Show #7850 2018-10-26 (taped 2018-08-21) Regular

Contestants

Todd LaPlace — an accountant from Dublin, Ohio

Tori Campbell — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois

Dhruv Srinivasachar — a medical and doctoral student from Richmond, Virginia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dhruv $1,600 $3,200 $10,800 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Tori $2,000 $5,800 $11,800 $2,198
New champion: $2,198
$13,800
19 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Todd $2,600 $4,400 $11,800 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$12,800
15 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN RELATIONSHIPS PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS NOT TO BE CONFUSED ANIMAL ODDITIES STARTS OR ENDS WITH A BODY PART
$200 [9]
(Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Disney's first grown-up comedy & Touchstone's first release, this movie gave a big boost to the careers of Tom Hanks & Daryl Hannah
Splash
Todd
$200 [4]
Hillary Clinton to Charlotte Mezvinsky
grandmother
Tori
$200 [1]
In 1984 he traveled to L.A. to become the first sitting president to attend the Olympic Games
Reagan
Tori
$200 [6]
On the menu, scallops are shellfish & these are immature or green onions
scallions (or shallots)
Tori
$200 [3]
A tropical tree frog that has a transparent belly & chest is named for this transparent material
glass
Tori
$200 [2]
To assist with the mail or with the birth of a baby
deliver
Tori
$400 [10]
(Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) This film that spawned a slew of sequels introduced boogeyman Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Dhruv Todd
$400 [7]
Elizabeth II to Charlotte Elizabeth Diana
great-grandmother
Dhruv
$600 [8]
On June 8, 1789 George Washington issued the first of these orders that have become a regular tool of recent presidents
executive orders
Todd
$400 [20]
"The Reflex" was a No. 1 hit for Duran Duran; this is the "R" in the digestive disorder abbreviated GERD
reflux
Tori
$600 [25]
These Asian tree-dwelling great apes have been known to use large leaves as rain ponchos
orangutans
Dhruv
$400 [5]
Diminutive term for a quick writing method done to take dictation
shorthand
Tori
$600 [11]
(Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Manipulative, but a real audience pleaser, this film about a teenager beset by bullies gave us the famous line "Wax on, wax off"
Karate Kid
Tori
$800 [23]
Christie Hefner to Hugh Hefner
his daughter
Tori
DD $1,000 [16]
In 1896 he became the first to use the telephone during a presidential election campaign, often calling GOP HQ
William McKinley
Dhruv
$600 [13]
A cabana is where you change into your bathing suit; Gabbana is his design partner
Dolce
Todd
$800 [21]
A 2010 study found that embryos of the spotted salamander employ this energy process typically seen in plants
photosynthesis
Todd
$600 [12]
Greaves were part of a knight's set of it
armor
Dhruv
$800 [14]
(Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) In "Moscow on the Hudson" this funnyman was superb as a Russian musician who defects during a trip to New York City
Robin Williams
Todd
$1,000 [24]
Novel & movie title character Rachel to Philip
cousin
Todd
$800 [19]
Bessemer is a steel-making process; this is a sheer fabric related to the word "goose"
gossamer
Tori
$1,000 [22]
A giant isopod, part of this subphylum that includes crabs, went 5 years without eating
crustaceans
Dhruv
$800 [17]
A spiky "sea" creature
an urchin
Tori
$1,000 [15]
(Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Real life refugee Haing S. Ngor won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as a translator in this film set in war-torn Cambodia
The Killing Fields
Dhruv
$1,000 [18]
Diuretics are drugs that help rid the body of extra fluid; "Dianetics" is a book by him
L. Ron Hubbard
Tori
$1,000 [26]
It sounds like you might need a shovel at this rowdy, down-home type of party
a shindig
Dhruv

Double Jeopardy! Round

AVIATION HISTORY PEOPLE GRAMMY'S ALBUM OF THE YEAR FICTION YOU GO NORWAY WE'LL GO "R"s
$400 [1]
On Oct. 24, 2003 this supersonic transport aircraft made its last commercial flight
the Concorde
Dhruv
$400 [3]
On this man's passing in 2018, Jimmy Carter said, "He shaped the spiritual lives of tens of millions of people worldwide"
(Billy) Graham
Tori
$400 [19]
Isn't it ironic her "Jagged Little Pill" went down so well in 1996?
Alanis Morissette
Tori
$400 [10]
This slave is Huck Finn's raftmate
Jim
Todd
$400 [2]
From 1624 to 1925, this capital was called Christiania to honor the king who planned the rebuilding of it after a huge fire
Oslo
Dhruv
$400 [6]
It was a telephone dial with finger holes that your kids have no idea ever existed
rotary (dial)
Todd
$1,200 [8]
Vietnam War naval aviators took off from USS this, named for the town near where the Wright Brothers took off
Kitty Hawk
Tori
$800 [4]
This document leaker was one of the runners-up to Pope Francis for Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2013
(Edward) Snowden
Dhruv Tori
$800 [26]
Add it up--her "1989" was No. 1 in 2016
Taylor Swift
Todd
$800 [11]
His first novel, "Ready Player One", became a bestseller & a Spielberg movie
Ernest Cline
$800 [9]
Across the Geiranger, this type of narrow inlet, 2 waterfalls face each other: the "Seven Sisters" & their "Suitor"
a fjord
Dhruv
$800 [7]
Forms of it come in bread, grass & whiskey
rye
Dhruv
$1,600 [18]
To get ready for space surgery, the first operation in conditions approximating this was in 2006 aboard a special Airbus jet
weightlessness (or zero gravity)
Todd
$1,200 [24]
Formerly married to Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki co-founded this DNA testing company with a number in its name
23andMe
Dhruv
$1,200 [27]
In 1979 the soundtrack to this film danced away with a win
Saturday Night Fever
Dhruv
DD $1,000 [13]
In this novel it's Doc Daneeka who explains, "Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy"
Catch-22
Todd
$1,200 [5]
3' tall Nills Olav does his duty as hon. brigadier of the Norwegian king's guard from a zoo, as he's this bird
a penguin
Todd
$1,200 [15]
To make light, soft sounds, or to steal cattle, which would likely be a bit louder
rustle
Todd
$2,000 [25]
These stack-winged aircraft that remind us of the WWI era were used in combat in 1991 as Croatia fought for its independence
biplanes
Dhruv
$1,600 [23]
In 2017 this Brit announced he was launching Virgin Voyages, a cruise line for adults only
Branson
Tori
$1,600 [28]
He's not a loser, baby, so why don't you thrill me by knowing his "Morning Phase" took the trophy
Beck
Tori
$1,200 [12]
In a Melville story he's "The Scrivener" who won't do any scrivening
Bartleby
Todd
$1,600 [20]
In 1905 184 Norwegians voted against independence from this country; needless to say, the ja's had it
Sweden
Tori
$1,600 [16]
As a noun, it's a tool; as a verb, it's what's done to pressure that gets raised by degrees
ratchet
Todd
DD $2,000 [22]
In 2016Carla Haydenbecame the first woman & first African-American in this D.C. post & naturally was sworn in on a book
the Librarian of Congress
Tori
$2,000 [14]
One of Britain's great mystery authors, she went back a couple of centuries for "Death Comes to Pemberley"
P.D. James
Dhruv
$2,000 [21]
Norway's longtime official church was evangelical this, which traces back to 1500s Germany
Lutheranism
Tori
$2,000 [17]
A train's repair building, or an exaggerated boxing punch
roundhouse
Dhruv

Final Jeopardy!

EUROPEAN HISTORY

Legend says this, weighing 336 lbs., came from the Holy Land & Kenneth MacAlpin brought it to Perthshire c. 840

the Stone of Scone

Dhruv "What is Excalibur?" — wagered $10,799
Tori "What is the rock on which Kings of England sit on the throne" — wagered $9,602
Todd "What is the Rosetta Stone?" — wagered $11,800

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