Show #8429 2021-06-24 (taped 2021-03-24) Regular

Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to The Bowery Mission.

Contestants

Kirsten Haas — a nonprofit executive director from Reading, Pennsylvania

Arman Ramnath — a law student from Columbus, Ohio

Sandy Olive — a high school English teacher from St. Louis, Missouri (whose 2-day cash winnings total $52,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sandy $1,800 $8,800 $19,200 $10,200
2nd place: $2,000
$19,200
25 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Arman $4,000 $7,000 $14,000 $19,205
New champion: $19,205
$10,200
20 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Kirsten $2,200 $2,200 $3,400 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$3,400
10 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

'TIS THE SEASONAL BOOK TITLE 3-RING CIRCUS THIS MEANS WAR! REAL PEOPLE ON FILM 5 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM A SIDE OF CHILE
$200 [2]
P.G. Wodehouse's"____ Fever"
Spring
Sandy
$200 [18]
Staples offers 3-ring these that help keep all your papers in order at school
binder
Sandy
$200 [3]
A proverbial weight-loss phrase is this "of the bulge"
battle
Sandy
$200 [8]
In 2013 Idris Elba took the "Long Walk to Freedom" as this man, whose death was announced at the film's U.K. premiere
Nelson Mandela
Arman
$200 [11]
Tom Carvel is famous for this type of ice cream created when truck problems caused his product to melt
soft serve
Arman
$200 [16]
This mountain range that began forming 200 million years ago takes up most of Chile's eastern border with Argentina
the Andes
Arman
$400 [1]
Jim Harrison's"Legends of the ____"
Fall
Kirsten
$400 [19]
The top 3 rings in its logo are blue, black & red; there are 2 more below
the Olympics
Arman
$400 [25]
A cornerback or safety goes after the quarterback sack when sent in on this defensive option
a blitz
Arman
$400 [7]
As this title pair, Newman & Redford did leap off a Colorado cliff... onto a mattress a few feet below
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Kirsten
$400 [22]
Thistype of ice cream engenders debate about which flavor to eat last & some strange folks take all three in one spoonful
Neapolitan
Arman
$400 [9]
This capital on the Mapocho River endured an 8.8 earthquake in 2010
Santiago
Arman
$600 [14]
Daniel Woodrell's"____'s Bone"
Winter
Sandy
$600 [20]
"Thr33 Ringz" was a 2008 album from this master of Auto-Tune seen here
T-Pain
Arman
$600 [26]
To come into conflict, as the same-named "Train In Vain" band members certainly did
The Clash
Sandy
$600 [5]
Prison cellmate Tommy Chong convinced Jordan Belfort to pen a memoir, which led to this Scorsese movie
The Wolf of Wall Street
Arman
$600 [23]
This brand's first ice cream scoop shop was in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont
Ben & Jerry's
Sandy
$600 [10]
Kristine Tompkins, who gave land for five national parks, joins Chile's president in this region, also the outdoor company she ran
Patagonia
Kirsten
$800 [13]
Herman Raucher's"____ of '42"
Summer
Kirsten
$800 [21]
The 3-ring canopy release system helps to make this risky pastime a bit less risky
skydiving
Sandy
$800 [15]
Legally, lifting a fist in a threatening way can be this; battery takes things to the next level
assault
Arman
$800 [4]
He has the same birthday--January 17--as Andy Kaufman, whom he portrayed in "Man on the Moon"
Jim Carrey
Arman
$800 [29]
This "stately" ice cream dish was originally cooked in the oven, but now blowtorches are used
Baked Alaska
Sandy
$800 [12]
Not including polar regions, this Chilean desert is considered the world's driest
the Atacama
Sandy
$1,000 [27]
Laura Ingalls Wilder's"The Long ____"
Winter
Sandy
$1,000 [24]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York.) The three rings circling the 1964 Unisphere here in Queens represent the three famous orbits at the time--the Telstar satellite, Yuri Gagarin's flight &this American's February 1962 mission
John Glenn
Arman
$1,000 [28]
This 5-letter word borrowed from French describes hand-fighting done by scores of people
melee
Sandy
DD $1,000 [6]
Played by Benedict Cumberbatch in "The Fifth Estate", he called the film "a mass propaganda attack against Wiki Leaks"
Julian Assange
Arman
$1,000 [30]
The Chicago mob had a bad temper when they destroyed this ice cream bar company's fleet for not paying protection in 1929
Good Humor
Sandy
$1,000 [17]
In the 1970s this Chilean dictator used Dawson Island as a concentration camp for political adversaries
Pinochet
Sandy

Double Jeopardy! Round

CHURCHILL SPEAKS BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC MYTHOLOGY WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS ENDS IN "A-D-O"
$400 [25]
In his first statement as prime minister, Winston Churchill said he had "nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears &" this
sweat
Sandy
$400 [1]
Kathleen Hanna wrote "Smells Like" this on a wall & Kurt Cobain used it in a song title not knowing it was a deodorant brand
Teen Spirit
Arman
$400 [6]
This dog who guarded the entrance to Hades is often described as having 3 heads & a serpent's tail
Cerberus
Sandy
$400 [16]
In Russia, September 1 is Knowledge Day, when children return here
school
Sandy
$400 [20]
For its fossil, Alabama chose 70-foot Basilosaurus, now classified as this big marine mammal
a whale
Arman
$400 [11]
It's also called a twister
a tornado
Kirsten
$800 [24]
In 1932 Winston quipped this European country was "armed to the teeth", but "pacifist to the core"
France
Arman Kirsten
$800 [2]
In a "Be smooth like Skippy" commercial, Skippy peanut butter uses this song where Bruno Mars mentions the brand
"Uptown Funk"
Sandy Kirsten
$800 [7]
In Norse myth, slain heroes chosen by Odin feasted & reveled in this great "hall"
Valhalla
Sandy
$800 [17]
On Pitcairn Island, January 23 is celebrated as the date that this ship burned
the Bounty
Kirsten
$800 [26]
Alaska's fossil is of the mammoth & Michigan's is of this related tusked beast of the Pleistocene
the mastodon
$800 [12]
Borrowed from Spanish, it's a big fan or devotee of something, perhaps sports
aficionado
Sandy
$1,600 [23]
Referencing America's Secretary of State in 1953, Winston said, "Dull, duller," this last name
Dulles
Arman
$1,200 [3]
Sales at this seafood restaurant chain spiked when it was mentioned in Beyoncé's song "Formation"
Red Lobster
Arman
$1,200 [8]
An avid hunter, this handsome youth was killed by a wild boar
Adonis
Sandy Kirsten
$1,200 [18]
Celebrating unattached people, China's biggest shopping holiday is singles day, on this fall date with lots of 1s
November 11th
Sandy
$1,200 [27]
The skull of a Triceratops, this state's fossil, is on display at the museum of geology in Rapid City
South Dakota
Arman
$1,200 [13]
"Tequila Sunrise" is a track from this Eagles album that had an Old-West concept
Desperado
Sandy
$2,000 [22]
With his party voted out, Churchill said he couldn't accept this Order after being given "the Order of the Boot"
the Order of the Garter
Sandy Arman Kirsten
$1,600 [4]
"Mercedes Benz" was the last song recorded by this woman before her untimely death in 1970
Janis Joplin
Sandy
$1,600 [9]
The Egyptian sun god Re became identified with this god of Thebes & their names were joined together
Amun
$1,600 [19]
If you are on this Indonesian island around the Hindu new year, you may not be able to leave your hotel during Nyepi, the day of silence
Bali
Arman Kirsten
$1,600 [29]
Maryland goes big & small with its state dinosaur, a sauropod, & state fossil, a type of this shelled gastropod
snail
Kirsten
$1,600 [14]
When you're out of touch or refuse to have contact with someone, you're this 13-letter word
incommunicado
Kirsten
DD $5,000 [21]
"Darkest Hour" & "Dunkirk" highlight Churchill's speech that says, "We shall fight in the hills; we shall never" do this
surrender
Arman
$2,000 [5]
Mattel originally sued the band Aqua over this song, but eventually used it in commercials for the doll
"Barbie Girl"
Kirsten
$2,000 [10]
A weaver by day & an unraveler by night, she kept suitors at bay during Odysseus' absence by never finishing her shroud
Penelope
Sandy
$2,000 [28]
In Europe, this magical holiday is celebrated the week of the June solstice
Midsummer
Sandy
DD $2,000 [30]
The official fossil of this state is a bivalve called Chesapecten jeffersonius
Virginia
Sandy
$2,000 [15]
A "Cask of" this sherry figures prominently in an Edgar Allan Poe tale
Amontillado
Kirsten

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN AUTHORS

"Camelot", "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author

Mark Twain

Kirsten "Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe" — wagered $3,399
Arman "Who is Twain" — wagered $5,205
Sandy "Who Nathaniel Hawthorne?" — wagered $9,000

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