Responses for Show #8579 - Thursday, February 17, 2022

Contestants

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Linda Sellars, a retired archivist from Durham, North Carolina

Matt Takimoto, an elementary school teacher from Moraga, California

Charles Fogelman, a geographer from Champaign, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,500)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

PLUS
MIDAS
THAT'S SO CLICHÉ!
DESSERT
JAZZ GREATS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
(Doris: I'm Doris Kearns Goodwin, and I'll be presenting clues from a new miniseries on someone I never stopped learning about--Abraham Lincoln.)
    $200 5
(Matt: What are D & F?)

A & F

Matt
Triple Stumper
    $200 25
(Ken: Correct, with less than a minute to go.)

sorry

Charles
    $200 8
pecan pie

Matt
    $200 10
(Ella) Fitzgerald

Matt
    $200 1
Euclid

Charles
    $400 6
plus fours

Linda
    $400 24
the grass

Matt
    $400 9
flan

Charles
    $400 13
Charlie ("Bird") Parker

Linda
    $400 2
Mary Todd

Charles
    $600 7
[Laughter after Ken read the clue]

grammar school

Triple Stumper
    $600 27
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

a satyr

Triple Stumper
    $600 21
the deep blue sea

Linda
    $600 16
a cannoli

Matt
    $600 11
Billie Holiday

Matt
    $600 3
(Charles: Who is Sherman?)

George McClellan

Charles
Triple Stumper
    $800 14
C++

Matt
    $800 26
[NOTE: Ken corrects Matt mispronunciation of the author's last name to the correct, "RYE-ur-dun".]

(Rick) Riordan

Matt
    $800 22
the apple

Matt
    $800 17
Rocky Road

Matt
    $800 12
Miles Davis

Charles
    $800 4
Frederick Douglass

Linda
    $1000 19
the more things change the more they stay the same

Charles
    $1000 23
(Matt: What is in the pudding?)

in the eating

Matt
Triple Stumper
    $4,000 18
(Matt: What is...)
(Ken: Matt?)
(Matt: What is custard?)

a baked Alaska

Matt
    $1000 15
Count Basie

Matt
    $1000 20
(Ken: We'd like to thank Doris Kearns Goodwin for helping us out with that category. You can catch the Abraham Lincoln miniseries on the History Channel starting this Sunday.)

Richmond

Linda

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

Charles Matt Linda
$1,200 $2,600 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Charles Matt Linda
$2,400 $1,000 $3,200

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

BRITISH TERRITORIES & DEPENDENCIES
THE MOVIE TITLE ELEMENT
ANIMALS OF NOTE
A HARD CATEGORY
A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY
"FOR" WHAT IT'S WORTH
(Ken: All the correct responses will begin with the letters F-O-R.)
    $400 8
Gibraltar

Linda
    $400 22
Nickel

Charles
    $400 29
a chimpanzee

Matt
    $400 18
enamel

Charles
    $400 3
Wuthering Heights

Charles
    $400 1
a forecast

Matt
    $800 9
the Falklands

Matt
    $800 26
iron

Charles
    $800 25
elephants

Matt
    $800 20
ebony

Matt
    $800 4
Crichton

Charles
    $800 2
a foray

Charles
    $1200 14
Cyprus

Linda
    $1200 27
(Charles: What is the Pearl Earring?)

Gold

Charles
Triple Stumper
    $1200 13
Koko

Charles
    $4,000 21
Samsonite

Matt
    $1200 5
Harper Lee

Charles
    $1200 10
forbearance

Linda
    $3,000 15
(Ken: Linda?)
(Linda: No.)
...
(Ken: Where the Bounty mutineers wound up.)

Pitcairn Island

Linda
    $1600 28
Silver Linings Playbook

Matt
    $1600 16
mouser

Matt
    $1600 23
the Mohs scale

Charles
    $1600 6
Thoreau

Charles
    $1600 11
the forelock

Linda
    $2000 19
Bermuda

Triple Stumper
    $2000 30
(Ken: Yes, [*] and Old Lace.)

arsenic

Linda
    $2000 17
Ground Zero

Charles
    $2000 24
chitin

Linda
    $2000 7
(Ken: You did very well in the category.)

Cather

Charles
    $2000 12
forsooth

Linda

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Charles Matt Linda
$14,400 $11,400 $10,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

LONG-RUNNING TV SHOW CHARACTERS
(Ken: [To Matt] Sesame Street has been on since 1969; despite his enormous height and his advanced age, [*] is still somehow only 6 1/2.)
...
(Ken: [To Charlie] I'm afraid Daniel Tiger's a little younger than [*].)
LindaWho is Charlie Brown?
$1,000
MattWho... is Big Bird?
$10,000
CharlesWho is Daniel Tiger?
$8,403
Big Bird

Final scores:

Charles Matt Linda
$5,997 $21,400 $9,600
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $21,400 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Charles Matt Linda
$14,400 $12,600 $13,600
18 R,
2 W		 18 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 12 R,
1 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $40,600

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Game tape date: 2021-12-13
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