Show #7750 2018-04-27 (taped 2018-01-23) Regular

Contestants

Alexandra Henkoff — a college admissions counselor from Houston, Texas

Tom McGinnis — a fulfillment associate from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Carolyn Walsh — a software engineer from Brooklyn, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,600)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Carolyn	$800	$5,200	$9,600	$799 2nd place: $2,000	$10,800 18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Tom	$1,600	$1,600	$9,200	$400 3rd place: $1,000	$10,200 14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Alexandra	$1,200	$3,200	$8,800	$17,300 New champion: $17,300	$8,800 14 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

LUTHER'S 95 THESES	HOUSE PARTY	MAGAZINES	LET IT "RAIN"	AMERICAN POETRY	EARNING BEYOND THE GRAVE
$200 [21] 1:When he said, "Repent", it was his will that believers should spend their lives repenting Jesus Alexandra	$200 [16] The Margaret Mitchell House & Museum is in this city, where she lived & wrote "Gone With the Wind" Atlanta Alexandra	$200 [7] Founded in 1967 in San Francisco, this music & culture mag was named in part for a blues song by Muddy Waters Rolling Stone Alexandra	$200 [1] A twisting of ligaments at a joint, such as the ankle a sprain Alexandra	$200 [2] Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" ends with the phrase "Good fences make good" these neighbors Carolyn	$200 [14] This singer & dancer beyond compare from Gary, Indiana topped the list with $75 million Michael Jackson Carolyn
$400 [22] 6:Only God can forgive; this man in white can only tell you that God does so the pope Carolyn	$400 [17] Hansel could tell you that building one of these houses requires more sugar than timber a gingerbread house Carolyn	$400 [8] Lila Bell Acheson & Dewitt Wallace created this magazine that condensed articles from other publications the Reader's Digest Tom	$400 [3] Something that's the cause of a decrease, such as "on resources" a drain Tom	$400 [12] One of his poems for kids begins, "There is a place where the sidewalk ends and before the street begins" Silverstein Tom	$400 [15] No. 3 with $38 million, this cartoonist passed in his sleep the night before his final strip hit newspapers Charles Schulz Tom
$600 [23] 4:This 3-letter type of act stays with you until you go to heaven a sin Carolyn	$600 [18] Billed as "the most shocking tale of carnage ever seen", Rob Zombie's 1st movie was titled "House of 1,000" these corpses Carolyn	$600 [9] Hispopularity began with stories he contributed to Strand magazine starting in 1891 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	$600 [4] Abstain & this other "ain" word both mean to just not do it refrain Carolyn	$800 [25] He wrote, "Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree" Kilmer Alexandra	$600 [27] This British singer & actor who left us too soon--2 days after his 69th birthday in 2016--was No. 11 with $9.5 million David Bowie Carolyn
$800 [24] 54: Hey, priest! These talks should have as much about the Holy Word as about the forgiveness called indulgences sermons Alexandra	$800 [19] From words for "house study", it's the study of the relations of organisms to one another & to their environment ecology Carolyn	$800 [10] Succeeding Graydon Carter, Radhika Jones became editor in chief of this magazine in 2017 Vanity Fair Alexandra	$800 [5] It's the "AT" in ATV all-terrain Carolyn	DD $1,000 [13] Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote this poem as a call to help save the USS Constitution from demolition "Old Ironsides" Tom	—
—	$1,000 [20] In 1899 the first juvenile court in the nation was organized at this Chicago house co-founded by Jane Addams Hull House Carolyn	$1,000 [11] In the 1920s Amelia Earhart penned an aviation column for this "worldly" women's magazine begun in 1886 Cosmopolitan Carolyn	$1,000 [6] You're probably one of these eggheads from the name of a super-smart alien in the Superman comics a Brainiac Tom	$1,000 [26] He wrote "Concord Hymn" for the dedication of a monument commemorating the 1775 battle Ralph Waldo Emerson	—

Double Jeopardy! Round

LONGTIME RULERS	PRONOUNS	ROLE WITH THE PUNCHES	LANDMARKS OF AFRICA	THEATER SUPERSTITIONS	THE MATILDA EFFECT
$400 [1] Moscow, how was your 51 years? Terrible, with this man as the city's Grand Prince from 1533 to 1584 Ivan (the Terrible) Tom	$400 [3] It's also the postal abbreviation for a New England state me Alexandra	$400 [16] In 2001 he stung like a bee as "Ali" Will Smith Tom	$400 [25] Thisgreat structure in Touba, Senegal, has room for more than 7,000 worshippers a mosque Carolyn	$400 [8] Best not have one of these on stage; if it breaks, it's 7 years bad luck & it also interferes with the lights a mirror Tom	$400 [20] The Matilda Effect, the marginalizing of women in sci., was named for Matilda Gage, one of these fighters for the vote a suffragette Tom
$800 [2] 53 years as grand duke of Tuscany made Cosimo III the longest-reigning member of this family the Medicis Alexandra	$800 [4] It's first alphabetically of a news reporter's 5 Ws what Carolyn	$800 [17] Hilary Swank donned the gloves in this film & won an Oscar for her performance Million Dollar Baby Tom	$800 [26] This capital's mummy-rich antiquities museum dates back to 1902 Cairo Alexandra	$800 [9] Hopefully it won't really happen, but instead of wishing an actor good luck, tell him to do this break a leg Carolyn	$800 [21] This woman's record was not glowing enough to get her into the French Academy of Sciences--husband Pierre got in Marie Curie Carolyn
$1,600 [14] During his 68-year reign that ended in 1916, hewas king of Hungary, Croatia & Bohemia & emperor of Austria Franz Joseph	$1,200 [5] To know this detergent introduced in 1959 is to know "everything" about laundry All Tom	$1,200 [18] In this film Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in a big upset & lives happily ever after Cinderella Man Alexandra	$1,200 [27] One of the highest on the continent, the Maletsunyane Fallstumble 630 feet in this nation surrounded by South Africa Lesotho Carolyn Alexandra	$1,200 [10] Never say the name of this play in a theater or there may really be "double, double toil and trouble" Macbeth Carolyn	$1,200 [22] Nettie Stevens worked on sex determination & suffered sex discrimination discovering the XY these chromosomes Alexandra
$2,000 [15] Sobhuza II of this kingdom of southern Africa ruled for 82 years transitioning to independence from the U.K. in 1968 Swaziland	$1,600 [6] From Latin for "separate", it means more than 2 several Tom Alexandra	$1,600 [19] He put up a good fight as Billy "The Great" hope in 2015's "Southpaw" Jake Gyllenhaal Alexandra	$1,600 [28] Site of a former slave trading post, an isle in the Gambia River today bears this "Roots" character's name Kunta Kinte Tom	$2,000 [12] For safety reasons & to ward off resentful spirits, don't turn off the light called this the ghost light	$1,600 [23] Lise Meitner coined this phrase for the splitting of atomic nuclei, but only her partner Otto Hahn got the Nobel fission Carolyn
DD $4,000 [13] In the 11th century al-Mustansir ruled Egypt for 58 years as the 8th Fatimid one of these political Muslim leaders a caliph Carolyn	$2,000 [7] Giant mutant ants were this 1954 movie title pronoun! them Tom	—	$2,000 [29] This successor organization to the Organization of African Unity has itsheadquartersin Addis Ababa, Ethiopia the African Union	DD $4,000 [11] Never carry one of these feathers on stage--the evil eye may curse the show a peacock feather Carolyn	$2,000 [24] Rosalind Franklinwas the British woman who took the X-ray photos that allowed two dudes to find the structure of this DNA Tom

Final Jeopardy!

LEGENDARY PEOPLE

Leodegrance, king of Cameliard, gave the newlyweds a piece of furniture on the marriage of this daughter

Guinevere

Alexandra "Who is Guinevere" — wagered $8,500

Tom "Who is Sleeping Beauty" — wagered $8,800

Carolyn "Who someone who has never been in my" — wagered $8,801

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