Show #7689 2018-02-01 (taped 2017-11-07) Regular

Ryan Fenster game 4.

Contestants

Justin Earnshaw — an English teacher from Cheyenne, Wyoming

Sara Helmers — an attorney from Washington, D.C.

Ryan Fenster — a banker from SeaTac, Washington (whose 3-day cash winnings total $67,399)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ryan $5,400 $8,200 $11,400 $22,799
4-day champion: $90,198
$14,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Sara $2,000 $3,000 $6,600 $100
3rd place: $1,000
$8,600
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Justin $0 $2,600 $12,200 $1,200
2nd place: $2,000
$12,200
15 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

TALKIN' FOOTBALL LITERARY TERMS "F" STOP INTRODUCTION TO FILM GEOGRAPHY 101 EASY COURSE LOAD
$200 [26]
Your choice: do or don't name this play in which the QB runs the ball & can choose to pitch it to another back
option play
$200 [9]
Shorter word for "non-poetry"; a Moliere character is amazed that he's been speaking it his whole life
prose
Justin
$200 [15]
Easing of anxiety, or what a late-inning pitcher provides to ease a manager's anxiety
relief
Sara
$200 [6]
1962:"Introducing Peter O'Toole"
Lawrence of Arabia
Ryan Justin
$200 [5]
As you cross into San Francisco from the north on U.S. 101, you're on this structure
Golden Gate Bridge
Sara
$200 [7]
Half a deviled egg with crispy bacon serves as this light appetizer from the French for "mouth pleaser"
amuse-bouche
Sara
$400 [27]
Tom Landry perfected the shotgun formation with this team
Dallas Cowboys
$400 [10]
A century-old series from Oxford University Press is "World's" these timeless works
classics
Sara
$400 [14]
A boat dock that is built out over the water
wharf
Sara
$400 [19]
1978:"Introducing Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie"
Halloween
Justin
$400 [1]
U.S. Hwy 101 once stretched from Washington to Mexico; now its southern end is in this city's Boyle Heights area
Los Angeles
Ryan Justin
$400 [8]
Lima beans, corn & tomatoes are the key ingredients of this "sufferin"' side dish
succotash
Justin
$600 [28]
By signaling for one of these, a returner can reel in a kick without fear of getting tackled
fair catch
$600 [11]
From the Italian, it's another word for a verse of poetry
stanza
Sara
$600 [16]
Title adjective for "Three Billy Goats" in a folktale
Gruff
Justin
$600 [21]
"And introducing Ke Huy Quan as Short Round" in this 1984 action sequel
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Ryan
$600 [2]
Seaside, Oregonmarks the spot where members of the Lewis & Clark expedition boiled sea water to make 28 gallons of this
salt
Ryan
$600 [23]
Also on the plate, this bulgur treat using parsley, mint, tomato, and lemon
tabbouleh
Ryan
$800 [29]
These "penalties" are simultaneous violations by the offense & defense that cancel each other out
offsetting penalties
$800 [12]
What's my this? The reason characters do the things they do in a story
motivation
Ryan
$800 [17]
A defendant's accuser in a court case
plaintiff
Ryan
$800 [20]
A 1976 remake:"Introducing Jessica Lange"
King Kong
Justin
$800 [3]
You have found it!The Carson Mansionin this port city and seat of Humboldt County
Eureka
Ryan
$800 [24]
Dirt cake doesn't sound like the best dessert, but the "soil" is Oreos & the "worms" are this kind
Gummies
Justin
$1,000 [30]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.) As Minneapolis' U.S. Bank Stadium prepares to host Super Bowl LII, I'm looking at the Ring of Honor, with names from this defensive linethat took the Vikings to four Super Bowls
the Purple People Eaters
DD $2,000 [13]
3 types of conflict are man against man, man against himself & this title of an anthology with Hemingway & Heyerdahl
Man against Nature
Ryan
$1,000 [18]
Ouzo is this, as it's drunk before a meal to stimulate the appetite
aperitif
Sara
$1,000 [22]
A 1994 Jim Carrey film:"And introducing Cameron Diaz"
The Mask
Ryan
$1,000 [4]
In Washington State, U.S. 101 skirts this National Parkandits lush rainforests
Olympic National Park
Ryan
$1,000 [25]
To end the meal, let's take wing with this, a series of single-ounce servings of fine wines or whiskeys
a flight
Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES ADJECTIVES TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS TOTALLY METAL, DUDE CIVIL LAW STAG, YOU'RE IT
$400 [2]
Hisblindness by age 7, possibly from glaucoma, never got in the way of his success
Ray Charles
Justin
$400 [1]
An adjective despite ending in -ly, it precedes "pear", botanically--get the point?
prickly
Ryan
$400 [26]
"3 Pairs of Tootsies Down Below"
Six Feet Under
$400 [16]
Hi-yo, "liquid silver"! Big producers of this element include Chile & Kyrgyzstan
mercury
Justin
$400 [7]
In German civil law you can have a holographic one of these, that bears the testator's signature
will
Sara
$400 [12]
A spectral white stag is the patronus form of this young title character
Harry Potter
Sara
$800 [3]
He's the author & very visible man seen here
Ralph Ellison
Justin
$800 [22]
Mr. Burns' "superior" 1-word catchphrase
"Excellent!"
Ryan
$800 [27]
"Hospital Caregiver Mrs. Onassis"
Nurse Jackie
Sara
$800 [17]
Of all metals, it has the greatest ductility & reflects heat rays the best, so yeah, it's a pretty valuable thing to have
gold
Justin
$800 [8]
This 1804 code contained French civil law
Napoleonic Code
Justin
$800 [13]
This liquor with a stag on the label offers a stag's head pourer that fits on its bottles
Jägermeister
Justin
$1,200 [4]
In 1957, shebecame the first African-American to win a singles title at Wimbledon
Althea Gibson
$1,200 [23]
This 8-letter word describes the journey of the "Man of La Mancha"
quixotic
Ryan
$1,200 [28]
"Yankee Terror Tale"
American Horror Story
Ryan
$1,200 [19]
The lower layer of the earth's outer crust is called the sima because it's composed of silica & this metallic element
magnesium
Sara
$1,200 [9]
The Swiss civil code of 1907 superseded some of the laws of these districts of the federation
a canton
Sara
$1,200 [14]
Here's Actaeon about to be caught by his own dogs after this Greek goddess of the hunt turnedhiminto a stag
Artemis
Sara
$1,600 [5]
Hewas a longtime assistant to Robert E. Peary, and a co-discoverer of the North Pole
Matthew Henson
$1,600 [24]
Neither donkey nor elephant, the Congressional Budget Office says it offers this type of objective analysis
nonpartisan
Sara
$2,000 [30]
"a decade or less shy of two score years old"
thirtysomething
DD $2,000 [20]
A beam of cesium is a prime component of this extremely accurate device; the first experimental one was built in 1949
atomic clock
Sara
$1,600 [10]
In some civil-law countries, these "public" legal authenticators have significant educational requirements
notary
Justin
$1,600 [15]
This baron, a teller of tall tales, shot a stag with a cherry pit & found a tree growing from its head
(Baron von) Munchausen
Ryan
$2,000 [6]
The subject of a TV movie and a Rockwell painting, in 1960shemade history by integrating an all-white school in New Orleans
(Ruby) Bridges
Sara
$2,000 [25]
If you can't pay certain fees, a court may declare you this synonym for needy
indigent (destitute accepted)
Justin
DD $4,000 [29]
"Homely Boop"
Ugly Betty
Ryan
$2,000 [21]
It's atomic number 22 in your program but number 1 in your heart when an alloy is used in a pacemaker
titanium
$2,000 [11]
The U.S. Justice Dept. says that in countries with civil law, the judge can act more like this "p"erson in our system
prosecutor
Justin
$2,000 [18]
A famous 19th century imageby Edwin Landseer is "Stag at" this, referring to being trapped, not the body of water
bay
Ryan

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. AUTHORS

In his 1958 essay "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician's style

Jack Kerouac

Sara "Who is Fitzgerald?" — wagered $6,500
Ryan "Who is Keruac" — wagered $11,399
Justin "Who is Russell?" — wagered $11,000

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