Show #8726 2022-10-24 (taped 2022-09-15) Second Chance

2022 Second Chance competition week 2, semifinal game 1.

Contestants

Sadie Goldberger — an interpreter from Columbia, Maryland

Jeff Smith — a music educator from San Diego, California

Sarah Snider — a middle school humanities teacher from Fishers, Indiana

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Sarah	$4,400	$5,600	$5,200	$10,398 3rd place: $1,000	$5,200 12 R, 4 W
Jeff	$-400	$3,000	$10,600	$13,401 2nd place: $2,000	$11,600 18 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Sadie	$1,000	$3,600	$13,400	$21,201 Finalist	$14,800 21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

I PLAYED A REAL PERSON	CHILDREN'S LITERATURE	DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS	CEREAL MASCOTS	CAPTAIN	CRUNCH
$200 [27] "Super Pumped" stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Travis Kalanick, founder of this rideshare service Uber Sadie	$200 [6] In an oft-cited example of false memory, many folks firmly but wrongly remember this inquisitive monkey as having a tail Curious George Sadie	$200 [4] Artemis or Kali, for example goddess Sadie	$200 [16] This mascot once had a spin-off cereal called Tiger Power Tony the Tiger Sadie	$200 [29] This captain of the Bounty had a falling out with First Mate Fletcher Christian; mutiny ensued Captain Bligh Sarah	$200 [30] In autumn, they're satisfying to crunch underfoot & also nourish detritivores, small creatures that eat dead material leaves Sarah
$400 [20] Jesse Eisenberg played this guy, still at Harvard, in "The Social Network" Zuckerberg Sadie	$400 [5] "Sometimes You Have to Lie" is a 2020 biography of Louise Fitzhugh, creator of this 11-year-old spy Harriet (the Spy) Jeff	$400 [28] A big space for couplesdancing; many hotels have a grand one ballroom Jeff	$400 [23] Sonny couldn't help being cuckoo for this "delicious, munchy, crunchy, chocolatey" cereal Cocoa Puffs Jeff	$600 [13] A bit of a stickler, this captain, leader of the Jamestown colony, said, "He that will not work shall not eat" John Smith Jeff	$400 [26] This alliterative crunch in which it's hard to get a loan can lead to a recession a credit crunch Sarah
$600 [7] This actor had his eyes glued shut daily to play Ray Charles in "Ray" Jamie Foxx Sadie	$600 [3] In this 1930 book with the refrain "I think I can", the protagonist is female & the unhelpful other locomotives are guys The Little Engine That Could Jeff	$600 [25] The ringtail is in the same family as this nocturnal mammal with a ringed tail a raccoon Sarah Sadie	$600 [18] Ad execs were determined to repeatedly torture a hapless animal with "Silly rabbit", this cereal was "for kids"! Trix Sadie	$800 [12] In the 1950s Captain Hyman Rickover selected this future president for his new nuclear submarine program Jimmy Carter Sarah	$600 [21] The Crunch chain of more than 400 of these nationwide promises "no judgment" gyms Sadie
$800 [8] Josh Gad & Seth Rogen have both played this electrical engineer--in "Jobs" & "Steve Jobs", respectively Steve Wozniak Sarah	$800 [1] The collaborations of writer Jon Scieszka & illustrator Lane Smith include the 1992 tale of this odoriferous man the Stinky Cheese Man Sarah	$800 [24] It's what the NFL & NBA call their CEOs commissioner Jeff	$800 [17] In 2022 the leprechaun who hawked this cereal turned 58; don't pull a muscle running away with the stuff, man Lucky Charms Jeff	DD $1,000 [14] Capt. Preston was acquitted for his part in this March 5, 1770 event--it couldn't be proved he'd ordered British troops to fire the Boston Massacre Jeff	$800 [15] Supercomputers crunch numbers in the form of this "large" 2-word buzz term for the tidal wave of digital information big data
$1,000 [9] Robert De Niro trained with the real Jake LaMotta for his portrayal of him in this 1980 film Raging Bull Sarah	$1,000 [2] In a Mo Willems tale, the first words little Trixie says are the name of this stuffed rabbit she lost & found Knuffle Bunny Sarah	$1,000 [22] It's another word for pirate, arrgh buccaneer Jeff	$1,000 [19] In the early '70s General Mills said, y'know, we need a cereal featuring a vampire type of guy, so America took a bite of this Count Chocula Sarah	$1,000 [11] Arthur Rostroncaptained this ship that rescued 705 Titanic survivors, including "The Unsinkable"Molly Brown the RMS Carpathia	$1,000 [10] Crepitus, crunching in the joints, is a symptom of degenerative joint disease, also called this form of arthritis osteoarthritis Jeff

Double Jeopardy! Round

DESTINATION EUROPE	SAY WHAT?	MATH CLASS	NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS '22	PLANTCRAFT	"C" BAND LYRICS
$400 [1] Time to make a pilgrimage & tee it up at this revered golf club's Old Course in Scotland St. Andrews Jeff	$400 [17] The OED calls this palindrome "an expression of interrogation"; it's often used to mean "what?" huh Sarah	$400 [11] One of these is a straight one-dimensional figure that extends infinitely in both directions a line Jeff	$400 [29] Profession of Pat Cipollone ("Patsy Baloney" to some), who testified on July 8 to the January 6 Committee lawyer (White House Counsel) Jeff	$400 [30] It was originally a curved goat horn overflowing with fruits & vegetables; you can buy ones on Etsy woven from grapevines a cornucopia Sadie	$400 [10] 2008:"I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing, Roman cavalry choirs are singing" Coldplay Jeff
$800 [2] Park Güell, with unique architectural features by Antoni Gaudí, is a must see in this Spanish city Barcelona Jeff	$800 [14] Imitation okay--NHL star Alex Ovechkin often uses this "I can't hear you" gesture when he gets booed a cupped ear (hand behind the ear) Sadie	$800 [12] Abbreviated log, it's the exponent to which a base must be raised to produce a certain number logarithm Jeff	$800 [27] Queen Elizabeth II's last appearance was to appoint this woman as the 15th prime minister of her majesty's reign Liz Truss Sarah	$800 [23] The Latin for "earth" gives us the name of this plant-friendly container seen here terrarium Sadie	$800 [6] 1996:"He's going the distance, he's going for speed" Cake Sadie
$1,200 [3] As reflected in its name, five medieval fishing villages make up this destination, perched on the cliffs of the Italian Riviera Cinque Terre Sadie	$1,200 [15] Testifying before Congress in 2019, Robert Mueller asked several lawmakers to do this, including Devin Nunes with a near 100-worder to repeat the question Jeff	$1,200 [13] For 12 & 16, 4 is the GCF, or greatest this greatest common factor Sadie	DD $800 [22] Turkish President Erdogan got enough concessions to drop his opposition to letting Sweden & Finland do this join NATO Sadie	DD $1,000 [21] Practitioners of this 7-letter bushy art have been called tree masons & leafage sculptors topiary Sadie	$1,200 [9] 1992:"Thursday doesn't even start, it's Friday I'm in love" The Cure Sadie
$1,600 [4] In the reliquary of this king & saint's basilica in Budapest, you can see what is reportedly his right hand St. Stephen Sarah Sadie	$1,600 [16] It's the word of incomprehension invariably used by the character Manuel in "Fawlty Towers" qué Jeff	$1,600 [20] Add up the lengths of all the sides of a polygon to get this measurement perimeter Jeff Sadie	$1,600 [26] Josh Gerstein of this news organization-o got the big leaked Supreme Court draft opinion story of the year Politico Jeff	$1,600 [24] This art of joining 2 plants to grow as one enabled Axel Erlandson to create the "Circus Trees" at Gilroy Gardens in California grafting Sarah	$1,600 [7] 1977:"That's why I'm easy, easy like Sunday morning" the Commodores Sadie
$2,000 [5] Here'sa view of Oia, with some of its blue-domed churches on this Greek island Santorini Sadie	$2,000 [19] This word meaning "can't understand what was said" appears often in the Nixon library transcripts of Watergate tapes unintelligible Sarah Sadie	$2,000 [28] Thissymbol with a "way out" name tells you to take the square root of the number inside it radical Jeff	$2,000 [18] California Governor Gavin Newsom denied parole to this man guilty of a 1968 assassination Sirhan Sirhan Jeff	$2,000 [25] This art, the dwarfing of trees, finds its smallest entries called keishi & shito bonsai Sarah	$2,000 [8] 1994:"With their tanks & their bombs... & their guns, in your head, in your head they are dying" The Cranberries Sadie

Final Jeopardy!

AUTHORS

When Esquire began as a men's lifestyle magazine in the 1930s, he was asked for manly content & wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues

Ernest Hemingway

Sarah "Who is Hemingway?" — wagered $5,198

Jeff "Who is Hemingway?" — wagered $2,801

Sadie "Who is Ernest Hemingway?" — wagered $7,801

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