Show #8434 2021-07-01 (taped 2021-03-30) Regular

Courtney Shah game 4.Champion's winnings & consolation amounts matched to Odyssey Atlanta.

Contestants

Leanne Zobrist — a law clerk from Boyds , Maryland

Marciano Lopez — a bartender from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Courtney Shah — a community college instructor from Portland, Oregon (whose 3-day cash winnings total $58,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Courtney $4,000 $5,000 $14,000 $13,958
4-day champion: $72,058
$17,800
20 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Marciano $400 $0 $4,800 $399
2nd place: $2,000
$5,800
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Leanne $2,400 $3,800 $4,600 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$4,600
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

NONFICTION LANDFORMS 14-LETTER WORDS THE MOVIE IN QUESTION "C" AS IN CAT BOSTON: NEWS CLUES
$200 [17]
Timothy Winegard's 2019 book about this insect is subtitled "A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator"
the mosquito
Marciano
$200 [10]
Down in Florida, Canaveral is one of these, from Old French for "head"
a cape
Courtney
$200 [6]
In arithmetic this operation yields a product
multiplication
Leanne
$200 [1]
1993, starring a young Johnny Depp:"What's Eating Gilbert ____"
Grape
Leanne
$200 [2]
Sadly, this fast spotted cat hasn't prospered--it's endangered
a cheetah
Courtney
$200 [15]
(Hi, I'm David Wade.) In 1982, "Boston Magazine" named the Bull & Finch Pubin Beacon Hill the best neighborhood bar; it inspired this sitcom where everybody knew your name & in 1993, thecastgathered there, to celebrate the final episode
Cheers
Leanne
$400 [25]
In her book about this punctuation mark, Cecelia Watson wrote, "Big ideas are distilled down to a few winking drops of ink"
the semicolon
$400 [16]
The triangular shape of a spread-out deposit at the mouth of a stream gives it the name alluvial this
a delta (a fan)
Marciano
$400 [7]
It's a comment made that puts things mildly compared to what actually transpired
an understatement
Courtney
$400 [3]
1937, starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers: "Shall We ____"
Dance
Courtney
$400 [14]
The puma is also known as the catamount & this other "c"at
the cougar
Courtney
$400 [9]
(Hi, I'm Kate Merrill.) In 1998, childhood friends Matt Damon & Ben Affleckwon an Oscar for the screenplay of this film set at MIT & around Harvard where Damon originally began writing the script
Good Will Hunting
Marciano
$600 [26]
"Over the Top" is a memoir by JVN, short for this grooming expert on Netflix's "Queer Eye"
Jonathan Van Ness
Leanne
$600 [23]
Waves force water & air tospoutthrough a rock fissure with this 8-letter name; here's one in Hawaii
a blowhole
$600 [24]
In the 1950s, theRF-101was the first supersonic aircraft built for this observation purpose
reconnaissance
Courtney Marciano
$600 [4]
1977, starring Richard Pryor:"Which Way Is ____?"
Up
$600 [20]
Cats with this coat pattern caused by a genetic anomaly are almost always female
calico
Courtney
$600 [11]
(Hi, I'm Liam Martin.) On January 17, 1950, a group of armed masked men pulled off the crime of the century, stealing more than $2.7 million from this company's armored car depot in Boston; only a small amount of them oneywas ever recovered
Brink's
Courtney
$800 [27]
"The Monk of Mokha" tells of a man hoping to revive this country's art of coffee making
Yemen
$800 [28]
This word for a type of landform comes from Old Norse for "inlet"
a fjord
Marciano
$800 [29]
Rich tech people buying up Oakland homes causes this issue, a focus of the 2018 movie "Blindspotting"
gentrification
Marciano
$800 [5]
2000, set in the 1930s:"O ____ ,____ ____ ____?"
O Brother, Where Are Thou?
Leanne
$800 [21]
Naturally, the breed known as this Rex was discovered on a farm in Cornwall, England
Cornish
Leanne
$800 [12]
(Hi, I'm Lisa Hughes.) Local hero Pete Frates, the man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge, helped raise awareness & millions of dollars to fight this disease that claimed Lou Gehrig's life & sadly his own at 34
ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
Courtney
DD $1,000 [18]
This author's first major book was 1742's "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist"
Edmond Hoyle
Marciano
$1,000 [19]
Climbers, beware of these French-named fissures that score the surface ofglaciers
a crevasse
Courtney
$1,000 [30]
In states with no-fault divorce, one partner just has to state a reason things can't work out, such as these "differences"
irreconcilable
Leanne
$1,000 [8]
1993, about the woman seen here; the 7-word title
What's Love Got to Do with It
Courtney
$1,000 [22]
Neofelis nebulosa is the scientific name of this leopard with a strikingly marked coat
the clouded leopard
Marciano Leanne
$1,000 [13]
(Hi, I'm Steve Burton.)John McCainis among the public officials who've been honored at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library with an award for leadership, named for this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK
Profiles in Courage
Leanne

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE FIRST OF JULY TRYING ON SOME GENES THE 3 "R"s INNOVATIVE WOMEN THE MASKED MUSICIAN 'TIS SHAKESPEARE
$400 [10]
Bring on the summer blockbusters! On July 1, 1984 the MPAA introduced this new alphanumeric movie rating
PG-13
Leanne
$400 [3]
TP53 is a gene that suppresses this, a mass of abnormal tissue growth; a mutated TP53 is linked with 50% of all cancers
tumors
Courtney
$400 [1]
"The Turn of the Screw" has an "unreliable" one of these
a narrator
Courtney
$400 [2]
Polly Smith, Lisa Lindahl & Hinda Miller patented the first one of these garments "suitable for women runners"
a sports bra
Marciano
$400 [9]
Gene Simmons says it takes him 2 hours to get into his makeup for this band; he said Paul Stanley takes 45 minutes but has less to do
Kiss
Marciano
$400 [6]
John Dryden & his brother-in-law revised this tragedy so everybody (well, not Tybalt) lives happily ever after
Romeo and Juliet
Leanne
$800 [11]
Thissong officially became a national anthem July 1, 1980
"O Canada"
Courtney
$800 [19]
This "re" adjective for a molecule of genetic material means it's been spliced together using DNA from different sources
recombinant
$800 [24]
Adjective for a legal judgment made without basis in law
arbitrary
Marciano
$1,200 [5]
Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe Herd has created a lot of buzz since launching this dating app where women make the first move
Bumble
Leanne
$800 [12]
Despite what he sang in "Glass Onion", he was the walrus playing piano in the "Magical Mystery Tour" film
(John) Lennon
Courtney
$800 [7]
The movie "All Is True", about Shakespeare in retirement, begins with the fire that destroyed this theatre in 1613
the Globe Theatre
Leanne
$1,200 [29]
Sony introduced this portable item July 1, 1979
a Walkman
Marciano
$1,200 [20]
Later suspected in doping, the gene therapy repoxygen was developed to treat this disease by increasing the red blood cell count
anemia
$1,200 [25]
Framboise is the French name for this fruit
a raspberry
Marciano
$1,600 [22]
Helping to develop medicines for gout, leukemia & malaria, Gertrude Elion was a pioneer in this 12-letter -ology
pharmacology
$1,200 [13]
Why did this hitmaking duo that broke up in 2021 wear helmets? "Robots are exciting to people"
Daft Punk
Courtney
DD $1,000 [18]
"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me", declares this character before taking her own life
Cleopatra
Courtney
$2,000 [28]
July 1, 1879 saw Charles Taze Russell publish the first edition of this Jehovah's Witness magazine
The Watchtower
Courtney Leanne
$1,600 [21]
An abnormal gene on chromosome 4 is the cause of this chorea or disease of the nervous system, described in 1872
Huntington's
Courtney
$1,600 [26]
A transparent container for keeping reptiles indoors
a terrarium
Marciano
$2,000 [23]
Many early rock-and-rollers were influenced by the innovative gospelgreatknown as Sisterher
Rosetta (Tharpe)
Courtney Marciano
$1,600 [14]
This Broadway musical title character began haunting the Majestic on Jan. 26, 1988 & stuck around for a while
the Phantom of the Opera
Courtney
$1,200 [8]
The rousing "Band of Brothers" speech in this play takes place before the Battle of Agincourt
Henry V
Marciano
$2,000 [27]
It's the "T" in the representation G-C-A-T of the 4 nucleic acid building blocks of DNA
thymine
Marciano
$2,000 [16]
The blood-brain this is made of tight capillary walls & reduces the danger of mercury poisoning
barrier
Courtney
DD $2,800 [4]
In the early 1900s Melitta Bentz used a piece of blotting paper to create this & then a company to make them
coffee filters
Courtney
$2,000 [15]
Known for "Ghosts N Stuff", this Canadian DJ got some help with his distinctive "rodent" look from the Jim Henson Company
Deadmau5
Marciano
$1,600 [17]
In a bit of payback for all the female roles taken by men, in 1899, this French actress played Hamlet
Sarah Bernhardt

Final Jeopardy!

RIVERS

In "Notes on the State of Virginia", Thomas Jefferson said the most beautiful river on Earth is this one no longer in Virginia

the Ohio

Leanne "What is the Manongahela?" — wagered $4,599
Marciano "What is the Potomac?" — wagered $4,401
Courtney "What is the Shenandoah?" — wagered $42

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