Show #7819 2018-09-13 (taped 2018-07-17) Regular

Kyle Jones game 2.

Contestants

Lauren Stripling — a teaching artist from New York, New York

Shawn Moore — a regional human resources manager from Miami, Florida

Kyle Jones — a music teacher from Aurora, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kyle $2,200 $3,200 $16,800 $9,599
2-day champion: $38,000
$16,000
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Shawn $3,400 $4,400 $12,000 $4,000
2nd place: $2,000
$13,600
15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Lauren $1,600 $3,800 $6,600 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
15 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

AT 35 SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER BAD FOLKS IN BOOKS I GOT A FEVER MORE COWBELL THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION
$200 [11]
At 35 he was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts; later he became the 35th president
JFK
Kyle
$200 [6]
It's short for the agreement some couples sign before they get married
a prenup
Lauren
$200 [14]
He only appears in 2 of Conan Doyle's stories, but he's quite a match for the hero
Moriarty
Lauren
$200 [21]
This season precedes "fever" in the name of that restless feeling you're said to get at its start
spring
Shawn
$200 [1]
In an "SNL" skit, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was the song on which this man was playing a mean cowbell
Will Ferrell
Shawn
$600 [26]
The "Nation" has learned that this, AKA fluoxetine, can be used to treat OCD & panic attacks
Prozac
Lauren
$400 [12]
Hewas 35 when he crowned himself emperor in 1804
Napoleon
Kyle
$400 [7]
Who's up for a game of this?
hopscotch
Kyle
$400 [15]
A burglar, a murderer & a dog beater, Bill Sikes is a true villain in this novel
Oliver Twist
Lauren
$400 [22]
His performance in "Saturday Night Fever" earned him an Oscar nomination for leading actor
(John) Travolta
Kyle
$400 [2]
Cowbell starts off "Honky Tonk Women" by this band, which I want you to gimmay, gimmay, gimmay
the Rolling Stones
Lauren
$800 [27]
Used to treat ADHD, this combo medication "XR" helps you stay focused, but taking it after noon may cause insomnia
Adderall
Kyle Shawn
$600 [13]
In 2017 China celebrated the 35th birthday of Xinxing, one of the world's oldest of these
a panda
Shawn
$600 [8]
No "N" in the middle, please--it's the term for a person who owns an eating establishment
restaurateur
Kyle Lauren
$600 [18]
Inner party member & torturer O'Brien shows this man the true face of evil in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Winston Smith
Kyle
$800 [24]
In a snack food ad "We got the fever for the flavor of a" this
a Pringle
$600 [3]
This rap trio from Brooklyn--as in "No Sleep Till..."--threw in a cowbell solo on "Hey Ladies"
the Beastie Boys
Kyle
$1,000 [28]
Lyrica may be the call when pain from nerve damage from this post-chickenpox disease sends us through the roof
shingles
Kyle
$800 [16]
He was a young man of 35 when he performed for inmates at Folsom Prison for a live album
Johnny Cash
Kyle
$800 [9]
It's the doctrine that there is only one god
monotheism
Shawn
$800 [19]
Evil housekeeper Mrs. Danvers almost persuades a young wife to kill herself in this Daphne Du Maurier novel
Rebecca
Lauren
$1,000 [25]
You suffer from this when you get overanxious or bored by staying in a cottage-like place for too long
cabin fever
Lauren
$800 [4]
Tom Fogerty said, "Man, that sure sounds good when the cowbell comes in" as this band recorded "Born On The Bayou"
Creedence Clearwater Revival (or CCR)
Shawn
$1,000 [17]
"Full Fathom Five" was one of his earliest drip paintings a technique he took up when he was 35
Pollock
Lauren
$1,000 [10]
From "T" to shiny "T", it's a small item of little value, especially a piece of jewelry
a trinket
Lauren
$1,000 [20]
This ruler of Narnia earned her colorful title by beginning the long winter, a 100-year period of snow & ice
the White Witch
Kyle
DD $2,000 [23]
Random House defines this "fever" as "greed and excitement caused by" it & dates the term to the 1840s
gold fever
Kyle
$1,000 [5]
"Rock on, gold dust woman, take your silver spoon, dig your grave", sang this cowbell-employing band
Fleetwood Mac
Shawn

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT BRO-MANS PRINCIPLES NOVEL ACTORS CONTRACTIONS ARTS & CULTURE PLACE HOLDERS
$400 [5]
I understand the confusion--that ripped torso with the 6-pack is not me, but this Roman water god
Neptune
Lauren
$400 [10]
In physics the equivalence principle states that inertia & this attractive force are sometimes indistinguishable
gravity
Kyle
$400 [15]
In addition to the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile", this wild & crazy guy writes novels like "The Pleasure of My Company"
Steve Martin
Lauren
$400 [21]
It can be used after a number from 1 to 12 to tell someone what direction an object is
o'clock
Kyle
$400 [1]
Humperdinck's opera about these fairy-tale siblings was the first complete opera aired on radio
Hansel and Gretel
Lauren
$400 [26]
169-foot-tall Nelson's column:In this square
Trafalgar Square
Lauren
$800 [6]
I'm gonna be best in bro at the chariot races this weekend at the C.M., short for this hippodrome in Rome
the Circus Maximus
Kyle Shawn
$800 [11]
freepress.net is a website that's interested in "net" this, "the internet's guiding principle"
net neutrality
Shawn
$800 [16]
Lorelai from "Gilmore Girls", she's had 3 books hit the New York Times bestsellers list, one a novel
Lauren Graham
Lauren
$800 [22]
It's the contracted military rank famed in cereal
cap'n
Kyle
$800 [2]
An annoyed critic wrote of this -ism's 1876 show, "Trees are not violet...the sky is not the color of fresh butter"
Impressionism
Kyle
$800 [27]
Herald Square:In this borough
Manhattan
Lauren
$1,200 [7]
Dude, I've got swagger wearing this upper-class garment--Calpurnia is totally impressed
a toga
Shawn
$1,200 [12]
The principle named for this comic strip office worker says that the least qualified make it to management
Dilbert
Shawn
$1,200 [17]
You know him as Dr. Gregory House, but he's also the author of the comic spy novel "The Gun Seller"
Hugh Laurie
Kyle
$1,600 [24]
Don't confuse a 5-letter possessive pronoun with this contraction, its homophone
who's (or they're)
Shawn Lauren
$1,200 [3]
You'll find several paintings Veronese on the eyes in Venice's Palazzo Ducale or these officials' "Palace"
the doge
Shawn
$1,200 [28]
Via Monte Napoleone:In this fashionable city
Milan
Kyle
$1,600 [8]
Bro, I know you're hungover, so let's go sweat it out at the baths named for this emperor who ruled until 217
Caracalla
$1,600 [13]
(Sarah shows an image of crop circles on the monitor.) When crop circles proved to be made by humans, not aliens, scientists explained that the simplest answer is the likeliest, also known as this principle named for a 14th-century Englishphilosopher
Occam's razor
Shawn
$1,600 [18]
When she's not palling around with Luke Cage & Daredevil, this actress is writing thrillers like "Bonfire"
(Krysten) Ritter
Kyle
$2,000 [25]
3 contractions led to this triple rhyme phrase meaning basically "if only I had--but oh well"
coulda, woulda, shoulda
Kyle
DD $1,600 [4]
He had nothing to do with the title, but Aaron Copland said, "I've begun to see the" mountains "myself" on hearing this piece
Appalachian Spring
Shawn
$2,000 [9]
Come at me, bro! But before you do, I warn you, I spent 2 years in this guard, the household troops of Caesar
the Praetorian Guard
Shawn
$2,000 [14]
According to Arthur C. Clarke, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from" this
magic
Shawn
$2,000 [20]
This comic actor who played Dr. Frankenstein & Willy Wonka also wrote fiction like "Something to Remember You By"
(Gene) Wilder
Kyle
DD $4,000 [23]
A 2015 book says that for over 200 years, this word "has been knocking at the door of standard English" but is still shunned
ain't
Kyle
$2,000 [19]
In a Delibes ballet, Dr. Coppelius is a toymaker & the title character Coppelia is one of these
doll
Lauren

Final Jeopardy!

BEFORE THEY WERE PRESIDENT

On October 4, 1940, for the premiere of what's been called his most famous movie role, Ronald Reagan was in this city

South Bend, Indiana

Lauren "What is Indianapolis?" — wagered $6,600
Shawn "What Iwo Jima?" — wagered $8,000
Kyle "What is Dallas?" — wagered $7,201

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