Show #7843 2018-10-17 (taped 2018-08-15) Regular

Alan Dunn game 4.

Contestants

Julie Holzmann — a proofreader and virtual assistant from Columbia, South Carolina

Allison Stevens — a women's health nurse practitioner from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Alan Dunn — a software development manager from Johns Creek, Georgia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $70,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alan $0 $3,000 $13,800 $16,401
4-day champion: $87,202
$10,600
19 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Allison $2,600 $3,000 $8,200 $2,599
2nd place: $2,000
$8,200
9 R, 0 W
Julie $2,000 $3,000 $4,200 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$6,200
13 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

STARRING WITH THE DANCES WHOSE WHAT? NUTS ABOUT DOUGHNUTS THE FOLGER LIBRARY FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES WORLD WAR I
$200 [14]
The dream of Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad is to dance on the Corny Collins show in this '60s-set film
Hairspray
Julie
$200 [15]
The shamrock is a symbol of this March celebration
St. Patrick's Day
Allison
$200 [9]
The trademarked cronut is half doughnut, half this
croissant
Julie
$200 [24]
With 82 copies of this alliterative collection, the Folger is the world's largest Shakespearean library
the First Folio
Alan
$200 [1]
Latin:"To a sickening degree"
ad nauseam
Alan
$200 [6]
The assassination that sparked World War I took place in this city
Sarajevo
Alan
$400 [16]
Somebody put Baby in a clue when Jennifer Grey starred in this 1987 film set in the Catskills
Dirty Dancing
Allison
$400 [18]
It begins, "Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name"
the Lord's Prayer
Julie
$400 [10]
When this chain turns on the "hot light", its original glazed doughnuts are fresh
Krispy Kreme
Julie
$400 [25]
The library opened in 1932 on the Bard's birthday in this spring month
April
$400 [2]
French:"Pen name"
nom de plume
Alan
$400 [7]
At Xmas in this year soldiers played soccer with foes; the next year orders were given to kill anyone trying the same
1914
$600 [17]
Sebastian & Mia sing & dance above the lights of the city in this 2016 film
La La Land
Julie
$600 [19]
"If anything can go wrong, it will", at least according to this proposition
Murphy's Law
Alan
$600 [11]
A Bangles song says, "All the cops in the donut shop say ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh", this title instruction
"Walk Like An Egyptian"
Allison
$600 [26]
Early music at the library features the strumming of this instrument mentioned in the opening speech of "Richard III"
a lute
Alan
$600 [3]
German:"Lightning war"
Blitzkrieg
Julie
$600 [8]
This fence material became a deadly instrument; the National WWI Musem sells a replica soldier hanging on it
barbed wire
Julie
$800 [29]
Gene Kelly says, "From where I stand, the sun is shining all over the place" before he dances & croons this tune
"Singin' In The Rain"
Alan
$800 [20]
In a Civil War song, this "lies a-mouldering in the grave"
John Brown's body
Alan
$800 [12]
Seen here, this type of doughnut seems to get its name from a word for "curl"
cruller
Allison
$1,000 [27]
A reading room has astained glass windowthat depicts the Seven Ages of Manfrom this comedy
As You Like It
$800 [4]
Italian:"In the style of a chapel"
a capella
Alan
$1,000 [23]
Not to be confused with the Ardennes, this French forest was the site of the biggest WWI battle fought by the AEF
the Argonne
$1,000 [28]
She's a welder! She's a dancer! She's drenched! The "she" is Jennifer Beals; this is the 1983 film
Flashdance
Julie
$1,000 [21]
In January 1848 carpenter James Marshall reported the discovery of gold at this spot
Sutter's Mill
Julie
$1,000 [13]
Cafe du Monde in New Orleans calls it "a square piece of dough, fried & covered with powdered sugar"
a beignet
Allison
$1,000 [5]
Russian:"Grandmother"
babushka
DD $2,000 [22]
German forces gave units from this U.K. land the nickname "the ladies from hell" for their fighting spirit & uniforms
Scotland
Julie

Double Jeopardy! Round

BALI, HI! LIFE IN COLONIAL AMERICA CELEBRITY POLITICIANS I "NV" YOU NUCLEAR PHYSICS BAND BOOKS
$400 [24]
Islam took over in most of Indonesia in the 16th century, but most Balinese, like most Indians, adhere to this religion
Hinduism
Alan
$400 [11]
In Connecticut a white male needed land worth 2 pounds a year in rent or livestock worth 40 pounds to be able to do this
vote
Alan
$400 [19]
Heavyweight boxing champ Vitali Klitschko is currently the mayor of this Ukrainian city
Kiev
Allison
$400 [6]
According to a proverb, "necessity is the mother of" this
invention
Julie
$400 [1]
The world's more than 400 nuclear power plants use this process of splitting an atom in 2 to create energy
fission
Alan
$400 [16]
"The Heroin Diaries" by Nikki Sixx is about this heavy metal band
Mötley Crüe
Julie
$800 [25]
Bali is renowned for itsscenic terracesfarming this major crop
rice
Julie
$1,200 [13]
In mid-Atlantic states, leaves of this New World crop were often used as currency
tobacco
Alan
$800 [20]
In the 1990s director Franco Zeffirelli was elected to the Italian senate for this media billionaire's party
Silvio Berlusconi
$800 [7]
A community of nuns, or the place where they live
convent
Julie
$800 [2]
The diameter of the nucleus is a few femto-these or quadrillionths of that unit
a meter
Alan
$800 [17]
"A Bustle in Your Hedgerow" is Chapter 8 of "When Giants Walked the Earth" about this band
Led Zeppelin
Alan
$1,200 [26]
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) It's just a mile across the Bali Strait from Bali to this most politically and economically important island of Indonesia
Java
Alan Julie
$1,600 [14]
This 3-letter cap sounds like it was for an unruly crowd, but it was a bonnet for women to wear indoors
a mobcap
Alan
$1,200 [21]
Singer "Sweet Micky" Martelly was elected pres. of this Caribbean country in the post-earthquake 2011 election
Haiti
Alan
$1,200 [8]
Body language, where your physical actions do the talking, is called this type of communication
nonverbal
Allison
$1,200 [3]
A gamma particle is a high-energy one of these light particles emitted during radioactive disintegration
photon
Alan
$1,200 [18]
Guitarist Joe Perry's memoir is subtitled "My Life In and Out of" this rock band
Aerosmith
Julie
$1,600 [27]
A monument in Denpasar, Bali's capital, commemorates a 1906 battle against these colonial invaders
the Dutch
$2,000 [15]
Patrick Henry slept at the governor's palace in what's now this Virginia tourist mecca
Williamsburg
Alan Allison
$1,600 [22]
Peter Garrett, lead singer for Midnight Oil, was in this country's House of Representatives for almost a decade
Australia
$1,600 [9]
The standard size for a No. 10 one of these is 4 1/8 by 9 1/2 inches
envelope
Alan
$1,600 [4]
This word once used by alchemists today means the changing of one element into another by a nuclear reaction
transmutation
$1,600 [29]
"To the Limit" is the "Untold Story" of this band
The Eagles
Allison
$2,000 [28]
On Padang-Padang beach, walk in the footsteps of Julia Roberts, who was on location there playing her in "Eat Pray Love"
Elizabeth Gilbert
DD $3,000 [12]
Now the name of a Harvard theatrical club, it was a porridge of milk & flour or cornmeal
hasty pudding
Alan
$2,000 [23]
In 2016 after a break of 23 years as a member of Parliament, this2-time Oscar winner played King Lear
Glenda Jackson
$2,000 [10]
Cumulonimbus cloudsare often described as having a top shaped like this
anvil
Julie
DD $3,000 [5]
The sun is a fusion reactor; creating one on Earth would require creating this very hot, ionized state of matter
plasma
Alan

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CITIES

The northernmost city with a population over 5 million, it was founded in 1703 & its name was changed 3 times in the 20th century

St. Petersburg

Julie "What is St. Peterbs" — wagered $4,199
Allison "What is" — wagered $5,601
Alan "What is St. Petersburg?" — wagered $2,601

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