Show #8927 2023-09-12 (taped 2023-08-15) Second Chance

2023 Second Chance competition week 1, semifinal game 2.

Contestants

Susan Schulman — a baker from Greensboro, Vermont

David Maybury — a magnetics engineer originally from Richmond, Virginia

Cody Lawrence — an assistant editor from Sherman Oaks, California

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Cody $4,800 $6,800 $10,800 $21,600
3rd place: $2,000
$9,200
12 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
David!. $1,800 $4,200 $24,800 $37,463
Finalist
$20,200
22 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Susan $4,200 $7,000 $18,200 $25,601
2nd place: $3,000
$18,200
21 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE U.S. IN 1964 AFTERIN LIVING COLOR POTPOUR-EVERYTHING "M"MMMM AFRICAN CAPITAL HAIKU THAT'S T-B-D
$200 [4]
A Jan. 11 report from Luther Terry in his capacity in this job said (finally), "Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer"
the Surgeon General
Susan
$200 [16]
After writing for "In Living Color", Larry Wilmore was the "Senior Black Correspondent" on this Jon Stewart show
The Daily Show
David!.
$200 [29]
The late Richard Belzer was a cousin of this actor seen here; Belzer appeared in "Night Shift" & he returned the favor & guested on "SVU"
Henry Winkler
Susan
$200 [27]
The tree that bears this fruit is sacred in India
the mango
David!.
$200 [14]
Time for Special "K" / Its name meant "impala hill" / Uganda love it
Kampala
David!.
$200 [20]
A horse of pure stock
a Thoroughbred
David!.
$400 [5]
On March 27 a 9.2 quake rocked this state's Valdez, forcing the town itself to be moved to the delta of Mineral Creek
Alaska
David!.
$400 [30]
This actor-singer starred in the movies "Day Shift" & "Baby Driver" & crooned on "Slow Jamz" & "Gold Digger"
(Jamie) Foxx
Cody
$400 [28]
It's the first month of the calendar year that has no federal holidays
March
Susan
$400 [26]
Martha Stewart suggests copper bowls to get proper fluffiness in this egg-white pie preparation
meringue
Susan
$400 [13]
Hey, Kenya dig it? / Started as a water hole / 4 million now there
Nairobi
Susan
$400 [19]
A sensational 5-column-wide newspaper
a tabloid
Susan
$600 [7]
At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1964, he became the first Black Best Actor winner
Sidney Poitier
David!.
$600 [15]
Her documentary "Halftime" covers the journey to her performance at the Super Bowl in 2020
Jennifer Lopez
Susan
$600 [23]
Seen here, the Hang Nga guest house is in this country
Vietnam
$600 [25]
Inject cooked soybeans with a fermented grain called koji & you've got this Japanese bean paste
miso
Susan
$600 [9]
Same name of nation / Ah, shake shake shake... shake shake shake... / Say the J not D
Djibouti
Cody
$600 [1]
A Russian thistle, bouncing down an Old West street in the wind
a tumbleweed
David!.
$800 [2]
The first mission of this post-Mercury NASA program launched on April 8, uncrewed; soon, 2 men would fly in each mission
Gemini
Cody
$800 [21]
Jim Carrey said, "Good afternoon, good evening & good night" in this 1998 film
The Truman Show
Cody
$800 [22]
In 2023 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved this symbol to 90 seconds to midnight due to Russia's war with Ukraine
the Doomsday Clock
David!.
$800 [24]
This fancy culinary term refers to a mixture of diced carrots, onions & celery
mirepoix
Susan
$1,000 [10]
Off to Botswana! / Game reserve in a city / See the wildebeest
Gaborone
Cody
$800 [18]
All added up, it means arranged in a systematic form
tabulated
Cody
$1,000 [6]
In a landmark case the Supreme Court ruled that this newspaper had not libeled Alabama city commissioner L.B. Sullivan
the New York Times
Susan
$1,000 [17]
Seen here, this actor won his first Tony Award for his performance in "A Soldier's Play"
David Alan Grier
David!.
$1,000 [3]
An ex-contestant apparently did not enjoy becoming "America's Next Top Model", likening it to this college's "prison experiment"
Stanford
Susan
$1,000 [12]
A Swiss nutritionist developed this 6-letter breakfast, from a German word for "stew"
muesli
Susan
DD $2,400 [11]
Western port city / It's named for a president / '90s Civil War
Monrovia
Cody
$1,000 [8]
This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot
the Tabard Inn

Double Jeopardy! Round

QUITE A FOX THE SPORTING LIFE INFLUENZA GEORGIA ON MY MIND PLAY PEOPLE STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WORD WITH YOU
$400 [17]
From 2000 to 2006, Vicente Fox was in the news as president of this country
Mexico
David!.
$400 [30]
Driver Richard Petty won his 200th & last NASCAR race on July 4, 1984 at this Florida locale
Daytona (Beach)
Cody
$400 [19]
Influenza is caused by these infectious microbes, so antibiotics won't help
viruses
Cody
$400 [16]
It should come as no surprise that this is Georgia's state fruit
peach
Susan
$400 [9]
A seducing rake in 1675's "The Country Wife" is named this, like Little Jack in the corner
Horner
David!.
$400 [25]
From the Latin for "middle", it's definitely smaller than large
medium
David!.
$800 [23]
General Cornwallis called this commander of the Continental Army "The Old Fox"
George Washington
$800 [29]
The sin bin is another name for this place where a hockey player goes to wait out an infraction
the penalty box
Susan
$800 [18]
Canine influenza was first identified in 2004 among these racing dogs
greyhounds
Susan
$800 [15]
In early April, Augustaplayed host to this
the Masters
David!.
$800 [8]
He based Prince Paul, who says witty things like "It is so exhausting not to talk", on his Irish college tutor
Oscar Wilde
David!.
$800 [26]
In 1924 Rogers Hornsby's was .424
(his batting) average
Cody
$1,200 [22]
Early in her career this star of hits like "Independence Day" & "Kill Bill" was a dancer on "Soul Train"
Vivica Fox
Cody
$1,200 [10]
Named for the 3-decade president of its gov. body, this tourney's top prize was once called the Jules Rimet Trophy
the (FIFA) World Cup
Susan
$1,200 [2]
Research has linked influenza pandemics to this global weather event, El Niño's counterpart
La Niña
David!.
$1,200 [14]
In 1864 Sherman's march to the sea ended with the capture of this port city, Georgia's colonial capital
Savannah
David!.
$1,200 [7]
Queen Hecuba has a lot to say in Euripides' play about the suffering women of this city defeated by the Greeks
Troy
Susan
$1,200 [28]
In the sequence 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 4 is this, like a highway strip
median
Cody
$1,600 [21]
Former teacher Virginia Foxx is the U.S. rep from this state's 5th district which includes Tobaccoville & Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Susan
$1,600 [3]
Thetargetfor this sport measures 12 feet across & is called a house
curling
Susan
$2,000 [11]
Flu strains are determined by the makeup of 2 antigens known by these 2 letters, as in _1_1
H & N
David!.
$1,600 [13]
The subject of a 2019 film, he was eventually commended by the governor for saving lives in the 1996 Olympics bombing
Richard Jewell
David!.
$1,600 [5]
Julie Christie & Amanda Donohoe have played the alluring Yelena, who shakes things up in this playwright's "Uncle Vanya"
Chekhov
David!.
$1,600 [27]
To intend something, or to be malicious
mean
David!.
$2,000 [20]
The 19th century Fox sisters played an important role in this -ism that gave people hope of communicating with the dead
Spiritualism
David!.
$2,000 [6]
From 1976 to 1980 this alliteratively named Swede won 5 straight singles titles at Wimbledon
Björn Borg
Susan
DD $4,000 [12]
Early reports of this "national" flu appeared in the uncensored press of the country, which was neutral in WWI
the Spanish flu
David!.
DD $4,200 [1]
In 1998 a National Prisoner of War Museum was dedicated at this site of a notorious military Civil War prison
Andersonville
David!.
$2,000 [4]
"Angels in America" has characters both heavenly, such as the angel, & earthly, like the vision of this woman executed in 1953
(Ethel) Rosenberg
Susan
$2,000 [24]
If you're as far away from one place as another, you're this 11-letter word
equidistant
Susan

Final Jeopardy!

MYTHOLOGICAL PLACES

"Paradise Lost" says it's "abhorred" & "the flood of deadly hate" & in Dante's "Inferno" it's fed by a "gloomy brook"

the River Styx

Cody "What is the Styx?" — wagered $10,800
Susan "What is the River Styx?" — wagered $7,401
David!. "What is the Styx???" — wagered $12,663

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