Show #8602 2022-03-22 (taped 2022-01-19) Regular

Contestants

Caitlin Gillooly — an e-commerce professional from Boston, Massachusetts

Mihir Nene — an engineer from Rochester, New York

Margaret Chipowsky — an attorney from Lawrenceville, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,800)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Margaret	$4,800	$7,200	$20,600	$10,300 2nd place: $2,000	$17,400 20 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W
Mihir	$2,800	$4,600	$12,500	$24,999 New champion: $24,999	$15,000 16 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Caitlin	$2,400	$4,600	$15,400	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$15,400 20 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

1860s AMERICA	"G" AS IN GEOGRAPHY	INVESTING	ICE CREAM FLAVORS?	FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL	A WORD TO THE WISE
$200 [11] One of the first U.S. colleges for the deaf, Gallaudet University in this city was founded in 1864 Washington, D.C. Margaret	$200 [2] Scotland's largest city, it's on both banks of the River Clyde Glasgow Margaret	$200 [29] As their name indicates, these are contracts to buy or sell commodities like grain at an agreed-upon price at a later date futures Margaret	$200 [1] Idiomatically, if you're "plain" this, you're unexciting vanilla Mihir	$200 [16] Desmond Howard's 99-yard kick return touchdown helped him earn Super Bowl 31 MVP honors over Brett Favre for this team the Packers Caitlin	$200 [21] It's the "I" in Britain's MI6 intelligence Caitlin
$400 [12] This company, founded in 1865, began making iconic hats like the ones seen here& still does today Stetson Margaret	$400 [7] 2 promontories called the Pillars of Hercules flank the entrance to this strait Gibraltar Caitlin	$400 [28] Warren Buffett says most people should simply hold a fund that tracks the S&P 500, short for this index Standard & Poor's Mihir	$400 [3] Who's a good boy? This type of Lab seenherejust chilling chocolate Margaret	$400 [18] Football's Ted Lasso knows this pre-snap line of scrimmage penalty well; soccer's Ted Lasso found the sport's version... complex offsides Margaret	$400 [30] An herb, or a profound philosopher a sage Caitlin
$600 [13] This amendment that granted citizenship & civil rights to emancipated African Americans was ratified in 1868 the 14th Amendment Caitlin	$600 [8] Kolkata is on the Hugli River, an arm of this other river the Ganges Mihir	$600 [27] To buy "on" this is to buy stocks partly with money borrowed from a broker margin Caitlin	$600 [4] This alliterative expression refers to a literal path fraught with troubles rocky road Caitlin	$600 [17] This Premier League system of sending the 3 bottom-finishers to a 2nd-tier league is like sending 3 MLB teams down to AAA relegation Mihir	$600 [23] The idiom "too" this smart synonym "by half" means you're wise, but in a way that causes problems clever Caitlin
$800 [14] This oldest & northernmost leg of horse racing's Triple Crown was first run in 1867, with Ruthless winning in 3:05 the Belmont Stakes Margaret	$800 [9] In 1900 this Texas city was devastated by a hurricane that killed more than 5,000 people Galveston Margaret	$800 [25] Not risk-averse? Buy into a special purpose acquisition company, formed to get investors while avoiding this 3-letter process an IPO Mihir	$800 [5] It's the rock classic that begins, "Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom!" "Tutti Frutti" Caitlin	$800 [19] In 2022 quarterback Stetson Bennett led this school to the national title over SEC rival Alabama, 33-18 the University of Georgia Margaret	$800 [22] It's the highest rating in military rifle marksmanship an expert Caitlin
DD $2,000 [15] In the House in 1868, radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens began the closing argument against this man Andrew Johnson Margaret	$1,000 [10] This country is surrounded by Senegal The Gambia Mihir	$1,000 [26] Risk-averse? Buy TIPS, government securities whose value rises with inflation, as measured by this index the Consumer Price Index Caitlin	$1,000 [6] Beginning & ending with the same letter, it's a term for someone from a big city on Italy's West Coast Neapolitan Mihir	$1,000 [20] In 2020, thousandsthronged the presidential palace in Buenos Aires as this national hero lay in state Diego Maradona Margaret	$1,000 [24] Add -nt to the end of a word for one overly sensitive to decorum & you'll get this synonym for wisely cautious prudent

Double Jeopardy! Round

RECENT BIOS OF WRITERS	SCIENTIFIC INITIALS	THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS	NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAILS	CHARACTERS NAMED ALEX	SILENT LETTER STARTERS
$400 [12] "The Life She Wished to Live" is a bio of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who at 32 moved her life to a backwoods citrus grove in this state Florida Caitlin	$400 [25] NaturalistC.R.D.,1809-1882(the "R" was for Robert) Darwin Margaret	$400 [3] The Etruscan 20-letter language went out of use owing to the spread of this language that used 23 letters Latin Mihir	$400 [30] This religious word precedes Pioneer Trailin the name of a rugged route; note the western endpoint Mormon Caitlin	$400 [2] On this sitcom Ariel Winter was Alex, the smartest member of the Dunphys Modern Family Mihir	$400 [20] This title for a European ruler can have a silent "T" or "C" at the front tsar (czar) Mihir
$1,200 [13] Claire Tomalin's bio "The Young" him tells us that in the family of this early sci-fi writer, Herbert was called Bertie H.G. Wells Margaret	$800 [26] M.C.(born M.S.), a 2-time Nobel winner Marie Curie Caitlin	$800 [4] A messenger & an intermediary between the gods & man, the Etruscan god, Turms, was equivalent to this Greek god Hermes Mihir	$800 [17] The trail named for this 19th century service runs 1,900 miles from St. Joseph, Missouri to San Francisco the Pony Express Margaret	$800 [6] In 2020 this medical drama's character Dr. Alex Karev left after 15 years on the series Grey's Anatomy Caitlin	$800 [21] The Gospel of Mary Magdalene is considered this kind of gospel, from the Greek for "knowledge" gnostic
$1,600 [15] "Red Comet" says the unsung hero of Sylvia Plath's life was her benefactor Olive Prouty, author of the novel "Now," this personage Voyager Caitlin	$1,200 [27] N.T., who made sparks fly Nikola Tesla Mihir Caitlin	$1,200 [5] The Etruscans' religious use of fowls for divination led to this clavicular way for determining fate pulling a wishbone Margaret	$1,200 [16] The site where this captive Englishman met Powhatan & Pocahontas is along the trail named for him John Smith Margaret	$1,200 [9] This title cyborg formerly known as Alex Murphy reads Miranda rights to a suspect as he tosses him through a few glass windows RoboCop Caitlin	$1,200 [1] This lung infection is commonly caused by a strain of streptococcus pneumonia Mihir
$2,000 [24] "Competing with Idiots" is a dual biography of these screenwriting giants, brothers Herman & Joe, by a grandson of Herman's Mankiewicz Caitlin	$1,600 [28] C.L.(also just L.), an 18th century classifier Linnaeus Caitlin	$1,600 [7] The Etruscan League was a dodecapolis, consisting of this many main cities 12 Caitlin	$1,600 [18] The only winter trail in the NHT system, it includes a 1,000-mile section between Seward & Nome & shares its name with a race the Iditarod Margaret	$1,600 [10] The Ross & Rachel, or the Jim & Pam, of "Orange Is the New Black" were Piper, played by Taylor Schilling, & Alex, played by her Laura Prepon Caitlin	$2,000 [23] This type of "device" helps you remember something mnemonic Mihir
DD $3,000 [14] "The Sinner and the Saint" tells how a real-life egotistical murderer inspired this Russian novelist Dostoevsky Margaret	$2,000 [29] N.B., a great Dane (Niels) Bohr Mihir	$2,000 [8] The Etruscans lived from the Tiber River in the south to this 150-mile river of Florence in the north the Arno Margaret	$2,000 [19] The website for this trail that traces a 19th century Cherokee route calls it "a journey of injustice" the Trail of Tears Mihir	$2,000 [11] This James Patterson character is a profiler who is a liaison between the Washington, D.C. police & the FBI Alex Cross Margaret	DD $2,500 [22] Psalms says, "Cease from anger, and forsake" this, "fret not thyself in any wise to do evil" wrath Mihir

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC NICKNAMES

Napoleon's troops gave him this nickname not to mock him but for showing the courage of an infantryman in battle

"The Little Corporal"

Mihir "What is the little corporal?" — wagered $12,499

Caitlin "Who is the brave little soldier?" — wagered $15,400

Margaret "What was Little general" — wagered $10,300

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