>1>Show #8591 - Monday, March 7, 2022>div>
>Margaret Shelton game 5.
Maureen O'Neil game 1.
>Contestants >r> >table>
>Jeopardy! Round
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>Clay Cooper, an SAT and ACT tutor from Las Vegas, Nevada

>Maureen O'Neil, an executive assistant from Rye Beach, New Hampshire

>Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 4-day cash winnings total $79,700)

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<tr> <td class="category"> ble> >d class="category_name">MOUNTAINS>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr>
ble> >d class="category_name">FRENCH COOKING TERMS>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">3-LETTER INITIALISMS>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">FROM BOOK TO TV>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">PHRASE FARMING>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> </tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
    $200 >26
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_1_1" class="clue_text">According to a Japanese proverb, "He who climbs" this mountain "once is a wise man, he who climbs it twice is a fool" >Mount Fuji>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
<tr> <td>
    $200 >1</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_2_1" class="clue_text">Bavarois, a creamy custard, refers to a region in this country Germany>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
    $200 >16
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_3_1" class="clue_text">Big Blue is the nickname of this Fortune 500 company IBM>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
    $200 >8</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_4_1" class="clue_text">Ulysses' angry tirades Grant's rants>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
    $200 >11
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_5_1" class="clue_text">In this novel & the TV series based on it, Beth Harmon pictures a chessboard on the ceiling above her in bed at night >>The Queen's Gambit>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
    $200 >21
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_6_1" class="clue_text">You'll be waitin' a mighty long time, or "'til" this idiomatic return of certain bovines until the cows come home>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
    $400 >27
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_1_2" class="clue_text">Ben Nevis in this country is the highest mountain of the British Isles Scotland>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
    $400 >2</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_2_2" class="clue_text">"À la meunière" is cooking in the tradition of this worker's wife; she would have had access to a bunch of flour a miller's wife>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
<tr> <td>
    $400 >17
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_3_2" class="clue_text">The emoji seen >he
re is commonly used in place of this exclamation of astonishment that actually goes back to the early 1900s (Clay: What is [**]?)
(Ken: Yes, the initialism being [*], older than we thought.)
>r />m class="correct_response">OMG (Oh, my God)>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
    $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425922" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">6</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_4_2" class="clue_text">Gerald's bladed weapons >m class="correct_response">Ford's swords>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $1,000 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425927" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">12
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_5_2" class="clue_text">A nonfiction book subtitled "The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" inspired this HBO series >m class="correct_response">>Bo
ardwalk Empire>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
    $400 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425937" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">22
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_6_2" class="clue_text">Judging good against bad is "separating" these 2 threshed farm items >m class="correct_response">the wheat from the chaff>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425943" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">28
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_1_3" class="clue_text">Bring a chair and enjoy the view of this> f
amous mountain that overlooks Cape Town >m class="correct_response">Table Mountain>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425918" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">3</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_2_3" class="clue_text">From a French word meaning "to scrape" we get this term for a preparation of breadcrumbs & cheese >(K
en: That's [*]--"to grate".)
>r />m class="correct_response">a >gratin>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425933" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">18
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_3_3" class="clue_text">The electric i4 is one of its ultimate driving machines >m class="correct_response">BMW>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425923" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">7</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_4_3" class="clue_text">Eisenhower's scares >m class="correct_response">Ike's yikes (Dwight's frights)>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425928" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">13
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_5_3" class="clue_text">Tony Hale plays the rich benefactor who recruits a group of gifted orphans to take part in this "Mysterious" society >m class="correct_response">>Th
e Mysterious Benedict Society>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $600 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425938" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">23
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_6_3" class="clue_text">This porcine phrase means you're being offered something but its real value is being hidden >m class="correct_response">a pig in a poke>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425944" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">29
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_1_4" class="clue_text">These 2 highest mountains of Hawaii with similar names differ in height by just over 100 feet >m class="correct_response">Mauna Loa & Mauna Kea>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 > href="suggestcorrection.php?clue_id=425919" title="Suggest a correction for this clue" rel="nofollow">4</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_2_4" class="clue_text">A silent "X" comes at the end of this sautéed vegetable mix seen
here>,
thought to be named for a duke whose cook popularized it >(M
argaret: What is brunoise?)
(Clay: What is Bordeaux?)
>[T
ime's up]
(Margaret: [*]?)
>r />m class="correct_response">a mirepoix>r />r />>r>>table>
>Margaret>Clay
>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >19
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_3_4" class="clue_text">Garmin is a leader in this technology that keeps you on track, wherever you go GPS>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >9</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_4_4" class="clue_text">Jimmy's official founding documents Carter's charters>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >14
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_5_4" class="clue_text">John Cusack & Zoe Kravitz played the record store owner in the film & TV adaptations of this novel by Nick Hornby >m class="correct_response">>High Fidelity>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >24
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_6_4" class="clue_text">"Resist placing each of one's ova within a single receptacle" is another way to put this phrase of warning don't put all your eggs in one basket>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 >30
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_1_5" class="clue_text">Referring to its shape, this peak on which Brazil's Christ the Redeemer Statue stands has a name meaning "hunchback" (Clay: What is Corvacada?)
>r />Mount Corcovado>r />r />>r>>table>
>Clay
>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 >5</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_2_5" class="clue_text">Place your steak in a sealed bag in heated water & you're cooking like the pros via this "under vacuum" method >m class="correct_response">>sous vide>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 >20
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_3_5" class="clue_text">Managed by Caltech for NASA, this facility was originally created in the 1930s for rocket research the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 >10
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_4_5" class="clue_text">William Howard's vertical gold mine passages Taft's shafts>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 >15
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_5_5" class="clue_text">This 2021 miniseries based on a Beth Macy book goes from big pharma boardrooms to the struggles of opioid addicts >m class="correct_response">>Dopesick>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1000 >25
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_J_6_5" class="clue_text">An Apple commercial where a rural fellow finds a lost iPhone is a reference to this idiom finding a needle in a haystack>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
</tr> able> >Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):
>Margaret >Maureen >Clay
>$600 >$3,800 >$1,600
>Sc
ores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
>Margaret >Maureen >Clay
>$3,200 >$6,600 >$2,600
>Double Jeopardy! Round <tr> <td class="category"> ble> >d class="category_name">THE IDEAS OF MARCH>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr>
ble> >d class="category_name">Y IS THE SECOND LETTER>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">BIOGRAPHIES>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">TOWERS>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">SINGLE-NAMED CELEBRITIES>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> ble> >d class="category_name">THAT'S JUST SCIENCE, MAN>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr> </tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
    $400 >11
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_4_1" class="clue_text">The Elizabeth Tower in London houses this large bell Big Ben>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
    $400 >16
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_5_1" class="clue_text">In 2020 a super deluxe edition of his "Sign o' the Times" was released with 63 previously unreleased tracks (Ken: Yes, great album.)
>r />Prince>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
<tr> <td>
    $400 >21
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_6_1" class="clue_text">The ratio of an object's velocity to the velocity of sound in the same medium is named for this physicist Mach>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >3</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_1_2" class="clue_text">In 1918 Congress thought March 31 was the moment to first spring forward to this daylight savings time>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >12
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_4_2" class="clue_text">About 1,200 feet, the Fernsehturm TV Tower in this capital was built in the 1960s to showcase the socialist system Berlin>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >17
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_5_2" class="clue_text">Time magazine named this Brazilian soccer great one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century Pelé>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $800 >22
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_6_2" class="clue_text">Make your bones naming this complex of bones seen
>he
re the pelvis>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 >4</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_1_3" class="clue_text">Folks in what's now this state thought March 2, 1836 was a good day to declare independence from Mexico (Clay: What is... Wyoming?)
>r />Texas>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $2,600 >1</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_2_3" class="clue_text">Deposits of this mineral make up the white sands of White Sands National Park (Clay: What is... mica?)
>r />gypsum>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 >10
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_3_3" class="clue_text">Jennet Conant's "A Covert Affair" tells of this female chef's time in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA Julia Child>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 >13
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_4_3" class="clue_text">Constructed in 1348, the 220-foot Galata Tower in this city overlooks the Golden Horn Istanbul>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1200 >18
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_5_3" class="clue_text">She showed a more serious side in the movie "The Farewell", in which she returns to China to visit her ailing grandmother Awkwafina>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   DD: $3,500 >23
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_6_3" class="clue_text">Before moving to Gemini & Taurus, the summer solstice used to be in this constellation, hence the name of a geographic line (Margaret: What is [*]? What is the Tropic of [*]?)
>..
.
(Ken: Less than a minute to go.)
>r />Cancer>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 >5</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_1_4" class="clue_text">The government of Reza Pahlavi chose March 21, 1935 as the day for changing the country's name from this to this (Clay: What is... India?)
>r />Persia to Iran>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 >2</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_2_4" class="clue_text">In Matthew 2:11 it's presented as a gift, along with gold & frankincense myrrh>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 >9</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_3_4" class="clue_text">>Th
is man, considered by some Britain's greatest soldier is the focus of the biography subtitled "The Iron Duke" the Duke of Wellington>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Maureen
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 >14
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_4_4" class="clue_text">Once part of the defenses of the city of Lisbon, the 16th century >Be
lém Tower was built on the north bank of this river (Clay: What is the... Tasus?)
>r />the Tagus>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 >19
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_5_4" class="clue_text">He was a favorite of Jackie Kennedy & Bill Blass called him "the quintessential American designer" Halston>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $1600 >24
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_6_4" class="clue_text">With 1 being the softest on the Mohs scale of hardness, this substance consisting primarily of silica is the index mineral for 7 (Margaret: [After Ken gives the correct response] I knew that.)
>r />quartz>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 >6</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_1_5" class="clue_text">To him, at his aunt's farm in Massachusetts, March 16, 1926 was the right time to launch the first liquid-fueled rocket Goddard>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Clay
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 >7</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_2_5" class="clue_text">From the Latin for "viper", it's a dragon used in heraldry, like the image seen >he
re (Clay: What is wyrm?)
(Maureen: What is a gryphon?)
>r />m class="correct_response">a wyvern>r />r />>r>>table>
>Maureen>Clay
>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 >8</a>
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_3_5" class="clue_text">William Feaver does some psychoanalyzing in his 2-volume "The Lives of" this British artist who died in 2011 >m class="correct_response">Lucian Freud>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 >15
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_4_5" class="clue_text">One of the tallest buildings in the world, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, is part of a complex adjacent to this holy site >(M
argaret: Is that the Western Wall?)
>(M
aureen: What is the Wailing Wall?)
>r />the Great Mosque in Mecca>r />r />>r>>table>
>Margaret>Maureen
>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 >20
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_5_5" class="clue_text">At 66, >th
is supermodel was stunning at the 2021 Met Gala, her outfit called "A Ray of Light After All the Darkness" (Ken: Margaret, where to?)
>(M
argaret: [Unenthusiastically] SCIENCE for $400.)
(Ken: You seem excited.)
[Laughter]
>r />m class="correct_response">Iman>r />r />>r>d class="wrong">Triple Stumper>table> </tr>
<tr> <td>
>&#160;   $2000 >25
</tr> <tr> <td id="clue_DJ_6_5" class="clue_text">This outermost region of the Sun's atmosphere is warmish-->2 million kelvin >(C
lay: What is the photosphere?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
>r />m class="correct_response">the corona>r />r />>r>>table> </tr>
>Margaret>Clay
</tr> able>

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

>Margaret >Maureen >Clay
$12,300 $10,200 >-$2,400

>[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

<tr> <td class="category">
<table> <tr>d class="category_name">CENTRAL AMERICA>tr> >d class="category_comments">>tr>
</tr> <tr> <td class="clue"> <tr> <td id="clue_FJ" class="clue_text">A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country's area>r>>$8,000>r>>r>>$12,300>table>>Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua </tr>
>Maureen>What are guata + mala?>Margaret>What is> are Nicaragua &
r id="clue_FJ_stuck"> able> >Final scores:
>Margaret >Maureen >Clay
>$0 $2,200 >-$2,400
>2nd place: $2,000 >New champion: $2,200 >3rd place: $1,000
>Ga
me dynamics: Game dynamics graph

>Coryat scores:

>Margaret >Maureen >Clay
$10,000 $10,200 -$400
13 R
>(including 1 DD),
2 W
18 R,
2 W
>13 R
(including 1 DD),
>8 W
(including 1 DD)

>Combined Coryat: $19,800

>[game responses] >[game scores] >[suggest correction]

Game tape date: 2022-01-12
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