Show #8921 - Monday, July 24, 2023

Contestants

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Ian Foutz, a teacher from Camarillo, California

Simona Fine, a graduate student from Great Neck, New York

Taylor Clagett, a marketing director originally from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,800)

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Jeopardy! Round

STATES' HIGHEST POINTS
SPACE MEN & WOMEN
WELCOME TO OUR FRUIT STAND
ALPHABETICALLY FIRST
UNIFORM NUMBERS
THE "END" ZONE
    $200 28
Found in a small grove of trees, 1,257-foot Hoosier Hill
    $200 26
In 1995 Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot one of these & in 1999 the first to command a mission aboard one
    $200 24
A traditional part of Muslim diets during Ramadan, these palm fruits are known as tamuru in Arabic
    $200 27
Of NBA franchises by team name, not city, they won the championship in 2021
    $200 30
In 2017 the Lakers retired both his No. 8 & 24; tragically, 3 years later, he was gone
    $200 20
This word refers to the supports placed at either end of your collection of Simon & Garfunkel biographies
    $400 22
Humphreys Peak in the Kachina Peaks Wilderness
    $400 25
As this country's first astronaut, Soyeon Yi packed kimchi to share with her colleagues on the International Space Station
    $400 23
This sweet & seedy vine fruit sounds like it might inspire an intense desire for it
    $400 21
Of the Great Lakes, it's the fourth-largest & drains out through the Niagara River
    $400 29
Tennis-related last name of NBA center Kevin, who wore 0 for the Cleveland Cavaliers for O-regon & O-hio
    $400 19
Here are some "terms of" this: my little schmoopy, pookie, pumpkin & my darling
    $600 10
In Alaska, this mountain peak, of course
    $600 3
Recorded aboard the ISS, Chris Hadfield's zero-g version of this Bowie song has gotten 52 million+ views on YouTube
    $600 2
Yup, those are ready to eat: you can quote me, Bartlett these get lighter in color as they ripen
    $600 17
Of the first 10 ordinal numbers
    $600 15
Joe Namath offered his retired 12 to this new Jets QB, but he said that'd always be Broadway Joe's & went with his college No. 8
    $600 18
To compete for a prize
    $800 9
Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
    $800 4
After a crewman was exposed to measles, backup Jack Swigert made it onto this 1970 Apollo mission & might have wished he hadn't
    $800 8
Fresh these are only in U.S. markets from September to January but they keep in your freezer for a year
    DD: $2,300 16
Of the 5 books of the Pentateuch, it's written in the form of a farewell address by Moses
    $800 14
You won't see any players from this MLB team wearing a single digit number; they've all been retired, & No. 8, twice
    $800 7
When Andrew Carnegie got his first of these monthly checks, he cried, "Here's the goose that lays the golden eggs"
    $1000 1
In Hawaii, this dormant volcano whose name means "white mountain" because it gets snow in winter
    $1000 5
The first British citizen in space, Helen Sharman spent a week aboard this Soviet space station in 1991
    $1000 11
Try a Pink Lady, also known as Cripps Pink, the first variety of this fruit to be trademarked
    $1000 12
Of the 11 national battlefields, this one 10 miles from Hagerstown, Maryland
    $1000 13
This great Pittsburgh Penguin wore number 66 & was credited with 690 goals
    $1000 6
Someone who throws money away on things they don't need might be called this compound word

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

Taylor Simona Ian
$2,600 $2,400 $2,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Taylor Simona Ian
$7,300 $3,200 $2,400

Double Jeopardy! Round

MUSICAL WORKS
MY WOULD-BE VP
(Ken: You'll name the presidential candidate.)
STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS
INTERNATIONAL BOOKS
HOSTEL
MAKEOVERS
    $400 26
Thea Musgrave's first commissioned work, in 1953, was "Suite O' Bairnsangs" for a festival in this, her native country
    $400 27
Sarah Palin, in a would-be first that would wait for a while longer
    $400 22
Doctors' duds
    $400 21
"Notes from Underground", a novella by this Russian, is about a man alienated from the world
    $400 20
At the Circus Hostel in Berlin, there is a museum of this "Baywatch" actor who single-handedly ended the Cold War (jk, jk)
    $400 15
A few things added to cars on this show hosted by Xzibit: a fish tank, a fireplace, a Sistine Chapel-like ceiling
    $800 29
1739's "Saul" is one of this composer's most dramatic oratorios
    $800 28
Paul Ryan, who'd remain in the House
    $800 23
This-ing "the gnar" means skiing difficult terrain; this-ing on a guitar is what Eddie Van Halen did
    $800 25
A deadly epidemic is sweeping through Oran, Algeria in this classic by Albert Camus
    $800 19
A lodge on a playa in Nicaragua has this activity in its name & offers lessons to "improve your ripping skills"
    $800 14
In "Encino Man", this actor gets a major makeover after defrosting--he takes a bath
    $1200 30
Ferde Grofé called for coconut shells to imitate the clip-clopping of a burro "on the trail" in this suite
    $1200 8
Lloyd Bentsen, who knew Jack Kennedy & was not afraid to say so
    $1200 6
It's a machine that removes husks from grain; Andrew Meikle patented one in 1788
    $1200 16
"Ghost Stories", a graphic novel from Canadian Jeff Lemire is set in a town outside this city, across the river from Detroit
    $1200 1
You don't have to BYOV, bring your own volleyball, to this hostel in Bali that sounds exactly like a Tom Hanks film
    $1200 13
Rachael Leigh Cook gets a major glow up in this 1999 film with Freddie Prinze Jr.--her glasses are removed
    DD: $100 7
One of Rachmaninoff's best-known works is his "Rhapsody On A Theme of" this Italian violin virtuoso
    DD: $100 18
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., running with a then-veep himself
    $1600 5
It's a device for artists to make canvas taut & ready to be painted; the word also refers to something you carry an injured person on
    $1600 24
Yu Hua's "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant" paints a picture of life under this man's Cultural Revolution
    $1600 2
The Central House Marrakech Medina boasts views of these mountains from its rooftop terrace
    $1600 11
In "Crazy, Stupid, Love", Ryan Gosling helps this actor with a sartorial transformation
    $2000 17
Each of the 10 movements of this Mussorgsky work represents a piece of art on display, created by a late friend
    $2000 12
Earl Warren, 5 years before becoming Chief Justice
    $2000 4
Franz Joseph Gall developed this discredited pseudoscience that attempted to discern personality by skull shape
    $2000 9
Milan Kundera's second novel, "Life Is Elsewhere" was not allowed to be published in this, his home country at the time
    $2000 3
Hostels around the Riviera Maya include the Itza Hotel Akumal & the Mayan Monkey Hostel in this "T"rendy place
    $2000 10
In season 5 of "Family Matters", Jaleel White's character takes an elixir & becomes this suave alter ego

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Taylor Simona Ian
$17,500 $4,000 $6,800
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY
The only country in Africa with Spanish as an official language, it lies mostly between 1 & 2 degrees north latitude

Final scores:

Taylor Simona Ian
$21,000 $1,500 $5,500
2-day champion: $31,800 3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Taylor Simona Ian
$16,200 $4,000 $6,800
25 R
(including 1 DD),
6 W
(including 2 DDs)		 8 R,
2 W		 12 R,
4 W

Combined Coryat: $27,000

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Game tape date: 2023-05-19
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