Show #9055 2024-03-08 (taped 2024-02-08) Tournament of Champions

2024 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.

Contestants

Emily Sands — a project manager from Chanhassen, Minnesota

Yogesh Raut — a social and personality psychologist from Vancouver, Washington

David Sibley — an Episcopal priest from Walla Walla, Washington

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
David $200 $600 $6,200 $2,479
3rd place: $10,000
$6,200
12 R, 3 W
Yogesh $3,600 $7,400 $21,400 $21,400
Finalist
$20,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Emily $4,000 $5,600 $6,800 $6,800
2nd place: $10,000
$12,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY AWARDS SUFFIXES LEFTOVERS WE'RE GOIN' TO BROADWAY! PAPER TRAIL
$200 [24]
The first of his 4, count 'em, 4 Pulitzers, was for "New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes & Grace Notes"
Robert Frost
David Emily
$200 [30]
It's the very short, Arabic-influenced suffix that makes a demonym (a nationality noun) from Yemen or Pakistan
I
Yogesh
$200 [28]
This organization is the first to tell us that "animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment..."
PETA
Yogesh
$200 [29]
"A View from the Bridge" saw this woman win a 2010 Tony for Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Scarlett Johansson
Yogesh
$200 [27]
The general direction of the fibers in a sheet of paper is called this, also a term for things like rye or millet
the grain
Emily
$200 [26]
Great Bend, Kansas was a stopping point on this historic trail that went from Missouri to the capital of New Mexico
the Santa Fe Trail
David Emily
$400 [23]
The Man Group sponsored this prestigious British literary prize from 2002 to 2019
the Booker Prize
Emily
$400 [22]
It's the British spelling of the suffix that makes a verb out of "industrial"
I-S-E
Yogesh
$400 [17]
In 1861, 3 years after the publication of this classic medical textbook, its author died of smallpox at age 34
Gray's Anatomy
Yogesh
$400 [21]
Songs in this show include "King Arthur's Song", "I Am Not Dead Yet" & "You Won't Succeed On Broadway"
Spamalot
Yogesh
$400 [20]
Made from silicon carbide, flint or garnet, this abrasive can have a grit level anywhere from 12 to 1000
sandpaper
Yogesh
$400 [25]
Now a National Historic Trail, it began in Nauvoo, Illinois & ended at the Great Salt Lake
the Mormon Trail
Emily
$600 [1]
Octavia Butler got the inaugural Infinity Award by the Science Fiction & Writers Association at these star-studded awards
the Nebula Awards
Emily
$600 [14]
As early as 1973 this suffix from a D.C. building was tacked onto "Wine" to describe a scandal involving fake Bordeaux
gate
Emily
$600 [2]
Partly from Greek for "horse", it was an oval track for horse & chariot races in ancient Greece
the hippodrome
Emily
$600 [19]
King George sings, "Cuz when push comes to shove, I will kill your friends & family to remind you of my love" in this show
Hamilton
Yogesh
$600 [8]
This French-named arts & crafts material is repulped paper mixed with glue that's used to mold masks & toys
papier-mâché
Emily
$600 [15]
A trail that runs some 3,100 miles from Canada to Mexico is named for this demarcation that splits North America in 2
the Continental Divide
David
$800 [5]
This 18th century publisher who helped usher Mother Goose into the world is the namesake of a lauded medal
Newbery
Emily
$800 [13]
The -ary suffix often means "place of", as in this type of place
a dispensary
Emily
$800 [3]
In 2011, this country replaced its solid greenflag with onefeaturing red, black & green stripes
Libya
David
$800 [7]
This actor could have been a contender for the busiest 1946--he was in at least 4 shows, including "Candida" as Eugene
Brando
David
$800 [9]
Some cardboard goes through this process with a name from the Latin for "wrinkle"
corrugation
Yogesh
$1,000 [16]
The Oregon Trail ended in this Oregon river valley now famed for its wine
the Willamette Valley
Emily
$1,000 [6]
The Hugo Award isn't named after Victor Hugo, but this Hugo who founded the sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories
Hugo Gernsback
Yogesh
$1,000 [12]
This 4-letter suffix goes on words for types of medical exams, or on Beatrix Potter rabbits
-opsy
$1,000 [4]
This book about Natty Bumppo's youth was chronologically first of the "Leatherstocking Tales" but was written last
The Deerslayer
David
$1,000 [18]
A story told in reverse, this Sondheim musical that ran 16 performances in 1981 returned to B'way in triumph in 2023
Merrily We Roll Along
Yogesh
$1,000 [10]
Collectors love prints made on this type of photographic paper from the 19th century named for the egg whites used to treat it
albumen paper
David
DD $1,800 [11]
Surname of settler John, who blazed a trail to Montana & left his name on a city there
Bozeman
Yogesh

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MIDDLE AGES 13-LETTER WORDS SHADES OF BLUE SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR FILM BROS 150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y
$400 [20]
Who knows how long this country would have stayed heathen if not for the Christianizing of its 10th c. King Olaf Tryggvason
Norway
Yogesh
$400 [30]
You might have to perform with some real dummies if you seek this stage job perfected by Edgar Bergen
ventriloquist
David
$400 [28]
In shades of blue, it follows ultra & aqua
marine
Emily
$400 [27]
Durban, South Africa was once named Port Natal; Natal is Portuguese for this holiday
Christmas
Emily
$400 [25]
Ciarán Hinds & Richard Coyle have portrayed Aberforth, a brother of this Hogwarts honcho
Dumbledore
Emily
$400 [29]
In 1883 it was still the 42nd St. Y & at a further downtown branch, this poet taught immigrants the year she wrote "The New Colossus"
(Emma) Lazarus
David
$800 [19]
Far ahead of Europe, China developed this advance in communications; the Diamond Sutra of 868 A.D. is an example of it
woodblock printing
Emily
$800 [21]
It's what you're doing when you're speaking aloud to no one else in particular on stage
soliloquizing
Yogesh
$800 [22]
A lovely shade of blue is named for these objects seen here
robin's eggs
Yogesh
$800 [23]
One activity if, you're in Gurue in northern Mozambique is a hike to the Cascata, this feature, a good place to cool off
a waterfall
Yogesh
$800 [24]
John C. Reilly & Will Ferrell bond over their love for John Stamos in this 2008 film
Step Brothers
Emily
$800 [26]
Elie Wiesel's more than 180 lectures at the Y began in the mid-'60s, reporting on Jews unable to leave here
the Soviet Union
David
$1,200 [16]
In 1043 this lady & her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia, founded a monastery in Coventry
Lady Godiva
Yogesh
$1,200 [11]
It's another name for a bachelor's degree
a baccalaureate
Emily
$1,200 [17]
Some call it a bachelor's button, others call it this, also a shade of blue
a cornflower
$1,200 [18]
Named for an earl, not a duke, this major New Zealand port has the country's largest concentration of Maori
Auckland
David Yogesh
$1,200 [15]
After 2 brothers are killed in Normandy & one brother in New Guinea, a rescue mission goes to save the 4th brother in this film
Saving Private Ryan
David
$1,600 [12]
In 1948 this actor-singer of Caribbean heritage made his Off-Broadway debut at the Y in a play about Sojourner Truth
Belafonte
Yogesh
$1,600 [8]
The Lombard League, an alliance of Italian cities, was founded in 1167 to defend against this red-bearded Holy Roman Emperor
Barbarossa
David
$1,600 [10]
If you register a domain name solely with the intention of selling it for profit, sit down, you're this type of intruder
a cybersquatter
David Emily
$2,000 [5]
In 1999 Pantone named this peaceful 8-letter shade of sky blue its first color of the year & of the millennium
cerulean
Emily
$1,600 [1]
Ready for some golf? Head to this very remote South Atlantic island & its 9-hole Longwood golf course
St. Helena
David
$1,600 [3]
Nicolas Cage got one Oscar nomination for 2 roles when he played brothers Charlie & Donald Kaufman in this 2002 film
Adaptation
Yogesh
$2,000 [13]
"Revelations", a signature work that this choreographer set to spirituals had its world premiere at the Y in 1960
Alvin Ailey
Emily
$2,000 [9]
Not Peter the Apostle nor Peter the Great but this preacher led the People's Crusade in filthy garments & riding a donkey
Peter the Hermit
Yogesh
$2,000 [7]
The international museum for this in Maine has exhibits on Bigfoot & the Loch Ness Monster
cryptozoology
Yogesh Emily
DD $7,600 [6]
In his"Great Waves"print, Hokusai used this imported blue pigment first made in Germany
Prussian blue
Emily
$2,000 [2]
New Britain is the largest island in this German-named archipelago in the southwest Pacific
the Bismarck Archipelago
Yogesh
$2,000 [4]
In "The Kissing Booth", Elle Evans may be best friends with Lee but gets her smooch on with his bro Noah, played by this actor
Elordi
Yogesh
DD $2,800 [14]
In his U.S. reading debut, in June 1966, this S. Amer. poet said his country was in full winter but his welcome was like spring
(Pablo) Neruda
Emily

Final Jeopardy!

LITERATURE & RELIGION

This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for "The Comedy of Errors"

Ephesus

David "What is Corinth?" — wagered $3,721
Emily "What is Corinth? GG" — wagered $0
Yogesh "What Ephesus Your bracelet was my lucky charm, Emily" — wagered $0

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