Show #8100 2019-11-22 (taped 2019-09-24) Regular

Contestants

Joyee Dasgupta — an international affairs analyst from Washington, D.C.

Seema Dahlheimer — a professor of technical writing from St. Louis, Missouri

Elise Nussbaum — a financial counselor from Jersey City, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $54,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Elise $2,600 $6,000 $14,800 $24,800
3-day champion: $79,600
$14,000
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Seema $2,200 $3,800 $4,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$4,600
10 R, 2 W
Joyee $3,200 $10,000 $12,000 $14,799
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BLACK-&-WHITE FILMS RED ALERT IN THE PINK YELL "O" IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT GREEN, BABY I GOT THE BLUES
$200 [1]
In "The Maltese Falcon", this actor tells Mary Astor, "if you...were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere"
Humphrey Bogart
Elise
$200 [6]
In the 1940s Kim Philby, Britain's head of anti-communist counter-espionage, was one of these "2"-timing spies
a double agent
Seema
$200 [28]
If you're vegan or vegetarian, you may struggle to get enough of this in your diet, so try some seitan & tofu
protein
Joyee
$200 [30]
It measures a car's travel
an odometer
Joyee
$200 [29]
At 22 this Aussie native inherited a newspaper after his father's death; in 2019 he & his family were worth 11 figures
Rupert Murdoch
Elise
$200 [12]
This company's crayons come in more than a dozen shades of blue, including cornflower & cadet
Crayola
Seema
$400 [2]
Grabbing a shower at a motel seems like a good idea to Janet Leigh in this 1960 thriller--it is not a good idea at all
Psycho
Joyee
$400 [7]
1948's Battle of Huaihai left Communist forces finally & firmly in control during this country's civil war
China
Joyee
$400 [25]
Careful with raw milk, AKA this 13-letter kind; it can contain harmful bacteria
unpasteurized
Elise
$400 [27]
This instrument has a tubular body & a double-reed mouthpiece
an oboe
Joyee
$400 [26]
He rebounded nicely after getting fired from Salomon Brothers, becoming mayor of NYC & being worth about $50 billion in 2019
(Michael) Bloomberg
Elise
$400 [13]
This "seafaring" shade of blue is one of the most popular colors for school uniforms in the United States
navy blue
Elise
$600 [3]
This actor is defiant in "Raging Bull"--"I never went down, Ray. You never got me down, Ray"
Robert De Niro
Joyee
$600 [22]
From the Latin for "offspring", it was the Communist term for the working class that was meant to be liberated
the proletariat
Joyee
$600 [16]
Eat & exercise to keep your BMI, short for this, within the proper range; shoot for between 18.5 & 24.9
body mass index
Seema
$600 [23]
Someday you may find me by a well or spring at this small green area in a desert
an oasis
Joyee
$800 [10]
Talk about Amazon Prime! This woman pledged more than half her $37 billion fortune to charity in 2019
(MacKenzie) Bezos
Joyee
$600 [20]
The name of this often blue fabric points to its place of origin, the city of Nimes
denim
Elise
$800 [4]
Gen. Jack D. Ripper, Col. "Bat" Guano & Major "King" Kong are characters in this 1964 doomsday comedy
Dr. Strangelove
Seema
$800 [21]
When he became the USSR's leader, Mikhail Gorbachev was the youngest member of this chief Communist Party policymaking body
the Politburo
Joyee
$800 [17]
Floss & brush regularly to get the jump on this gum disease; if left untreated, it can lead to periodontitis
gingivitis
Elise
$800 [14]
Get a leg up after an injury with this type of M.D. who specializes in your skeletal system
an orthopedist
Elise
$1,000 [11]
Very rich men Larry Page & Sergey Brin head up this parent company of Google
Alphabet
Seema
$800 [9]
Katy Perry voiced this blue animated movie character with blonde hair
Smurfette
Elise
$1,000 [5]
On "Seinfeld", Jerry caught serious grief for making out with his date during this 1993 World War II-set drama
Schindler's List
Elise
$1,000 [8]
This first leader of Communist North Korea was an officer in the Soviet Red Army during World War II
Kim Il-sung
Joyee
$1,000 [18]
NAMI, the National Alliance on this, tries to fight the stigma associated with the condition
Mental Illness
Seema
$1,000 [15]
Some people of the 46th state have reclaimed this Dust Bowl-era epithet, putting it on mugs & T-shirts
Okie
Elise
DD $4,000 [24]
Last name of brothers Charles & David, worth around a combined $100 billion at the time of David's death in 2019
Koch
Joyee
$1,000 [19]
The blue that's all over the walls in Morocco's city of Chefchaouencame from Jews fleeing this event in Spain
the Inquisition
Elise

Double Jeopardy! Round

WINDY CITY POLITICS 7-LETTER WORDS QUOTABLE BOOKS U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATES GEOGRAPHIC AKAs GOOD TELEVISION
$400 [29]
Riots hit Chicago in this year as the Democratic national convention stirred up emotions
1968
Joyee
$400 [16]
If one of these, AKA a turkey vulture, is circling overhead, call 911
a buzzard
Elise
$400 [1]
1865: "She was walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face"
Alice in Wonderland
Joyee
$400 [30]
This late senator from Arizona, class of 1958
John McCain
Joyee
$400 [23]
As it flows through Oxford, it's called the Isis
the Thames
Joyee
$400 [21]
This "Cheers" actor plays Michael, designer of "The Good Place"
Ted Danson
Elise
$800 [26]
For all but 12 years from 1955 to 2011, Chicago had a mayor with this last name
Daley
Elise
$800 [15]
2 basic types of college courses are the seminar & this, basically the professor speaking to a large group
lecture
Seema
$800 [4]
1958: "It was some little while before I could bring myself to open the window, and ask Miss Golightly what she wanted"
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Joyee
$800 [24]
This author of "Stranger in a Strange Land", a 1929 graduate
(Robert) Heinlein
Elise
$800 [22]
Mount Godwin-Austen
K2
Seema
$800 [20]
David Hartman was the host for this ABC a.m. show when it premiered in 1975
Good Morning America
Elise
$1,200 [12]
Begun on the South Side of Chicago, the social justice movement known as Operation PUSH was headed by this man
Jesse Jackson
Elise
$1,200 [9]
An oubliette was a secret one of these beneath a trapdoor in a castle & a place you did not want to end up
a dungeon
Elise
$1,600 [8]
1873: "Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds!"
Around the World in Eighty Days
Joyee
$1,200 [25]
He& running mate James Stockdaleboth graduated from the Academy
(Ross) Perot
Elise
$1,200 [2]
Dutch Guiana
Suriname
Joyee
$1,200 [17]
This"Mad Men" actress robs a supermarket on "Good Girls"
Christina Hendricks
Joyee
$1,600 [14]
From 1915 to 1917 Oscar de Priest sat on Chicago's city council after becoming the first African American elected to this post
alderman
Seema
$1,600 [11]
A type of poker game where A-2-3-4-6 is a winning hand, or to underestimate on purpose
lowball
Joyee
$2,000 [7]
A recent Pulitzer Prize winner set during WWII: "Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever"
All the Light We Cannot See
Elise Seema
$2,000 [28]
An 1858 graduate, he would become the "Hero of Manila"
George Dewey
Elise
$1,600 [3]
Danzig
Gdansk
Elise
$1,600 [18]
This 2-word title got Michelle Dockery's Letty out of prison early on a TNT drama
Good Behavior
Seema
$2,000 [13]
Chicago's most famous community organizer before Barack Obama, he wrote books like "Rules for Radicals"
Saul Alinsky
Elise
$2,000 [10]
A place where metal is cast in molds
a foundry
Joyee
DD $4,000 [5]
1990: "You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose"
Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Joyee
DD $2,400 [27]
Wally Schirra, who was the only astronaut to fly in all 3 of these NASA programs
Mercury, Gemini & Apollo
Elise
$2,000 [6]
Van Diemen's Land
Tasmania
Elise
$2,000 [19]
This actress fights "The Good Fight" as Diane Lockhart, as she did on "The Good Wife"
Christine Baranski
Elise Seema

Final Jeopardy!

HOME & GARDEN

In 1847 eccentric horticulturalist Sir Charles Isham popularized these when he imported terra cotta ones from Nuremberg

garden gnomes

Seema "What are flowerpots?" — wagered $4,600
Joyee "What are garden gnomes? ATBB Sarah!" — wagered $2,799
Elise "What are garden gnomes?" — wagered $10,000

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