Show #7918 2019-01-30 (taped 2018-12-04) Regular

Contestants

Joan Dietrich — a Montessori teacher from Sammamish, Washington

Sean Thompson — a library assistant from Quispamsis, New Brunswick, Canada

Jill Regan — an auditor from Dedham, Massachusetts (whose 2-day cash winnings total $51,602)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jill $3,200 $5,200 $13,600 $4,799
3rd place: $1,000
$8,000
14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Sean $2,600 $11,000 $21,200 $15,199
2nd place: $2,000
$16,600
25 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Joan $2,000 $2,400 $11,200 $21,300
New champion: $21,300
$11,200
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

HOPE YOU'VE BEEN STUDYING! BRUSHED UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE MAYBE SOME OSCAR WINNERS DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS THE PRESIDENTS, OF COURSE & EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD
$200 [26]
If you practiced "chunking" groups of words, you were probably trying your hand (& eyes) at speed this
reading
Jill
$200 [12]
In a "seasonal" play, young Mamillius tells us, "A sad tale's best for" this season
A Winter's Tale
Sean
$200 [4]
After his win for "Wall Street", he thanked dad Kirk for helping him step out of Dad's shadow
Michael Douglas
Joan
$200 [1]
One of the 7 deadly sins, it's excessive eating & drinking
gluttony
Jill
$200 [11]
President of more than 1.3 billion, Xi Jinping is also general secretary of this party
the Chinese Communist Party
Sean
$200 [17]
The Spotted Cheetah was a 2017 pop-up restaurant with dishes like chicken Milanese incorporating this Frito-Lay snack
Cheetos
Sean Joan
$400 [27]
If you can tell a Mindoro hornbill from a Eurasian wigeon, you've really done your homework in this -ology
ornithology
Jill
$400 [13]
This villain says, "Now, sir, be judge yourself whether I in any just term am affined to love the Moor"
Iago
Sean
$400 [5]
He won an Oscar for his turn as Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour"
Gary Oldman
Jill
$400 [2]
Monarch, a word for a king or queen, is also slang for this old British coin meaning a monarch
a sovereign
Jill Joan
$400 [20]
Vicente Fox was the first president of this country since 1929 not to represent the P.R.I. party
Mexico
Jill
$400 [18]
In the 1980s, Canadian polymer company executive Steve Hartman made summer more fun by inventing this
a (pool) noodle
Jill
$600 [28]
Are you ready to write this in-depth treatment of a subject, from Latin for "discuss", & get your doctorate?
a dissertation
Jill Sean
$600 [14]
In "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this comic character courts both Mistress Ford & Mistress Page
Falstaff
Jill
$600 [6]
Mahershala Ali won an Oscar for this 2016 film that won Best Picture...eventually
Moonlight
Jill
$600 [3]
7-letter word for a precociously talented child
a prodigy
Joan
$600 [21]
In recent years Dilma Rousseff of Brazil & Cristina Kirchner of this neighboring nation left office under a cloud of scandal
Argentina
Sean
$600 [19]
During this mammal's hibernation, its heart rate slows from 75 bpm to 5 but could get faster on Feb. 2
a groundhog
Joan
$800 [29]
Studied Indian history? You know the 1857 revolt known as the Sepoy this type of rebellion against superior officers
a mutiny
Sean
$800 [15]
These scaredy-cats "die many times before their deaths", says Julius Caesar
a coward
Sean
$800 [8]
This lyricist named Oscar won 2, for Best Song in "Lady Be Good" & "State Fair"
(Oscar) Hammerstein
Joan
$800 [7]
The probably course & outcome of a disease
prognosis
Joan
$1,000 [23]
Harsh policies toward drug dealers have led to condemnation for Rodrigo Duterte, president of this country
the Philippines
Sean
$800 [24]
Hislife was quieter working in the Justice department's tax division than it was as Deputy Attorney General in 2018
Rosenstein
Sean
$1,000 [30]
If you've been hanging in the library, you'll sing the praises of this enclosed private cubicle
a carrel
Sean
$1,000 [16]
In "Much Ado About Nothing", she & Benedick carry on a "merry war"
Beatrice
Sean
$1,000 [9]
For 1993 Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" won 3 technical Oscars & this other film of his won Best Picture
Schindler's List
Jill
$1,000 [10]
It is "a quarrel or squabble" as well as a plant of the buckwheat family "used in making pies"
a rhubarb
Sean
DD $3,600 [22]
Ex-candy factory owner Petro Poroshenko leads this nation dealing with Russia & rebellion in its east
Ukraine
Sean
$1,000 [25]
Last name of Maria & Marjorie, sisters of Osage descent who danced in different Ballets Russes in 1946
the Tallchief sisters

Double Jeopardy! Round

RECENT TV VALLEYS STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS FRENCH MUSIC ABOUT SPAIN FLYING CARS? SPELLEMENTS
$400 [2]
Crackle's "Supermansion" has this "Breaking Bad" star voice Titanium Rex, leader of the League of Freedom
Bryan Cranston
Sean
$400 [4]
AKA "Happy Valley", it's the valley where Penn State sits; its athletic teams' name provides a hint
the Nittany Valley
Sean
$400 [9]
A ceremony for naming an infant or launching a ship
a christening
Sean
$400 [15]
Emmanuel Chabrier traveled through Spain in 1882 & titled this work after what Spaniards call their country
"España"
Sean
$400 [17]
Lamborghini's Reventonwas inspired by the F-22 Raptor, this kind of fighter designed to evade detection
a stealth fighter
Jill
$400 [1]
C
C-A-R-B-O-N
Sean
$800 [3]
On HBO Camille Preaker, a reporter played by this multi-Oscar nominee, must be careful of "Sharp Objects"
Amy Adams
Sean
$800 [5]
In odd-numbered years, Australia's Barossa Valley holds a festival for this, a major product of the region
wine
Sean
$800 [10]
An adjective in the Boy Scout law, it means not wasteful with money
thrifty
Joan
$800 [16]
Claude Debussy titled this work after the peninsula where Spain is located
the "Iberian" peninsula
Joan
$800 [21]
The U.S. Air Force show squadron rolled off the assembly line in 1953; the popular Fords, a year later
the Thunderbird
Sean
$800 [11]
Cl
C-H-L-O-R-I-N-E
Sean
$1,200 [23]
Title last name of Christine, an Emmy-winning role for Louie Anderson
Baskets
Sean
$1,200 [6]
We're off to the valley in California named for this succulent
a yucca
$1,200 [12]
Before adapting "A Few Good Men", Aaron Sorkin said not only had he never written one of these, he'd never read one
a screenplay
Jill
$1,600 [19]
Massenet's opera about this medieval Spanish hero premiered in 1885 with "Le", not "El", in the title
El Cid
Joan
$1,200 [22]
GM added "Le" to the name of the F-86 fighter jet to get the name of this Buick model
LeSabre
Joan
$1,200 [20]
Cd
C-A-D-M-I-U-M
Sean Joan
$1,600 [24]
Disgraced L.A. lawyer Billy McBride has some "huge" issues to deal with on this Amazon show
Goliath
$1,600 [7]
Lotsa fuming fumaroles populate the Alaska region known as the Valley of Ten Thousand these
smokes
Sean
$1,600 [13]
As a noun, it can be a small strip of paper; as a verb, it's slang for rocking out on your guitar
shred
Sean
$2,000 [27]
Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" uses the rhythm of this Cuban dance that's also a famous aria in "Carmen"
the habanera
$1,600 [26]
To Dodge, it's a minivan; to Cessna, it's a turboprop; in the desert, it's a group of travelers
a Caravan
Joan
$2,000 [25]
"3 things Titus Andromedon does not do" on this Netflix show--"apologies, drag & calculus"
the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Sean
DD $3,800 [8]
Once part of Thebes, this valley was the burial site of many Egyptian pharaohs of the 18th, 19th & 20th dynasties
the Valley of the Kings
Sean
$2,000 [14]
From the Latin for "opening a vein", it's a medical removal of blood as a therapeutic treatment
a phlebotomy
Joan
DD $6,800 [18]
Maurice Ravel's Basque mother gave him a fondness for Spain most famously expressed in this 1928 work
"Bolero"
Jill
$2,000 [28]
Giovanni Michelotti designed the Spitfire, a real winner in the '60s for this British car brand
Triumph
Joan

Final Jeopardy!

WOMEN WRITERS

One of her circle described her as "a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds"

Dorothy Parker

Joan "Who is Dorothy Parker?" — wagered $10,100
Jill "Who is Virginia Woolf" — wagered $8,801
Sean "Who is Jane Austin?" — wagered $6,001

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