Show #7557 2017-06-20 Regular

Contestants

Chris Nadon — a college teacher from Claremont, California

Melissa Dean — a quality assurance auditor from Raleigh, North Carolina

Peter Guekguezian — a Ph.D. student in linguistics from Fresno, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $25,599)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Peter	$5,200	$8,000	$21,600	$19,201 3-day champion: $44,800	$17,000 21 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Melissa	$1,200	$4,400	$9,600	$1,600 2nd place: $2,000	$9,600 13 R, 2 W
Chris	$2,400	$5,200	$800	$1,599 3rd place: $1,000	$8,000 18 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WE'RE GIVING YOU A COMMISSION	GOOD SOURCES OF CALCIUM	AUTHORS' INITIALS	10-LETTER VERBS	THE GAME IS RIGGED	RETURN TO THE MOVIES
$200 [21] The 7 members of the Warren Commission were appointed by this man Johnson Chris	$200 [2] When made with calcium sulfate, this soybean curd has lots of calcium, though not lots of flavor tofu Peter	$200 [7] Wove a web about "some pig":EBW E.B. White Peter	$200 [1] To take a document off the secret list & make it public declassify Melissa	$200 [12] A baked potato that comes this way has all the fixins; for dice, it means they've been tampered with loaded Chris	$200 [26] Gandalf & Aragorn & a host of others fought Sauron's army in this 2003 finale Return of the King Peter
$400 [22] The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission scolded the Federal Reserve's pivotal "failure to stem the flow of toxic" these mortgages Chris	$400 [3] This nut that resembles a peach pit has more calcium than any other nut an almond Melissa Chris	$400 [8] He told EB she was "all that is good & kind":RB Robert Browning	$400 [16] Sorry, ma'am, I need to do this, seize your Subaru to pursue those criminals commandeer Peter	$400 [13] Bernie Sanders thanked Obama for not putting his thumb on these to influence the nominating process the scales Peter	$400 [27] It's the subtitle of "Star Wars" Episode VI Return of the Jedi Peter
$600 [23] In 1992 David Dinkins created the Mollen Commission to investigate police corruption in this city New York Chris	$600 [4] These seeds traditionally used to make halvah are an excellent source of calcium sesame Peter	$800 [10] He dreamed up "The Sandman" & "Coraline":NG Neil Gaiman Peter	$600 [17] To shed too much light on film while taking a photograph is to do this overexpose Chris	$600 [14] If they "keep moving" these on the gridiron, they're changing the rules mid-game & it's not fair goalposts Melissa	$600 [28] 1968's "Night of" these creatures apparently didn't finish them off; 1985 witnessed "The Return of" them the living dead Melissa
$800 [24] In 1961 this 76-year-old former First Lady became the first chair of the President's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt Melissa	$800 [5] The curly type of this hearty member of the cabbage family thrives in the cold & is a good source of calcium & iron kale Chris	$1,000 [11] Creator of "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy":IBS Isaac Bashevis Singer Chris	$800 [18] You need a body part to spell this term for what a gawker does passing a crash scene on the highway rubberneck Peter	$800 [15] It can mean a cup for coffee, your face, or a sucker, as in "The stock market is a ____'s game" mug Melissa	$800 [29] More scares awaited in "Halloween 4: The Return of" this crazed killer Michael Myers Melissa
$1,000 [25] In 1954 the Hoover Commission created a committee to spy on this 3-letter U.S. agency established in 1947 the CIA Chris	$1,000 [6] A spoonful of the blackstrap type of this sweet stuff makes the calcium go down in the most delightful way molasses Peter	DD $2,000 [9] He liked to rime:STC Samuel Taylor Coleridge Peter	$1,000 [19] When you digest, you break down food; when you do this, you process the resulting chemicals for your body to use metabolize Melissa	$1,000 [20] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew deals cards.) As the dealer, I've secretly organized the cards so that I get a great starting hand, an action known by this 3-word phrase stack the deck Peter	$1,000 [30] The 1954 western "River of No Return" saw Robert Mitchum team up with this sultry screen goddess Marilyn Monroe

Double Jeopardy! Round

BLOWIN' IN THE WIND	TANGLED UP IN BLUE	IT'S ALRIGHT, MA (I'M ONLY BLEEDING)	THINGS HAVE CHANGED	FOREVER "YOUNG"	BOB DYLAN
$400 [1] With Amarillo No. 1, this state has 4 of the Weather Channel's 10 windiest U.S. cities Texas Chris	$400 [6] The largest one of these ever measured was a 110-foot female that weighed more than 200 tons a blue whale Melissa	$400 [25] A spontaneous nosebleed can be exacerbated by severe hypertension, the medical term for this high blood pressure Chris	$400 [20] The 45th pres. has changed the way the office talks to the public, including the use of this personal Twitter handle @RealDonaldTrump Melissa	$400 [11] By the 1920s the area of this northeast Ohio city was No. 2 to Pittsburgh in American steel production Youngstown Chris	$400 [16] Bob was born in Minnesota with this last name Zimmerman
$800 [2] Safaga on Egypt's east coast is a windsurfing & sailing destination on this sea the Red Sea Peter	$800 [7] Blu-Ray video technology uses a blue one of these beams instead of the red one used by DVD a laser Peter	$800 [26] In the show "Les Miserables", Fantine coughs up blood because she has this bacterial lung disease tuberculosis Melissa	$800 [21] In 1960 the 5-year survival rate of this white blood cell cancer averaged just 14%; today it's over 60% leukemia Chris	$1,200 [13] Greg Maddux won it 4 times in a row a Cy Young Peter	$800 [17] Song that Jann Wenner's magazine ranked the greatest ever "Like A Rolling Stone" Peter Chris
$1,600 [4] Winds sweep the 300,000 square miles of the Kazakh this vast plain the steppes Chris	$1,200 [8] Term for a stock regarded as a safe investment in a large, established & stable company blue-chip Chris	$1,200 [27] I am bleeding, so I need a few of these surgical stitches whose name is from the Latin for "sew" sutures Chris	$1,200 [22] In 1915 Mary was the most popular baby girl name; in 2005 it was Emily & in 2015, this name similar to Emily Emma Melissa Chris	$1,600 [14] In 1835 he was named third of the original quorum of the 12 apostles Brigham Young Peter	$1,200 [18] Bob's son, who fronted The Wallflowers Jakob Dylan Melissa
$2,000 [5] Paros is one of the windiest of these Greek islands that encircle Delos the Cyclades Peter	$1,600 [9] Bergen County, New Jersey has one of the USA's last blue laws, banning retailers from doing this selling alcohol on Sundays (or selling anything on a Sunday) Melissa Chris	$1,600 [28] Bleeding & the blockage called pyloric stenosis are possible complications of a peptic one of these an ulcer Chris	$1,600 [23] In the 20th century there were as many as 24 Communist countries; today there are only 5, including these 2 in southeast Asia Vietnam and Laos Peter Chris	$2,000 [15] In a Nathaniel Hawthorne tale, this title Puritan flees a witches' Sabbath Young Goodman Brown	$1,600 [19] City Bob made news by not being in December 10, 2016 Stockholm Peter
DD $4,400 [3] Speeding up evaporation, winds are strong in many deserts, like this one that's home to most Joshua trees the Mojave Desert Peter	$2,000 [10] Check it out! Like cornflower, it's both a flower an a popular shade of blue for shirts periwinkle	$2,000 [29] A collection of blood in unbroken tissue is a bruise, aka this fancy 9-letter word contusion Melissa Chris	$2,000 [24] Beginning in 2017, a record 21 women are now U.S. senators, including this new one from California Kamala Harris Peter	DD $7,200 [12] The seeds of this disruptive group date back to 1889 with members of the Imperial Medical Academy of Istanbul the Young Turks Chris	$2,000 [30] Folk artist who sang "Diamonds & Rust" about her fling with Bob Joan Baez

Final Jeopardy!

SHAKESPEARE TITLES

The verse from the Sermon on the Mount following "Judge not, that ye be not judged" inspired this Bard comedy title

Measure for Measure

Chris "What is Measure for Measure" — wagered $799

Melissa "What ?" — wagered $8,000

Peter "What isthe Comedy of ErMuch Ado" — wagered $2,399

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