Show #7675 2018-01-12 (taped 2017-10-25) Regular

Gilbert Collins game 3.

Contestants

Alisha Mathalikunnel — a medical student from Alhambra, California

Alex Cook — a consultant from Saint Paul, Minnesota

Gilbert Collins — a university administrator from Princeton, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,798)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Gilbert	$2,400	$1,400	$10,800	$13,801 3-day champion: $36,599	$13,800 19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Alex	$1,600	$4,600	$6,900	$10,801 2nd place: $2,000	$11,400 16 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Alisha	$1,800	$4,400	$2,800	$800 3rd place: $1,000	$2,800 14 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

JANUARY	POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER	IT'S RAINING "MEN"	MUMMY DEAREST	OREGON	SO YOU'VE BEEN INDICTED
$200 [22] The third Monday in January is a U.S. federal holiday honoring this man Martin Luther King, Jr. Alisha	$200 [17] The Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards these each January the Golden Globes Gilbert	$200 [7] Give me these measurements: length, width & height dimensions Alex	$200 [6] Juanita is the most famous of the Incan ice mummies found high in the Andes of this country Peru Gilbert Alisha	$200 [16] Giving refunds for glass & aluminum, Oregon's "Bottle Bill" of the 1970s was the first in the nation to encourage this recycling Alisha	$200 [1] We swear, suborning this--getting a witness to lie on the stand in court--is also a felony, as the indictment says perjury Gilbert
$400 [23] Many Hindus celebrate a January harvest festival called Makar Sankranti by bathing in this river the Ganges Alisha	$400 [27] Michael Phelps won only 3 of these in his Olympic career silver medals Gilbert Alisha	$400 [8] A regulated course of action, like that of a diet a regimen Alex	$400 [12] Otzi the Iceman died more than 5,000 years ago in the Tyrolean range of these mountains the Alps Alex	$400 [18] Oregon's only venomous indigenous reptile is the western this, seen here a rattlesnake Alex	$400 [2] Whether you stole drugs, diamonds or dirt bikes, theft of more than $500 worth of stuff is "grand" this larceny Alex
$600 [24] The Anglo-Saxons named January this month, after predators that came into villages during winter in search of food wolf month	$600 [28] Top Hollywood agent Ari Gold was a character on this HBO series Entourage Alex	$600 [9] A medical sample taken for study; it has a special "bottle" a specimen Alex	$600 [13] The 2,000-year-old Xin Zhui is so well-preserved, Chinese pathologists were able to perform this on her an autopsy Alisha	$600 [19] Moonbrine Pickles is a location featured on this IFC TV show about offbeat Oregonians Portlandia Alisha	$600 [3] You may say there is one against you, but you had an agreement with 2 others to commit a crime, so you're charged with this conspiracy Gilbert
$800 [25] Every year on this date U.S. Christians celebrate Epiphany, a holy day commemorating the arrival of the 3 wise men January 6 Alisha	$800 [29] The Golden State Warriors have won 2 NBA titles led by this 2-time league MVP Curry Gilbert Alisha	$800 [10] A mob informant who gets found out is said to wear this non-buoyant footwear cement shoes Alex	$800 [14] Those who found the well-preserved Tollund Man in 1950 in this peaty type of swamp called the cops, not the archaeologists a fen (or a bog) Alex	$800 [20] The Oregon Bach Festival takes place yearly in this city with a man's name Eugene Alisha	$800 [4] You didn't whisk anyone off or ask for ransom, but as O.J. found in 2008, keeping someone from leaving can also be this crime kidnapping Gilbert
$1,000 [26] One of the traditional flowers of January is this one, seen here a carnation Alex	$1,000 [30] This cosmic comic book hero travels through the universe on a board the Silver Surfer Alex	$1,000 [11] This synonym for persuadable gets an "A" for effort amenable Alisha	DD $2,000 [15] He discovered the grandmummy of them all & soon wrote a book called "The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen" Howard Carter Alex	$1,000 [21] Around 1836 Washington Irving wrote a history of this man's successful fur trading business in Oregon John Jacob Astor	$1,000 [5] So not nice you did it twice! Your bogus signature & also endorsement on that draft is double this forgery Gilbert

Double Jeopardy! Round

TITLES FROM POETRY	11-LETTER WORDS	ONE-HIT WONDERS	GET WITH THE PROGRAM!	WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR	PUBLIC ANEMONE
$400 [11] The title of M. Scott Peck's self-help book "The Road Less Traveled" has caused many to misquote this poet (Robert) Frost Gilbert	$400 [6] It's the job of theplayerin the foreground placekicker Gilbert	$400 [13] In 1988 Bobby McFerrin gave us this optimistic tune "Don't Worry, Be Happy" Gilbert	$400 [1] The MCMAP is the martial arts program of this U.S. military branch the Marine Corps Gilbert	$400 [22] The DeVille & the Seville a Cadillac Alisha	$400 [17] Above ground anemone blanda makes fields of pretty flowers; below, it produces these growths, like potatoes tubers Gilbert
$800 [12] The first line of this ancient poet's "Aeneid" inspired George Bernard Shaw's play title "Arms and the Man" Virgil Alex	$800 [7] The U.N. has an office for this, getting countries to give up their nukes disarmament Gilbert	$800 [23] Lou Bega's biggie in 1999 was this song that mentions "a little Monica in my life" "Mambo No. 5" Alisha	$800 [2] Canceled in 2010, the Constellation program planned to return humans here by 2020 after a nearly 50-year absence the Moon Alex	$800 [25] The Prelude, 1978 to 2001 Honda Gilbert	$800 [18] Sea anemones' tentacles have nematocysts that inject poison to do this to prey, which is a lot easier to kill afterwards paralyze Gilbert
$1,600 [15] F. Scott Fitzgerald's last complete novel; its 4-word title is taken from "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats Tender is the Night Alex	$1,200 [8] Someone who loves computers & thinks the machines are the solution to everything technophile Gilbert	$1,600 [24] Daniel Powter had this 2006 hit, also used as a kiss-off song on "American Idol" "Bad Day" Gilbert	$1,200 [3] The Eider program called for the incorporation of Schleswig-Holstein into this Scandinavian country Denmark Gilbert	$1,200 [26] The LeBaron & the Sebring Chrysler Alex	$1,200 [19] Sea anemones can split in 2, a form of reproduction called longitudinal this, also a physics term fission Alisha
$2,000 [16] "Humpty-Dumpty" gave this Robert Penn Warren novel about a Southern politician its title All the King's Men Alex	$1,600 [9] Saponaceous means "soapy"; this word means "impulsive" spontaneous Alisha	$2,000 [29] Their "I Know What Boys Like" hit in 1982 The Waitresses	$1,600 [4] (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the New Horizons probe on the monitor.) The New Horizons probe, part of NASA's New Frontiers program, investigated this belt of dwarf planets that includes Pluto at the edge of the solar system the Kuiper belt Gilbert Alex Alisha	$1,600 [27] The Karmann Ghia, 1955 to 1974 Volkswagen	$1,600 [20] Very tricky, clown fish; you & the sea anemone protect each other in this arrangement, from the Greek for "live together" symbiotic Gilbert
DD $3,000 [14] The best-laid plans of these 2 authors gave us 1785's "To a Mouse" & the 1937 title inspired by it, "Of Mice and Men" Robert Burns and John Steinbeck Gilbert	$2,000 [10] Inthisvisual defect of the eye, light is unable to focus clearly at one point on the retina, resulting inblurred vision astigmatism Gilbert Alisha	—	DD $2,500 [5] This program named for a senator sends U.S. students abroad to foster international goodwill the Fulbright Alex	$2,000 [28] The Bearcat, introduced in 1912 Stutz Alisha	$2,000 [21] Greek myth says red anemones popped up from the blood of this really good-lookin' youth after his death Adonis Gilbert

Final Jeopardy!

AFRICAN COUNTRIES

With more than 90 million people it's Africa's third most populous country, though it's more than 90% desert

Egypt

Alisha "What is Morrocco?" — wagered $2,000

Alex "What is Egypt?" — wagered $3,901

Gilbert "What is Egypt?" — wagered $3,001

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