Show #7771 - Monday, May 28, 2018

Contestants

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Dev Thakur, a psychiatrist from West Lebanon, New Hampshire

Andrea Schuelke, a tutor from Saint Paul, Minnesota

Virginia Cummings, a geriatrician from Randolph, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $35,201)

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Jeopardy! Round

NURSERY RHYME POLICE REPORT
SWINGERS OF SPORTS
THE STATE SHE GOVERNED
PALINDROMIC WORDS
THE BODY HUMAN
ON THE "T"ABLE
    $200 1
Took statement from this woman of advanced age. She reports finding her cabinets empty & her dog dead
    $200 11
In 1985 this "Iron" heavyweight swung his fists in 15 fights; all ended in knockouts, 11 in the first round
    $200 21
Sarah Palin
    $200 12
The world of project-to-project employment is known as this economy
    $200 17
When you're cold or frightened, your arrector pili muscles make this "stand on end"
    $200 6
You can serve stew or soup out of one of these deep lidded dishes
    $400 2
First aid administered to this pair injured while tumbling down hill during water retrieval
    $400 27
Untamable, this "Golden Bear" was the first man to win all 4 of golf's major titles at least twice
    $400 22
Ann Richards
    $400 13
An old 3-letter word meaning "before"
    $400 18
Special cells called gustatory receptors are responsible for your sense of this
    $400 7
A fancy fungus & a chocolate confection are both called this
    $600 3
Suspect Peter, no last name, appears to have eaten these gourds as well as imprisoned his wife in one
    $600 28
In 2010 Sachin Tendulkar scored the first one-day double century (that's 200 runs) in the long history of this sport
    $600 23
Jennifer Granholm
    $600 14
Instead of "Hey, pal" or "mister", you can say "Hey", this word made popular by the character Wolverine
    $600 19
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the human body.) It takes three main muscles to raise the arm above the head: first, the superspinatus; next, the deltoid to about 90 degrees & finally, this large, flat, triangular muscle of the upper back
    $600 8
This Mexican beer brand uses a black eagle in its logo
    $800 4
Child services summoned to check on mother with uncontrollable family; problem aggravated by this unusual residence
    $800 29
He holds the MLB record for home runs by a shortstop, 345; there was a reason his manager let him play every day
    DD: $500 24
Lurleen Wallace
    $800 15
Accompanying a gesture, it can substitute for "that" in a sentence like "my son is that tall"
    $800 20
This pancake-shaped temporary organ in pregnant women supplies the fetus with food & oxygen
    $800 9
Pewter is a traditional material for this vessel, with a lid
    $1000 5
Last known sighting of this person of interest: talking with bakery salesman while on way to festival
    $1000 25
Jan Brewer
    $1000 16
In a song by The Wiggles, this double talk palindrome comes before "chugga chugga"
    $1000 26
Seen here is an animation of this wave-like muscular motion that pushes food through the esophagus
    $1000 10
A Moroccan stew is named for this implement in which it's cooked

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

Virginia Andrea Dev
$2,000 $1,400 $1,200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Virginia Andrea Dev
$2,000 $2,000 $4,700

Double Jeopardy! Round

3-NAMED PEOPLE
(Alex: We're gonna need all three names.)
MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONG
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
MEMORIAL DAY
BEACH SEASON
IT'S GETTING "HOT"
    $400 1
In 2016 this "Sling Blade" Oscar winner began playing lawyer Billy McBride in TV's "Goliath"
    $400 6
"Chim Chim Cher-ee" (1964), written by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
    $400 11
Asia forms the entire northern border of this ocean
    $400 21
For Memorial Day, the 3rd U.S. infantry regiment places flags in front of more than 200,000 headstones in this cemetery
    $400 26
Don't put a beached whale or dolphin back in the water; keep it wet, cool & shaded & don't cover this nostril
    $400 16
A phone number for people to call for more information during an emergency
    $800 2
This lawyer who penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" was later a member of Andrew Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet"
    $800 7
"Jai Ho" (2008), written by A.R. Rahman & Gulzar
    $800 12
This capital on the island of Java is sometimes spelled with a "D" at the beginning
    $800 22
The World War I poem "In Flanders Field" inspired the use of this flower as a symbol for remembering fallen soldiers
    $800 27
Hand me my thong! 150-mile-long Praia do Cassino in this country is the world's longest beach
    $800 17
Designers Mary Quant & Mariuccia Mandelli are credited with popularizing these in the early 1970s
    DD: $1,500 3
He's the architect seen here with his plans for a mile-high skyscraper that was never built
    $1200 8
"(This title)... What A Feeling" (1983), written by Giorgio Moroder, Irene Cara & Keith Forsey
    $1200 13
Rising in the Valdai Hills northwest of Moscow, this is Europe's longest river
    $1200 23
This traditional song of Memorial Day was originally a call to extinguish lights
    $1200 28
The red sand of Maui's Kaihalulu Beach is due to a high concentration of this metallic element
    $1200 18
Westinghouse once made an electric frying pan that doubled as this when turned upside down
    $1600 4
Just days after the Scopes monkey trial ended, this statesman who assisted the prosecution died
    $1600 9
"Glory" (2014), written by the guys we know as John Legend & Common
    $1600 14
The capital of the Cayman Islands & the capital of Guyana share this name
    $1600 24
On the holiday, the Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma hosts a festival for these vehicles, the food trucks of the Old West
    $1600 29
Live sand dollars have velvety coats but lose them after death; the invertebrate shell, AKA this, washes ashore
    $1600 19
Nickname of impetuous Sir Henry Percy, killed at the 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury
    $2000 5
"The Queen of Suspense", she's written more than 35 bestsellers since the '70s, including "Daddy's Little Girl"
    $2000 10
"I'm Easy" (1975), written by Keith Carradine
    $2000 15
South America's most arid region is this desert in northern Chile
    DD: $3,000 25
To honor the 100th anniversary of a battle here, LBJ gave a Memorial Day speech in 1963
    $2000 30
Waves can deposit sediment along the shore as terraced areas alliteratively called "beach" these
    $2000 20
Many a politician has told the public more than he wanted to because he didn't know he was on one of these

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Virginia Andrea Dev
$21,400 $4,400 $13,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

19th CENTURY AUTHORS
This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker"

Final scores:

Virginia Andrea Dev
$15,999 $8,400 $100
2-day champion: $51,200 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Virginia Andrea Dev
$20,400 $4,400 $13,600
20 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
7 R,
1 W
19 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $38,400

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Game tape date: 2018-02-07
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