Show #7888 2018-12-19 (taped 2018-11-06) Regular

Contestants

Trisha Eustaquio — a biomedical engineer from Silver Spring, Maryland

Eric Doctor — a graphic designer and teacher from Brooklyn, New York

Jackie Fuchs — an attorney and writer from Los Angeles, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $58,689)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jackie $400 $2,400 $14,400 $28,400
4-day champion: $87,089
$14,400
15 R, 1 W
Eric $-1,000 $-800 $4,800 $2,001
3rd place: $1,000
$6,800
15 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)
Trisha $1,600 $6,600 $13,400 $26,799
2nd place: $2,000
$14,200
19 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

TEA & SYMPATHY DO THE MATH HIGHER EDUCATION CHALLENGED & BANNED BOOKS THE FAB FOUR WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME
$200 [2]
I'll feel bad for you if you forgot Thomas Sullivan invented these by accident when he wrapped tea samples in silk
tea bags
Trisha
$200 [3]
It's the decimal equivalent of 1/8
.125
Eric
$200 [17]
Ralph Waldo Emerson started attending this college at age 14, graduated & then began teaching there at age 18
Harvard
$200 [4]
In 2013 this racy E.L. James trilogy was pulled from library shelves in Florida only to return due to public demand
Fifty Shades of Grey
Trisha
$200 [9]
After Pete Best, The Beatles went with him as their drummer when their manager's pick Johnny Hutchinson said no thanks
Ringo Starr
Eric
$400 [22]
Difficult & the stuff that's kneaded to make bread
dough and tough
Eric
$400 [1]
Black tea contains this stimulant but I know you're sad it doesn't have more, so I got you a Jolt cola, with 160mg in 1 can
caffeine
Eric
$400 [5]
9 divided by 3/4 =this
12
Eric
$400 [18]
The 1960s antiwar movement that grew to cover the whole nation started at places like this Ca. school founded in 1868
Cal Berkeley
Trisha
$400 [26]
Nearly 50 years after it was published, her "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" is still being challenged
(Judy) Blume
Jackie
$400 [10]
Jesus & Gandhi were 2 of John's picks that didn't make it onto the celeb-filled cover of this 1967 album
Sgt. Pepper
Jackie
$600 [23]
A leaf collector & rice wine
sake and rake
Jackie Trisha
$600 [14]
I've got a warm, sympathetic ear & a hot cup of this tea named for an 1830s British prime minister
Earl Grey
Trisha
$600 [6]
If x2+ 2 = 18, x = this
4
Eric
$600 [19]
"The Book of Knowledge"is vied for by Carleton & Macalaster, called this state's top 2 liberal arts colleges
Minnesota
Trisha
$600 [27]
A landmark obscenity case in 1933 lifted a ban in the U.S. on this James Joyce work
Ulysses
Trisha
$600 [11]
George learned to play guitar in his teens & learned to play this Asian string instrument in his 20s
a sitar
Trisha
$800 [24]
A comfort food served in a special dish & an exaggeration like "this is the greatest hot dish ever made"
casserole and hyperbole
$800 [15]
Last name of Glasgow's Sir Thomas, who made a company with the notion that poorer folks should be able to enjoy tea
Lipton
Jackie Eric Trisha
$800 [7]
It's 5% of 400
20
Trisha
$1,000 [21]
Its Tempe campus has one of the largest undergraduate populations in the United States
Arizona State
Jackie Eric
$800 [28]
Many schools banned this Anthony Burgess novel due to its extreme violence
A Clockwork Orange
Eric
$800 [12]
"Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to" this song, recorded in 2 different speeds & keys & combined for an eerie effect
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
Jackie
$1,000 [25]
First & last name of this"Game of Thrones" actor, also seen in "The Oath" on Crackle
Sean Bean
Trisha
$1,000 [16]
It was like my own tongue was burned when I saw you sip a too-hot cup of the aromatic spiced Indian tea called masala this
chai
Trisha
$1,000 [8]
(x + 1)2expands to this
x 2 + 2x + 1
Eric Trisha
DD $2,000 [20]
In 1961 this private Texas school provided most of the land that became NASA's Mission Control Center
Rice
Trisha
$1,000 [13]
The lads honed their craft early on in this German city, sometimes playing 30 sets a week
Hamburg
Eric Trisha

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY TELLS US... ARCHITECTURE THAT SUPERHERO/VILLAIN WON A TONY "IN" THE END LAKES OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE THE FAB 4
$400 [20]
"We will have no truce or parley with you (Hitler)... you do your worst--and we will do our best", said he
(Winston) Churchill
Jackie
$400 [1]
4-letter word for an office plan without walls; Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's HQ is the largest one in the world
open
Eric
$400 [30]
Wolverine, for "The Boy from Oz"(2004)
(Hugh) Jackman
Trisha
$400 [6]
To mean a barrier, this word can follow iron or bamboo
curtain
Eric
$400 [22]
This lake with the name of Manitoba's capital was a location for the submarine movie "K-19: The Widowmaker"
Winnipeg
Eric
$400 [15]
There are 4 cups of wine & 4 questions at the seder celebrating this Jewish holiday
Passover
Jackie
$800 [19]
Karl Marx:"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their" these
chains
$800 [2]
This is the branch of architecture that would utilize topiary most often
landscape architecture
Jackie
$800 [29]
Spider-Man, for "Angels in America"(2018)
Garfield
Eric
$800 [7]
If you use raw papaya or raw pineapple in this type of dessert, it won't jiggle
gelatin
Trisha
$800 [21]
Discovered by the French in 1634, the Straits of Mackinac separatethese2 Great Lakes
Michigan and Huron
Eric Trisha
$800 [11]
This thigh muscle consisting of 4 parts lets you straighten your leg
quadricep
Jackie
$1,200 [3]
In 1942 this general told his troops, "A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood"
(George) Patton
Jackie
$1,200 [16]
It's fitting that Latin for "sleep" gives us the name of these windows, frequently used in bedrooms
dormer windows
Jackie
$1,200 [28]
Nightcrawler, as the emcee for "Cabaret"(1998)
(Alan) Cumming
Eric
$1,600 [9]
The lemon soufflé is in this small dish with a name from Dutch
a ramekin
Eric
$1,600 [24]
At low water levels, the 2 largest of the Boulder Islands in this 110-mile artificial Nevada lake are connected
Lake Mead
Trisha
$1,200 [12]
Of the "4 Corners States", it's the southeastern one
New Mexico
Jackie
$1,600 [4]
This 1930s politician, laying it out:"For the present you can just call me the Kingfish"
(Huey) Long
Trisha
$1,600 [17]
Introduced in 1925, this simplified style is also known as jazz moderne
Art Deco
Trisha
$1,600 [27]
Black Widow, for "A View from the Bridge"(2010)
(Scarlett) Johansson
Eric
DD $2,000 [8]
Both of the words in this alliterative term for a container of sale items end with "in"
bargain bin
Trisha
DD $2,000 [23]
Covering more than 700 square miles, this Florida lake gets its name from the Hitchiti for "big water"
Lake Okeechobee
Eric
$1,600 [13]
For easier movement, these 1920s golf pants were 4" longer than normal--thus their name
plus fours
$2,000 [5]
The 5 words Patrick Henry thought one should do "if this be treason"
make the most of it
$2,000 [18]
(Kelly shows a model of classical architecture on the monitor.) Classical architecture emphasized the column & a type ofgable which linguists believe got this name from a dialectal garbling of "pyramid"
pediment
Jackie
$2,000 [26]
Dr. Horrible, for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"(2014)
Neil Patrick Harris
Eric
$2,000 [10]
This feeling of embarrassment of annoyance at one's own failure comes from the French
chagrin
Jackie
$2,000 [25]
In 2000 ruins of an ancient pre-Incan temple were found at the bottom of this very high altitude lake
Titicaca
Trisha
$2,000 [14]
Of the 4 parts of Wagner's epic "Ring" cycle, this installment has a man's name
Siegfried
Jackie

Final Jeopardy!

POETS' BIRTHPLACES

5 Cwmdonkin Drive was the address of the family home where he was born in 1914

Dylan Thomas

Eric "Who is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?" — wagered $2,799
Trisha "Who is Dylan Thomas?" — wagered $13,399
Jackie "Who is Thomas?" — wagered $14,000

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