Show #7845 2018-10-19 (taped 2018-08-15) Regular

Alan Dunn game 6.

Contestants

Herschel Purvis — a laboratory technician from Los Angeles, California

Erik Agard — a puzzlemaker from Gaithersburg, Maryland

Alan Dunn — a software development manager from Johns Creek, Georgia (whose 5-day cash winnings total $120,802)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alan $1,200 $4,600 $12,600 $25,200
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
17 R, 1 W
Erik $3,800 $4,600 $14,600 $25,201
New champion: $25,201
$11,800
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Herschel $1,600 $1,600 $9,600 $9,950
3rd place: $1,000
$8,800
11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE TIMELY PHRASES WHERE THERE'S SMOKE THE 1980s C'EST LA TV STATE LINES
$200 [16]
Fidel Castrogets an earful from this writer & fellow Cuba resident
Ernest Hemingway
Herschel
$200 [1]
Numerical way of saying all day long, all week long
24/7
Alan
$200 [14]
Smoke jumpers are a specialized group of these emergency workers who parachute into action
firefighters
Erik
$200 [8]
Introduced by Nintendo in 1989, this handheld device was for playing cartridge-loaded amusements
a Game Boy
Erik
$200 [6]
In 2017 he brought "All-Star" chefs back for a second chance to run one of his Vegas restaurants
Gordon Ramsay
Erik
$400 [29]
Arnold Schwarzenegger:"I am selling ____ worldwide"
California
Alan
$400 [17]
I really doubt a fight could break out between these two men
the Dalai Lama and Mr. Rogers
Alan
$400 [2]
Tell co-workers you don't hit your stride until noon with a classic Sandra Boynton cat mug that says, "Not a" this
a morning person
Erik
$400 [22]
In the making of Talisker Scotch whisky, the malt is flavored by the smoke of this stuff from bogs
peat
Alan
$400 [9]
The "dynasty" of these accessories (in fashion, not football) began in the '30s but peaked in the '80s
shoulder pads
$400 [7]
Robert Hewitt Wolfe & Brannon Braga co-wrote "A Fistful of Datas" in 1992, bringing the old West to this show's Holodeck
Star Trek: Next Generation
Alan
$600 [26]
Sarah Palin: "It is from ____ that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia"
Alaska
Erik
$600 [23]
Picassoshows love for his fellow Pablo, this poet
Neruda
Erik
$600 [3]
Another way to say a very long time is "a month of" these days
Sundays
Alan
$600 [15]
On record & on film, this jocular pair went "Up in Smoke" celebrating the stoner lifestyle
Cheech and Chong
Herschel
$600 [13]
Walter Mondale used this 3-word Wendy's slogan in 1984 to challenge a rival for the presidential nomination
"Where's the Beef?"
Erik
$600 [10]
Somehow, the afterlife wouldn't be complete without Blake Bortles on this NBC sitcom
The Good Place
Erik
$1,000 [28]
An official state song:"On, ____!"
Wisconsin
Alan
$800 [24]
This president, on the right, & fellow Ohioan Harvey Firestone wait while Edisonnaps away
Harding
Alan Herschel
$800 [4]
If you're up late working on a project, you're engaging in this combustion that includes a time
burning the midnight oil
Erik
$800 [18]
Smoke is paired with these to make a phrase used when reality is being deliberately obscured
mirrors
Erik
$800 [20]
This "How'm I doin'?" NYC mayor also said, "I can explain this to you; I cannot comprehend it for you"
Ed Koch
Erik
$800 [11]
Here's a not-so-small claim--she sold her 5,000-plus court show archive back to CBS for $95 mil, give or take
Judge Judy
Erik
DD $2,000 [27]
An 1803 speech:"____ is the keystone of the democratic arch"
Pennsylvania
Erik
$1,000 [25]
Thesetwo men, an actor-director & a writer, have a nice chat, perhaps about their last names being homophones
Orson Welles and H.G. Wells
Alan Herschel
$1,000 [5]
JFK loved the Broadway lyric "once there was a spot, for one" these 3 words "that was Camelot"
brief shining moment
$1,000 [19]
By the 17th century keepers of these had developed a screen veil & had learned the value of smoke in controlling them
bees
Alan
$1,000 [21]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Plokstine Cold War Museum in Lithuania.) The silos at Lithuania's Plokstine missile base that once housed Soviet SS-4 rockets are empty; the missiles were destroyed under terms of this treaty, signed in 1987 by Gorbachev & Reagan & known by three letters for short
the INF Treaty
$1,000 [12]
Rashida Jones is the title cop on this TBS comedy; other characters include Jay Geils & Dr. Scholls
Angie Tribeca
Herschel

Double Jeopardy! Round

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY WHOSE MEGA-ALBUM? PAYING THE PIPER ENDS IN "U" A SERIOUS INJURY LET'S GET TO URCHIN CARE
$400 [7]
Heman Sweattintegrated the University of Texas Law after the Supreme Court ruled the Negro Law School was separate but not this
equal
Herschel
$400 [14]
Fans have bought a whole lot more than 21 copies of her "21"
Adele
Alan
$400 [20]
If you liked his tune in Saskatoon, pay him with one of these "crazy" dollar coins
a loony
Erik
$400 [1]
Varaha the boar is the third of this Hindu god's many avatars
Vishnu
Alan
$400 [15]
Hepatic laceration
a cut to the liver
Alan
$400 [8]
The fortunes of this unfortunate Dickens orphan turn when he is adopted by Mr. Brownlow
Oliver (Twist)
Erik
$800 [5]
Ron Brown in 1989 for the Democrats & Michael Steele in 2009 for the G.O.P. were the first black holders of this post
chairman of the party
Erik Herschel
$800 [30]
They shot the lights out with "Appetite for Destruction"
Guns N' Roses
Erik
$800 [23]
If you thought he did rock whilst sipping coffee in Iraq, slip him a note of 1,000 of these
dinar
Erik
$800 [2]
If you see this puffer fish on a Japanese menu, you should make sure the chef is licensed--your life is at stake
fugu
Erik
$800 [16]
Myocardial infarction
a heart attack
Herschel
$800 [12]
In "A Game of Thrones", Yoren saves this Stark daughter by disguising her as an urchin
Arya
Erik
$1,600 [3]
In 1968 at this school, SFSU for short, Nathan Hare created the USA's first black studies program
San Francisco State University
Herschel
$1,200 [29]
Well, they're "just another band out of" a New England city whose debut album has sold 17 million copies
Boston
Erik
$1,200 [24]
If his Haifa chorale boosted morale, say thanks with this currency of modern & ancient Israel
the shekel
Alan
$1,200 [10]
It's the literal baggage a bride brings to a marriage
a trousseau
Alan
$1,200 [17]
Subconjunctival hemorrhage
the eye
Alan
$1,600 [21]
A Tibetan monk helps an Irish orphan on the streets of India in this Rudyard Kipling novel
Kim
Alan
DD $2,000 [4]
Despite the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, she made many trips back to Maryland to aid liberations
Harriet Tubman
Herschel
$1,600 [28]
1999's "Supernatural" was a mega-comeback for this guitar legend
Carlos Santana
Herschel
$1,600 [25]
If you liked his ditty while in Quezon City, pay the piper 50 of these, with Sergio Osmeña on the bill
pesos
Herschel
$1,600 [9]
The bulk of the action in "Black Hawk Down" takes place in this African city
Mogadishu
Erik
$1,600 [18]
Edema in the right parietal lobe
the brain
Alan
$2,000 [22]
Sherlock Holmes invests in the local urchins known by this 3-word name, having them do leg work for him
the Baker Street Irregulars
Herschel
$2,000 [6]
In a series, artist Jacob Lawrencedepictedthis "Great" movement of rural Southern blacks to the North in the 20th century
the Great Migration
Herschel
$2,000 [27]
She's sold 12 million pieces of her 1995 "Pieces of You"
Jewel
$2,000 [26]
If his song touched your soul in Seoul, tip him about a dollar--1,000 of these units
a won
Erik
$2,000 [11]
In "Dracula" Van Helsing says, "You would in time...have become" this creature "as they call it in eastern Europe"
Nosferatu
Erik
$2,000 [19]
Lisfranc fracture
the foot
Erik
DD $6,000 [13]
Tom Canty receives a lot of care in this Twain novel when he swaps places with Prince Edward
The Prince and the Pauper
Erik

Final Jeopardy!

SPORTS

A low center of gravity is a key to success in this sport with moves including gaburi-yori & uwate-dashinage

sumo wrestling

Herschel "What Sumo Wrestling?!" — wagered $350
Alan "What is sumo?" — wagered $12,600
Erik "What is sumo?" — wagered $10,601

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