Show #8186 2020-03-23 (taped 2020-01-28) Regular

Contestants

Vikram Prasad — a congressional aide from Washington, D.C.

Kimberly Flynn — a writer and editor from Wayne, Pennsylvania

Michonne Omo — a staff attorney from Walnut Creek, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michonne $600 $4,600 $17,800 $25,600
2nd place: $2,000
$17,800
21 R, 1 W
Kimberly $1,800 $3,400 $16,400 $32,800
New champion: $32,800
$17,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Vikram $4,400 $2,600 $7,800 $800
3rd place: $1,000
$10,800
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE OSCARS ANAGRAMMED REPTILES HEY, THAT'S FANCY! ENDS IN "ASH" IT'S HOW YOU WIN CAPTURE THE FLAG
$200 [1]
Accepting for his "Revenant" role, he said, "Climate change is real, it is happening... let us not take this planet for granted"
Leonardo DiCaprio
Michonne
$200 [3]
Slow mover on land:TOE RIOTS
a tortoise
Michonne
$200 [10]
A 6-course meal with this thermidor--tails with the meat removed, chopped & combined with a bechamel--yeah, that'll work!
lobster
$200 [15]
Grind your teeth
gnash
Vikram
$200 [21]
"Roll out" this game: get a chain of 10 hanging primates
Barrel of Monkeys
Kimberly
$200 [20]
The U.S. Trophy Flag Collection at this Maryland military academy has many captured foreign flags, though we gave some back
Annapolis
Michonne
$400 [2]
Sure, you remember the swan dress of this Icelandic singer, but how 'bout the 6 ostrich eggs she "laid" on the red carpet?
Bjork
Vikram
$400 [6]
Deadly river carnivore: CIDER LOCO
a crocodile
Vikram
$400 [11]
Hop on a G700 private jet made by this company; it costs $75 million & flies at mach 0.925, so a flight to Paris would be fun
a Gulfstream jet
Michonne Vikram
$400 [30]
In the 1980s these British punk rockers rocked "The Casbah"
The Clash
Michonne
$400 [22]
This 3-letter game: run out of cards in your hand, provided you yell the title Spanish word when you have a single card
Uno
Kimberly
$400 [19]
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal ended up with the second flag raised on this Japanese island
Iwo Jima
Kimberly
$600 [4]
Celebs began to walk a red carpet in 1961, but TV viewers may not have known because this didn't come to the Oscar telecast until 1966
color
Michonne
$600 [7]
Legendarily transformative: LEMON ACHE
a chameleon
Vikram
$600 [12]
Oh, my! A Jacquard patterned slim tuxedo from this Italian designer? Ciao, Giorgio!
Armani
Vikram
$600 [29]
Your office might have some of this money for small purchases or reimbursement stashed away in a drawer
petty cash
Kimberly
$600 [23]
This 1930s game: all the other players are bankrupt (& no one has flipped over the board in frustration)
Monopoly
Michonne
$600 [18]
Citizens of this country can request retired flags flown at the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill--the wait list exceeds 100 years
Canada
Vikram
$800 [5]
In 1948 James Baskett won a special Oscar for playing this storyteller in "Song of the South"
Uncle Remus
Vikram
$800 [8]
Really, really big but NO CANADA
anaconda
Kimberly
$800 [13]
You have this title after your name on your business card; did you become a lawyer or are you in the English gentry just below knight?
esquire
Vikram
$800 [28]
Often the result of a car crash, it's also called cervical acceleration/deceleration syndrome
whiplash
Vikram
$800 [24]
This alliterative game: eat the most marbles or the golden marble
Hungry Hungry Hippos
Michonne
$800 [16]
When Virginia tried to get back a Confederate flag this state captured in 1863, Gov. Jesse Ventura said, "Why?... we won"
Minnesota
Vikram
$1,000 [27]
Winner Emma Thompson said she went to Jane Austen's grave "to pay my respects...& tell her about the grosses" of this pic
Sense and Sensibility
Michonne Vikram
$1,000 [9]
A venomous southwesterner: INTRO GLEAMS (2 words)
the Gila monster
Vikram
$1,000 [14]
I'd kinda like to know how you got your hands on the winter egg of 1913 made by him, auctioned in 1994 for $5.5 million
Faberge
Kimberly
$1,000 [26]
The water bottles seen here were made from this eight-letter gourd
a calabash
$1,000 [25]
A hand in this French game: get exactly 1,000 miles
Mille Bornes
Michonne
DD $3,000 [17]
A 50-foot flag captured from a Spanish ship was hung at London's St. Paul's Cathedral for this man's 1806 funeral
Lord Horatio Nelson
Vikram

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE OSCARS STATE OF THE BRIDGE THAT'S A RED LINE LABORS OF "LOVE" BRUSHING UP ON YOUR SPANISH HISTORY THIS DEFINES ME
$400 [7]
This longtime TV character was originally orange but he said a vacation to swamp mushy muddy turned him green overnight
Oscar the Grouch
Michonne
$400 [1]
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
Louisiana
Michonne
$400 [12]
Robert Burns exulted, "O my luve's like a red, red" this
a rose
Kimberly
$400 [2]
This 1998 film about a certain playwright of note won 7 Oscars
Shakespeare in Love
Vikram
$400 [26]
This "invincible" force found itself quite vincible after 8 English fireships headed its way early on Aug. 8, 1588
the Armada
Kimberly
$400 [21]
Pertaining to a city, or "outfitters" at a mall
urban
Kimberly
$800 [8]
Britannica said this writer in college in the 1870s distinguished himself "as a classical scholar, a poseur, and a wit"
Oscar Wilde
Michonne
$800 [3]
Penobscot Narrows Bridge
Maine
Kimberly
$800 [13]
Tennyson wrote of "nature, red in tooth and" this
claw
$800 [15]
& Iiiiiiiiiii...want you to give us this title promise Whitney Houston made in a song that was No. 1 for 14 weeks
"I Will Always Love You"
Michonne
$800 [27]
After more than 350 years, nobody expected this tribunal established to maintain orthodoxy would end in 1834
the Spanish Inquisition
Michonne
$800 [22]
It describes both sharp pain &, say, a 42-degree angle
acute
Michonne
$1,200 [9]
We bet you know Oscar Goodman became mayor of this city in 1999 & swore in his wife to replace him in 2011
Las Vegas
Kimberly
DD $1,000 [4]
Lake Champlain Bridge (2 states, please)
Vermont & New York
Kimberly
$1,200 [14]
Jenny Joseph's "Warning" begins, "When I am an old woman I shall wear" this color, "with a red hat which... doesn't suit me"
purple
Michonne
$1,200 [16]
Time to bust this 1970s TV title ship out of dry dock & make another run; in real life, one of its crew ended up as a congressman
Love Boat
Michonne
$1,200 [28]
On Jan. 7, 1969 he said he would accept the Spanish throne if offered; 6 years later, he got the gig
Juan Carlos
Vikram
$1,200 [23]
A trumpet is a wind instrument in this orchestra section
brass
Michonne
DD $2,000 [10]
A Chicago magnet school is named for this man, a once-local butcher
Oscar Mayer
Kimberly
$1,600 [5]
Mackinac Bridge
Michigan
Kimberly
$1,600 [20]
In "David Copperfield", Dickens wrote, "Skewered through & through with office pens, & bound hand & foot with" this
red tape
Kimberly
$1,600 [17]
In this 1964 Peter Sellers film: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"
Dr. Strangelove
Kimberly
$1,600 [29]
After taking the loss in the Spanish-American War, Spain ceded this easternmost island in the Greater Antilles
Puerto Rico
Vikram
$1,600 [24]
The second-highest ranking graduate in a class, & don't say "runner-up" & make me come over there
the salutatorian
Michonne
$2,000 [11]
Thisfashion icon from the Dominican Republic dressed First Ladies, including Nancy Reagan
Oscar de la Renta
Kimberly
$2,000 [6]
The John Ringling Causeway
Florida
$2,000 [19]
Stephen Crane wrote, "At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way...he wished that he, too, had a wound, a" this
a red badge of courage
Michonne
$2,000 [18]
We'll be back in 2 & 2 with this Chuck Woolery-hosted dating show
Love Connection
Kimberly
$2,000 [30]
In 206 B.C., in the second of these wars, a Roman victory near Seville evicted Carthage from Spain for good
the Punic Wars
Vikram
$2,000 [25]
It's that fleshy lobe hanging from a turkey's chin
a wattle
Michonne

Final Jeopardy!

1970s SITCOMS

A warning on early episodes said this show "seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns"

All in the Family

Vikram "What is Fawlty Towers" — wagered $7,000
Kimberly "What is All in the Family?" — wagered $16,400
Michonne "What is All in the Family?" — wagered $7,800

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