“JEOPARDY!” 12/30/16

Ryan Vanderyacht (Lake Forest, CA): Substitute teacher
Kate Gran (East Northport, NY): Attorney
CHAMP: Mukund Marathe

BB:
THE GUMMELIER
THE LEADERS & BEST
“HAPPY” NEW YEAR
COAST
DOVE
WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SOAP?

HS:

Mukund: $3K/Kate: $1,400/Ryan: $1,200

Prior to the BoT, Kate is the locator of the DD on the $1K Dove & she’s ahead of the guys w/ five large to Mukund’s $3800 & Ryan’s $2800. She puts up the thou.

1997’s Comanche Moon was the last published of the four novels in this western series.

No idea that came from Lonesome Dove & the final clue for The Leaders & Best will have to wait until sometime in ’17.

SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: $800 (The Gummelier)
UNATTEMPTED LT: $1200
TOTAL LT: $2K

DJ!:
ANAGRAMMED SCIENTISTS’ LAST NAMES
GEORGIA IN SONG
DOCTORED BOOKS
FOREVER STAMPS
THE MIDDLE AGES
ALL IN THE FAMILY?

This is kinda music to the woman’s ears- she chooses another DD three answers into this rd. & during Georgia in Song; $4800’s her current bank & Ryan’s sum is $3200. The lady goes for two here.

Nice neighbor! This “stately” mega-group of country sang “Burn Georgia Burn”.

Florida-Georgia Line’s NOT it, even if she had phrased it- what is Alabama? Titleholder Mukund checks out the last one of ’16 by picking up the $2K Doctored Book, now leading by a g-bar over Ryan $7800-$6800. Mukund wagers 1/2 this answer’s face value.

Dr. Bernard Rieux forgoes escape to stay behind & fight the deadly Contagion in this Albert Camus work.

“What is The Plague?”…discovered it. No more time in this yr. for the $800 & $1200 anagrams.

ATTEMPTED LT: $2800 (2nd & 5th- The Middle Ages)
SOLE UNATTEMPTED TS: $1600 (Anagrammed Scientists’ Last Names)
TOTAL DJ! LT: $4400

Pre-Final S:

Mukund: $14,800/Kate: $8,800/Ryan: $9,600

CORYAT SCORES:
Mukund: $15,800
Kate: $11,800

FJ! #80: OSCAR-WINNING FILM SUBJECTS

The only Nobel Prize winner to be the title subject of a Best Picture OSCAR winner was this man.

KATE: “Who is Roosevelt?” ($8K) = $800
RYAN: “Who is Stephen Hawking?” ($9K) = $600
MUKUND: “Who is Oppenheimer?” (Correct: Who was John Nash?) = $10,399