Show #8901 - Monday, June 26, 2023

Contestants

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Caroline Gulick, a realtor from Reno, Nevada

Ryan Clary, a cheesemonger from Chattanooga, Tennessee

Donna Matturri, a librarian from Columbus, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,400)

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Jeopardy! Round

FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME
HERE COMES THE SUMMER
7-LETTER WORDS
UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES
LOVELY RITA
METER MADE
    $200 16
Mrs. Obama's chimes
    $200 15
MLB's All-Star Week includes this "Derby"; Juan Soto belted 53 to win the 2022 event
    $200 5
It's a payment given by a feudal vassal to a lord, or a type of band such as Oasish
    $200 26
Acting brothers Chris & Liam should love this constituency, about midway between Manchester & Kingston upon Hull
    $200 1
Her road to the EGOT began with winning an Oscar as Anita in "West Side Story"
    $200 12
In the 1930s, Carl Magee conceived these meters for the streets of Oklahoma city & an oil industry supply company made them
    $400 17
Mrs. Kennedy's military slacks
    $400 4
What better time than summer to unleash your inner child on one of these alliterative items
    $400 6
Zeno's "arrow" is an example of this philosophical statement, from the Greek for "contrary to expectation"
    $400 27
You can catch some Grand Slam tennis action as well as election results from this place in the outer boroughs of London
    $400 2
She & Tom Hanks co-starred in the 1985 film "Volunteers" & lived out their on-screen romance off-screen, marrying in 1988
    $400 13
Handy for home electrical work, the Klein tools multimeter measures up to 600 of these units
    $600 18
Mrs. Madison's streetcars
    $600 23
Head to Rockland in this state for the August Lobster Fest & Coronation of the Sea Goddess
    $600 7
Czech athlete, Barbora Spotáková holds a world record for throwing this item some 237 feet
    $600 28
Know that Orkney & these islands in the northernmost part of Scotland are a district & we may give you a small pony! (But we won't)
    $600 3
A long-time headliner on the Strip, she was named Las Vegas' Comedian of the Year 9 years in a row
    $600 14
The device seen here is called a pulse one of these & is made to see how well your lungs are working
    $800 19
The second Mrs. Bush's soft felt hats with creased crowns
    $800 24
Fans by the thousands flock to Chicago's Grant Park for this annual summer music festival
    $800 10
This delicate word is stretched out to 3 syllables by Darren McGavin in "A Christmas Story"
    $800 29
Covering all its directional bases, this capital of Northern Ireland has constituencies North, South, East & West
    $800 8
Margarita Cansino was the real name of this silver screen star of the 1940s & '50s
    $800 21
stamps.com says its service is better than using this device that Pitney Bowes has been making for a century
    $1000 20
Mrs. Truman's locks of hair
    $1000 25
An Outward Bound summer course lets teenagers get their kicks rock climbing in these "High" California mountains
    $1000 11
It's an oxymoronic portmanteau for a good buddy that you also sorta hate
    DD: $1,600 30
Bordering Dover & Folkestone & Hythe, this district on England's east coast has a few ancient "Tales" to tell
    $1000 9
This lovely Rita honored her heritage by wearing an Albanian folk costume in the video for her 2021 EP "Bang"
    $1000 22
It was a breeze for John Thomas Romney Robinson to make the cup style one of these in the 1800s; a similar design is still used

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

Donna Ryan Caroline
$200 $2,200 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Donna Ryan Caroline
$3,800 $2,800 $6,200

Double Jeopardy! Round

NAMES OF THE 1990s
WAR OF THE WORDS
SCIENTISTS
CLASSICAL MUSIC
TV
CROSSWORD CLUES "P"
    $400 23
Tracey Emin caused a stir with a 1998 artwork consisting of this piece of furniture of hers, unmade, with empty vodka bottles
    $400 10
Gore Vidal said he loathed this "In Cold Blood" writer "the way you might loathe... a filthy animal"
    $400 28
In the home seen here, now a museum in Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner came up with a vaccine for this disease
    $400 24
In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman at the Met with this job, helping Beverly Sills soar
    $400 15
Mel Brooks' 1981 film was really "Part I" after all; a 2023 Hulu series is called this: "Part II"
    $400 21
Administrative area for a police department
(8 letters)
    $800 22
Founder Steve Case was the tech tycoon of the moment when this Internet service provider went public in 1992
    $800 7
Not the Pickwick but the Garrick Club was the site of conversations that caused a falling out between Thackeray & this author
    $800 27
In 1847, Maria Mitchell, America's first professional female astronomer, discovered one of these, officially known as C/1847 T1
    $800 25
Canadian Glenn Gould is known primarily for his unique stylings on this instrument
    $800 11
Julia Garner's Ruth Langmore did not survive the finale of this crime series
    $800 18
To filch
(6 letters)
    $1200 8
He won a 3-way race for party leadership & became prime minister of Great Britain in 1990
    $1200 4
Years before "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu", he fought a duel with a critic who had angered him; both shots missed
    $1200 26
Mais oui & merci, this man seen here sheepishly came up with an anthrax vaccine in 1881
    DD: $2,000 1
Tan Dun, an Oscar winner for this 2000 Ang Lee film, recently composed an operatic work called "Buddha Passion"
    $1200 12
This Oscar winner came to TV in 2023 as "The Consultant" Regus Patoff
    $1200 16
A commoner in ancient Rome
(8 letters)
    $1600 9
In August 1990, with this small country under invasion, its emir Sheikh Jaber fled to Saudi Arabia
    $1600 5
Poet Wallace Stevens' feud with this novelist erupted into punches in a Key West street
    $1600 29
In 2023 Bob Metcalfe won the Turing Award for inventing this computer networking technology in the 1970s
    $1600 2
Modern composer David Philip Hefti's "Fünf Concertini" honors this Italian known for creating about 500 concertos
    $1600 13
She played double agent Sydney Bristow on "Alias"
    $1600 17
Stocks' punishment partner
(7 letters)
    $2000 19
Bill Romanowski went from the 49ers to the Eagles & Broncos; this Ill. politician went from power in the U.S. House to prison
    $2000 6
In 1976, Mario Vargas Llosa gave this other 3-named South American Nobelist a literal black eye
    DD: $1,000 30
When Tycho Brahe died in 1601, his protégé, this astronomer, succeeded him as "imperial mathematician"
    $2000 3
This composer created "A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close"; Chuck painted a portrait of him titled "Phil"
    $2000 14
This Starz prequel TV show depicts the younger Marquise de Merteuil & Vicomte de Valmont from a novel of romantic intrigue
    $2000 20
A speaker of many languages
(8 letters)

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Donna Ryan Caroline
$18,800 $11,600 $7,400

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Final Jeopardy! Round

20th CENTURY EVENTS
It was immediately reported, "The flames are still leaping maybe 30, 40 feet from the ground the entire 811 feet length of" this

Final scores:

Donna Ryan Caroline
$22,800 $21,822 $0
2-day champion: $40,200 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Donna Ryan Caroline
$19,800 $10,800 $6,800
21 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)		 14 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 16 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W

Combined Coryat: $37,400

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Game tape date: 2023-04-14
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