Show #8101 - Monday, November 25, 2019

Contestants

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Stephen Pokora, a naval architect from Annapolis, Maryland

Beth Stewart, a receptionist from Naperville, Illinois

Elise Nussbaum, a financial counselor from Jersey City, New Jersey (whose 3-day cash winnings total $79,600)

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Jeopardy! Round

SHOW ME THE MONEY!
THE 1960s
MEDICAL IDIOMS
NEW YORK-SET NOVELS
IF IT WERE AN ACTION MOVIE
(Alex We want you to name the movie for us.)
WORD ON THE STREET
    $200 13
In 2019, the 2,000 note in this currency converted to about $30
    $200 3
A 1964 report from the surgeon general said this was "causally related to lung cancer in men"
    $200 4
It can mean to measure body heat but idiomatically, it means to survey the attitudes of a group of people
    $200 5
When the Book-of-the-Month Club asked about changing this novel's title, its author said, "Holden Caulfield wouldn't like that"
    $200 6
"Losers' Club? No. Not tonight. That clown came after my friends. That clown came after me. Tonight, that clown...goes down"
    $200 1
In Manhattan: Lexington or Madison
    $400 14
The night of the 2016 U.S. election, the currency of this nation fell 12% to a record low against the dollar
    $400 7
He was stripped of his heavyweight boxing title after he refused to be drafted into the Army
    $400 30
Someone being treated the way he has treated others is "getting" this
    $400 28
9-year-old Oskar Schell searches for clues about his father who died on 9/11 in the novel "Extremely Loud &" this
    $400 9
To an Aussie dentist: "I know where you work--42 Wallaby Way. Release my son from your tank, or I will come for you"
    $400 2
In L.A.: Glendale, Sunset or Wilshire
    $600 15
Time to face this Founding Father on a $1 coin
    $600 8
Timothy Leary famously told young people to "Turn on, tune in", do this
    $600 29
A blow to one's reputation, or bruising around the organ of sight
    $600 25
It begins, "Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York criminal court ...and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who... hurt his daughter"
    $600 10
Audrey Tautou: "I tried to help people be happy. But your relative killed my mom. Now this French waitress is serving revenge...cold"
    $600 16
In Chicago: North Lake Shore or South Wacker
    $800 23
Here's a 100 baht note, worth about $3 with the late King Bhumibol of this Asian country
    $800 12
Popular in surfer culture, this energetic dance style shares its name with an ethnic group of East-Central Africa
    $800 26
An unpleasant fact that one must accept
    $800 19
In this classic, Francie Nolan lives with her family in the poorer part of the Williamsburg neighborhood
    $800 11
A 2008 film: "I may or may not be your father, but know this. If anyone ever kidnaps you, I will find you. Now, let's all sing 'Waterloo"'
    $800 17
In London: Drury or Leather this little road
    $1000 24
About $2.80 of ours equals 10 of this currency in 2019 rates
    $1000 22
In 1964 he went from leader of the Soviet Union to obscure pensioner
    $1000 27
A medical professional is mentioned in this phrase for exactly the thing needed
    DD: $1,600 20
Psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler & his team track down a brutal serial killer in this bestseller set in 1896
    $1000 21
In a 2016 musical, "You fired me for playing jazz piano, not Xmas songs. We each made a choice. But you won't get to live with yours"
    $1000 18
In Rome: Dei Condotti or Giuseppe di Vittorio

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

Elise Beth Stephen
$1,800 $1,000 $1,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Elise Beth Stephen
$5,800 $4,000 $3,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

MODELS OF THE HEAVENS
1990s LYRICS
PHILOSOPHY
DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
HISTORIC MERCENARIES
    $400 19
In Sweden's scale model of the solar system, Stockholm's 230-foot Globe Arena is the Sun & this dwarf planet is 5" wide, 185 miles away
    $400 3
Right Said Fred: "I'm a model, you know what I mean, & I do my little turn on the catwalk"
    $400 11
"Our discussion is ...on the right way to conduct our lives", this Greek philosopher wrote in "The Republic"
    $400 14
A place to house your hound when you head out of town
    $400 1
A small chapel marks the source of this river in the Valdai Hills about 200 miles northwest of Moscow
    $400 26
900 Hessian mercenaries spent new year 1777 as prisoners after Washington crossed this river & captured them
    $800 20
Almost 2,000 years old, a celestial globe called the Farnese Atlas does not show individual stars but only these
    $800 4
No Doubt: "Take this pink ribbon off my eyes"
    $800 12
According to Karl Marx, this is "the opium of the people"
    $800 15
It can mean a small mug but is usually a way to refer to your head; use yours now!
    $800 2
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Two main islands--east and west, and about 200 smaller ones with the total land area about the size of Connecticut make up this disputed territory, about 320 miles off Argentina
    $800 27
Sir John Hawkwood fought for Florence, for the pope & for the English in the first few decades of this long war with France
    $1200 21
The model here shows a grain of dust from one of these traveling bodies, magnified 20,000 times
    $1200 5
Mariah Carey: "I feel good, I feel nice, I've never felt so satisfied"
    $1200 13
A persistent issue in bioethics is the fate of patients in PVS, persistent this state
    $1200 16
A thickened area of skin, perhaps on your hands
    DD: $5,000 8
This peninsula stretches south about 700 miles from the Isthmus of Kra to Singapore
    $1200 28
In the 400s B.C., Athenian soldier & historian Xenophon fought in a rebellion in this empire against its ruler Artaxerxes II
    $1600 22
A model kit for this last moon mission contains parts to make a lunar module & lunar rover
    $1600 6
R.E.M.: "Now, Andy, did you hear about this one? Tell me, are you locked in the punch?"
    $1600 23
This English liberal philosopher and author of two treatises on government helped inspire the Declaration of Independence
    $1600 17
In machine sewing, thread is wound upon this spool
    $1600 9
This Yemeni capital lies at the foot of Mount Nuqum more than 7,200 feet above sea level
    $1600 29
With a name meaning "lord", in the 11th century he fought for the king of Castile & later for the Moorish ruler of Zaragoza
    $2000 25
A NASA scale model uses a grapefruit-sized sun in D.C.; the Sun's "neighbor", Proxima this, would be a cherry in California
    $2000 7
The Goo Goo Dolls: "And I'd give up forever to touch you"
    $2000 24
Francis Bacon is considered a father of this school of philosophy that holds that all knowledge comes from experience
    DD: $4,000 18
An 8-letter Olympic game of horse
    $2000 10
Italy's highest point is on this Alpine peak it shares with France
    $2000 30
Since the 1800s, Nepalese hill men have served in the British Army as these mercenaries. 13 have earned the Victoria Cross

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Elise Beth Stephen
$19,800 $21,400 $2,600

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round

BUSINESS 2019
The New York Stock Exchange allowed jeans on the trading floor for the initial public offering of the stock with this 4-letter symbol

Final scores:

Elise Beth Stephen
$800 $39,601 $3,500
3rd place: $1,000 New champion: $39,601 2nd place: $2,000

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Elise Beth Stephen
$21,400 $15,600 $2,600
24 R,
2 W
(including 1 DD)
16 R
(including 2 DDs),
1 W
11 R,
3 W

Combined Coryat: $39,600

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Game tape date: 2019-09-25
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