Responses for Show #8506 - Monday, November 8, 2021

First game with Ken Jennings introduced as hosting.
Episode ended with a title card reading, "Alex Trebek / July 22, 1940 – November 8, 2020 / You are missed every day."

Contestants

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Elena Passarello, a writer and college professor from Corvallis, Oregon

Dane Reighard, an editor from Los Angeles, California

Kate Kohn, a communications manager from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,000)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES
INVENTION
FIX THE ELTON JOHN LYRIC
ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS
GETTING INTO THE SPIRITS
LEGAL "EE"
(Ken: All the responses will end with those two "E"s.)
    $200 26
Mount Everest

Triple Stumper
    $200 16
a kidney

Kate
    $200 28
crocodile rock

Dane
    $200 17
a frog in your throat

Kate
    $200 23
bourbon

Kate
    $200 27
a trustee

Elena
    $400 22
Wisconsin

Kate
    $400 19
underwire

Kate
    $400 4
a rocket man

Dane
    $400 3
a snake in the grass

Dane
    $400 18
vodka

Dane
    $400 2
a guarantee

Dane
    $600 6
Wilder

Dane
    $600 25
the digital camera

Kate
    $600 5
like a candle in the wind

Kate
    $600 10
duck soup

Kate
    $600 13
(Ken: Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of [*], that's right.)

rum

Kate
    $600 1
a refugee

Dane
    $800 7
(Dane: What is Manitoba?)

Saskatchewan

DaneElena
    $1,000 24
(Ken: You could have bet bigger; you'd be in the lead.)

a rice maker

Kate
    $800 9
your song

Dane
    $800 12
the bee's knees

Kate
    $800 14
absinthe

Dane
    $800 15
parolee

Dane
    $1000 30
the Urals

Dane
    $1000 29
(Ken: Right, if they'd had non-perishable foods, maybe they could have eaten that.)

the Donner Party

Elena
    $1000 8
honky cat

Dane
    $1000 11
a donkey's age (donkey's year)

Elena
    $1000 21
(Kate: What is Jameson?)
...
(Ken: Dane, you must've had more vodka than Irish cream when you were in St. Petersburg; this is [*].)

Carolans

Kate
Triple Stumper
    $1000 20
decree

Elena

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

Kate Dane Elena
$2,600 $5,000 $1,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Kate Dane Elena
$4,600 $6,600 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE CITY HAS FALLEN
7-LETTER WORDS
RUSSIANS
MOVIE STARS
WRITING THE GOVERNESS
NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS
    $400 16
Washington, D.C.

Kate
    $400 29
hashtag

Dane
    $400 3
Dostoevsky

Elena
    $400 8
Pandora

Dane
    $400 1
Emma

Elena
    $400 30
the Alamo

Dane
    $800 18
ISIS

Dane
    $800 13
a pension

Elena
    $800 4
Rasputin

Elena
    $800 9
(Ken: I was hoping you'd do the yell. "Khan!")
(Elena: "Khan!")
(Ken: There we go.)
[Laughing]
(Ken: It's not "Stanley", but we'll settle.)

Khan

Elena
    $800 2
(Henry) James

Dane
    $4,000 23
Salt Lake City

Dane
    $1200 22
(Kate: Uh, who are the Carthaginians?)

the Romans

Kate
Triple Stumper
    $1200 14
a chalice

Dane
    $1200 6
Pavlov

Elena
    $1200 10
a black hole

Dane
    $1200 5
Pratchett

Dane
    $1200 25
Frank Lloyd Wright

Elena
    $3,000 24
(Dane: Who is Napoleon?)

Simón Bolívar

Dane
    $1600 19
crystal

Elena
    $1600 15
(Elena: Who was Tiffany?)

Marc Chagall

Elena
Triple Stumper
    $1600 11
Forbidden Planet

Dane
    $1600 7
crimson

Triple Stumper
    $1600 26
(Elena: What is Louisville?)

Cincinnati

Elena
Triple Stumper
    $2000 28
(Dane: What is Marseillaise?)
...
(Ken: Yes, "Marseillaise" is the song; [*] is the city.)

Marseille

DaneElena
    $2000 17
a pioneer

Dane
    $2000 20
Fabergé

Dane
    $2000 12
Men in Black

Elena
    $2000 21
Becky Sharp

Dane
    $2000 27
Mary Baker Eddy

Elena

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Kate Dane Elena
$3,800 $19,600 $14,000

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
(Ken: [To Kate] John Mercer [*]; [*] Hughes was his grandnephew.)
KateWho is Langston???
$3,800
ElenaWho is Langston?
$6,322
DaneWho is Langston?
$8,400
(John Mercer) Langston

Final scores:

Kate Dane Elena
$7,600 $28,000 $20,322
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $28,000 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Kate Dane Elena
$3,600 $19,400 $14,000
12 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 25 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 16 R,
2 W

Combined Coryat: $37,000

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Game tape date: 2021-09-27
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