Show #8349 2021-03-04 (taped 2021-01-12) Regular

Contestants

Chauncey Lo — a student from Los Altos, California

Jim Cooper — a screenwriter from Pacific Palisades, California

Melis Sahin-Collins — a data analyst from Redondo Beach, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $2,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Melis	$2,000	$3,400	$7,000	$6,100 3rd place: $1,000	$7,000 13 R, 3 W
Jim	$-400	$1,400	$11,600	$17,300 New champion: $17,300	$13,600 20 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Chauncey	$3,200	$4,400	$8,600	$9,300 2nd place: $2,000	$11,600 14 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

THE KING OF TV	PLAYING THE SENSE ORGAN	DETECTIVE FICTION	ALPHABET DOGS	A BREAK FOR SPRING	HOMOPHONES
$200 [25] Once there was a spot--on Starz in 2011--where Jamie Campbell Bower played this role in "Camelot" King Arthur Chauncey	$200 [16] 50 to 150 taste receptors are in each taste bud on this organ the tongue Melis	$200 [5] FBI Agent Emma Griffin goes undercover to solve a mystery in "The Girl in" this unlucky cabin Cabin 13	$200 [21] A: A plush tail curling over the back characterizes this breed from Japan the Akita Melis	$200 [1] Spring begins officially at this cosmic moment of equal parts day & night the equinox Jim	$200 [4] To offer something for purchase, or the basic structural unit of an organism sell/cell Melis
$600 [15] This animated TV show centered on a family in Arlen, Texas King of the Hill Chauncey	$400 [17] Free nerve endings are in tufts in this outermost layer of the skin the epidermis Melis	$400 [6] With bestsellers like the "Women's Murder Club" series, this author was one of the first to sell over 1 million e-books Patterson Melis	$400 [22] B: The AKC says these "move like the athletes they're named for: smooth... graceful... powerful" a Boxer Jim	$400 [2] MLB fans are full of boundless optimism during this, another term for baseball's preseason spring training Jim	$400 [8] A measure of gold purity, or a Bugs Bunny favorite carat/carrot Chauncey
$800 [23] Though Guy Williams played George V on this TV drama, Simon Jones got the role in the film but the Crawleys never dared mention the change Downton Abbey	$600 [18] Listen up! Myringoplasty is surgery to repair a perforation in this body part the eardrum Melis	$600 [7] (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) With my co-author, Anna Waterhouse, I've written three mystery novels featuring a very smart man named Mycroft, the older brother of this great literary character Sherlock Holmes Chauncey	$600 [28] C: Toto was one of these Scottish terriers bred to chase vermin in rock piles a cairn terrier Melis Jim	$600 [3] A stateflower, the California species of this blooms in great numbers in the spring a poppy Chauncey	$600 [9] A female antelope, or material to be baked doe/dough Melis
DD $1,000 [14] Jared Harris' George VI gave up the ghost & the title object on this streaming show The Crown Jim	$800 [19] The ability of this transparent eye part to adjust focus from distant to near declines with age in a condition called presbyopia the lens Melis Chauncey	$800 [10] "The Secret Adversary" was one of her many mysteries with detectives Tommy & Tuppence Beresford Agatha Christie Melis	$800 [29] D: This breed was developed in Germany by a night watchman whose first name was Karl Doberman Melis	$800 [26] Observed in spring, Beltane Eve is a major celebration for these modern-day followers of witchcraft Wiccans Chauncey	$800 [12] To fire a .45, or a sloping channel for water shoot/chute Jim
$1,000 [24] On this Cartoon Network show, kidnapping Princess Bubblegum was one dastardly plan of the Ice King Adventure Time Jim	$1,000 [20] The respiratory area of the nose has tiny hairlike structures called cilia & this moist alliterative lining a mucous membrane Chauncey	$1,000 [11] Ghosts & time travel feature in this guy's "Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams Dirk Gently Jim Chauncey	$1,000 [30] E:Ithas a speckled coat unlike its solid mahogany Irish cousin English Setter	$1,000 [27] The modern tradition of spring break began in the 1930s as part of a swim meet in this Florida city named for a military man Fort Lauderdale Melis Jim	$1,000 [13] A lowly servant in the era of knights, or the central part of a church a knave/nave Jim

Double Jeopardy! Round

BIBLE BABES	GETTING RICHARD	BORDERS	IN LATIN, PLEASE	TERMS FROM HISTORY	HIT: THE "ROAD"
$400 [8] "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings", says this Old Testament book of sacred songs Psalms Jim	$400 [16] In 1991 & 1992 Michelle Obama was an assistant to this mayor Richard Daley Jim	$400 [4] About a quarter of Canada's border with the U.S. is with this state Alaska Melis Jim Chauncey	$400 [22] "Hail Mary" ave Maria Jim Chauncey	$400 [1] The "counter-" this of the 16th & 17th centuries is also known as the Catholic Revival Reformation Jim	$400 [11] Lil Nas X got the beat for this megahit for $30 from a Dutch teenager who had created it & put it online "Old Town Road" Jim
$800 [27] In Luke 2 an angel tells shepherds, "Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in" this a manger Jim	$800 [17] His autobiography was titled "Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way" Richard Branson Jim	$800 [5] Saudi Arabia's longest border is with this country to the south that the Saudis began bombing in 2015 Yemen Chauncey	$800 [23] "Body of Christ", or a Texas city Corpus Christi Jim	$800 [2] Term for the post-Civil War period in which attempts were made to repair the physical & social damage from the war Reconstruction Jim	$800 [12] Elton John said "Goodbye" to this colorful route in a 1973 hit Yellow Brick Road Melis
$1,200 [28] The pharaoh's daughter finds this babe floating in a river Moses Chauncey	$1,200 [18] He played Mr. Holland &, in "W.", Dick Cheney Richard Dreyfuss Jim	$1,200 [6] On the border with Pennsylvania, Narrowsburg, N.Y. got its name because it's on the narrowest part of this river the Delaware River Chauncey	$1,600 [25] "After the war" postbellum	DD $1,000 [10] Neville Chamberlain is identified with this 11-letter policy of placating Nazi Germany appeasement Jim	$1,200 [13] The Beatles last topped the singles charts in 1970 with this song; it "leads to your door" "The Long And Winding Road" Jim
$1,600 [29] This prophet who warns Israel about the Assyrians says "Babes shall rule over" Jerusalem & Judah Isaiah	$1,600 [19] This fashion photographer shot for Vogue from 1966 to 1990 Richard Avedon Melis	$1,600 [7] Manzhouli is a town on the border between China's region of Inner this this land, & as you see, Russia Mongolia Melis	$2,000 [24] "By the fact itself" ipso facto Chauncey	$1,200 [3] For nearly 700 years, the Bakufu was the government of this top military dictator of Japan a shogun Chauncey	$1,600 [14] Willie Nelson says he "just can't wait to get" here, "makin' music with my friends" "On The Road Again" Jim
—	$2,000 [20] This British evolutionary biologist wrote the controversial book "The Selfish Gene" (Richard) Dawkins Chauncey	$2,000 [21] Botswana's border with Zambia is less than 500 feet across this river near Victoria Falls the Zambezi Chauncey	DD $3,000 [26] "Desire" or "lust", a word popularized by Freud libido Chauncey	$1,600 [9] This country has been accused of irredentism, the reclaiming of old territory, over the Nagorno-Karabakh area in Azerbaijan Armenia Jim	$2,000 [15] This Springsteen classic that opens the album "Born To Run" was inspired by a Robert Mitchum movie of the same title "Thunder Road" Jim

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. MILITARY EQUIPMENT

The U.S. Army's tradition of naming these began with the Sioux, used in the Korean War

helicopters

Melis "What is a missile?" — wagered $900

Chauncey "What are helicopters?" — wagered $700

Jim "What are helicopters?" — wagered $5,700

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