Show #8866 - Monday, May 8, 2023

Hannah Wilson game 4.
Juveria Zaheer game 1.

Contestants

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Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada

Sami Casanova, an actuary from New York, New York

Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois (whose 3-day cash winnings total $90,601)

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Jeopardy! Round

SCANDAL!
POP MUSIC-PODGE
GONE FISHIN'
YEET!
CHILDREN'S LIT
CONSONANT CRAVING
    $200 1
Receiving these gems from Central African dictator Jean-Bédel Bokassa helped end the presidency of France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing
    $200 26
The 2023 Grammys were good to aging redheads: Bonnie Raitt got Song of the Year & he took Best Country Solo Performance
    $200 15
At nearly 3 pounds a year per capita, salmon has passed this as the most commonly consumed fish in the U.S.; sorry, Charlie
    $200 28
Genesis:
"Therefore the Lord God sent" him "forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground"
    $200 29
This bear who first appeared in a 1958 book was part of many people's tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth II
    $200 30
Household item that totally sucks at its job:
AUU
    $400 2
A conservative MP & commentator on this network, Bob Boothby endured the revelations of his association with gangster Ronnie Kray
    $400 25
She earned our respect by singing "Respect" during her "American Idol" days before having her own hit with "Behind These Hazel Eyes"
    $400 16
Succulent but potentially lethal, Japan's specially prepared delicacy known as fugu uses a variety of this type of fish
    $400 27
In 2003 the board of directors decided to jettison these 3 letters that preceded Time Warner
    $400 20
A girl is part of a nontraditional (especially for children's books) family in 1989's "Heather has Two" these
    $400 22
Lwa are spirits in this religion of the Caribbean:
OOOO
    $600 6
You & I pay fees for this, withdrawing money we don't have; in a '90s scandal 300 congressmen did it with the House bank no problem
    $600 24
This lead singer of Hole said, "I tried out for 'the Mickey Mouse Club' when I was 11", & that would've been very interesting casting
    $600 17
In 1997 this U.S. state designated the Bonneville cutthroat trout as its official state fish
    $600 10
In "2001" this computer yeets Frank Poole off into space but still has Dave to contend with
    $600 18
This nickname for many kings follows "M.C. Higgins" in the title of the first Newbery Medal winner by a Black author
    $600 3
It's the woodwind instrument heard here:
AOO
    $800 7
This Italian P.M. said there was no scandal in 2009 after photos surfaced of scantily clad women at his villa
    $800 23
CBGB was a legendary East Village club where many punk & new wave acts got an early break, including them
    $800 19
This fish of the order Clupeiformes is kippered or cured by splitting, cleaning, salting & smoking
    $800 11
Truman: "I didn't fire" him "because he was a dumb son of a (bleep), although he was, but that's not against the law for generals"
    $800 14
In a story by Johnny Gruelle, this doll says, "I can't seem to think clearly today... it feels as if my head were ripped" (it was)
    $800 4
A small item that covers the big bald truth:
OUEE
    $1000 8
As attorney general under U.S. Grant, Edwards Pierrepont spent lots of time prosecuting this "Ring" of distillers who bribed & frauded
    $1000 9
Unafraid of long album titles like "When the Pawn..." (it does go on), she shortened things up in 2020 with "Fetch the Bolt Cutters"
    $1000 21
Fish found in this African lake created in the 1960s include 2 species of tilapia & the enormous Nile perch
    $1000 12
In Greek myth, after he was born lame, his mom yeeted him out of heaven, but he returned & made Hermes' winged helmet
    DD: $1,000 13
Though he comes from another world, not from France, this diminutive guy appeared on the 50-franc note for many years
    $1000 5
A secret reason for doing something is having a this "motive":
UEIO

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

Hannah Sami Juveria
$5,800 $2,400 $800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Hannah Sami Juveria
$7,200 $3,600 $2,800

Double Jeopardy! Round

"B" COOL
THE SOUTH PACIFIC
THE QUOTABLE ALEX
FUTILITY
AMERICAN WOMAN
WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN?
    $400 30
You're in charge if you do something "like a" this, meaning to do it with style & swagger
    $400 19
Vaka moana are traditional double-hulled these boats used to travel vast ocean distances
    $400 28
An 18th century politician:
"We are attempting by this Constitution to abolish factions"
    $400 29
Always armed with the catchphrase no one in the "Star Trek" world wanted to hear, the Borg let it be known that this "is futile"
    $400 26
Before Elena Kagan was the first woman to be dean of this at Harvard, she was the first bat mitzvah at Lincoln Square Synagogue
    $400 27
"The Jeffersons"
    $800 16
It's a vibratory sound, or the excitement generated by a cool new product or performer
    $800 15
Including Palmerston & Pukapuka, this vast expanse of islands was named after a British captain who visited in 1773
    $800 18
An inventor:
"You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth"
    $800 9
Jacques Cartier was among the explorers who failed to find this fabled route illustrated here
    $800 24
This woman who founded a cosmetics giant took a French-looking name & helped fund a restoration of Versailles
    $800 25
Vern Schillinger & the gang on "Oz"
    $1200 5
There are 2 Bs in the name of this jazz style pioneered by Charlie Parker & other hepcats
    $1200 13
Including the Loyalty Islands, the island group known as "New" this basically means "New Scotland"
    $1200 11
An author:
"All for one, one for all--that is our motto, is it not?"
    $1200 2
In the "Odyssey", Homer wrote this man was "in violent torment, seeking to raise a monstrous stone" but ever failing
    $1200 23
First name of the philanthropist who has gone by the last names Tuttle, Bezos & now Scott
    $1200 1
Chris Farley as Matt Foley, down by the river
    $1600 6
In 1958 the San Francisco Examiner worried that "growing lads" might become these "instead of ball players"
    $1600 12
This double-talk island of the Society Islands is surrounded by coral reefs
    $1600 10
An author & former prisoner:
"Socialism of any type & shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit"
    DD: $4,000 3
The scene of heavy fighting & futility in World War I, this peninsula bears a name that comes from the Greek for "beautiful city"
    DD: $7,000 20
Soon to mother a brood of actors of this last name, Georgiana Drew married actor Maurice in 1876
    $1600 22
Jim Rockford; he kept it parked in Malibu
    $2000 7
This last name of an uber-cool Hollywood icon is also a verb meaning to hog something, which is way not cool
    $2000 14
Although this country has more than 300 islands, about 70% of the population lives on its largest, Viti Levu
    $2000 17
An artist:
"Why must art be static?... the next step in sculpture is motion"
    $2000 4
Harry Potter might have a better chance of turning metals to gold using this medieval substance from alchemy, also called the tincture
    $2000 21
A self-titled 1961 L.P. of arias sung by this great "L.P." is known to opera lovers as the "Blue Album"
    $2000 8
Commander Sheridan & the gang on "Babylon 5"

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Hannah Sami Juveria
$21,200 $4,000 $17,000

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Final Jeopardy! Round

NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES
This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem "Kabul" by the 17th century Persian poet Saib

Final scores:

Hannah Sami Juveria
$34,200 $2 $0
4-day champion: $124,801 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Hannah Sami Juveria
$18,800 $4,000 $11,600
22 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 9 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 20 R
(including 1 DD),
5 W

Combined Coryat: $34,400

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Game tape date: 2023-02-28
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