Show #7904 2019-01-10 (taped 2018-11-14) Regular

Anneke Garcia game 1.

Contestants

Anneke Garcia — an instructional design consultant from Salt Lake City, Utah

Dave Kaplan — a retired mixed martial artist from Westford, Massachusetts

Jessica Holloway — an art education student from The Woodlands, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $54,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jessica $6,000 $9,600 $12,800 $25,600
2nd place: $2,000
$12,600
22 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Dave $600 $2,400 $-800 $-800
3rd place: $1,000
$3,600
10 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Anneke $1,200 $3,600 $19,200 $25,601
New champion: $25,601
$16,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

10 LINES ABOUT 5 WOMEN TECHNOLOGY ON THE RADIO "RU" READY? OF CORSICA NONFICTION
$200 [8]
Clara was a caregiver, with the Red Cross she found fame / aided at the Johnstown flood, this was Clara's last name
Barton
Jessica
$200 [16]
This process used in energy production is short for hydraulic fracturing
fracking
Dave
$200 [1]
One night in 1927, a DJ in this city said he's been playing grand opera & now was switching to the Grand Old Opry
Nashville
Anneke
$200 [23]
Union & league are the 2 main types of this rough-&-tumble sport that began in England
rugby
Jessica
$200 [6]
Corsica &this island just a few miles south together formed a province of the ancient Roman Empire
Sardinia
Dave
$400 [29]
In the title of Joseph Campbell's study of world mythology, "The Hero" has this many faces
a thousand
Dave
$400 [9]
Emily was a poet, Massachusetts born & bred / wrote "I'm Nobody! Who are you?", lived in this town 'til she was dead
Amherst
Dave
$400 [15]
Stephen Fry tweeted, "Books are no more threatened by " this Amazon device "than stairs by elevators"
Kindle
Jessica
$400 [2]
In 1991 a New Mexico radio station owner boosted ratings by playing this Led Zeppelin song for 24 hours straight
"Stairway To Heaven"
Jessica
$400 [24]
It's a follow-up election to resolve an earlier one that did not produce a winner
runoff
Dave
$400 [19]
Corsican mint is used to flavor this sweet green liqueur with a 3-word French name
creme de menthe
Jessica
$600 [28]
A bestseller long after Zora Neale Hurston's death, "Barracoon" is about the last one of these ships to reach America
slave ships
Jessica
$600 [10]
Aretha was "The Queen of Soul", & as such, could do no wrong / in '67 she spelled it out, hit No. 1 with this great song
"Respect"
Jessica
$600 [14]
In 1959 the USPS tried sending mail via a cruise type of this--it never took off as a delivery method
a missile
Jessica
$600 [3]
SiriusXM's radio classics channel airs such favorites as "Hopalong Cassidy" & "Fibber McGee &" her
Fibber McGee and Molly
$600 [27]
A popular syncopated ballroom style based on an Afro-Cuban folk dance
the rumba
Anneke
$600 [20]
"V" is for this type of traditional family revenge practiced in Corsica despite efforts to suppress it
vendetta
Jessica
$800 [18]
"The Great" this 9-letter word is the story of the 1918 pandemic that killed as many as 50 million
influenza
Jessica
$800 [11]
Coco was a French designer, dabbled in perfume for fun / got her business set for life with this No. in '21
Chanel No. 5
Dave
$800 [13]
The Argand burner, which ran on oil, revolutionized the lighting of these, like the one at Cape Hatteras
a lighthouse
Jessica
DD $1,000 [4]
Radio's first quiz show is claimed by the public radio station with these call letters that contain the Big Apple's initials
WNYC
Jessica
$800 [26]
This viral disease is AKA German measles
rubella
Dave
$800 [21]
In 1769, a year after Genoa ceded Corsica to France, Carlo & Letizia welcomed the birth of this son
Napoleon
Anneke
$1,000 [17]
A Hulu miniseries of the same name was based on this Lawrence Wright book subtitled "Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11"
The Looming Tower
$1,000 [7]
Margaret this was out of Philly, she's an anthropologist / wrote of teens so far away, I chose her to end this list
(Margaret) Mead
Jessica
$1,000 [12]
Berlin's Magnetbahn used this technology to move its trains
maglev
Jessica
$1,000 [5]
If DJ & war movie subject Adrian Cronauer was late to the studio, he'd drag out "Gooood" in this phrase as he frantically set up
"Good morning, Vietnam"
Anneke
$1,000 [25]
From the Latin for "chewing", it' an animal with a multi-chambered stomach
a ruminant
Anneke
$1,000 [22]
Gee, Corsica has a lot of these cute little caves--19th century poet-traveler Edward Lear said, "We have seen so many"
grottoes
Jessica

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLACES OF LEGEND THEATER WORDS ABOUT WORDS MENAGERIE 2018 POP CULTURE SCHOOL WITHIN A SCHOOL
$400 [9]
You'd have to hold your breath to visit this legendary island described by Plato
Atlantis
Jessica
$400 [30]
In London, this Agatha Christie play has been ensnaring theatergoers for 67 years
The Mousetrap
$400 [8]
A paragram is another word for this 3-letter type of humorous wordplay like "poultry in motion"
a pun
Anneke
$400 [24]
Sternotherus odoratus, the stinkpot variety of this reptile, emits a smelly fluid from under its shell
a turtle
Jessica
$400 [20]
You can play as Luigi, Peach or this ape in the Nintendo video game Mario Tennis Aces
Donkey Kong
Jessica
$400 [25]
The Sam M. Walton School of Business
the University of Arkansas
Dave
$800 [14]
We're not exactly sure where the lost colony of this N.C. island originally was, let alone "Croatoan" where they went
Roanoke
Jessica
$800 [29]
When it premiered in 1968, it was subtitled "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical"
Hair
Anneke
$800 [7]
From the Latin for "word", it refers to a passage repeated word for word
verbatim
Anneke
$800 [23]
Colossal & giant squids have the largest of these in the animal kingdom, with a diameter of over 10 inches each
an eyeball
Anneke
$800 [19]
Beyonce & Jay-Z released the album "Everything is Love" under this collective name
The Carters
Jessica
$800 [12]
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs
Princeton
$1,200 [15]
Google Maps doesn't have this island where King Arthur was taken to be healed
Avalon
Anneke
$1,200 [28]
A recent off-Broadway musical parodied this sitcom with everyone's favorites including Ross & Rachel
Friends
Anneke
$1,200 [6]
We're not returning any of these words borrowed directly from another language, like tzatziki from Greek
a loanword
Anneke
$1,200 [22]
Enthusiasts of these mammals flock to Austin each year to catch them emerging from the South Congress Bridge
bats
Jessica
$1,200 [18]
Early in free agency, he agreed to a 4-year, $153 million contract with the Lakers
(LeBron) James
Jessica
$1,200 [11]
The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
the University of Michigan
Dave
$1,600 [16]
It's the hometown of the Joseph who carried Jesus to the tomb
Arimathea
Anneke
$1,600 [27]
Turning 40 in 2019, the New York Theatre Workshop has launched works like this Jonathan Larson musical, whose original production is seen here
Rent
Dave
$2,000 [4]
Put a letter before "once" to get this type of word invented on the spot
nonce
Dave
$1,600 [21]
Generally graceful & long-legged, these wading birds also come in a medium-sized night type
heron
Jessica
$1,600 [13]
The title characters of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" were played by Paul Rudd & her
Evangeline Lilly
Anneke
$1,600 [10]
The Pritzker School of Medicine
the University of Chicago
$2,000 [17]
Neither Pizarro nor Raleigh succeeded in their searches for this land of gold
El Dorado
Jessica Dave
$2,000 [26]
In 2018 Laurie Metcalf won a Tony for her performance in this playwright's "Three Tall Women"
Edward Albee
DD $4,000 [5]
The name of a 1775 play character gave us this word for an error like "there is no anecdote for the poison"
a malapropism
Anneke
$2,000 [1]
A trapdoor one of these lived to be 43 years old
spider
Dave
$2,000 [3]
In 2018thiscouple said hello to baby No. 5 & goodbye to "Fixer Upper" after season No. 5
Chip and Joanna Gaines
Anneke
DD $4,400 [2]
Heinz College (a 2-name school)
Carnegie Mellon
Dave

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN LANDMARKS

Eyewitness Jose Marti wrote, "Luckless Irishmen, Poles, Italians... run toward the wharves" to see its dedication

the Statue of Liberty

Jessica "What is The Statue of Liberty???" — wagered $12,800
Anneke "What is the Statue of Liberty?" — wagered $6,401

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