Show #8185 2020-03-20 (taped 2020-01-15) Regular

Contestants

Abhijit Khanna — a software developer from Washington, D.C.

Katy Cummings — an attorney from Pasadena, California

Michonne Omo — a staff attorney from Walnut Creek, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michonne $2,200 $4,400 $14,000 $7,000
2-day champion: $22,800
$12,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Katy $1,600 $3,400 $13,400 $1,400
3rd place: $1,000
$15,000
18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Abhijit $200 $1,400 $11,000 $6,700
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

AMERICAN POETRY THIS PLANET WORDS WITH 5 VOWELS RUNNING GAGS PAY UP WE KNEAD THE BREAD
$200 [11]
A poem by Edgar Allan Poe mentions silver & golden these, jingling, tinkling, chiming
bells
Michonne
$200 [6]
...is called Earth's twin, but it must be fraternal, as we don't enjoy the same thick clouds of sulfuric acid
Venus
Katy
$200 [17]
To try out for a dramatic role by reading a short scene
audition
Katy
$200 [13]
(Jimmy Kimmel presents the clue.) Since our show's 3rd season, I've been apologizing to this talentless hack for bumping him at the last second; it happened a few times since but the real truth is I've never actually been sorry about it
Matt Damon
Abhijit
$200 [1]
If you've got pets, the extra-efficient "Ball Animal 2" one of these from Dyson might be worth it at close to $400
a vacuum
Michonne
$200 [14]
This microscopic fungus is added to bread dough to make it rise
yeast
Katy
$400 [12]
"Birches" & "A Patch of Old Snow" are part of his 1916 collection "Mountain Interval"
Frost
Michonne
$400 [7]
...has about a dozen moons at least 6 miles in diameter, including Ganymede
Jupiter
Katy
$400 [18]
The Shedd in Chicago is one of these fishy places
an aquarium
Michonne
$400 [20]
This show's Michael Scott: "If I had a gun with 2 bullets & I was in a room with Hitler, bin Laden & Toby, I would shoot Toby twice"
The Office
Abhijit
$400 [2]
This company with Charles in charge will charge you nothing for a phone-assisted stock trade--plus a $5 service fee
Charles Schwab
Katy
$400 [15]
Chapter 12, verse 15 of this Bible book contains the line "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread"
Exodus
Katy
$800 [28]
A long poem by Hart Crane was inspired by this structure seen from his apartment window
the Brooklyn Bridge
$600 [8]
...can get within about 29 million miles of the sun
Mercury
Katy
$600 [19]
The lens you look through at the viewing end of a microscope or telescope
the eyepiece
Abhijit
$600 [21]
Running gags on "How I Met Your Mother" included Marshall having the right to slap this smarmy character, even at his wedding
Barney
Katy
$600 [3]
Good for unlimited train travel for a week through Austria, France & 29 other countries, it'll cost you at least $375
a Eurail Pass
Michonne
$600 [16]
This elastic protein that helps bread rise can cause illness in those with celiac disease
gluten
Abhijit
$1,000 [27]
In her poem "Solitude", Ella Wheeler Wilcox followed this line with "Weep, and you weep alone"
Laugh, and the world laughs with you
$1,000 [10]
...may have used its gravity to capture an independent object that would become one of its moons--Triton
Neptune
Katy Abhijit
$800 [29]
To leave a building or other location because it is not safe to stay there
evacuate
Abhijit
$800 [22]
Art Vandelay comes up often as a fake name on this show
Seinfeld
Michonne
$800 [4]
You'll need a million dollars plus to own a 918 Spyder from this manufacturer
Porsche
Michonne
$800 [24]
Common in Germany & Russia, black bread is typically made from this grain
rye
DD $1,600 [9]
...is noted for a dark gap called the Cassini division
Saturn
Katy
$1,000 [26]
A French word for "shop", in English it means a small specialty shop
a boutique
Michonne
$1,000 [23]
This title sitcom newswoman famously kept losing assistants--Hillary Clinton applied for the job in the 2018 reboot
Murphy Brown
Katy
$1,000 [5]
The devil's in the details of the $1,870 Saffiano leather bucket bag from this Italian company
Prada
Abhijit
$1,000 [25]
Your Armenian grandma cooks with love and bakes this"L" word, a flat bread popular throughout the region
lavash

Double Jeopardy! Round

CLASSICAL MUSIC QUOTING THE COMEDY FILM GAME "OVER" POLITICAL PARLANCE HISTORIC NAMES FOREIGN FLAGS
$400 [22]
At age 15 in 1825 he played for the Russian czar, who was visiting Warsaw
Chopin
Michonne
$400 [8]
2000: "These are not spirit fingers! These... are spirit fingers"
Bring It On
Michonne
$400 [6]
Galoshes are a type of these
overshoes
Katy
$400 [7]
In this type of voice vote, the name of each member of a legislative body is called out & he or she answers, "yea" or "nay"
roll call
Michonne
$400 [1]
In 475 a usurper named Romulus Augustulus became the last of these in the west
Emperor of Rome
Abhijit
$400 [21]
Here'sthe flag of this city, the Dutch capital
Amsterdam
Michonne
$1,200 [24]
Nicknamed "The Red Priest", he was an ordained priest before he composed "The Four Seasons"
Vivaldi
Abhijit
$800 [9]
1984: "Back off, man. I'm a scientist"
Ghostbusters
Michonne
$800 [17]
Fresh out of the oven, it's an apple one of these
turnover
Katy
$800 [13]
It's a person chosen to represent a constituency at a convention; some can be "super"
delegates
Katy
$800 [2]
As queen consort & regent of France, Italian-born Catherine takes an "S" on the end of this famed Florentine last name
de Medici
Abhijit
$800 [30]
In 1991 this country added "Allahu Akbar" to its flag in an attempt to rally Islamic support for its annexation of Kuwait
Iraq
Katy
$1,600 [25]
This composer supervised when the Met staged his "Madama Butterfly" in 1907
Puccini
Michonne
$1,200 [10]
Ben Stiller: "Did you ever think that maybe there's more to life than being really, really really ridiculously good-looking?"
Zoolander
Katy
$1,200 [18]
Since reclassified, Rogaine & the nicotine patch, formerly sold by prescription only, can now be purchased this way
over the counter
Abhijit
$1,200 [14]
Rural "structural" term meaning to tour areas, rapidly giving political speeches
barnstorm
Katy
DD $1,200 [3]
Lord Darnley, husband of this monarch, was murdered at Edinburgh in 1567
Mary, Queen of Scots
Abhijit
$1,200 [29]
The colors of this low country's flag were derived from the shield of Brabant
Belgium
DD $2,000 [23]
This march by Sir Edward Elgar is commonly played at high school & college graduations
"Pomp And Circumstance"
Michonne
$1,600 [11]
2003: "You're my boy, Blue! You're my boy"
Old School
Michonne
$1,600 [19]
In 1999 deais.com was renamed & relaunched as this online retailer
overstock.com
Abhijit
$1,600 [15]
It means to question people to gauge support for a candidate or issue before a vote, but it sounds like tent fabric
canvass
Abhijit
$1,600 [4]
This nemesis of the crusaders died in 1193, having ruled Egypt, Syria & Yemen
Salah ad-Din
Abhijit
$1,600 [27]
In the 1940s this island adopted what was once China's war ensign as its flag
Taiwan
Katy
$2,000 [26]
"O"! This best-known song from "Carmina Burana" has a Latin title
"O Fortuna"
Michonne
$2,000 [12]
2009: "Phil, there is a tiger in the bathroom!"
The Hangover
Katy
$2,000 [20]
Sung by Joan Baez, Pete Seeger & others, this song based on a hymn became the anthem of the civil rights movement
"We Shall Overcome"
Katy
$2,000 [16]
Also a container for storing grain, it's a box where proposed bills are placed in a legislative chamber
a hopper
Abhijit
$2,000 [5]
In 1488, not da Gama or Magellan, but this Portuguese man led the first European voyage toroundthe tip of South Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
$2,000 [28]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The emblem on Mexico's flag is based on a legend that an eagle perched on a cactus was the sign to where the wandering Aztec people should build their capital, named this, now the site of Mexico City
Tenochtitlan
Abhijit

Final Jeopardy!

WOMEN AUTHORS

2 events figure prominently in her 2003 memoir: a coup in Chile on September 11, 1973 & the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

Isabel Allende

Abhijit "Who is Hillary Clinton?" — wagered $4,300
Katy "Who is Albright?" — wagered $12,000
Michonne "Who is ??" — wagered $7,000

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