Show #9000 2023-12-22 (taped 2023-11-28) Second Chance

2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 1, final game 1.

Contestants

Iris Masucci — a pharmacist from Rockville, Maryland

Jason Carpenter — a stand-up comic from Santa Rosa Valley, California

Juveria Zaheer — a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Juveria $5,200 $8,800 $45,600 $51,200 $28,400
32 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Jason $2,000 $2,600 $10,600 $16,200 $10,600
11 R, 1 W
Iris $2,200 $4,400 $6,400 $2,400 $6,400
13 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

CHICAGO WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE FOLLOW THE "MONEY" HISTORICAL AMERICAN GOVERNORS GOING SOFT CAROLS
$200 [28]
A big motorboat dyes the Chicago River& a smaller one churns the water to get it green in about 45 minutes to celebrate this annual event
St. Patrick's Day
Jason
$200 [11]
2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song"
Sunny Day
Iris
$200 [30]
This Michael Lewis bestseller is subtitled "The Art of Winning an Unfair Game"
Moneyball
Jason
$200 [23]
Leland Stanford railroaded his policies through as governor of this state in 1862 & '63
California
Juveria
$200 [29]
Mongolia's once vast grasslands are being degraded by overgrazing of thegoatsthat produce this soft sweater fabric
cashmere
Iris
$200 [25]
This carol was first performed in Austria on Christmas Eve in 1818 as "Stille Nacht"
"Silent Night"
Iris
$400 [27]
2020 was the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking of the 100-storybuilding& office space, then named for this retail company
Sears
Iris
$400 [10]
Type of evening in the title of a 1923 Frost poem
snowy
Juveria
$400 [16]
In 2010 a Paris court gave Manuel Noriega 7 years in prison for this crime of disguising the source of illegal proceeds
money laundering
Juveria
$400 [22]
The 1850s Utah War began with "Buchanan's Blunder", when President Buchanan moved to replace this man as governor
Young
Juveria
$400 [26]
A tender feeling leading to kind treatment, or a synonym for the fontanel on babies' heads
a soft spot
Juveria Jason
$400 [24]
In "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", we want you to bring us some of this dessert that looks more like a cake
figgy pudding
Juveria
$600 [5]
In a 1998 victory speech, this Bulls coach told an adoring Chicago crowd, "This was our last dance & it was a wonderful waltz"
Phil Jackson
Iris
$600 [9]
It comes "on little cat feet" according to Carl Sandburg, so let up on the gas
fog
Juveria
$600 [19]
In the title of their debut album, The Black Crowes advised listeners to shake this
your money maker
Iris
$600 [2]
Richard Bellingham, a real governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, turns up in this novel & lets Hester keep her child
The Scarlet Letter
Juveria
$600 [18]
Often bigger than the objects of previous cuddleable crazes, these soft favorites were only launched in 2017
Squishmallows
Jason
$600 [12]
It's the title question that follows "said the little lamb to the shepherd boy"
Do you hear what I hear?
Iris
$800 [4]
In 1968, Vietnam War protestersclashed with the National Guard near the Hilton asthisVP was to receive the Democratic nomination for president
Humphrey
Juveria
$800 [7]
Pirates be roaming in the novel titled this condition "in Jamaica"
a high wind
Juveria
$800 [20]
This larval word describes one preoccupied with wealth
money-grubber
Iris
$800 [1]
Not much is named for Eliot Spitzer, but the Hall of Human Origins in this Central Park West museum is named for his parents
the Museum of Natural History
Juveria
$800 [17]
Ken Jeong is now a spokesman for this soft bathroom brand with a fiber in its name
Cottonelle
Juveria
$800 [13]
The words to this song first appeared in a church magazine in 1849
"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
Juveria Iris
DD $1,000 [6]
Nearly 250,000gatheredto see Obama's 2008 victory speech in Chicago's front yard, this park named for another president
Grant Park
Iris
$1,000 [8]
Saul Bellow's Henderson gets this appellation in Africa
the Rain King
Juveria
$1,000 [21]
Many men have lightened their billfolds by carrying this; JFK's was gold with an image of St. Christopher
a money clip
Juveria
$1,000 [3]
On that fateful 1963 day in Dallas, this Texas governor suffered 3 broken ribs, a shattered wrist & a punctured lung
Governor Connally
Jason
$1,000 [15]
Sand, silt & clay combine to form this other 4-letter type of soil that's rich, soft & good for gardening
loam
Jason Iris
$1,000 [14]
One carol says he "looked out on the Feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even"
Good King Wenceslas
Juveria

Double Jeopardy! Round

BODIES OF WATER MOVIE INSPIRATIONS CONTEMPORARIES NEW TO THEOED BIOLOGY CAROLS
$400 [25]
Opened to Londoners in 2000, the Millennium Pedestrian Bridge is one of the newer ones to cross over this river
the Thames
Juveria
$400 [26]
A series of articles in the L.A. Times about people dying in their sleep, perhaps during bad dreams, inspired this 1984 film
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Juveria
$400 [27]
When Isaac Newton died in 1727, this 21-year-old Philadelphia clerk was still a few years away from taking up science
Franklin
Iris
$400 [28]
A chewable gelatinous candy, perhaps flavored with fruit, perhaps containing cannabis
a gummy
Juveria
$400 [29]
Term for the organism that provides nutrition to a parasite, not always willingly or knowingly
a host
Juveria
$400 [30]
Later to have a long-running TV variety show, shewon her first Emmy in 1962 for work on "The Garry Moore Show"
Carol Burnett
Iris
$800 [5]
Hindus consider it the most sacred river in India
the Ganges
Juveria
$800 [24]
Christopher Nolan said he got inspired to make "Oppenheimer" after this "Twilight" star gifted him a book of Oppie's speeches
(Robert) Pattinson
Juveria
$800 [19]
She arrived in England from Virginia in June 1616, in time to take in a new masque by Ben Jonson
Pocahontas
Jason
$800 [23]
It means to dress up (& maybe perform) as a character from comic books, video games, movies etc.
cosplay
Juveria
$800 [10]
This class of animals whose name indicates 2 habitats is extra menaced by climate change as warming of either home means trouble
an amphibian
Jason
$800 [21]
Like her brother, Carl, Carol Lewisexcelled in this field event & set a U.S. indoor record of 22' 3" in 1985
the long jump
Jason
$1,200 [2]
Manama & Bushehr are on this body that was at the center of fighting in 1991 & again in the 2000s
the Persian Gulf
Juveria
$1,200 [1]
While writing "Boyz N the Hood", John Singleton drew inspiration from this Rob Reiner film based on a Stephen King tale
Stand By Me
Juveria
$1,600 [11]
In 1794 Thomas Jefferson wrote that he hoped the execution of this man marked a return to moderation in the French Revolution
Robespierre
Juveria
$1,200 [22]
Abbreviated MSM, it refers to traditional or established outlets of information
mainstream media
Iris
$1,200 [9]
It's the collective word for all the DNA, RNA, what everna in an organism
its genome
$1,200 [20]
Carol II, pre-WWII king of this northern Balkan land, lost support due to his liaison with the mysterious Magda Lupescu
Romania
Juveria
$1,600 [3]
More than 300 rivers & streams flow into this deep Russian lake, but only one flows out--the Angara
Lake Baikal
Juveria
$1,600 [14]
James DeMonaco, writer of this film, had the idea after road rage made his wife wish for vengeance, a "free one a year!"
The Purge
Jason
$2,000 [12]
Working from Indian miniatures, Rembrandt sketched this contemporary & Taj Mahal builder
Shah Jahan
Jason
$1,600 [15]
Alliterative term meaning a benefit that accrues to a larger community, not an individual
the greater good
$2,000 [8]
As a pairing in biology class, A&P is amoeba, which moves using pseudopods, & this protist that moves with hairlike cilia
a paramecium
Juveria
$1,600 [18]
Director Carol Reed was nominated for an Oscar for this 1949 Cold War thriller set in Austria & starring Joseph Cotten
The Third Man
$2,000 [6]
Passamaquoddy Bay between Maine & New Brunswick, Canada is an inlet of this bay famous for its high tides
the Bay of Fundy
Juveria
$2,000 [13]
Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons" was an inspiration for this 2001 Wes Anderson movie about an affluent family
The Royal Tenenbaums
Juveria
DD $10,000 [7]
J.S. Bach & this great German-British composer were born a few weeks & a few dozen miles apart in 1685
Handel
Juveria
$2,000 [16]
From meteorology, it's a long, narrow current of water-soaked air moving horizontally above the Earth
an atmospheric river
DD $10,000 [4]
This adjective for the organ that gives nutrients to the fetus describes all mammals except marsupials & a few even weirder ones
placental
Juveria
$2,000 [17]
In 1992, this Democrat from Illinois became the first African-American woman elected to the Senate
Carol Moseley Braun
Jason

Final Jeopardy!

THE 20th CENTURY

On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada

Winston Churchill

Iris "Who is Stalin?" — wagered $4,000
Jason "Who is Winston Churchill???" — wagered $5,600
Juveria "Who is Winston Churchill?" — wagered $5,600

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