Show #8730 2022-10-28 (taped 2022-09-15) Second Chance

2022 Second Chance competition week 2, final game 2.

Contestants

Sadie Goldberger — an interpreter from Columbia, Maryland (subtotal of $4,800)

Jack Weller — a law student originally from San Diego, California (subtotal of $3,400)

Rowan Ward — a chart caller, writer, and editor from Chicago, Illinois (subtotal of $30,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
rowan $2,600 $6,800 $20,000 $7,799 $15,200
27 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Jack $3,600 $4,800 $29,400 $0 $22,800
18 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Sadie $2,000 $2,600 $5,000 $0 $5,000
9 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

PICTURE THE NO. 1 HIT BOOKS & AUTHORS YOU MOVE ME IN THE SCIENCE DICTIONARY FROM THE LATIN THE STRONGEST LINK
$200 [25]
New Kids on the Block took it to No. 1
"Step By Step"
rowan
$200 [27]
The law works in mysterious ways in "Sparring Partners", a 2022 collection of novellas by this king of legal thrillers
Grisham
rowan
$200 [30]
Norfolk, Virginia's airport once had the world's longest moving this, 337 feet--stand to the right, walk to the left!
moving sidewalk
rowan
$200 [26]
The most important class of pigments involved in photosynthesis is this one whose name means "green leaf"
chlorophyll
Sadie
$200 [28]
This 2-letter symbol for a prescription comes from the Latin for "to take"
RX
rowan
$200 [29]
The Öresund Link, a bridge & tunnel connecting Malmö, Sweden to this Danish capital, opened July 1, 2000
Copenhagen
rowan
$400 [15]
From 1977
"Hotel California"
Sadie
$400 [7]
Years before "The Color Purple", she published a volume of poetry called "Once", about her time in Africa & her 1960s activism
(Alice) Walker
rowan
$400 [24]
On the PGA Champions Tour (formerly the Senior Tour), players may use this, though Darren Clarke is one of the few who do
a golf cart
Jack
$400 [23]
This constellation's belt lies near the celestial equator
Orion
Sadie
$400 [22]
From the Latin for "backward", this prefix became a word meaning from an earlier time, but maybe in a hip way
retro
rowan
$400 [21]
This hypothetical creature represents a bridge between us & our evolutionary ancestors
the missing link
rowan
$600 [12]
It was No. 1 in the U.S. &, of course, in Sweden
"Dancing Queen"
Sadie
$600 [6]
This Pulitzer Prize winner by Colson Whitehead begins, "The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no"
The Underground Railroad
rowan
$600 [20]
Ramcharger 8 at Montana's Big Sky Resort is the USA's first 8-person one of these uphill transports
a ski lift
rowan
$600 [19]
Neutrons consist of 3 of these:2 down, one up
quarks
rowan
$600 [16]
A statement with multiple possible meanings is this, from the Latin for "to drive both ways"
ambiguous
rowan
$600 [18]
To zoom around the web, you can click on a hotlink or this, which also starts with "H"
hyperlink
rowan
$800 [5]
1995's Grammy-winning Record & Song of the Year
"Kiss From A Rose"
rowan
$800 [3]
Michelle Zauner writes about losing her Korean mother to cancer in her memoir "Crying in" this Asian grocery chain
H Mart
Sadie
$800 [14]
Seems like 1960s world's fairs had to have one: Seattle, New York & Montreal, where the first half of the word was "Mini"
monorails
Sadie
$800 [8]
Galileo was among the first to observe these dark solar areas that appear in 11-year cycles
sunspots
rowan
$800 [9]
This word for an often volunteer museum guide is from the Latin for "teach"
docent
Jack
$800 [17]
The name of this garland seenherecan also refer to any link of components in a series
a daisy chain
Jack
$1,000 [4]
It was a hit for Harry Chapin
"Cat's In The Cradle"
rowan
$1,000 [2]
A small-town girl becomes a Broadway star, not a nun, in this first novel by Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
$1,000 [13]
Olympic events include single, double & quadruple these, a word that originally meant oars & now also means the boats
sculls
rowan
$1,000 [1]
This German physicist doesn't look too happy, even though he devised quantum theory, which won him a Nobel Prize in 1918
Planck
Jack
DD $1,800 [10]
This 9-letter word for the sacred writings of the Bible is from the Latin for "to write"
scripture
Jack
$1,000 [11]
In the "Skyward Sword" edition of this video game, Link searches for the title character after she's knocked out of the sky
Zelda
Sadie

Double Jeopardy! Round

DAYS OF YORE STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS TV LAW AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS MYTH-POURRI "SECOND" CHANCES
$400 [27]
Chinese alchemists in the 9th century mixed saltpeter, sulfur & carbon, creating this history-changing substance
gunpowder
Jack
$400 [28]
Crocker Art Museum & the Leland Stanford Mansion
Sacramento
rowan
$400 [30]
"Trial by Media" is a docuseries with episodes like "Blago!", revisiting the trial of this state's governor
Illinois
rowan
$400 [29]
In 1947 he broke the color barrier & became the first African American to play modern Major League Baseball
(Jackie) Robinson
rowan
$400 [21]
The sun god & creator god of Egypt, he's said to have created man from his tears & was also big on instant retribution
Ra
Jack
$400 [22]
Relationship of your grandchild & your sibling's grandchild
second cousin
rowan
$800 [24]
Used centuries ago by Irish monks who craved discomfort, aclochánis also known as this insect domicile hut
a beehive hut
Sadie
$800 [23]
The Bishop Museum & the Battleship Missouri Memorial
Honolulu
rowan
$800 [25]
On this show Julianna Margulies played Alicia, who returns to her life as an attorney after her hubby goes to jail
The Good Wife
Sadie
$800 [26]
The American Ballet Theater's first black female principal dancer, shewas also the first to dance "Swan Lake" for the ABT
(Misty) Copeland
rowan
$800 [20]
In ancient Rome, she was not only the literal mother of Virtue but the personification of truth (especially in vino)
Veritas
Jack
$800 [19]
A 1984 novel that starts, "You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this..." uses this point of view
second person
Sadie
$1,200 [8]
These lyric poets of southern Europe laid out their rules for poetry in the 14th c. work "Leys d'amors"
troubadours
rowan
$1,200 [6]
Tootsie's Orchid Lounge & Ryman Auditorium
Nashville
$1,200 [18]
Viola Davis won an NAACP Image award for her role on this show in which she & her law students become tangled in intrigue
How to Get Away with Murder
rowan
$1,200 [1]
He was the first African American to serve as National Security Advisor & as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(Colin) Powell
Jack
$1,600 [2]
The man, the Greek myth, the legend, he used Medusa's head to rescue his mom & get King Polydectes seriously stoned
Perseus
rowan Jack
$1,200 [12]
The lowest commissioned rank in the U.S. Army
second lieutenant
rowan
$2,000 [15]
During Japan's Edo period, this "way of the warrior" code developed into an ethical guide for practitioners
bushido
Jack
$1,600 [5]
Pueblo Grande Museum & Archaeological Park & the Thunderbird Arts Center
Phoenix
Jack
$1,600 [17]
Matthew McConaughey played Mickey Haller in this big screen legal thriller; Manuel Garcia-Rulfo on the Netflix show
The Lincoln Lawyer
Sadie
$1,600 [14]
A-tisket a-tasket, in 1959 she won a Grammy for her basket, the first African-American woman to do so
Fitzgerald
rowan
$2,000 [7]
Balder will be back from the dead after this event, "doom of the gods" in Old Norse
Ragnarok
Jack
$1,600 [11]
Term for the government of France from 1848 to 1852
the Second Republic
Jack
DD $6,400 [9]
In 1429 Charles VII granted nobility, arms & the surname du Lys to her family
Joan of Arc
rowan
$2,000 [4]
Fromagination & Camp Randall stadium
Madison
$2,000 [16]
For 5 seasons, Glenn Close played ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes on this series
Damages
Jack
$2,000 [13]
A Florida educator & college founder, she is the first African American to represent a state in Statuary Hall
McLeod Bethune
Jack
DD $7,000 [3]
Allecto, or "unceasing in anger", was one of the 3 vengeance goddesses really living up to this collective name
the Furies
Jack
$2,000 [10]
Formed in 43 B.C., this alliance was made up of Mark Antony, Lepidus & Octavian
the Second Triumvirate
Jack

Final Jeopardy!

ARTISTS

Sabena Airlines commissioned a painting by this artist, "L'Oiseau de Ciel", a bird whose body is filled with clouds in a blue sky

René Magritte

Sadie "Who is Picasso?" — wagered $5,000
rowan "Who is Picasso???" — wagered $12,201
Jack "Who is Pi" — wagered $29,400

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