Show #9010 2024-01-05 (taped 2023-12-05) Second Chance

2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 3, final game 1.

Contestants

Randall Rayford — a solar project developer from Houston, Texas

Michael Cavaliere — a consultant from New York, New York

Matt Harvey — a healthcare administrator from Providence, Rhode Island

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $1,000 $4,200 $16,200 $10,000 $17,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $1,200 $3,600 $13,200 $6,600 $14,800
17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Randall $0 $2,400 $7,600 $0 $7,600
17 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

BLACK HISTORY YEAR THIS & THAT WEIGHT, WEIGHT, DON'T TELL ME LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS NYMING -NYMS OUR MAN ON THE FIELD
$200 [7]
Barack Obama quickly resigns from the Senate for a very good reason
2008
Randall
$200 [25]
Budgies are the first known non-mammals to experience contagious this action, perhaps leading to a nap
yawning
Randall
$200 [30]
All hail the king! In 1991 Saskatchewan discovered it was home to Scotty, a 42-foot-long, 20,000-pound type of this dinosaur
a T. rex
Randall
$200 [9]
In this book you'll find "I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body"
Dracula
Michael
$200 [10]
Writers once had some pizzazz using these -nyms! Ben Franklin was Silence Dogood & Washington Irving, Jonathan Oldstyle
a pseudonym
Randall
$200 [27]
Coming on the pitch in the 60th minute in his Inter Miami regular season debut in 2023, he got his first MLS goal 29 minutes later
Messi
Matt
$400 [8]
Martin Luther King Jr. gives his immortal "I Have a Dream" speech in D.C.
1963
Michael Randall
$400 [24]
In 1993 the Supreme Court said "claims of actual" this from new evidence aren't grounds for appeal--you must have been shafted at trial
innocence
$400 [26]
Bugs Bunny would've lost his mind after learning Guinness certified that one of these in Minnesota grew to be 22-plus pounds
carrot
Michael
$400 [5]
In a 17th century classic, he tells the title character, "What we see there are not giants but windmills"
Sancho Panza
Matt
$400 [19]
In addition to being an acronym, this device that determines an object's distance & velocity is also a palindrome
radar
Randall
$400 [14]
In addition to being a Hall of Fame running back, Jim Browncould stick it to foes by scoring goals in this sport & Jim's in its Hall, too
lacrosse
Randall
$600 [11]
Rosa Parks stays seated on mass transit & makes history
1955
Randall
$600 [22]
Look at the name MOhandas DEwese for the stage name of this artist who slayed Busy Bee in an early rap battle
Kool Moe Dee
Matt
$600 [1]
Heavyweight Tyson Fury was 277 pounds for a 2021 fight; this character weighed but 190 against heavyweight Apollo Creed in 1976
Rocky
Michael
$600 [4]
It includes, "I had only just gone to my room, when my Mary told me a lady had thrown herself under the train"
Anna Karenina
Michael
$600 [17]
A retronym is a new term created to show the difference between new & old forms, like paper book or this rhyming postal term
snail mail
Matt
$600 [15]
In 2021 Ryan Crouser heaved a metal sphere 76 feet, 8 1/4 inches, breaking a world record set in this sport before Ryan was born
the shot put
Matt
$800 [12]
At John Glenn's request, Katherine Johnson verifies the computer's planning of Friendship 7's flight
1962
Randall
$800 [6]
Hugh Chisholm edited the 11th edition (1910-11) of this, an edition called the greatest encyclopedia ever
Britannica
Randall
$800 [28]
Theseclouds are associated with blue skies, especially the humilis type; they look all fluffy but weigh over a million pounds
cumulus
Randall
$1,000 [2]
This Sinclair Lewis guy hears "Preacher... damned if I'm going to watch you seducing the first girl you get your big sweaty hands on"
Elmer Gantry
Michael
$800 [16]
A cryptonym is a secret name or code word; this1960s Vietnamese leader had several, including Agent 19
Ho Chi Minh
Matt
$800 [20]
In 2023, Corey Seagerwon his 2nd World Series MVP award as this team became champions
the Texas Rangers
Randall
$1,000 [13]
Just after World War II, Jackie Robinson integrates Major League Baseball
1947
Randall
$1,000 [23]
Romans, Arabs, Normans etc. have overrun this home of resilient Sicilians that's been called the world's most conquered city
Palermo
$1,000 [29]
Fluting on armor reduced weight; in Maximilian armour, a set for fighting weighed just 50 pounds, while a set for this was 100
jousting
Michael
DD $1,600 [3]
The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"
A Tale of Two Cities
Michael
$1,000 [18]
Crohn's disease, the Ferris wheel & Parkinson's law (for Burrill, George & C. Northcote, respectively) are these -nyms
eponyms
Matt
$1,000 [21]
New Zealand's Jonah Lomu topped ruck.co.uk's list of this sport's 25 best players of all time
rugby
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

COUNTRY OVERLAPS 20th CENTURY POP CULTURE FAMOUS OBJECTS ALLITERATION THE OCEAN OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD
$400 [22]
Castro's country swims a few miles north to link up with a former British colony
Cubahamas
Matt
$400 [24]
A new kind of hero, shemade her cover debut in "Sensation Comics" in 1942
Wonder Woman
Michael
$400 [25]
Edward I, called the "Hammer of the Scots", took this coronation block of theirs south to England in 1296
the Stone of Scone
Matt
$400 [27]
She kissed me, then pushed me out the door; talk about these contradictory signals
mixed messages
Matt
$400 [28]
The historical average of these Titanic menaces is about 500 entering N. Atlantic shipping lanes, but there are recent 4-digit years
icebergs
Randall
$400 [30]
The first woman to win this prize for criticism, Emily Genauer took it (& $1,000!) in 1974 for her writing on art
a Pulitzer
Matt
$800 [23]
Myanmar's aka slides down the peninsula below Thailand
Burmalaysia
Randall
$800 [29]
One of the hottest toys of the late '90s was a plush, red Tickle Me him
Elmo
Michael
$1,200 [9]
The National Museum of American History has this great swing bandleader's clarinet, though probably not his corset & pen
(Benny) Goodman
Michael
$800 [26]
To get down to discussing the important point; it seems to come from a 19th century folktale about a hunting trip
to talk turkey
$800 [13]
Harmonic analysis helps predict the rise & fall of these, but it's tough to account for local variations in shore & seafloor
tides
Michael Randall
$800 [19]
Pretty big in the legal field, shegot judicial appointments from Bush I, Clinton & finally Obama in 2009
Sotomayor
Randall
$1,200 [12]
Kabul's country safaris to East Africa to meet Dar es Salaam's
Afghanistanzania
Michael
$1,200 [7]
It was party time with the introduction of these plastic storage containers, the lids inspired by those of a paint can
Tupperware
Michael
$1,600 [8]
The Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin has one of the 21 complete, intact these, from the 1450s
the Gutenberg Bible
Matt
$1,200 [10]
Mustarded or not, this L.A. stadium treat has been eaten in Chavez Ravine since the '60s & close to 3 million are sold each year
a Dodger Dog
Randall
$1,200 [4]
If you don't want to miss "Krilland Grace", better set your VPR or video "this organism" recorder
plankton
Matt
$1,200 [17]
In 1965 Cambridge awarded her a Ph.D. in ethology, the study of animal behavior, 5 years after she began a major chimp study
Jane Goodall
Michael
$1,600 [2]
North America's second most populous hooks up with South America's second most populous
Mexicolombia
Michael Randall
$1,600 [1]
In 1923, more than 30 years before the talking one, Cecil B. DeMille directed a silent version of this biblical epic
The Ten Commandments
Matt
$2,000 [14]
When the president pounds on his desk, it's likely this one, with the determined name of a Britishshipwhose timbers it was made from
the Resolute desk
Matt
$1,600 [11]
Old West mom, did your little one burn himself? Administer this stuff made from the fat of the gander
goose grease
$2,000 [6]
Underwater canyons are part of the vastsubmarine mountain rangecalled the mid-Atlantic this
the ridge
Matt Randall
$1,600 [18]
In 1977 Sally Ride wrote to NASA, "I am a PhD candidate in" this type of physics & "interested in the Space Shuttle program"
astrophysics
Randall
$2,000 [3]
A Balkan "black mountain" country vaults over Serbia to meet the former Walachia & Moldavia
Montenegromania
Michael
$2,000 [21]
Seen here are twins Pauline & Esther Friedman who doled out advice under the names Abigail Van Buren, aka Dear Abby, & her
Ann Landers
Michael
DD $4,000 [16]
Carbon-14 dating tests in 1988 said the fabric of this had been made roughly between 1260 & 1390, not much earlier
the Shroud of Turin
Matt
$2,000 [15]
This alliterative dramatization of Jesus' suffering, performed in Oberammergau since 1634, now goes easier on the Jews
a passion play
Matt
DD $4,000 [5]
A halocline is a zone of ocean water in which this measurement changes rapidly with depth
salinity
Matt
$2,000 [20]
This American woman went pro in 1916, founded a dance company in 1926, retired at 70 but choreographed until her death in 1991
Martha Graham
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

A 2020 edition of this beloved 1911 novel came with a glossary of horticultural terms & a location guide

The Secret Garden

Randall "What is Peter Rabbit?" — wagered $7,600
Michael "What is a children's garden of verses" — wagered $6,600
Matt "What is the Wind in The Willows?" — wagered $6,200

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