Show #7871 2018-11-26 (taped 2018-10-10) Regular

Contestants

Bridget Sullivan — a telemetry technician from Butte, Montana

Dylan Hamilton — a pediatric dentist from Durham, North Carolina

J Cheema — a marketing and strategy consultant from Portland, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $28,000)

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
J	$2,200	$4,200	$6,200	$0 3rd place: $1,000	$6,200 13 R, 4 W
Dylan	$200	$3,600	$10,800	$9,199 New champion: $9,199	$7,000 13 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Bridget	$4,200	$5,400	$1,200	$1,242 2nd place: $2,000	$4,200 13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

PREDICTIONS BY 2030	TV TITLE CHARACTERS	WHICH STATE?	CRAFTS & HOBBIES	RECENT NONFICTION	THE GERMAN UMLAUT
$200 [22] What could this"Hamilton" creator do to top himself by 2030? If anyone could pull off "Otis: The Man, the Elevator"... Lin-Manuel Miranda Dylan	$200 [10] Heplays Tray, "The Last O.G." Tracy Morgan J	$200 [1] Was last to join the union Hawaii Dylan	$200 [18] This pastime of digging into your family's past & tracing its history is one of America's most popular hobbies genealogy Dylan	$200 [21] "The Rise & Fall of" these creatures that ruled Earth for 150 mil. years says a new species is discovered every week dinosaurs Bridget	$600 [28] Need a designated driver? Time to call for this word meaning "over" über Bridget
$400 [23] Surely this alliterative type of jeans seenherewill be back in sometime before 2030 & things will be totally groovy bell-bottoms Bridget	$400 [5] She played "The Good Wife" Alicia Florrick Julianna Margulies Bridget	$400 [2] Was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845 Texas J	$400 [15] Ravensburger is a big name in this pastime; it makes a Disney one with 40,000 pieces a jigsaw puzzle Bridget	$400 [20] In "Inseparable", about these 19th c. twins, we learn the 4" band that joined them stretched to a freeing 6" late in life Siamese twins Dylan	$800 [27] We need both opposites: come früh (this), stay spät (this) early and late
$600 [11] As of 2018 this NFC North team had never even made the Super Bowl, much less won it, but by 2030? Gotta happen, right? the Detroit Lions J	$600 [6] With his "Whoa!", Joey Lawrence stole the show from this Mayim Bialik title character Blossom J	$600 [8] Has parishes instead of counties Louisiana Bridget	$600 [16] Seen here are some of the supplies used in this hobby scrapbooking Dylan	$600 [13] Michael Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind" sees therapeutic value in psilocybin, the active ingredient in "magic" these mushrooms J	$1,000 [26] It's the German word literally translating to "double-goer" Doppelgänger J
$800 [14] June 14, this "Day" honoring an event in 1777, will become a federal holiday, 'cause a federal holiday in June would be awesome! Flag Day Bridget	$800 [7] Morningstar is the last name of this devilishly handsome title guy whose series moved from Fox to Netflix Lucifer	$800 [3] Has been described as looking like agiant meat cleaver Oklahoma J	DD $1,000 [17] It's become a 9-letter word for the hobby of shopping for old furniture & collectibles antiquing Dylan	$800 [12] "The Soul of America" by Jon Meacham has the Lincoln-inspired subtitle "The Battle for Our Better" these The Battle for Our Better Angels	—
$1,000 [24] In 2018 this social network site got a few "thumbs up", with a market cap of about $540 billion; by 2030, that number will be...more? Facebook Dylan	$1,000 [9] Miriam Weissman is the maiden name of the title character of this alliterative Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Bridget	$1,000 [4] Had the first national monument & the first national forest Wyoming J Bridget	$1,000 [19] You can make hats, sweaters & more with this type of needlework whose name is French for "hook" crocheting J	$1,000 [25] This humorist's book "Calypso" is partly about his beach house "The Sea Section", which just edged out "Canker Shores" David Sedaris	—

Double Jeopardy! Round

CELEBRATING 35 YEARS	SAFE SPACES	EARTH SCIENCE	ENGLISH MAJORS	BIBLE BOOKS BY CHARACTERS	CAREER OPTIONS
$400 [7] This video game featuring 2 plumbers who were not yet "Super" was launched in 1983 the Mario Bros. Dylan	$400 [11] The name of a fertile place in the Libyan desert gives us this word for a fertile place in any desert an oasis Dylan	$400 [1] In a double one of these weather phenomena, the colors in the secondary one are reversed a rainbow Dylan	$400 [16] He bought his 1793 promotion from major to lt. colonel; the investment would pay off at Waterloo Wellington Bridget	$1,200 [26] Apollyon; the mother of harlots & abominations Revelation	$1,200 [22] George Costanza claimed to be one & helped a whale--you could study to be one & do it for real a marine biologist J
$800 [5] In 1983 this influential 13-minute Michael Jackson music video premiered "Thriller" Dylan	$1,200 [13] Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law making California this type of state protective of immigrants a sanctuary state Bridget	$800 [2] DTB is short for depth to this, the solid stuff underlying looser soil bedrock J	$800 [17] A 1917 issue of the Arab Bulletin reported on this then-major & 3 others sharing an ostrich egg for breakfast Lawrence of Arabia Bridget	$1,600 [25] The Rose of Sharon & her beloved Song of Solomon	$1,600 [21] You could try your hand being this 4-letter type of "manager" dealing with liability & insurance a risk manager J
$1,200 [8] The Disneyland theme park in this Asian city celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2018 Tokyo J	$1,600 [14] Samuel Johnson said, "Patriotism is the last" one of these "of a scoundrel" the last refuge of a scoundrel Bridget	$1,200 [3] The drift of 60,000 Nikes lost from a container ship helped establish that the California one flows into the N. Equatorial one the current J Dylan	$1,600 [19] This major who conspired with Benedict Arnold asked to be shot, but George Washington had him hanged as a spy Major John André	$2,000 [24] Naomi, Boaz Ruth	$2,000 [23] Go work at the CDC as this 14-letter type of doctor battling influenza & cholera an epidemiologist J
$1,600 [9] Though Dave Mustaine says he didn't even anticipate living to be 35, this band of his is celebrating that anniversary Megadeth J	$2,000 [15] The extra-territorial type of this is granted in embassies, as to Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian one asylum Dylan	$1,600 [4] Standard this measurement is 1,013 millibars at sea level; in a 2007 Texas tornado, a 194-millibar drop was recorded barometric pressure Bridget	$2,000 [20] Promoted to major in 1915, he'd go on to World War II fame as a field marshal Field Marshal Montgomery Bridget	—	—
$2,000 [10] In 2018 the Tribeca Film Festival had a 35th anniversary showing of this film, with some ofits starspresent Scarface Bridget	DD $4,400 [12] In 1640 English settlers named a Connecticut town "New" this, reflecting the safety it provided New Haven Dylan	$2,000 [6] It's the quality of Earth's axis that gives us seasons & in geometry it means neither parallel nor perpendicular oblique J Bridget	DD $3,000 [18] Sergeant Major John Berryman won the Victoria Cross for this 1854 engagement in which his horse was shot under him the Charge of the Light Brigade Bridget	—	—

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN AUTHORS

The 1877 novel "Garth", about a New Hampshire family cursed by an ancestor's crime, is by Julian, son of this novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Bridget "Who is Hawthorne?" — wagered $42

J "Who is Mark Twain?" — wagered $6,200

Dylan "Who is Thoreau?" — wagered $1,601

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