Show #7687 2018-01-30 (taped 2017-11-07) Regular

Ryan Fenster game 2.

Contestants

Brandey Chandler — an improv actor and library worker from Lee's Summit, Missouri

Emily Lewis — a merchandise planner from San Diego, California

Ryan Fenster — a banker from SeaTac, Washington (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,999)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $2,600 $2,600 $27,000 $21,000
2-day champion: $41,999
$23,800
24 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Emily $1,800 $3,000 $4,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$4,600
9 R, 2 W
Brandey $1,200 $5,200 $8,600 $12,001
2nd place: $2,000
$6,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

LOGO A-GOGO TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES NOT TO BE CONFUSED "SAY" YOU WILL WRITE, PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE
$200 [18]
The dynamic ribbon device (aka "the wave") is part of the logo of this soft drink
Coca-Cola
Brandey
$200 [8]
"____ Kimmy Schmidt"
Unbreakable
Emily
$200 [23]
If you want your fingernails polished, you ask for a manicure; if you want your toenails polished, you ask for this
a pedicure
Brandey
$200 [7]
You get 50 minutes to complete this section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test, kids
the essay
Ryan Brandey
$200 [6]
James Patterson's first novel, "The Thomas Berryman Number", won this literary award named for Mr. Poe
the Edgar Award
Brandey
$200 [1]
Named for the famous brothers & a WWI-era pilot, Wright-Patterson AFB is just east of this Ohio aviation city
Dayton
Ryan Emily Brandey
$400 [19]
Its red & white bullseye logo was born in 1962 along with this retailer's brand name
Target
Brandey
$400 [9]
Featuring the Cunninghams,"____ Days"
Happy
Emily
$400 [24]
Lactation is the secretion of milk; lacrimation is the secretion of these
tears
Brandey
$400 [13]
This type of evidence goes in one organ & out another
hearsay
Ryan
$400 [17]
Patterson's love of this sport inspired him to write "Miracle at Augusta"
golf
Emily
$400 [2]
The first landing of this took place at California's Edwards Air Force Base on April 14, 1981
the Space Shuttle
Ryan
$600 [20]
This purveyor of roast beef & other sandwiches wanted to be called Big Tex, so the stylized cowboy hat logo makes more sense
Arby's
Brandey
$600 [10]
Here's a hint: it was based on a movie & starred Rachel Blanchard as Cher Horowitz,"____"
Clueless
Emily
$600 [25]
A cantata is a musical piece; this is an Italian open-faced omelet
a frittata
Brandey
$600 [14]
An old-timey fortune-teller
a soothsayer
Ryan
$600 [28]
Patterson came along in 1993 with "Along Came a Spider", his first book about this psychologist & detective
Alex Cross
Brandey
$800 [4]
Tampa's MacDill AFB is home to the KC-135 Stratotanker, used for this mid-air process
refueling
Ryan
$800 [21]
Larry, the white-haired gent on the label of steel-cut & other products of this brand, got a subtle makeover in 2012
Quaker Oats
Ryan
$800 [11]
On Bravo, starring Jill Kargman,"____ Mom Out"
Odd
Emily
$800 [26]
Flip the names: one wrote "An Essay on Man"; the other was a Holy See-er during the 100s
Alexander Pope & Pope Alexander
Ryan
$800 [15]
This synonym for contradict sounds like you're adding something to the conversation
gainsay
Ryan
$800 [29]
While working in advertising, he wrote the slogan "I don't want to grow up, I'm a" this kind of kid
Toys "R" Us
Emily
DD $1,000 [3]
Since the 1950s the USAF & this air force have shared a base at Mildenhall in Suffolk
the Royal Air Force (or RAF)
Ryan
$1,000 [22]
A black prancing horse on a canary yellow background, the color of Modena, is the logo of this Italian car
Ferrari
Brandey
$1,000 [12]
Starring Sally Field:"The ____ Nun"
Flying
Brandey
$1,000 [27]
While New Jersey is the "Garden State", this is the "Peace Garden State"
North Dakota
Ryan
$1,000 [16]
The British Hallmarking Council supervises these "offices" that test the purity of precious metals
assay offices
Ryan
$1,000 [30]
Patterson's young adult series about siblings Wisty & Whit Allgood is titled "Witch &" this
Witch & Wizard
$1,000 [5]
Arizona's Luke Air Force Base trains pilots to fly this alphanumeric plane, also known as the Fighting Falcon, a mainstay of the United States Air Force since 1979
the F-16
Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

FRENCH SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS THROWING SHADE HISTORY TWO-HANDERS EVERY YEAR THIS IS "TH" PLACE
$400 [30]
In 1943 he & engineer Emile Gagnan invented the Aqua Lung
(Jacques) Cousteau
Ryan
$400 [16]
This compound word refers to a day when most of the sky is occluded, perhaps a shady respite from the sun
overcast
Ryan
$400 [1]
Surprising co-owners Britain & France, Egyptian president Gamal Nasser nationalized it on July 26, 1956
the Suez Canal
Brandey
$400 [11]
On a CW TV show this pair says, "Fool Us" with your magic tricks
Penn & Teller
Emily
$400 [6]
The convention of these Writers of America takes place on the frontier & gives the Lariat Award
Western Writers of America
Brandey
$400 [21]
Head southwest out of central London to the borough of Kingston upon this
Thames
Ryan Brandey
$800 [27]
With 1 experiment this Frenchman both disproved spontaneous generation & put bacteriology on solid ground
Pasteur
Brandey
$800 [17]
In "Don't Come Around Here No More", Tom Petty uses this shadowy action before "my door"
darken my door
$800 [2]
This June 18, 1815 battle is also called La Belle Alliance
Waterloo
Ryan
$800 [12]
These twin first daughters tell their story in the memoir "Sisters First"
Barbara and Jenna Bush
Brandey
$1,200 [8]
Traditionally, the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes perform in this annual NYC parade each November
the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Brandey
$800 [22]
Let's be thick as this ancient Egyptian capital that lay on both banks of the Nile
Thebes
Brandey
$1,200 [26]
Hetaught physics at the Sorbonne until his death in 1906, when his wife took over the post
(Pierre) Curie
Ryan
$1,200 [18]
Astronomers sometimes put "pen-" in front of this word for shadow
umbra
Ryan
$1,600 [4]
It's the name for Hitler's failed November 1923 insurrection against the Weimar Republic
the Beer Hall Putsch
Ryan
$1,200 [13]
There are 2 spies, 2 flags & 2 marshals--one for each side--in this board game
Stratego
Emily
$1,600 [9]
Hampton, S.C. has been holding a warm-weather festival in honor of these large gourd fruits since 1939
watermelons
Ryan Emily
$1,200 [23]
From 1970 to 2000 this stadium on the Allegheny was the place for MLB fans
Three Rivers Stadium
$1,600 [29]
A type of this loss of language ability is named for Paul Broca, whose study of the brain helped find its cause
aphasia
Ryan
$1,600 [19]
A Postal Service motto says, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor" this darkness "of night"
gloom
Ryan
$2,000 [3]
A 2017 U.N. report said it's plausible that another plane caused the crash that killed this secy.-general in 1961
(Dag) Hammarskjold
Ryan
$1,600 [14]
Ariana Grande & John Legend sang this 2017 Disney remake's title tune
Beauty and the Beast
Emily Brandey
$2,000 [10]
On its 50,000-mile annual migration, the Arctic variety of this bird travels between the North & South Poles
a tern
Ryan
$1,600 [24]
This historic narrow pass runs between the Kallidhromon Massif & the Gulf of Maliakos
Thermopylae
Ryan
$2,000 [28]
These brothers invented an all-in-one camera & projector called a cinematograph (from which we get the word cinema)
the Lumière brothers
Brandey
$2,000 [20]
This "O" word can mean darkness or be the opposite of "fame"
obscurity
Ryan
DD $4,000 [5]
A 20-kiloton A-bomb was dropped on this atoll in a 1946 test, the first in peacetime
Bikini Atoll
Ryan
$2,000 [15]
This A.R. Gurney 2-role play saw Molly Ringwald paired with Andrew McCarthy & Linda Hamilton paired with Ron Perlman
Love Letters
DD $3,000 [7]
In France this annual religious observance is known as "Mercredi des Cendres"
Ash Wednesday
Brandey
$2,000 [25]
In old lit, "ultima" this meant the furthest possible place
Thule
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY

The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character

Stephen Dedalus

Emily "Who is ?" — wagered $4,600
Brandey "Who is Daedalus" — wagered $3,401
Ryan "Who is Icarus" — wagered $6,000

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