Show #7717 2018-03-13 (taped 2017-12-12) Regular

Contestants

McKayle Bruce — an attorney from Washington, D.C.

Paris Themmen — an entrepreneur from North Hollywood, California

Zach Dark — an investment analyst from Hoover, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $29,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Zach	$1,200	$3,600	$13,600	$19,201 2-day champion: $48,201	$13,600 20 R, 3 W
Paris	$2,400	$8,800	$3,400	$6,800 2nd place: $2,000	$5,000 12 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
McKayle	$3,600	$5,600	$9,600	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$11,600 17 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

"P" + 3	CONSTELLATION NAMES	IT'S TRADEMARKED	LITERARY GEOGRAPHY	EASTER	BEN-HUR
$200 [3] It's this part of a plane a prop McKayle	$200 [21] Kitalpha is the brightest star in Equuleus, Little this Little Horse Zach	$200 [16] German shepherds & Labrador & golden retrievers are specially bred to serve as these guide dogs for the blind Seeing Eye dogs Zach	$200 [7] Reel in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" to know the land-based parts take place on this island Cuba	$200 [1] Easter eggs were a welcome sight to some, since eggs were once forbidden during this previous period Lent Zach Paris	$200 [26] Stunt director Yakima Canutt told Charlton Heston, "You just stay in" this; "I guarantee you'll win the damn race" a chariot Zach
$400 [4] It's this colorful singer Pink Zach	$400 [22] Sagittais this projectile an arrow McKayle	$400 [17] Don't use this 3-letter abbrev. for a high school equivalency exam or diploma generically--it's a trademark a GED Zach	$400 [8] With cars, phones & faxes, his 1863 novel "Paris in the 20th Century" was rejected as too fantastical to be believed (Jules) Verne Zach Paris	$400 [12] Along with yellow rabbits, this purveyor of fluffy sweets offersblue marshmallow chicksfor Easter Peeps McKayle	$400 [27] Judah Ben-Hur is wrongfully condemned to these Roman slave ships galleys Paris
$600 [2] It's this piece of footwear a pump McKayle	$600 [23] Corona Borealis is this directional crown northern Paris McKayle	$600 [18] There's a national association of these trademarked professionals who help people buy homes Realtors Zach	$600 [11] "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a story of this Southern city Savannah Zach	$600 [13] Judy Garland sang about one of these "with all the frills upon it" an Easter bonnet McKayle	$800 [29] A polygamous sheik tells Ben-Hur, "One god, that I can understand--but one" this? "That is not civilized" one wife Paris
$800 [5] It's this item held by the man in the illustration a pike McKayle	$800 [24] Circinusmeans this, the drafting tool it represents a compass Paris	$800 [19] Indiana University professor Rolla Harger introduced it as the Drunkometer a Breathalyzer Zach	$800 [9] Albert Camus set several works in the French colony of Algeria, including this first novel The Stranger Paris	$800 [14] This president's wife Lucy moved the Easter Egg Roll to the White House in 1878 (Rutherford B.) Hayes Zach	$1,000 [30] The first person whose first & last names appear onscreen is this author of the original novel General Lew Wallace
$1,000 [6] It's this Broadway impresario Papp	$1,000 [25] Show off your I.Q.: Mensa is Latin for this piece of furniture a table Paris	$1,000 [20] It's the trademarked brand of pigments that are fluorescent in sunlight Day-Glo McKayle	$1,000 [10] In H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", an expedition discovers an alien terror on this continent Antarctica Paris	$1,000 [15] This animal is the traditional main course of the pope's Easter dinner lamb McKayle	DD $4,000 [28] After an act of heroism, Ben-Hur appears before this emperor whose name relates to the river of Rome Tiberius Paris

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC WOMEN	ENTERTAINMENT 2017	THE HUMAN BODY	STRAIT AWAY	POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY	ACRONYMS MADE REDUNDANT
$400 [6] In 1952 over 1 million people cried for this political leader, jamming the streets for her funeral procession Evita Peron (or Eva Peron) Zach	$400 [16] 90,000 fans paid tribute to this late, great rocker by singing "I Won't Back Down" at a U. of Florida football game Tom Petty McKayle	$400 [11] A person sleeping can wake up coughing & choking with GERD, in which stomach acid flows back up into this tube the esophagus Zach	$400 [26] (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Mediterranean spans 2,500 miles from the Gulf of Iskenderun on the southern coast of Turkey to this historically vital channel between Spain & Africa Gibraltar McKayle	$400 [1] In the early 1500s this Italian wrote that there's no moral aspect to wielding power Machiavelli Zach	$400 [21] PIN number personal identification number Zach
$800 [7] This legendary woman was based on Mary Ludwig Hays & others who brought water to soldiers in the Amer. Revolution Molly Pitcher Paris McKayle	$800 [17] Ryan Gosling's character encounters the reclusive Rick Deckard in this film Blade Runner 2049	$800 [12] The mitral valve acts as a one-way gate, letting blood flow from the left atrium to the left one of these heart chambers a ventricle McKayle	$800 [27] Got 160 trillion rupiah? Help Indonesia bridge the Sunda Strait from Sumatra to this more populous island Java Paris	$800 [2] It comes before "college" & "organizer" & is at least as important as the individual in a school of political thought community Zach	$800 [22] EMP pulse electromagnetic pulse McKayle
$1,200 [8] I spy with my little eye this Dutch woman, executed as a spy during World War I Mata Hari Zach	$1,200 [18] Billy Eichner left the street for this show's "Cult" & played a game of what Billy liked to call "sawing off my boss' head" American Horror Story McKayle	$1,200 [13] Laennec's type of this liver disease is primarily caused by chronic alcohol consumption cirrhosis McKayle	$1,200 [30] The Red Sands shore on the Northumberland Strait is a prime tourism area on this Canadian island province Prince Edward Island Paris	$1,200 [3] The origin of modern conservatism is thinking this 18th c. revolution was a really bad idea the French Revolution Zach	$1,200 [23] UPC code universal product code Zach
$1,600 [9] 19th c. editor of Ladies' Magazine guided U.S. tastes & even convinced Lincoln to enact this holiday Thanksgiving Day Zach	DD $2,000 [19] In 2017 Bill Murray made news when he attended this Broadway musical & then, of course, came back the next night Groundhog Day McKayle	$1,600 [14] Also called a thrombocyte, this component of blood plays a key role in forming blood clots platelets Zach Paris	$2,000 [28] It's the strait dividing Sicily from Italy's toe, or a city on the strait Messina	$1,600 [4] In ancient Greece if you weren't a slave or a woman you could be this, polites a citizen Paris	$1,600 [24] LCD display liquid crystal display Paris
$2,000 [10] This woman of Avila was a religious reformer of the 1500s who was persecuted by the Inquisition but later made a saint Teresa McKayle	$2,000 [20] "I don't dance now, I make money moves" are lyrics we can quote from this Cardi B hit song "Bodak Yellow" McKayle	$2,000 [15] It's the main form in which carbohydrates are stored in the human body; it's broken down into glucose as needed glycogen McKayle	DD $5,000 [29] The south end of the East China Sea is the strait named for this island Taiwan Paris	$2,000 [5] In "Leviathan", this thinker argued humans are by nature selfish & evil & therefore, need to be kept under control (Thomas) Hobbes Zach	$2,000 [25] SALT talks strategic arms limitation talks Zach

Final Jeopardy!

1950s FICTION

The New York Times called this 1,000-page novel by a woman "one of the most influential business books ever written"

Atlas Shrugged

Paris "What is Atlas Shrugged?" — wagered $3,400

McKayle "What is the Feminine Mystique?" — wagered $9,600

Zach "What is Atlas Shrugged?" — wagered $5,601

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