Show #8244 2020-09-24 (taped 2020-07-29) Regular

Contestants

Sameer Gandhi — a writer from Pasadena, California

Sara Tayyar — a clinical social worker from Pasadena, California

Robert Kaine — a copy editor from Hacienda Heights, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,401)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Robert	$2,400	$8,400	$10,200	$8,399 2nd place: $2,000	$16,000 22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Sara	$2,600	$4,000	$12,000	$1,599 3rd place: $1,000	$12,000 15 R, 2 W
Sameer	$1,000	$3,200	$11,200	$22,200 New champion: $22,200	$11,200 13 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

RAISE THE FLAG	SEE WHO SALUTES	BOOKS & AUTHORS	3-WORD PHRASES	I PLAYED HER IN THE MOVIE	"A" IS FOR AUTUMN
$200 [26] A flag with real significance for peaceful uses; proverbially, if you "raise" it you yield white flag Robert	$200 [15] Here's this Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saluting during a 50th anniversary ceremony for Pearl Harbor survivors Colin Powell Robert	$200 [3] Here's an image from the cover of this royal fable The Little Prince Sara	$200 [4] When you lavishly entertain a prospective client, you do this rhyming phrase, perhaps with Merlot & steak wine and dine Sara	$200 [1] Bad singer Florence Foster Jenkins Meryl Streep Robert	$200 [13] An October festival for the harvest of these has been held for decades in Arendtsville, Pennsylvania apples Sara
$400 [27] Historically, a ship flies a distress flag at half-mast or this way upside down Robert	$400 [19] Bernard Montgomery, mid-salute here, commanded all groundforcesat the start of 1944's Normandy invasion, or Operation this Overlord Sara	$400 [10] Based on true events, recent stories of the holocaust include "The Librarian of" & "The Tattooist of" this notorious place Auschwitz Sara	$400 [6] When you have 2 unpleasant options, someone might tell you to do this, which sounds like one could be strychnine pick your poison Sameer	$400 [2] Good singer Beca, a member of the Barden Bellas who is pitch perfect Anna Kendrick Sameer	$400 [14] Each fall Alabama & this S.E.C. football archrival meet in "The Iron Bowl" Auburn Sameer
$600 [28] In a third verse this title object "in triumph doth wave / O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave" the star-spangled banner Robert	$600 [20] We salute this fallen hero, a Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year, an Arizona Cardinal, and an Army ranger Pat Tillman Robert	$600 [11] Kya Clark, known as the "Marsh Girl", is suspected of murder in Delia Owens' No. 1 bestseller "Where" these "Sing" the Crawdads Sameer	$600 [7] An Obama rallying cry for Spanish-speaking potential voters was "Si, Se Puede", this in English Yes, We Can Robert	$600 [5] Andy Sachs, assistant to the editor of a fashion magazine (Anne) Hathaway Robert	$600 [23] This period in the ecclesiastical year leading up to Christmas begins Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020 Advent Sameer
$800 [29] Gonfalon, an old name for a flag, was once used by baseball writers to mean this, what every team wants to win the pennant Robert	$800 [21] Here's Chester Nimitz, who in December 1944 got bumped up to the Navy's then newest and highest rank, this type of admiral a five-star (fleet admiral)	$800 [12] Truman Capote said he introduced the nonfiction novel with this bestseller about the brutal murder of a Kansas farm family In Cold Blood Sara	$800 [9] When Picard wanted something to happen quickly on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" he often said this Make it so Sara	$800 [8] Jenny Curran, Forrest Gump's beloved Robin Wright Robert	$800 [24] Though as zodiac signs they're in January, February, March & April, these 2 constellations are best viewed in fall in the N. Hemisphere Aries & Aquarius Sameer
$1,000 [30] This other name for an army base or post also refers to the huge 20' x 38' flag flown over it garrison	$1,000 [22] Here's Babe Ruth with this general and hero of World War I after the Bambino joined the National Guard in 1924 Pershing Sara	$1,000 [18] In a novel by Jonathan Franzen, Alfred Lambert & his son Chip face their failures to make these, the title of the book corrections Sameer	DD $3,400 [17] If you do this you're either literally handing a dollar bill to someone, or shifting responsibility pass the buck Robert	$1,000 [16] Rachel Watson, the girl on the train Emily Blunt Robert	$1,000 [25] Sometimes called "quaking", this tree brings glorious color to autumn in Colorado aspen Robert Sameer

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCULPTURE	BODIES OF WATER	FANGS A LOT!	OCCUPATIONAL SONG TITLES	FAREWELL ADDRESSES	WAIT A BEAT, THEN "GO"
$400 [28] It's also known as "The Aphrodite of Melos" the Venus de Milo Robert	$400 [26] The Straits of Florida connect this body of water to the Atlantic Ocean the Gulf of Mexico Sameer	$400 [9] You can get custom designer fangs of this classic lit character for $19.99 at Party City, just like the author intended Dracula Robert	$400 [3] "Any old music will do" for Tina Turner in her hit song about a "Private" one of these a dancer Robert	$400 [15] This astronaut left the Earth for good in 2012 in a hospital at 3000 Mack Road, Fairfield, Ohio Neil Armstrong Robert Sameer	$400 [1] Any self-centered person who probably thinks this clue is about them an egotist
$800 [27] (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Evolving from cave art, examples of this type of sculpture includes sunken, low or bas, and high or alto relief Sara	$1,200 [23] The Cayman Islands are in this sea Caribbean Sea Robert	$800 [11] The body of this crawler is composed of around 15 to 180 segments, each with a pair of legs, the first pair modified into poison fangs centipede Robert Sara	$800 [7] To be this title person you've got to "know when to walk away & know when to run" a gambler Sara	$800 [17] Thousands flocked to 9 12th Avenue, Houghton, Johannesburg after he passed away there in 2013 Nelson Mandela Sameer	$800 [2] The musical stylings of Orpheus helped this crew escape the Sirens' song the Argonauts Sara
$1,200 [30] Revelstoke, British Columbia, on the Columbia River, has a sculpture of a sturgeon with this other fish salmon Sameer	$1,600 [22] Named for an Englishman, it connects the Atlantic & the Pacific between Cape Horn & the South Shetland Islands Drake's Passage Sameer	$1,200 [13] A type of this snake is rightly called spitting--its fangs are shaped to send poison flying cobra Robert Sara	$1,200 [8] In song, a desperate Warren Zevon requested these professionals along with "guns & money" lawyers	$1,200 [18] She made her exit in 1962 after an overdose of sleeping pills at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles Marilyn Monroe Sameer	$1,200 [4] Botticelli painted a trying time for Jesus in his work titled this "in the Garden" Agony
$1,600 [29] Dale Chihuly is primarily known for making sculptures out of this glass Sameer	$2,000 [21] In French it's known as Le Golfe de Gascogne the Bay of Biscay Robert	$1,600 [14] This fanged monster whose name is Spanish for "goat-sucker" was first "sighted" in 1995 (though after a scary movie) a chupacabra Sara	$1,600 [10] Bob Marley sang about the "Buffalo" this to "win the war for America" soldier Sameer	$1,600 [19] He expired in 1827 in Vienna at Schwarzpanier Strasse 15 during thunder like that in his 6th symphony Beethoven Robert	$1,600 [5] The spire on the top of one of these Japanese temples is called a sorin pagoda Robert
$2,000 [25] Much of this English sculptor's work is truly monumental, like his 9-foot"Draped Reclining Mother and Baby" Henry Moore	DD $5,000 [24] This river flows into Lake Constance, which borders Switzerland, Germany & Austria the Rhine Robert	$2,000 [16] The protruding fangs of this mortal Gorgon known for her stone-cold gaze weren't even the most terrifying thing about her Medusa Sara	$2,000 [12] "Dear sir or madam will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?" goes this Beatles tune "Paperback Writer" Sara	DD $3,200 [20] She breathed her last in 1901 at a Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, surrounded by many children & grandchildren Queen Victoria Robert	$2,000 [6] Excessive nationalism can also be called this other type of "-ism" jingoism Sara

Final Jeopardy!

ASTRONOMY

Discovered in 1967, the 1st of these stars was dubbed LGM-1--the perceived signal was jokingly thought to be from little green men

pulsars

Robert "What is a supernova?" — wagered $1,801

Sameer "What is a pulsar" — wagered $11,000

Sara "What is a red dwarf?" — wagered $10,401

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