Show #9001 2023-12-25 (taped 2023-11-28) Second Chance

2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 1, final game 2.

Contestants

Iris Masucci — a pharmacist from Rockville, Maryland (subtotal of $2,400)

Jason Carpenter — a stand-up comic from Santa Rosa Valley, California (subtotal of $16,200)

Juveria Zaheer — a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada (subtotal of $51,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Juveria $2,800 $5,000 $19,600 $19,600 $16,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Jason $400 $3,800 $15,800 $25,800 $17,800
22 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Iris $800 $1,800 $7,000 $2,000 $7,000
10 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BATS ENTERTAINMENT GETTING POSSESSIVE HOBBIES LET ME PHRASE IT THIS WAY RIDE INTO... THE MANGER ZONE
$200 [13]
Chadwick Boseman starred as Jackie Robinson in the 2013 biopic with this name--er, number
42
Juveria
$200 [30]
Built by an English engineer around 1829, Stephenson's Rocket was a greatly improved one of these steam-driven transports
a locomotive
Juveria
$200 [29]
Scripts to master in this art of beautiful handwriting include copperplate & Spencerian
calligraphy
Juveria
$200 [28]
If you "paint the town" this color, you're out having a good time
red
Jason
$200 [26]
this country after crossing its border with Chile, then we'll head directly east & zip into Uruguay
Argentina
Jason
$200 [27]
"Now when Jesus was born in" this town, "there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem"
Bethlehem
Jason
$400 [12]
She was up for a Golden Glove... I mean, a Golden Globe... for playing catcher Dottie Hinson in "A League of Their Own"
Geena Davis
Iris
$400 [15]
Anything from a stubbed toe to a nuclear meltdown can be attributed to this principle bearing a surname
Murphy's law
Jason
$400 [22]
Originally called Number Place, this puzzle got its more familiar name after appearing in a Japanese magazine
Sudoku
Juveria
$400 [24]
A person you're having obsessive thoughts about is "living" this cost-related way "in your head"
rent free
Jason
$400 [25]
this Arizona town from Dodge City as Wyatt Earp did to join his brothers in 1879
Tombstone
Jason
$400 [23]
"She brought forth her firstborn son... and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them" at this place
the inn
Iris
$600 [11]
Robert Redford's Roy Hobbs puts on his own stadium light show with a home run for the ages in this movie
The Natural
Iris
$600 [14]
For many years "Betcha can't eat just one" was an ad slogan for these chips named for Herman W.
Lay's (potato chips)
Juveria
$600 [16]
Folks pursuing this -alogy speak of frustrating "burned counties" where courthouse records have been lost
genealogy
Juveria
$600 [21]
This heavily memed phrase of dismissive farewell was uttered by Ice Cube in "Friday"
"Bye, Felicia"
Jason
$600 [20]
this province of Spain with a plain where the rain helps grow its famous oranges
Valencia
Jason
$600 [19]
"When they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts": these 3 items
gold, frankincense & myrrh
Iris
$800 [3]
& today (today), I consider myself (myself) the luckiest man to say he starred as Lou Gehrig in "The Pride of the Yankees"
Gary Cooper
Juveria Iris
$800 [1]
One of these eponymous "rules" is that to conduct business, a quorum must be present
Robert's Rules (of Order)
Juveria
$800 [17]
Not just cucumbers are used in this craft that employs Mason jars, vinegar & spices
pickling
Juveria
$800 [6]
The pleasure of not being part of a trend can be expressed as JOMO, short for this
the joy of missing out
Juveria
$800 [8]
this capital on the Mediterranean whose name in Arabic is Tarabulus
Tripoli
Juveria
$800 [18]
"And when they were departed... the angel of the Lord" said take the child & his mom & "flee into" this present-day nation
Egypt
Jason
$1,000 [4]
This 1993 film about kids who play ball in a certain vacant area includes the classic line "You're killing me, Smalls!"
The Sandlot
Jason
$1,000 [2]
On January 30, 1968, CBS broadcast the reopening ofthisD.C. landmark; the stage had been dark for 103 years
Ford's Theater
Jason
DD $2,000 [5]
It's a period in British history, or a hobby involving refurbishing old cars
the Restoration
Jason
$1,000 [10]
In England, you stay on your best behavior by "minding your" these 2 letters
Ps & Qs
Juveria
$1,000 [7]
the Strait of Tiran& on into this gulf at the top of the Red Sea, part of the very Middle-East-centric Q-no-U atlas
the Gulf of Aqaba
Juveria Jason Iris
$1,000 [9]
This king "gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people" & "demanded of them where Christ should be born"
King Herod
Jason

Double Jeopardy! Round

I'VE SEEN HER TYPE BEFORE SCIENCE & NATURE '80s NO. 1 HITMAKERS AGES, EPOCHS & ERAS AFRICAN AMERICANA TOLD YOU "SO"
$400 [30]
In addition to cranking out mystery novels, shewrote "The Mousetrap", which ran nonstop in London for over 60 years
Agatha Christie
Juveria
$400 [29]
When they aren't in any special hurry, the Galapagos giant type of these travel at about .16 miles per hour
tortoises
Iris
$400 [28]
In 1984 she wanted to know, "What's Love Got To Do With It"
Tina Turner
Juveria
$400 [27]
The "Convict Era" of this nation's history spans 1788 to 1868, when some 160,000 prisoners were transported there
Australia
Iris
$400 [26]
The mythic Annie Christmas was near 7 feet tall & kept bullies in line on the docks of New Orleans by this river
the Mississippi
Juveria
$400 [25]
Abstemious is a synonym for this 5-letter adjective
sober
Jason
$800 [12]
Awarded the Nobel Prize for her truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China, shekept typing away through a long life
Pearl Buck
Jason
$800 [23]
Widely abundant throughout the United States, it's the aptly named game fish seen here
a largemouth bass
Jason
$800 [17]
In 1989sheknocked Milli Vanilli's "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" out of the top spot with her own "Miss You Much"
Janet Jackson
Juveria
DD $800 [22]
This "Age" began in the 1930s with the advent of a new type of engine, though it didn't take off for a decade or so
the Jet Age
Juveria
$800 [19]
The 2011 rom-com "Jumping the Broom" is named for a Black American tradition during this life event
a wedding
Iris
$800 [24]
It's the "S" in SJW, a mocking term for an overly progressive person
social
Juveria
$1,200 [10]
"Vicki" Baumis best known for her 1929 novel about a group of people thrown together that became this Greta Garbo film
Grand Hotel
Juveria
$1,200 [20]
Global warming is taking its toll on this biodiverse ecosystem that extends in the ocean for about 1,400 miles
the Great Barrier Reef
Jason
$1,200 [1]
While Kim Carnes sang about "Bette Davis Eyes", this pair's "Private Eyes" were watching you
Hall & Oates
Juveria
$1,200 [18]
Last & longest of the 3 periods of the Mesozoic era
the Cretaceous
Jason
$1,200 [4]
This Harvard professor's "The Signifying Monkey" traces the bond between Black oral tradition & literature
Henry Louis Gates
Jason
$1,200 [5]
A form of talc, it's used by tailors not to wash their hands but, in the form of "French chalk", to mark cloth
soapstone
$1,600 [8]
Educated at Smith College & Cambridge, she works on a poem here
Sylvia Plath
Juveria
$2,000 [13]
Greek for "scale" & "wing", it's the insect order that includes moths & butterflies
Lepidoptera
Juveria
$1,600 [15]
He was on a Rick roll with his chart-toppers "Never Gonna Give You Up" & "Together Forever"
Rick Astley
Jason
$1,600 [6]
Britannica says this late 19th c. era featured "gross materialism & blatant political corruption" in the United States
the Gilded Age
Jason
$1,600 [2]
In 1895 the exploits of a mack daddy in St. Louis by the name of "Lee" Shelton gave birth to this oft-recorded blues song
"Stagger Lee"
Jason
$1,600 [14]
Starring Whoopi Goldberg, "Sarafina!" is about South African students fighting apartheid in this township
Soweto
Iris
$2,000 [11]
Young, gifted & Black, this playwright poses with her typewriter for a Vogue shoot in 1959
Hansberry
Juveria
DD $5,000 [9]
Thisplant whose Italian name means "beautiful woman" produces beautiful but poisonousberries
belladonna
Juveria
$2,000 [16]
Remakes of 2 Tommy James & the Shondells hits became back-to-back No. 1s, this song by Tiffany followed by "Mony Mony"
"I Think We're Alone Now"
Iris
$2,000 [7]
The name of this period when animal life "exploded" on Earth comes from Cymru, or Wales, where many fossils have been found
the Cambrian
Jason
$2,000 [3]
This language also known as Geechee is spoken along the southeastern coast of the United States
Gullah
Jason
$2,000 [21]
It's just a fancy French word for a nickname or epithet
a sobriquet
Juveria

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS NAMES IN AMERICA

The name of this animal that died in 1885 after being struck by a train that subsequently derailed lives on as an adjective

Jumbo

Iris "What is???" — wagered $5,000
Jason "What is Jumbo? Merry Xmas, peace on earth ☮" — wagered $10,000
Juveria "What is??" — wagered $0

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