Show #8418 2021-06-09 (taped 2021-03-16) Regular

Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Contestants

Mara Davis — a conference and events manager from Chicago, Illinois

Shannon Debus-Horn — an attorney originally from Port Charlotte, Florida

Tim Lopez — a storytelling coach originally from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tim $1,600 $4,400 $7,600 $5,200
2nd place: $2,000
$7,600
12 R, 2 W
Shannon $5,200 $7,000 $15,200 $2,799
3rd place: $1,000
$15,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Mara $2,600 $4,800 $13,800 $27,600
New champion: $27,600
$16,400
20 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

NATIONAL FLOWERS THE WIRE LEMME PITCH THAT FOR YOU THE U.K. IN THE 1980s SILENT-LETTER WORDS THE TONY AWARDS
$200 [26]
Belgium chose this symbol of remembrance
the (red) poppy
Mara
$200 [11]
Nicknamed the devil's hatband, this fencing material was introduced to Texas in the 1870s
barbed wire
Tim
$200 [1]
If you check out the design on what thepitchmanfor this company is wearing, you'll see the twoinitialsof the company
Little Caesars
Shannon
$200 [21]
This PM was re-elected by a landslide in 1983 & her Conservative Party used its majority to usher in wide changes
(Margaret) Thatcher
Shannon
$200 [6]
A dorsal prominence of a finger joint
a knuckle
Mara
$200 [16]
He won Emmys for his portrayal of Tony Soprano
(James) Gandolfini
Shannon
$400 [27]
Turkey's national flower is this one also prominently associated with a Western European country
the tulip
Shannon
$400 [12]
On March 7, 1876 he was granted one of the most valuable patents ever--a method of transmitting sound over a wire
(Alexander Graham) Bell
Tim Shannon
$400 [2]
For decades, Cocoa Puffs cereal has been repped by Sonny, this type of bird
a cuckoo
Shannon
$400 [22]
In 1987 a conference of this entity voted by a huge majority for the ordination of women
the Church of England (the Anglican Communion)
Mara
$400 [7]
From Latin for "to climb", it means to rise, as in a dirigible
ascend
Tim
$400 [17]
Hegarnered an Emmy as the fastidious Felix
Tony Randall
$600 [28]
The Holy Ghost variety of one of these exotic tropical plants is Panama's national flower
an orchid
Tim
$600 [13]
Thanks to the book & film "Mommie Dearest", we know that Joan Crawford had a real aversion to these wire objects
hangers
Shannon
$600 [3]
Seen here, Milana Vayntrub is keen to get you to try the services of this telecommunications giant
AT&T
Tim
$600 [23]
The Brits exported New Wave bands like this "Wishing" & "Space Age Love Song" group whose singer had a wing-style haircut
A Flock of Seagulls
Mara
$600 [8]
The Romans called it dies Mercurii, the day of Mercury
Wednesday
Mara
$600 [18]
Tony Shalhoub won a 2019 Emmy for playing the dad of Midge, the title woman on this show
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Tim
$800 [29]
Tunisia's national flower is this fragrant white one, also the name of a revolution that started there in 2010
jasmine
$1,000 [15]
Born in Germany in 1905, Karlwas the patriarch of this family famous for itshigh-wireact
the Wallendas
Mara
$800 [4]
In a recent ad Chipotle asked if one of these handheld items could change the world
a burrito
Mara
$800 [24]
Michael Fagan broke into this residence & spent 10 minutes chatting with the Queen before being arrested
Buckingham Palace
Tim
$800 [9]
It's the "h" in the math formula 1/2 b h
height
Shannon
$800 [19]
In 2002, when he was a senior at Eastern Illinois University, this QB won the NCAA's Walter Payton Award
Tony Romo
Tim
$1,000 [30]
A Spanish nationalfloweris this one whose name comes from the Latin for "flesh"
the carnation
Shannon
DD $1,600 [14]
On HBO's "The Wire", this state's Governor Robert Ehrlich had a cameo as a security guard
Maryland
Shannon
$1,000 [5]
Dean Winters has been wrecking people's days as "Mayhem" in ads for this company
Allstate
Shannon
$1,000 [25]
A hunger strike at Maze Prison in this U.K. country resulted in 10 deaths & widespread unrest
Northern Ireland
Tim Mara
$1,000 [10]
It can follow bush, Delian or fantasy
league
Shannon
$1,000 [20]
This crooner has won 18 Grammy awards--the first in 1963 & the most recent in 2015
Tony Bennett
Tim

Double Jeopardy! Round

POETIC BOOK TITLES THE "A" LIST ADDITIVES TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE BODY WORDS
$400 [21]
For the title of this novel about World War I, Hemingway went back to a 16th century poem by George Peele
A Farewell to Arms
Tim Mara
$400 [16]
On July 20, 1969 he said, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed"
(Neil) Armstrong
Mara
$400 [23]
These additives like Red No. 2 come with FD&C in front of their name
dyes (food colorings)
Mara
$400 [9]
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, playing D.C. politics really, really dirty
Selina Meyer
Mara
$400 [4]
The GPO insists you call people from this state "Hoosiers"
Indiana
Shannon
$400 [11]
This 3-letter region from the waist to the knees on humans only exists when one is seated
lap
Mara
$800 [22]
E.M. Forster admired Walt Whitman & quoted a poem in "Leaves of Grass" for the title of this 1924 subcontinental novel
A Passage to India
$800 [17]
This medieval monk had an out-of-wedlock child with Heloise
(Peter) Abelard
Tim
$800 [24]
STP has a fuel additive that boosts this, from the Latin for "eight"
octane
Mara
$800 [1]
Julie Bowen, relating to her relatives
Claire Dunphy
Mara
$800 [5]
Wyoming adds these 3 letters to get the word for a resident, who now sounds like a mineral
Wyomingite
Shannon
$800 [12]
Aorta comes from the Greek for "great" this other "A" word
artery
Shannon
DD $1,000 [29]
From Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up" this Marcel Proust title
Remembrance of Things Past
Shannon
$1,200 [18]
Seen here sketching, he doesn't look especially kooky or spooky
Charles Addams
Mara
$1,200 [25]
This substance, seen here, that's added to beer & milkshakes, comes from cereal grain that's allowed to undergo germination
malt (malt barley)
Tim
$1,200 [2]
Jon Cryer, 1 of 2.5 men
Alan Harper
$1,200 [6]
This word for someone from New Haven or New Britain rhymes with "butter"
Connecticutter
Mara
$1,200 [13]
This ridge over your eyes can also refer to the expression of your face
brow
$1,200 [28]
"Rage, rage against" this title of George R.R. Martin's first novel, a quote from a poem by Dylan Thomas
The Dying of the Light
Shannon
$1,600 [19]
The first female president of the Philippines, she brought democracy back after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos
Corazon Aquino
Mara
$1,600 [26]
The W.H.O. suggests face masks made with polypropylene, which has this water-repelling adjective that means "afraid of water"
hydrophobic
Tim
$1,600 [3]
Zach Galifianakis--what a clown or "cloon"
Chip Baskets
$2,000 [8]
Residents of this state are to be called this state "Residents" to differentiate from the native population
Hawaii
$1,600 [14]
This part of the knee begins with a 4-letter word for the top of the head
patella
$2,000 [30]
The novel title "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh comes from this T.S. Eliot poem about our decayed culture
The Waste Land
Shannon
$2,000 [20]
This great dramatist fought in & may have been wounded at the Battle of Marathon
Aeschylus
Shannon
$2,000 [27]
An emulsifier is an additive that encourages this process in which particles mix but don't dissolve
a suspension
Shannon
$2,000 [10]
Oh, brother! After some analysis, David Hyde Pierce takes 4 Emmys
Niles Crane
Mara
DD $2,600 [7]
2 of the 3 states whose final "S" becomes an "N" to describe their residents
(2 of ) Texas, Kansas & Arkansas
Mara
$2,000 [15]
Iambs are metrical these
feet
Mara

Final Jeopardy!

1960s SINGERS

In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit

Otis Redding

Tim "Who is Little Richard?" — wagered $2,400
Mara "Who is Otis Redding" — wagered $13,800
Shannon "Who is Hendrix?" — wagered $12,401

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