Show #8165 - Friday, February 21, 2020

MacKenzie Jones game 5.

Contestants

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Jon Fuhrman, a retired IT manager from Pasadena, California

Kimberly Brazier, a social advertising strategist from Queens, New York

MacKenzie Jones, a program development director from Tulsa, Oklahoma (whose 4-day cash winnings total $111,202)

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Jeopardy! Round

FAMILIAR PHRASES

OOO, SORRY

YOU'RE OUT OF THE HOLE

MAKE A SELECTION

& FINALLY...

THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER

$200

Proverbially speaking, it "makes the heart grow fonder"

$200

In Latin this word follows "lata" to mean "grave fault" & follows "mea" to mean "my fault"

$200

These insectivores, like the star-nosed variety, spend most of their lives underground digging tunnels

$200

With a 7th overall pick in 2009 that worked out fairly well, this team took Steph Curry, AKA Threezus

$200

On Aug. 22, 2019 this band ended their set at the Rose Bowl with "Gimme Shelter" & "Satisfaction"

$200

H.L. Mencken wrote that this gloomy historical -ism is "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"

$400

An org. failing due to bad leadership is said to be a case of one of these cold-blooded vertebrates "rotting from the head down"

$400

In 1988 the U.S. government offered U.S. citizens of this ethnicity an apology for the way they were treated during World War II

$400

These armored insectivores of the U.S. south emerge from their burrows at night

$400

With the first overall pick of the 1998 NFL draft, the Indianapolis Colts selected this insurance salesman, a Tennessee QB

$400

Gene Cernan's final words before leaving this place in 1972, per Walter Cunningham: "Let's get this mother out of here"

$400

Oscar Wilde once quipped that this other Irish wit "has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by all his friends"

DD: $1,000

"Passing" this "test" originated with using it to dissolve substances to see if they were really gold or not

$600

Today we "beg" this after stepping on someone's foot; centuries ago, the same was done to ask the king to spare one's life

$600

These echinoderms often partly bury themselves in ocean sand with only one edge poking out

$600

As a favor to this catcher's dad in 1988, Tommy Lasorda had the Dodgers draft him in round 62, 1,390 overall--he made the H.O.F.

$600

This musical about an audition for Broadway ended its initial 15-year run at the Shubert in 1990; now, 5-6-7-8...respond!

$600

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits", he wrote in "Pudd'nhead Wilson"

$800

React in an over-the-top manner to a relatively harmless situation & you're said to be "clutching your" these valuables

$800

A traditional flower of apology, the purple hyacinth is named for a youth accidentally killed with this, not a shot put or javelin

$800

The Ontario Hockey League's Soo Greyhounds made a "great" pick at No. 3 in 1977; this teen scored 182 points the next season

$800

Of the 56 men to do this, Thomas McKean of Delaware was the last, sometime between 1777 & 1781

$800

Seen here, this Florida humorist wrote a defense of his homeland in the book "Best State Ever"

$1000

That concert was awesome & totally "off the" this, a word preceding gang or reaction

$1000

Hopes were high in Cleveland after the Browns selected this Heisman-winning QB No. 1 overall in 2018

$1000

After 442 years, the flag of Portugal came down over this newly Chinese territory in December 1999

$1000

In "Santaland Diaries", this humorist wrote about his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's

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

MacKenzie	Kimberly	Jon
$2,600	$600	-$200

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

MacKenzie	Kimberly	Jon
$6,200	$1,800	$2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

PULITZER-WINNING JOURNALISM

FOOD & DRINK MOVIE QUOTES

IN THE ARTS WORLD

YOU KILLED ME!

SOUTH AMERICAN PLACES

3 "M"

(Alex: The letter M will come up three times in each correct response.)

$400

The staff of this large newspaper won the 1966 Spot Reporting award for its coverage of the Watts Riots

$400

From "Pulp Fiction", "You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in Paris?...They call it" this "with cheese"

$400

A traditional feature of African art, these items were the focus of a 2016 exhibition titled "Disguise"

$400

In 1963 Jack Ruby killed him, with literally millions of witnesses

$400

9,500 feet up in the Andes, Portillo, Chile is South America's oldest resort for this winter activity

$400

Adjective meaning the largest amount possible

DD: $2,000

The Boston Post won in 1921 for its exposure of the scheme of this Italian con man

$800

Forrest Gump says of his true love, "Jenny and me was like" these 2 veggies

$800

These pieces of artwork took off in value in the 1980s, with one from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" going for $50,600

$800

He lived by the gun & died by Pat Garrett's on July 14, 1881

$800

This planned capital city was founded after World War II & today is home to more than 2.5 million

$800

Elaborate process of preparing a pharaoh for the afterlife

$1200

A Christian Science Monitor reporter won in 1996 for covering a massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica in this former Yugoslav land

$1200

It's the dish that Hannibal Lecter ate with a side of fava beans & a nice Chianti

$1200

In 2019 Christie's auctioned works from the collection of Lee Bouvier Radziwill, sister of this first lady

$1200

Cleopatra, though "It killed me!" is more accurate; it was a symbol of Egyptian royalty

$1200

The Sugarcane Fair is a tourist draw in Cali in this country

$1200

In the Eddie Cochran hit song from 1958, "There ain't no cure for" these "blues"

$1600

The Akron Beacon Journal won a Pulitzer for its coverage of the 1970 tragedy at this local university

$1600

In "Sideways", Paul Giamatti emphatically said that he would not drink any of this red wine

$1600

This controversial artist made headlines when he recently opened "Dismaland", a unique take on amusement parks

$1600

In 1981 religious extremists within his own military assassinated this leader in Cairo

DD: $5,000

Magdalena, Argentina, & Las Piedras, Uruguay are on opposite sides of this waterway

$1600

It's a postage stamp like the one seen here, marking a special historical event or person

$2000

In 2009 the East Valley Tribune of Mesa, Arizona won for a series on this local sheriff & his immigration enforcement

$2000

From "Elf": "We elves try to stick to the 4 main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and" this liquid

$2000

Bregenz, Austria is known for the artistry of its floating stages, like the great wall as the backdrop of this Puccini opera

$2000

4 knights took out this "meddlesome priest" in 1170

$2000

This capital of Suriname was ceded by the English to the Dutch by the 1667 Treaty of Breda

$2000

Noctambulism is another word for this habit

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

MacKenzie	Kimberly	Jon
$10,600	$9,800	-$200

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Final Jeopardy! Round

INTERNATIONAL AWARD TROPHIES

La Maison Chopard crafts this annual award’s crystal base & 118-gram, 18-carat frond

Final scores:

MacKenzie	Kimberly	Jon
$19,601	$2,800	-$200
5-day champion: $130,803	2nd place: $2,000	3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

MacKenzie	Kimberly	Jon
$10,600	$9,800	$4,600
17 R, 3 W	14 R, 1 W	11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 2 DDs)

Show #8165 - Friday, February 21, 2020

Contestants

Jeopardy! Round

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

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Double Jeopardy! Round

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Final Jeopardy! Round

Final scores:

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Combined Coryat: $25,000

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Game tape date: 2019-12-04