Show #8660 2022-06-10 (taped 2022-04-19) Regular

Eric Ahasic game 5.Sarah Whitcomb Foss's last game as a member of the Clue Crew.

Contestants

Siobhan Doherty — a voice and speech teacher originally from Santa Barbara, California

Randy Moss — an attorney from Walnut Creek, California

Eric Ahasic — a meteorologist from Minneapolis, Minnesota (whose 4-day cash winnings total $105,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Eric $5,000 $7,600 $28,400 $28,000
5-day champion: $133,801
$25,600
31 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Randy $1,200 $5,400 $13,800 $14,000
2nd place: $2,000
$13,800
17 R, 1 W
Siobhan $2,200 $2,400 $3,600 $3,595
3rd place: $1,000
$3,400
7 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHERE AM I? MOVIES WITH NARRATORS ANIMAL ANAGRAMS THE SHIRT OFF OUR BACK U.S. DATES JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS
$200 [21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I'm at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, one of dozens of institutions, monuments & memorials along this promenade & green area that extends from the U.S. Capitol to the Potomac
the (National) Mall
Eric
$200 [8]
2013: Disgraced stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio)
The Wolf of Wall Street
Eric
$200 [24]
I found this insect on a leaf
a flea (from leaf)
Eric
$200 [23]
This type of sweater is named for the rowing team
crew (a crew neck)
Randy
$200 [16]
On this date each year moments of silence are observed in New York City at 8:46 & 9:03 A.M.
September 11th
Siobhan
$200 [30]
Originally titled "First Impressions", this tale of Elizabeth Bennet would be Jane's second novel published
Pride and Prejudice
Eric
$400 [9]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m here on board the fire boat John S. Damrell helping protect this city’s harbor south of Winthrop & north of Quincy
Boston
Eric
$400 [18]
1979: Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) regrets he's still only in Saigon
Apocalypse Now
Randy
$400 [25]
I saw this critter sneak into the yard
a snake (from sneak)
$400 [22]
Seen here, this item is said to date back to the 1920s or '30s, when kimono fabric began to be used for men's shirts
a Hawaiian shirt
Eric
$400 [7]
For years 7-Eleven offered a little joy with free Slurpees on this date
July 11th
Randy
$400 [29]
In Austen novels the girls like a guy who has "four thousand" or "five thousand a year"--4 or 5,000 of these
pounds
Randy
$600 [1]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m training for the worst, at the Texas A&M Extension Service in this city named for its railroad connections
College Station
Eric
$600 [17]
1990: Henry Hill says, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster"
Goodfellas
Randy
$600 [26]
Gosh, I didn't realize that half of these farm animals are raised in China
hogs (from gosh)
Eric
$600 [10]
A 2021 Rolling Stone headline: "The best" these "shirts for channeling every style, from grunge to cool lumber jack"
flannel shirts
Eric
$600 [4]
Punxsutawney Phil is known to make an appearance on this day
February 2nd
Eric
$600 [15]
Austen adaptations include the 1995 movie version of this novel starring Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood
Sense and Sensibility
Eric
$800 [2]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m in this area of San Francisco that served as an Army base for Spain, Mexico & the United States before switching to civilian use in 1994
the Presidio
Randy
$800 [19]
1986: Richard Dreyfuss remembers back to when he was Wil Wheaton
Stand By Me
Randy
$800 [27]
In summer this weasel is the color of toast
a stoat (from toast)
Randy
$800 [11]
The name of this university is found from nearly head to toe in a fashionable type of shirt as well as a type of shoe
Oxford
Eric
$800 [5]
On this date in 1921 an Unknown Soldier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery
November 11th
Eric Siobhan
DD $1,000 [13]
Jane lived most of her life in this southern English county that lent its name to a "New" U.S. state
Hampshire
Siobhan
$1,000 [3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m at the Wright Brothers National Memorial near Kitty Hawk, perhaps the most historically important spot in the 200-mile chain of islands off North Carolina
the Outer Banks
Eric
$1,000 [20]
1950: A screenwriter doesn't let being dead stop him from narrating a Hollywood tale
Sunset Boulevard
Randy
$1,000 [28]
I hear this ostrich relative stands about 4 feet tall
rhea (from hear)
Eric
$1,000 [12]
Maude Adams' look in a 1905 Broadway production of a J.M. Barrie work popularized this flat collar on shirts
Peter Pan
Siobhan
$1,000 [6]
Date in 1865 on which Union General Gordon Granger told the African Americans of Galveston they were free
June 19th (Juneteenth)
Eric
$1,000 [14]
2 of Jane's 6 novels were published posthumously--"Persuasion" & this one with a building for a title
Northanger Abbey
Siobhan

Double Jeopardy! Round

A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY KILLER TUNES EARTH SCIENCE SECRET SERVICES P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT
$400 [20]
At age 13 he married Kasturba, whom he would later call his teacher in nonviolence
Gandhi
Eric
$400 [17]
George Monroe & William Robinson: 2 African-American riders in this horsepowered mail service in the 1860s
the Pony Express
Randy
$400 [29]
"Are you ready? Hey! Are you ready for this? Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?" Are questions asked in this Queen tune
"Another One Bites The Dust"
Siobhan
$400 [6]
By definition, orogeny concerns itself with the formation of these by upward movements of the Earth's crust
mountains
Eric
$400 [22]
The U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division branch named for this building includes counter snipers on its roof
the White House
Eric
$400 [30]
A young wolf
a pup
Randy
$800 [7]
Seen here, Stokely Carmichael replaced John Lewis as head of SNCC, short for their Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Student
Eric
$800 [8]
Zhou Enlai: both prime minister & foreign minister of the country with this new name from its beginning in 1949
the People's Republic of China
Randy
$800 [16]
He's the "Calvin Broadus (1972-1994)" referred to on the cover of "Murder Was the Case", both a song & short film
Snoop Dogg
Eric
$800 [5]
Increased seismic activity, especially in Oklahoma, has been linked to wastewater injection & this controversial practice
fracking
Siobhan
$1,200 [23]
This country's intelligence agency goes by the short name Mossad, which just means "the institute"
Israel
Eric
$800 [1]
The bonobo is one
an ape
Eric
$1,200 [18]
St. Elizabeth of this country rode between 2 armies & quelled hostilities between her son Afonso & her husband, King Dinis
Portugal
Eric Randy Siobhan
$1,200 [9]
Betty Friedan: the unhappy classmates at her Smith College 15th reunion inspired this 1963 nonfiction work
The Feminine Mystique
Eric
$1,200 [28]
Both Eric Clapton & Bob Marley sang this song, but swore it was in self-defense
"I Shot The Sheriff"
Randy
$1,200 [2]
An iron ore, this mineral is named for the property it's exhibiting here
magnetite
Eric
$1,600 [24]
This 3-letter agency was created in 1954 as "the sword & shield of the Communist Party"
the KGB
Randy
$1,200 [13]
A sharp-pointed dueling sword
an epee
Siobhan
$2,000 [21]
Thiseldest son of Victoria was called "The Peacemaker"; the memorialherenotes his Entente Cordiale with France
Edward VII
Eric
$1,600 [10]
King George I: from Hanover, Germany but had a claim on the British crown through this man, his great-granddad born a Scot
James I
Eric
$1,600 [27]
Fronted by Danny Elfman, this rhyming band sang, "It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?"
Oingo Boingo
Randy
$1,600 [3]
In contrast to the lithosphere, or solid outer part of the Earth, this consists of all the Earth's water
hydrosphere
Eric
$2,000 [25]
This country's secret intelligence service ASIS was founded in 1952; its existence was only acknowledged in Parliament in 1975
Australia
$1,600 [14]
A J.Lo song popularized this Spanish word for "daddy" or "sweetheart"
papi
Randy
DD $2,200 [19]
One story of this Lakota leader recalls him entering a battlefield, taking a seat & smoking a pipe
Sitting Bull
Eric
$2,000 [11]
Jefferson Davis: as U.S. Secretary of War in 1853, he approved the import of these from Egypt to test in the Southwest
camels
Eric
$2,000 [26]
Backed up by the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey & this man sang of the tragic fate of "Henry Lee"
Nick Cave
$2,000 [4]
This geologic era that began around 65 million years ago is the one we're living in today
the Cenozoic
DD $3,000 [12]
Security Service & Secret Intelligence Service are the British agencies popularly known by these alphanumeric names
MI5 & MI6
Eric
$2,000 [15]
It's the life stage of an insect that fits the category
pupa
Randy

Final Jeopardy!

THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Brazil stretches 2,700 miles from the Atlantic in the east to Serra do Divisor National Park on the border with this country in the west

Peru

Siobhan "What is Ecuador?" — wagered $5
Randy "What is Peru?" — wagered $200
Eric "What is Ecuador?" — wagered $400

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