Show #7068 - Wednesday, May 13, 2015

2015 Celebrity Jeopardy! game 3.

Contestants

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John Berman, a veteran newsman from CNN's Early Start and At This Hour

Wendi McLendon-Covey, an actress from The Goldbergs and Repeat After Me

Mo Rocca, a correspondent and host from CBS Sunday Morning and My Grandmother's Ravioli

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Jeopardy! Round

IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
CITY NEIGHBORHOODS
THE GOLDBERGS
POLITICAL DICTIONARY
THE DAILY SHOW
THIS IS C_NN_
(Alex: Each correct response will begin with the letter "C", and somewhere in there will be a double "N".)
    $200 1
Fenway/Kenmore,
Roslindale
    $200 21
Bill Goldberg used moves called the jackhammer & the spear to amass 173 wins in a row in WCW, World Championship this
    $200 6
3-word name for the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution
    $200 11
Now in its 34th season, this show featuring Nancy O'Dell is still keeping tabs on celebs
    $200 16
These narrow spaces are often partnered with nooks
    DD: $1,000 2
The Vieux Carre,
Treme
    $400 22
Caryn Elaine Johnson took this stage name in reference to a type of cushion
    $400 7
We may vote for the president, but it's actually this body that formally makes the selection
    $400 12
Tune in to CBN Monday through Friday to join this numerical show hosted by Pat Robertson
    $400 17
Whoa-oh, here it comes, it's a man eater, like Dr. Lecter
    $600 3
Little Havana,
Coconut Grove
    $600 23
This late creator of "Family Ties" wrote the memoir "Sit, Ubu, Sit"
    $600 8
Alphabetically, it's first among the 3 branches of the U.S. government
    $600 13
Mario Batali is a co-host of this ABC show about all things edible
    $600 18
Take our challenge & name this food item that's grown a lot in Sri Lanka
    $800 4
Astoria,
Bensonhurst
    $800 24
Labor lawyer Arthur Goldberg was instrumental in the 1955 merger of the AFL & this union
    $800 9
It's a type of landlord as well as a type of ballot used by a voter who might be out of town on Election Day
    $800 14
The sands haven't run out for "DOOL", this soap that celebrated 50 years in 2015
    $800 19
Built by the Eurotunnel Group, it's 31.4 miles long
    $1000 5
The Castro,
The Haight
    $1000 25
This cartoonist's contraptions include the anteater-powered stamp-licking machine
    $1000 10
The Republican Party had existed for only about 20 years when it got this nickname
    $1000 15
She's hosted the Oscars twice, in 2007 & 2014, & her own daily talk show since 2003
    $1000 20
It's a French word for one who gives expert judgment on matters of taste, such as wine

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Mo Wendi John
$4,600 $800 $3,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Mo Wendi John
$7,800 $800 $4,600

Double Jeopardy! Round

AT THIS HOUR
ON THE GO
QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE
IT'S ALL ABOUT "ME"
REMEMBER THE '80s?
MOROCCAN HISTORY
    $400 15
This 1955 hit begins, "One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock"
    $400 26
Britain's largest automotive work force builds this luxury brand's XF & XJ
    $400 10
The first words spoken by this title Scot are "So foul and fair a day I have not seen"
    $400 21
Collective term for the main means of a society's communication, including TV, radio, newspapers & the Internet
    $400 1
In 1984 his novel "1984" was back on the bestsellers list
    $400 5
The opening of the film "Casablanca" tells us during World War II the city was full of people trying to get to this European capital
    DD: $7,000 18
It precedes "Special" & "Train To Georgia" in song titles
    $800 27
When you're told to go to the back of this vehicle, it's a long way in the record-setting one in Dresden that seats 256
    $800 12
After being wounded by Othello, this villain says, "I bleed, sir, but not killed"
    $800 22
6-letter word for a large piece of rock from space that passes into Earth's atmosphere
    $800 2
This hyphenated scandal involved an arms-for-hostages deal designed to free 7 Americans in Lebanon
    $800 8
Starting in the 1500s, Morocco was ruled by men with this title, like the one who "don't like it" in a Clash song
    $1200 19
Dolly Parton sang, "They just use your mind and they never give you credit" in this time-ly tune
    $1200 28
In 1968 Ralph Plaisted became the first to reach the North Pole driving one of these, a Ski-Doo
    $1200 13
His dying words are "Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will"
    $1200 23
It's equal to about 39.37 inches
    $1200 20
Secretary Melanie Griffith tells Harrison Ford, "I have a head for business & a bod for sin" in this film
    $1200 9
These beasts helped make Morocco a key ancient trade route & one kissed Bob Hope in "Road to Morocco"
    $1600 16
You'll find "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" on this band's "Under a Blood Red Sky"
    $1600 29
The Pride of America sails for this cruise line with a Scandinavian name
    DD: $5,000 11
Her barge "like a burnished throne, burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold"
    $1600 24
Seen here, it lives in the Kalahari desert & is related to the mongoose
    $1600 3
Soviet leader Gorbachev's 1980s reforms included perestroika, "restructuring", & this, Russian for "openness"
    $1600 6
In 429 the Vandals ended 400 years of control by this empire
    $2000 17
The classic song "One For My Baby" begins, "It's quarter to" this hour, "there's no one in the place 'cept you and me"
    $2000 14
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" contains the line "The course of" these 2 words "never did run smooth"
    $2000 25
8-letter negotiator who tries to make conflicting parties come to an agreement
    $2000 4
In the days before his January 1989 execution in Florida, he confessed to dozens of murders
    $2000 7
Morocco has battled over Western Sahara & its wealth of phosphates, used as this growth aid

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Mo Wendi John
$20,800 $4,400 $22,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

FAMOUS NAMES
In March 2012 this director tweeted, "Just arrived at the ocean's deepest pt. Hitting bottom never felt so good"

Final scores:

Mo Wendi John
$41,600 $6,400 $42,900
2nd place: $41,600 to the Inner-City Scholarship Fund 3rd place: $10,000 to the WomenShelter of Long Beach Winner: $50,000 to Friends of Karen

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Mo Wendi John
$14,000 $4,400 $19,000
20 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W		 5 R,
1 W		 23 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W

Combined Coryat: $37,400

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