Show #8858 - Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Contestants

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Jesse Matheny, a customer success implementation manager originally from Huntington, Indiana

Liz Everhart, a subrogation analyst and science teacher from Louisville, Kentucky

Johanna Stoberock, a fiction writer and adjunct professor from Walla Walla, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $6,999)

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Jeopardy! Round

RIHANNA
HISTORICAL POTPOURRI
CONFIDENCE
BRIT LIT
TOP TO BOTTOM
A NATION OF VODKA BRANDS
(Ken: You'll have to name the country from which each vodka hails.)
    $200 29
Music superstar Rihanna was born in 1988 in the parish of Saint Michael in this Caribbean island country
    $200 12
The battle of this elevated spot took place in June 1775 after the Yanks fortified it, threatening the British position
    $200 19
This synonym for confidence can be found before "healer" & after "defender of the"
    $200 18
Thomas Hardy promised his editor a pastoral novel & indeed set it, as the title says, "Far from" this group
    $200 24
You've hit this hard piece of nature "bottom" at your lowest point
    $200 3
Perhaps to enjoy with your caviar,
Beluga Noble
    $400 30
At age 16, Rihanna signed with Def Jam Records, then run by this man, & moved to his label a few years later
    $400 11
During the Galveston hurricane of 1900, Isaac Cline had this job & lost much of his reputation as well as his wife in the storm
    $400 20
Ask with confidence in this classic game, "Was it Plum with the dagger in the study?"; you might be wrong, but be confident!
    $400 17
Passionate & a bit on the dark side, "The Giaour" in a poem by this lord & romantic is truly a him-ic hero
    $400 25
You've scraped "the bottom of" this container at your lowest point
    $400 7
Tito's
    $600 15
Rihanna's last name, it's on the beauty line that helped make her a billionaire
    $600 10
A 1756 incident saw numerous Europeans die in this dungeon in India
    $600 21
Facing a trial in 399 B.C., this philosopher was confident he was a good man & could not be harmed (he could, & he certainly was)
    $600 16
In "A Room with a View", the view isn't of England but of this country
    $600 26
A New Yorker parody detailed the product liability lawsuit against this "top" company by "Mr. Wile E. Coyote, a resident of Arizona"
    $600 4
Sobieski
    $800 14
Rihanna played a hacker helping with a heist at the Met Gala in this movie that took a male series to the distaff side
    $800 9
In the 1650s this French king danced in ballets, some of which lasted for 12 hours
    $800 22
A Shakespeare character asks, "Does he not hold up his head, as it were, and" this 5-letter confident walk "in his gait?"
    $800 2
In Sir Walter Scott's "Castle Dangerous", which is book good, the castle is defended in 1306 against this Scottish king
    $800 27
This word meaning situated beneath the Earth's surface also precedes "regions" about more, shall we say, sensitive body areas
    $800 5
Grey Goose
    $1000 13
Rihanna's girl songs include "Selfish Girl", "A Girl Like Me", & signaling a new edgy image, "Good Girl..." these 2 words
    DD: $1,200 8
He peaked in power as Lord Privy Seal in 1536, fell from power, was executed & had his reputation revived by the late Hilary Mantel
    $1000 23
With "each depositor insured to at least $250,000", this.gov says its "official teller sign... is a symbol of confidence"
    $1000 1
As the title suggests, this D.H. Lawrence novel recounts the romantic affairs of sisters Gudrun & Ursula
    $1000 28
This 6-letter word refers to the zenith or farthest point, such as the point where the Moon is farthest from the Earth
    $1000 6
Referring to a line of latitude that runs through it,
42 Below

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

Johanna Liz Jesse
$0 $3,200 $1,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Johanna Liz Jesse
$4,000 $3,600 $4,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE NEW CAPITAL
4-SYLLABLE WORDS
WHISTLEBLOWERS
COMEDIANS
UNGULATES
THE PARENT COMPANY
    $400 6
In 1918 Moscow replaced this city to become the new capital of Russia
    $400 17
This type of wedding often involves traveling to a fun location like Hawaii or Mexico
    $400 15
Public affairs officer Gina Gray's whistleblowing at this cemetery revealed unmarked graves, misplaced headstones & more
    $400 11
Alex Trebek was a fan of this comedian who got "no respect" & liked hearing about his physician, Dr. Vinnie Boombatz
    $400 30
This "ship of the desert" creature can survive a week of extreme heat without a drink
    $400 27
Care for a beverage? Coke owns Minute Maid; this owns Gatorade
    $800 5
The urban plan for this post-Rio South American capital was called "Plano Piloto"
    $800 18
Everybody into the pool, this type with a vanishing edge
    $800 14
Jeffrey Wigand's reporting about tobacco companies making products with addictive levels of nicotine became this movie
    $800 12
April 26, 2023 is the 90th bday of this funny lady whose Saturday night skits included "Rancid Harvest" & "Went with the Wind"
    $800 29
Rudolph with your knees so loud... some types of this ungulate have knees that click so the group stays together in a blizzard
    $800 9
It provides YouTube, & you can Google that
    $1200 4
In 2019 the president of Indonesia announced the capital would be moved from Jakarta on this island to a new city on Borneo
    $1200 19
Once meaning to "pull up by the roots", today it means to get rid of something completely, like to wipe out a disease
    $1200 1
Daniel Ellsberg's exposé of policy misconduct during the Vietnam War had this collective name & was leaked to the New York Times
    $1200 8
Inducting him with just 3 others in a new Comedy Hall of Fame, John Mulaney said this "Fisher King" star never once phoned it in
    $1200 22
The spear-like canine teeth of the collared peccary gave the animal this other name, an Olympic event plus a final "A"
    $1200 10
You could say this company plays around, with Play-Doh & Playskool
    DD: $3,000 2
In 1923 Kemal Ataturk helped make this city, home to the anti-Ottoman resistance movement, the new capital
    DD: $3,000 21
In Zen Buddhism satori is attainment of this, also an intellectual awakening of the 18th century
    $1600 7
Sherron Watkins' whistleblowing led to the collapse of Enron as well as this "A"ccounting firm
    $1600 25
There's video of this star of "Ride Along" taking a polygraph: inflating his height to 5'4" doesn't fool the machine
    $1600 23
Arni is another word for this ungulate with a liquid in its 2-word name, tipping--& possibly breaking--the scales at over 2,500 pounds
    $1600 13
Its name implies one simple machine, but this big multinational holds the mayo with Hellmann's
    $2000 3
In the 1990s this country moved its capital from Almaty to Akmola, which was renamed Astana & then briefly named Nur-Sultan
    $2000 20
Used in science, a substance that can't be dissolved in a liquid is termed this
    $2000 16
While working at a nuclear facility, this woman played by Meryl Streep on film grew concerned about safety issues & blew the whistle
    $2000 26
In 2023 he hosted the Golden Globe Awards, which returned to broadcast TV after a time-out
    $2000 28
An ibex is a 4-letter ungulate ending in X; so is this, with one type being the scimitar-horned
    $2000 24
DreamWorks Animation is under NBCUniversal, which is under this cable provider

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Johanna Liz Jesse
$12,000 $11,000 $10,800

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

HOLLYWOOD HISTORY
Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer" because a 4th of that name had died hours before

Final scores:

Johanna Liz Jesse
$1,999 $1,000 $2,600
2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $2,600

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Johanna Liz Jesse
$12,000 $9,600 $15,000
14 R,
0 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 19 R,
2 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $36,600

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Game tape date: 2023-02-08
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