Show #7912 2019-01-22 (taped 2018-11-28) Regular

Contestants

Julie Bender — a public transportation consultant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Haley Zapal — a copywriter from Atlanta, Georgia

John Presloid — a microbiologist from Perrysburg, Ohio (whose 4-day cash winnings total $92,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $800 $600 $13,800 $14,800
2nd place: $2,000
$13,800
17 R, 2 W
Haley $1,500 $6,900 $14,400 $27,400
New champion: $27,400
$16,000
22 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Julie $800 $0 $7,200 $7,200
3rd place: $1,000
$6,400
11 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

EVERYONE INTO THE POOL! U.S. GEOGRAPHY TAKING STOCK LIT-POURRI NEVER GONNA GIVE U UP RICK ROLES
$200 [13]
"Swimming World" magazine namedhim Male World Swimmer of the Year eight times
Michael Phelps
Julie
$200 [9]
The Great Salt Lake desert covers about 4,000 square miles in this state
Utah
John
$200 [23]
Beastly word for someone with an optimistic view of the stock market
a bull market
Julie
$200 [2]
Capote novella that contains the line "it was one of these mailboxes that had first made me aware of Holly Golightly"
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Julie
$200 [7]
With a lever, it's pivotal
fulcrum
John
$200 [16]
On the AFI's list of top heroes, No. 4 is Rick Blaine, played by him in "Casablanca"
Humphrey Bogart
Haley
$400 [14]
One of the most popular swimming pool games bears the name of this Venetian traveler
Marco Polo
Julie
$400 [10]
This city that's home to the University of Colorado lies at the base of the Flatiron Range of the Rockies
Boulder
Haley
$400 [24]
The Nikkei Index tracks the top 225 stocks on this city's stock exchange
Tokyo
Haley
$400 [3]
His works include "Neverwhere" , "The Graveyard Book" & 2017's "Norse Mythology"
Neil Gaiman
Julie
$400 [8]
This adjective for a not-celebrated "hero" is also a TV show chronicling the rise & fall of musical acts
Unsung
Haley
$400 [28]
Andrew Lincoln played Rick Grimes, formerly in law enforcement, on this cable series
The Walking Dead
Haley
$600 [15]
He found relief from hispolio swimming in the mineral pools of Warm Springs, Georgia, where hehad a little "White House"
FDR (Franklin Roosevelt)
Haley
$600 [12]
Edgartown & Oak Bluffs are 2 of only a handful of towns on this island in New England
Martha's Vineyard
Julie
$600 [27]
Market winners in early 2018 include CMG, this Mexican food chain that got a new CEO & saw its price rise 50%
Chipotle
$600 [4]
"Peace Breaks Out" is John Knowles' sequel to this novel set at a New England boarding school
A Separate Peace
John Haley
$800 [29]
Montreuil is one of Paris
a suburb
Haley
$600 [19]
Brendan Fraser played Rick O'Connell, exploring Egypt in this 1999 film
The Mummy
Haley
$800 [21]
Once known as water ballet, it became an Olympic sport in 1984
synchronized swimming
Haley
$800 [1]
It sounds like a daily paper but this port city is actually part of a metro area that includes Norfolk & Virginia Beach
Newport News
Haley
$800 [26]
In 1971 this new U.S. stock exchange introduced the era of all-electronic trading
NASDAQ
Haley
$1,000 [5]
In a 2018 bestseller, Madeline Miller retells the story of this Greek sorceress, daughter of Helios
Circe
Haley Julie
$1,000 [20]
Type of plant seen here, familiar to an infant Moses
a bulrush
Julie
$800 [18]
In this film set in 2019, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) falls in love with a replicant
Blade Runner
John
$1,000 [22]
You can enjoy some spectacular backdrops from this type of pool, also called a vanishing or negative edge pool
an infinity pool
Haley
$1,000 [11]
Niagara Falls is made up of 2 falls, the American falls & these Canadian falls
Horseshoe Falls
John
$1,000 [25]
Running its own market index as well as providing credit ratings, "S&P" stands for this company
Standard & Poor's
John Haley
DD $1,500 [6]
The title of this World War II-set novel refers to Liesel Meminger, who learns to read what she has stolen
The Book Thief
Haley
$1,000 [17]
Back on '80s TV, Larry Manetti was Rick Wright, a sidekick of this P.I. played by Tom Selleck
Magnum
Haley

Double Jeopardy! Round

50 YEARS AGO, IN 1969 EVERYTHING'S IN ORDINAL LANGUAGE FAMILIES MUSICAL & PLAY SETTINGS SPECIAL DAYS A FEW GOOD MEN
$400 [22]
With a $28,000-per-episode budget, this PBS kids' show made its debut on Nov. 10 & has stuck around for a few decades
Sesame Street
John
$400 [20]
This blows in when you get a sudden burst of energy after feeling tired
second wind
John
$400 [1]
Indo-Iranian & Germanic are branches of this hyphenated family that spans 2 continents
Indo-European
Haley
$400 [30]
Much of this musical is set at the Kit Kat Klub in Berlin
Cabaret
John
$400 [7]
You might be "in the" or "tickled" this color on June 23, its national day
pink
Julie
$400 [29]
Glen Bell was a WWII Marine cook in Guadalcanal before he started this Mexican fast food chain
Taco Bell
Haley
$800 [23]
Ironically, on Feb. 14 Pope Paul VI's edict removed the feast of this saint's day from the liturgical calendar
Saint Valentine
John
$800 [18]
It's the next rank under captain on a commercial ship
first mate
Haley
$800 [2]
Niger-Congo languages include this Bantu tongue that's official in Kenya & Tanzania
Swahili
John
$800 [6]
This play about a widow & her chauffeur "takes place from 1948 to 1973, mostly in Atlanta"
Driving Miss Daisy
Haley
$800 [8]
Use the smiling face with heart eyes on July 17, the world day for these
emojis
John
$800 [28]
Comedian Rob Riggle was still an active reservist when he was a correspondent on this Comedy Central news satire show
The Daily Show
John
$1,200 [13]
Called a sort of dress rehearsal, this space mission in May of 1969 sent the first color TV pictures of planet Earth
Apollo 10
Haley Julie
$1,200 [11]
You don't want to touch this electric transportation item, in real life or in politics
the third rail
John
$1,200 [3]
Yucatecan is one branch of the language family that gets its name from this ancient civilization
the Maya
Haley
$1,600 [14]
This 1988 Tony-winning play is set in a Paris prison in the present & in flashbacks from 1960 to 1970 in Beijing
M. Butterfly
$1,200 [10]
July 13 honors these side orders, whether matchstick or shoestring
french fries
John
$1,200 [27]
Before he joined the First Order as Kylo Ren, this actor was one of the good guys, enlisting as a Marine
(Adam) Driver
John
$1,600 [24]
Student occupation of a Harvard building led to the end of this military education program at the school for 40 years
ROTC
Haley
$1,600 [12]
This Christian sect founded in the U.S. got its official name in 1860
the Seventh-day Adventists
John
DD $1,500 [4]
The Athabascan family ranges into Canada & includes this SW language, the USA's most widely spoken native language
Navajo
Haley
DD $2,000 [15]
In Act One, Scene 1 of this play, "the curtain rises on Truvy's Beauty Shop" in Chinquapin Parish, Louisiana
Steel Magnolias
Julie
$1,600 [9]
July 12 celebrates those like Jane Seymour & Kate Bosworth who have heterochromia, meaning this
different-colored eyes
John
$1,600 [26]
Before he was a go-to guy for Scorsese, this actor earned a medal forhisservice in Lebanon in the 1950s
Harvey Keitel
Julie
$2,000 [21]
Dismissed by de Gaulle in 1968, he returned to the "centre" of French politics, succeeding de Gaulle as president
Georges Pompidou
$2,000 [19]
First used in Spain in the 1930s, this term refers to a group working in secret to aid an enemy
a fifth column
John
$2,000 [5]
Dravidian languages include this one that preceded "Tigers" in the name of an Asian separatist group
Tamil
Julie
$2,000 [16]
A back room & bar of Harry Hope's saloon is the setting for this Eugene O'Neill play
The Iceman Cometh
$2,000 [17]
A'phabet day, aka no "L" day, is punningly observed on this date
December 25th
$2,000 [25]
This "Boombastic" reggae singer served a tour in the corps in the first Gulf War
Shaggy
Haley

Final Jeopardy!

COMIC STRIP TITLE CHARACTERS

These 2 were named for a European "theologian who believed in predestination" & a "philosopher with a dim view of human nature"

Calvin & Hobbes

Julie "Who are Calvin + Hobbes" — wagered $0
John "Who are Calvin and Hobbes? :)" — wagered $1,000
Haley "Who are Calvin + Hobbes?" — wagered $13,000

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