Show #9054 - Thursday, March 7, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 1.

Contestants

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Ike Barinholtz, a producer, writer, and actor from Chicago, Illinois

Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin

Jared Watson, a quality control specialist from Greenville, Texas

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Jeopardy! Round

GETTING HISTORICAL
BOOKS BY CHARACTERS
SPORTS MASCOT HISTORY
UNUSUAL NICKNAMES
THE MATERIAL WORLD
BEFORE & AFTER
    $200 29
John Knox was the best-known leader of this country's Reformation, made official by a 1560 act of its parliament
    $200 26
Hunting at sea,
Matt Hooper &
Captain Quint
    $200 27
Starting his career at the San Diego Zoo, he's "an embryonic Charles Chaplin in... feathers", says his biography
    $200 28
You can see why BMW E24 6 cars were dubbed this predatory creature's nose
    $200 30
This material that went with feathers in public humiliation from times past might not have been as hot as you'd assume
    $200 24
A venue for volleys & lobs where violators of military law are prosecuted
    $400 12
To defend against missiles, Roman legions linked shields in a formation called the testudo, Latin for this land animal
    $400 22
Josef K. &
the Examining Magistrate
    $400 21
From 1979 to 1981 the Yankees fittingly had a mascot named this, also a word for a well-dressed man
    $400 20
This first name of Herr Mendelssohn means "happy", but his manner got him the nickname "discontented Polish count"
    $400 25
For sheets, the Egyptian type of this feels real good, but the extra-long-staple kind is the best of the best
    $400 23
Actor lookalike who does the dangerous action scenes as an iconic red London vehicle
    $600 4
A 1493 papal decision split the New World between these 2 nations, or so they thought
    $600 1
In a children's book, Stanley Yelnats &
Zero
    $600 10
In 1979 Youppi! suited up for this MLB squad, prior to moving across town (& sports leagues) to the Canadiens
    $600 19
This hitter of the '40s & '50s was thin-shamed as the "Splendid Splinter"
    DD: $1,800 8
This hard black wood from trees of the Diospyros genus shares its name with a magazine founded in 1945
    $600 16
A Knoxville color that's also a hit country song is served as a high grade tea from Sri Lanka & India
    $800 5
Calling himself an admiral in a bit of self-promotion, in 1853 he sailed 4 warships into the harbor of Uraga & refused to leave
    $800 2
Sethe &
Baby Suggs
    $800 11
This NFL team notes mascot Captain Fear lamented his lost ship, but friends, it was found & rebuilt at Raymond James Stadium!
    $800 18
Oxford is "city of dreaming" these topmost parts of some of its buildings, a phrase from a poem by Matthew Arnold
    $800 7
Doors on ancient Greek temples were often fitted with grills made of this alloy of copper & tin
    $800 15
Nation's capital newspaper-caused psychological pain following an event of actual or threatened bodily harm
    $1000 6
Wahunsenacawh was another name of the man the Jamestown colonists called this, like the people he led
    $1000 3
Squealer &
Old Major
    $1000 13
Since the 1990s Fred the Red has been a devil indeed for this team from the north of England
    $1000 17
Glasgow's Clyde Auditorium was opened in 1997 & soon became known as this animal of Texas & Central & South America
    $1000 9
This fabric with a raised design gets its name from a word for "twisted thread"
    $1000 14
Siam-set musical adaptation of Asimov's book about machines that follow 3 laws

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

Jared Ben! 文瀚 Ike
$5,000 $5,000 $200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Jared Ben! 文瀚 Ike
$7,400 $6,800 $1,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

GITALONG, OLD PAINT
ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS
BOY GENIUS
BRIDGERS
BAKER
THE TALLEST ONE
    $400 30
Her interest in Mexican folk art can be seen in a 1931 portrait of herself with her new husband, a fellow artist
    $400 29
In the 1850s a familiar quotation of his may have been "I have a notebook full of famous things people said. Wanna see?"
    $400 28
At age 8, Sergei Prokofiev was taken to "Faust" & "Prince Igor"; he decided to write one of these too & in months composed "The Giant"
    $400 27
RO&AD Architects built a Dutch bridge that parts the waters rather than going over them, so it's named for this biblical man
    $400 25
The thrill & amazement of a 1921 balloon race over Indianapolis inspired the name of this not just white bread brand
    $400 24
On China's basketball team at the 2000 Olympics
    $800 17
Rather than the Magi, Guido Reni depicted "The Adoration of" these rustic fellows
    $800 2
This type of heart surgery involves taking a blood vessel from elsewhere & creating a new pathway around a blockage
    $800 8
In his teens Erik Demaine pioneered computational origami; at 20 he became this Boston-area school's youngest ever prof
    $800 26
Named for their designer, Bailey Bridges moved Allied troops, trucks & tanks; an 1,800-foot one was built over this German river in 1945
    $800 22
A special one of these baked at Passover 2022 for the president of Israel was 20' long by 3 1/2' wide by not very thick
    $800 23
In the Ramones
    $1200 16
This painter who was totally for the birds gave us the oil-on-canvas "Washington Sea Eagle" around 1839
    $1200 4
Eden, New York has a museum devoted to this mouth-blown musical toy
    $1200 1
By age 15, Flynn McGarry had created a culinary classic, changing one letter in a dish named for a duke to make this vegetarian creation
    $1200 19
Samuel Lancaster built the scenic Benson Bridge across Multnomah Creek in this state but Simon Benson paid for it
    $1200 21
When his wife baked these, often served with gravy, Calvin Coolidge would drop one & stomp a foot to show its heaviness
    $1200 12
On the 2001 World Series champion Arizona Diamondbacks
    $1600 15
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" helped pioneer this -ism using small, detached strokes
    DD: $8,600 5
Originally a stick or spindle used in spinning, it also came to mean women's work or the female side of a family
    DD: $4,000 3
Losing his brother Giulio 1915, he buried his grief in math & physics & soon wowed the admissions panel at college in Pisa
    $1600 18
You might guess that Gustave Eiffel of tower fame built the Maria Pia Bridge over the Douro River in this Portuguese city famous for wine
    $1600 20
What a card! Duff Goldman rose to fame on this Food Network show whose title mentions his specialty
    $1600 11
In the heartwarming sismance among the main actors on "Ted Lasso"
    $2000 14
As it's by this painter, you might call an 1876 view of the Mediterranean at l'Estaque a "C" scape
    $2000 6
This line on the hull of a ship that indicates the depth to which it can be loaded is named for a 19th century British merchant
    $2000 7
This French prodigy wrote his masterpiece "The Drunken Boat" at 16 & was called an "infant Shakespeare"
    $2000 13
Peter Wyss designed a sky bridge not to go anywhere but to attract tourists to Langkawi Island off the peninsular part of this country
    $2000 9
In Chestnut Hill, Tennessee, you can tour, eat & shop at the visitor center of this alliterative baked bean brand
    $2000 10
In boygenius, her name didn't lend itself to a category title

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Jared Ben! 文瀚 Ike
$3,600 $15,200 $10,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT DRAMA
From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus' earliest surviving work has this title; he'd fought them repeatedly in the preceding years

Final scores:

Jared Ben! 文瀚 Ike
$3,600 $9,599 $0
2nd place: $10,000 Finalist 3rd place: $10,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Jared Ben! 文瀚 Ike
$11,000 $12,800 $10,400
17 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 21 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 13 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $34,200

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Game tape date: 2024-02-08
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