Show #8350 2021-03-05 (taped 2021-01-12) Regular

Last game with Mike Richards as guest host.

Contestants

Ann Mazzaferro — a high school English and drama teacher from San Andreas, California

Laura Portwood-Stacer — an author and editor originally from Livonia, Michigan

Jim Cooper — a screenwriter from Pacific Palisades, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jim $1,800 $2,000 $9,200 $10,413
2nd place: $2,000
$9,200
16 R, 6 W
Laura $2,400 $6,400 $21,400 $19,400
New champion: $19,400
$19,200
20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Ann $0 $1,800 $6,600 $4,200
3rd place: $1,000
$8,000
13 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

BROADWAY MUSICALS BUSINESS & INDUSTRY TEXT MESSAGE ABBREV. ARMY SURPLUS NAVY BASES MARINE BIOLOGY
$200 [3]
In the roles of Diva Donna, Disco Donna & Duckling Donna, 3 actresses played this 1970s singer in a 2018 show
Donna Summer
Jim Laura Ann
$200 [10]
An orange handle on a coffee pot traditionally came to mean this kind of coffee because it was the color of Sanka labels
decaf
Jim
$200 [2]
Stay out of my affairs: MYOB
mind your own business
Ann
$200 [1]
Army ant colonies are made up of workers, soldiers, mating males & one of these
a queen
Laura
$200 [26]
This special forces group has headquarters at naval base Coronado in Southern California
the Navy SEALs
Jim
$200 [18]
Species of this cephalopod with 10 appendages include the colossal, which can be 40' long, & the southern pygmy, less than 3/4"
a squid
Laura
$400 [5]
For this show Justin Collette took the role of Dewey Finn, played by Jack Black in a 2003 movie
School of Rock
Ann
$400 [11]
This gas company added an apostrophe to make its name a contraction for International Women's Day in 2020
Shell (She'll)
$400 [4]
Hold on now:JAS
just a second
Ann
$400 [15]
This multibladed pocket tool evolved from ones first issued to Helvetic soldiers in the late 1800s
a Swiss Army knife
Laura
$400 [27]
Since the time of Catherine the Great, Sevastopol has been the site of a Russian navy base on this Black Sea peninsula
the Crimea
Laura
$400 [19]
One look at the forehead of the genus Naso, & you'll see why it's also known as this fish
a unicorn fish
$600 [6]
(Christopher Plummer presents the clue.) In 1973, I sang the closing number "I Never Loved You", playing with panache this heroic Frenchman in Anthony Burgess's musical version of the famous play
Cyrano de Bergerac
Ann
$600 [12]
The current CEOs of Adobe & MasterCard went to the same high school in Hyderabad in this country
India
Jim Laura
$600 [9]
Occurring away from the Internet:IRL
in real life
Jim
$600 [23]
This professor's "Army" was formed at Hogwarts in defiance of Professor Dolores Umbridge
Dumbledore
Laura
$600 [28]
Germany maintains naval bases on this sea, including at Kiel & Rostock, both bombed by the RAF in World War II
the Baltic Sea
Jim
$600 [20]
The polyp is the body of this creature whose name also refers to its skeleton; masses of them form reefs
a coral
Jim
$1,000 [8]
Set in a royal castle, "Once Upon a Mattress" is a musical based on this fairy tale
"The Princess and the Pea"
Laura
$800 [13]
3 words become one in this .com, "the world's largest, free social fundraising platform"
GoFundMe
Jim
$800 [16]
A bit similar to IMHO:FWIW
for what it's worth
Ann
$800 [24]
Rick Atkinson, author of acclaimed books of military history, describes himself as an "army" this, who grew up on posts
a brat
Laura
$800 [29]
Commissioned in 1921 & a major training site, an Australian naval base near Melbourne bears the name of this mythic canine
Cerberus
Jim
$800 [21]
A major type of these free-floating ocean organisms, with a name from Greek for wandering, dinoflagellates can cause red tides
plankton
Jim
DD $1,400 [7]
"The Morning Of The Dragon" was one of the songs from this Puccini-based Broadway musical
Miss Saigon
Ann
$1,000 [14]
This company that turns your dimes & pennies into dollars (for you & for them) opened its 20,000th kiosk in 2012
Coinstar
Jim
$1,000 [17]
I know NSFW as National Schools Film Week, not as this more lurid warning
not safe for work
Ann
$1,000 [25]
William & Catherine Booth started this Christian charitable organization in London in 1865
the Salvation Army
Laura
$1,000 [22]
A brown alga, this largest seaweed can grow 200 feet long & forms forests off the California coast
(giant) kelp
Laura

Double Jeopardy! Round

BAD MEN & ROBBIN' GLOBETROTTING 3-WORD BOOK TITLES RYAN GOSLING MOVIE ROLES THAT'S SO 2019 IT'LL ALL END IN "X"
$400 [20]
Bank robber Marat Mikhaylich was dubbed the "Holiday Bandit" because he began his crime spree during this month
December
Ann
$400 [16]
Home to renowned cafes & 5-star hotels, the Via Veneto is one of the most famous & elegant streets in this city
Rome
Ann
$400 [1]
This Huxley novel is set in the year 632 AF (after Ford)
Brave New World
Ann
$400 [26]
Sebastian, an idealistic piano player
La La Land
Ann
$400 [6]
This country's Chang'e 4 probe landed on the far side of the Moon
China
Jim
$400 [11]
Carved from a single piece of limestone, it's said to depict the face of the pharaoh Khafre
the Sphinx
Ann
$1,200 [23]
The first robbery attributed to this man & his gang of outlaws took place in Liberty, Missouri in 1866
Jesse James
$800 [17]
The Temple of the Great Jaguarat Tikal in Guatemala was part of the largest city of these people
the Mayan
Jim
$800 [2]
In this novella, Marlow describes ivory trader Mr. Kurtz as "impressively bald" as "an ivory ball"
Heart of Darkness
Laura
$800 [27]
Astronaut Neil Armstrong
First Man
Jim
$800 [7]
A January bill ended a 35-day U.S. federal government shutdown without funding for this, over which the shutdown began
the border wall
Jim
$800 [12]
It means traditional or accepted, from the Greek for "right in opinion"
orthodox
Laura
$1,600 [24]
Probably the most famous bank robber in U.S. history, he was public enemy number one when he was killed outside a Chicago theater
(John) Dillinger
Jim
$1,200 [18]
Jersey is the largest of these islands between France & Great Britain
the Channel Islands
Ann
$1,200 [3]
Don't be a birdbrain! Take wing with this fable by Richard Bach that has a bird in its title
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jim
$1,200 [28]
Successful bachelor Jacob Palmer, helping newly separated Steve Carell re-enter the dating scene
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Jim
$1,200 [8]
Sports Illustrated said "the signature sporting image of 2019" was this American's after her World Cup-winning goal
Megan Rapinoe
Jim
$1,200 [13]
A blend of grape varieties, this type of red wine is named for a French city on the Garonne River
Bordeaux
Laura
$2,000 [25]
A bootlegger & bank robber with the real name George K. Barnes earned this moniker for the weapon he carried
Machine Gun Kelly
Jim
$1,600 [19]
Popular throughout Oceania, this sport with league & union variations is played at a high level in Samoa
Rugby
Laura
$1,600 [4]
John Harmon is the title acquaintance in common in this Dickens novel
Our Mutual Friend
$1,600 [29]
A mysterious stuntman who moonlights as a getaway chauffeur
Drive
Jim
$1,600 [9]
On her decision to leave Downing St., she called herself "the second female prime minister, but certainly not the last"
(Theresa) May
Laura
$1,600 [14]
A few millimeters thick, this part of the brain directs motor activity & processes sensory information
the cortex
Ann
DD $3,000 [22]
In 2005 4 thieves at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport made off with $118 million worth of these, bound for Antwerp
diamonds
Laura
$2,000 [21]
This Asian capital was given its current name by its ruling Nguyen Dynasty in 1831
Hanoi
Jim Laura
$2,000 [5]
Faulkner used "Dark House" as a working title for this novel whose title went in the opposite direction
Light in August
Laura
DD $2,000 [10]
The discovery of Homo luzonensis, an extinct human species that lived in what's now this country, was announced in April
the Philippines
Laura
$2,000 [15]
Ittook flight about 150 million years ago & was once considered the oldest known bird
the Archaeopteryx

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN ROCK BANDS

In 2020 their Greatest Hits, with an optimistic '80s anthem, became only the third album to spend 600 weeks on the Billboard 200

Journey

Ann "Who are Aerosmith?" — wagered $2,400
Jim "Who is Journey?" — wagered $1,213
Laura "Who are Twisted Siste??" — wagered $2,000

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