Show #8890 2023-06-09 (taped 2023-04-03) Regular

Suresh Krishnan game 4.

Contestants

Tim Hagood — a communications consultant from Washington, D.C.

Vickie Cyr — a retired postmaster from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Suresh Krishnan — a networking engineer from Suwanee, Georgia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $38,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Suresh $3,200 $4,800 $15,800 $15,800
4-day champion: $53,999
$16,800
22 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Vickie $-400 $600 $3,800 $7,595
2nd place: $2,000
$3,800
9 R, 3 W
Tim $-400 $1,200 $7,200 $6,694
3rd place: $1,000
$10,200
14 R, 8 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

STATE HOLIDAYS PETS ON FILM DIASPORA CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES QUICK BOOKS RETRONYMS
$200 [6]
March 26, Prince Kuhio Day in this state, honors one of its early statehood advocates
Hawaii
Suresh
$200 [1]
Miss Gulch takes away this cairn terrier early on in a classic film; the heroine calls her a "wicked old witch"
Toto
Suresh
$200 [11]
Koryo-Saram are the half-million ethnic Koreans in the former republics of this giant, defunct country
the USSR
Tim
$200 [16]
Thisobject will have you jumping for joy
a pogo stick
Tim
$200 [21]
From 2006, it's Cormac McCarthy's title post-apocalyptic byway
The Road
Vickie
$200 [26]
A retronym is a noun & a modifier specifying the noun's original meaning, like this form of entertainment here
a silent movie
Suresh
$400 [7]
Though this suffragist was born in Massachusetts, only Florida observes her February 15 birthday as a state holiday
Susan B. Anthony
Suresh
$400 [2]
Bong Joon Ho's 2017 film "Okja" is about a big one of these who has been genetically engineered by an evil corporation
pig
Suresh Vickie Tim
$400 [12]
Like Afro-Brazilians, it was to cultivate this crop that thousands of Indo-Fijians were brought to the South Pacific
sugar
Suresh Tim
$400 [17]
This animated character who "was once a little green slab of clay" became a bendable toy in the 1960s
Gumby
Tim
$400 [22]
Dickens' only true mystery novel dealt with this title man's disappearance
(Edwin) Drood
Vickie
$400 [27]
It's the retronym seen here; if you're over 40 you might have a distinct advantage right now, because you had a landline
a dial phone (a rotary phone)
Vickie
$600 [8]
The first Tuesday in March is Town Meeting Day in Bennington, Montpelier & other communities across this state
Vermont
Vickie
$600 [3]
In the "DC League of Super-Pets", Superdog Krypto has an alias; punning on his master, he's named this "Kent"
Bark
Tim
$600 [13]
A 19th c. migration from this land began the community of Y Wladfa in Patagonia, with a Patagonian form of their Celtic language
Wales
Suresh Vickie Tim
$600 [18]
On a standard Monopoly board, they're the 2 most expensive properties
Boardwalk & Park Place
Tim
$600 [23]
Angie Thomas used "U" for a pronoun in the title of this 2017 young adult page-turner
The Hate U Give
$600 [28]
There's more than a 2% chance you'll know this retronym for a full-fat dairy beverage
a whole milk
Suresh Tim
$800 [9]
In Arizona, August 14 honors this people's famed code talkers
the Navajo
Suresh
$800 [4]
Like most of the stars in this 2011 Oscar winner, Uggie, the devoted canine pal of George Valentin, didn't have much to say
The Artist
Tim
$800 [14]
Maybe Hakeem Olajuwon shows up at Nigerian Days, this U.S. city's celebration of its diaspora of 150,000 people
Houston
Tim
$800 [19]
It originally required a 25-watt bulb & came with colored plastic pegs & black construction paper to make an illuminated picture
Lite-Brite
Suresh
$800 [24]
His "Midnight's Children" is set in places like Kashmir & Delhi
Salman Rushdie
Suresh
$800 [29]
Putting the retro in retronym, this time-telling wristwear uses pointers & hands
an analog watch
Suresh
$1,000 [10]
The Boston Marathon has often been held on this, a state holiday in Massachusetts
Patriots' Day
Suresh
DD $1,000 [5]
The title of this 2003 film about a big dog is also a symphony that premiered in 1808 in Vienna
Beethoven's 5th
Tim
$1,000 [15]
Mass deaths among this ethnicity in Ottoman lands sent others far & near; the film "Apricot Groves" is set in the Iranian diaspora
Armenian
$1,000 [20]
Time to play this Hasbro game: write down a river, a bird, a flower & a body part all starting with the letter R
Scattergories
Tim
$1,000 [25]
"The Awakening" is by this woman with a composer's surname
Kate Chopin
$1,000 [30]
The credits of James Taylor's album "American Standard" include James on vocals & this retronym
acoustic guitar

Double Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE WORLD STARTS WITH "W" EPONYMOUS SCIENCE TV: WHO SAID IT A EURO LEADER PASS WITH THIS RING
$400 [22]
This largest lake in Africa is home to more than 200 species of fish, including tilapia
(Lake) Victoria
Suresh
$400 [1]
Implied & express are the 2 main types of this promise to repair or replace a damaged item previously purchased
a warranty
Vickie
$400 [12]
According to Charles' law, the volume occupied by an amount of this state of matter is proportional to its temperature
gas
Suresh
$400 [9]
On a '70s sitcom: "Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!"
Jan Brady
Tim
$400 [17]
In 2022 Giorgia Meloni became prime minister as the head of Fratelli D’Italia, meaning these "of Italy"--no sorelle?
brothers
Suresh
$800 [29]
Females are the dominant sex in the troops of this accurately named species of primate, native to Madagascar
a ring-tailed lemur
Tim
$800 [23]
The 10th century Caliphate city of Medina Azaharain this European nation was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018
Spain
$800 [2]
This action means to take something innocuous & then make it suitable to use against another
weaponize
Suresh Tim
$800 [13]
The temperature at which a mineral's magnetic properties change sharply is the "point" named for this 1890s physicist & husband
Pierre Curie point
Suresh Vickie
$800 [8]
On an '80s sitcom: "Women, you can't live with 'em. Pass the beer nuts"
Norm
Tim
$800 [18]
In 1986 prime minister Olof Palme of this country was assassinated while walking home from the movies with his wife
Sweden
Vickie
$1,200 [28]
A poetic verse by this man mentions "three rings for the Elven-kings under the sky"
Tolkien
Suresh
$1,600 [24]
Man Mo Templeis not just a Buddhist temple; it is named for two gods of this philosophy many in Hong Kong follow as well
Taoism
$1,200 [3]
Here's a peek at this spiral galaxy named for its vortex-like shape
the Whirlpool Galaxy
Tim
$1,200 [14]
Fitts' law of movement is used in human engineering, also called this, partly from Greek for "work"
ergonomics
Suresh
$1,200 [7]
"I've been involved in a number of cults... you have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader"
Creed
DD $1,000 [21]
"Leaving", a 2008 tragicomedy by him, was his first play in more than 20 years & drew from his time as Czech Republic president
Václav Havel
Suresh
$1,600 [27]
A tradition began in 1000 A.D. when the leader in this Venetian post "wed" his city-state to the sea by tossing a ring into the water
the Doge
Vickie
DD $2,000 [4]
In 1898 the Rough Riders charged up Kettle Hill as well as this more famous one in Cuba
San Juan Hill
Tim
$1,600 [10]
For a big discovery around 1912, Tom Slick was dubbed a king of this type of speculative oil drilling with a feline name
wildcatting
Vickie
$1,600 [15]
The Drake equation, which estimates the number of advanced alien civilizations in our galaxy, was created as part of SETI, short for this
search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Suresh
$1,600 [6]
"Carl's dead... Carl went out to help someone & he got bit"
Rick (Grimes)
Tim
$1,200 [19]
This prime minister has said his greatest regret was losing the referendum he called, hoping to defeat Brexit
(David) Cameron
Suresh
$2,000 [26]
Around 1850, Richard Wagner began writing a poem called "The Death of" this heroic character in the "Ring" cycle
Siegfried
Vickie
$2,000 [25]
Of the 7 countries whose names end in "-stan", it's alphabetically last
Uzbekistan
Tim
$2,000 [11]
It sounds bad, but it's a type of firm fabric made from twisted, compacted yarn & often used for suits & pleated skirts
worsted
Suresh
$2,000 [16]
Born in 1815, this English math man gave us many eponymous things: algebra, logic, search & operators
(George) Boole
Suresh
$2,000 [5]
"We've had vicious kings & we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot boy king"
Tyrion Lannister
Tim
$1,600 [20]
Almost 40% of the people in this country say it has become less of a democracy under 4-term P.M. Viktor Orban
Hungary
Suresh

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH NOVELS

Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her

Orlando

Vickie "What is Orlando?" — wagered $3,795
Tim "What is The Importance of Being Ern" — wagered $506
Suresh "What is Dr. Jekyll & Hyde" — wagered $0

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