Show #7615 2017-10-20 (taped 2017-08-03) Regular

Contestants

Kathleen Kosman — an attorney from Dearborn, Michigan

Tim Suba — a public education consultant from Los Angeles, California

Tom Blake — a video producer from New York, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tom $2,400 $2,400 $10,200 $10,000
3rd place: $1,000
$9,600
13 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Tim $600 $4,600 $9,800 $19,599
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
15 R, 2 W
Kathleen $1,600 $4,800 $16,400 $20,400
New champion: $20,400
$15,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

STREAMING EPISODES AROUND THEJEOPARDY!LIBRARY AN EDIFICE COMPLEX NEVER HAVE I EVER THE 20th CENTURY DYSPHEMISMS
$200 [16]
"Mindy and Nanny" &"Hot Mess Time Machine"
The Mindy Project
Kathleen
$200 [6]
We still browse Encyclopedia Britannica, last printed in 2010 & first printed in this U.K. country in 1768
Scotland
Tim Kathleen
$200 [26]
Guy Fawkes & Sir Walter Raleigh were "guests" at this landmark; Sir Thomas More did not make it out alive
the Tower of London
Tim
$200 [14]
...walked on this 5th planet from the Sun, as it consists mostly of hydrogen & helium
Jupiter
Tom
$200 [13]
This '20s mobster beat up the mayor of Cicero, Illinois on the steps of city hall as a nearby cop looked away
(Al) Capone
Tim
$200 [5]
I hope they aren't implying it tastes like dirt when they call this beverage a cup of mud
coffee
Tim
$400 [17]
"Windsor" &"Gloriana"
The Crown
$400 [7]
We hope violating a commandment is not how we came to have a Bible from this group that provides them free to hotels
Gideon
Tom
$400 [27]
This Southeast Asian country boasts the Petronas Towers 1 & 2, 1,483 feet each
Malaysia
Tim
$400 [15]
...climbed to the top of the 275-foot General Sherman, a giant this type of tree located in the same-named national park
a sequoia
Kathleen
$400 [12]
A coup ousted Nawaz Sharif as this country's leader in 1999 (& perhaps led to some deja vu for Nawaz in 2017)
Pakistan
Tim
$400 [1]
For nearly a century, this term for a prisoner's restraint has been used to describe wives
the ball and chain
Tom
$600 [20]
"Horse Majeure" &"One Trick Pony"
BoJack Horseman
Kathleen
$600 [8]
The more than 6,000 entries in the "Food Lover's Companion" include this dish made by stirring hot stock into sauteed rice
risotto
$600 [28]
The German founders of Anaheim would be happy Disneyland has this heroine's castle inspired by Neuschwanstein
Sleeping Beauty
Kathleen
$600 [23]
...sung "You And Me (But Mostly Me)" or "Tomorrow Is A Latter Day" in this show on a Broadway stage but at home... sure!
The Book of Mormon
$800 [10]
This system of 3D photography was invented in the 1940s; the 1960 invention of the laser made it much more efficient
holography
$600 [2]
The term "shrink" for a psychiatrist is a shortened form of this slang term
headshrinker
Tom
$800 [21]
"Offred" &"Birth Day"
The Handmaid's Tale
Tim
$800 [18]
"Veni, vidi, vici" is a quote from Caesar out of the 18th edition of this man's quotations, first published in 1855
(John) Bartlett
Kathleen
$800 [29]
Twisting skyscrapers, a 21st century innovation, include the 73-story Cayan Towerthat stands out in this rich emirate
Dubai
Tim
$800 [24]
...run this Cabinet department that includes U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement
the Department of Homeland Security
Tim
DD $1,000 [9]
The unfortunate Captain Max Pruss was in command of this vehicle over New Jersey on May 6, 1937
the Hindenburg
Tom
$800 [3]
A dysphemism for "diner" is this utensil you may find on your table there
greasy spoon
Tom
$1,000 [22]
"Tape 1, Side A" &"Tape 7, Side A"
13 Reasons Why
$1,000 [19]
The latest World Almanac keeps us up on changes like this new name with no "Republic" for the land where Prague is located
Czechia
Tim
$1,000 [25]
...hung out with this Norse god who helped the blind Hoder commit murder by mistletoe
Loki
Kathleen
$1,000 [11]
Forces of this nation held off Vietminh attacks at Dien Bien Phu for 56 days but finally surrendered on May 7, 1954
French forces
$1,000 [4]
The use of these mines for prison labor could be the reason you go "back to" them in a drudge job
the salt mines
Tom Kathleen

Double Jeopardy! Round

STREAMING EPISODES FROM PAGE TO MULTIPLEX ON THE PERIODIC TABLE DOING BUSINESS IN THE 1800s AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN "HAL"
$400 [3]
This second-longest river in Europe begins where the streams Breg & Brigach merge in the Black Forest
the Danube
Tom Tim Kathleen
$400 [2]
Zachary Gordon played Greg Heffley, the title diarist of the 2010 movie version of this Jeff Kinney novel for kids
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Kathleen
$400 [26]
I'd be happy to be on board Pt 78, this valuable element
platinum
Tim
$400 [16]
The first watering hole called this was out west in 1822; adding poker & batwing doors made for a fine business model
a saloon
Kathleen
$400 [21]
Rewards totaling over $10,000 were reportedly offered for the capture of this woman called the "Moses of Her People"
Harriet Tubman
Kathleen
$400 [11]
A psychiatrist once defined these as "perceptions without corresponding stimuli from without"
hallucinations
Kathleen
$800 [4]
A stream flows vertically through the center of aworkhe painted during his second stay in Tahiti
Gauguin
Kathleen
$800 [1]
Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" became this film with Amy Adams as a linguistics professor
Arrival
Kathleen
$800 [27]
Atomic No. 53, it's highly soluble in alcohol & then is used on cuts & scrapes
iodine
Tom Tim
$800 [17]
How's a mill or mine owner to make a living with laws like the Mass. one in 1842 limiting these workers to a 10-hour day
children
Kathleen
$800 [22]
After a 166-day confirmation process, she succeeded Eric Holder in a government job
Loretta Lynch
Tim
$800 [12]
Arnold Palmer once said the Masters was played on this type of ground
hallowed ground
Kathleen
$1,200 [6]
"The Old Man and the Sea" begins, "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in" this warm ocean current
the Gulf Stream
Tim
$1,200 [5]
Lisa Genova's novel about a woman with early-onset Alzheimer's became this Julianne Moore film
Still Alice
Tim
$1,200 [28]
You might need an RN if you're exposed to too much of this noble gas, No. 86
radon
Tim
$1,600 [19]
Early 19th century British textile makers saw their labor-saving machines smashed by these activists
the Luddites
Kathleen
$1,200 [23]
Thissinger entertained us from the 1930s into the '90s; enjoy some of her genius now
Ella Fitzgerald
Tom
$1,200 [13]
This condition can be combated via Certs or Tic Tac
halitosis
Tom
$1,600 [7]
In 1960 she set up a camp to study chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve, now a national park in Tanzania
(Jane) Goodall
Tom
$1,600 [9]
Based on Stephen King, this 2017 film has Idris Elba as the gunslinger, in pursuit of Matthew McConaughey's Man in Black
The Dark Tower
Kathleen
$1,600 [29]
Symbol Na, it can react explosively with water
sodium
Kathleen
DD $2,000 [18]
In Britain a pound equaled 20 shillings; this gold coin named for a region of Africa equaled 21 shillings
a guinea
Kathleen
$1,600 [24]
In 1995, decades after the assassination of her husband Medgar, she became head of the NAACP
Myrlie Evers
Tom
$1,600 [14]
Found before "days", this word meaning "peaceful" also refers to a mythical bird
halcyon
Tom
DD $2,200 [8]
A Turkish river gave us this word for a U-shaped bend in a stream's course; now it also means to take a winding course
meander
Tom
$2,000 [10]
The 1963 western "Hud" was based on "Horseman, Pass By", his first novel
Larry McMurtry
$2,000 [30]
Radioactive element named for American chemist Glenn
seaborgium
$2,000 [20]
Dickens' United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin & Crumpet Baking & Punctual Delivery Co. was a joint this co.
a joint stock company
$2,000 [25]
Last name of N.Y. congresswoman Shirley, the first African American to mount a serious run for president from a major party
Chisholm
Tom
$2,000 [15]
Used for both thrusting & striking around 1500, it's the weapon seen here
a halberd
Kathleen

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH MONARCHS

Her marriage to a European crown prince in the 16th century added Queen of Naples & Queen of Jerusalem to her titles

Queen Mary I

Tim "Who is Queen Mary I" — wagered $9,799
Tom "Who is Marie Antoinet" — wagered $200
Kathleen "Who is Queen Mary I?" — wagered $4,000

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