Responses for Show #8591 - Monday, March 7, 2022

Margaret Shelton game 5.
Maureen O'Neil game 1.

Contestants

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Clay Cooper, an SAT and ACT tutor from Las Vegas, Nevada

Maureen O'Neil, an executive assistant from Rye Beach, New Hampshire

Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 4-day cash winnings total $79,700)

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Jeopardy! Round responses

MOUNTAINS
FRENCH COOKING TERMS
3-LETTER INITIALISMS
PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME
FROM BOOK TO TV
PHRASE FARMING
    $200 26
Mount Fuji

Margaret
    $200 1
Germany

Maureen
    $200 16
IBM

Maureen
    $200 8
Grant's rants

Clay
    $200 11
The Queen's Gambit

Clay
    $200 21
until the cows come home

Maureen
    $400 27
Scotland

Maureen
    $400 2
a miller's wife

Margaret
    $400 17
(Clay: What is [**]?)
(Ken: Yes, the initialism being [*], older than we thought.)

OMG (Oh, my God)

Clay
    $400 6
Ford's swords

Maureen
    $1,000 12
Boardwalk Empire

Clay
    $400 22
the wheat from the chaff

Maureen
    $600 28
Table Mountain

Maureen
    $600 3
(Ken: That's [*]--"to grate".)

a gratin

Triple Stumper
    $600 18
BMW

Clay
    $600 7
Ike's yikes (Dwight's frights)

Maureen
    $600 13
The Mysterious Benedict Society

Triple Stumper
    $600 23
a pig in a poke

Triple Stumper
    $800 29
Mauna Loa & Mauna Kea

Margaret
    $800 4
(Margaret: What is brunoise?)
(Clay: What is Bordeaux?)
[Time's up]
(Margaret: [*]?)

a mirepoix

MargaretClay
Triple Stumper
    $800 19
GPS

Margaret
    $800 9
Carter's charters

Maureen
    $800 14
High Fidelity

Maureen
    $800 24
don't put all your eggs in one basket

Margaret
    $1000 30
(Clay: What is Corvacada?)

Mount Corcovado

Clay
Triple Stumper
    $1000 5
sous vide

Maureen
    $1000 20
the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Clay
    $1000 10
Taft's shafts

Margaret
    $1000 15
Dopesick

Clay
    $1000 25
finding a needle in a haystack

Maureen

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

Margaret Maureen Clay
$600 $3,800 $1,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Margaret Maureen Clay
$3,200 $6,600 $2,600

Double Jeopardy! Round responses

THE IDEAS OF MARCH
Y IS THE SECOND LETTER
BIOGRAPHIES
TOWERS
SINGLE-NAMED CELEBRITIES
THAT'S JUST SCIENCE, MAN
    $400 11
Big Ben

Maureen
    $400 16
(Ken: Yes, great album.)

Prince

Margaret
    $400 21
Mach

Clay
    $800 3
daylight savings time

Clay
    $800 12
Berlin

Clay
    $800 17
Pelé

Clay
    $800 22
the pelvis

Margaret
    $1200 4
(Clay: What is... Wyoming?)

Texas

MaureenClay
    $2,600 1
(Clay: What is... mica?)

gypsum

Clay
    $1200 10
Julia Child

Margaret
    $1200 13
Istanbul

Clay
    $1200 18
Awkwafina

Maureen
    $3,500 23
(Margaret: What is [*]? What is the Tropic of [*]?)
...
(Ken: Less than a minute to go.)

Cancer

Margaret
    $1600 5
(Clay: What is... India?)

Persia to Iran

MaureenClay
    $1600 2
myrrh

Maureen
    $1600 9
the Duke of Wellington

Maureen
    $1600 14
(Clay: What is the... Tasus?)

the Tagus

MargaretClay
    $1600 19
Halston

Margaret
    $1600 24
(Margaret: [After Ken gives the correct response] I knew that.)

quartz

Triple Stumper
    $2000 6
Goddard

Clay
    $2000 7
(Clay: What is wyrm?)
(Maureen: What is a gryphon?)

a wyvern

MaureenClay
Triple Stumper
    $2000 8
Lucian Freud

Triple Stumper
    $2000 15
(Margaret: Is that the Western Wall?)
(Maureen: What is the Wailing Wall?)

the Great Mosque in Mecca

MargaretMaureen
Triple Stumper
    $2000 20
(Ken: Margaret, where to?)
(Margaret: [Unenthusiastically] SCIENCE for $400.)
(Ken: You seem excited.)
[Laughter]

Iman

Triple Stumper
    $2000 25
(Clay: What is the photosphere?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

the corona

MargaretClay

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Margaret Maureen Clay
$12,300 $10,200 -$2,400

[wagering suggestions for these scores]

Final Jeopardy! Round responses

CENTRAL AMERICA
(Ken: Maureen, we're gonna start with you; you're laughing, you're having a good time.)
(Maureen: I am! This has been great. Are you kidding me?)
(Ken: What are Guatemala...)
(Maureen: I'll read it for ya--what are Guata and Mala?)
(Ken: Oh, I see. "Guata" and "Mala".)
[Laughter]
(Maureen: I was just gonna throw it out there, Ken.)
(Ken: [Laughs] I'm sure Lake Guata and Lake Mala are lovely, but...)
(Maureen: Underrated.)
...
(Ken: [To Margaret] [*] is correct. At the other end of Rio Tipitapa is [**]. The capital is named for the other lake. So you're gonna lose how much? Oh! You bet everything.)
(Margaret: I did.)
...
(Ken: You're well positioned for our next Tournament of Champions...)
MaureenWhat are guata + mala?
$8,000
MargaretWhat is are Nicaragua &
$12,300
Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua

Final scores:

Margaret Maureen Clay
$0 $2,200 -$2,400
2nd place: $2,000 New champion: $2,200 3rd place: $1,000

Game dynamics:

Coryat scores:

Margaret Maureen Clay
$10,000 $10,200 -$400
13 R
(including 1 DD),
2 W		 18 R,
2 W		 13 R
(including 1 DD),
8 W
(including 1 DD)

Combined Coryat: $19,800

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Game tape date: 2022-01-12
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