Show #7704 - Thursday, February 22, 2018

Rob Worman game 7.

Contestants

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Alan Harrison, an administrative assistant from Seattle, Washington

Catherine Biba, a freelance writer from Geneva, Nebraska

Rob Worman, an escalation manager from Edina, Minnesota (whose 6-day cash winnings total $133,900)

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Jeopardy! Round

21st CENTURY BOY SCOUT MERIT BADGES
3-SYLLABLE WORDS
MOM GENES
PLACES TO "C"
LAUGH-IN AT 50
SOCK IT TO ME
    $200 26
This actress filmed her Oscar-winning role in "Cactus Flower" while she was still a cast member of "Laugh-In"
    $200 7
Original Rockford red heel socks come with instructions on making these animals, around since the 1900s
    $400 23
To receive the badge for this activity, you join two metal plates and inscribe your initial
    $400 16
To relinquish your royal gig as king
    DD: $1,200 25
Her daughter Jane teaches I.P. law at Columbia, her alma mater; she cited Jane's work in an opinion for the Supreme Court
    $400 24
It covers 70,000 square miles of southeast Asia
    $400 22
Before he created "Saturday Night Live", he practiced his sketch skills as a "Laugh-In" writer
    $400 5
This synonym for mending is in the title of the painting here; it's what the girl is doing to the sock
    $600 12
The SAR on the badge created in 2012 stands for this life-saving process
    $600 9
Name of a magazine & a deep black wood
    $600 14
Up-&-coming model Kaia Gerber really did inherit her mom's genes, Mom being this supermodel
    $600 21
This L.A. suburb settled in 1867 came straight outta an 18th century Spanish land grant
    $600 1
Announcer Gary Owens declared that each episode was shot in "beautiful downtown" this So-Cal city
    $600 4
These ankle socks provided a nickname for girls in the 1940s & '50s who followed all the latest fads
    $800 13
The robotics merit badge depicts this planet, but you can earn it on Earth
    $800 10
Getting along; in music, there are 2-part & 3-part types
    $800 15
Richard, son of Louis & this other anthropologist, followed in their fossil-finding footsteps
    $800 19
Eau to visit this largest city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
    $800 2
Edith Ann was one of the characters this comedienne performed on the show--& that's the truth
    $800 6
Nike & Adidas still make low-cut socks with one of these ornamental tufts on the heel
    $1000 18
That's a GPS unit on the badge for this new 10-letter orienteering hobby
    $1000 11
Pronounced one way, it means to complete the union of a marriage; another, it means supremely skilled
    $1000 17
She really took after mom Marie--married a guy from the lab, studied polonium & won a Nobel Prize
    $1000 20
For more than 3 centuries, this "Garden" in the city of Westminster was home to London's flower market
    $1000 3
Nixon famously appeared on "Laugh-In" for the 1968 election; this Democratic challenger declined
    $1000 8
"Support" or this word comes before the socks designed to increase circulation, sold in gradients like 20-30 mmHG

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

Rob Catherine Alan
$2,600 $2,800 $2,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Rob Catherine Alan
$4,200 $3,200 $7,000

Double Jeopardy! Round

THEATRE OF THE ABSURD
RANDOM WORDS
RECENT R&B & HIP-HOP HITS
COLLUSION
GETTING RELIGION
AFRICA SINCE 1750
    $400 9
Arthur Adamov's absurdist play "La Parodie" has a handless one of these watching humans endlessly discussing time
    $400 20
It means unusual or applies to numbers like 5, 37, or 1,041
    $400 12
From 1951 to 1960, he was the heavyweight boxing champion of Uganda; from 1971 to 1979, he was president
    $800 8
In 1953 "Waiting for Godot" premiered at a small theatre in this European capital
    $800 18
As a verb it means to wander off from a course; as a noun, it's a homeless animal
    $800 5
6-letter term for an international syndicate like OPEC that colludes to regulate prices in a specific field
    $800 1
Only Muslims may enter this, the religion's holiest city, Muhammad's birthplace
    $800 13
Similar to Liberia, this "lion mountains" nation began as a colony for freed slaves in 1787
    $1200 2
This Czech author's satirical plays like "Protest" used absurdist themes to denounce Communist rule
    $1200 19
Type of verb whose past tense & past participle aren't formed by adding -ed to the present tense
    $1200 14
"Rake It Up" from Yo Gotti raced up the charts & featured this woman seen here
    $1200 6
It was hats off & lawsuit on when NFL players sued the owners for $4 billion for setting a secret this 2-word term in 2010
    $1200 7
Amenouzume, the "heavenly alarming female", is among the major kami of this Japanese religion
    $1200 15
Long a threat to water buffalo, giraffes & mainly these livestock, the viral disease rinderpest was eradicated in 2011
    $1600 3
This author of the absurdist plays "The Birthday Party" & "The Room" was awarded the Nobel Lit prize in 2005
    $1600 10
In 2015 Mohammed Morsi, former president of this nation, got a death sentence for colluding with Islamists
    $1600 24
In the '90s, this 2-word Chinese spiritual movement meaning "discipline of the dharma wheel" ran afoul of the government
    $1600 16
At 1896's Battle of Adwa, Menelik II, emperor of this nation, defeated an Italian army & kept the country independent
    $2000 4
This Romanian-born playwright based his play "The Bald Soprano" on stilted textbooks he had used to learn English
    $2000 21
Hotels ask for your credit card to pick up these, meaning "minor expenses"
    $2000 22
Hitmaking was in his "DNA." He had "Loyalty." He was "Humble." & in "Love."--"Damn."
    DD: $1,400 11
In 2000 these 2 art auction houses agreed to pay $500 million in restitution for engaging in price-fixing
    $2000 23
In Malachi:
"Behold, I will send you" this prophet before the coming of "the great and dreadful day of the Lord"
    DD: $1,000 17
A series of anti-apartheid protests in this South African township in 1976 led to a larger uprising

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Rob Catherine Alan
$4,200 $7,600 $16,200
(lock game)

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Final Jeopardy! Round

ACTRESSES
Already an Emmy winner, in 2017 she won an Oscar for the same role that had won her a Tony

Final scores:

Rob Catherine Alan
$1 $6,600 $15,201
3rd place: $1,000 2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $15,201

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Rob Catherine Alan
$4,200 $7,600 $17,800
11 R,
3 W		 9 R,
0 W		 22 R
(including 2 DDs),
3 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $29,600

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