Show #7855 2018-11-02 (taped 2018-08-22) Regular

Contestants

Jonathan Greenan — a human rights legal officer from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Laura Hite — an arts administrator from Los Angeles, California

Emily Frey — a professor from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (whose 3-day cash winnings total $62,503)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emily $4,200 $5,600 $13,600 $20,399
2nd place: $2,000
$13,600
19 R, 2 W
Laura $3,600 $3,800 $3,400 $6,799
3rd place: $1,000
$5,400
14 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jonathan $400 $4,000 $14,200 $27,201
New champion: $27,201
$14,000
18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

ALPHABET CITY KIDS' BOOKS THE GENDER-FREE OPTION IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM... THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
$200 [5]
A:It's considered the birthplace of democracy
Athens
Laura
$200 [6]
Jeff Kinneyadmits that in school, he qualified for this title adjective of his 12-novel series
wimpy
Laura
$200 [15]
How about "first year" instead of this term for students entering high school
freshmen
Emily
$200 [28]
At the Buick Invitational from 2005 to 2008, many were invited but no one was beating this golfer
Tiger Woods
Jonathan
$200 [16]
"Pink Elephants On Parade" is a song from this 1941 film
Dumbo
Laura
$200 [30]
Regular & exclusive use is one requirement for deducting the cost of this on your taxes
the home office
Emily
$400 [1]
I:It's the only major city that straddles 2 continents--Asia & Europe
Istanbul
Jonathan
$400 [7]
In "Finding Buck McHenry", a kid thinks a janitor is a baseball great from the time of these segregated leagues
the Negro Leagues
Laura
$400 [11]
Longcase clock is another way to refer to this antique
a grandfather clock
Emily
$400 [27]
Many on our staff were sad to see the Astros invade Chavez Ravine & beat this team in Game 7 of the 2017 World Series
the Dodgers
Jonathan
$400 [17]
This Seuss character was in the jungle of Nool, enjoying the jungle's joys, when he heard a small noise
Horton
Emily
$400 [21]
This word for a woman's dressing or sitting room comes from the French for "a place to sulk in"
boudoir
$600 [2]
S:It's the gateway to the Yangtze Valley
Shanghai
Laura
$600 [8]
In a recent bestseller, "Dragons Love" these, but don't put salsa in them or you'll have trouble
tacos
Laura
$600 [12]
These days, Rita prefers to be a parking enforcement officer rather than this antiquated term
a meter maid
Laura
$600 [24]
From 2005 to 2008 & again from 2010 to 2014, no man was beating this Spaniard for the French Open men's singles title
(Rafael) Nadal
Jonathan
$600 [18]
This swinging cartoon guy had an elephant named Shep who acted like a dog
George of the Jungle
Jonathan
$800 [23]
This name for the main room of an ancient Roman house also refers to a skylit central court
atrium
Jonathan
$800 [3]
E:This Mexican city south of San Diego is a regular port-of-call for short cruises out of Long Beach, Ca.
Ensenada
$800 [9]
In "Alice in Wonderland", the Red Queen uses live hedgehogs as balls in this game
croquet
Emily
$800 [13]
An equal-opportunity archvillain can call his employees lackeys or minions instead of this 8-letter word
henchmen
Emily
$800 [25]
This storied franchise was the last north-of-the-border team to win the Stanley Cup, back in 1993
the (Montreal) Canadiens
Emily
$800 [19]
The mascot of Tufts University is this elephant; P.T. Barnum was an early trustee & benefactor
Jumbo
Jonathan
$1,000 [29]
A 19th century poem begins, "'Will you walk into'" this room, "said the spider to the fly"
my parlor
Jonathan
$1,000 [4]
Q:This capital sits at an elevation of 9,350 feet
Quito
Emily
$1,000 [10]
This "harebrained" English author also wrote about a rat in "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers"
Beatrix Potter
Laura
$1,000 [14]
A ship could embark on its first sailing rather than this traditional term
its maiden voyage
Emily
$1,000 [26]
Over 4 straight Super Bowls, it was the rest of the NFL 139, this team 73
the Buffalo Bills
Jonathan
$1,000 [20]
In some parts of India, this elephant-headed god is said to be married to both Buddhi & Siddhi
Ganesh
Jonathan
DD $1,200 [22]
This musical includes the song "The Room Where It Happens"
Hamilton
Jonathan

Double Jeopardy! Round

TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY THEY'RE "GREAT" UNITS OF MEASURE ROMAN EMPERORS PATTERN RECOGNITION CAST IRONS
$400 [30]
The NPG has the complete gallery of presidential portraits outside the White House--here's this chief executive
(Harry) Truman
Emily Jonathan
$400 [7]
A large pooch originally bred for boar hunting
the Great Dane
Emily
$400 [25]
When referring to this temperature unit abbreviated K, just use the name of the unit, no "degrees"
kelvin
Laura
$400 [1]
Trajan narrowly escaped death when one of these shook the city of Antioch in 115
an earthquake
Jonathan
$400 [27]
Yankee fans know the lines on this uniform fabric pattern can be 1/16" or 3/32" wide
pinstripes
Emily
$400 [28]
In 2017's "Justice League", Jeremy Irons played this Batman butler
Alfred
Laura
$800 [8]
Changing human communication forever, this inventor phoned it in back in 1876
(Alexander Graham) Bell
Emily
$800 [6]
A nickname for Broadway
the Great White Way
Emily
$800 [22]
The EPA standard for carbon monoxide exposure includes 35 of these "parts"
parts per million
Jonathan
$800 [11]
Antoninus Pius ordered the construction of the Antonine this about 100 miles north of Hadrian's
a wall
Jonathan
$800 [19]
If you like these little solid circles, visit the Tokyo Museum of Yayoi Kusama, the queen of them
polka dots
Laura
$800 [12]
Jeremy's son Max Irons was Henry in this wolfish 2011 fairy tale with no "Little" in its title
Red Riding Hood
Emily
$1,200 [9]
This St. Louis-born performer's talent & sensuality made her a music hall star in France in the 1920s and '30s
Josephine Baker
Laura
$1,200 [3]
A book about Ronald Reagan's transition from acting to politics is titled "The Making of" him
the Great Communicator
Jonathan
$1,200 [23]
"Atmos", divers can endure pressure of about 6 of these units, each 14.7 pounds per square inch
atmospheres
$1,200 [18]
Tiberius was the Caesar of the King James Bible line do this "to Caesar the things that are Caesar's"
render
Emily
$1,200 [15]
The type of symbol seenhereis the Persian boteh; it is repeated in this pattern named for a Scottish town
Paisley
Laura
$1,200 [2]
In 1994's "The Lion King", Jeremy Irons voiced this villainous cat
Scar
Emily
DD $2,000 [10]
Before it was a Sam Peckinpah film title, itwas a real Western gang, including Butch & Sundance
the Wild Bunch
Laura
$1,600 [4]
This 11,000-sq.-mile Canadian lake is named for native people who were sometimes forced to labor for the Cree
the Great Slave Lake
Emily
$2,000 [29]
An 1881 scientific congress in Paris put this Frenchman's name on the unit of electric current
Ampere
Emily Jonathan
$1,600 [21]
Despised tyrant Caracalla was obsessed with this better-regarded Macedonian & tried to dress & act like him
Alexander the Great
Emily
$1,600 [16]
The motifs in quatrefoil designs have 4 of these
leaves
Emily
$1,600 [13]
Jeremy Irons had a breakthrough role in the 1981 miniseries this place "Revisited"
Brideshead
Laura
$2,000 [26]
The "Glory! Glory!" ofthis3-named hymn writer included writing anthem of the Union army
Julia Ward Howe
$2,000 [5]
Flightless bird of the north Atlantic extinct since the mid-1880s
the great auk
Jonathan
DD $3,000 [24]
Named for an Englishman, it's the basic unit of force in the International System
a newton
Jonathan
$2,000 [20]
This brutal heir of Marcus Aurelius wasn't killed by a gladiator, but his advisers did have him strangled by a wrestler
Commodus
Laura Jonathan
$2,000 [17]
This word for a white& color checked pattern comes from a Malay word
gingham
Laura Jonathan
$2,000 [14]
Max Irons stars as a CIA analyst who stumbles on a plot in this show; the '70s film version had "Three Days of" this in its title
Condor
Jonathan

Final Jeopardy!

SURNAMES

Evoking speed & luxury, this one of the 10 most common Italian surnames goes back to the Latin word for iron

Ferrari

Laura "What is Ferrari?" — wagered $3,399
Emily "What is Ferrari?" — wagered $6,799
Jonathan "What is Ferrari?" — wagered $13,001

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