“JEOPARDY!” 4/10/24
Lucas’ 1st Challengers This Season:
Daniel Rosenberg (NY): Lawyer
Lee Wilkins (Auburn, AL): Regulatory affairs coordinator
JR:
SLANGIN’ W/ MR. JENNINGS
MUSIC TERMS
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
FLAG TIME!
ASK FORGIVENESS
NOT PERSIMMON
$200 Slangin’:
Spending long hours on the sofa watching TV? You’ve become this tuberous term.
Daniel: “What is a couch potato?”
$600 MLB:
More agile than the nickname “Pudge” suggests catcher Ivan Rodriguez won 13 of these awards as the best fielder at his position.
Daniel: “What is a Gold Glove?” ($800)
$800 MLB:
National League pitchers’ feeble swings became a thing of the past in 2022 as both leagues now have this position.
Daniel: “What is a designated hitter?” ($1600)
$1K MLB:
Answer: DD.
In the ’50s this NL team temporarily changed its name so as not to be assoc. w/ communism.
“Who are the Reds?”…correct to hop to $3200- they were the Redlegs for a time.
$400 MLB:
This fierce competitor from Georgia was the 1st major leaguer to collect 4K hits.
Daniel: “Who is Ty Cobb?” ($3600)
$200 MLB:
In ’57 NYC had 3 MLB teams, these 3.
Lucas: “Who are the Yankees, Mets & the Dodgers?”
Daniel: “Who are the Giants, the Dodgers & the Yankees?” ($3800)- SWEEP
$800 Slangin’:
It can refer to a person w/ expensive tastes; “Bad &” this hit #1 for Migos.
Lucas: “What is ‘Boujee’?” ($600)
$1K Slangin’:
This 3-word phrase can refer to both something excellent & being free from getting blamed for something.
Lucas: “What is…free & clear?” (-$400)
Daniel: “What is in the clear?” ($2800)
TS: Off the hook
$200 Flag Time:
Naturally the dark blue background of NATO’s flag represents this body of water.
Daniel: “What is the Atlantic Ocean?” ($3K)
$800 Flag Time:
In 1876 lumberjacks nailed a U.S. flag to this alliterative type of pine, giving Flagstaff its name.
Lee: “What is a pinyon pine?”
TS #2: Ponderosa
$800 Music Term:
These liturgical songs of the Catholic Church bear the name of a 6th century pope said to have formulated & organized ’em.
Daniel: “What are Gregorian chants?” ($3800)
$600 Not Persimmon:
Also called the paste type this type of tomato was named for a rounder fruit.
Lucas: “What is a plum tomato?” ($200)
$1K Not Persimmon:
Despite the similar name this fruit’s of a different family from the kumquat.
Lucas: “What is a plumquat?” (-$800)
Lee: “What is a pluot?” (-$1800)
TS #3: Loquat
$400 Forgiveness:
An older Elwin Wilson, once part of this notorious white-clad group, asked John Lewis to forgive him in a 1961 assault in SC.
Lucas: “What is the Klu Klux Klan?” (-$1200)
TECH. TS
$600 Forgiveness:
Heretics, Jews, women & minorities were some of the groups whom this pope asked to forgive the church in a 2000 speech.
Lucas: “Who is John Paul II?” (-$600)
$1K Forgiveness:
The offender asking forgiveness is part of this more healing type of justice that has been contrasted w/ retributive & rehabilitative.
Lucas: “What is restorative justice?” ($400)
$800 Forgiveness:
In the last chapter of Genesis this man was asked for forgiveness by his brothers who seriously wronged him.
Daniel: “Who is Joseph?” ($4600)
$1K Flag Time:
A rainbow’s feat. on the flag of this environmental group that has the Rainbow Warrior as its flagship.
Lee: “What is Greenpeace?” (-$800)
$600 Flag Time:
Scotland’s flag has a white cross on a blue background; the colors are reversed for the flag of this Canadian province.
Lee: “What is Nova Scotia?” (-$200)
$400 Flag Time:
Mary Pickersgill made the flag that was flying over this fort in 1814; it inspired a patriotic poem.
Lucas: “What is Fort Sumter?”
TS #5: McHenry
$200 Music Term:
From Latin for “to hold”, this male vocal range once had the task of “holding” the main melody.
Lee: “What is tenor?”
$400 Music Term:
On sheet music this symbol on the left side of a staff indicates the pitch, most commonly treble or bass.
Lucas: “What is the clef?”
$600 Slangin’:
You “take” this letter when you suffer a defeat.
Lucas: “What is the L?” ($1K)
$400 Slangin’:
It’s become controversial but earlier this word simply described one whose eyes have become more opened to social injustice.
Lucas: “What is woke?” ($1400)
$200 Forgiveness:
Hester Prynne in this novel asked Arthur Dimmesdale’s forgiveness & said “May God forgive us both”.
Lucas: “What is The Scarlet Letter?” ($1600)
$600 Music Term:
A barcarole is a type of song orig. sung by or in imitation of these Venetian boatmen.
Lucas: “What are gondola men?” (aka gondoliers)($2200)
$800 Not Persimmon:
We think this hybrid fruit would sound great as a JELL-O flavor.
Lucas: “What is tangelo?” ($3K)
$400 Not Persimmon:
It’s genetically identical to a peach except for 1 recessive gene that makes its skin smooth.
Lucas: “What is a nectarine?” ($3400)
$200 Not Persimmon:
Mexico’s 1 of the world’s top producers of this fruit that’s a standard sight in the neck of a Corona.
Lucas: “What is lime?” ($3600)
$1K Music Term:
Beethoven felt Italians were ill-suited to dramatic opera & should’ve stuck w/ this, Italian for “comic opera”.
TS #6: Opera buffa
TECH. TS: $400 (Ask Forgiveness)
ATTEMPTED LT: $3200
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS AT END OF RD: $1K (Music Terms)
TOTAL LT: $4600
CS:
Lucas: $3600/Daniel: $4600
DJ!:
THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII
IT’S A FACT
’70s TV DRAMA
STATE CAPITAL RIVERS
BOOKS & AUTHORS
DOES THAT RING A “BELL”?
$1200 Books & Authors:
In 1945 Steinbeck took us to Monterey w/ this book whose title’s now a street name.
Lee: “What is Cannery Row?”
$800 Books & Authors:
An Eleanor Catton eco-thriller shared its name w/ this “Macbeth” place of prophecy that moved to Dunsinane.
Daniel: “What is the Wandering Forest?” ($3800)
TS: Birnam Wood
$400 Books & Authors:
This actor has published several novels incl. Truly Like Lightning & Miss Subways.
Daniel: “Who is Duchovny?” ($4200)
$1600 State Capital River:
James River
TS #2: Richmond, VA
$1200 State Capital River:
Williamette River
Lucas: “What is Salem?” (in Oregon)($4800)
$800 ’70s TV Drama:
Simians in this adaptation of a movie incl. Roddy McDowall & Mark Lenard, Spock’s father from “STAR TREK”.
Lucas: “What is ‘PLANET OF THE APES’?” ($5600)
$1200 ’70s TV Drama:
In ’78 the oily J.R. Ewing arrived on CBS on this nighttime drama.
Lucas: “What is ‘DALLAS’?” ($6800)
$1600 ’70s TV Drama:
Former L.A. Rams star Merlin Olsen played Jonathan Garvey, a neighbor of the Ingalls family on this series.
Daniel: “What is ‘Little House on the Prairie’?” ($5800)
$1600 Fact:
The CIA’s forested complex in this Virginia place has a STARBUCKS but names are not put on cups (which shares its name w/ the production co. for “COPS”).
Lucas: “What is Quantico?” ($5200)
TS #3: Langley
$1200 Fact:
In poker some wonder if this hand beats 2 pair; w/ a 2.87% chance of it in a 52-card deck vs. 2 pair’s 7.62%, yes.
Daniel: “What is 3 of a kind?” ($7K)
$2K Fact:
Behind that answer: DD #1.
9 of the highest mountains in the world are in the Himalayas while the other’s part of this nearby range.
“What is…the Urals?”…nope- the Kakakoram, so he dips to a 1st-place tie at $5200 each.
$1600 “Bell”:
In a Longfellow poem the children “love to see the flaming forge, and hear” these “roar”.
Lee: “What are ‘the bellows’?” ($2800)
$2K ’70s TV Drama:
Before he enjoyed his lollipops as “Kojak” this actor got an OSCAR nom for playing a prisoner in “Birdman of Alcatraz”.
Lee: “Who is Telly Savalas?” ($4800)
$400 ’70s TV Drama:
Ed Asner moved on from TV news on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” to working in this form of media on “Lou Grant”.
Lee: “What is television?” ($4400)
Daniel: “What is radio?” ($4800)
TS #4: Newspaper
$1200 “Bell”:
This equip. originated in Russia & was popularized in the U.S. by former Soviet special forces instructor Pavel Tsatsouline.
Daniel: “What is a kettlebell?” ($6K)
$2K “Bell”:
Orig. meaning the lead sheep of a flock it usually now refers to an indicator of friends.
Lucas: “What is a bellwether?” ($7200)
$1600 Books & Authors:
Ray Carney from Harlem Shuffle by this novelist was back in his 2023 bestseller Crook Manifesto.
Daniel: “Who is (Colson) Whitehead?” ($7600)
$2K Books & Authors:
He wrote “It is impossible that the ape, Kala, was your mother…you are pure man…the offspring of highly bred…parents”.
TS #5: Burroughs
$1200 6 Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII:
The answer there: DD #2.
Not the Cromwells but this family lived in Wolf Hall; when Henry visited in 1535 Margery no doubt pointed out lovely daughter Jane.
“Who are the Seymours?”…good for another $1600 to Daniel.
$2K State Capital River:
Kennebec River
TS #6: Augusta, ME
$1600 6 Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII:
The mother of Anne of Cleves was Maria of Julich, a duchy of this thousand-yr empire of West & Central Europe.
Daniel: “What is the Hapsburg Empire?” ($7600)
TS #7: Holy Roman
$2K 6 Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII:
Inspired by the ideas of this doomed lord chancellor Katherine Parr’s mom Maud educated her daughter like her son.
TS #8: Sir Thomas More
$800 “Bell”:
Named for its bulging middle this cast-iron stove was developed in the 19th century for heat & cooking.
Lee: “What is the potbellied stove?” ($5200)
$400 “Bell”:
This word means to dress up a story w/ fictional info to make it more interesting or to beautify w/ ornamentation.
Lucas: “What is embellish?” ($7600)
$800 Fact:
Groundhogs are called these type of “pigs” due to the high-pitched sound they make when alarmed.
Daniel: “What is a squeal?” ($6800)
TS #9: Whistle
$400 Fact:
This organization’s NYC HQ was built on land bought in 1946 w/ an $8.5M gift from John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Daniel: “What is the U.N.?” ($7200)- BEEPS OF TIME
ATTEMPTED LT: $5200
UNATTEMPTED LT: $7600
TOTAL DJ! LT: $12,800
Pre-Final S:
Lucas: $7600/Lee: $5200/Daniel: $7200
DANIEL’S CORYAT: $8K
FJ!: ANIMATED FILM CHARACTERS
In this ’17 film Dante was a hairless breed known as a Xolo dog.
LEE: “What is a ‘Chinese Crested’?” ($3K) = $2200
DANIEL: “Who is ‘Zootopia’ ‘Superpots’“ (BUSTED)
LUCAS: “What is ‘Luca’?” (Correct: What was “Coco”?)(BUSTED)
