Show #7308 - Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Buzzy Cohen game 8.

Contestants

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Sarah Trowbridge, a librarian from Atlanta, Georgia

Ted Reinhold, a transportation planner from Arlington, Virginia

Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California (whose 7-day cash winnings total $133,402)

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Jeopardy! Round

GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER
A HARRY POTTER BESTIARY
HAWAIIAN HISTORY
PARTS OF SPEECH
SINGERS' REAL NAMES
THE OLD MAN & THE "C"
    $200 5
Hillary Clinton's former job that's an annual piece of presidential oratory
    $200 14
Hagrid buys this pet as a birthday present for Harry at Eeylops Owl Emporium
    $200 26
Missionaries preached against this ocean pastime, but it was designated the state individual sport in 1998
    $200 20
I read Playboy for a, an & the--you know, these
    $200 1
Stefani Germanotta hit "The Fame Monster" under this name
    $200 15
The old man hurt himself rumba-ing & is using these supports whose length should be your height minus 16 inches
    $400 6
John Roberts' job that's a team of comic book superheroes
    $400 11
Scabbers is this character's pet rat
    $400 27
Arriving in 1911, the first large warship to dock at this port just west of Honolulu was the USS California
    $400 17
Whereas, but & because tie things together as this part of speech
    $400 2
Perhaps this singer born Peter Hernandez got his stage name from an "Unorthodox Jukebox"
    $400 22
A grandson does this carrying job & doesn't mind shaving a few strokes off the old man's scorecard
    $600 7
The president's mansion that also serves as the elected British parliamentary body
    $600 10
Varieties of these include the Ukrainian Ironbelly & the Antipodean Opaleye
    $600 28
In 1898 a camera crew from this inventor's company filmed scenes in the Hawaiian Islands
    $600 18
Myself, I'd know "yourself" is a reflexive this, itself
    $600 3
We will kiss & tell that he was born Chaim Witz in Israel
    $600 23
The old man keeps sharp with these, which first appeared in the New York World newspaper in 1913
    $800 8
Conflict between the U.S. & the Soviet Union from the 1940s to the 1990s that's a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells
    $800 12
Slightly misleading name of the scary giant 3-headed canine who guards the Philosopher's Stone & falls asleep to music
    DD: $2,000 29
Fresh out of Harvard's School of Horticulture & Agriculture, he founded the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901
    $800 19
Anyway, anyhow, anywhere, those 3 words are this part of speech
    $800 4
Seen here, he was born in Miami as Armando Perez
    $800 24
It's finally time to open that 1964 Pomerol, so he'll need this implement
    $1000 9
Capitol Hill newspaper that's also a Jack London novel about a dog
    $1000 13
A sort of combination bird & horse, Buckbeak is one of these magical creatures
    $1000 30
An Oahu statue of her, Hawaii's last queen, holds copies of items she wrote--"Aloha ʻOe" & a Hawaiian Constitution
    $1000 21
Golly! Prime examples of this part of speech are bravo & fiddlesticks
    $1000 16
Legend says that a Ouija board told Vincent Damon Furnier he was the reincarnation of a witch named this
    $1000 25
It's not his toothpaste, it's his cholesterol medication aka rosuvastatin, one of the USA's most prescribed drugs

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

Buzzy Ted Sarah
$1,600 $4,000 -$400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Buzzy Ted Sarah
$6,000 $4,600 $4,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT BELONGS TO THE BRITISH
ASTRONOMY
THE RAZZIE FOR WORST ACTOR
THE COLLEGE'S ALUMNI
AT HOME WITH ADAM & EVE
TURN UP THE A_C
    $400 3
In 1985 South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands separated from this island group off Argentina
    $400 2
Craters on this smallest planet are named for giants of the humanities including Bach & Balanchine
    $400 10
For 2003 this actor held off stiff competition from Cuba & Ashton, winning the award for "Gigli"
    $400 14
Bob Dylan,
Jessica Lange,
Hubert Humphrey
    $400 5
This part of a house is also known as a garret
    $800 1
At its southernmost tip, Europa Point, there are great views of Apes' Den as well as North Africa
    $800 4
The Omega Nebula in this "archer" constellation was named for its resemblance to the Greek letter
    $800 18
The verdict was in & this stand-up comedian won for 1995's "Jury Duty"
    $800 19
Khan Academy's Salman Khan,
sports stat master Jeff Sagarin,
optical character recognition maven Ray Kurzweil
    $800 6
Pertaining to the sense of hearing, or a certain type of guitar
    $1200 21
From 1612 to 1614 this Atlantic island territory was a part of the Virginia Colony
    $1200 11
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows some images on the monitor.) The ancient Polynesians were remarkable navigators; they were probably guided by stars such as Sirius that appeared directly above them at this celestial point, from Arabic for "way over the head"
    $1200 20
Even George W. Bush heated things up in 2005, winning for playing himself in this documentary
    $1200 15
Melinda Gates,
William Styron,
Grant Hill
    $1200 26
Today a synonym for something used to conceal an embarrassment, it was the height of fashion in Genesis 3
    $1200 7
It's a grayish element with a metallic luster; old lace is sold separately
    $1600 22
In 2008 the New Zealand mint began producing gold coins featuring the Bounty for this tiny island
    $1600 12
In 2014 images of the surface of this largest Saturnian moon showed the Sun's reflection off its polar seas
    $1600 25
It was Raspberry nirvana for Mike Myers when he won for the title role in this 2008 comedy about a holy man
    DD: $3,000 16
Richard E. Byrd,
Alan Shepard,
John McCain
    $1600 27
Meaning "leave this guy alone", it's the 3-word name for what God placed upon one of Adam's sons
    $1600 8
3-D,
4-H,
1-A
(e.g.)
    DD: $2,000 23
Longwood House on this South Atlantic island is said to be the finest Napoleon museum in the world
    $2000 13
Dwarf planets lying within this belt at the edge of the solar system include Haumea & Makemake
    $2000 24
For "Saving Christmas", this born-again former TV star took 2014's "honors"
    $2000 17
Leonard Cohen,
Ken Dryden,
William Shatner
    $2000 28
At God's urging, Adam performs this task in Genesis 2, then takes a long nap
    $2000 9
This type of mechanical special effects puppetry aims to make its critters more real & less robotic

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Buzzy Ted Sarah
$12,800 $7,200 $5,600

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ADVERTISING ICONS
This spokes-animal created in 1951 got a wife & a daughter, Antoinette, in the 1970s

Final scores:

Buzzy Ted Sarah
$14,401 $1,200 $0
8-day champion: $147,803 2nd place: $2,000 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

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Coryat scores:

Buzzy Ted Sarah
$11,600 $10,200 $7,600
21 R
(including 1 DD),
3 W		 16 R,
3 W
(including 1 DD)		 10 R,
4 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $29,400

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