Show #9050 2024-03-01 (taped 2024-02-07) Tournament of Champions

2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 6.

Contestants

Josh Saak — a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho

Brian Henegar — a guest services agent from LaFollette, Tennessee

Stephen Webb — a data scientist from Longmont, Colorado

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Stephen	$-600	$-800	$-800	$-800 3rd place: $5,000	$200 8 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Brian	$2,800	$5,200	$12,800	$8,799 Winner: semifinalist	$16,000 23 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Josh	$3,600	$5,600	$8,400	$3,995 2nd place: $5,000	$8,400 16 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES	GETTING SEAL-Y	FOOD, FAST	POP CULTURE PRINCESSES	DECADES	RHYMES WITH RHYME
$200 [26] In biblical city names, Bethel is Hebrew for "house of God" & this city big in the New Testament means "house of bread" Bethlehem Brian	$200 [29] This rhyming idiom is another way of saying "sign the contract" seal the deal Brian	$200 [23] Dutch gives us the name of these baked treats, an afternoon tea staple scones Brian	$200 [30] Super Mario Bros. has Mario & Luigi trying to rescue her; she used to be called Princess Toadstool in the United States Princess Peach Josh	$200 [25] This old-timey nickname for the 2000-to-2009 years contains an old-timey word for zero the aughts (the aughties) Josh	$200 [28] Shoplifting or arson, for example a crime Josh
$400 [24] The name of this city comes from a French word referring to the river linking Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie Detroit Josh	$400 [27] Thesealfor this U.S. capital near Troy & Schenectady includes the word "assiduity" Albany Josh	$400 [22] This cool Indian side dish is often made with cucumber & a yogurt or curd called dahi raita	$400 [21] She was actually adopted into the royal family of Alderaan, raised by Senator Bail Organa & his wife, the queen of Alderaan Princess Leia Brian	$400 [14] The Philadelphia Daily News used this alliterative term for a decade long before miniskirts took over London the Swinging Sixties Brian	$400 [13] Thispungent herb is used to flavor stuffing & Bénédictine liqueur thyme Josh
$800 [8] The name of this capital city derives from a Maasai expression for "cool water" Nairobi Brian	$600 [20] This song from "Batman Forever" won Seal multiple Grammys "Kiss From A Rose" Josh	$600 [6] One member of the beet family is Swiss this chard Josh	$600 [3] In the "Shrek" films she voices Princess Fiona Diaz Josh	$600 [7] A 1926 editorial in the Oakland Tribune put "rip-" before this timely phrase Roaring Twenties Stephen	$600 [15] To make this at home, mix 8 Oz. of Elmer's glue with 2 tbsp. of saline solution & 1 tbsp. of baking soda; have fun! slime Brian
DD $1,000 [10] A conquistador combined the name of a local people & the Spanish word for water to name this country Nicaragua Stephen	$800 [19] This elite military unit took part in a raid in Abbottabad in the early hours of May 2, 2011 SEAL Team Six Stephen	$800 [9] Bottom line--it's a burrito that's been deep fried a chimichanga Stephen Brian	$800 [5] In "The Princess Diaries", Mia Thermopolis finds out that she is the crown princess of this (fictional) country Genovia	$800 [4] The "Dirty" these saw extreme weather, economic collapse & pre-code movies like "She Couldn't Say No" the Dirty Thirties Brian	$800 [16] Before "in", it can mean to break into a conversation to express an opinion chime Brian
$1,000 [1] Thisport city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from words for "cauldron" & "mountain" Pusan Stephen	$1,000 [2] These large pinnipeds are named for the trunk-like schnozz of the adult male; they make more of a belch noise than an awooga elephant seals Brian	$1,000 [11] Liquid smoke, not coffee liqueur, is in this shredded pork dish, the star of many luaus kalua Josh	$1,000 [18] In a 1953 film she played a princess who takes a "Roman Holiday" from her royal duties Audrey Hepburn Stephen Brian	$1,000 [12] In Britain, they were "Naughty"; in the U.S., they were "Gay" the Nineties Josh	$1,000 [17] In computer jargon, it's an extension that allows the transfer of different types of data files via email MIME

Double Jeopardy! Round

THAT'S A LONG STORY	ARCHITECTURE	COVER ME	"N"OWLEDGE	CHEMISTRY CLASS	GENDERED LANGUAGE
$400 [26] Serialized from 1845 to 1847, the seminal & alliterative horror tale "Varney the" this runs to more than 200 chapters Vampire Josh	$400 [27] In 1818 Charles Bulfinch began as U.S. architect of this building; during his tenure he designed its rotunda the Capitol building Brian	$400 [20] Aretha Franklin's version of this Otis Redding tune topped Rolling Stone's 2021 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time "Respect" Brian	$400 [28] The town of Arad in this desertis a common stopover for visitors to the Dead Sea the Negev Josh	$400 [29] Composed of 2 or more atoms, it's the smallest particle of a substance that retains its chemical & physical properties a molecule Brian	$400 [30] The amount of energy supplied by people's physical effort; until 1977, Canada had a minister of it & immigration manpower Brian
$800 [25] Ralph Ellison's posthumous second novel was culled from more than 1,500 pages of writing & titled after this now-federal holiday Juneteenth Stephen	$800 [22] Brutalism, popularized by Le Corbusier, refers to buildings made primarily of this material, like Boston's City Hall concrete Stephen	$800 [11] In 2023 Dolly Parton unveiled a cover of this anthemic Queen hit that should resonate with you, my friends "We Are The Champions" Stephen Josh	$800 [23] Let's get down to business--this 3-country pact went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994 but was replaced in 2020 NAFTA Brian	$800 [4] Fe2O3represents this 4-letter compound, something to avoid on your Rolls-Royce rust Stephen	$800 [24] This term for a woman in charge is the title of a book by entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso a girlboss Brian
$1,200 [14] This 1996 David Foster Wallace novel isn't quite as long as its title suggests but does run 1,000+ pages Infinite Jest Brian	$1,200 [21] This architect designed the Louvre's glass pyramid; the public was initially not in love with it I.M. Pei Brian	$1,200 [10] At a 2018 event honoring Fleetwood Mac, Miley Cyrus brought the house down with this Mac classic about "snow-covered hills" "Landslide" Brian	$1,200 [3] The "TL" sound was an important feature in this language of the Toltecs & Aztecs Nahuatl Josh	$1,200 [13] This silvery-white element, atomic number 31, takes its name from an old name for France gallium Brian	$1,200 [16] Change the second syllable in the alter ego of Princess Adora to get this word for a powerful female a shero Brian
$2,000 [19] A Nobel Prize winner, in 1962 she published "The Golden Notebook", which runs to nearly 700 masterful pages Doris Lessing	$1,600 [2] Frank Lloyd Wright worked for 5 years with the Chicago firm of Dankmar Adler & this "father of skyscrapers", leaving in 1893 Sullivan Josh	$1,600 [9] The Beatles recorded this dance classic at the end of their first album session; good idea, as it blew out John's voice "Twist And Shout" Brian	$1,600 [12] Because its pelt was impervious to arrows, Hercules had to strangle this beast as the first of his labors the Nemean lion Stephen	$1,600 [6] The Arrhenius equation shows the rate of collisions of particles increasing with this measure for the solution they're in temperature Stephen Brian Josh	$1,600 [17] This word combines slang for a man & a type ofcosmetic guyliner Stephen
DD $3,200 [15] "Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words Ulysses Brian	$2,000 [1] An immigrant from Austria & from the "N"OWLEDGE category, hehelped define midcentury California with modernist buildings Richard Neutra	$2,000 [8] That's Urge Overkill's version of this song in "Pulp Fiction", not Neil Diamond's original "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" Brian	DD $2,000 [7] Henry Fonda played this admiral in the 1976 film "Midway" Nimitz Stephen	$2,000 [5] The heroine of TV's "Lessons in Chemistry" has ideas about this concept that inorganic compounds could have led to life abiogenesis Stephen	$2,000 [18] Gynoid is another word for this type of automaton that Austin Powers confronts a fembot Brian

Final Jeopardy!

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

Fearful of independence in 1975, around 120,000 of this country's people, a third of the population, fled to the Netherlands

Suriname

Josh "What is Papua New Guinea?" — wagered $4,405

Brian "What is Belgium?" — wagered $4,001

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