Show #7920 2019-02-01 (taped 2018-12-04) Regular

Contestants

Karen Gieger — an accountant and mom from Mobile, Alabama

Will Dawson — a tour guide from Washington, D.C.

Meghan Schulz — an environmental engineer from Bristol, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $27,190)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Meghan $4,400 $4,200 $16,300 $31,100
2nd place: $2,000
$12,200
23 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Will $1,600 $6,600 $17,000 $32,601
New champion: $32,601
$15,600
20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Karen $1,200 $2,600 $11,800 $16,800
3rd place: $1,000
$11,800
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

WHAT A DAD WANTS STAMPS 5-LETTER "W"ORDS SHE'S GOT AWAY NEW YORK STATE OF MIND BILLY JOEL
$200 [1]
Sometimes a dad just wants to get a dog, & this breed here, developed in the 1800s, can be your new best pal
a golden retriever
Meghan
$200 [21]
A pioneer of deaf studies, Robert Panara is showing "respect" in this language on a 2-ounce stamp
American Sign Language
Karen
$200 [22]
A thin, crisp cookie
a wafer
Meghan
$200 [14]
One of the most daring escapes from this condition was in 1848 by Ellen Craft, posing as the master of her real-life husband
slavery
Meghan
$200 [4]
Resort village on Otsego Lake that's home to the Baseball Hall of Fame
Cooperstown
Will
$200 [3]
An L.A. bar gig in the '70s inspired Billy to write this song
"Piano Man"
Meghan
$400 [2]
Dad's hungry! But on his own terms, opting for Wingstreet Chicken Wings at this chain instead of its title fare
Pizza Hut
Will
$400 [27]
This cartoon canine appeared on a 2018 stamp to highlight his "Doo Good" campaign
Scooby-Doo
Will
$400 [23]
To gamble
to wager
Karen
$400 [15]
In 1568 she made a daring escape from Lochleven Castle, where she'd been a prisoner for almost a year
Mary, Queen of Scots
Will
$400 [12]
It was a capital idea to found Albany on the banks of this river
the Hudson
Will
$400 [5]
In 2018 a banner honoring the 50th show of Billy's residency at this arena was raised into its rafters
Madison Square Garden
Meghan
$600 [9]
Hey Dad, check out the view atop Diamond Headon this island that also has the state capital
Oahu
Meghan Will
DD $2,000 [28]
A musician plays a guitar, exemplifying the Delta blues, on the stamp honoring its 200th anniversary of statehood
Mississippi
Will
$600 [24]
The pattern of a fabric, such as herringbone
weave
Meghan
$600 [16]
After her uncle Salvador was assassinated in Chile in 1973, she fled to Venezuela & later became an author
Isabel Allende
Will
$600 [13]
The atrium seenhereis in the New York City building named for this man--because of his finance news service, not his mayordom
Bloomberg
Karen
$600 [6]
Thistender song was Billy's first U.S. Top 10 hit
"Just The Way You Are"
Karen
$800 [10]
Wanna play this Hasbro board game, Dad? It has tuition loans & insurance policies! Total escapism for you, right?!
The Game of Life
Will
$800 [25]
Old-timey word for a working-class girl, perhaps a "serving" one
a wench
Karen
$800 [17]
Love was rough on this medieval pair:their affair exposed, he fled to a convent & he was castrated & became a monk
Abelard and Heloise
Meghan
$800 [19]
Some say this word applies to anything north of the Bronx; it's the name of a medical college in Syracuse
upstate
Meghan
$800 [7]
In 2009 Billy headed back out on the road for a "Face 2 Face" tour with this other legend of the 88 keys
Elton John
Meghan
$1,000 [11]
Hey, Dad! That back 40 ain't gonna plow itself! Perhaps a plow from this maker might help! He created his first one in 1837
John Deere
Meghan
$1,000 [26]
A hoist
a winch
$1,000 [18]
After Claudius died, he got tired of having his mom Agrippina as regent & tried to drown her, but she got away
Nero
Will
$1,000 [20]
This Finger Lakes city shares a name with the home of Odysseus
Ithaca
Meghan Will
$1,000 [8]
This song mentions, among many others, "Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac"
"We Didn't Start The Fire"
Meghan

Double Jeopardy! Round

BETTER CALL PAUL CITIES THROUGH TIME SULFUR MO"V"IES RELIGIOUS LITERATURE ANAGRAM PAIRS
$400 [19]
This folklore legend got his first big press in early 20th century pamphlets promoting the Red River Lumber Co.
Paul Bunyan
Karen
$400 [10]
A brief civil war took place in this capital after Finland declared independence from Russia in 1917
Helsinki
Meghan
$400 [2]
Paired with "fire", this is the Biblical name for sulfur
brimstone
Meghan Karen
$400 [1]
"Acrophobia" might've been a more accurate title for this 1958 Jimmy Stewart film
Vertigo
Meghan
$400 [7]
Dante's "Divine Comedy" is divided into 3 parts: this one is followed by "Purgatorio" & "Paradiso"
Inferno
Will
$400 [9]
Wept & an apple beverage
cider & cried
Meghan
$800 [20]
Actor Paul Winchell, voice of this bouncy pal of Pooh, was also an inventor who patented an artificial heart
Tigger
Meghan
$800 [11]
Before 1918 Guangzhou was known by this name; a Chinese language still reminds us of it
Canton
Meghan
$800 [17]
Louisiana & this neighbor together produce more than half of the sulfur in the United States
Texas
Meghan Will
$800 [3]
Reese Witherspoon played Becky Sharp in Mira Nair's 2004 film of this Thackeray novel
Vanity Fair
Meghan
$800 [8]
A poem by Richmond Lattimore titled this holiday says, "Our April is the lamb who died / to paint the year in tones of pride"
"Easter"
Meghan
$800 [21]
Belted out a tune & to catch & tear stockings
sang & snag
Meghan
$1,200 [25]
Preventing government overreach & overspending are concerns ofhis
Rand Paul
Will
$1,200 [12]
A team name came from this word that preceded "67" in the name of a 1967 Montreal happening
Expos
Will
$1,600 [28]
The amount of sulfur present determines the grade of this lamp fuel
kerosene (or butane)
Will Karen
$1,200 [4]
The title of this Tom Cruise drama about a plot to kill Hitler comes from Norse myth
Valkyrie
Karen
$1,200 [13]
This wife of Abraham is the first subject in Orson Scott Card's "Women of Genesis" series
Sarah
Will
$1,600 [23]
True blue & a substance composed of 2 or more metals
alloy & loyal
Meghan Will Karen
$1,600 [26]
In 2011 Paul Allen's memoir "Idea Man" looked at the rise of this tech co. that made Paul a billionaire
Microsoft
Meghan
$1,600 [14]
In 1535 Lima was founded by Pizarro as Ciudad de los Reyes, meaning this
City of Kings
Will Karen
$2,000 [29]
There's more sulfur than iron in this mineral, AKA fool's gold
iron pyrite
Karen
$1,600 [5]
Like, oh my God, the Galleria would be a gnarly place to watch this 1983 movie with Nicolas Cage romancing a young So. Cal. gal
Valley Girl
Karen
$1,600 [15]
In addition to his books featuring talking lions, this author also wrote "Out of the Silent Planet", a book of religious sci-fi
C.S. Lewis
Meghan
$2,000 [24]
ASAP & a positively charged subatomic particle
proton & pronto
Will Karen
$2,000 [30]
A civil rights activist, actor & singer, hebecame famous with his version of "Ol' Man River" from "Show Boat"
Paul Robeson
Will
$2,000 [16]
About 1,000 years ago, Casablanca was a village of these double-talk people
the Berbers
DD $3,000 [27]
Before it meant "to add sulfur to rubber", this verb just meant "to burn"
to vulcanize
Meghan
$2,000 [6]
There's a Spanish city in the title of this 2008 Woody Allen flm
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Will
$2,000 [18]
In Chaim Potok's "My Name is Asher Lev" an artist tries to balance life in this pious Jewish movement with his imagination
Hasidic Judaism
Will
DD $3,500 [22]
Japan's capital, now & then
Tokyo & Kyoto
Meghan

Final Jeopardy!

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

For a while in the 1840s, the French wanted to name this new discovery "Le Verrier" & the British wanted "Oceanus"

Neptune

Karen "What is Neptune?" — wagered $5,000
Meghan "What is Neptune?" — wagered $14,800
Will "What is Neptune" — wagered $15,601

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