Responses for Show #8340 - Friday, February 19, 2021

Last game with Ken Jennings as guest host.

Contestants

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Lauren Menke, a math teacher from Columbus, Ohio

Sam Stapleton, a college consultant from Los Gatos, California

Alan Johnson, a software engineering manager from Metuchen, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,800)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

DEAD PRECEDENTS
POP CULTURE
LOADS OF ROADS
HAIR'S TO YOU
RHYME TIME
BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES
(Ken: These will be presented by the talented news team at our affiliate, Baltimore's FOX45.)
    $200 30
the flag

Alan
    $200 13
BTS

Sam
    $200 27
superhighway

Sam
    $200 23
a bowl cut

Alan
    $200 3
a sandy candy

Lauren
    $200 17
(Ken: Pick another less Baltimore-related category.)
[Laughter]

"The Star-Spangled Banner"

Sam
    $400 29
extradite

Sam
    $400 14
Suits

Lauren
    $400 26
a beltway

Alan
    $400 22
(Alan: What is a bob?)

a bun

Alan
Triple Stumper
    $400 4
a high cry

Triple Stumper
    $400 16
Poe

Sam
    $600 1
parochial

Triple Stumper
    $600 2
Blue Ivy

Alan
    $600 12
a cul-de-sac

Lauren
    $600 19
cornrows

Sam
    $600 5
a Pakistan plan

Triple Stumper
    $600 8
The Wire

Sam
    $800 11
the 4th Amendment

Alan
    $800 15
(David) Spade

Alan
    $800 24
a causeway

Sam
    $800 20
a pageboy

Sam
    $800 6
a spoon platoon

Lauren
    $800 9
(Ken: Yeah, Baltimore & Ohio.)

The B&O Railroad

Sam
    $1000 28
Citizens United

Alan
    $1000 18
Eleven

Triple Stumper
    $1000 25
(Ken: Less than a minute now.)

blacktop

Sam
    $2,000 21
(Ken: Madame de [*], that's correct)

a pompadour

Sam
    $1000 7
a banal canal

Alan
    $1000 10
the USS Constellation

Triple Stumper

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

Alan Sam Lauren
$3,200 $1,600 $2,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Alan Sam Lauren
$4,600 $8,000 $2,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

MAD ABOUT MADRIGALS
MOVIE TITLE PAIRS
HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY
DR. YES (M.D., NO)
"KON"FUSION
(Ken: "K-O-N" will appear in each response, although not at the beginning of the word.)
REESE'S PIECES OF LITERATURE
(Ken: These are books selected by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club.)
    $400 26
the Renaissance

Alan
    $400 8
Thelma & Louise

Lauren
    $400 19
Yugoslavia

Alan
    $400 9
a gorilla

Sam
    $400 16
beckon

Sam
    $400 1
Dodger Stadium

Sam
    $800 27
lass

Alan
    $800 7
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Lauren
    $4,000 10
Nanking

Sam
    $800 20
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Lauren
    $800 15
Nikon

Lauren
    $800 2
Sicily

Sam
    $1200 28
(Lauren: Who is, uh... Plutarch?)

Petrarch

AlanLauren
    $1200 4
Lilo & Stitch

Sam
    $1200 11
Poland

Sam
    $1200 21
Dr. Phil

Sam
    $1200 14
Reckoning

Lauren
    $1200 3
Jojo Moyes

Triple Stumper
    $1600 29
polyphonic

Alan
    $1600 5
Stand and Deliver

Lauren
    $1600 12
Beirut

Alan
    $1600 22
Doc Holliday

Sam
    $1600 17
daikon

Lauren
    $1600 24
Little Fires Everywhere

Lauren
    $2000 30
Samuel Barber

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
(Ken: Ian McKellen film, [*].)

Gods and Monsters

Triple Stumper
    $2000 13
Vladivostok

Alan
    $3,000 23
computer science

Sam
    $2000 18
Mykonos

Alan
    $2000 25
Brené Brown

Alan

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Alan Sam Lauren
$16,600 $22,200 $9,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

WORLD SURNAMES
(Ken: Previously boys and girls in this country had two different suffixes on their surname.)
...
(Ken: [To Lauren] They were -son and -dóttir, but now they can be -bur as well.)
LaurenWhat is Iceland?
$9,599
AlanWhat is Iceland
$6,000
SamWhat is Iceland?
$11,001
Iceland

Final scores:

Alan Sam Lauren
$22,600 $33,201 $19,199
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $33,201 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Alan Sam Lauren
$16,600 $17,000 $9,600
17 R,
1 W		 22 R
(including 3 DDs),
0 W		 12 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $43,200

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Game tape date: 2020-12-16
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