Show #7643 2017-11-29 (taped 2017-08-23) Regular

Contestants

Shawn Adler — a high school English teacher from Hackensack, New Jersey

Missy Meyer — a graphic designer from Gilbert, Arizona

Matt Preston — an assets protection leader from Harvest, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Matt $-800 $800 $10,800 $5,199
2-day champion: $25,998
$12,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Missy $-1,600 $2,600 $8,200 $2,399
2nd place: $2,000
$8,200
12 R, 4 W
Shawn $1,400 $1,800 $7,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
12 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

I GET A KICK OUT OF HISTORY TV SETTINGS SPOT CHECK NUMBERS AS WORDS THE SHOE MUST GO ON BILDUNGSROMAN
$200 [6]
The third of these expeditions got testy when Leopold of Austria refused to work on a wall & Richard I kicked him
a Crusade
Shawn
$200 [1]
A women's prison in Litchfield
Orange is the New Black
Shawn
$200 [21]
Theumbra, the dark center of one of these phenomena, can be many times larger than the Earth
a sunspot
Matt
$200 [16]
This number can mean to turn your life around or just turn yourself around
180
Missy Shawn
$200 [11]
"A" is for Alphabounce & this company that makes Alphabounce engineered mesh running shoes
Adidas
Matt
$200 [26]
A bildungsroman can tell of the rise & education of a man or a woman, like this Austen title heroine
Emma
$400 [7]
Amemorialunveiled in 2014 honors the spontaneous soccer games of this war's Christmas truce
World War I
Shawn
$400 [2]
A South Dakota town where there is no law as of July 1876
Deadwood
$400 [22]
In the British pudding known as spotted dick, the sultana type of this dried fruit is often used for the "spots"
raisins
Missy
$400 [17]
If you are as suave as James Bond, they call you this number
007
Missy
$400 [12]
This "reptilian" brand wants you to know you can also get its clogs & other shoes without holes
Crocs
Matt
$400 [27]
Philip grows up in this novel by W. Somerset Maugham & the "Bondage" is his passion for a not very nice waitress
Of Human Bondage
Shawn
$600 [8]
A 1945 Medal of Honor-winning effort by Russell Dunham including kicking away one of these that landed at his feet
a grenade
Matt
$600 [3]
500 years in the future aboard the transport ship Serenity
Firefly
Shawn
$600 [23]
This Shakespeare character cries, "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
Lady Macbeth
Shawn
$600 [18]
College course or not, this 3-digit number following a word designates it as elementary information
101
Matt
$600 [13]
This "physician" is in with its 8-eye boots
Doc Martens
Missy
$600 [28]
In 1867 he published a novel about "Ragged Dick", who isn't so ragged by book's end
Horatio Alger
$800 [9]
French commander Bougainville blew up talks with the Iroquois when he kicked a friendship belt of these money beads
wampum
$800 [4]
The prestigious African-American-owned law firm of Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad in Chicago
The Good Fight
$800 [24]
Thisclassic quartet's biggest hit was "If I Didn't Care"
The Ink Spots
Missy
$800 [19]
To throw out
86
Missy
$800 [14]
On an episode of "Sex and the City", Carrie's shoes are stolen--a brand new pair by this ultra-pricey designer
Manolo Blahnik
$800 [29]
Orson Scott Card took the concept to space, telling the story of Andrew Wiggin in this 1985 sci-fi classic
Ender's Game
Matt
DD $1,000 [10]
Phew! As a boy on the Indiana frontier, this president was kicked unconscious by a horse but survived
Abraham Lincoln
Matt
$1,000 [5]
A Florida nail salon
Claws
Matt
$1,000 [25]
A poisonous red variety of this with white spots is called fly agaric because it was once used to kill flies
a mushroom
Missy
$1,000 [20]
A calculator (upside down) can help you get this 4-digit number for Leetspeak
1337
Missy
$1,000 [15]
Comfortech is a line from this family-named men's shoe brand that began in Chicago in 1892
Florsheim
Missy

Double Jeopardy! Round

GAME OF DRONES CAPITALS IN OCEANIA MOTOWN LYRICS "H"2"O" SCIENCE & NATURE BUILDING, ROMAN
$400 [7]
You must register your drone with this federal agency--if it's under 55 pounds, you can do it online
the FAA
Shawn
$400 [2]
This capital is located on Cook Strait at the extreme southwestern tip of North Island
Wellington
Matt Missy
$400 [18]
According to The Temptations, "Papa was" this, "wherever he laid his hat was his home"
a rolling stone
Missy
$400 [1]
Being a truant involves "playing" this
hooky
Shawn
$400 [10]
A striking sight on Kelleys Island, Ohio, are thegroovesnamed for these chilly formations that etched them into the rock
glaciers
Matt
$400 [15]
"Old" this basilica lasted from the 300s to the 1500s, when the "New" one replaced it
St. Peter's
Matt
$800 [8]
Companies like Verifly offer this for drone operators just in case you take out a few windows
insurance
Shawn
$1,200 [14]
This capital of Norfolk Island shares its name with the capital of Jamaica
Kingston
Shawn
$800 [19]
"I need love, love to ease my mind, I need to find, find someone to call mine, but Mama said" these 4 words
you can't hurry love
Missy
$800 [3]
Arabic-named water pipe
a hookah
Missy
$800 [24]
In 1985 a paper documented a "hole" over the south polar region in this layer of the atmosphere
the ozone layer
Missy
$800 [22]
Later used for other things, the Maison Carréein Nimes was first this type of building
a temple
$1,200 [9]
Drone racing can reach speeds of 120 MPH with these copters named for their 4 propellers
quadcopters
Shawn
$1,600 [16]
Only about 3,700 people live in this capital capital of American Samoa Samoa
Pago Pago
Missy
$1,200 [20]
This Stevie Wonder hit says, "You're the only girl my heart beats for, how I wish that you were mine"
"My Cherie Amour"
Matt
$1,200 [4]
It's what Granny's making in her still
hooch
Matt
$1,200 [25]
It can't fly or breathe fire, but this largest living lizard has a venomous bite that inhibits blood clotting
the komodo dragon
Shawn
$1,200 [23]
Everyone knows about this emperor's wall in Britain, but he also built a library in Athens
Hadrian
$1,600 [11]
You don't want to crash & burn on your first try, so practice with one of these programs, like Liftoff
a flight simulator
Missy
DD $2,000 [13]
Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, is part of this type of coral island that encloses a lagoon
an atoll
Matt
$1,600 [21]
"Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now, my mama told me" this
you'd better shop around
$1,600 [5]
Folk singers' performances
a hootenanny
Matt
$1,600 [26]
It's the largest blood vessel in the body
the aorta
Matt
$1,600 [28]
Victor Emmanuel II & Raphael are at rest in this Roman structure; Paris has its own
the Pantheon
$2,000 [12]
Nevada officials released silver iodide from drones in attempts to make rain via this process
cloud seedings
Matt
$2,000 [17]
This capital of French Polynesia has over half the population of the island of Tahiti
Papeete
$2,000 [30]
"Could it be the devil in me or is this the way love's supposed to be? It's like" one of these
like a heat wave
$2,000 [6]
Football firm is a term for a group of these British ne'er-do-wells
hooligans
Matt
$2,000 [27]
Of DNA's 8 bases, this one was first discovered in animal dung, hence its name
guanine
DD $2,000 [29]
Over 2,000 years after it was built, the Bridge of Alcantara in western Spain still crosses this river
the Tagus
Matt

Final Jeopardy!

FAMILIAR PHRASES

In the 1870s this phrase meant a hairdo, using a British word for bangs; now it's an extreme group on the edge of a cause

a lunatic fringe

Shawn "What is aradical" — wagered $7,000
Missy "What is a fringe element" — wagered $5,801
Matt "What is end of your rope" — wagered $5,601

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