“JEOPARDY!” 3/15/24
JR:
THAT’S SO 18th CENTURY
TYPES OF POEMS
FOOD & DRINK
ON THE WEB
TV DRAMA
CHAMP CHANGE
600 Food & Drink:
W/ spinach as a star ingredient the dish seen here goes by this 2-word name partly after a city.
Ben: “What is quiche Lorraine?”
TS: Quiche Florentine
600 TV Drama:
In the daytime drama world Shemar Moore rose to fame in the ’90s as Malcolm Winters on this soap opera set in Genoa City.
Troy: “What’s ‘The Young & the Restless’?”
800 18th Century:
On May 1, 1776 Adam Weishaupt founded the Perfectibillists, a branch of this “enlightened” secret society…oh dear, I may’ve said too much.
Troy: “What’s the Illuminati?” (1400)
600 18th Century:
In 1789 the Marquis de Launay, gov. of this landmark, didn’t give up its munitions to the people so easily; bad move.
Yogesh: “What is the Bastille?”
1K TV Drama:
President Obama said his favorite character on “The Wire” was this stickup man portrayed by Michael K. Williams.
Yogesh: “Who is Omar (Little)?” (1600)
600 On the Web:
This “in the gaming community is the problem we are trying to solve”, said a founder of the platform of that name.
Troy: “What’s Discord?” (2K)
1K 18th Century:
Not thrilled w/ the colonies in 1774 Britain’s parliament passed 4 punitive measures known not so nicely as these acts.
Troy: “What are the Intolerable Acts?” (3K)
800 Poems:
Famous in the sonnet-verse Petrarch devoted hundreds of poems in his Canzoniere to this woman, his love.
Troy: “Who’s Laura?” (3800)
1K Poems:
For this grave work Yeats chose words he had already written: “Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by.”
Ben: “What is Elegy in a Church Courtyard?” (-1600)
Yogesh: “What is his epitaph?” (2600)
800 Champ Change:
A championship flag trades 1 of its “N”s for a “D” & becomes this dangling thing.
Ben: “What is pendant?” (-800)
600 Poems:
Answer: DD.
A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) 1 of these.
“What is a quatrain?”…correct to be at 200.
1K Champ Change:
A verb meaning to admit, as into a hall of fame, changes a letter & becomes this verb meaning to infer from reasoning.
Troy: “What’s induce?” (4800)
800 Food & Drink:
Aubergine caviar’s another name for this smoky Mediterranean spread made w/ roasted eggplant.
Troy: “What’s baba ghanoush?” (5600)
1K Food & Drink:
They’re not lemons but this 4-letter citrus fruit from Asia whose juice & zest are used in Japanese cuisine.
Troy: “What’s yuzu?” (6600)
400 18th Century:
This 12Kft volcano in Japan erupted in 1707 but thankfully has been dormant for the ensuing 300+yrs.
Yogesh: “What is Fujiyama?” (3K)
1K On the Web:
Called “China’s Google” this search engine became the 1st Chinese co. to be listed on the NASDAQ 100.
Troy: “What’s Baidu?” (7600)
800 On the Web:
This search engine w/ a double-talk animal name emphasizes privacy saying it doesn’t track searches or collect user info.
Yogesh: “What is Duck Duck Go?” (3800)
800 TV Drama:
She starred on dramas like “The Leftovers” & “The Gilded Age”.
Yogesh: “Who is the great Carrie Coon?” (4600)
600 Champ Change:
Satisfaction taken in winning trades a “D” for a “Z” & becomes this award for winning.
Yogesh: “What is prize?” (5200)
400 TV Drama:
S1 of this NETFLIX series focused on Pablo Escobar played by Wagner Moura.
Ben: “What is ‘Narcos’?” (600)
400 Champ Change:
A 4 games-to-0 result in the World Series changes its 2nd letter to T & becomes this adjective.
Ben: “What is steep?” (1K)
400 Food & Drink:
A caffe Americanois this dark strong coffee diluted w/ hot water.
Troy: “What’s espresso?” (8K)
400 Poems:
Haiku masters Buson & Issa had to master this many syllables to craft their works.
Ben: “What is 17?” (1400)
400 On the Web:
This site “enables anyone to be a creator” as Noah Beck found out when :09 of lip-syncing made him famous.
Yogesh: “What is TikTok?” (5600)
200 18th Century:
Russia annexed this peninsula between the Black Sea & the Sea of Azov in 1783; wouldn’t be the last time they tried that either.
Ben: “What is Crimea?” (1600)
200 Champ Change:
An Olympic award changes a letter & becomes this lever.
Yogesh: “What is a pedal?” (5800)
200 TV Drama:
At the Golden Globes in ’24 he said “This is a nice moment for me” when he won for “Succession”.
Yogesh: “Who is Kieran Culkin?” (6K)
200 On the Web:
“The pins you save live on your boards” on this site.
Ben: “What is Pinterest?” (1800)
200 Food & Drink:
Slightly sweet & chewy they’re the little tapioca pearls in the tea.
Yogesh: “What are boba?” (6200)
200 Poems:
Pindar was famed for these poems; Alexander Pope wrote 1 “On Solitude”.
Yogesh: “What are odes?” (6400)
SOLE ATTEMPTED TS AT THE START: 600 (Food & Drink)
CS:
Yogesh: 6400/Troy: 8K/Ben: 1800
DJ!:
MAKING A PASS
LOST WORKS
WHAT THE “H”? (that 1’s for Norm MacDonald)
FAMOUS WOMEN
MOVIE SONGS
EXTINCT ANIMALS
1600 Famous Woman:
Subject of a ’23 film, in 2013 she became the 1st person to swim from Cuba to Florida w/o a shark cage for protection.
Troy: “Who’s (Diana) Nyad?” (9600)
1600 Pass:
Located near the foot of Mount Kallidromo this Greek mountain pass has a name meaning “hot gates”.
Troy: “What’s Thermopylae?” (11,200)
1200 Pass:
A group of ill-fated prisoners gave this pass near Truckee in California its name.
Ben: “What is the Donner Pass?” (3K)
1200 Famous Woman:
In 1924 she began working w/ the American Foundation for the Blind & for over 40yrs was its leading ambassador.
Yogesh: “Who is Keller?” (7600)
2K Famous Woman:
Referred to as the “Jackie Robinson of tennis” she was named Female Athlete of the Yr in ’57 & ’58 by the Associated Press.
Troy: “Who’s Althea Gibson?” (13,200)
2K Pass:
Rudyard Kipling referred to this Asian pass as a “narrow sword-cut in the hills”.
Yogesh: “What is the Khyber Pass?” (9600)
2K Movie Songs:
Irish singer Glen Hansard starred in this ’07 movie & won an OSCAR for co-writing “Falling Slowly”.
Ben: “What is ‘Once’?” (5K)
1600 Lost Work:
Answer’s a TDD.
In the lost ancient epic Aethiopis the Ethiopian king Memnon fought for Troy & was killed by this Greek hero.
“Who is Achilles?”…doesn’t hurt him at all.
1200 Extinct Animal:
In 2021 the FWS declared extinct the stirrupshell & 7 other species of these mollusks that form serious attachments.
Troy: “What are barnacles?” (12K)
TS: Mussels
1600 Extinct Animal:
The Stephens Island wren on an isle just off this country’s South Island was eaten to extinction by a lighthouse keeper’s cats.
Yogesh: “What is New Zealand?” (11,200)
1600 Movie Songs:
“All is Love”, “Rumpus” & “Food is Still Hot” were numbers by Karen O & the Kids for this kids’ book adaptation.
Yogesh: “What is ‘Where the Wild Things Are’?” (12,800)
1200 Movie Songs:
This song shot to 1, 2, 3 o’clock after being feat. in the ’55 film “Blackboard Jungle”.
Ben: “What is ‘Rock Around the Clock’?” (11,200)
2K Extinct Animal:
This sirenian of the Bering Sea was unknown until 1741 when Georg Steller 1st described it; within 30yrs it was extinct.
Yogesh: “What is Sellar’s sea cow?” (14,800)
2K “H”:
The Beach Boys mentioned these Mexican sandals in “Surfin’ USA”.
Troy: “What are huaraches?” (14K)
800 Pass:
Answer there’s the other TDD!
The 1st major U.S.-German battle of WWII took place in Feb. 1943 at Kasserine Pass on this continent.
“What is Africa?”…yeah!
2K Lost Work:
This Frenchman’s controversial urinal from a 1917 show’s lost; you can look at (but not use) a replica at the Tate Modern.
Yogesh: “Who is (Marcel) Duchamp?” (16,800)
1600 “H”:
It’s a fancy 9-letter way to say a forerunner or an omen as of Spring.
Troy: “What’s a harbinger?” (29,600)
1200 Lost Work:
The lost 9hr cut of this Eric Von Stroheim silent film w/ a deadly sign as its title likely showed money can’t buy happiness (also shared its title w/ a Chuck Woolery GS).
Troy: “What’s ‘Greed’?” (30,800)
1200 “H”:
A classic song said “Waiting ’round the bend, my” this person “Moon River & me”.
Yogesh: “What is ‘huckleberry friend’?” (18K)
800 Extinct Animal:
The Sumatran type of this predator’s still around but the Javan & Bali subspecies are no more.
Yogesh: “What’s a tiger?” (18,800)
800 Movie Songs:
“Now I’m laughing to the bank” rapped thi$ man in “Am I Dreaming” over the end credits of “SPIDER-MAN: Across the Spider-Verse”.
Troy: “Who is A$AP Rocky?” (31,600)
800 Famous Woman:
For over 15yrs she was 1 of the most powerful people in the world.
Ben: “Who is Merkel?” (12K)
800 “H”:
Arabic gives us this word referring to food from an animal slaughtered in accordance w/ Islamic law.
Troy: “What’s halal?” (32,400)
800 Lost Work:
In 1903 this “Maple Leaf Rag” composer lost a trunk worth of music scores that possibly contained a ragtime opera.
Yogesh: “Who is Joplin?” (19,600)
400 Pass:
Winter storms sometimes close the over-8K’ Sylvan Pass located in the Wyoming part of this national park.
Yogesh: “Where is Yellowstone?” (20K)
400 Lost Work:
Acc. to 1 guy who read the lost memoirs of this 19th century poet & lord the book was “fit only for a brothel”.
Yogesh: “Uh, who is Byron?” (20,400)
400 “H”:
This word’s medical speak for really bad breath.
Troy: “What is halitosis?” (32,800)
400 Famous Woman:
In 2023 all living First Ladies gathered in Atlanta to pay tribute to this First Lady who passed away at 96.
Ben: “Who is Rosalynn Carter?” (12,400)
400 Extinct Animal:
The Narragansett pacer, a breed of this, became extinct sometime in the 19th century.
Ben: “What’s a horse?” (12,800)
400 Movie Songs:
A non-“Let It Go” song from “FROZEN” said these “are better than people. Sven, don’t you think that’s true?”.
Troy: “What are reindeer?” (33,200)
SOLE ATTEMPTED DJ! TS: 1200 (Extinct Animals)
Pre-Final S:
Yogesh: 20,400/Troy: 33,200/Ben: 12,800
CORYAT SCORES:
Troy: 20K/Ben: 9K
FJ!: HISTORIC AMERICANS
Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man.
BEN: “Who is John Paul Jones?” (DOUBLE) = 25,600
YOGESH: “WHO (DAVID) FARRAGUT” (5,200) = 15,200
TROY: “Who is (John J.) Pershing?” = 25,599 (Ben: √ √)
