This future President was born Jun. 12 in Milton, MA.

Troy: “Who is…JFK?” (22,800)

TS: George H.W. Bush

2K 1924:

This “Flying Finn” was the 1st athlete from his country to win 5 gold medals at a single Olympics.

Troy: “Who is (Paavo) Nurmi?” (24,800)

1600 Occupation:

Longshoreman or this word beginning w/ a male name can be used for a worker who loads & unloads ships in a port.

Sean: “What is a stevedore?” (6800)

1600 Movie Tagline:

It was part of a film series & we’ll even front you “Harold & Kumar”: “This time they’re running from the joint”.

Troy: “What is ‘Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay’?” (26,400)

1200 Occupation:

Unfortunately for everybody else, that answer’s DD #2– Troy looks to ice his cake by 4K.

W/ a name from Latin for “copyist” this type of insurance specialist calculates risks & premiums.

“What is an actuary?”…he’s over 30K.

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 800 (1924)
UNATTEMPTED LT: 2400
TOTAL DJ! LT: 3200

Pre-Final S:
Troy: 38,400 (LOCK)/Deb: 8400/Sean: 7200

CORYAT SCORES:
Troy: 25,400/Deb: 9400

FJ!: AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY

“The country is celebrating 100 years of freedom 100 years too soon”, said The Fire Next Time, published in this yr.

SEAN: “What is 1876? Hi South Boston?” = 5999
DEB: “What is 1976? Thanks Y’all” (0)
TROY: “What is 1963” (0)