Show #9061 - Monday, March 18, 2024

2024 Tournament of Champions final game 5.

Contestants

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Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin

Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, Florida

Yogesh Raut, a social and personality psychologist from Vancouver, Washington

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Jeopardy! Round

"K"-TOWN
ANNUAL EVENTS
MUSICAL FILMS
21st CENTURY WORDS
CHOOSE A PROTEIN
& 5 SIDES
    $200 30
2 cities with this name in different states lie on the Missouri River
    $200 29
Oulu, Finland hosts the world championships for this; contestants strut their stuff with invisible instruments
    $200 28
In a 2023 origin story, Timothée Chalamet shows off his singing & dancing skills as this iconic candy man
    $200 27
To post a message originally posted by someone else on the service now known as X
    $200 26
This cone-shaped body organ produces blood proteins & stores glycogen for you, so easy on the Lagavulin
    $200 25
Perfect for the category, this landmark has 6.5 million sq. feet of office space but until 2011, had but 1 passenger elevator
    $400 19
It's the capital of Sindh Province, Pakistan
    $400 22
Bucyrus, Ohio's festival honoring this German sausage includes a pigtail contest for youngsters
    $400 23
Norman Jewison directed the 1973 film version of this musical about the most famous Jew & son of all
    $400 24
This word for a now-ubiquitous form of entertainment program comes in part from an Apple product
    $400 21
The Murchison meteorite that hit Earth in 1969 was found to contain organic compounds like these building blocks of proteins
    $400 20
Hal Prince co-produced this New York City-set musical that opened on Broadway on Sept. 26, 1957
    $600 13
The largest city in Malaysia, it's just inland from the Strait of Malacca
    $600 18
Named for a stalagmite, each December the Rock of Ages Lantern Tours take visitors through this New Mexico national park
    $600 16
Judy Garland was originally cast to play the title sharpshooter in this musical but was let go a month into filming
    $600 17
What used to be a "buddy movie" depicting an affectionate relationship between 2 guys is now this blended word
    $600 15
Rhinos don't have true horns; they're primarily composed of this fibrous protein found in hair
    $600 14
Ron Guidry, Pedro Martinez & this man, twice, are among Major Leaguers who have struck out the side on 9 pitches
    $800 5
This capital of Malopolskie Province can also be spelled with 2 C's
    $800 1
Each June Nebraskaland Days in North Platte features a golf classic & a rodeo named for this Wild West showman
    $800 2
Reneé Rapp plays Regina George, head of the Plastics, in this 2024 high school musical
    $800 8
You hit this annoying thing when a website demands a fee to read content kept "behind" it
    $800 12
In 1921 Banting & Best first isolated this hormone, a protein composed of 2 chains linked by sulfur atoms
    $800 11
Carl Friedrich Gauss solved a math puzzle by constructing a regular-sided heptadecagon, a figure with this many sides
    DD: $1,800 6
It's the capital city on the Nile that fits the category
    $1000 3
"The ride. The roar. The rally" is a motto for the annual motorcycle rally in this South Dakota city
    $1000 4
In this 1963 musical a teen idol's fans sing, "We love you, Conrad, oh yes, we do, we love you Conrad, and we'll be true"
    $1000 7
From the French, it's the sport of running, jumping & climbing around & over urban obstacles
    $1000 9
It's high in proline so we're giving this most abundant protein in the body that's in tendons, bones & skin some lip service
    $1000 10
Done with this debut novel & newly wed, F. Scott Fitzgerald wept, as "I had everything I wanted & knew I would never be so happy again"

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

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$6,600 $3,600 $2,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$8,800 $3,600 $4,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

VICE PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
(Ken: These will be words made up of letters in the word "introductory".)
THE BOOK OF MORMONS
STATUES OF THE WORLD
BUSINESS PARTNERS
HORRORS!
    $400 25
In 1992 he wrote, "The global environmental crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain"
    $400 30
A state of decay can be described as "rack &" this
    $400 29
Alan, Wayne, Merrill & Jay were some of the other members of this singing family, with hits like "One Bad Apple"
    $400 28
Any statue substantially larger than life-size is one of these, like the Daibutsu or Great Buddha
    $400 27
In 1964 Phil Knight & Bill Bowerman founded Blue Ribbon Sports; in the early 1970s, Swoosh! It became this company
    $400 26
Catriona Ward's "The Last House on Needless Street" is partly narrated by Olivia, one of these animals, & that can't be good luck
    $800 24
On June 22, 1804 this vice president wrote to his political adversary, "You have invited the course I am about to pursue"
    $800 23
With 58.33% of the letters in "introductory", it's a pipe to carry wiring or a person to carry information between 2 others
    $800 22
Though she no longer practices, this star of "27 Dresses" was raised in the Mormon faith & lives in Utah
    $800 21
Atop Massachusetts' Captain's Hill is a statue of this Pilgrim whose "Courtship" is the subject of a famous poem
    $800 20
After meeting Rick Rubin at a party, Russell Simmons became his partner in this record label that soon took off
    $800 19
His Christmas ghost story "The Haunted Man" sold 18,000 copies on its first day of publication in 1848
    DD: $5,200 4
In 1948 Hubert Humphrey said the Democrats must "get out of the shadow of" these "rights" often used to counter civil rights
    $1200 17
According to an old joke, it's what you call the person who graduates last in their medical school class
    $1200 16
Raised in the LDS Church, Paul Walker gained worldwide fame in this movie series before dying in a car accident in 2013
    $1200 5
A monument to this Canadian Legend known for his Marathon of Hope event stands in Burnaby, British Columbia
    $1200 18
Google "Who founded Google?" & it's this pair, Stanford grad students in 1998
    $1200 8
This horror master turned director to translate his own novella "The Hellbound Heart" to the screen as "Hellraiser"
    $1600 1
It's the -ism that promotes the common man & in 2023 Mike Pence bemoaned "the siren song of" it "unmoored to" conservative ideas
    $1600 10
It refers to the first note of a scale, bringing harmony to a piece of music
    $1600 2
Dubbed the "Empress of Soul", this singer has won 7 competitive Grammys--4 solo & 3 with the Pips
    $1600 3
In 1600 Tycho Brahe asked this German astronomer to join him in Prague; a statue there honors the pair
    $1600 7
Before launching a wellness studio, Elizabeth Cutler & Julie Rice co-founded this fitness company for indoor spinning
    $1600 9
H.P. Lovecraft wrote that the "U"s in the name of this "hellish entity" should sound "about like that in 'full"'
    $2000 15
In a 1942 speech this progressive V.P. of FDR called the coming post-war period "the century of the common man"
    $2000 14
It can mean a legal right in English or right in French
    $2000 13
In 2011 this lead singer of the Killers was part of the "I'm a Mormon" campaign
    $2000 6
One of the 7 Ancient Wonders was the statue of Zeus by this great Greek sculptor
    $2000 12
An audio oscillator was the first product from this pair who founded one of the original Silicon Valley startups in 1939
    DD: $15,200 11
The title of this 1962 Ray Bradbury novel is a Shakespeare line that rhymes with "by the pricking of my thumbs"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$38,800 $16,800 $9,200
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

EURASIA
Zvartnots International Airport serves this capital & has the code EVN, all letters found in the city's name

Final scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$38,800 $18,401 $16,801
Winner: 2 match points 2nd place: 1 match point 3rd place: 2 match points

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Yogesh Troy Ben! 文瀚
$25,600 $12,000 $9,200
29 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 15 R
(including 2 DDs),
4 W		 14 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $46,800

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Game tape date: 2024-02-09
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