Show #8595 2022-03-11 (taped 2022-01-12) Regular

Maureen O'Neil game 5.

Contestants

Matt Glassman — a bar owner from Los Angeles, California

Laura Dera — a hotel assistant manager from Studio City, California

Maureen O'Neil — an executive assistant from Rye Beach, New Hampshire (whose 4-day cash winnings total $58,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Maureen $1,800 $3,000 $-2,600 $-2,600
3rd place: $1,000
$-2,600
8 R, 5 W
Laura $200 $3,200 $7,400 $0
2nd place: $2,000
$8,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Matt $1,000 $3,400 $6,900 $8,900
New champion: $8,900
$9,400
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ARTISTS BANK "C" MUNCH HOPPER SAYS ANN(E) BOSH
$200 [8]
Her 1937 "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky" commemorates their brief affair during his exile
Frida Kahlo
$200 [15]
To a banker, a CD is this
a certificate of deposit
Laura Matt
$200 [11]
A healthy snack is carrots & this dip traditionally made with ground chickpeas
hummus
Matt
$200 [21]
A clodhopper can mean a bumbling oaf or one of these he might wear
shoes
Maureen
$200 [1]
A lot of Fay Wray's lines as Ann Darrow in this 1933 monster movie are bloodcurdling screams
King Kong
Maureen Laura
$400 [29]
This word for idiotic talk can also mean "to drool" & likewise begins with "dr"
drivel
Laura
$400 [20]
Before he painted these aquatic plants more than 250 times, Monet planted them himself
water lilies
Maureen
$400 [16]
While you don't sign the cashier's one, this double-"C" item that's also guaranteed is signed by you & a bank official
a certified check
Laura
$400 [28]
Low in calories & neutral in flavor, these provide a base for lots of toppings
rice cakes
Matt
$400 [22]
Hereare some kids playing an old-timey version of this game
hopscotch
Matt
$400 [2]
Of co-hosting the Oscars in 2011, this actress said James Franco "convinced me to do it"
Anne Hathaway
Laura
$600 [26]
"Bosh" comes from a word for "nothing" in this language; the 1834 novel that popularized the word opens at the foot of Mount Ararat
Turkish
$600 [19]
A collage by Romare Bearden imagines this wanderer coming home not to Ithaca but to West Africa
Odysseus
Laura
$600 [14]
It's payment earned on the sum of an original principal plus the money the principal has already accrued
compound interest
$600 [27]
Breaded & deep-fried shrimp is perhaps misleadingly called this snack-food shrimp
popcorn shrimp
Maureen
$600 [25]
To make a grasshopper green, use the green type of this liqueur
crème de menthe
Matt
$600 [3]
On film Henry VIII asks her, played by Natalie Portman, "How do you propose to stay on the horse?" Her reply: "with my thighs"
Anne Boleyn
Maureen Laura
$800 [12]
We hear a lot about these 2 14-letter words that differ by a letter; one is inadvertent untruths & the other, deliberate ones
disinformation & misinformation
DD $600 [18]
Before executing an 1890s monument to Balzac, this sculptor got the late novelist's measurements from his former tailor
Rodin
Laura
$800 [9]
Also called a cap, it's the upper limit of a variable in a transaction, like the rate of an adjustable-rate mortgage
the ceiling
$800 [6]
Munch on the trail mix called gorp, perhaps short for "good ol"' these 2 foods
raisins & peanuts
Laura
$800 [13]
Seen here, he lays down the law as Jim Hopper on "Stranger Things"
David Harbour
Laura
$800 [4]
"But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne spelled with an E", says the title character in this novel, the first of a series
Anne of Green Gables
Laura
$1,000 [23]
I'll be furious & will find it most injurious if your story turns out to be this, from the Latin for "illegitimate"
spurious
Matt
$1,000 [17]
A portrait byhim, Leonardo's almost exact contemporary, sold in 2021 for $92 million, a record for an old master not named Leonardo
Botticelli
$1,000 [10]
The assets you pledge as security for a loan are your this
collateral
Maureen Laura
$1,000 [7]
Developed from a tree called MN1711, the name of this apple conveys 2 of its attributes: its sweet taste & its crunch
a Honey Crisp
Laura
$1,000 [24]
Eastern is the most common of this common type of rabbit best identified from behind
a cottontail
Laura
$1,000 [5]
At the DNC in 1988, Texan Ann Richards said of this man, "He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth"
George Herbert Walker Bush
Matt

Double Jeopardy! Round

17th CENTURY HAPPENINGS AB-WORK BRIT LIT MUSIC OF THE 2000s 6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS HERE BE LIONS
$400 [23]
William Bradford had quite the task set before him after winning the governorship of this fledgling colony in 1621
Plymouth
Maureen Laura Matt
$400 [10]
Adding "AB" to a 3-letter type of poem gets you this type of housing
an abode
Maureen Matt
$400 [1]
You down with E.B.B., this poet who wrote "The Sleep" & "The Soul's Expression"?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Maureen
$400 [25]
In 2020 they sank their teeth into the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy for "Father of the Bride"
Vampire Weekend
Matt
$400 [26]
Benjamin Lee Guinness was its Lord Mayor in the 1850s
Dublin
Maureen Matt
$1,200 [21]
As described in 1 Kings, this great monarch's gold & ivory throne was flanked by figures of lions
Solomon
Laura
$800 [22]
Axed by Urban VIII in 1631, a female religious community modeled on this order founded by Ignatius of Loyola began in 1609
the Jesuits
Matt
$800 [9]
An idle verb gets an "AB" at its front & becomes this fiery word
ablaze
$800 [2]
50 years after slaying a monster & its mother, the hero of this Old English poem must battle a dragon
Beowulf
Laura
$800 [24]
In 2001, heand his initial were everywhere with "U Remind Me" & "U Got It Bad"
Usher
Matt
$800 [27]
Wenceslas Square is at its heart
Prague
Laura Matt
$1,600 [20]
In a Roman story, this hero pulls a thorn from a lion's paw & is repaid for his kindness by not being eaten later in the arena
Androcles
$1,200 [12]
In 1697 Spain ceded to France a third of what's now called this island; the new territory was dubbed Saint-Domingue
Hispaniola
Matt
$1,200 [8]
Add "AB" to a passageway for air or water & you get this people-stealing word
abduct
Laura
DD $1,000 [3]
Chapters in this H.G. Wells novel include "In the Golden Age" & "The Sunset of Mankind"
The Time Machine
Laura
$1,200 [16]
Peaking at No. 2, their "Counting Stars" spent 68 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100
OneRepublic
$1,600 [17]
Known as the "City of Columns", it's one of the oldest in the Caribbean
Havana
$2,000 [28]
Richard the Lionheart was King Richard I of England & Duke of Aquitaine & this French duchy
Normandy
$1,600 [11]
Called the first modern physics text, Galileo's"Discorsi"deals with the motion of projectiles, now called this study
ballistics
$1,600 [6]
A narrow mountain edge gets "AB" at the front to become this word of literary shortening
abridge
Maureen Laura
$1,600 [7]
At a tea party, it's this Lewis Carroll character who asks Alice, "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
the Mad Hatter
Laura
$1,600 [14]
Her "Hot Pink" & "Planet Her" were 2 of the top-selling albums in 2021
Doja Cat
$2,000 [19]
3 A's are the only vowels in the name of this capital of Eritrea
Asmara
Maureen
$2,000 [13]
This mercantile "Company" defeated the Portuguese in India in 1612, setting up trade deals with the Mughals
the East India Company
Matt
$2,000 [5]
"AB" moves in front of a word describing a wayward knight, creating this word of deviation
aberrant
$2,000 [4]
Squire Allworthy finds a baby in his bed one night--the title character of this 1749 novel by Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
Maureen
$2,000 [15]
Their 2007 collaboration album was a surprise success, & 14 years later, they returned to raise the roof
Plant & Krauss
Matt
DD $2,500 [18]
This European city is alphabetically last among world capitals
Zagreb
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

SYMBOLS

This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978

Harvey Milk

Matt "Who is Harvey Milk" — wagered $2,000
Laura "Who is Truman?" — wagered $7,400

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