Show #8979 - Thursday, November 23, 2023

2023 Champions Wildcard Clubs semifinal game 2.

Contestants

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Amy Bekkerman, a copy editor from Durham, New Hampshire

Ed Hashima, a community college history professor from Sacramento, California

Jen Jazwinski, a youth services librarian from Algonquin, Illinois

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Jeopardy! Round

THE "A" LIST
BIBLICAL ZOO
WHATCHAMACALLIT
THEY COME IN SEVENS
PUT ME IN
COACH
    $200 30
The word embassy comes from this job of working in an embassy
    $200 18
Symbolic animals in the KJV include the dragon & this single-horned animal mentioned in Numbers 23:22
    $200 23
You're ready for a home project with a whole set of this tool that includes a trademark name
    $200 28
The only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still remains is the Pyramids of this city
    $200 12
Put me, this nut, into a milk chocolate bar & you have the "Joy" I've provided since 1946
    $200 7
In 2008 "Coach K", the hoops headman at this school, led the USA to Olympic gold in Beijing
    $400 29
It's the absence of any form of political authority
    $400 17
The Old Testament talks about the jungle on the Jordan's banks & this animal roaring within
    $400 22
Traditionally in India, a riding seat called a howdah is howdah person rides on the back of this animal
    $400 27
Can I get an amen for Pope Gregory, who thankfully reduced the list of these to 7
    $400 13
You can't use plain old rice if you're going to make sushi; it's got to be treated with me, the "rice" type of this
    $400 8
Before moving to the NFL in 1954, he served for 5 years as an assistant coach at Army
    $600 4
These insects, also known as plant lice, are captured & milked by many ants for the honeydew liquid they produce
    $600 1
Samson caught 300 of these sly creatures, put firebrands on their tails & sent them into enemy cornfields
    $600 19
This hybrid breed gets its curls from the dog alluded to in the latter part of its name
    $600 24
Steve McQueen's "Magnificent" movie was actually a remake of a film about 7 of these guys
    $600 14
Any cowboy knows a Roy Rogers requires me, this pomegranate-flavored syrup
    $600 9
I've got this team that jingle, jangle, jingles under head coach Gregg Popovich
    $800 5
The name of this refractive defect of the eye comes from the Greek
    $800 2
According to Deuteronomy 17:1, if your bullock is blemished you can't use it as this
    $800 20
That part of the comb that holds the teeth, it's also named for a body part
    $800 25
Tolkien should have consulted with the Brothers Grimm before having 13 of these accompany Bilbo in "The Hobbit"
    $800 15
Sure, put mozz & parm in lasagna--as long as you have me, this spreadable wonder Bon Appetit calls "fluffiest cheese in the land"
    $800 10
They may have tried to win one for the Gipper, but Notre Dame won a lot for this coach, too: he went 105-12-5
    $1000 6
You can control light entering a camera by varying the diameter of this, which acts like the iris in the human eye
    DD: $1,000 3
After crossing this, Miriam led a chorus of "the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea"
    $1000 21
It's the 5-letter word for the end of a shoelace, made of either plastic or metal, so it's easier to thread
    $1000 26
This group of defendants included Abbie Hoffman & Tom Hayden, who were convicted in 1970
    $1000 16
Is it a fruit or is it a vegetable? Who cares? It's also called a Mexican green tomato & I put it in your salad
    $1000 11
Geno Auriemma led this university to back-to-back 39-0 championship years in women's hoops

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

Jen Ed Amy
$2,800 $5,000 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jen Ed Amy
$2,800 $7,000 $6,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

NORDIC LITERATURE
CARTOON THEME SONGS
NAME THAT REBELLION
MODERN ARCHITECTURAL STYLES
____ OF ____
OXYMORONS
    $400 13
There are no singing Jamaican crabs in the original version of this Andersen tale about a sea-dweller who comes ashore
    $400 4
"They're the world's most fearsome fighting team... they're heroes in the half shell & they're green"
    $400 9
China, 1900:
"Fighters" versus foreigners & Christians
    $400 30
This city's Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral is said to be a postmodern interpretation of Spanish missions
    $400 29
In football, it's the boundary between the teams prior to the snap of the ball
    $400 16
Alliterative expression of dismay favored by "Peanuts" characters
    $800 6
Created by Astrid Lindgren, this little redheaded literary girl thinks her father lives far away as a cannibal king
    $800 3
"Here he comes... he's a demon on wheels"
    DD: $4,000 10
Pennsylvania, 1794:
The Feds versus farmers over a tax on liquor
    $800 27
Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired cantilevers abound in the style called "New" this Dutch seat of government
    $800 28
Had Julius Caesar heeded the warning about this day, he might have survived it
    $800 20
1980 Travolta movie about mechanical bulls & bravery
    $1200 7
Sweden is a grim place in this first book of the "Millennium" series in which Lisbeth & Mikael solve a 40-year-old crime
    $1200 1
"I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was, to catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause"
    $1200 11
Ulster & Wexford, 1798: One of many called by this national adjective
    $1200 21
Brutalism influenced the design of this D.C. building, named for a long-serving law enforcement official
    DD: $9,000 23
Similes, metaphors
& personification, for example
    $1200 17
A substitute master of ceremonies for a TV talk show
    $1600 8
"Faceless Killers" was book No. 1 in the series about this soul-searching police inspector played on TV by Kenneth Branagh
    $1600 2
"Long tails and ears for hats"
    $1600 14
Virginia, 1676:
A "hammy" colonist & his followers versus Native Americans & the governor
    $1600 22
Architect Oscar Niemeyer was an exponent of modern design in South America, like his own work designing this capital city
    $1600 24
Made from gypsum, this white powder mixed with water is used in sculpture to make molds & casts
    $1600 18
It's the oxymoronic name for the comparatively small instrument seen here
    $2000 12
Early works by this Norwegian playwright include the tragedy "Catiline", published under a pseudonym in 1850
    $2000 5
"We're zany to the max, there's baloney in our slacks"
    $2000 15
Virginia, 1831:
Led by this man, it was the bloodiest in the history of American slavery
    $2000 26
High-tech architecture is on view with this Paris landmark
    $2000 25
As seen on the map, this island lies between England & Ireland, & about 20 miles south of Scotland
    $2000 19
"People talking without speaking" is from this Simon & Garfunkel song

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jen Ed Amy
$20,200 $23,000 $14,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE ETYMOLOGY
First detected in the Sun's atmosphere in 1868, it got its name from an old word for sun

Final scores:

Jen Ed Amy
$40,400 $5,000 $29,100
Finalist 3rd place: $10,000 2nd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jen Ed Amy
$12,400 $19,800 $14,600
15 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 26 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 16 R,
0 W

Combined Coryat: $46,800

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Game tape date: 2023-10-19
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