Show #7494 2017-03-23 (taped 2016-12-07) Regular

Contestants

Stephanie Garrone-Shufran — a teacher educator from Woburn, Massachusetts

Robin Devereux — an art dealer from Durham, North Carolina

Kevin Shrum — a retired adjunct professor from Fort Collins, Colorado (whose 2-day cash winnings total $33,500)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $1,200 $3,400 $12,200 $5,599
2nd place: $2,000
$16,200
23 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Robin $1,000 $1,800 $14,000 $3,599
3rd place: $1,000
$12,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Stephanie $5,000 $7,400 $9,400 $17,400
New champion: $17,400
$9,400
15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

RECENT BESTSELLERS GRAINS DECODING THE HITMAKING BAND POTPOURRI ON THE BALLOT PREPOSITION 5
$200 [1]
On the nonfiction list, Phil Knight's book title says it all: "Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of" this
Nike
Kevin
$200 [30]
Despite its name, this little rascal used in pancakes is not a cereal grass; it's related to rhubarb
buckwheat
$200 [6]
Samuel L., Jesse, Reggie, Phil &Stonewall
the Jackson 5
Kevin
$200 [13]
The skunk ape is Florida's version of this legendary humanoid
Bigfoot
Kevin
$200 [21]
No coups d'etat in Little Rock--in 2016 this state voted to allow the governor to retain power while out of state
Arkansas
Robin
$200 [16]
This word meaning "on the occasion of" is in the opening of many a fairy tale
upon
Stephanie
$400 [2]
In Colson Whitehead's novel named for this 19th century path to freedom, it has actual tracks & engineers
the Underground Railroad
Kevin
$400 [29]
The name of this cereal grain with a nutty taste sounds like the word for an Egyptian king
farro
Robin
$400 [7]
The U.K.'s central lawmaking body
Parliament
Kevin
$400 [9]
This type of ship follows "prairie" in the name of a kind of 19th century wagon
schooner
Kevin
$400 [22]
It was almost every man for a kingfish in 1928--he won a whopping 96% of the vote to be Louisiana's governor
Huey Long
Stephanie
$400 [17]
Lesser in rank or less than zero, in temperature
below (or sub)
Kevin Robin
$600 [3]
In the May 1, 2016 N.Y. Times, this hero: "The Killing Joke" marked 200 weeks on the hardcover graphic bestseller list
Batman
$600 [24]
Einkorn & teff have remained relatively unchanged over the years & are called this type of very old grain
ancient
Stephanie
$600 [8]
Ms. Nightingale + the Apparatus
Florence + the Machine
Stephanie
$600 [10]
It's the type of end-blown flute heard here
a recorder
Kevin
$600 [23]
This ex-Speaker of the House is popular in her West Coast district with results like 86% of the vote in 1998
Nancy Pelosi
Stephanie
$600 [18]
2 of the 3 letters are vowels in this word, traveling through a point to get to another destination
via
Stephanie
$800 [4]
Jeffrey Toobin's "American Heiress" focused on the 1974 kidnapping of this woman
Patty Hearst
Stephanie
$800 [25]
Triticale is a hybrid of durum wheat & this grain, also used to give Canadian whisky its je ne sais quoi
rye
Kevin
$800 [14]
Form a mental image of Puff & Drogon
Imagine Dragons
Stephanie
$800 [11]
This other term for the Holy Communion comes from the Greek for "grateful"
the Eucharist
Stephanie
$1,000 [27]
His name was after "McCain" in a 2002 campaign-finance reform act & on the ballot in 2016 to get his job back in Wisconsin
(Russ) Feingold
Kevin Robin
$800 [19]
It means beside or during; "the caissons go rolling" that way too
along
Robin
$1,000 [5]
This Indian-American comedian tried to figure out "Modern Romance" with the help of a sociologist
Aziz Ansari
Stephanie
$1,000 [28]
The first 4 letters of this grain spell out the type of facility that could help to refine it
millet
Kevin
$1,000 [15]
In order:rock, a place of worship, a bunch of aviators
Stone Temple Pilots
Stephanie
$1,000 [12]
"Not to be ministered unto, but to minister" is the motto of this Seven Sisters college that's outside Boston
Wellesley
Robin
DD $2,000 [26]
Robert Caro, biographer of this president, said his 87-vote win in the 1948 Senate primary was fraudulent
Lyndon Johnson
Kevin
$1,000 [20]
This Latin word meaning "around" is found before years like 3000 B.C.
circa
Kevin

Double Jeopardy! Round

INSECTS WHERE IS IT? NEWER WORDS & PHRASES BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING "Z" MEN
$400 [11]
The Ctenocephalides canis species of this feeds not only on dogs but on other mammals including humans
fleas
Kevin
$400 [16]
Marajo Island:the delta of this very long river
the Amazon
Kevin Stephanie
$400 [21]
NSFW for short, it's found on emails you'd maybe prefer people not send you
not suitable for work
Stephanie
$400 [26]
"Easy A" reimagined this Hawthorne tale in a modern high school
The Scarlet Letter
Stephanie
$400 [1]
As architect Louis Sullivan wrote, Chicago's Masonic Temple "raised its head" 22 stories in 1892 & this word "came into use"
skyscraper
Kevin
$400 [6]
On the roof of a New York theater in July 1907, this impresario staged the first of his spectacular "Follies"
Ziegfeld
Kevin
$800 [12]
Wireworms, which feed on such ag products as corn & soybeans, are the larvae of the click type of this insect
a beetle
Kevin
$800 [17]
The Salt River Valley, AKA the Valley of the Sun:this state capital
Phoenix
Kevin
$800 [22]
As Andy Grammer mavens know, this phrase used to only mean you were OK; now it can mean "No thanks"
"I'm good"
Stephanie
$800 [27]
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" adapted this ancient classic to the American South
The Odyssey
Robin
$800 [2]
Dry masonry is stonework or brickwork done without this binding agent made with cement
mortar
Kevin
$800 [7]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a picture on the monitor.) On May 27, 1943, his plane went down in the Pacific, & after surviving a 2,000 mile trip on a raft & weighing less than 100 pounds, this bombardier was captured by Japanese forces on July 13th
Louis Zamperini
Stephanie
$1,200 [13]
German is a common species of this bug whose name is from the Spanish, as in a popular song
cockroach
Kevin
$1,600 [19]
Bar Harbor, near Acadia National Park:this state
Maine
Kevin
$1,200 [23]
It began in 2001 as "Nous sommes tous Americains"; now these 3 English words precede the name of any hard-hit group
"we are all"
$1,200 [28]
"Apocalypse Now" adapted this novella to the Vietnam War
Heart of Darkness
Kevin
$1,200 [3]
The type of Victorian architecture seenhereis named for this molasses cake & features ornate woodwork
gingerbread
Robin
$1,200 [8]
Home movies of JFK's assassination were taken by Orville Nix, Marie Muchmore &, famously, him
Zapruder
Kevin
$1,600 [14]
Like dragonflies, these feminine-named "flies" have see-through wings, but at rest, they demurely keep them folded
damselflies
Kevin
DD $2,000 [18]
The Plaza de Colon, this world capital
Madrid
Kevin
$1,600 [24]
The direct opposite of transgender is this prefix "gender"
cis
Robin
$1,600 [29]
The 1913 play "Pygmalion" walked the streets of Los Angeles as this 1990 Garry Marshall film
Pretty Woman
Stephanie
$2,000 [5]
A $100 million one of these cottages in Gstaad is part of the divorce award to Mrs. Dmitry Rybolovlev
a chalet
Robin
$1,600 [9]
This Mexican revolutionary was a champion of agrarianism
Zapata
Robin
$2,000 [15]
Lymantria dispar is this moth that true to its name, travels around devastating forests of aspen & oak
a gypsy moth
Robin
$2,000 [20]
This imperial city of Morocco:the Haouz Plain
Marrakesh
Robin
$2,000 [25]
This acronym precedes "Blog" in the name of Tom Goldstein's blog on the work of Breyer, Alito & their pals
SCOTUS
Robin
$2,000 [30]
Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays, this 1991 film starred Keanu Reeves & River Phoenix
My Own Private Idaho
DD $3,000 [4]
The Latin for "ship" gives us the name for this central part of a church
the nave
Robin
$2,000 [10]
This printer's 1735 court victory was the first major win for freedom of the press in the American colonies
John Peter Zenger

Final Jeopardy!

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

The word that gave us "picaresque" may also have inspired the name of this clever valet featured in a 1786 opera

Figaro

Stephanie "Who is Figaro?" — wagered $8,000
Kevin "Who is ?" — wagered $6,601
Robin "Who is Picard?" — wagered $10,401

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