Show #7704 2018-02-22 (taped 2017-11-28) Regular

Rob Worman game 7.

Contestants

Alan Harrison — an administrative assistant from Seattle, Washington

Catherine Biba — a freelance writer from Geneva, Nebraska

Rob Worman — an escalation manager from Edina, Minnesota (whose 6-day cash winnings total $133,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Rob $2,600 $4,200 $4,200 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$4,200
11 R, 3 W
Catherine $2,800 $3,200 $7,600 $6,600
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
9 R, 0 W
Alan $2,600 $7,000 $16,200 $15,201
New champion: $15,201
$17,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

LAUGH-INAT 50 SOCK IT TO ME 21st CENTURY BOY SCOUT MERIT BADGES 3-SYLLABLE WORDS MOM GENES PLACES TO "C"
$200 [26]
Thisactress filmed her Oscar-winning role in "Cactus Flower" while she was still a cast member of "Laugh-In"
Goldie Hawn
Rob
$200 [7]
Original Rockford red heel socks come with instructions on making these animals, around since the 1900s
sock monkeys
Rob
$400 [23]
To receive thebadgefor this activity, you join two metal plates and inscribe your initial
welding
Catherine
$400 [16]
To relinquish your royal gig as king
abdicate
Alan
$600 [14]
Up-&-coming model Kaia Gerber really did inherit her mom's genes, Mom being this supermodel
Cindy Crawford
Catherine
$400 [24]
It covers 70,000 square miles of southeast Asia
Cambodia
Alan
$400 [22]
Before he created "Saturday Night Live", he practiced his sketch skills as a "Laugh-In" writer
Lorne Michaels
Rob
$400 [5]
This synonym for mending is in the title of the painting here; it's what the girl is doing to the sock
darning
Alan
$600 [12]
The SAR on thebadgecreated in 2012 stands for this life-saving process
search and rescue
Rob
$600 [9]
Name of a magazine & a deep black wood
ebony
Alan
$800 [15]
Richard, son of Louis & this other anthropologist, followed in their fossil-finding footsteps
Mary Leakey
Alan
$600 [21]
This L.A. suburb settled in 1867 came straight outta an 18th century Spanish land grant
Compton
Alan
$600 [1]
Announcer Gary Owens declared that each episode was shot in "beautiful downtown" this So-Cal city
Burbank
Alan
$600 [4]
These ankle socks provided a nickname for girls in the 1940s & '50s who followed all the latest fads
bobby socks
Catherine
$800 [13]
Therobotics merit badgedepicts this planet, but you can earn it on Earth
Mars
Alan
$800 [10]
Getting along; in music, there are 2-part & 3-part types
harmony
Catherine
$1,000 [17]
She really took after mom Marie--married a guy from the lab, studied polonium & won a Nobel Prize
Irène Curie
$800 [19]
Eau to visit this largest city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
Cologne
Alan
$800 [2]
Edith Ann was one of the characters this comedienne performed on the show--&that's the truth
Lily Tomlin
Rob
$800 [6]
Nike & Adidas still make low-cut socks with one of these ornamental tufts on the heel
pom-pom socks
Catherine
$1,000 [18]
That's a GPS unit on thebadgefor this new 10-letter orienteering hobby
geocaching
Rob
$1,000 [11]
Pronounced one way, it means to complete the union of a marriage; another, it means supremely skilled
consummate
Rob
DD $1,200 [25]
Her daughter Jane teaches I.P. law at Columbia, her alma mater; she cited Jane's work in an opinion for the Supreme Court
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Alan
$1,000 [20]
For more than 3 centuries, this "Garden" in the city of Westminster was home to London's flower market
Covent Garden
Alan
$1,000 [3]
Nixon famously appeared on "Laugh-In" for the 1968 election; this Democratic challenger declined
(Hubert) Humphrey
Rob Alan
$1,000 [8]
"Support" or this word comes before the socks designed to increase circulation, sold in gradients like 20-30 mmHG
compression (or pressure)
Rob

Double Jeopardy! Round

THEATRE OF THE ABSURD RANDOM WORDS AFRICA SINCE 1750 COLLUSION GETTING RELIGION RECENT R&B & HIP-HOP HITS
$400 [9]
Arthur Adamov's absurdist play "La Parodie" has a handless one of these watching humans endlessly discussing time
a clock or watch
Alan
$400 [20]
It means unusual or applies to numbers like 5, 37, or 1,041
odd
Rob
$400 [12]
From 1951 to 1960, hewas the heavyweight boxing champion of Uganda; from 1971 to 1979, he was president
Idi Amin
Alan
$800 [5]
6-letter term for an international syndicate like OPEC that colludes to regulate prices in a specific field
a cartel
Alan
$800 [1]
Only Muslims may enter this, the religion's holiest city, Muhammad's birthplace
Mecca
Alan
$1,200 [14]
"Rake It Up" from Yo Gotti raced up the charts & featured this woman seen here
Nicki Minaj
Rob
$800 [8]
In 1953 "Waiting for Godot" premiered at a small theatre in this European capital
Paris
Alan
$800 [18]
As a verb it means to wander off from a course; as a noun, it's a homeless animal
a stray
Catherine
$800 [13]
Similar to Liberia, this "lion mountains" nation began as a colony for freed slaves in 1787
Sierra Leone
Catherine
$1,200 [6]
It was hats off & lawsuit on when NFL players sued the owners for $4 billion for setting a secret this 2-word term in 2010
a salary cap
Catherine
$1,200 [7]
Amenouzume, the "heavenly alarming female", is among the major kami of this Japanese religion
Shinto
Alan
$2,000 [22]
Hitmaking was in his "DNA." He had "Loyalty." He was "Humble." & in "Love."--"Damn."
Kendrick Lamar
$1,200 [2]
This Czech author's satirical plays like "Protest" used absurdist themes to denounce Communist rule
Vaclav Havel
$1,200 [19]
Type of verb whose past tense & past participle aren't formed by adding -ed to the present tense
an irregular verb
Alan
DD $1,000 [17]
A series of anti-apartheid protests in this South African township in 1976 led to a larger uprising
Soweto
Alan
DD $1,400 [11]
In 2000 these 2 art auction houses agreed to pay $500 million in restitution for engaging in price-fixing
Christie's and Sotheby's
Alan
$1,600 [24]
In the '90s, this 2-word Chinese spiritual movement meaning "discipline of the dharma wheel" ran afoul of the government
Falun Gong
Catherine
$1,600 [3]
This author of the absurdist plays "The Birthday Party" & "The Room" was awarded the Nobel Lit prize in 2005
Harold Pinter
Alan
$2,000 [21]
Hotels ask for your credit card to pick up these, meaning "minor expenses"
incidentals
Rob
$1,200 [15]
Long a threat to water buffalo, giraffes & mainly these livestock, the viral disease rinderpest was eradicated in 2011
cattle
Alan
$1,600 [10]
In 2015 Mohammed Morsi, former president of this nation, got a death sentence for colluding with Islamists
Egypt
$2,000 [23]
In Malachi:"Behold, I will send you" this prophet before the coming of "the great and dreadful day of the Lord"
Elijah
Rob
$2,000 [4]
This Romanian-born playwright based his play "The Bald Soprano" on stilted textbooks he had used to learn English
Eugène Ionesco
Alan
$1,600 [16]
At 1896's Battle of Adwa, Menelik II, emperor of this nation, defeated an Italian army & kept the country independent
Ethiopia
Rob Alan

Final Jeopardy!

ACTRESSES

Already an Emmy winner, in 2017 she won an Oscar for the same role that had won her a Tony

Viola Davis

Rob "Who is Boy this was fun! :-)" — wagered $4,199
Catherine "Who is ?" — wagered $1,000
Alan "Who is my mom?" — wagered $999

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