Show #9316 - Monday, April 21, 2025

Liam Starnes game 2.

Contestants

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Maja Vlajnic, a senior data and policy specialist from Fredericksburg, Virginia

Bob Callen, a retired librarian from Lexington, Kentucky

Liam Starnes, an undergraduate student from Barrington, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,401)

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Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE FICTION
CELEBRITY GODPARENTS
STATE NICKNAMES
DISNEY DWARF ROLL CALL
MAKEUP THROUGH HISTORY
"WA", "WA"!
(Ken: Each response will begin with "W-A" but just once.)
    $200 16
Mark Watney in this novel says, "I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the best botanist on the planet"
    $200 30
The "circle of life" is expansive for this superstar, Godfather to 2 Beckhams, Sean Lennon & Elizabeth Hurley's son Damian
    $200 20
Admitted to the union in 1876, it's appropriately "the Centennial state"
    $200 29
Coach Rivers in the NBA or young Ms. McStuffins in animation
    $200 28
What's been called the oldest type of this makeup is a 4,000-year-old "tube" in Iran that contains bright red hematite
    $200 26
To flip-flop, or a big breakfast staple
    $400 11
The title refers to cataclysms that can last for years in N.K. Jemisin's Hugo Award winner "The Fifth" this (4 is more standard)
    $400 22
Tyler Perry's wait, I'm a Godfather? premiered as this couple chose Mr. P. for daughter Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor
    $400 19
Meant to distinguish Alabama from the rest of the South, it went on the state's license plates in 1955
    $400 23
It preceded Cat for a meme-orable feline who had the "Worst Christmas ever"
    $400 24
Also called blush, this type of makeup with a French name was made using red beet juice in the Victorian era
    $400 25
You need strong legs & lungs to live in the type of building called, say, a fifth floor this
    $600 8
Also known as Melange, this mystical substance created by Arrakis' sandworms helps in space navigation
    $600 12
Perhaps this country music legend gave goddaughter Miley Cyrus a "Coat Of Many Colors"
    $600 6
"The Panhandle State", it has 2--the eastern one is home to Harpers Ferry & in the northern one, you'll find a huge teapot
    $600 9
Having rhinitis or taking snuff will make you this
    $600 15
Lead was originally an ingredient in the white foundation called oshiroi used by these women whose apprentices are called maiko
    $600 13
It can be a gentle way to transmit an odor, or the odor itself
    $800 5
"The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" & "The Minority Report" are works from this writer whose middle name was Kindred
    $800 21
Kieran Culkin's plan of succession was to make this woman, who played his sister Shiv, godmother to son Wilder Wolf
    $800 3
Florida is "The Sunshine State"; Oregon is this, also starting with "Sun"--it's often amazing at Ecola State Park
    $800 7
Aw shucks, I don't want to draw any attention to myself, but I'll tell you it's the longest dwarf name
    $800 14
During the time of Marie Antoinette, faux beauty marks concealed blemishes caused by this disease aka Variola major
    $800 17
Once a way to protect walls, today it's used to give a room more eye appeal
    $1000 10
After the "bugs" attack Buenos Aires, Johnnie Rico is off to Klendathu for revenge in this classic
    DD: $5 27
He & TV co-star Bryan Cranston had more than a chemical bond & he made Bryan Godfather to his son Rydin
    $1000 1
"The Beef State", it's home to more cattle than people, with its 6 million cows outnumbering humans 3 to 1
    $1000 4
In a Hemingway short story title, it described the short life of Francis Macomber
    $1000 2
Used in ancient Egypt, this 4-letter makeup that darkens the edges of the eyes comes to English from Arabic
    $1000 18
A Polynesian woman, or a female surfer

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

Liam Bob Maja
$2,400 $3,200 $4,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Liam Bob Maja
$3,395 $4,800 $5,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE FACTS
ANAGRAMS
DEAR DIARY
"X" MEN
AFRICAN HISTORY
THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE)
    $400 7
It's a structure made of DNA found in the cell nucleus; the hermit crab has 254, we have 46
    $400 19
Prosperity, or government aid:
FREE LAW
    $400 30
Appointments in his handwritten engagement diary for June 5, 1940 include "12:30 cabinet" & "6:30 the king"
    $400 26
Regarding his performance of the national anthem at Woodstock, he told Dick Cavett, "I'm American, so I played it"
    $400 24
In 1952 Oliver Tambo & this man created South Africa's first Black law practice
    $400 28
In "Scarface", Tony Montana rises to wealth dealing this drug but goes down in a hail of bullets
    $800 6
In late 2024 this Spanish-named weather event brought colder-than-normal waters to the central equatorial Pacific
    $800 18
A rat poison:
CHINS ENTRY
    $800 29
A 1906 entry by her: "Pierre is sleeping his last sleep beneath the earth... I am working in the laboratory... it is all I can do"
    $800 25
George Washington really dug this guy, making him chief of artillery in the Continental Army & later, the first Secretary of War
    $800 22
The Zulu & the Swahili came from this proto-ethnic group that began emigrating from West Africa to the south & east
    $800 27
As Ray Liotta explains, the title of this Martin Scorsese film is mob slang for fellow gangsters
    $1200 4
A fingerprint scan is one form of this automated tech that measures physiological characteristics
    $1200 15
Big monkey with a pink & blue butt:
RIND MALL
    $1200 12
Ronald Reagan's presidential diary records a 2-minute meeting with this Iran-Contra Lt. Col. Nov. 25, 1986, the day he was fired
    $1200 11
His last novel "Island" envisions a Pacific island utopia--a far cry from the dystopian novel for which he's best known
    DD: $3,395 2
In 1970 Biafra, a breakaway land of the Igbo people, capitulated to this country's central government, ending a Civil War
    $1200 9
This 1991 film about gang violence in South Central L.A. helped popularize a slang contraction for an inner-city area
    $1600 3
Entanglement of magnetic fluids on the Sun can lead to solar these that can knock out satellites
    $1600 16
One who amorally takes advantage of what comes along:
POOP IN TRUST
    DD: $1,200 13
In 1922 Virginia Woolf recorded being bored by this new novel her friend "Tom" Eliot thought was "on a par with 'War and Peace"'
    $1600 23
This Spanish missionary & saint, also an O.G. Jesuit, was instrumental in bringing Christianity to Asia
    $1600 1
An effort with help from Jimmy Carter reduced African cases of the disease named for this parasite from 840,000 to 14
    $1600 8
In "The Godfather", Robert Duvall plays a savvy Corleone family member with this title, Italian for "counselor"
    $2000 5
In 1774 chemist Johan Gahn was working with the mineral pyrolusite & found himself speaking this new element, No. 25
    $2000 17
Guess his name:
IMP TURNS SKILLET
    $2000 14
His final diary entry, March 29, 1912, says, "Outside the door of the tent, it remains a scene of whirling drift"
    $2000 20
He wrote "Parade's End", informed by his own experience in World War I, where he fought in the Battle of the Somme
    $2000 21
Anti-govt. protests known as the Arab Spring began in this North African country in 2010 & soon swept across the region
    $2000 10
This Japanese word for gangsters is the title of a 1974 Robert Mitchum movie

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Liam Bob Maja
$12,790 $15,200 $10,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
This country has 2 capitals, is bounded by 5 other countries & has 37 official languages

Final scores:

Liam Bob Maja
$20,401 $4,819 $20,300
2-day champion: $52,802 3rd place: $2,000 2nd place: $3,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Liam Bob Maja
$10,600 $15,600 $10,200
16 R
(including 1 DD),
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
0 W		 14 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $36,400

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Game tape date: 2025-03-04
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