Show #7595 2017-09-22 (taped 2017-04-18) Regular

Contestants

Ivan Plis — a magazine editor from Washington, D.C.

Lauren Cusitello — a criminal and immigration defense lawyer from San Diego, California

Betsy Knudson — an attorney from Salt Lake City, Utah (whose 3-day cash winnings total $61,402)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Betsy $1,200 $4,800 $0 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$4,800
8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Lauren $1,800 $3,200 $14,400 $18,400
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
23 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Ivan $2,400 $6,800 $18,200 $23,200
New champion: $23,200
$16,800
18 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

TIME FOR A DRINK ANIMALS WITH BEASTLY NAMES KIDDY LIT OMAR'S COMIN'! 4-SYLLABLE WORDS I'M NO QUITTER
$200 [12]
It's early, so I'll start with some O.J.--& champagne, this sparkling cocktail
a mimosa
Betsy
$200 [1]
Some species of this creature with a mythic beast in its name can reach speeds of 30 miles per hour
a dragonfly
Ivan
$200 [7]
She drank the cup of poison Captain Hook had intended for Peter Pan
Tinker Bell
Lauren
$200 [16]
Going Noriega before Noriega, Omar Torrijos led the 1968 coup in this country & ended up as its dictatorial leader
Panama
Lauren
$200 [2]
Exactly the same
identical
Lauren
$200 [23]
Ranked as low as 141st & splitting with Brooke Shields, he won the French Open in 1999
(Andre) Agassi
Lauren
$400 [13]
I'm gonna party like it's 44 "B.C."! Mix me one of these, a Bloody Mary with clamato rather than tomato juice
a Bloody Caesar
$400 [9]
These rodents of the American West don't just bark; their sounds can tell the colony, "Tall human in blue shirt approaching"
a prairie dog
Lauren
$400 [8]
He hatches the egg of Mayzie, a lazy, good-for-nothing bird who flies off to Palm Beach
Horton
Ivan
$400 [19]
Wise words from Omar Little on this Baltimore-set HBO show: "You come at the king, you best not miss"
The Wire
Ivan
$400 [3]
Parallel to level ground
horizontal
Betsy
$400 [24]
Well after many figured this longtime Packer would call it quits, he joined the rival Vikings in 2009
Brett Favre
Lauren
$600 [14]
Vodka, peach schnapps, cranberry & orange juices, quick! I need this, like Burt Lancaster & Deborah Kerr
Sex on the Beach
Lauren
$600 [28]
Thistree-dwelling carnivore of Asia combines ursine and feline creatures in its name
a cat-bear (or bear-cat)
Ivan
$800 [11]
The Manning, South Carolina statueseenhererepresents this literal-minded housekeeper created by native Peggy Parish
Amelia Bedelia
Ivan
$600 [20]
The last name of this 11th century Persian poet & astronomer means "tentmaker" & may be derived from his father's trade
(Omar) Khayyam
Ivan
$600 [4]
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ended the school type of it
segregation
Betsy
$600 [25]
Thispitcher's ulnar injury was supposed to be career-ending, but a new type of surgery in 1974 changed that
Tommy John
Lauren
$800 [17]
It'll have one of these pub concoctions, beer mixed with lemonade--& hold the Tristram
a shandy
Betsy
$800 [29]
The horned toad of the Americas isn't a toad at all, nor even a frog, but one of these reptiles
a lizard
$1,000 [15]
This Beatrix Potter squirrel "had a brother called Twinkleberry and a great many cousins"
Nutkin
Ivan
$800 [21]
This 1960s film legend died at age 83 in Cairo in 2015
Omar Sharif
Ivan
$800 [5]
This word meaning "compulsory" or "obligatory" comes from the Latin for "command"
mandatory
Lauren
$800 [26]
Austrian driver Niki Lauda's amazing comeback from a horrific crash is told in this Ron Howard film
Rush
Betsy
$1,000 [18]
I see you have the traditionalmugfor it, so make me this, with lime juice, vodka & ginger beer
a Moscow Mule
Ivan
$1,000 [30]
Not actually swine but rodents, they may be pets, lab research subjects or food, depending where you are
guinea pigs
Betsy
DD $1,400 [10]
In 2000 Robin McKinley retold this classic fairy tale in "Spindle's End"
"Sleeping Beauty"
Lauren
$1,000 [22]
In 1944 he was given command of the U.S. First Army
Omar Bradley
Ivan
$1,000 [6]
A meteorologist uses this word to describe showers that start & stop randomly throughout the day
intermittent
Lauren
$1,000 [27]
This disgraced track star made a comeback as a player in the WNBA with the Tulsa Shock
Marion Jones
Betsy

Double Jeopardy! Round

BELLY UP TO THE ZANZIBAR INVESTING A JOINT EFFORT THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT "GEO" PARTY I'M NO ACQUITTER
$400 [17]
The island of Zanzibar puts the second syllable in the name of this country
Tanzania
Lauren
$400 [18]
Investors want to maximize this rate of return on a stock, also a type of street sign
yield
Lauren
$400 [11]
A saddle joint allows for a circling movement, as in the one at the base of this digit
the thumb
Lauren
$400 [12]
Tracy Morgan, on this Tina Fey sitcom: "Heavy is the head that eats the crayons"
30 Rock
Lauren
$400 [6]
19th century Russian Nikolay Lobachevsky founded non-Euclidean this field
geometry
Lauren
$400 [1]
Sometime after his chat with Jesus, this prefect was ordered back to Rome for executing men without proper trials
Pontius Pilate
Lauren
$800 [20]
The island is called Unguja in this main language spoken there
Swahili
Ivan
$800 [19]
There's a double "M" in this word for any food, metal or other substance commonly traded for
a commodity
Ivan
$800 [25]
Wrenching a joint may tear a tendon or this band of tissue that connects the 2 bones
a ligament
Lauren
$800 [13]
This band had a 1993 hit singing, "But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here"
Radiohead
Ivan
$800 [7]
For Nebraska, it's the 2-word term for a spot 10 miles northwest of the town of Broken Bow
geographic center
$800 [2]
George Jeffreys judged & executed scores of rebels in 1685 but died in this London locale when political winds shifted
the Tower of London
Lauren
$1,200 [21]
Zanzibar fell under Portuguese domination shortly after this explorer visited in 1499
Vasco da Gama
Lauren
$1,200 [22]
There are short & long types of this futures contract, what you do to "your bets" to minimize risk
a hedge
Lauren
$1,200 [26]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a joint on the monitor.) Often affecting the weight-bearing joints, like the knee, osteoarthritis is especially painful as this rubbery tissue deteriorates, allowing bone to rub against bone
cartilage
Ivan
$1,200 [14]
Dirk Benedict played Starbuck on this sci-fi show in 1978; Katee Sackhoff took the character in a new direction in 2003
Battlestar Galactica
Ivan
$1,200 [8]
Heat from the interior of the Earth
geothermal heat
Lauren
$1,200 [3]
In 1883 Judge Isaac Parker sentenced this female outlaw & her husband Sam to the federal pen for horse stealing
Belle Starr
$2,000 [28]
Zanzibar & nearby isles, leaders in clove production, claim the title of these islands, also applied to the Moluccas
the Spice Islands
Lauren
$1,600 [23]
It's the "N" in NEC, Japan's first joint venture with foreign investment; today, you can invest in the company too
Nippon
$1,600 [29]
The only movable joints of the head, the TM joints connect the skull & this lower bone of the jaw
the mandible
Betsy
$1,600 [15]
In the 1985 hit "Smooth Operator", this one-named singer crooned, "Coast to coast, L.A. to Chicago"... huh?!
Sade
Ivan
$1,600 [9]
Rudolf Kjellen coined this term that involves the influence of coasts & borders on international relations
geopolitics
Lauren
$1,600 [4]
When he was "the law west of the Pecos", he fined a corpse $40 for having a concealed weapon
Judge Roy Bean
Betsy
DD $3,000 [27]
Many Zanzibar residents have Mideastern roots, practice Islam & call themselves Shirazi, after a city in this country
Iran
Ivan
$2,000 [24]
The base interest rate, the minimum investors demand of a non-treasury security, also has this other "B" name
the benchmark
DD $4,800 [30]
Glenohumeral is the medical name for this joint with greater range than any other in humans
the shoulder
Betsy
$2,000 [16]
This standup comic & "Ride Along" star said, "Lying ruined my marriage... that's a lie. I cheated"
Kevin Hart
$2,000 [10]
With exciting centers, they've been called the Tootsie Pops of rock hunting
geodes
Ivan
$2,000 [5]
"Hanging judge" Matthew Begbie dished out justice in this Canadian province back when New Westminster was the capital
British Columbia

Final Jeopardy!

POETS

In an 1855 poem he wrote, "I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven"

Walt Whitman

Lauren "Who is Walt Whitman?" — wagered $4,000
Ivan "Who is Walt Whitman? [with a drawing of three grass blades]" — wagered $5,000

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