Show #9110 2024-05-24 (taped 2024-04-08) Regular

Amar Kakirde game 3.

Contestants

Anna Marie Cunningham — a market research account manager from Sellersville, Pennsylvania

Has Karbalai — a public health advisor from Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Amar Kakirde — a graduate student from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $24,599)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Amar $2,100 $4,500 $15,300 $16,800
3-day champion: $41,399
$15,800
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Has $2,800 $4,000 $6,800 $10,799
2nd place: $3,000
$11,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 7 W (including 1 DD)
Anna Marie $1,000 $1,400 $1,400 $0
3rd place: $2,000
$1,400
5 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY SIMILES CROSSWORD CLUES "2" I'LL JUST NEED TO VERIFY YOUR IDENTITY DATE OF BIRTH MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME YOUR FIRST CONCERT
$200 [18]
In this novella John Steinbeck wrote that "Curley was flopping like a fish on a line"
Of Mice and Men
Has
$200 [24]
Bono's band(2 squares)
U2
Has
$200 [30]
It's often noted that you don't need a valid state one to compete in a NASCAR race; officer, here's my Rusty Wallace novelty one
a driver's license
Has
$200 [2]
April 24, 1800:Early on, only the president & vice president had borrowing privileges
the Library of Congress
Has
$200 [15]
Maiden name of Elizabeth, who got her author son James Cooper to add it as a middle name so it would be preserved
Fenimore
Anna Marie
$200 [17]
I was there in 2007 when this original lead singer for Van Halen reunited with the band for a concert tour
David Lee Roth
Amar Has Anna Marie
$400 [29]
Shakespeare started a sonnet with a simile, "Like as" these "make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end"
waves
Has
$400 [23]
Employer-provided wage & tax statement(2 squares)
the W-2
Anna Marie
$400 [1]
Based on a 1936 decision, the first 3 of its 9 digits dealt with geographical coding
your Social Security number
Anna Marie
$400 [26]
Jan. 3, 2009, with the mining of the Genesis block
Bitcoin (Blockchain)
Amar Has
$400 [9]
Hesaid he used his mother's maiden name because double S names work for artists--Matisse, Poussin, Rousseau
Picasso
Amar
$400 [12]
I'll never forget this trio's 1986 Raising Hell tour that saw the Beastie Boys & LL Cool J open
Run-DMC
Anna Marie
$600 [20]
"Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears" is a chapter of this book in which Mr. Toad gets some bad news
The Wind in the Willows
Amar
$600 [21]
No. 7 on Time's "Top 10 End-of-the-World Prophecies"(3 squares)
Y2K
$600 [28]
In 2023 Alan Alda auctioned off these identifiers he wore around his neck on "M*A*S*H"
dog tags
Amar
$600 [6]
This force:Nov. 10, 1775, a month after the Navy it rides with
the Marines (Marine Corps)
Amar Has
DD $500 [10]
Maiden name of the political mom seen here
Milhous
Amar
$600 [13]
I rang in 2000 with this Vermont band as they lit the morning sky, incorporating "Sunrise" from "Also Sprach Zarathustra" in a jam
Phish
Has
$800 [19]
He jolted critics with a "Prufrock" simile: "The evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table"
T.S. Eliot
Has
$800 [22]
Online type of "authentication"(7 squares)
2-factor
Has Anna Marie
$800 [27]
In 1933 a blindfolded kidnap victim deliberately left these all over the cabin where he was held by Machine Gun Kelly
fingerprints
Has
$800 [7]
Sept. 13, 1957:The first group meeting of this organization for those with a problem at the track or the tables
Gamblers Anonymous
Has
$800 [11]
Born in the USSR, he was just a little woodpusher when he adopted a Russified version of his mother's maiden name, Gasparyan
Gary Kasparov
Amar
$800 [14]
I survived the legendary deluge at Glastonbury in 1997 & heard an epic version of "Creep" by these Brit rockers
Radiohead
Amar
$1,000 [3]
In his "Farewell, My Lovely", a man about 6'5" in a yellow tie is "as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food"
(Raymond) Chandler
Has
$1,000 [4]
Enclosed Earth-like researchfacilityin Arizona(10 squares)
Biosphere 2
Has
$1,000 [5]
In 1935 a criminologist & an ophthalmologist used the pattern of blood vessels in this eye part as an identifier
the retina
Has
$1,000 [8]
July 26, 1848:This university with alumni like Bud Selig & Frank Lloyd Wright
the University of Wisconsin
$1,000 [25]
This Atlanta Historically Black College for women bears the maiden name of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother
Spelman
Amar
$1,000 [16]
I didn't sleep after I saw the "Rust Never Sleeps" tour by this man and Crazy Horse in 1978
Neil Young
Anna Marie

Double Jeopardy! Round

UP IN THE AIR INDIGENOUS ACTORS & ACTRESSES AMERICAN HISTORY GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT RAMBLING WORDS
$400 [26]
Armed forces are eager to get their hands on the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle, more commonly called this
drone
Amar
$400 [1]
Of Maori heritage, Temuera Morrison, has played both Jango Fett & this cloned son of Jango in the "Star Wars" franchise
Boba Fett
Has
$400 [30]
In 1609 Henry Hudson landed on what's now this NYC amusement park island, possibly named for its numerous rabbits
Coney Island
Has
$400 [16]
Local name for the "emerald isle" & one of the Great Lakes
Eire & Erie
Amar
$400 [18]
The last non-royal to lie in state in Parliament was this former prime minister who died in January 1965
Churchill
Has
$400 [20]
A part of speech is in this word for long-winded
verbose
$800 [25]
Paper wasps are often mistaken for these colorful wasps, but the paper wasps dangle their legs in flight instead of tucking them under
a yellowjacket
Has
$800 [29]
The 2002 film "Windtalkers" starred Adam Beach as a soldier who uses this language as code during World War II
Navajo
Amar
$800 [13]
In the 1920s the real-life Untouchables frequently busted up these illicit saloons named for quiet conversation
speakeasies
Amar
$1,200 [15]
The "table" city southeast of Phoenix & the seat of Iowa State University
Mesa & Ames
$800 [9]
This time when ministers get grilledby the opposition would be a good quiz show title
question time
Amar
$800 [19]
In 1906 this compound word for an incessant talker was considered a disease that "may stop kissing while on auto trips"
a motormouth
$1,200 [23]
In tennis a drop shot & this lofted shot make a lethal combination, as practiced by Carlos Alcaraz
a lob
$1,200 [24]
When this actress won a Golden Globe for "Killers of the Flower Moon" she began her speech in the Blackfeet language
Lily Gladstone
Has
$1,200 [10]
After an 1877 surrender, he made repeated pleas to the U.S. government for the return of the Nez Perce to their ancestral home
Chief Joseph
Has
$1,600 [14]
A river that flows through Florence & a Mediterranean port city of Algeria
the Arno & Oran
$1,200 [4]
Smoking is prohibited in Parliament but the entrance to the chamber has a box for this smokeless tobacco
snuff
Amar
$1,200 [8]
"Colloquial", "eloquent" & this word that means talkative all derive from Latin for "to speak"
loquacious
Amar
$1,600 [22]
The G650 & G650ER are business jets from this manufacturer
Gulfstream
Amar
$1,600 [27]
Zahn McClarnonplayed Officer Big on this Hulu show set in rural Oklahoma
Reservation Dogs
Amar
$1,600 [11]
Cesar Chavez &this woman were instrumental in creating the United Farm Workers of America labor union
Dolores Huerta
$2,000 [17]
The onetime capital of New Granada & one of the southernmost Caribbean islands
Bogota & Tobago
$1,600 [5]
Neither the House of Commons nor the House of Lords can pass laws without the presence of this ornamental club
the mace
Has
$1,600 [7]
It means rambling nonsense with or without "skite" added
blather
Has
$2,000 [21]
Known for stealing food from other birds in midair, this type of bird shares a name with a speedy 3-mast ship of yore
a frigate bird
Amar
$2,000 [28]
In "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Native American actor Will Sampson played this character who escapes an asylum
Chief Bromden
$2,000 [12]
In the 1850s Black historian William Cooper Nell wrote this man was "the first martyr in the Boston Massacre"
(Crispus) Attucks
Amar
DD $4,400 [2]
A South American capital city founded by Pizarro & a largely desert country of western Africa
Lima & Mali
Has
DD $2,000 [6]
The Houses of Parliament are located in this London borough
Westminster
Has
$2,000 [3]
"Tristram Shandy" calls these tangential departures from the main subject "the sunshine... the life, the soul of reading"
digressions
Amar

Final Jeopardy!

LITERATURE

Preserved in a single manuscript called Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, this epic begins with the word "Hwæt", often translated as listen

Beowulf

Anna Marie "What is this has been a dream come true!" — wagered $1,400
Has "What is Beowulf?" — wagered $3,999
Amar "What is Beowulf?" — wagered $1,500

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