Show #8601 2022-03-21 (taped 2022-01-19) Regular

Contestants

Karen Johnson — a member acquisition coordinator from Portland, Oregon

Margaret Chipowsky — an attorney from Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Finn Corrigan — a student from Vista, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $39,602)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Finn $1,000 $1,800 $11,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$11,200
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W
Margaret $800 $3,800 $9,800 $18,800
New champion: $18,800
$9,800
15 R, 2 W
Karen $800 $1,800 $15,400 $7,999
2nd place: $2,000
$13,400
15 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

PICTURE/BOOK BOATING GLOSSARY DANCE OFF, BRO! 4-LETTER COUNTRIES FILMS OF THE 1990s LET YOUR STAR GUIDE YOU
$200 [30]
Here's this 1850 novel quite literally
The Scarlet Letter
Margaret
$200 [26]
A windlass is a rotating device that houses the chain used to raise or lower this
the anchor
Karen
$200 [13]
If you like doing this step-slide-step ballroom dance, you can zip & whirl in a Viennese one or glide & dip with a Boston
a waltz
Karen
$200 [10]
It was the home of the Inca civilization for centuries before its conquest by Spain
Peru
Finn
$200 [24]
Dorothy is a device that studies tornadoes in this film starring Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton
Twister
Margaret
$200 [25]
A movie with lots of celebrities is said to be "star-" this, meaning "covered with objects"
studded
Finn
$400 [29]
This tragic 1937 novella now looks kind of cute
Of Mice and Men
Finn
$400 [14]
To take a sounding is to measure this, often important in unfamiliar seas
depth
Finn
$400 [21]
Pop star Psy said, the "mindset of this dance," also a song title, "is dress classy & dance cheesy" & imagine you're on a horse
"Gangnam Style"
Finn
$400 [2]
The city of Fallujah in this country is nicknamed the "City of Mosques"
Iraq
Finn
$400 [8]
For this 1994 film, Sandra Bullock actually learned to drive a bus & passed the licensing test
Speed
Finn
$400 [19]
This word can refer to a radiant explosion or a multi-colored candy brand
a starburst
Margaret
$600 [16]
It's mainly set in New York City
The Catcher in the Rye
$600 [7]
It's a rope attached to the lower corner of a sail to control it; if you're 3 of them "to the wind", you're drunk
sheet
Karen
$600 [27]
Popping is contracting & relaxing your muscles quickly; this, paired with popping, stops & holds during a move
locking
Margaret
$600 [12]
Columbus landed on this island nation in 1492, but Diego Velazquez began its first permanent settlement in 1511
Cuba
Finn Margaret
$600 [1]
Character actorJ.T. Walshtold a story that made Billy Bob Thornton's Karl very ill at ease in this 1996 film
Sling Blade
$600 [20]
If you "hitch" one of these conveyances to a star, you're aspiring to lofty goals
a wagon
Margaret
$800 [17]
A landmark work of the 18th century
The Wealth of Nations
Karen
$800 [6]
It sounds like scissors are required to do this, change the angle of a sail to take advantage of the wind
to trim
Finn Margaret
$800 [22]
Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do this Spanish courtship dance using castanets & an increase in speed as it progresses
the fandango
Finn
DD $1,000 [3]
Sultan Haitham rules this nation on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula
Oman
Finn
$800 [4]
The 1990s saw 2 mob movies co-written by Nicholas Pileggi & directed by Martin Scorsese: "Goodfellas" & this Vegas-set one
Casino
Finn
$800 [5]
Originally a British tribunal, this 2-word term now refers to any group that adjudicates unfairly
the star chamber
Finn
$1,000 [18]
A first novel dealing with the Second World War
The Naked and the Dead
Finn
$1,000 [15]
This uppermost edge of the side of a boat gets its name because it was once used to support cannons
the gunwale
$1,000 [28]
French for "thrown", it's the grand ballet move seenherein all its beauty
a jeté
Margaret
$1,000 [11]
Mostly volcanic, about 300 islands make up this Pacific Ocean nation 1,000 miles north of New Zealand
Fiji
$1,000 [9]
Kat & Bianca Stratford attend Padua High School in this 1999 film loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew"
10 Things I Hate About You
Margaret
$1,000 [23]
Oscar Wilde wrote "We are all in" this, "but some of us are looking at the stars"
the gutter

Double Jeopardy! Round

GROUPS IN HISTORY SEISMIC ACTIVITY THE ANCIENTS SPEAK GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT CHILDHOOD HOMES 3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY
$400 [5]
Around 300 B.C. this common class of ancient Romans gained equal rights with the patricians
the plebeians
Finn
$400 [24]
An earthquake where one platemovesunder another & pushes the top plate up may cause this wave that can reach around 500 miles per hour
a tsunami
Finn
$400 [25]
"Slow and steady wins the race" is a moral from Aesop's fable of these 2 creatures
the tortoise & the hare
Margaret
$400 [9]
For a while, Hasbro changed this profession of Plum in the game Clue to archaeologist, then to video game designer
professor
Finn
$400 [12]
A later owner of this current pop star's childhood home in Pennsylvania says the initials "TAS" in cement may be the singer's
Taylor (Alison) Swift
Margaret
$400 [30]
By the 1930s, its tokens included a battleship, a top hat & a shoe
Monopoly
Karen
$1,200 [2]
In England's Civil War, barbers probably rooted for this Puritan group named for keeping their hair short
the Roundheads
Karen
$800 [23]
In 1964 the Prince William Sound earthquake registered a scary 9.2 in magnitude in the southern part of this state
Alaska
Karen
$800 [22]
In his own version of this rule, Confucius said, "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others"
the golden rule
Finn
$800 [14]
The kids in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" had "visions of" these--likely not fruit but sweetened seeds
sugar plums
Margaret
$800 [11]
In 1942 the father of this baseball legend was the one doing the hammering, building a house in Mobile that you can visit today
Hank Aaron
Margaret
$800 [28]
A failure to pay money on a loan
default
Karen
$1,600 [1]
Lower-class people eager to see aristocratic French heads roll were "sans" these fancy breeches
culottes
Karen
$1,200 [18]
Haiti's government reported 300,000 deaths after a 7.0 quake & multiple aftershocks hit about 15 miles from this capital in 2010
Port-au-Prince
Finn
$1,200 [6]
Shame on Hipponax' line "There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one" does this rhyming finish
buries her
Karen
$1,200 [15]
Michelle Obama's plum-colored outfit on this day in 2021 helped crash designer Sergio Hudson's website
Inauguration Day
Finn
$1,200 [10]
"There are places I'll remember all my life", & one would have been thehomein Liverpool where he lived with Aunt Mimi
John Lennon
Finn
DD $1,000 [27]
Apparel for a thespian
a costume
Karen
$2,000 [3]
Abbreviated KMT, it once battled Mao & is now one of Taiwan's main political parties
the Kuomintang
Karen
$1,600 [17]
A 9.1 off the coast of Honshu in 2011 led to a nuclear accident in this prefecture
Fukushima
Margaret
$1,600 [7]
While in the bath, he reportedly exclaimed "Eureka!" after coming up with a method to test the purity of gold
Archimedes
Finn
$1,600 [20]
This plant-breeding genius created more than 120 varieties of plum, more than of any other fruit or vegetable
Luther Burbank
Finn
$1,600 [8]
In Palisades, N.Y. the Whitney House, as in the family behind the Whitney Museum, was home to this daughter of Jon Voight
Angelina Jolie
Margaret
$1,600 [26]
Traditional head covering worn by Muslim women
a hijab
Margaret Karen
DD $3,000 [4]
Term for businessman like Rockefeller & Pullman; reformist Carl Schurz wrote of "The Modern" these who "Plunder at Will"
Robber Barons
Karen
$2,000 [19]
In 1960 an 8.1 quake that devastated Concepción in this South American nation was but a foreshock to a 9.5 event the next day
Chile
Karen
$2,000 [16]
From this "Elder" Roman's "Natural History": "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it"
Pliny
Finn
$2,000 [21]
Not for the faint of heart or liver, it's European plum brandy, such as Rudolf Jelínek 10 Year Gold
slivovitz
$2,000 [13]
Martha Stewart likes to visit Nutley in this state to see her childhood home on Elm Street & the store where her dad bought Gallo wine
New Jersey
Margaret
$2,000 [29]
He led the Greeks against Troy
Agamemnon
Finn Karen

Final Jeopardy!

SINGERS

In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material

Tony Bennett

Margaret "Who is Tony Bennett?" — wagered $9,000
Finn "Who is Diana Ross" — wagered $11,400
Karen "Who is Ross?" — wagered $7,401

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