Show #7769 2018-05-24 (taped 2018-02-06) Regular

Josh Hill game 7.

Contestants

Tom Campo — a project manager from West Roxbury, Massachusetts

Kristen Krikorian — a marketing director from Souderton, Pennsylvania

Josh Hill — a network engineer from North Little Rock, Arkansas (whose 6-day cash winnings total $144,120)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Josh $1,400 $3,600 $11,400 $19,601
7-day champion: $163,721
$10,000
16 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Kristen $2,600 $7,400 $9,800 $18,801
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
14 R, 1 W
Tom $1,000 $1,400 $9,400 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$10,400
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AUDIBLERECENT FICTION RAISIN D'ETRE WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? TV ANIMAL ROUNDUP FAKE CLUES
$200 [18]
This mystery author put out what would turn out to be the last in a series in 2017"I handed him a business card and said, 'Kinsey Millhone. I'm a local private investigator'..."
(Sue) Grafton
Josh
$200 [12]
This Kellogg's cereal promises 2 scoops of raisins in every box
Raisin Bran
Tom
$200 [19]
The Prado Museum
Madrid
Josh
$200 [2]
Sweet potatoes are often confused with these African tubers with paler flesh
a yam
Kristen
$200 [1]
Itchy & Scratchy on "The Simpsons"
a mouse and a cat
Josh
$200 [8]
A type of false advertising is known as this fishing term "& switch"
bait
Tom
$400 [23]
More than 30 years after its publication, this dystopian novel read by Claire Danes is a bestseller"A shape, red with white wings around the face, a shape like mine, a nondescript woman in red carrying a basket..."
The Handmaid's Tale
Tom
$400 [14]
The Zante type of this "up-to-date" little fruit is actually a raisin
currant
$400 [20]
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter
Jerusalem
Josh
$400 [7]
One difference between rabbits & these bigger-eared relatives is that rabbits build burrows & these don't
hares
Josh
$400 [3]
Patrick on "SpongeBob Square Pants"
a starfish
Tom
$600 [10]
This adjective that means, like, totally fake describes Bill & Ted's journey in a 1991 film title
bogus
Tom
$600 [24]
This love story is a heartbreaker"The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner..."
The Fault in Our Stars
Kristen
$600 [15]
Nestle also has cherry & cranberry versions of this classic candy
a Raisinet
Tom
$600 [21]
The Chopin monument seen here
Warsaw
Kristen
$600 [28]
The NYSE has older companies while the stock exchange known by this 6-letter acronym is a high-tech market
NASDAQ
Josh
$600 [4]
Chestnut on "2 Broke Girls"
a horse
Kristen
$800 [11]
This, in which an email address has been faked, is a tactic used in phishing & spam
spoofing
Josh
$800 [25]
This book for kids has a lesson for everyone: choose kind"My name is August, by the way. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse..."
Wonder
Kristen
$800 [16]
Raisins are a must in this Italian holiday cake--it's from the Italian for "large bread"
panettone
Kristen
$800 [22]
Dong Xuan Market & the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long
Hanoi
$800 [29]
"Weather" refers to short-term conditions; this is the average weather at a particular location over time
climate
Josh
$800 [5]
Stella on "Modern Family"
a French bulldog
Kristen
DD $1,000 [9]
Britannica cites the Piltdown man & the Feejee mermaid in its articles on this type of 4-letter scam
a hoax
Tom
$1,000 [26]
Wil Wheaton reads this sci-fi novel set in the year 2045"This message had been embedded in the log-in sequence by James Halliday himself, when he'd first programmed the OASIS..."
Ready Player One
Kristen
$1,000 [17]
Golden raisins are made from this seedless grape named for grower William; sulfur dioxide is used to prevent darkening
Thompson grapes
$1,000 [27]
King Rama IX Park
Bangkok
$1,000 [30]
There's liquor & liqueur, a sweetened spirit like this one whose name may refer to its having been distilled 3 times
triple sec
Kristen
$1,000 [6]
Marcel on "Friends"
a monkey
Kristen
$1,000 [13]
German for replacement gives us this word for a poor substitute
ersatz

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE FRENCH MASTERS IN SO MANY WORDS PHYSICS PLAY BILL SENATORS WHO SOUGHT HIGHER OFFICE "OVER" & "UNDER"
$400 [8]
One of his first paintings upon arriving in Tahiti was "Fatata Te Miti", or "By the Sea"
Gauguin
Kristen
$400 [6]
5 words:Prepositional phrase that immediately follows "what so proudly we hailed"
at the twilight's last gleaming
Josh Tom
$400 [2]
The general theory of relativity is concerned with this universal force of attraction
gravity
Kristen
$400 [1]
David Carradine was the object of Uma Thurman's disaffection in Volumes 1 & 2 of this
Kill Bill
Josh
$400 [19]
A war hero, this Kansas man was Gerald Ford's running mate in '76 & went for the Oval Office 20 years later
(Bob) Dole
Tom
$400 [9]
There's a piece of furniture in this phrase for something covert
under the table
Tom
$800 [11]
In the 1870s this Impressionist who loved gardens left Paris & found a place with a nice one at Argenteuil
Monet
Tom
$1,200 [23]
3 words:The end of the 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech
free at last
Josh
$800 [12]
The universe could end with the Big Crunch, meaning it collapses into one of these
a black hole
Kristen
$800 [3]
Stephen Moyer sucked up the scenery as Bill Compton, a vampire on this HBO series
True Blood
Tom
$800 [20]
8 years after beating Birch Bayh to win a Senate seat repping this state, Dan Quayle got elected veep
Indiana
Josh
$800 [10]
You shall not steal my this, from Proto-Indo-European for "resound"
thunder
$1,200 [13]
In his later years this Fauvist created a mural, "Dance II", for a Pennsylvania gallery
Matisse
Kristen
$1,600 [30]
2 words:Beneath the Lincoln memorial on the back of a U.S. currency note
five dollars
Josh
$1,200 [24]
When helium-4 is cooled below 2.17 K, it becomes a "super" this, able to comb walls & flow frictionlessly
a superfluid
Josh
$1,200 [4]
Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb, as played by Ted Levine, has a dog named Precious in this film; now put the lotion in the basket!
Silence of the Lambs
Tom
$1,200 [21]
"There can be no neutrals in (this) war, only patriots--or traitors" said this orator, not long after his loss to Lincoln
(Stephen) Douglas
Josh
$1,200 [16]
Phrase meaning excessively flamboyant, or where World War I trench soldiers reluctantly went
over the top
Tom
$1,600 [14]
This post-Impressionist's "Bathers" series, 1894-1905, inspired Picasso's "Women of Avignon"
Paul Cezanne
$2,000 [29]
1 word:Harvard's Latin motto
Veritas
Josh
$1,600 [25]
Some versions of this 6-letter theory said that space-time had exactly 10 dimensions
string theory
$1,600 [5]
For the TV movie "My Name is Bill W." James Woods won an Emmy playing a founder of this self-help organization
Alcoholics Anonymous
Josh
$2,000 [27]
Robert Taft, Republican senator from this state, sought the White House in 1948 & 1952
Ohio
Josh
$1,600 [17]
This old-timey weapon was the 18th century equivalent of a shotgun
a blunderbuss
Tom
$2,000 [15]
This founder of French classical painting, like the work seen here, lived mostly in Rome, where he was Niccolo Possino
Nicolas Poussin
DD $4,600 [22]
4 words:Slogan used by De Beers since 1947
a diamond is forever
Josh
$2,000 [28]
There are rates of this not just for electricity but for heat; copper is 15,000 times faster than air
conductivity
Josh Tom
$2,000 [7]
In a 1993 film, this actor played both President Bill Mitchell & "Dave"
Kevin Kline
Kristen
DD $2,400 [26]
This Dem., falling short in 1980: "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, & the dream shall never die"
Ted Kennedy
Josh
$2,000 [18]
There are golden & black-bellied species of this shorebird
the plover

Final Jeopardy!

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS

For a link between oceans, the U.S. signed an 1859 treaty with Mexico giving us rights to this 2-syllable strip of land "of Tehuantepec"

isthmus

Tom "What is islet?" — wagered $9,400
Kristen "What is Isthmus?" — wagered $9,001
Josh "What is an isthmus?" — wagered $8,201

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