Show #7824 2018-09-20 (taped 2018-07-18) Regular

Kyle Jones game 7. Alex is clean-shaven.

Contestants

Amanda Levreault — a production manager from Chicopee, Massachusetts

Bucky McMahon — an adventure travel writer from Tallahassee, Florida

Kyle Jones — a music teacher from Aurora, Colorado (whose 6-day cash winnings total $127,203)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Kyle	$4,800	$10,000	$20,200	$18,200 7-day champion: $145,403	$19,800 24 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Bucky	$-200	$-600	$4,600	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$4,600 8 R, 4 W
Amanda	$3,600	$2,800	$8,800	$8,399 2nd place: $2,000	$8,800 17 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

SPACE PROBES	PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMERS BY TEAM	TOYS & GAMES	HOW CHEAP WERE THEY?	READING	THE T LEAVES
$200 [26] Helping prepare for events 5 years later, in 1964 Ranger 7 snapped over 4,000 photos of the surface of this the moon Kyle Amanda	$200 [13] Franco Harris & Terry Bradshaw the Steelers Kyle	$200 [9] This classic game's Cavity Sam has been given a new ailment:Brain Freeze Operation Amanda	$200 [6] Worth $58 billion, Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad got haircuts when visiting developing countries instead of in this homeland Sweden Amanda	$200 [1] Let's investigate how "A Higher Loyalty" by this ex-FBI head was a 2018 bestseller before it was even released Comey Amanda	$200 [18] T gets loose from a strong string to be this beverage, red or white wine
$400 [27] Mercury's job in myth matches the name of this probe that studied Mercury from orbit & eventually crashed into it Messenger Kyle	$400 [16] Terrell Davis & John Elway the (Denver) Broncos Kyle	$400 [10] Alfred Butts glued gridded blueprints onto checkerboards & hand-lettered wood tiles to create this game Scrabble Kyle	$400 [7] A 1785 letter said that to save ink, the late Duchess of Marlborough never did this; we hope she crossed her t's dot her i's Kyle	$400 [2] In a Shakespeare adaptation by Jo Nesbø, Duncan is chief of police & this title guy, a devious inspector Macbeth Amanda	$400 [19] To speak something out impulsively scares off the T & turns into this word, to obscure by smearing blur Kyle
$600 [28] In 2001, Deep Space 1 ran down one of these celestial objects & took pictures of its 5-mile-long nucleus a comet Kyle	$600 [23] Michael Strahan & Frank Gifford the Giants Kyle	$600 [11] There's a "Super Spud" version of this classic toy Mr. Potato Head Kyle	$600 [8] In 1922, as perhaps the world's biggest movie star, this comic had studio carpenters build his new home Charlie Chaplin Bucky	$600 [3] In "I'll Be Gone in the Dark", Michelle McNamara detailed her quest for the Calif. murderer she dubbed this the Golden State Killer	$600 [20] A type of wound that will be the death of you kills the T to be this synonym for ethical moral Bucky Amanda
—	$800 [24] Brian Urlacher & Walter Payton the Chicago Bears Kyle	$800 [12] What could be more fun than this game featuring plastic simians? Hasbro suggests 2 casks or more are even better Barrel of Monkeys Amanda	$800 [15] John Elwes, who despite great wealth wore a wig found in a gutter, may have inspired this most famous miser of fiction Ebenezer Scrooge Bucky Amanda	$800 [4] 20 publishers said no thanks to this desert planet-set sci-fi novel before it came out in 1965; 20 million copies later... Dune Kyle	$800 [21] The T runs off from a building where horses are kept & becomes this weasellike mammal with dark brown fur sable Kyle
—	$1,000 [25] Randy White & Emmitt Smith the Dallas Cowboys Amanda	DD $2,400 [14] This classic drawing toy was once called Telecran, still its name in France Etch a Sketch Kyle	$1,000 [17] This billionaire & husband of Catherine T. didn't buy rubber bands--they were free with the morning paper! John D. MacArthur Bucky Amanda	$1,000 [5] The structure of her novel "To the Lighthouse" is 2 days separated by the passage of 10 years Virginia Woolf Amanda	$1,000 [22] A term meaning "purchased" cashes in a T to be this branch of a tree a bough Kyle

Double Jeopardy! Round

ACTING THE PART	ISLANDS IN THE SEA	8-LETTER WORDS	ORANGE YOU GLAD	AUSTRALIAN HISTORY	ONLY AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
$400 [7] Katniss Jennifer Lawrence Amanda	$400 [22] Barbuda & Basse-Terre the Caribbean Sea Amanda	$400 [6] Part of the Boy Scout law, it refers to one complying with authority, like a good dog obedient Amanda	$400 [17] You'll find Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange in this state New Jersey Bucky	$400 [16] Neville Bonner was the first member of this native Australian group to sit in the federal Parliament the Aborigines Amanda	$400 [1] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Still playable, the oldest piano in existence was made in the workshop of Bartolomeo Cristofori, who invented the instrument around 1700 at the court of this ruling family of Florence the Medici Kyle
$800 [8] Jake Shuttlesworth, Easy Rawlins Denzel Washington Bucky	$800 [27] The Pribilof Islands the Bering Sea Bucky	$800 [9] This word that also means "trifling" follows "Times" in the name of a New Orleans newspaper picayune Amanda	$800 [23] It's the classic cocktail of just orange juice & vodka a screwdriver Kyle	$800 [18] A memorial in Canberra honors the 50,000 Aussies who served in this conflict in the 1960s & '70s Vietnam Kyle	$800 [2] (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Of the only 35 or so known paintings by this Dutch master, the Met has 5, including"Young Woman with a Water Pitcher", which was the first of his canvases to enter a public American collection Vermeer Kyle
$1,200 [10] J, Bagger, Tea Cake Walters Will Smith Amanda	$1,200 [28] The Cyclades the Aegean Bucky Amanda	$1,200 [13] It's the U.S. military's equivalent of a prison stockade Bucky	$1,200 [24] First published in 1903, the Daily Orange is this New York university's student newspaper Syracuse Kyle	$1,600 [20] Australia's economy was transformed when the Merino type of this arrived in 1797 wool (or sheep) Bucky	$1,200 [3] (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Excavated in 1900, thefrescoes from an Italian villa were buried by this 79 A.D. event & beautifully preserved Vesuvius Bucky
$1,600 [11] Renton, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Phillip Morris, Rodney Copperbottom Ewan McGregor Amanda	$1,600 [29] Bornholm & Rugen the Baltic	$1,600 [14] It's the type of vehicle seen here a rickshaw Kyle Amanda	$1,600 [25] An $87 million Mark Rothko painting is title "Orange..." these 2 colors that combine to make orange yellow and red Amanda	$2,000 [21] An Australian Robin Hood to some, this Down Under bandit & bank robber was captured in 1880 & faced the hangman Ned Kelly	$1,600 [4] (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Saved from flooding when the Aswan Dam was built, the Temple of Dendur was commissioned by Augustus, who wasportrayedas a pharaoh making offerings to Osiris and this goddess, to whom the temple was primarily dedicated Isis Kyle
$2,000 [12] Cataleya, Graciela, Gamora, Neytiri, Uhura Zoe Saldana Amanda	—	DD $4,000 [15] c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense a firewall Kyle	$2,000 [26] This man became England's king in 1689 because his wife, daughter of the previous king, insisted on it William of Orange Kyle	DD $3,000 [19] 15-year-old Isabel Letham won fame as the 1st Aussie one of these after Duke Kahanamoku plucked her from a crowd in 1915 surfer Kyle	$2,000 [5] (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) Viewers in 1884 were shocked by that dress & ridiculed her deathly pallor; when this 3-named American artist sold the painting to the Met, he asked that the woman not be named, hence the title "Madame X" John Singer Sargent Bucky

Final Jeopardy!

FOLKLORE

In legend, he called all the animals together but only 12 came, including a rat & a dragon

the Buddha

Bucky "Who is Merlin?" — wagered $4,600

Amanda "Who is Confucius?" — wagered $401

Kyle "Who is Noah?" — wagered $2,000

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