Show #7771 2018-05-28 (taped 2018-02-07) Regular

Contestants

Dev Thakur — a psychiatrist from West Lebanon, New Hampshire

Andrea Schuelke — a tutor from Saint Paul, Minnesota

Virginia Cummings — a geriatrician from Randolph, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $35,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Virginia $2,000 $2,000 $21,400 $15,999
2-day champion: $51,200
$20,400
20 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Andrea $1,400 $2,000 $4,400 $8,400
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
7 R, 1 W
Dev $1,200 $4,700 $13,400 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$13,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NURSERY RHYME POLICE REPORT SWINGERS OF SPORTS THE STATE SHE GOVERNED PALINDROMIC WORDS THE BODY HUMAN ON THE "T"ABLE
$200 [1]
Took statement from this woman of advanced age. She reports finding her cabinets empty & her dog dead
Mother Hubbard
Virginia
$200 [11]
In 1985 this "Iron" heavyweight swung his fists in 15 fights; all ended in knockouts, 11 in the first round
Mike Tyson
Andrea
$200 [21]
Sarah Palin
Alaska
Dev
$200 [12]
The world of project-to-project employment is known as this economy
the gig economy
Andrea
$200 [17]
When you're cold or frightened, your arrector pili muscles make this "stand on end"
your hair
Dev
$200 [6]
You can serve stew or soup out of one of these deep lidded dishes
a tureen
Andrea
$400 [2]
First aid administered to this pair injured while tumbling down hill during water retrieval
Jack and Jill
Dev
$400 [27]
Untamable, this "Golden Bear" was the first man to win all 4 of golf's major titles at least twice
Jack Nicklaus
Dev
$400 [22]
Ann Richards
Texas
Dev
$400 [13]
An old 3-letter word meaning "before"
ere
Andrea
$400 [18]
Special cells called gustatory receptors are responsible for your sense of this
taste
Dev
$400 [7]
A fancy fungus & a chocolate confection are both called this
a truffle
Virginia
$600 [3]
Suspect Peter, no last name, appears to have eaten these gourds as well as imprisoned his wife in one
a pumpkin
Virginia
$600 [28]
In 2010 Sachin Tendulkar scored the first one-day double century (that's 200 runs) in the long history of this sport
cricket
Dev
DD $500 [24]
Lurleen Wallace
Alabama
Dev
$600 [14]
Instead of "Hey, pal" or "mister", you can say "Hey", this word made popular by the character Wolverine
bub
$600 [19]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the human body.) It takes three main muscles to raise the arm above the head: first, thesuperspinatus; next, thedeltoidto about 90 degrees & finally, this large, flat, triangular muscle of the upper back
the trapezius
Andrea
$600 [8]
This Mexican beer brand uses a black eagle in its logo
Tecate
Virginia
$800 [4]
Child services summoned to check on mother with uncontrollable family; problem aggravated by this unusual residence
a shoe
Andrea
$800 [29]
He holds the MLB record for home runs by a shortstop, 345; there was a reason his manager let him play every day
Cal Ripken Jr.
$600 [23]
Jennifer Granholm
Michigan
$800 [15]
Accompanying a gesture, it can substitute for "that" in a sentence like "my son is that tall"
yay
Dev
$800 [20]
This pancake-shaped temporary organ in pregnant women supplies the fetus with food & oxygen
the placenta
Dev
$800 [9]
Pewter is a traditional material for this vessel, with a lid
a tankard
Virginia
$1,000 [5]
Last known sighting of this person of interest: talking with bakery salesman while on way to festival
Simple Simon
$1,000 [25]
Jan Brewer
Arizona
$1,000 [16]
In a song by The Wiggles, this double talk palindrome comes before "chugga chugga"
toot toot
$1,000 [26]
Seen here is an animation of this wave-like muscular motion that pushes food through the esophagus
peristalsis
Dev
$1,000 [10]
A Moroccan stew is named for this implement in which it's cooked
tagine
Virginia

Double Jeopardy! Round

3-NAMED PEOPLE MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG WORLD GEOGRAPHY MEMORIAL DAY BEACH SEASON IT'S GETTING "HOT"
$400 [1]
In 2016 this "Sling Blade" Oscar winner began playing lawyer Billy McBride in TV's "Goliath"
Billy Bob Thornton
Virginia
$400 [6]
"Chim Chim Cher-ee" (1964), written by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
Mary Poppins
Virginia
$400 [11]
Asia forms the entire northern border of this ocean
the Indian Ocean
Virginia
$400 [21]
For Memorial Day, the 3rd U.S. infantry regiment places flags in front of more than 200,000 headstones in this cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery
Dev
$400 [26]
Don't put a beached whale or dolphin back in the water; keep it wet, cool & shaded & don't cover this nostril
the blowhole
Dev
$400 [16]
A phone number for people to call for more information during an emergency
a hotline
Dev
$800 [2]
This lawyer who penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" was later a member of Andrew Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet"
Francis Scott Key
Dev
$800 [7]
"Jai Ho" (2008), written by A.R. Rahman & Gulzar
Slumdog Millionaire
Dev
$800 [12]
This capital on the island of Java is sometimes spelled with a "D" at the beginning
Jakarta
Virginia
$800 [22]
The World War I poem "In Flanders Field" inspired the use of this flower as a symbol for remembering fallen soldiers
the poppy
Virginia
$800 [27]
Hand me my thong! 150-mile-long Praia do Cassino in this country is the world's longest beach
Brazil
Andrea
$800 [17]
Designers Mary Quant & Mariuccia Mandelli are credited with popularizing these in the early 1970s
hot pants
Virginia
DD $1,500 [3]
He's the architect seen here with his plans for a mile-high skyscraper that was never built
Frank Lloyd Wright
Dev
$1,200 [8]
"(This title)... What A Feeling" (1983), written by Giorgio Moroder, Irene Cara & Keith Forsey
Flashdance
Virginia
$1,200 [13]
Rising in the Valdai Hills northwest of Moscow, this is Europe's longest river
the Volga
Dev
$1,200 [23]
This traditional song of Memorial Day was originally a call to extinguish lights
"Taps"
$1,200 [28]
The red sand of Maui's Kaihalulu Beach is due to a high concentration of this metallic element
iron
Virginia
$1,200 [18]
Westinghouse once made an electric frying pan that doubled as this when turned upside down
a hot plate
Dev
$1,600 [4]
Just days after the Scopes monkey trial ended, this statesman who assisted the prosecution died
William Jennings Bryan
Andrea
$1,600 [9]
"Glory" (2014), written by the guys we know as John Legend & Common
Selma
Virginia
$1,600 [14]
The capital of the Cayman Islands & the capital of Guyana share this name
Georgetown
Virginia
$1,600 [24]
On the holiday, the Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma hosts a festival for these vehicles, the food trucks of the Old West
chuck wagons
Virginia
$1,600 [29]
Live sand dollars have velvety coats but lose them after death; the invertebrate shell, AKA this, washes ashore
the exoskeleton
$1,600 [19]
Nickname of impetuous Sir Henry Percy, killed at the 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury
Hotspur
Virginia
$2,000 [5]
"The Queen of Suspense", she's written more than 35 bestsellers since the '70s, including "Daddy's Little Girl"
Mary Higgins Clark
Virginia
$2,000 [10]
"I'm Easy" (1975), written by Keith Carradine
Nashville
$2,000 [15]
South America's most arid region is this desert in northern Chile
the Atacama
Virginia
DD $3,000 [25]
To honor the 100th anniversary of a battle here, LBJ gave a Memorial Day speech in 1963
Gettysburg
Virginia
$2,000 [30]
Waves can deposit sediment along the shore asterraced areasalliteratively called "beach" these
beach berms
$2,000 [20]
Many a politician has told the public more than he wanted to because he didn't know he was on one of these
a hot mike
Dev

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY AUTHORS

This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker"

Mark Twain

Andrea "Who isWordsworthTwain" — wagered $4,000
Dev "Who is Thoreau?" — wagered $13,300
Virginia "Who is Charles Dickens" — wagered $5,401

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