Show #7755 2018-05-04 (taped 2018-01-24) Regular

Josh Hill game 3.

Contestants

Julie Sesnovich — a film data coordinator from Los Angeles, California

Jessica Fox — a biologist from Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Josh Hill — a network engineer from North Little Rock, Arkansas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $50,485)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Josh $1,600 $7,800 $25,800 $32,401
3-day champion: $82,886
$19,800
22 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Jessica $1,000 $2,800 $6,000 $7,000
3rd place: $1,000
$6,000
10 R, 2 W
Julie $2,800 $4,400 $16,200 $20,200
2nd place: $2,000
$14,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

DOWN BY THE WATER BODY LANGUAGE PLACES OF SPORT & AMUSEMENT A MATTER OF BIBLICAL LIFE & DEATH THE CELEBRITY OPINES QUICK FIX
$200 [13]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm on board the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, just yards from the spot where Captain "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on this river
the Hudson
Jessica
$200 [5]
"Cut off your ____ to spite your face"
nose
Jessica
$200 [4]
With 10 million gallons of water, the USA's largest one of these opened in Atlanta in 2005
an aquarium
Jessica
$200 [3]
During the time of the prophet Samuel, the Israelites lost more than 30,000 soldiers fighting this group
the Philistines
Josh
$200 [2]
Bend it like this soccer star! "People don't think I've got the brains to be clever"
Beckham
Josh
$200 [1]
Catalytic converter on the fritz
a mechanic
Julie
$400 [16]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm on this southeast Asian river that flows through or borders half a dozen countries & has just as many names, including Song Chau Doc
the Mekong
Josh
$400 [6]
"By the skin of his ____"
teeth
Julie
$400 [15]
4-letter place for "roller" fun
a rink
Josh
$400 [20]
Following Jesus' example, Paul brings back to life a man who fell out of a window in this New Testament book
Acts
Josh
$400 [8]
Oops, this singer did it again:"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada"
Britney Spears
Julie
$400 [14]
Hole in your outsole
a cobbler (or shoe repairman)
Julie
$600 [17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm at Mystic Seaport, the nation's leading maritime museum, located on 19 acres in this New England state
Connecticut
Julie
$600 [7]
Alluding to a bad boxer:"Lead with one's ____"
chin
Jessica
$600 [25]
Footwear is key at this indoor location where a turkey is cause for congratulations
a bowling alley
Josh
$600 [21]
In Genesis 19 these 2 cities near the Dead Sea have fire & brimstone rained down on them
Sodom and Gomorrah
Julie
$600 [9]
This "Life of Pablo" rapper said, "I think people think I like to think a lot. & I don't. I don't like to think"
Kanye West
Julie
$600 [22]
Abscess in R-32
a dentist
Julie
$800 [18]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in this Oregon city, named for the fur merchant who established a trading post here around 1811
Astoria
Josh
$800 [12]
"Rack your ____"
brain
Josh
$800 [26]
California's official state theater is the Pasadena one; on TV, Pee-wee Herman had a more informal one
a playhouse
Julie
$800 [29]
In Numbers 16 Korah & his house are swallowed up by the earth for rebelling against this leader
Moses
$800 [10]
He'd be back to say "The difference between Sly Stallone & me is I am me & he is him"
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Julie
$800 [23]
Occluded flue
a chimney sweep
Jessica
$1,000 [19]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in this Virginia city that's named for an English county; the 887-foot battleship Wisconsin is a small part of its enormous naval & harbor complex
Norfolk
Josh
$1,000 [28]
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their ____"
bones
Josh
$1,000 [27]
This word is from French & Latin words meaning "bicycle" & "course"
velodrome
Josh Jessica Julie
DD $3,000 [30]
The book of Daniel mentions false accusers in Babylon being devoured by these beasts
lions
Josh
$1,000 [11]
This actress who played April in many "Sharknado" movies said, "I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist"
Tara Reid
Jessica
$1,000 [24]
Faulty cleanout plug, stuck shutoff valve
a plumber

Double Jeopardy! Round

CIAO, CASSINI! THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS MOVIE REMAKES BORROWED WORDS PRESIDENTS' ONE-SYLLABLE LAST NAMES THE LOOK OF CULTURE
$400 [15]
Launched in 1997, Cassini was a joint venture by NASA, the European Space Agency & the ASI, the space agency of this country
Italy
Josh Jessica
$400 [11]
"Mrs. Kennedy & Me" by Clint Hill recounts his time in this protective agency in the early 1960s
the Secret Service
Julie
$400 [3]
"Ringu" became this scarefest
The Ring
Julie
$400 [7]
Italian words for "in the fresh air" give us this adjective for things done outdoors
al fresco
Julie
$400 [5]
He served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1973
(Gerald) Ford
Josh Jessica
$400 [1]
To emulate the gods, Mayans sought to make their babies' eyes do this by dangling toys in front of their faces
cross-eyed
Josh
$800 [16]
On September 15, 2017, Cassiniplunged into Saturn; in its last moments, it sent back direct data on the composition of this
its atmosphere
Josh
$800 [12]
Julia Child cooked up a story of her culinary travels titled "My Life in" this country
France
Jessica
$800 [4]
In a 2007 remake Russell Crowe is the bad guy the law wants to put on this title train
3:10 to Yuma
Josh
$800 [19]
This word from the French for "one who knows" is applied to those with good taste
a connoisseur
Jessica
$800 [6]
Before he was president, he was Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of War
Taft
Josh
$800 [2]
In this South American country, one body type for women is called "um corpo de violao", shaped like a guitar
Brazil
Julie
$1,200 [17]
Cassini photographed the giantjetstreamaround Saturn's north pole, called this for its six-sided shape
a hexagon
Josh
$1,200 [13]
Peter Falk's memoir takes this title from the 4-word phrase with which Columbo would annoy the guilty
Just One More Thing
$1,600 [9]
This 1968 Steve McQueen-Faye Dunaway caper was remade in 1999
The Thomas Crown Affair
Julie
$1,200 [20]
You can get wine at this grocery store whose name means "wine shop" in Spanish
a bodega
Julie
$1,200 [22]
His classmates at West Point called him Sam, as in "Uncle Sam"
U.S. Grant
Josh
$1,200 [28]
White pigment made from this metal caused nausea, & death, but pale was the look in 18th c. France
lead
$1,600 [18]
Orbiting the moon Iapetus, Cassini found a hugeridgecoinciding almost exactly with this geographic circle
the equator
Jessica
$1,600 [14]
This alliterative title of Evelyn Waugh's memoir is what Alexander Pope described as "a dangerous thing"
A Little Learning
Josh
$2,000 [10]
Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire" was remade as this with Nicolas Cage & Meg Ryan
City of Angels
Julie
$1,600 [21]
The Arabic word for "lawful" gave us this word meaning slaughtered according to Islamic law
halal
Josh
$1,600 [23]
The son of a governor of New Hampshire, he was known as Young Hickory
Pierce
Josh
$1,600 [29]
In Japan, women used this glossy varnish to blacken their teeth--it actually prevented decay
lacquer
DD $6,000 [25]
On its journey to Saturn, Cassinicarried the Huygens probe, which parachuted to the surface of this moon in 2005
Titan
Josh
$2,000 [30]
"A Journal of a Soul" was the testament of this man, who got a new job in Rome in 1958
Pope John XXIII
Josh
DD $3,000 [8]
Yul definitely know this 1960 remade version of "The Seven Samurai"
The Magnificent Seven
Julie
$2,000 [26]
From the German, it's a vending machine or a restaurant full of them in New York City of yore
an automat
Julie
$2,000 [24]
He was elected in the nation's centennial year
(Rutherford B.) Hayes
Josh
$2,000 [27]
Nanaia Mahuta is the first woman in her country's Parliament to wear moko kauae, the chin tattoo of this culture
the Maori
Josh

Final Jeopardy!

LITERARY HELPERS

Passepartout, whose name means "go everywhere", is the fittingly named aide in an 1873 tale by this author

Jules Verne

Jessica "Who is Verne?" — wagered $1,000
Julie "Who is Verne?" — wagered $4,000
Josh "Who is Verne?" — wagered $6,601

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