Show #7253 - Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Contestants

[<< previous game]

Bill Patschak, a trivia writer from Frederick, Maryland

Katrina Mundinger, a musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Annie Moriondo, a bookseller from Somerville, Massachusetts (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,300)

 [next game >>]

Jeopardy! Round

WORD PUZZLES
DETAILS ON THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNER
AMERICAN LITERATURE
LIKE A BOSS
THE MARCH OF TIME
AKA
    $200 9
I'll have mine with vanilla ice cream
    $200 15
We'll never enjoy fava beans & a nice Chianti the same way ever again
    $200 14
In this novel Holden Caulfield has an older brother named D.B. & a little sister named Phoebe
    $200 12
Cornell's Tech Campus on New York's Roosevelt Island got a $100 million donation from this ex-mayor, now back in business
    $200 16
March 9, 1959:
The American Toy Fair is the coming-out party for this 11.5-inch blonde
    $200 18
An artwork:
La Gioconda
    $400 21
Frequency of a rarity
    $400 8
Mumbai's the word; (& much more importantly) going on a game show can make all your dreams come true!
    $400 4
"Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light" is a description of her in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
    $400 13
After Hewlett-Packard parted ways with this woman in 2005, she got paid like a boss, with a $21 million severance
    $400 30
March 6, 1899:
This German company patents aspirin
    $400 28
A Candide man:
Francois-Marie Arouet
    $600 20
With this phrase, there's not a lot of progress being made
    $600 7
Johnny's not so friendly; what's up, dockworkers? more than a contender for Best Picture
    DD: $1,000 1
This book begins, "Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte"
    $600 23
Running up the score before halftime, Amazon's strong 2nd quarter in 2015 helped put an extra $16.5 bil. in this CEO's pocket
    $600 29
March 21, 1980:
This show ends with a cliffhanger that lasts until November; spoiler alert! J.R.'s mistress did it
    $600 27
An NFL stadium:
The Razor
    $800 11
Tell your child not to go out alone; remind him or her of this
    $800 6
Let's playhouse; the Bard fiddles with Viola
    $800 2
"The Luck of" this noisy-sounding "Camp" is a not-so-cheery story by Bret Harte
    $800 19
NPR fans know Harvard Business Review listed the CEO of Novo this as 2015's best-performing CEO in the world
    $800 24
March 26, 1950:
This man publicly accuses an innocent professor of being a Soviet spy
    $800 25
A threatened species:
Ursus maritimus
    $1000 10
In 1986, it was a hit for the Rolling Stones
    $1000 5
Winter, spring, summer & fall, it was Paul Scofield as Thomas More
    $1000 3
The narrator of this Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute"
    $1000 22
In 2015 this ex-Microsoft man & L.A. Clippers owner was the richest sports team owner in the U.S., with $21.6 billion
    $1000 17
March 3, 1861:
Czar Alexander II issues a manifesto freeing these peasants
    $1000 26
A confrontation:
First Manassas

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

Annie Katrina Bill
$3,000 $400 $4,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Annie Katrina Bill
$3,800 $1,800 $6,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ALGORITHM METHOD
CITY NICKNAMES
MY EX-WIVES & ME
POLISH HISTORY
MAMMALS
"TOUR"ISM
    $400 23
IBM made the Lucifer algorithm in 1974 for the NSA to help with this, from the Greek for "hidden writing"
    $400 1
Agadir, Morocco is "the City of Blue Men", for the uniform of the drivers of these animals
    $400 8
Ex-wife Madonna showed up with him at the 2016 benefit for his Haitian relief organization
    $400 7
Since 1989 Poland's GDP has grown about twice as fast as the rest of this organization that it joined in 2004
    $400 12
Here's the banded type of this pest controller
    $400 18
A temporary route when the usual one is blocked
    $800 24
In 2015 Time magazine told of this website's News Feed algorithm that helped personalize content
    $800 5
This English university city is "the City of Dreaming Spires"
    $800 16
Breaking (up) news... this longtime CNN host & wife No. 6, Julie Alexander
    $800 11
In 966 Duke Mieszko joined the club & bent the knee, bringing this faith to his people
    $800 13
The "mule" this stubbornly migrates 300 miles round trip, the farthest of any land mammal in the lower 48
    $800 19
Group that follows an important person around attending to his needs; where's my foot masseuse?
    $1200 25
Dealing with the function of markets, the Gale-Shapley algorithm was part of a Nobel Prize in this field
    DD: $8,000 4
Ratnapura in this Asian island country is "the City of Gems" & that's what its name means in Sinhalese
    $1200 10
In 2015 this TV grill master found his union with TV Assistant D.A. Stephanie March was done
    DD: $2,000 15
Poland lost its independence in 1795 when Austria & these 2 rhyming countries partitioned the commonwealth
    $1200 14
Oh, dear--this South American animal has been known to eat monkeys
    $1200 20
Give a spectacular acting performance & your reviews might use this 3-word French term
    $1600 26
Euclidean algorithms are used by mathematicians to find the GCD, this
    $1600 2
This most populous New Zealand city is known as "the City of Sails"
    $1600 9
He & wife No. 5, Angelina Jolie, were bound by blood--for a while
    $1600 29
Ignace Jan Paderewski, used to flattery in this profession, failed as PM in 1919 & lived in exile his last 22 years
    $1600 28
A member of the raccoon family, the coati is also known by this longer name
    $1600 21
The name of this small roundish slice of beef is from the French for "turn" & "back"
    $2000 27
An algorithm can be a set of steps for a computer; one type covers this process of packing data into files such as mp3s
    $2000 3
The unofficial capital of Flemish-speaking Belgium, it's "the City of the Madonnas"
    $2000 6
His third wife was Mia Farrow, but she made a brand new start of it
    $2000 30
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1569, a jointly elected sovereign was a feature of the Union of Lublin, which merged Poland with this country, whose modern borders are seen here
    $2000 17
Grant's this, Equus quagga boehmi of Africa, doesn't neigh, it barks
    $2000 22
2-word name for an extended trip through Europe formerly taken by young aristocrats to complete their education

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Annie Katrina Bill
$10,200 $11,400 $5,200

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY GEOGRAPHY
Shelley subtitled a poem named for this famous geographic feature "Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni"

Final scores:

Annie Katrina Bill
$200 $7,400 $0
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $7,400 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Annie Katrina Bill
$9,800 $11,400 $15,200
13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 13 R,
3 W		 25 R,
5 W
(including 2 DDs)

Combined Coryat: $36,400

[game responses] [game scores] [suggest correction]

Game tape date: 2016-01-26
The J! Archive is created by fans, for fans. Scraping, republication, monetization, and malicious use prohibited; this site may use cookies and collect identifying information. See terms. The Jeopardy! game show and all elements thereof, including but not limited to copyright and trademark thereto, are the property of Jeopardy Productions, Inc. and are protected under law. This website is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operated by Jeopardy Productions, Inc. Join the discussion at JBoard.tv.