Show #8838 - Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Contestants

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Iris Masucci, a pharmacist from Rockville, Maryland

Jordan Davis, a private music teacher and choir director from Draper, Utah

Lisa Sriken, a lawyer from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $9,601)

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Jeopardy! Round

EUROPEAN NATIONAL NICKNAMES
WRITERS & POETS
COMMON BONDS
A REAL LONG SHOT
A DISASTER ARIA
Ps OUT!
    $200 5
At different times in its history, this nation has been called Hibernia & the Celtic Tiger
    $200 26
You want tales? Oh, we got some tales to tell! "The Clerk's", "The Manciple's", "The Reeve's"... all part of this
    $200 19
Irrational,
ordinal,
prime
    $200 21
In game 3 of the 1970 NBA finals, Jerry West hit a 60-footer to force overtime against the Knicks--but this team still lost
    $200 7
In a Gounod opera, Juliet sings to him that she forgives him for killing one of her clan
    $200 6
Get the double P out of a word meaning elated to get this fodder grass
    $400 4
The Netherlands, meaning low-lying country, is also known as the land of these flowers
    $400 27
Always seeming to find large amounts of trouble, this CIA agent is the protagonist in "Clear & Present Danger"
    $400 18
Pencil,
walrus,
handlebar
    $400 22
This Manchester United superstar said a 55-yard score in 1996 "kicked open the door to the rest of my life"
    $400 8
"Lensky's Aria" from "Eugene Onegin" finds Lensky lamenting his fate after having agreed to this type of challenge
    $400 11
Delete the P from a word meaning cost & you'll get this non-costly grain
    $600 3
Norway is known as the land of the midnight sun & the land of these medieval marauders
    $600 28
Consecutive chapters in this book are "The Minister's Vigil" & "Another View of Hester"
    $600 15
Royals,
Guardians,
Pirates
    $600 23
Matt Stutzman, a 2012 silver medalist at these international games, set a longstanding record for hitting an archery target 930.4 feet
    $600 9
Revenge spurs the queen of night in this Mozart opera as she urges her daughter towards murder in a bloodthirsty aria
    $600 12
Cut all 3 Ps from a flower of remembrance to get this Yiddish interjection
    DD: $1,000 2
Hungarians know their country not as the land of the Huns, but as the land of this nomadic people who settled there in the 9th c.
    $800 29
The many travails of the title hero of this Dumas novel include an involuntary swim after being tossed into the sea
    $800 16
Herb,
rock,
zen
    $800 24
In a 1973 game against Buffalo, this Boston Bruin scored on a length-of-the-ice shot from behind his own goal line
    $800 10
Lammermoor Castle is witness to the grief of this woman & her aria "Il dolce suono"
    $800 13
Lose the paired Ps from a small wave to get this verb meaning to anger
    $1000 1
Due to its location, this small nation, a grand duchy, has been called the little fortress & the Gibraltar of the North
    $1000 30
Sethe is haunted by the ghost of her nameless baby, described by the title adjective of this Toni Morrison novel
    $1000 17
Blush,
baby,
coral
    $1000 25
In 2021 Jalen Suggs banked in a 40-foot buzzer-beater to eliminate UCLA & send this Washington school to the NCAA title game
    $1000 20
Meaning "none shall sleep", this aria from "Turandot" carries an explicit threat of execution
    $1000 14
Slice the double P out of a tree fruit to get this fermented beverage

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Lisa Jordan Iris
$4,400 $1,400 $2,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Lisa Jordan Iris
$5,400 $4,000 $6,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE INITIALS & ACRONYMS
DALÍ GOES HOLLYWOOD
TREE-NAMED PLACES
SYNONYMS
PLANES, TRAINS
AUTOCRATS
    $400 14
Helping you walk & talk, CNS is short for this
    $400 6
Dalí wrote a movie for this comedy group, including a scene where Chico plays the piano in a diving suit
    $400 25
The Black Panther Party was founded in this Northern California city in 1966
    $400 1
The name of this animal seen here is a synonym of "chatter at length"
    $400 26
The British Harrier "Jump Jet" was the first operational airplane with VTOL capability, this "takeoff and landing"
    $400 19
Miguel Primo de Rivera, this country's 1920s dictator, repressed the Catalans who'd supported him
    $800 15
The logo seen here belongs to the NRC, the independent organization known by this name
    $800 7
Dalí designed a deck of these cards for the James Bond film "Live & Let Die", but they weren't used
    DD: $6,000 27
This town in the Mojave Desert is named for a plant that early settlers said reminded them of a biblical guy
    $800 2
Homily is another word for one of these religious speeches delivered from the pulpit to a congregation
    $800 24
Running above 15,000 feet, the Peruvian Central Railway carries oxygen for passengers suffering from soroche, this sickness
    $800 23
Central American strongman Omar Torrijos negotiated the 1977 treaties to cede this to his country's control
    $1200 16
Once big in televisions, CRT is short for this
    $1200 11
Spencer Tracy has a surreal dream of crawling down the aisle in a sequence inspired by Dalí for this 1950 comedy
    $1200 28
This lofty Colorado city is on the Roaring Fork River
    $1200 8
Enjoy the view or this, also starting with "V", one letter longer
    $1200 3
When it started service in 1862, the Flying Scotsman rail route took 10 1/2 hours between these 2 cities; now it does it in 4
    $1200 20
After his troops opened fire on demonstrators in 1989, this country's Nicolae Ceausescu was chased from power & executed
    $1600 17
Of the 3 words that combine to make LORAN, it's last, admiral
    $1600 12
Dalí created the weird dream imagery used in this director's 1945 film "Spellbound"
    $1600 29
Seen here, this South Carolina resort sounds like it has 2 trees in its name
    DD: $3,000 9
In opera, diva is a synonym for this 2-word Italian term
    $1600 4
The largest wooden plane ever built, the Howard Hughes project with this rhyming name was actually mostly birch
    $1600 21
Saloth Sar was the birth name of this despot whose brutal 1975-1979 regime killed more than a million Cambodians
    $2000 18
Regarding hazardous substances at work, REL stands for "recommended" this "limit"
    $2000 13
Adrien Brody plays Dalí during one of Owen Wilson's magical French walks in this Woody Allen movie
    $2000 30
This tree comes before "Bluff" in the name of a city in Missouri
    $2000 10
Making a departure? Use a synonym from religion, like Exodus or this journey that covered about 210 miles in 622 A.D.
    $2000 5
Australia's Indian Pacific train runs from Sydney on the Pacific side to this state capital 2,000 miles to the west
    $2000 22
Omar al-Bashir is currently awaiting trial for atrocities in this region of Western Sudan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Lisa Jordan Iris
$21,400 $5,200 $17,200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN AUTHORS
In a periodical in 1807, he called New York City "Gotham, Gotham! most enlightened of cities"

Final scores:

Lisa Jordan Iris
$17,199 $200 $9,000
2-day champion: $26,800 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Lisa Jordan Iris
$16,000 $5,200 $15,800
26 R
(including 2 DDs),
6 W		 11 R,
2 W		 17 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $37,000

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Game tape date: 2023-01-11
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