Show #8679 2022-07-07 (taped 2022-05-05) Regular

Yungsheng Wang game 4.Jimmy McGuire's last game as a member of the Clue Crew.

Contestants

Brian Ahern — a user support associate from Daly City, California

Heather Brown — a civil servant from South Berwick, Maine

Yungsheng Wang — a public defender from Los Angeles, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $84,202)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Yungsheng 永勝	$2,600	$2,000	$22,099	$17,199 2nd place: $2,000	$18,400 19 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Heather	$1,000	$3,600	$4,800	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$4,800 13 R, 6 W
Brian	$2,400	$10,600	$13,400	$26,800 New champion: $26,800	$9,200 16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHICH NEW YORK CITY BOROUGH?	____ & ____	SALAD DRESSING FOR SUCCESS	HEMINGWAY	RHYME ZONE	FROM THE SPEEDWAY
$200 [1] Is home to the New York Stock Exchange Manhattan Brian	$200 [8] It's typically a small hotel or a house with private rooms offering a place to lay your head & a morning meal a bed & breakfast Heather	$200 [6] This brand famed for salad dressing never made a dime for its movie star founder, who gave $50 mil. in profits in its first decade to charity Newman's Own Yungsheng 永勝	$200 [24] Hemingway's first great love, Agnes, was his nurse during WWI after he was hit by 200 pieces of this, fragments from a mortar shrapnel Heather	$200 [11] A sweet biscuitlike pastry often in a triangular shape scone Brian	$200 [26] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) The Las Vegas Motor Speedway track, like most NASCAR tracks, is made of this paving material, also called blacktop, but specially formulated as it has to stand up to 150-degree temperatures asphalt Brian
$400 [2] Is the most populous of the 5 boroughs Brooklyn Yungsheng 永勝	$400 [9] Control C & Control V are the Windows keyboard shortcut for this pair copy & paste Yungsheng 永勝 Heather	$400 [10] This "numeric" dressing with mayo & tomato sauce takes its name from where it was invented, in the chain between New York & Canada Thousand Island Heather	$600 [22] Hemingway's "To Have & Have Not" is less remembered as a novel than as the film that kindled the romance of these 2 co-stars Bogie & Bacall (Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall) Brian	$400 [17] The typical response for one of my bad puns groan Heather	$400 [27] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) Yes, there are speed limits in NASCAR; at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, it's 45 miles per hour on this road where cars are serviced the pit (road) Brian
$600 [3] Is where you can see the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, built for the 1964 World's Fair Queens Brian	$600 [7] Made with a pale ale & stout, it's the colorful name for the beer drink seen here--cheers a black & tan Brian	$600 [15] A Nebraska plumber invented this dressing with garlic & onion powder, dried herbs, powdered pepper & buttermilk ranch Yungsheng 永勝	$800 [14] Per the title, a cafe in a famous Hemingway story is not just clean but this well-lighted	$600 [18] Its only function is to mate with the queen bee a drone Brian	$600 [28] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) The era of one-company sponsorship for the championship of NASCAR began with this tobacco brand in 1971 Winston Yungsheng 永勝 Heather
$800 [4] Is 14 miles long & has only about 5% of New York City's population Staten Island Brian	$800 [12] The Pentagon used this jarring term for the intense aerial bombardment of Iraq in 2003 Shock & Awe Yungsheng 永勝	$800 [16] It's the first name in salad dressing & for the steak house known for it, including fat free raspberry pecan & sweet Vidalia onion Ken's Heather	$1,000 [21] Hemingway ate his last meal on July 1, 1961 at Michel's Christiania Restaurant, still a hangout for skiers in this Idaho city Ketchum	$800 [19] It precedes "the coop" to describe a bird or person who has escaped & vanished flown Heather	$800 [29] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) In 2019, the Vegas Speedway was the site of aerodynamic testing, including a longer splitter, the front end equivalent to this rear piece; by increasing downforce, it reduces lift & maintains traction a spoiler Brian
$1,000 [5] Is the location of Pelham Bay Park, which is more than 3 times larger than Central Park the Bronx	$1,000 [13] Taxation, tariffs & other revenue-raising measures come under the jurisdiction of this House committee Ways & Means Yungsheng 永勝	$1,000 [25] Traditionally, this alliterative salad dressing is big on mayonnaise but a viral TikTok used olive oil & nuts green goddess Heather	DD $4,600 [23] Hemingway bought his longtime home in Cuba from the sale of film rights to this novel set during the Spanish Civil War For Whom the Bell Tolls Brian	$1,000 [20] Equine hue of darkened colors lightened by a mixture of white roan Brian	$1,000 [30] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) The purpose of drafting, or following closely behind another car, is to create this between his tail & your nose; so he pulls you along as your draft is reduced substantially a vacuum

Double Jeopardy! Round

NEXT LEADER IN LINE	4-LETTER ACRONYMS	SUCH GREAT CHEMISTRY	THE SCARF	OLD NEWSPAPERS	"G"EOGRAPHY
$400 [12] Scottish kings:Malcolm II, Duncan I, him Macbeth	$400 [10] The U.S. military gave us this other way to say "at your very earliest convenience" ASAP Yungsheng 永勝	$400 [2] This point for a substance as a liquid is basically the same as the melting point for the same stuff as a solid the freezing point	$400 [21] Legend says knitter Begonia Pope misunderstood the costume designer on this BBC show, hence actor Tom Baker's 20-ish-foot scarf Doctor Who Brian	$400 [26] On January 1, 1788 the Universal Daily Register of London changed its name to this, which it has today The Times Yungsheng 永勝	$400 [1] This strait narrows to 8 miles between Spain & Morocco (the Strait of) Gibraltar Brian
$800 [13] Presidents of France: Sarkozy, Hollande, him since 2017 Macron Heather	$800 [11] The "E" in this acronym that precedes "package" originally stood for Europe, where the packages went CARE Heather	$800 [3] Using mass spectrometry, neon was the first element shown to exist in more than one of these stable variations an isotope Yungsheng 永勝 Heather Brian	$800 [22] The title of this 2003 novel mentions a different fashion house, but editor Miranda Priestly is rarely, without an Hermès scarf The Devil Wears Prada Yungsheng 永勝	$800 [27] Founded in 1703 in this city, the Wiener Zeitung is considered the world's oldest surviving daily newspaper Vienna Yungsheng 永勝 Heather Brian	$800 [6] About 1,700 square miles in area, it's the largest inland body of saline water in the Western Hemisphere the Great Salt Lake Heather
$1,200 [14] Soviet leaders:Andropov, Chernenko, him (the end) Gorbachev Yungsheng 永勝	$1,200 [17] Deaf actor Troy Kotsur won an Oscar in 2022 for his role in this acronym-titled movie that also took home best picture CODA Yungsheng 永勝	$1,200 [4] Thisgroup of 7 elements is on the far right side of the periodic table, not associating with thehalogensnext to them the noble gases Yungsheng 永勝	$1,200 [23] Clearly a real-life scarf wearer, shemade a green one famous in "Confessions of a Shopaholic" Isla Fisher	$1,200 [28] The Cincinnati this was first published in 1841, more than a century before the "National" tabloid Enquirer Yungsheng 永勝	$1,200 [7] The Motagua, this country's longest river, flows into the Gulf of Honduras Guatemala Yungsheng 永勝
$2,000 [16] Roman emperors: Tiberius, Caligula, this man played on TV by Derek Jacobi Claudius Yungsheng 永勝	$1,600 [18] Part of the Expedia group, this company pairs families ready for a getaway with over 2 million homes worldwide VRBO Yungsheng 永勝 Heather	$2,000 [20] The electrons in the outer shell of an atom are called this type of electron, from the Latin for "power" a valence Brian	$1,600 [24] A scarf created for Grace Kelly gets mistreated in this 2021 movie about fashion & murder House of Gucci	$1,600 [29] This Founding Father founded the New York Post in 1801 to promote the Federalist Party Alexander Hamilton Yungsheng 永勝	$1,600 [8] This nation on the border of Europe & Asia declared independence in 1991 Georgia Heather
DD $4,500 [15] Hapsburg Dynasty:Joseph ICharles VI, her Maria Theresa Yungsheng 永勝	$2,000 [19] The M-I is for "musical instrument" in this acronym, the standard that connects instruments with computers MIDI Heather	DD $2,399 [5] Rubber is made up of these chain like molecules with a name from Greek meaning "having many parts" polymers Yungsheng 永勝	$2,000 [25] The most famous scarf in pop culture is the one kept by an ex of Taylor Swift's, as told in this song of hers "All Too Well" Yungsheng 永勝 Heather	$2,000 [30] French for "current", as in events, gives this city's over 250-year-old paper its name Hartford Heather	$2,000 [9] The first G in this city, Sweden's main seaport, is pronounced in Swedish like a Y Gothenburg

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY CHARACTERS ON SCREEN

Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television

Sherlock Holmes

Heather "Who is Scrooge?" — wagered $4,800

Brian "Who is Sherlock Holmes" — wagered $13,400

Yungsheng 永勝 "Who is Zorro?" — wagered $4,900

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