Show #8882 - Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Contestants

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Nathan Dennis, a C-17 loadmaster from Charlotte, North Carolina

Ilhana Redzovic, an investment associate from Chicago, Illinois

Diandra D'Alessio, a technical writer from Montreal, Quebec, Canada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $15,700)

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Jeopardy! Round

AUTHORS' FIRST NOVELS
THE YEAR THAT WAS
THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY
FRUITY RHYME TIME
"M.C."
HAMMER
    $200 5
Before "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen's first novel paired these 2 title qualities
    $200 1
More than 300,000 rock fans attended Woodstock & Neil Armstrong pioneered the moonwalk--for real
    $200 18
Its lead singer was known to "Jump" around while its virtuoso played an "Eruption" on his "Little Guitars"
    $200 9
Argentine dance performed by a tropical fruit
    $200 29
The 881-E Scantron form & the California DMV written test are in this format
    $200 30
A drywall hammer can have this other axe-like "H" tool on its back end to trim & hack through panels
    $400 6
His work at a V.A. hospital led to his first novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
    $400 2
Horrible moments: the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, followed 3 months later by the Chernobyl disaster
    $400 19
"I Gotta Feeling" you know this hip-hop group! They did "Don't Stop The Party"... c'mon, "Don't Phunk With My Heart"!
    $400 10
A bloodsucking worm on a nectarine relative
    $400 12
As the job done by the person seen here M.C. stands for this
    $400 20
You can look like a gunslinger but instead of a pistol, draw a hammer from one of these tool belt accessories
    $600 7
Born in Nantes in 1828, he had a hit with his first "scientific fiction" novel, "Five Weeks in a Balloon"
    DD: $400 3
William Lloyd Garrison published the last issue of The Liberator, saying his "vocation as an abolitionist is ended"
    $600 8
"One Of These Nights", I'll tell you this band did "Pretty Maids All In A Row", but "I Can't Tell You Why"
    $600 11
Private place of worship for a Fuji or Honeycrisp
    $600 15
This academic medical center has campuses in Rochester, Minnesota & Jacksonville, Florida
    $600 21
Gallagher used this large hammer with a metal head to club watermelons; others have used it in mining
    $800 25
He was accused of obscenity after the release of "Madame Bovary", his first full-length novel
    $800 4
The Revolutionary War was 2 1/2 years in as George Washington & his troops began wintering at Valley Forge
    $800 16
This quartet is on the "Adventure Of A Lifetime", flying "Up With The Birds" in "A Sky Full Of Stars"
    $800 27
An expo for a Bosc or Anjou
    $800 14
This term describes a charming & romantic first encounter between 2 people, like on a train or shopping for the same item
    $800 22
The TE 3000-AVR from Hilti is this kind of hammer perfect for concrete demolition & capable of 858 impacts per minute
    $1000 26
This first novel from James Joyce sounds like it could be a painting of him from when he was a wee lad
    $1000 24
Zachary Taylor was inaugurated & an estimated 80,000 people poured into California
    $1000 17
"Born Of A Broken Man", they urged us to "Wake Up" to the "Killing In The Name"
    $1000 28
Fruit pulled out by Little Jack Horner from the largest part of the brain
    $1000 13
According to this New York governor, "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose"
    $1000 23
In 2017 this tool company whose name is a synonym for "artisan" won a Gold Edison Award for its flex claw hammer

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

Diandra Ilhana Nathan
$2,000 $2,800 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Diandra Ilhana Nathan
$2,000 $6,800 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

MOUNTAINS
CZECH IT OUT!
SCIENTISTS
CAT BREEDS
DISNEY ENDINGS
MIDDLE "G"
    $400 30
This Alp between Switzerland & Italy has a name from German words meaning "meadow" & "peak"
    $400 2
Czech scientist Jan Purkyne discovered in 1823 that these could be used for identification--time to get gloves!
    $400 27
Zhang Heng invented an early device for detecting these; when one occurred a ball fell from a dragon's head into a frog's mouth
    $400 15
An animal shelter in Montana in 1987 is the origin of the wavy furred breed called Selkirk this, Latin for "King"
    $400 4
The queen & king don't fare well on their voyage in this 2013 film; daughters Anna & Elsa find their wrecked ship in the 2019 sequel
    $400 14
Merv Griffin used to play this word game with his sister & "Wheel of Fortune" is the result
    $800 22
Pico de Orizaba, the third-highest peak in North America, is an 18,400-foot dormant volcano in this nation
    $800 1
Gregor Mendel, Franz Kafka & this star of the courts are internationally renowned Czechs
    $800 16
Barbara McClintock discovered transposons, or "jumping" these, which can change positions on a chromosome
    $800 20
Keep your Persian cat brushed, as it has this feature that is also a name for the breed
    $800 5
Judge Frollo suffers a great fall from a cathedral in this 1996 flick
    $800 3
Fancy name for a list of movies a particular actor or director has made
    $1200 23
These inspirational goddesses of art & science resided on Mount Parnassus
    $1200 8
From the 19th century until 1918, the Czech lands were part of this empire
    $1200 17
Maria Goeppert Mayer shared a Nobel for developing the shell model of this part of an atom made of protons & neutrons
    DD: $1,356 18
This place associated with a tiger subspecies is also the name of a beautiful cat breed
    $1200 6
Tadashi dies in a fire in this 2014 movie, leaving Hiro devastated, but Baymax is there for him
    $1200 11
It's the fabric seen here in a typical pattern
    $1600 24
A cave at the summit of the mountain Jabal Al Nour is said to be where this prophet received his first revelations
    $1600 9
This decades-long war in Europe began in 1618 when Czech nobles rebelled against the future Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II
    DD: $5,000 26
For his work on vibrations & sound, Ernst Chladni is known as the father of this science
    $1600 21
This color follows "Russian" in the name of a cat breed with grayish fur
    $1600 7
In this 1986 classic Basil of Baker Street survives a fall from Big Ben, but the evil Ratigan is not so lucky
    $1600 12
Present tense verb meaning to use 2 known positions on a map to determine a third unknown one
    $2000 25
The world's highest unclimbed mountain is 24,980-foot Gangkhar Puensum in this "thunder dragon" kingdom north of India
    $2000 10
The 3 regions named in the preamble to the Czech Constitution are Bohemia, this one & Silesia
    $2000 28
The base unit of electrical current is named for this Frenchman, initials A.M.A.
    $2000 29
This hairless breed got its start in Canada in the 20th century with a kitten named Prune
    $2000 19
In Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland", Alice slays the Jabberwocky with this, callooh! Callay!
    $2000 13
St. Jerome gets the credit for this translation of the Bible that he completed around 405

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Diandra Ilhana Nathan
$7,200 $21,000 $10,756

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Final Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY GROUPS
Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name

Final scores:

Diandra Ilhana Nathan
$1 $20,400 $7,011
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $20,400 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Diandra Ilhana Nathan
$7,400 $17,600 $10,600
11 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 19 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W

Combined Coryat: $35,600

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Game tape date: 2023-03-24
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