Show #7216 2016-01-18 (taped 2015-12-14) Regular

4th regular play game that didn't have a winner.

Contestants

Randi Kristensen — a professor from Washington, D.C.

Claudia Corriere — a church musician and homemaker from Kennesaw, Georgia (whose 2-day cash winnings total $29,000)

Mike Drummond — an application scientist from Columbus, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Mike $3,000 $4,600 $13,800 $0
Loser: $2,000
$13,800
17 R, 0 W
Claudia $600 $4,000 $13,800 $0
Loser: $2,000
$12,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Randi $400 $4,000 $6,000 $0
Loser: $1,000
$5,600
10 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

CREATION STORIES LAKES & RIVERS "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" OH SAY CAN YOU SEE? GALLANTLY STREAMING TV WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILED
$200 [8]
The original natives of this U.S. state have the Kumulipo, a 2,000-line poem of the creation
Hawaii
Mike
$200 [6]
This largest lake in Africa is also the main reservoir of the Nile River
Lake Victoria
Mike
$200 [1]
A:Present plural of "to be"
are
Mike
$200 [11]
The beautiful Snake River Canyonis a highlight of this state
Idaho
Claudia Randi
$200 [16]
In 2015 Yahoo! began streaming this former NBC series about Jeff, Abed & their higher learning gang
Community
Claudia
$600 [28]
Puppetry artist Basil Twist was among the 2015 recipients of this foundation's "Genius" grants
the MacArthur Foundation
Claudia
$400 [13]
Later the top Norse god, with his brothers he slew the giant Ymir & constructed the world from the corpse
Odin
Mike
DD $200 [12]
In 1699 Sieur d'Iberville saw Okwata, a vast lake near the Gulf of Mexico, & renamed it this
Lake Pontchartrain
Randi
$400 [2]
B:A towering building project in Genesis 11:4-9
Babel
Mike
$400 [14]
Seen here is a mug shot of this once powerful man in Alcatraz, his home from 1934 to 1939
(Al) Capone
Claudia
$400 [17]
Title last name of Harry (aka Hieronymus), Michael Connelly's L.A. detective played by Titus Welliver
Bosch
Claudia
$800 [27]
In 2014 Isabel Allende was among the recipients of this medal, the highest civilian honor awarded by our chief executive
the Medal of Freedom
Randi
$600 [15]
A Chinese myth says the god P'an-ku was born from these 2 competing principles to make heaven & earth
yin & yang
Claudia
$400 [7]
This Florida lake bears a Hitchiti name that means "big water"
Okeechobee
Claudia
$600 [3]
C:A hood like Batman wears
a cowl
Mike Claudia
$600 [21]
The caricature seenherewas adopted by this university in 1964
Notre Dame
Mike
$600 [18]
Her "unbreakable" extended theme "White dudes hold the record for creepy crimes but females are strong as hell"
Kimmy Schmidt
Claudia
$1,000 [26]
He got 2 ticker-tape parades in NYC's Canyon of Heroes: one in 1962 & the other in 1998, after a 2nd trip to space
John Glenn
Randi
$800 [22]
This sun god who rose from the Ocean of Chaos & was reborn daily gained prominence in Egypt's 5th Dynasty
Ra
Claudia
$600 [9]
Mosul, one of Iraq's largest cities, lies on the west bank of this river
the Tigris
$800 [4]
D:Adjective meaning "sweet", like a pleasant tone
dulcet
Claudia
$800 [24]
In 2015this Utah man was third in line in presidential succession
Orrin Hatch
Randi
$800 [19]
8 people telepthically experience each other's lives in "Sense8", created in part by these "Matrix" siblings
the Wachowskis
Claudia
$1,000 [23]
"Theogony" by Hesiod says the first children of this Greek earth goddess had no father
Gaia
Mike
$800 [10]
The principal river of Tuscany rises on Monte Falterona
the Arno River
Claudia
$1,000 [5]
E:Latin plural for mistakes in a text
errata
Mike
$1,000 [25]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a video of different rail vehicles on the monitor.) Let's clear this up: a cable car runs on an underground cable; a similar vehicle using overhead wires may be called a streetcar, a tram or this, also the name of the pole that connects it to the wires
a trolley
$1,000 [20]
In 2015 Jeffrey Tambor went through some big changes & won a Golden Globe for his role on this Amazon series
Transparent
Randi

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLANETARY BOOKSTORE FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES ACCOUNTING WHOSE '70s NO. 1 ALBUM? THE FRENCH REVOLUTION LONG-LIVED CREATURES
$400 [10]
"Monkey Planet" was an alternative title of this Pierre Boulle novel that spawned a movie series
Planet of the Apes
Mike
$400 [13]
In Yiddish a shvitz is a sauna or steam bath; to shvitz is this, what you do in those
sweat
Randi
$400 [25]
When this risk is "limited" the potential loss is fixed at a maximum
liability
Claudia
$400 [1]
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Elton John
Randi
$400 [20]
On Oct. 5, 1789 thousands of women marched to Versailles to protest the high price & scarcity of this foodstuff
bread
Claudia
$400 [6]
Scientists said one of these was 130 when it died in 2007; in its neck was a harpoon point made around 1880
a whale
Claudia
$800 [11]
From the creator of Cap. Underpants comes "Rickey Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Uranium Unicorns" of this planet
Uranus
Mike
$1,200 [15]
German for "fear", it's used as a psychological term for anxiety mixed with uncertainty
Angst
Mike
$800 [26]
2-word term for a company's total assets minus total expenses & debts
net worth
Randi
$800 [2]
"Songs in the Key of Life"
Stevie Wonder
Claudia
$800 [21]
A the time of the revolution, it had 8 towers & was surrounded by a moat more than 80 feet wide
the Bastille
Mike
$800 [7]
The microscopic water this--we nicknamed it "Ursus smallus"--can slow its metabolism to 0.01% of normal & live up to a century
a (water) bear
Claudia
$1,200 [12]
Other books by this author include "Mars & Venus in the Bedroom" & "The Mars & Venus Diet & Exercise Solution"
John Gray
$1,600 [16]
To avoid being overheard, you speak this way in soft tones, Italian for "under voice"
sotto voce
Mike
$1,200 [27]
From the Old French for "remove from a purse", it means to pay out money from a fund
disburse
Mike
$1,200 [3]
"Exile on Main St."
The Rolling Stones
Claudia
$1,200 [22]
He tried to escape France but was caught after a patriot recognized him from his picture on French currency
Louis XVI
Mike
$1,200 [8]
Marvel fans know to hail this creature that replaces all the cells in its body in a few weeks & never grows old
the hydra
$1,600 [18]
This 1931 novel was written by a missionaries' daughter who went on to win a Nobel Prize
The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck)
Randi
DD $2,000 [14]
From the French for "loosening", it was a loosening of tensions between the U.S. & Soviet Union in the 1970s
detente
Randi
$1,600 [29]
Beloit is a liberal arts college; this Big 4 accounting firm that rhymes with Beloit has its own university
Deloitte
Claudia
$1,600 [4]
"Wish You Were Here"
Pink Floyd
Claudia
$1,600 [23]
In 1790 a tricolor flag replaced one that featured this floral emblem
the fleur-de-lis
Claudia
$2,000 [24]
This crustacean can survive for 100 years; the Norway type often doesn't get close to that, as it's delicious
a lobster
$2,000 [19]
"The Moons of Jupiter" is a short story collection by this Canadian female author of "Lives of Girls & Women"
Alice Munro
Claudia
$2,000 [17]
It's Latin for "from the chair", referring to the seat of authority from which the pope issues infallible decrees
ex cathedra
Mike
$2,000 [5]
"All Things Must Pass"
George Harrison
$2,000 [28]
At the start of the revolution, the 3 of these represented the clergy, the nobility & the people
the Estates-General
DD $3,000 [9]
Defying a Coleridge poem, this type of bird was 64 when she laid an egg in 2015
an albatross
Claudia

Final Jeopardy!

STATE CAPITALS

A 1957 event led to the creation of a National Historic Site in this city, signed into law by a president whose library is now there too

Little Rock, Arkansas

Randi "What is Springf" — wagered $6,000
Claudia "What is Austin" — wagered $13,800
Mike "What is Atlanta?" — wagered $13,800

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