Show #8733 2022-11-02 (taped 2022-09-20) Tournament of Champions

2022 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 3.

Contestants

Margaret Shelton — a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Tyler Rhode — a director at a start-up from New York, New York

Brian Chang — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Brian	$-1,000	$-1,000	$4,200	$4,200 3rd place: $5,000	$5,200 11 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Tyler	$3,400	$5,400	$17,400	$34,800 Winner: semifinalist	$14,200 19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Margaret	$5,200	$5,400	$17,400	$24,400 2nd place: $5,000	$17,400 20 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC NAMES	TEAM OF THE MLB HALL OF FAMERS	YOU LEFT ME	5, 5	BAROQUE	THE LAW
$200 [4] In 2018 this Pole topped a BBC poll of women who changed the world Marie Curie Brian Tyler	$200 [30] Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell the Pirates Brian	$200 [24] Abandoned at a difficult time, I was "left in the" this, from the name of an old game lurch Tyler	$200 [27] This implement typically has a serrated edge, as seen here a bread knife Brian	$200 [28] In the Baroque era the trio sonata, usually written for 2 violins & a cello, was a genre of this, named for a room chamber music Margaret	$200 [29] Stopping on this 8-letter German roadway is illegal--& remarkably unadvisable--so don't run out of gas Autobahn Brian
$400 [16] Chinese philosopher Mencius earned the title "Second Sage", as second in importance to this philosopher & his way of thinking Confucius Tyler	$400 [25] Ozzie Smith, Lou Brock the Cardinals	$400 [23] I'm Curtis Granderson. The Dodgers left me off this list of eligible players for the 2017 World Series. They lost the roster Margaret	$400 [21] Mus musculus is the scientific name for this rodent a house mouse Tyler	$400 [26] The Asam brothers garnished the exterior of their Munich residence with figuresmade from this plaster stucco Margaret	$400 [22] In Wisconsin, "The serving of" it "at a public eating place as a substitute for table butter is prohibited" unless a customer wants it margarine Tyler
$600 [8] A town in Russia was renamed for this cosmonaut, the first man in space, following his death in 1968 Gagarin Brian	$600 [7] Phil Niekro, Chipper Jones the Braves Tyler	$600 [12] You saw my text message but didn't respond--you "left me on" this read Brian	$600 [19] Rick Nielsen & Robin Zander are members of this band that's been around since the 1970s Cheap Trick	$600 [20] This 17th century Italian painter & sculptor also wrote comedies & oh yeah, did some Vatican City architecture Bernini Brian Tyler	$600 [3] If "The Graduate" were set in South Australia, Ben could have gotten 2 years or a $10,000 fine for interrupting this type of event a wedding Margaret
$800 [15] Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566, he had 2 epithets: the Magnificent & the Lawgiver Suleiman Margaret	$800 [17] Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio the Astros Tyler	$800 [11] "With four hungry children and a crop in the field... you picked a fine time to leave me", this woman Lucille Margaret	$800 [6] Literally a gem that's part of royal regalia, it's come to mean the absolute best part of something a crown jewel Tyler	DD $1,000 [13] Like Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi painted this biblical woman "Beheading Holofernes" Judith Brian	$800 [2] In New Hampshire every pet dog & cat must be vaccinated against this disease at 3 months--oh, & every ferret, too rabies Tyler
$1,000 [14] A 2022lawthat makes lynching a federal hate crime is named for this teen who was brutally murdered in 1955 Emmett Till Margaret	$1,000 [18] Ron Santo, Frank Chance the Chicago Cubs	$1,000 [10] You raptured while I stayed in my airplane seat in chapter 1 of this 1995 book that launched a series Left Behind Margaret	$1,000 [5] Rhyming "avian" term for a good lawyer a legal eagle Tyler	$1,000 [9] Baroque master Johann Bernhard Fischer's St. Charles Churchhas columns dubbed the Pillars of this mythic hero Hercules Margaret	$1,000 [1] In 2008 feeding the pigeons at St. Mark's Square in this city became a no-no that could cost you 700 euro Venice Brian

Double Jeopardy! Round

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS	HEALTH & MEDICINE	SIMON SAYS	CHILD ACTORS	NOVEL NURSES	ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER
$400 [30] Dating from before the city was built up, just a short drive outside this Kenyan capital is anational parkbearing its name Nairobi Margaret	$400 [13] An ectopic pregnancy, from the Greek for "displaced", is called a tubal pregnancy when it occurs here inside the Fallopian tubes Brian Tyler Margaret	$400 [28] Actor Simon Callow writes of this "Ring" composer, "Had he been... other than a musical genius, he would have been locked up" Wagner Brian	$400 [27] Dustin Diamond, who died in 2021 after a brief battle with cancer, is best remembered for playing Screech on this teen sitcom Saved by the Bell Margaret	$400 [22] Several nurses figure in his novel "A Farewell to Arms", including Miss Van Campen Hemingway Margaret	$400 [29] Sound from a pig, &one's peers squeal & equals
$1,200 [17] From the Sky Tower, you get a bird's-eye view of this New Zealand city that sounds like a nation for birds Auckland Tyler	$800 [12] Greek for "to breathe hard" gives us the name for this ailment common in children asthma Tyler Margaret	$800 [26] In a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, he says, "I'm your church now! You understand,--you've got to be as I say" (Simon) Legree Brian	$800 [25] Pre-"Taxi Driver", Scorsese cast her in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", where she asks another kid, "Wanna get high on ripple?" (Jodie) Foster Tyler	$800 [21] In Richard Hooker's "MASH", she emerges "not out of a scallop shell like Botticelli's Venus, but out of a helicopter" "Hot Lips" Houlihan Margaret	$800 [16] Thealpine homes seen on the left &the bag seen on the right chalets & satchel Tyler Margaret
$1,600 [5] Around 1400, this Belgian "B" city northwest of Brussels was among Europe's richest & built itself quite acity hall Bruges Brian	$1,200 [9] PVCs are premature ventricular contractions, a common type of this, the medical term for any irregular heartbeat an arrhythmia Tyler	$1,200 [8] Simon Pegg, in this film: If we don't leave, zombies will "tear us to pieces, & that is really going to exacerbate things" Shaun of the Dead Tyler	$1,200 [14] Before settling on his final stage surname, hewas known as Mickey McGuire (Mickey) Rooney Tyler	$1,200 [18] At Hogwarts, this madam, first name Poppy, is a nurse who is good with a healing potion Madam Pomfrey Margaret	$1,200 [3] One cherry from a jar &several of the instruments called mouth organs maraschino & harmonicas Brian
$2,000 [4] In London, it's an area of government offices, & by extension the civil service; in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the prime minister'soffice Whitehall Brian	$1,600 [10] A colonoscopy can diagnose cancer as well as this condition where pockets develop in the sides of the colon diverticulitis Margaret	$1,600 [7] In a Twain tale, Simon Wheeler tells the story of Jim Smiley & "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of" this title place Calaveras County Margaret	$1,600 [15] Maybe Olivia Edward, child of psychic medium John Edward, foresaw playing Pamela Adlon's youngest daughter on this series Better Things Margaret	$1,600 [20] In "The Rose of Sebastopol", Rosa Barr is part of Florence Nightingale's nursing retinue in this war the Crimean War Margaret	$1,600 [2] Disavowed a previous statement &a fancy glass bottle for serving liquor recanted & decanter Brian
DD $4,000 [24] You get a good look at this city from agondolaas it climbs the former Ericsson Globe, now renamed Avicii Arena Stockholm Tyler	$2,000 [11] Named for a French physician, this disorder of the inner ear can cause vertigo & hearing loss Ménière's disease Margaret	$2,000 [6] This Holocaust survivor & Nazi hunter wrote, "Violence is like a weed--it does not die even in the greatest drought" Wiesenthal Margaret	$2,000 [23] Elsie Fisher had actually finished middle school when she played vulnerable young Kayla in this 2018 Bo Burnham film Eighth Grade Tyler	$2,000 [19] Hana reads to Almasy, the title character of this 1992 novel; Hana's lover Kip later wants to murder him The English Patient Margaret	DD $2,000 [1] A quantity that has both magnitude & direction, &describing secret operations vector & covert Brian

Final Jeopardy!

PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise

forty acres and a mule

Brian "What is ??" — wagered $0

Tyler "What is forty acres and a mule?" — wagered $17,400

Margaret "What is "Forty acres and a mule"?" — wagered $7,000

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