Show #7890 2018-12-21 (taped 2018-11-06) Regular

Contestants

Graham Fulton III — a musician and research engineering assistant from Ellington, Connecticut

Ellie Jostad — a journalist from Brooklyn, New York

Andrew Kung — a graduate student from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Andrew $4,600 $8,400 $18,000 $6,399
2nd place: $2,000
$19,600
25 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Ellie $-1,000 $0 $-2,000 $-2,000
3rd place: $1,000
$-2,000
4 R, 4 W
Graham $3,200 $5,600 $14,800 $22,200
New champion: $22,200
$13,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

SIZE MATTERS TV MOVES DAFFYNITIONS SENATORS WITH STAMINA ANIMAL ADJECTIVES HITTING THE SAUCE
$200 [17]
For many airlines your luggage can be no larger than 22 x 14 x 9 inches to fit up here
the overhead bins
Graham
$200 [27]
This "Tonight Show" legend who mimed a golf swing after each monologue was actually more of a tennis player
Johnny Carson
Ellie
$200 [13]
"The ring that tells you the saloon is closing" (or a gym weight)
a barbell
Andrew
$200 [28]
In 2009 Joe Biden left the Senate after more than 30 years of service to take this job
vice president
Graham
$200 [8]
Vulpine, like the bat-eared or the crab-eating
the fox
Andrew
$200 [30]
Sauces at this fast food chain include mild, Del Scorcho & Del Inferno
Del Taco
Ellie
$400 [16]
From the Latin for "large", it's a large wine bottle equal to 2 standard sized ones
a magnum
Ellie
$400 [21]
(Jimmy shows the subclavian artery on the monitor.) Pressure on the subclavian artery is one theory about how the Vulcan neck pinch might work; it was created by this actor when he thought the script's conk on the head seemed too 20th century
Leonard Nimoy
Andrew
$400 [14]
"A pup for your Porsche" (or a wall-to-wall floor covering)
carpet
Ellie Graham
$400 [29]
From 1962 to 2009 this Democrat with a good name for politics served Massachusetts
Ted Kennedy
Graham
$400 [7]
Ostracean, like the Olympia or the pearl
an oyster
Graham
$400 [12]
In 2014 A1 sauce dropped this word from its name--maybe it wanted to see other meats
steak
Andrew
$600 [9]
At 9 feet long & fit for Carnegie Hall, this is the largest musical instrument made by Baldwin
a concert grand
Ellie Graham
$600 [20]
This actor found infinite variations on putting on his sunglasses before delivering a line over a corpse
David Caruso
Graham
$600 [15]
"To throw a fishing lure too far" (or a condition of gloomy cloudiness)
overcast
Graham
$600 [24]
On Jan. 3, 1975 "Angie Baby" was No. 1 on the charts & Patrick Leahy began serving as senator from this state
Vermont
Andrew Ellie
$600 [4]
Lupine, like the Ethiopian or the timber
the wolf
Andrew
$600 [1]
McDonald's changed the special sauce on this sandwich in 1991, but wised up & changed it back in 2004
the Big Mac
Andrew
$800 [10]
"Min pin" is short for this, among the 25 smallest dog breeds recognized by the AKC
the miniature pinscher
Andrew
$800 [19]
At "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives", hedeals with piled-high burgers and keeps his clothes clean using what he calls "the hunch"
Guy Fieri
Ellie
$800 [22]
"Poems by prisoners" (or a sneaker brand)
Converse
Andrew
$1,000 [26]
In the Senate more than 40 years, this late Republican has an airport in Anchorage named after him
Ted Stevens
$800 [5]
Columbine, like the rock or the mourning
a dove
Graham
$800 [2]
The traditional fry sauce from Utah is basically these 2 condiments mixed to make its pink color
ketchup and mayonnaise
Andrew Graham
$1,000 [11]
The USDA recognizes egg sizes from peewee to this
jumbo
Graham
$1,000 [18]
To signal magic, the director of this sitcom's pilot told his actress wife to do that thing with your face when you get nervous
Bewitched
Graham
$1,000 [23]
"A commercial's purpose" (or the cost to see a movie)
admission
DD $3,200 [25]
Who knew that this West Virginia senator would hang around for 50 years after winning his gig
(Robert) Byrd
Andrew
$1,000 [6]
Anserine, like the snow or the nene
a goose
Graham
$1,000 [3]
This brand's "Redhot" cayenne pepper sauce was the one used to make the original Buffalo wings
Frank's
Andrew

Double Jeopardy! Round

FREE AT LAST PSYCHOLOGY MANLY NICKNAMES SLEIGHING SONGS DREAMY LITERATURE PUT ON YOUR "P.J."s
$400 [30]
1844, after 22 years of Haitian rule:this republic
the Dominican Republic
Andrew
$400 [3]
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of this condition, Latin for "out of one's mind"
dementia
Andrew
$400 [1]
The Origen story is Origen was a 3rd century theologian known as Adamantius or "Man of" this, like Superman
steel
Andrew
$400 [26]
"Dashing through the snow in" one of these, "o'er the fields we go, laughing all the way"
a one-horse open sleigh
Graham
$400 [29]
"A vision in a dream" by Coleridge begins, "In Xanadu did" this khan "a stately pleasure-dome decree"
Kubla
Graham
$400 [13]
A mischievous trick played on someone to make him look foolish & to amuse others
a practical joke
Graham
$800 [28]
1917, from Russia:this Nordic land
Finland
$1,200 [8]
A psych study of high concentrated practice by Berlin violin students led to this numerical "rule" of success
the 10,000-hour rule
Andrew
$800 [2]
It was the nickname given the mysterious unknown prisoner jailed during the reign of King Louis XIV
the Man in the Iron Mask
Graham
$800 [25]
"Over the river and through the woods to" her "house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh"
Grandmother's house
Andrew
$800 [27]
This 17th century John Bunyan allegory ends with the line "so I awoke, and behold it was a dream"
Pilgrim's Progress
Andrew
$800 [12]
It's the specialty of the Fort Bragg-based 82nd Airborne division
parachute jumping
Graham
$1,200 [22]
East Timor, 2002, after 25 years of oppression by this neighbor
Indonesia
Andrew
$1,600 [9]
A "dark triad" that leads to exploiting others is psychopathy, Machiavellianism & this selfish -ism inspired by myth
narcissism
Graham
$1,200 [4]
Baseball's "Stan the Man" who played in a record 24 All-Star games
Stan Musial
Andrew
$1,200 [19]
It completes the request by Santa, "Rudolph with your nose so bright..."
"Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
Andrew
$1,200 [16]
This Freud work quotes Plato:"The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming of that which the wicked man does"
The Interpretation of Dreams
Andrew
$1,200 [11]
A sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted coat
a pea jacket
Graham
$2,000 [24]
1912, after 500 years of Ottoman rule:this country on the Adriatic
Albania
Andrew Graham
DD $2,000 [7]
From the Greek for "marketplace", this disorder keep many people home due to fear of panicking in a public place
agoraphobia
Graham
$1,600 [5]
In the 1100s "The Old Man of the Mountain" led a Mideast sect whose practice of murdering foes gave us this word
assassin
Graham
$1,600 [20]
This holiday favorite begins, "Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, in the lane, snow is glistening"
"Walking In A Winter Wonderland"
Andrew
$1,600 [17]
This Romantic poet gave us the strange dream vision of pale warriors in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
John Keats
$1,600 [14]
Thisclassic duo of British entertainment originated in Italy
Punch and Judy
Andrew
DD $4,000 [23]
1962, after more than a century of struggle against European colonizers:this north African country
Algeria
Andrew
$2,000 [10]
A parent creating in a child the physical symptoms of illness may be exhibiting this Baron's syndrome by proxy
Munchausen syndrome
Andrew
$2,000 [6]
James Galway is "The Man with the Golden" this instrument
flute
Ellie Graham
$2,000 [21]
Leroy Anderson began writing this Yuletide classic during a 1946 summer heat wave
"Sleigh Ride"
Andrew
$2,000 [18]
The first line of this Daphne du Maurier novel is "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"
Rebecca
Andrew
$2,000 [15]
In medieval times, it was the name of a fabled Christian king of Asia behind the lines of the infidels
Prester John

Final Jeopardy!

GEOGRAPHY & THE MOVIES

Named the first U.S. national monument in 1906, it was featured prominently in a blockbuster movie 71 years later

Devils Tower

Graham "What is Devil's Tower?" — wagered $7,400
Andrew "What is the Lincoln Memorial?" — wagered $11,601

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