Show #7780 2018-06-08 (taped 2018-02-13) Regular

Contestants

John Fassola — an attorney from Homer Glen, Illinois

David Kleinman — a student from Sharon, Massachusetts

Mirza Gluhic — a transcriber from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,200)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Mirza	$2,400	$5,400	$13,000	$25,000 2nd place: $2,000	$14,600 21 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
David	$200	$4,000	$16,800	$31,600 New champion: $31,600	$15,600 17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
John	$1,400	$2,200	$8,600	$300 3rd place: $1,000	$8,600 15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ITALY BEFORE THE ROMANS	POP CULTURE SQUIRRELS	THIS CATEGORY WILL BLOW YOU AWAY	STATE OF THE NEWSPAPER	SAILING LIT	TONGUE-TWISTER PROTAGONISTS
$200 [1] Prehistoric Villanovans in the 700s B.C. cremated their dead, created geometric art & made use of this alloy bronze David	$200 [9] Sandy Cheeks wears a space suit & helmet underwater so she can hang out with this title guy SpongeBob SquarePants Mirza	$200 [16] Don't try it at home, but it's the art form being practiced here glassblowing Mirza	$200 [3] The Hartford Courant Connecticut Mirza	$200 [24] The vessel in Lothar-Gunther Buchheim's claustrophobic World War II novel "Das Boot" is one of these a U-boat John	$200 [21] A groundhog, under this alias a woodchuck David
$400 [4] For 1,000 years before the Romans, the Nuragic culture built stone fortresses on this "fishy" island Sardinia Mirza	$400 [10] Scrat is the nutty, acorn-obsessed saber-toothed squirrel in this series of movies Ice Age Mirza	$400 [17] In this play Oberon tells Puck, "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows" A Midsummer Night's Dream Mirza David	$400 [12] The Columbus Dispatch Ohio John	$400 [25] For poet John Masefield, "All I ask is a tall ship and" this "to steer her by" a star Mirza	$400 [8] A beachside vendor of these seashells John
$800 [6] According to legend, refugees of this 1200 B.C. conflict first fled to Thrace, then north Africa & finally Italy the Trojan War Mirza	$600 [11] Twiggy the squirrel is a cultural sensation for expertly doing this aquatic activity water-ski John	$600 [20] Usually made from a ram's horn, it's traditionally blown during the Jewish high holiday of Rosh Hashanah a shofar John	$600 [13] The Rapid City Journal South Dakota Mirza John	$600 [26] "My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset", he says in a Tennyson poem that bears his name, set after a Homer epic Ulysses Mirza David	$600 [2] A man with this first name also applied to a male turkey (he threw Tim three thumbtacks) Tom John
DD $1,000 [5] Around 600 B.C. the Insubres, a tribe in northern Italy, founded Mediolanum, today this city Milan Mirza	$800 [18] June Foray gave voice to this high-flying resident of Frostbite Falls--again! Rocky (the Flying Squirrel) Mirza	$800 [22] In November 1605 he was caught red-handed in a cellar getting ready to blow up England's Parliament Guy Fawkes Mirza	$800 [14] The Bainbridge Island Review Washington	$800 [27] A strange ship called the Demeter brings this character to England, but its crew is gone & the captain is dead! Count Dracula Mirza	$800 [29] This boy who selected vine fruits from the brine Peter Piper David
$1,000 [7] The colonies of Magna Graecia included Croton, home of Milo & many other victors in these regular competitions the Olympics David	$1,000 [19] Slappy & Skippy Squirrel were characters in this cartoon series that also starred Wakko, Yakko & Dot the Animaniacs David	$1,000 [23] Sound the trumpets! In 1961 "Come Blow Your Horn" was his first comedy produced on Broadway Neil Simon Mirza	$1,000 [15] The Brattleboro Reformer Vermont David	$1,000 [28] The third Narnia book is "The Voyage of" this ship that sails through magic waters to the end of the world the Dawn Treader David	$1,000 [30] This husband of Zipporah in the Old Testament Moses David

Double Jeopardy! Round

O YE OF LITTLE FAITH	SCRAMBLED WORLD CAPITALS	GOLFER IN CHIEF	SONG TIME	PSYCHOLOGY	"U" KNOW IT!
$400 [1] Atheists disavow the existence of a god; these people, from the Greek for "unknowable", say they aren't sure agnostics John	$400 [11] Northern Europe:MOCK SLOTH Stockholm John	$400 [26] When this president played, he often invoked "Billigans" after misplayed balls Bill Clinton David	$400 [16] "It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in", begins this Billy Joel signature song "Piano Man" John	$400 [25] From the Old English for "treasure", this disorder is characterized by the inability to discard things hoarding David	$400 [10] Wanting to emulate Thomas More, H.G. Wells wrote of a "modern" one utopia Mirza
$800 [2] "Secular" these follow the teachings of "the Awakened One" but reject the supernatural elements Buddhism Mirza	$800 [12] Way, way down south in the Pacific:NO GENT WILL Wellington Mirza	$800 [27] John F. Kennedy played on the freshman golf team at this university Harvard John	$800 [17] This one-named hitmaker's raps include "5 A.M. in Toronto", "9 A.M. in Dallas" & "6 P.M. in New York" Drake Mirza	$800 [24] Ten images, like the one seen here, are used in this psychological test, first introduced in 1921 a Rorschach David	$800 [7] Stretchy uniform for dancers that leaves little to the imagination a unitard John
$1,600 [4] In 2016 Nat Geo reported that this European country once home to the papacy would soon have a secular majority France Mirza	$1,200 [13] South America; SERIOUS BEAN Buenos Aires John	$1,200 [28] This president who on occasion would clumsily wing a spectator joked, "People...should stay behind us" Gerald Ford John	$1,200 [18] A tipsy dial from Lady Antebellum: "It's a ____ after one, I'm a little drunk and I need you now" quarter David	$1,600 [22] In 2013 the American Psychiatric Assoc. dropped subtypes including "paranoid" for this mental disorder schizophrenia David	$1,200 [6] "Extreme" final sacrament for a Catholic unction John
DD $2,000 [3] In Nietzsche's "The Parable of the Madman", "and we have killed him" follows this famous 3-word sentence "God is dead" Mirza	$1,600 [14] The Middle East:A DRY HI Riyadh Mirza	$1,600 [29] The 45th president enjoys time at Trump National in Bedminster in this state, where he watched the 2017 U.S. Women's Open New Jersey Mirza	$1,600 [19] The title of this 1970 Chicago hit is a little snappier than "3:35 or 3:34" "25 or 6 to 4" John	$2,000 [23] 1908s M.I.T. researchers found that carbs must be consumed for this mood-elevating neurotransmitter to be released serotonin Mirza David	$1,600 [8] The 1713 treaty of this Dutch city granted large parts of Canada to the Brits from the French Utrecht John
$2,000 [5] This Oxford biologist's 2006 bestseller "The God Delusion" argues that "there almost certainly is no god" (Richard) Dawkins David	$2,000 [15] In Indochina:AN INVITEE Vientiane Mirza	$2,000 [30] That's avid golfer Ike practicing on this area of the White House grounds called "the president's backyard" the South Lawn	$2,000 [20] Rob Thomas of this group sang, "Baby, it's 3 A.M., I must be lonely" Matchbox Twenty David	DD $2,400 [21] It's genetics or upbringing in this classic debate of 2 words with the same second syllable nature versus nurture David	$2,000 [9] Dad to King Arthur Uther Pendragon Mirza

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY SETTINGS

Ashdown Forest in Sussex inspired this fictional setting for a 1926 collection of stories for children

the Hundred Acre Wood

John "What is Pooh Forest?" — wagered $8,300

Mirza "What is 100 Acre Wood?" — wagered $12,000

David "What is the Hundred-Acre Wood?" — wagered $14,800

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