Show #7853 2018-10-31 (taped 2018-08-22) Regular

Contestants

Swapna Sathe — an engineering manager from Loveland, Ohio

Adam Soffrin — a behavior analyst from San Francisco, California

Emily Frey — a professor from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,701)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emily $3,600 $3,800 $18,600 $31,201
2-day champion: $48,902
$16,400
26 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Adam $600 $3,600 $7,600 $2
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
11 R, 1 W
Swapna $1,400 $2,400 $15,600 $20,600
2nd place: $2,000
$15,600
13 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

GAME SHOW HOSTS TAKE A "NEE" REPORTS OF MY DEATH... IT'S A WITCH A SKELETON GIVE THEM SOME CANDY
$200 [10]
"The Joker's Wild" washisfavorite game show growing up, & now, he hosts his own version of it on TBS
Snoop Dogg
Adam
$200 [12]
Someone in the running for an Emmy or a Tony
a nominee
Emily
$200 [28]
"Where have you gone", this 1940s N.Y. Yankee legend? A January 1999 NBC obituary was 7 weeks premature
Joe DiMaggio
Emily
$200 [1]
In this Shakespeare play, Hecate appears as queen of the witches
Macbeth
Adam
$200 [21]
Bones making up your thorax include the sternum & 12 pairs of these
ribs
Emily
$200 [2]
Requiring 20 min. of pulling, the salt water type of this has been described as a candy & an upper body workout all in one
taffy
Emily
$400 [17]
In 2007 this funnyman took over from Bob Barker as host of "The Price is Right"
Drew Carey
Adam
$400 [13]
A scornful, lip-curling facial expression
a sneer
Adam
$400 [27]
Since a 2003 flub this "paper of record" uses the 2nd paragraph of obits to explain why it's sure the person is dead
The New York Times
Swapna
$400 [7]
This novel by Gregory Maguire about the green-skinned Elphaba became a gravity-defying musical
Wicked
Emily
$400 [22]
This lower jawbone is the strongest & largest bone of the face
the mandible
Emily
$400 [3]
A smooth, heavy paste made from sugar & these nuts is the traditional basis of marzipan
almonds
Emily
$600 [18]
Put an "X" in the box if you know that Peter Marshall, seen here, was the long-time host of this game show
Hollywood Squares
Adam
$600 [14]
A Native American people who lived on the Platte River, or Leslie Knope's fictional Indiana town
Pawnee
Adam
$600 [26]
A radio report said James Earl Jones had left us in 1998 (actually, it was this similarly named assassin)
James Earl Ray
Swapna
$600 [8]
The 2 female founders of Hogwarts are Helga Hufflepuff & this witch
(Rowena) Ravenclaw
Swapna
$800 [24]
Sharing its name with St. Paul's birthplace, it's the collective name for 7 bones in the foot
tarsus
Emily
$600 [4]
Egg whites & sugar syrup go into recipes for this versatile goo found in Snickers & Toblerone
nougat
Emily
$800 [19]
From 2002 to 2013 she hosted the syndicated version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
Meredith Vieira
Emily
$800 [15]
Captain Bligh suffered the wrath of a group of them
mutineers
Emily
$800 [29]
CNN posted a no-bituary about this politician, "1941-2001... loyal point man for two Bush presidencies"
Dick Cheney
Emily
$800 [9]
A girl is whisked away to Endor College of Witchcraft by "The Little" this, the title of a classic by Mary Stewart
a little broomstick
$1,000 [25]
This part of the skull that protects the brain is made up of 8 bones including the occipital & temporal bones
the cranium
$800 [5]
It's not booze, it's the liquid produced when cocoa beans are ground into paste, releasing the cocoa butter
liquor
Adam Swapna
$1,000 [20]
We can neither confirm nor deny that he was a CIA assassin, but he did co-create & host "The Gong Show"
Barris
Adam
$1,000 [16]
Stanley makes these long-jawed pliers
needle-nose
Adam
$1,000 [11]
Alexandra Jane & Sukie are a bewitching trio in a Rhode Island town in this Updike novel
The Witches of Eastwick
DD $1,400 [23]
This arm bone was named for its supposed resemblance to the spoke of a wheel
the radius
Emily
$1,000 [6]
This confection of pecans & brown sugar is named for the French military officer whose cook is credited with inventing it
pralines
Emily

Double Jeopardy! Round

HALLOWEEN WITH GENE SIMMONS THE FIRST MILLENNIUM PHILOSOPHY WORLD CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SONG TITLE WOMEN BY LYRIC OTTOMAN-OPOEIA
$400 [10]
(Gene Simmons presents the clue.) Halloween goes back to Samhain, a word from this Irish language; in a Celtic festival, people wore masks so ghosts wouldn't recognize them
Gaelic
Emily
$400 [1]
In 841 this future capital was established by Viking invaders on the east coast of Ireland
Dublin
Emily
$400 [5]
In a late dialogue by him, Socrates is replaced as main speaker with Timaeus, who gives an account of creation
Plato
Emily
$400 [7]
Should you call the capital of this Asian country Rangoon or Yangon? Neither--it's now Nay Pyi Taw, 200 miles away
Myanmar
Emily
$400 [19]
"She's just a girl who claims that I am the one"
"Billie Jean"
Emily
$400 [16]
Kahkaha is Turkish onomatopoeia for the sound of this--good joke, Kemal
laughter
Emily
$800 [25]
(Gene Simmons presents the clue.) In a forerunner to this Halloween statement, kids would ask for food in exchange for saying prayers for the dead
"trick or treat"
Emily
$800 [2]
After Emperor Claudius was poisoned, he was succeeded by this man, who fiddled around in the job for 13 years
Nero
Swapna
$800 [6]
In 1965 Lotfi Zadeh introduced this type of set with no clear boundaries, leading to the same type of "logic"
fuzzy
Swapna
$800 [12]
This city's airport is named for LAN Chile Airlines founder Arturo Merino Benitez
Santiago
Emily
$800 [21]
"You came and you gave without taking but I sent you away"
"Mandy"
Swapna
$800 [17]
If you hear a Turk go "Hapsu!", the sound of this, say "Cok yasa", "live long"
a sneeze
Emily
$1,200 [26]
(Gene Simmons presents the clue.) In the original 1978 "Halloween", a Captain Kirk mask was the perfect disguise for this positively homicidal character
Michael Myers
Emily Adam
$1,200 [3]
With cities like Palenque, this civilization saw its peak from 250 to 900
the Mayan civilization
$1,600 [9]
In the 18th century "taste" was the topic we now call this study of beauty
aesthetics
Adam
$1,600 [14]
The Gadhafi Mosque, a gift from Muammar, isn't in Tripoli but in this capital of Uganda
Kampala
Emily
$1,200 [22]
"I know this world is killing you... my aim is true"
"Alison"
Adam
$1,200 [18]
A Turkish snorer might make a "horul horul" sound; in English it's represented by this letter a bunch of times
Z
Swapna
$1,600 [27]
(Gene Simmons presents the clue.) What would Halloween be without this novelty song from Bobby "Boris" Pickett; "it was a graveyard smash"
"Monster Mash"
Emily
$1,600 [4]
This "Venerable" monk & author who died in 735 is known as "the father of English history"
the Venerable Bede
DD $2,000 [8]
Kierkegaard said a leap of faith into a relationship with God is the way to deal with this, German for "dread"
angst
Emily
$2,000 [15]
This capital city's name means "stone village" in Uzbek
Tashkent
Emily
$1,600 [23]
She "says, 'I'm done with Sergio. He treats me like a rag doll"
Jane
$1,600 [20]
This organ is your kalp & it's the body part most likely to go "kut kut"
a heart
Swapna
$2,000 [28]
(Gene Simmons presents the clue.) Legend says that death awakens the dead with a fiddle on Halloween & invites the skeletons to this French-named dance of death
danse macabre
Swapna
$2,000 [29]
Founded by the Fatimid dynasty c. 970 as a center of Islamic learning, al-Azhar Univ. is still going in this country
Egypt
$2,000 [11]
This 14-letter -ism about creating the greatest happiness for all has been called the "most important secular ethical theory"
utilitarianism
Swapna
DD $4,000 [13]
This capital of Barbados got its name from the type of structure seen here
Bridgetown
Emily
$2,000 [24]
She "rings like a bell through the night & wouldn't you love to love her?"
"Rhiannon"
Swapna
$2,000 [30]
The onomatopoetic tikir gives us "tikirinda gitmek", "to go like" this 9-letter word, as an efficient plan does
clockwork
Swapna

Final Jeopardy!

1960s FILMS

Chocolate syrup, casaba melon & Playboy model Marli Renfro were enlisted to create an iconic scene in this film

Psycho

Adam "What is Goldfinger" — wagered $7,598
Swapna "What is Psycho?" — wagered $5,000
Emily "What isPsycho" — wagered $12,601

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