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"JEOPARDY! Tournament of Champions"- '15 G.F.

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BB:
WRITERS MAKE PRETTY GOOD FRIENDS
CABLE SHOWS
LESSER-KNOWN SUPERHEROES
BODIES OF WATER
FIT BITS
HOW MANY MILES?

$600 Cable Show:

This bloke's shows on Discovery have included "Man vs. Wild"& "Escape From Hell".

Alex: "Who is Grylls?"

$800 Writers Make Pretty Good Friends:

Charles Dickens & this Vanity Fair author were 19th C. frenemies.


Alex: "Who is (William) Thackeray?"$1,400

$800 Body of Water:

This river that flows between the Great Slave Lake & the Arctic Ocean is called the Deh Cho, or "Big River", by the Dene people.

Kerry: "What is the Mackenzie?"

$400 Cable Show:

He's the host of CNN's "360".

Matt: "Who is Anderson Cooper?"

$800 Cable Show:

This HBO docuseries helped bring down Robert Durst after he seemingly confessed to murder in the finale.


Alex: "What is 'The Jinx'?"$2,200

$600 Body of Water:

This gulf that borders two countries is named for the capital of one.


Matt: "What is the Gulf of Riga?"$1K

$1K:

When Syria built the Tabaqah Dam on this river in 1973, it created a reservoir called Lake Assad.


Matt: "What is the Euphrates?"$2K

$1K Cable Show:

Dorian Gray & Dr. Frankenstein are among the characters who have stepped off the page & into this drama on SHOWTIME.


1ST TS THIS EVENING

$1K Writers Make Pretty Good Friends:

Though close w/ this novelist, Edith Wharton said "Don't ask me what I think of The Wings of the Dove".


Kerry:"Who is Henry James?"$1,800

$600 Lesser-Known Superhero:

This guy has a way of making any situation seem unimportant & trifling.

Matt: "What is minimizer?"$2,600

$600 Writers Make Pretty Good Friends:

In A Moveable Feast, he said Gertrude Stein had been very cordial & friendly to him.

Matt:"Who is Hemingway?"$3,200

$600 Fit Bit:


Push ups & jumping jacks are these 12-letter exercises that use only your body weight.


Alex:"What are Calinsthenics?"$2,800

$800 How Many Miles?: TDD

One lap of the Daytona 500 is this many miles.

"What is...two-and-a-half?"...yes indeedy.

$400 Writers Make Pretty Good Friends:

This writer of J'Accuse was friends w/ Paul Cezanne & encouraged him to pursue his art studies in Paris.


Alex: "Who is (Emile) Zola?"$6K

$400 Lesser-Known Superhero:

He could put the bad guys in a trance w/ a swing of his pocket watch, which actually sounds pretty nifty.


Alex:"What is hypnotizer?"$6,400

$200 How Many Miles?:

In 1924 the Olympic marathon was standardized at this many miles & 385 yds.


Alex:"What's 26?"$6,600

$400:

To Lao Tzu "a journey of" this many miles, like from Beijing to Irkutsk, "begins with a single step".

Matt: "What is a thousand?"$3,600

$600:


Distance in miles from Middletown, PA that gave the state's most famous nuclear plant its name.


Kerry: "What is three?"$2,400

$1K:

The Encyclopedia of Detroit refers to it as a "de-facto psychological and cultural boundary for the region".


Matt:"What is eight mile(s)?"$4,600

$1K Lesser-Known Superhero:

He has a unique power-- everything he touches turns to rust.


Matt: "What is oxidizer?"$5,600

$800:

When it comes to cutting expenses & finding deals to stay under budget, this superhero saves the day.

Matt: "What is itemizer?"$4,800

TS #2: Econimizer

$1K Fit Bit:

Short bursts of intense effort are alternated w/ less strenuous activity in this type of training like Fartlek.


Alex: "What is interval training?"$7,600

$400 Fit Bit:

Regular exercise can boost this, the sum of the chemical processes in the body whose name's from the Greek for "change".


Kerry: "What is metabolism?"$2,800

$800 Fit Bit:

Strength-training exercises can help prevent fractures caused by this condition, aka thinning bones.

Matt: "What is osteoporosis?"$5,600

$400 Body of Water:

Iran's Bandar-E Abbas is a port on this strategic strait.

Alex: "What is Hormuz?"$8K

$200 Fit Bit:

Exercise that strengthens the heart & lungs is called cardio or this, referring to the presence of oxygen.


Alex: "What is aerobic?"$8,200

$200 Body of Water:

Sharing a country's name, this largest Central American lake drains into the Caribbean via the Rio San Juan.


Kerry: "What is Lake Nicaragua?"$3K

$200 Lesser-Known Superhero:

He tried to wash away the bad guys' sins by immersing 'em in water.


Alex: "What is baptizer?"$8,400

$200 Cable Show:

In '15 there was something fishy on Syfy- No. 3 of this franchise, "Oh Hell No!"

Alex: "What is 'Sharknado'?" $8,600

Last Clue of Rd.:

Ezra Pound was a friend & mentor to him, arranging for the serialization of his A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man.

Kerry: "Who is James Joyce?"$3,200


DJ!:
HOW THE EAST WAS WON
13-LETTER WORDS
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
THE PERIODIC TABLE
MYTHOLO"G"
MOVIE LINES, MADE TV-SAFE

$1200 Periodic Table:

The three naturally-occurring magnetic elements are cobalt, nickel & this one.


Alex: "What is iron?"$9,800

$1600"G":

Hercules labored to get one of these belts from the Queen of the Amazons.


Matt: "What is a girdle?"$7,200

$1200:

He wrestled w/ Enkidu, they became buddies, then he turned down a tryst w/ Ishtar.

Matt: "Who is Gilgamesh?"$8,400

$2K:

Zeus took the form of an eagle to abduct this youth & make him his cupbearer.


Alex: "Who is Ganymede?"$11,800

$1200 How the East Was Won: DD- $100

Russian caravans got access to Beijing in a 1869 treaty w/ this dynasty that gave its name to a region.

"Who is...Manchu?" is his response just in the nick of time...& right.

$1600 Periodic Table:


Appropriately, it was Lord Rayleigh & Sir William Ramsay who discovered most of these gases in the 1890s.


Matt: "What are the noble gases?"$10K

$2K (Jimmy outside the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory):

"Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory collaborated on the discovery of element no. 116, which was even named livermorium. It was created by smashing atoms of curium, atomic number 96, with atoms of this element."

TS #3: Calcium

$1600 The Exec. Branch:: TDD

Overseeing the FDA is one job of this Cabinet dept.

"What is the United States Department of Agriculture?"...TOURNEY OVER- I'm so sorry, Matt.

ATTEMPTED LT: $3200
UNATTEMPTED LT: $4K
TOTAL DJ! LT: $7200

Pre-Final S for This Evening:

Matt: $7,200/Alex: $18,700/Kerry: $3,200

FRIDAY'S CORYATS:
Matt: $17,200
Alex: $17,800

TOURNEY FINAL CORYATS:
Matt: $28,400
Alex: $30,700
Kerry: $11,400

FJ! C #50:PHILOSOPHERS

His last name means a type of burial place & in 1855 that's where he went.

K: "Who is (Soren) Kierkegaard?" ($1.5K) + $4,700 = $8,100

M: "Who is..." ($0) + $3K = $10,200

A: "WHO THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO WORKS ON THE WORLD'S GREATEST GAME SHOW!!" + $29,600 = $48,300

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