Show #8866 2023-05-08 (taped 2023-02-28) Regular

Hannah Wilson game 4.Juveria Zaheer game 1.

Contestants

Juveria Zaheer — a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Sami Casanova — an actuary from New York, New York

Hannah Wilson — a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $90,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Hannah $5,800 $7,200 $21,200 $34,200
4-day champion: $124,801
$18,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Sami $2,400 $3,600 $4,000 $2
2nd place: $2,000
$4,000
9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Juveria $800 $2,800 $17,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$11,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

SCANDAL! POP MUSIC-PODGE GONE FISHIN' YEET! CHILDREN'S LIT CONSONANT CRAVING
$200 [1]
Receiving these gems from Central African dictator Jean-Bédel Bokassa helped end the presidency of France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing
diamonds
Hannah
$200 [26]
The 2023 Grammys were good to aging redheads: Bonnie Raitt got Song of the Year & he took Best Country Solo Performance
Willie Nelson
Hannah
$200 [15]
At nearly 3 pounds a year per capita, salmon has passed this as the most commonly consumed fish in the U.S.; sorry, Charlie
tuna
Hannah
$200 [28]
Genesis:"Therefore the Lord God sent" him "forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground"
Adam
Hannah
$200 [29]
This bear who first appeared in a 1958 book was part of many people's tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth II
Paddington
Sami
$200 [30]
Household item that totally sucks at its job:AUU
a vacuum
Sami
$400 [2]
A conservative MP & commentator on this network, Bob Boothby endured the revelations of his association with gangster Ronnie Kray
the BBC
Sami
$400 [25]
She earned our respect by singing "Respect" during her "American Idol" days before having her own hit with "Behind These Hazel Eyes"
Kelly Clarkson
Juveria
$400 [16]
Succulent but potentially lethal, Japan's specially prepared delicacy known as fugu uses a variety of this type of fish
a puffer fish
Juveria
$400 [27]
In 2003 the board of directors decided to jettison these 3 letters that preceded Time Warner
AOL
Juveria
$400 [20]
A girl is part of a nontraditional (especially for children's books) family in 1989's "Heather has Two" these
Mommies
Juveria
$400 [22]
Lwa are spirits in this religion of the Caribbean:OOOO
Voodoo
Juveria
$600 [6]
You & I pay fees for this, withdrawing money we don't have; in a '90s scandal 300 congressmen did it with the House bank no problem
overdraft
Hannah
$600 [24]
This lead singer of Hole said, "I tried out for 'the Mickey Mouse Club' when I was 11", & that would've been very interesting casting
Courtney Love
Juveria
$600 [17]
In 1997 this U.S. state designated the Bonneville cutthroat trout as its official state fish
Utah
Juveria
$600 [10]
In "2001" this computer yeets Frank Poole off into space but still has Dave to contend with
HAL 9000
Hannah
$600 [18]
This nickname for many kings follows "M.C. Higgins" in the title of the first Newbery Medal winner by a Black author
the Great
$600 [3]
It's the woodwind instrument heard here:AOO
a bassoon
Hannah
$800 [7]
This Italian P.M. said there was no scandal in 2009 after photos surfaced of scantily clad women at his villa
Berlusconi
Hannah
$800 [23]
CBGB was a legendary East Village club where many punk & new waveactsgot an early break, including them
the Ramones
Juveria
$800 [19]
Thisfish of the order Clupeiformes is kippered or cured by splitting, cleaning, salting & smoking
herring
Sami
$800 [11]
Truman: "I didn't fire" him "because he was a dumb son of a (bleep), although he was, but that's not against the law for generals"
MacArthur
Juveria
$800 [14]
In a story by Johnny Gruelle, this doll says, "I can't seem to think clearly today... it feels as if my head were ripped" (it was)
Raggedy Ann
$800 [4]
A small item that covers the big bald truth:OUEE
a toupee
Hannah
$1,000 [8]
As attorney general under U.S. Grant, Edwards Pierrepont spent lots of time prosecuting this "Ring" of distillers who bribed & frauded
the Whiskey Ring
Juveria
$1,000 [9]
Unafraid of long album titles like "When the Pawn..." (it does go on), she shortened things up in 2020 with "Fetch the Bolt Cutters"
Fiona Apple
Hannah
$1,000 [21]
Fish found in this African lake created in the 1960s include 2 species of tilapia & the enormous Nile perch
Lake Nasser
Hannah
$1,000 [12]
In Greek myth, after he was born lame, his mom yeeted him out of heaven, but he returned & made Hermes' winged helmet
Hephaestus
Sami Juveria
DD $1,000 [13]
Though he comes from another world, not from France, this diminutive guy appeared on the 50-franc note for many years
the Little Prince
Sami
$1,000 [5]
A secret reason for doing something is having a this "motive":UEIO
ulterior
Hannah

Double Jeopardy! Round

"B" COOL THE SOUTH PACIFIC THE QUOTABLE ALEX FUTILITY AMERICAN WOMAN WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN?
$400 [30]
You're in charge if you do something "like a" this, meaning to do it with style & swagger
a boss
Sami
$400 [19]
Vaka moana are traditional double-hulled these boats used to travel vast ocean distances
catamarans (canoes)
Juveria
$400 [28]
An 18th century politician:"We are attempting by this Constitution to abolish factions"
Hamilton
Juveria
$400 [29]
Always armed with the catchphrase no one in the "Star Trek" world wanted to hear, the Borg let it be known that this "is futile"
resistance
Juveria
$400 [26]
Before Elena Kagan was the first woman to be dean of this at Harvard, she was the first bat mitzvah at Lincoln Square Synagogue
(Harvard) Law (School)
Juveria
$400 [27]
"The Jeffersons"
an apartment building
Juveria
$800 [16]
It's a vibratory sound, or the excitement generated by a cool new product or performer
buzz
Hannah
$800 [15]
Including Palmerston & Pukapuka, this vast expanse of islands was named after a British captain who visited in 1773
(the) Cook (Islands)
Juveria
$800 [18]
An inventor:"You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth"
(Alexander Graham) Bell
Hannah
$800 [9]
Jacques Cartier was among the explorers who failed to find this fabled route illustrated here
the Northwest Passage
Sami
$800 [24]
This woman who founded a cosmetics giant took a French-looking name & helped fund a restoration of Versailles
Estée Lauder
Juveria
$800 [25]
Vern Schillinger & the gang on "Oz"
prison
Sami
$1,200 [5]
There are 2 Bs in the name of this jazz style pioneered by Charlie Parker & other hepcats
bebop
Hannah
$1,200 [13]
Including the Loyalty Islands, the island group known as "New" this basically means "New Scotland"
New Caledonia
Juveria
$1,200 [11]
An author:"All for one, one for all--that is our motto, is it not?"
Dumas
Hannah
$1,200 [2]
In the "Odyssey", Homer wrote this man was "in violent torment, seeking to raise a monstrous stone" but ever failing
Sisyphus
Hannah
$1,200 [23]
First name of the philanthropist who has gone by the last names Tuttle, Bezos & now Scott
MacKenzie
Hannah
$1,200 [1]
Chris Farley as Matt Foley, down by the river
in a van
Hannah
$1,600 [6]
In 1958 the San Francisco Examiner worried that "growing lads" might become these "instead of ball players"
beatniks
Juveria
$1,600 [12]
This double-talk island of the Society Islands is surrounded by coral reefs
Bora Bora
Juveria
$1,600 [10]
An author & former prisoner:"Socialism of any type & shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit"
Solzhenitsyn
Hannah Sami Juveria
$2,000 [4]
Harry Potter might have a better chance of turning metals to gold using this medieval substance from alchemy, also called the tincture
the philosopher's stone
$2,000 [21]
A self-titled 1961 L.P. of arias sung by this great "L.P." is known to opera lovers as the "Blue Album"
Leontyne Price
$1,600 [22]
Jim Rockford; he kept it parked in Malibu
a trailer
$2,000 [7]
This last name of an uber-cool Hollywood icon is also a verb meaning to hog something, which is way not cool
Bogart
Juveria
$2,000 [14]
Although this country has more than 300 islands, about 70% of the population lives on its largest, Viti Levu
Fiji
Juveria
$2,000 [17]
An artist:"Why must art be static?... the next step in sculpture is motion"
Calder
Hannah
DD $4,000 [3]
The scene of heavy fighting & futility in World War I, this peninsula bears a name that comes from the Greek for "beautiful city"
Gallipoli
Hannah
DD $7,000 [20]
Soon to mother a brood of actors of this last name, Georgiana Drew married actor Mauricein 1876
Barrymore
Juveria
$2,000 [8]
Commander Sheridan & the gang on "Babylon 5"
a space station
Hannah

Final Jeopardy!

NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES

This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem "Kabul" by the 17th century Persian poet Saib

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Sami "What is this was fun" — wagered $3,998
Juveria "What is seventh heaven?" — wagered $17,000
Hannah "What is A Thousand Splendid Suns?" — wagered $13,000

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