Show #8028 2019-07-03 (taped 2019-03-26) Regular

Contestants

Cathy Deobler — a retired teacher from Belle, West Virginia

Dan Levy — a higher education administrator from Hartford, Connecticut

Charlie Jorgenson — a librarian from Loveland, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Charlie	$3,600	$5,800	$25,800	$24,000 2-day champion: $56,800	$21,000 25 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Dan	$400	$3,600	$8,400	$5,400 2nd place: $2,000	$8,400 17 R, 4 W
Cathy	$-400	$1,600	$2,400	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$2,000 9 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE GOLDEN HOARD	SINGULAR SPORTS TEAMS	AMERICAN WRITERS	THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING	GET "OFF"	MY LAWN
$200 [6] "Open sesame" are the magic words that this man used to take gold from 40 thieves Ali Baba Charlie	$200 [16] NBA:Utah Jazz Charlie	$200 [1] The pen name he used for "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" was a wink to his unfinished doctorate Dr. Seuss Cathy	$200 [21] East Pittsburgh, Nov. 2, 1920:Election returns are the first commercial broadcast in this medium radio Charlie Dan	$200 [11] If you're this, you might be AWOL, mistaken or a few steps away from first off-base Cathy	$200 [26] Black medic & Canada thistle are types of these invasive things, my lawn's mortal enemies, & I kill 'em on sight weeds Dan
$400 [7] Princess Toadstool is in trouble in this 1985 Nintendo game, yet her 2 rescuers are all about those gold coins Super Mario Brothers Charlie	$400 [17] NBA:Oklahoma City Thunder Dan	$400 [2] Margaret Mitchell was recovering from an ankle injury when she wrote this Pulitzer winner Gone With the Wind Charlie	$400 [22] Philly, July 12, 1776:John Dickinson asks the Continental Congress, hey, did you read these Articles I sent you? the Articles of Confederation Cathy	$400 [12] This hyphenated 4-word phrase describes something that starts & ends & starts & ends, like some relationships on-and-off-again Charlie	$400 [27] I love to cruise in my Husqvarna TS 354X with armrests & hydrostatic transmission, it's one of these a riding lawnmower Charlie
$600 [8] In a 1964 film Goldfinger wants to detonate a dirty bomb in the gold reserves at this locale, making his stash more valuable Fort Knox Dan	$600 [18] NHL:Minnesota Wild Dan	$600 [3] He drew from his own background when writing "The Prince of Tides" Pat Conroy Charlie	$800 [24] London, 1854:Dr. John Snow identifies the Broad Street pump as the cause of an epidemic of this disease cholera Charlie	$600 [13] The Soho Playhouse on Vandam Street or the Actors Temple Theatre on West 47th, for example off-Broadway Charlie	$600 [28] My lawn is a bit smaller than the 15-acre green space in New York's Central Park, known as this grazing animal's meadow Sheep Meadow Cathy
$800 [9] In 1922 people in Kanab, Utah were convinced that the gold of this Aztec was in a mountain cave near their city...nope Montezuma Charlie	$800 [19] MLS:Chicago Fire Dan	$800 [4] In a story by this sci-fi master, "I Sing the Body Electric!" is the title of a pamphlet for a robot grandmother Ray Bradbury Charlie Cathy	DD $1,000 [23] 1541, Lima:This conquistador is murdered at dinner in his palace Pizarro Cathy	$800 [14] The prayers & griping of college football fans were rewarded with this at the end of the 2014 season a playoff Dan	$800 [29] I plant the same tall fescue grass used in this directional lawn that hosts an annual Easter Egg Roll the South Lawn at the White House
$1,000 [10] In an opera this dwarf makes a ring from the gold of the Rhine & enslaves the Nibelungen Alberich Dan	$1,000 [20] AAC football:This colorful Tulane squad Green Wave Dan	$1,000 [5] "Miss Lonelyhearts" was one of his satiric novels of the 1930s (Nathanael) West Charlie	$1,000 [25] 1862, this Tokyo castle:Iemochi marries Princess Kazu in a shogun wedding Edo Castle	$1,000 [15] 9-letter word for zealously authoritative officious	$1,000 [30] I keep an eye out for infections like this fungal one that sounds like you'd find it on iron, not grass rust Charlie

Double Jeopardy! Round

DONE IN BY THEIR OWN CREATIONS	GEOGRAPHY	BAD-JECTIVES	ITALIAN MUSIC TERMS	THE LONG & THE SHORT OF BATTLE	AN ACTOR & A SUPPORTING ROLE
$400 [16] Thomas Andrews was the chief naval architect for this ship & went down with it on its maiden voyage in 1912 the Titanic Dan	$400 [11] The Pecos River rises in Mora County, New Mexico, heads into Texas & empties into this river the Rio Grande Dan	$400 [1] This 5-letter word for anything bad also means to be infested with parasitic insects lousy Charlie	$400 [21] 2-word term for the principal female singer in an opera; some can be temperamental prima donna Charlie Dan Cathy	$400 [26] The Battle of San Jacinto lasted 18 min. with hundreds of Mexican soldiers killed as this place was remembered in battle cries the Alamo Charlie	$400 [2] College professor & counselor Sean McGuire in "Good Will Hunting" Robin Williams Dan
$800 [17] Tailor Franz Reichelt sought to invent a combination suit/this device, but died after jumping off the Eiffel Tower a parachute Charlie	$800 [12] This strategic body of water is also called the Arabian Gulf the Persian Gulf Cathy	$800 [7] This 10-letter word for evil schemes means belonging to or involving the devil diabolical Dan	$800 [22] Meaning "little book", it's the words of an opera libretto Dan	$800 [27] It took 32 days for U.N. forces to win the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge in this country in 1951 Korea Dan	$800 [3] Car salesman Jerry Lundegaard in "Fargo" William H. Macy Dan
$1,600 [19] Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier died in 1785 attempting to cross the English Channel in one of these that he designed a balloon	$1,200 [13] The name of this Hawaiian island is also the Hawaiian word for a roofed porch Lanai Cathy	$1,200 [8] This word for "hateful" is related to the present-day French word "haine", meaning "hatred" heinous Charlie	$1,200 [23] A coda is a passage at the end of a work; in Italian it means this part of an animal the tail Charlie	$1,200 [28] The 1781 Battle of Yorktown lasted for 21 days before this fenced-in general finally surrendered Cornwallis Charlie Cathy	$1,200 [4] Donald Rumsfeld in "Vice" Steve Carell Dan
$2,000 [20] This inventor died while driving one of his "steamer" automobiles, crashing trying to avoid an obstacle on the road (Francis) Stanley Charlie	$1,600 [14] Kings Canyonin this country's Northern Territory offers some spectacular views Australia Cathy	$1,600 [9] If someone calls you this, it can mean you are inadequate (or you arouse compassion) pitiful Dan	$1,600 [24] The name of this small flute is Italian for "small" a piccolo Charlie	$1,600 [29] Lysander's surprise attack at Aegospotami, destroying this city-state's fleet, helped decide the Peloponnesian War Athens Charlie Dan Cathy	$1,600 [5] Speech therapist Lionel Logue in "the King's Speech" Geoffrey Rush Charlie
DD $3,000 [18] Horace Hunley pioneered this transport & during a test run of one during the Civil War perished along with his crew a submarine Charlie	$2,000 [15] This capital of Slovenia has 2 sets of "LJ"'s in its name Ljubljana Dan	$2,000 [10] Not "were" but this 4-letter word for dreadful comes before the name of an extinct wolf dire Cathy	DD $5,000 [25] Chopin taught this style of playing with linked notes, the opposite of staccato, which he called "a pigeon hunt" legato Charlie	—	$2,000 [6] German actor Max Schreck in "Shadow of the Vampire" Willem Dafoe Charlie

Final Jeopardy!

MYTHOLOGY

In Homer there's only one of these, from the Greek for "terrible"; later they became 3 scary sisters

the Gorgons

Cathy "Who are the Muses?" — wagered $2,400

Dan "Who were witches?" — wagered $3,000

Charlie "Who are the Furies?" — wagered $1,800

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