Show #7886 2018-12-17 (taped 2018-11-06) Regular

Contestants

Josh Demby — a real estate agent from Denver, Colorado

Alex Cervenak — a historical interpreter from Hamtramck, Michigan

Jackie Fuchs — an attorney and writer from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jackie $0 $2,600 $10,000 $19,889
2-day champion: $34,089
$12,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Alex $1,400 $4,000 $2,800 $2,800
3rd place: $1,000
$2,800
11 R, 3 W
Josh $1,600 $2,600 $9,000 $17,000
2nd place: $2,000
$9,000
12 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

75 YEARS AT THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICAART-ICLES COMING AT YOU IN 3 T WRITERS EXPOSED ON THE SLAB SPORTY BRAND NAME MEANINGS
$200 [13]
A new staging of this Kander & Ebb musical at City Center moved to Broadway, where it's still going 9,000 shows later
Chicago
Jackie Josh
$200 [7]
"Visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by... Picasso and Georges Braque"
Cubism
Jackie
$200 [19]
We see aliens, & it means originating outside Earth's limits
extraterrestrial
Alex
$200 [2]
Jerome David
(J.D.) Salinger
Alex
$400 [24]
Square slabs of cobblestone, red sandstone & bricks are available for building use in this video game
Minecraft
Jackie
$600 [28]
This outdoor clothing brand is named for the coldest side of the mountain
North Face
Alex
$400 [14]
In 1954 George Balanchine mounted this ballet for Christmas at the City Center & a new tradition began
The Nutcracker
Jackie
$400 [25]
He "felt and heard a 'scream throughout nature'"
(Edvard) Munch
Alex
$400 [20]
Honeywell's mid-20th century roundonesare in museums as masterworks of industrial design
a thermostat
Jackie
$400 [3]
Elwyn Brooks
(E.B.) White
Alex
$600 [21]
SLAB is the stock symbol for this element Laboratories, Inc., a tech company making semiconductors
silicon
$800 [27]
This Portland, Oregon-based sportswear company is named for a river that flows through the city
Columbia
Alex
$600 [16]
Thisactress is joined by puppets on the midway as Lili in a 2002 City Center production of "Carnival"
Anne Hathaway
Alex
$600 [1]
"Though it was reconstructed to a standing posture, the statue's arms were never found"
the Venus de Milo
Josh
$600 [10]
You can "pay" it as you "stand at" it
attention
$600 [4]
Clive Staples
Lewis
Alex
$800 [22]
The slab is a synonym for this item on a pitcher's mound
the rubber
$1,000 [26]
Twin brothers Bob & Bill Meistrell named this brand for how its wetsuit fit one's figure
Body Glove
$800 [17]
In 1971 this African American's dance company moved downtown to City Center where they still perform today
Alvin Ailey
Jackie
$800 [8]
"In 1894 he conceived a plan to publish a book of his impressions of Tahiti, illustrated with his own woodcuts"
Gauguin
Jackie
$800 [11]
For Cub Scouts, this word meaning reliable is No. 1 on the Scout law list
trustworthy
Jackie
$800 [5]
Kids' author Robert Lawrence
(R.L.) Stine
Alex Josh
$1,000 [23]
Sliced this meat has been trimmed, sliced & packaged; slab this comes in one chunk that must be sliced
bacon
Jackie
DD $3,000 [15]
This brand started as a catalog in 1983 & was meant to evoke preppy things like rowing--its original logo was an oarsman
J. Crew
Jackie
$1,000 [18]
In "Little Shop of Horrors", Taran Killam is the dentist, & Jake Gyllenhaal is "suddenly"this lead character
Seymour
Josh
$1,000 [9]
"He created works that cantilevered off bases that allowed the mobile element to rotate 360 degrees"
(Alexander) Calder
Jackie
$1,000 [12]
Time to make this settlement by giving an equal amount of cash to cover any damage you caused
restitution
$1,000 [6]
Poet Wystan Hugh
(W.H.) Auden
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

WOMEN IN MATH & SCIENCE EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES IN THE DICTIONARY THE MEXICAN WAR MUSICIANS' MEMOIRS "RITE" YOU ARE
$400 [19]
In 1923 Edith Quimby devised a way to use this type of radiographic film to accurately gauge exposure to radiation
X-ray film
$400 [8]
This "Queen of the Danube" is found where the hills of western Hungary meet the nation's eastern plains
Budapest
Jackie
$400 [11]
The Greek name of a king of Ithaca is the source of this word for a long trip
odyssey
$400 [21]
Early in the war, Mexican troops crossed this river to fight the battle of Palo Alto
the Rio Grande
Josh
$400 [24]
2016:"Born to Run"
Bruce Springsteen
Jackie
$400 [14]
For Catholics near death, confession, anointing of the sick & communion make up these
last rites
Josh
$800 [20]
For WWII Katharine Blodgett found a way for 2 quarts of oil to make this cloaking "screen" cover several acres
a smokescreen
$800 [7]
If you like cold beet soup & stuffed potato dumplings, you vill enjoy Vilnius, the capital of this Baltic nation
Lithuania
Josh
$800 [12]
We hope you've got a lock on this name for the decorative cutout on the neckline seen here
keyhole
Josh
$800 [22]
This exiled general offered help to the U.S., but double-crossed them--didn't they remember the Alamo?
Santa Anna
Jackie
$800 [23]
2015:"Reckless: My Life as a Pretender"
Chrissie Hynde
Jackie
$800 [15]
In 2017 this drugstore chain sold 2,000 stores to Walgreens
Rite Aid
Alex
$1,200 [6]
In its long history, the Zytglogge Clock Towerin this Swiss capital has also served as a guard tower & a women's prison
Bern
Josh
$1,200 [13]
A quick solution to a difficult problem is this, the special item that can kill a werewolf
a silver bullet
Jackie Josh
$1,200 [26]
2 future presidents fought in the Battle of Buena Vista:Zachary Taylor & this Confederate man
Jefferson Davis
Josh
$1,200 [1]
2014:"Dancing With Myself"
Billy Idol
Jackie Josh
$1,200 [16]
I'm not saying this Stravinsky work is old, but "Fantasia" did animate dinosaurs to it
The Rite of Spring
Jackie
$2,000 [5]
The eventful history of this Balkan city includes being sacked in a Mongol invasion in the 13th century
Zagreb
Josh
$1,600 [9]
The name of this device for punishment, a wooden framework, also means to ridicule
a pillory
DD $2,000 [25]
In 1847 Mexico City had its independence day under occupation as this general took the city 2 days before
General Winfield Scott
Jackie
$1,600 [2]
2004:"Tommyland"
Tommy Lee
Alex
$1,600 [17]
Xhosa boys wear a blanket with red stripes after undergoing this type of 3-word transition to manhood
rite of passage
Alex
DD $3,800 [4]
You'll find NATO's world headquarters on Boulevard Leopold III in this capital city
Brussels
Jackie
$2,000 [10]
A passionate plea can be described as this, from a French phrase meaning "cry of the heart"
cri de coeur
Alex Josh
$2,000 [3]
2014:"Anger is an Energy"
Johnny Rotten
$2,000 [18]
It's not a secret--one of the 2 branches of advanced freemasonry; both have British names
Scottish Rites (or York Rites)
Jackie

Final Jeopardy!

NORSE MYTHOLOGY

After turning himself into a mare, he gave birth to an 8-legged horse that was later the prized steed of Odin

Loki

Alex "Who isThorLoki?" — wagered $0
Josh "Who is Loki" — wagered $8,000
Jackie "Who is Loki?" — wagered $9,889

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