Show #8335 2021-02-12 (taped 2020-12-15) Regular

John Focht game 5.

Contestants

Lance St. Laurent — a Ph.D. student from Madison, Wisconsin

Alejandra Oliva — a communications coordinator from Chicago, Illinois

John Focht — a software team lead originally from El Paso, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $103,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
John	$1,600	$5,600	$16,000	$7,000 2nd place: $2,000	$17,000 19 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Alejandra	$1,600	$2,000	$10,600	$600 3rd place: $1,000	$8,800 9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Lance	$4,000	$7,600	$24,800	$19,600 New champion: $19,600	$22,400 28 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

MECCA & MEDINA	FRUIT FORWARD	DESCRIBING THE ADJECTIVE	GAME THEORY	BEST ACTRESS OSCAR-WINNING ROLES	SCIENCE
$200 [26] Mecca has 5 different names in this holy book the Quran Lance	$200 [21] A traditional song: "Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling ____" Clementine Lance	$200 [16] Being super-enthusiastic in your desire to get something done, like the proverbial beaver eager Lance	$200 [1] If your stack is short & you need to double up to stay in a game of hold 'em, it might be time to "go" these 2 words all-in John	$200 [4] Julia Roberts as this activist Erin Brockovich John	$200 [7] (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) Diabetes was a death sentence until Dr. Frederick Banting discovered how to use & extract this hormone to treat the disease insulin Alejandra
$400 [27] Muslims are not required to visit Medina during this pilgrimage to Mecca but it often is a stop the Hajj John	$400 [22] Neat & tidy:____-pie order apple John	$400 [17] Get rid of the "E" in "E.T." & you have this adjective for the Earth terrestrial Alejandra	$400 [2] In Monopoly, buy heavily landed-on St. James Place, New York Avenue & Tennessee Avenue, the properties of this color orange John	$400 [10] Marion Cotillard as this chanteuse Edith Piaf Lance	$400 [8] (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) To provide immunity from smallpox, in 1796 British physician Edward Jennerused cowpox to make the first of these, which is why the word comes from the Latin for "cow" vaccine Alejandra
$600 [28] The port of Jeddah on this sea serves as an entry point for Mecca the Red Sea John	$600 [23] He had a "sweet swing": Darryl ____ Strawberry Lance	$600 [18] Paranormal, or a TV show that aired its finale in 2020 after 15 years on the air supernatural Lance	$600 [3] Playing this game issued by Milton Bradley in 1967? Don't place your ships touching each other Battleship Lance	$600 [11] Diane Keaton as this title New York City resident Annie Hall Lance	$600 [9] (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) In 1996, a team at Roslin Institute in Scotland used a technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce the first clone of an adult mammal, a Finn Dorsetsheepnamed this Dolly Lance
$800 [29] Muslims believe the tomb of this man, Moses' brother, is on Mount Uhud near Medina Aaron Lance	$800 [24] It's a firecracker with a long fuse:____ bomb cherry John	$800 [19] This 14-letter adjective refers to the space between, say, Mars & Neptune interplanetary John	DD $1,000 [5] If you win, switch to whatever would've beaten you for the next round, says a 2014 study on the psychology of this game Rock, Paper, Scissors John	$800 [12] Jodie Foster as this G-woman in training Clarice Starling Lance	$800 [14] (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) This property of elements, like uranium & thorium, was discovered in part by Marie Curie, who actually coined the word for it radioactivity John
$1,000 [30] This fundamentalist branch of Sunni Islam that now controls Medina first took it in 1804 the Wahhabis	$1,000 [25] Maybe your Schwinn bicycle had one:____ seat banana John	$1,000 [20] With a prefix meaning "against", it describes an event that turns out to have much less drama than expected anticlimactic Lance	$1,000 [6] Take the small continents first & leave Asia for later in this "game of strategic conquest" Risk John	$1,000 [13] Anne Bancroft as this pioneer in education of the deaf Annie Sullivan Alejandra	$1,000 [15] (Dr. Markaisa Black presents the clue.) In 2020, for the first time ever, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won by twowomen, Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier, for their work on the revolutionary gene editing tool known by this acronym CRISPR Lance

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFTER THE SUPREME COURT	SYMBOLS	ALL THE "RAGE"	IN CONCERT	VALLEY	GIRL
$400 [16] Not long after her 2006 retirement, this justice founded the i Civics website that teaches about government Sandra Day O'Connor Lance	$400 [11] Napoleon chose this insect to represent his status as emperor: it's hardworking, industrious & loyal the bee Alejandra	$400 [1] The right to vote suffrage Lance	$400 [21] (James Taylor presents the clue.) In 2011 at Madison Square Garden, I performed "Fire And Rain" & "Fifteen" with this young singer-songwriter whom, I'm honored to say, is named after me Taylor Swift Lance	$400 [26] Glen Mor, or "great valley" in Gaelic, widens to form this highland lake famous for a legendary creature Loch Ness Lance	$400 [6] Farm girl Fern Arable wants to save the life of a pig in this E.B. White tale Charlotte's Web Lance
$800 [17] Georgian John Archibald Campbell quit in 1861 & this man named him the Confederacy's Assistant Secretary of War Jefferson Davis Lance	$800 [12] Thepyramidon the reverse of the $1 bill represents endurance & theeyeat the top is the eye of this, also a state capital the Eye of Providence	$800 [2] A place for a ship to drop a big weight anchorage John	$800 [22] VH1 ranked her 1990 "Blond Ambition" tour as the greatest of all her concert tours Madonna Lance	$800 [27] In 452 these feared invaders from central Asia stormed into Italy, devastating the Po Valley the Huns John Alejandra Lance	$800 [7] Beverly Cleary wrote a series of books about this girl, Beezus' troublemaking younger sister Ramona (Quimby) Lance
$1,200 [18] John Jay left the bench to become governor of this state New York John	$1,600 [14] It's the symbol for an unstressed vowel, such as the middleonein the word "je-pər-dē" a schwa John	$1,200 [3] To wander around looking for vittles forage Lance	$1,200 [23] In 1985, Neil Young, John Mellencamp&this country singer organized the first Farm Aid concert Willie Nelson Lance	$1,200 [28] The site of several ancient temples, the Nubian Valley was submerged by the creation of this dam on the Nile the Aswan High Dam John	$1,200 [8] In "A Song of Ice and Fire", Sansa Stark wonders why this sister of hers can't be sweet & delicate Arya John
$1,600 [19] Benjamin Curtis quit the court over the Dred Scott decision & later defended this president in his impeachment trial Andrew Johnson Lance	$2,000 [15] 2 symbols of Milan--a cross & the Visconti serpent--are on the badge of this 2-named Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo Alejandra	$1,600 [4] It's a measure of the strength of an electrical current amperage John	$2,000 [25] (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg, Germany.) The field where the Nazis once rallied became a sports & music venue; when this Jewish-American performer played here in 1978, he was told, "80,000 Germans turned their back to Hitler & their faces to you" Bob Dylan Lance	$1,600 [29] The Harappan civilization of South Asia began around 2500 B.C. along the valley of this 2,000-mile river the Indus John	$1,600 [9] Mary Anne Spier is the secretary of this title book series group of girls who watch over other kids The Baby-Sitters Club Lance
$2,000 [20] In the 1870s David Davis left the court for the Senate, where he even had this job running things when the VP is away president pro tempore John	DD $3,000 [13] This flower represents autumn & is an emblem of the imperial family of Japan the chrysanthemum Alejandra	$2,000 [5] Please don't take this feeling of resentment, from Latin for "shadow" umbrage Alejandra	DD $4,000 [24] Recorded for live albums, Johnny Cash performed legendary concerts at Folsom Prison & this other California one San Quentin Lance	$2,000 [30] The southern gateway of Norway's Gudbrands Valley is this town, site of the 1994 Winter Olympics Lillehammer Lance	$2,000 [10] Selina Boyce is the heroine of the Brooklyn-set book called "Brown Girl," these buildings brownstones Alejandra

Final Jeopardy!

ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS

Asked to describe this 4th century B.C. member of the Cynics, Plato called him "a Socrates gone mad"

Diogenes

Alejandra "Who is Zeno?" — wagered $10,000

John "Who is Pythagoras?" — wagered $9,000

Lance "Who is Aristotle?" — wagered $5,200

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