Show #9011 2024-01-08 (taped 2023-12-05) Second Chance

2023-2024 Second Chance competition week 3, final game 2.

Contestants

Randall Rayford — a solar project developer from Houston, Texas (subtotal of $0)

Michael Cavaliere — a consultant from New York, New York (subtotal of $6,600)

Matt Harvey — a healthcare administrator from Providence, Rhode Island (subtotal of $10,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $3,800 $4,200 $18,800 $37,600 $15,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Michael $1,600 $4,000 $29,200 $17,200 $16,800
21 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Randall $600 $3,400 $3,000 $0 $3,000
12 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

PRESIDENTIAL DOGS MUSIC RECENT MOVIES SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER COLORS GET TO THE POINT
$200 [21]
LBJ had several of this breed, which, if you remove the first letter, becomes a national symbol
a beagle
Randall
$200 [27]
Well, here's one of these; call someone who cares
a quarter note
Randall
$200 [9]
Rosario Dawson moves into the title domicile in this 2023 film based on a Disney attraction
the Haunted Mansion
Matt
$200 [28]
For what possible cause or reason! (Asking for a friend)
why
Matt
$200 [29]
The circle with the white "F" for Facebook is this color because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind
blue
Matt
$200 [30]
If you want to visit the United States Military Academy, head to 606 Thayer Road in this New York spot
West Point
Michael
$400 [17]
Bill Clinton had Buddy, this breed that shares a name with a place in Canada
a Labrador
Matt Randall
$400 [13]
There's only one consonant in the name of this woodwind that tunes the orchestra by playing a long sustained A
oboe
Michael
$400 [14]
(I'm Shameik Moore.) As Miles Morales in "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", I'mrelaxingat home, unmasked, when I get a surprise visit from this spider-powered woman voiced by Hailee Steinfeld
Gwen (Spider-Gwen)
Matt
$400 [26]
An affirmative preference when an issue is put up for a referendum
aye
Michael
$400 [25]
Nebraska fight song lyricists took advantage of the school colors being scarlet & this, which rhymes with team
cream
Matt
$400 [24]
Colombia's Point Gallinas, the northernmost part of mainland South America, juts into this sea
the Caribbean Sea
Randall
$600 [16]
George W. Bush is seen here with his pal Barney, this national type of terrier
a Scottie
Michael
$600 [11]
In 1953 he became the first American to conduct at La Scala in Milan; 4 years later, he helped tell a "West Side Story"
Bernstein
Michael
$600 [18]
A romance sparks between Ember, who is flamin' hot, & a guy named Wade, a drip (of water), in this 2023 Pixar film
Elemental
Randall
$600 [10]
Nickname for Philadelphia's Market-Frankford Line, above the city's streets for much of its route
El
Matt
$600 [20]
In the 1780s the Dutch Patriot movement briefly forced the house of this color from power & declared carrots treasonous
orange
Michael
$600 [23]
Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbor is home to this building, one of the most photographed in the world
the Sydney Opera House
Michael
$800 [7]
Reagan's spaniel Rexwas indeed kingly; his breed contains this name of multiple English monarchs
King Charles
Michael
$800 [12]
We could drone on & on about this Aussie Aboriginal wind instrument--that it's a 5'-long pipe made of eucalyptus wood, sounds cool...
a didgeridoo
Michael Randall
$800 [19]
Sheplayed Indy's goddaughter Helena in "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny"
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Matt
$800 [1]
The Tethys one separated Laurasia from Gondwana during the Mesozoic Era
a sea
Matt
$800 [3]
Unlike any human's, the great horned owl's driver's license would say its eyes are this color
gold (yellow)
Matt Michael
$800 [5]
Further from land than anywhere else on Earth, a South Pacificspotis called Point this, after a fictional captain
Nemo
Randall
DD $1,000 [8]
Portie for short, it's the 3-word breed of the Obamas' beloved Sunny
the Portuguese Water Dog
Michael
$1,000 [15]
In 1814 this Viennese composer put music to a Goethe poem & innovated the German lied, or art song
Schubert
Michael Randall
$1,000 [22]
This Scorsese film is based on David Grann's nonfiction book about Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma
Killers of the Flower Moon
Randall
$1,000 [2]
A gathering or contest of many types, one of which is seen here
a bee
Matt
$1,000 [4]
A "fuchsia pink" & "purplish red" describe this color that has the French name of a fruit
cerise
$1,000 [6]
Head north to Alaska, then keep heading north & you'll hit this northernmost point in the state
Point Barrow
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ANNALS OF HISTORY CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES SCIENCE FROM C TO D ITALIAN LITERATURE IT'S CORN
$400 [21]
These "States" ruled by His Holiness were created in 756 & lasted about 1,100 years
Papal States
Randall
$400 [29]
Of the NBA's Steph & Seth
Curry
Michael
$400 [30]
The basis of quantum science is that energy exists at specific levels; a jump between them is called this, like a TV show & its reboot
a quantum leap
Matt
$400 [25]
If I may be this with you, it means honest & open
candid
Matt
$400 [19]
Matteo Bandello's short stories inspired a number of Shakespeare's plays, including this Verona-set tragedy
Romeo and Juliet
Randall
$400 [27]
A 2023 survey by the National Confectioners Association found 18% of folks eat the wide yellow end of this sweet first
candy corn
Matt
$1,200 [10]
Known as an "enlightened despot", Joseph II ruled as a member of this dynastic family aka the House of Austria
the Habsburgs
Michael
$800 [28]
Of the NFL brothers seen here
Kelce
Randall
$800 [17]
The roughly 10 million compounds formed by this element include acetylene & potassium cyanide
carbon
Michael Randall
$800 [24]
Here's a lovely one of these central areas, with a fountain
a courtyard
Matt
$800 [16]
Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the librettos to 3 of this man's most famous operas, including "Cosi fan tutte"
Mozart
Michael
$800 [26]
The Dept. of Energy notes that more than 98% of U.S. gasoline contains this product primarily made from corn
ethanol
Michael
$1,600 [7]
In the 10th century this kingdom "roared" as it allied with Castile to become a daunting force on the Iberian Peninsula
León
Matt
$1,200 [22]
Of "New Girl" Zooey & "Bones" actress Emily
Deschanel
Matt
$1,200 [3]
Sir Peter Medawar proposed Medawar's paradox to explain why this system in women doesn't reject a fetus
the immune system
Michael
$1,200 [1]
It means to understand or grasp the nature of; got it?
comprehend
Matt
$1,200 [5]
This genre of Italian comedy popular from the 1500s to the 1700s was characterized by stock characters & situations
commedia dell'arte
Michael
$1,200 [9]
The Missouri Meerschaum Company is the world's oldest manufacturer of this item made from a corn's core
corncob pipes
Matt
$2,000 [11]
To link the Yangtze & Yellow Rivers, this was rebuilt during the Sui Dynasty
Grand Canal
$1,600 [20]
Of actor brothers Ralph & Joseph
Fiennes
Michael
$1,600 [12]
Seismic waves suddenly change speed in the D'' layer, the lowest 150 miles of this, just above the core
the mantle
Matt
$2,000 [14]
In the painting seen here, a young woman is playing this instrument
a clavichord
Matt
$1,600 [4]
In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", murders at a 14th c. monastery center on a book on laughter by this ancient Greek
Aristotle
Randall
$1,600 [8]
Themuralsat the Mitchell Corn Palace in this state are designed by students at a nearby university
South Dakota
Matt Randall
DD $13,200 [18]
Around 1,000 years ago, this island's parliament, the Althing, said everyone is getting baptized
Iceland
Michael
$2,000 [23]
Of Good Charlotte twins Joel & Benji
Madden
Randall
$2,000 [13]
In the 1780s John Goodricke IDed the 1st star known as this type of binary, for what one star in the system regularly does to the other
an eclipsing binary
DD $5,400 [2]
It describes the human heart with 4, as well as a certain type of nautilus
chambered
Matt
$2,000 [6]
Around 1224 this Italian saint composed the poetic "Canticle of the Creatures"
St. Francis of Assisi
Michael
$2,000 [15]
In "The Omnivore's Dilemma", this author writes, "You are what you eat... & if this is true, then what we mostly are is corn"
(Michael) Pollan
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

STATE CAPITALS

The 2 closest state capitals, at about 40 miles apart, one was founded by someone no longer allowed in the other

Providence & Boston

Randall "What are Dover + Annapolis?" — wagered $3,000
Matt "What are Boston + Providence?" — wagered $18,800
Michael "What are Carson City + Salt Lake City" — wagered $12,000

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