Show #7599 2017-09-28 (taped 2017-04-25) Regular

Austin Rogers game 3.Guinness World Records Adjudicator Alex AngertpresentsJohnny Gilbert with a framedcertificaterecognizing his announcing record: "The longest career as a game show announcer for the same show is 32 years 7 months and 30 days and was achieved by Johnny Gilbert on 'Jeopardy!' (both USA) in Culver City, California, USA as of 28 July 2017".

Contestants

Robert Barron — a teacher from Columbia, South Carolina

Emily Dumas — a project manager from Somerville, Massachusetts

Austin Rogers — a bartender from New York, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $59,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Austin $2,600 $11,000 $26,200 $36,200
3-day champion: $96,100
$17,400
28 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Emily $1,000 $600 $7,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
9 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Robert $600 $-600 $5,800 $600
2nd place: $2,000
$5,800
10 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

LET'S PLAY CHESS CLASSIC MOVIE LINES IPOs FROM "S" TO "T" DEEP UNDERGROUND HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH
$200 [17]
It's the only piece that can be promoted to one of greater value
a pawn
Robert
$200 [1]
"You talkin' to me?"
Taxi Driver
Austin
$200 [6]
This tech co. didn't get as many likes as it wanted after raising $16 billion for its 2012 IPO but it returned 105% within 2 years
Facebook
Austin
$200 [12]
This noncommissioned officer ranks just above a corporal in the Marine Corps
sergeant
Austin
$200 [11]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a fault on the monitor.) The sliding of two sides along a fault in the surface of the global crust causes these events
earthquakes
Emily
$200 [21]
14,410 feet southeast of Tacoma
Mount Rainier
Austin
$400 [18]
If an identical position occurs 3 times in a game, a player may claim this result, then go kiss his sister
a draw
$400 [2]
"I see dead people"
The Sixth Sense
Austin
$400 [7]
Filing for bankruptcy in 2009? No prob for this automaker, which raised $20.1 billion in a 2010 IPO
General Motors
Austin
$400 [30]
This vacant outdoor space is used by children for unorganized games & sports such as baseball
a sandlot
Robert
$400 [13]
It's the most abundant element in Earth's core
iron
Austin
$400 [23]
28,251 feet in the Karakoram
K2
Austin Emily
$600 [19]
A tactic via which one piece attacks 2 opposing ones is called this, like a common dining utensil
a fork
$600 [3]
"I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here"
Annie Hall
$600 [8]
A $731 million IPO in 2015 got this rhymingly named wearable fitness company in tremendous shape
Fitbit
Austin
$600 [29]
Antonio Guterres is currently the head of this main organ of the United Nations
the Secretariat
Austin
$600 [14]
Some of the deepest mines like the Savuka & Driefontein are used to look for gold in this country
South Africa
Robert
$800 [25]
14,692 feet between Switzerland & Italy
the Matterhorn
Austin Robert
$800 [20]
Trading a knight or bishop for one of these more valuable pieces is known as winning the exchange
a rook
Austin
$800 [4]
"You want answers?! ...You want answers?! ...You can't handle the truth!"
A Few Good Men
Emily
$800 [9]
Drop the last 4 letters from the name of the app to get this company, the big IPO story of March 2017
Snap Inc.
$800 [28]
In this form of trapshooting, clay targets simulate birds in flight
skeet
Austin
$800 [15]
The cave seen here& its rough stalactites were formed as the result of the solidification of this
lava
Austin
$1,000 [26]
7,494 feet, the Inuit symbol seenhereon Blackcomb Mountain at this British Columbia ski resort
Whistler
Austin
$1,000 [22]
Descriptive notation like P-Q4 has been largely replaced by this "mathematical" kind, which would say simply d4
an algebraic term
Robert
$1,000 [5]
"Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back"
Ghostbusters
Austin
$1,000 [10]
The one of the 3 main consumer credit reporting bureaus that does not begin with "E", it raised $664 million in 2015
TransUnion
$1,000 [27]
A sleepwalker
a somnambulist
Austin
$1,000 [16]
Warming trends in Siberia have caused the springing up of tiny hills filled with marsh gas, mainly this deadly stuff
methane
Austin
DD $3,400 [24]
Remeasured by the USGS in 2016 at 20,310 feet
Denali (or Mount McKinley)
Austin

Double Jeopardy! Round

COUNTY SEATS CIVIL WAR PEOPLE WAYS TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY ABSURDIST LIT GOING 24/7/365 "WORLD" OF ENTERTAINMENT
$400 [6]
Take a seat in the Wrigley Field dugout & you're in this county
Cook
Robert
$400 [1]
On the morning of April 15, 1865 Dr. Samuel Mudd set this man's broken leg
John Wilkes Booth
Austin
$400 [30]
Proverbially, you "make" these to apologize for an insult
amends
Emily
$400 [8]
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" is part of this Douglas Adams book series
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Austin
$400 [29]
In geometry, it's a plane figure with 7 sides & 7 angles & despite what you may be thinking, it does not begin with "S"
a heptagon
$400 [25]
What could go wrong at a park with genetically engineered hybrid dinosaurs? Everything, says this 2015 film
Jurassic World
Robert
$800 [7]
The Stickley Museum in Onondaga County, NY. has an outsize chair made for this Tibetan holy man to sit in cross-legged
the Dalai Lama
Emily
$800 [2]
This super-nurse & her supply wagons gave aid to Union casualties & Confederate prisoners
Clara Barton
Austin
$800 [26]
In French it means "street" & in English, to feel sorrow over something
rue
Robert
$800 [9]
Reality & illusion merge in this play that delves into the lives of 2 minor characters in "Hamlet"
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Austin
$800 [28]
A nursery rhyme tells of 24 of these European thrushes miraculously surviving a brush with pie
blackbirds
Austin Robert
$800 [20]
This song aka "Aladdin's Theme" was a No. 1 hit
"A Whole New World"
Emily
DD $1,000 [14]
Cornelius Vanderbilt's rustic rocking chair is in the museum named for this other rich guy in Wayne County, Michigan
(Henry) Ford
Emily
$1,200 [3]
This preacher, the brother of author Harriet, gave an oration at the raising of the flag over Fort Sumter at war's end
Henry Ward Beecher
Emily Robert
$1,200 [23]
Singularly, it means to feel remorse for; add an "S" to politely refuse an invite
regret or regrets
$1,200 [10]
Only a few of the works of this Czech author of "The Castle" were published while he was alive
Kafka
Robert
$1,200 [27]
This Trader Joe's rival has a 365 value brand
Whole Foods
Austin
$1,200 [19]
This anthology of athleticism ran on ABC from 1961 to 1998
the Wide World of Sports
Austin
$1,200 [13]
19th century toilets are part of the collection of Watertown's Plumbing Museum in this state's Middlesex County
Massachusetts
Emily
$1,600 [4]
Asked why the Confederates lost Gettysburg, he "charge"d, "The Yankees had something to do with it"
(George) Pickett
Austin
$1,600 [22]
This 8-letter synonym for sorry has its pros but now--specifically--its "con"s
contrite
$1,600 [11]
Tyrone's love life weirdly corresponds with V-2 rocket attacks in this author's "Gravity's Rainbow"
(Thomas) Pynchon
Austin
$1,600 [24]
After Bobby Seale got a separate trial, the group including Jerry Rubin & Abbie Hoffman got renamed this
the Chicago Seven
Austin
$1,600 [18]
It just takes some time but everything will be just fine if you name this emo band that sang "The Middle"
Jimmy Eat World
Austin
$2,000 [16]
The House seat for Henderson County, N.C. is held by Mark Meadows, in 2017 news as chair of this conservative caucus
the Freedom Caucus
Emily
DD $8,000 [5]
In 1861 this future general received a commission in the Army from his brother John, a senator known for his anti-trust act
William Tecumseh Sherman
Austin
$2,000 [21]
Ian McEwan novel set in the Second World War era
Atonement
Emily
$2,000 [12]
A line in this French author's "Myth of Sisyphus", saying human life is absurd, gave the movement its name
Camus
Robert
$2,000 [15]
The 24th Amendment says the right of U.S. citizens to vote "shall not be denied... by reason of failure to pay" this specific tax
a poll tax
Austin Robert
$2,000 [17]
Kate Beckinsaleplays a vampire warrioress named Selene in this epic saga
Underworld
Austin

Final Jeopardy!

THE NORTHEASTERN U.S.

Once its own city, it joined with a neighbor in 1898; today on its own it would be the 4th most populous city in the U.S.

Brooklyn, New York

Robert "What Manha" — wagered $5,200
Emily "What is Atlanta?" — wagered $7,600
Austin "What is Brooklyn?" — wagered $10,000

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