Show #7921 2019-02-04 (taped 2018-12-05) Regular

Contestants

Morgan Burns — an accountant from Somerville, Massachusetts

Susan Campbell — a research scientist from Baltimore, Maryland

Will Dawson — a tour guide from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will $4,000 $5,400 $21,800 $22,401
2-day champion: $55,002
$21,000
24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Susan $1,000 $5,600 $9,800 $11,800
3rd place: $1,000
$12,800
17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Morgan $3,200 $4,800 $11,200 $21,201
2nd place: $2,000
$11,200
15 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

OUR FAIR CITY OXFORD EUGENE ROAM FILL "E" CHICAGO,ATLANTA& MIAMI SOUND MACHINE
$200 [6]
The museum seenhereis an attraction in this Midwest city
Milwaukee
Will
$200 [1]
2nd & 3rd year history students examine the "Troubles, 1965-85" in this political division of the United Kingdom
Northern Ireland
Susan
$200 [18]
Children's poet Eugene Field wrote these 2 "& Nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe"
Wynken and Blynken
Will Susan
$200 [11]
Isra is the term for Muhammad's journey from Mecca to this city where the Dome of the Rock is now
Jerusalem
Susan
$200 [14]
Temblor is another name for this event
an earthquake
Will Morgan
$200 [22]
Paper Boi on "Atlanta", Brian Tyree Henry also starred on B'way as the general in this "Latter-Day" musical
The Book of Mormon
Susan
$600 [8]
Nazareth in Israel is home to 2 different churches that claim to be the site where this angel appeared to the Virgin Mary
Gabriel
Susan
$400 [2]
In surprisingly still-titled Oriental studies, course Q450 delves into this classic literary language of India
Sanskrit
Will
$400 [25]
In 1840 Eugene Delacroix painted the "Entry of the Crusaders into" this onetime capital of the Byzantine empire
Constantinople
Susan
$400 [12]
After traipsing through Africa seeking Livingstone, he won the name Bula Matari, "Breaker of Rocks"
(Henry Morton) Stanley
Morgan
$400 [17]
It's a formal letter, like the one Paul wrote to the Galatians
epistle
Will
$400 [23]
In 1988 this singer & Miami Sound Machine topped the charts with "Anything For You"
Gloria Estefan
Will
$800 [9]
This city is home to Place des Arts & the McCord Museum of Canadian History
Montreal
Will
$600 [3]
Professors of theatre have included Diana Rigg, Tom Stoppard & this '90s captain of the Enterprise
Patrick Stewart
Will
$600 [26]
He's seenherearound the time he became only the 2nd American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Eugene O'Neill
Susan
$600 [13]
Peter Mayle followed "A Year in Provence" with "Toujours Provence" & this title that includes French for "again"
Encore Provence
$600 [19]
Full of health benefits, these green soybeans have been called a "wonder veggie"
edamame
Susan
$600 [24]
He was Emmy-nominated for writing & producing "Atlanta"; he won for directing & acting in the show
(Donald) Glover
Morgan
$1,000 [10]
In this city, you can walk out to thelighthousemarking the point where Russia's land ends & the Pacific begins
Vladivostok
Will
$800 [4]
Students hope their equations come out right in "linear" this branch of Mathematics I & II
algebra
Morgan
$800 [27]
This Socialist took 5 runs at the presidency, peaking with his final one in 1920, at 920,000 votes
Eugene Debs
Will
$800 [15]
After Plato died, this Greek traveled to Anatolia & lived on Lesbos for a bit before landing a tutoring gig in Macedonia
Aristotle
Morgan
$800 [20]
Dig up a dead body
to exhume
Susan
$800 [29]
Chicago sang of this day, "in the park, I think it was the 4th of July"
Saturday
Susan
DD $1,200 [7]
The river in the name of this South American metropolis is really Guanabara Bay
Rio de Janeiro
Will
$1,000 [5]
1st year law folks take courses in torts, contracts & trusts "to qualify as a solicitor or" this job pleading in higher courts
a barrister
Morgan
$1,000 [30]
In a Russian opera, this title guy rejects Tatiana, kills a friend, then falls for & gets rejected by Tatiana
Eugene Onegin
Susan
$1,000 [16]
This explorer sailed out of Portugal in 1497 with 4 ships, including the Sao Gabriel & the Sao Rafael
Vasco da Gama
Will Morgan
$1,000 [21]
From the French for "study", it's a musical piece designed for students to improve their technique
etude
Will
$1,000 [28]
Chicago was a "Hard Habit To Break" with an '80s run of hits produced by him, AKA "The Hitman"
David Foster

Double Jeopardy! Round

LITERARY FIRST LINES THE HUMAN BODY THE ANCIENT ROMAN ARMY NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS DURABLE DIRECTORS
$400 [1]
A 1970s bestseller:"The great fish moved silently through the night water"
Jaws
Will
$400 [26]
A deviated septum in this body part may cause sleep apnea
the nose
Will
$400 [14]
Sagittarii were soldiers who specialized in the use of these weapons
(bows and) arrows
Will
$400 [6]
"Take Me Out To The Ball Game" is traditionally sung in this break
the seventh-inning stretch
Morgan
$400 [21]
In Dublin La Fheile Padraig happens in this month
March
Will
$400 [9]
Just before the premier of his last film, "The Dead" starring daughter Anjelica, this director died at 81
John Huston
Will
$800 [2]
"'Where's Papa going with that ax?' said Fern to her mother"
Charlotte's Web
Morgan
$800 [27]
Steam burns can be nasty--the vapor can hurt deeper layers of the skin because it can pass through these holes in the skin
pores
Morgan
$800 [17]
A cornicen was one of these who sounded orders to soldiers
a bugler (or trumpeter)
Will
$800 [7]
This very final 3-word phrase may come from a law requiring that bodies be buried deep so animals can't get to them
six feet under
Morgan
$800 [22]
Islander Day is celebrated in February by this province in our neighbor to the north
Prince Edward Island
Will
$800 [10]
"Lavender Hill Mob" director Charles Crichton got an Oscar nom at 78 for this John Cleese/Kevin Kline comedy
A Fish Called Wanda
Susan
$1,200 [3]
A New York Times Best Book of the Year from 2010:"Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in wardrobe"
Room
Susan
$1,200 [30]
Carl Wunderlich came up with this average body temp. Fahrenheit in 1868, but admitted it was a large range
98.6
Susan
$1,200 [18]
Often the finest soldier in a unit, the aquilifer was the bearer of an image of this animal, a symbol of Rome
an eagle
Morgan
$1,200 [8]
Simultaneous entertainment under the big top gave us this expression for something full of tumult
a three-ring circus
Morgan
$1,200 [23]
On December 12 Mexico has a holiday named for the Virgin of this place
Guadalupe
Susan
$1,200 [12]
38 years after making "Alien", this British director was still at it with "Alien: Covenant"
Ridley Scott
Susan
$1,600 [4]
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested"
The Trial
Susan
$1,600 [29]
Thisword meaning "shield-shaped" is the name of a shield-shaped cartilage in the neck & the gland below it
thyroid
Morgan
$1,600 [19]
A high honor, the title imperator was first bestowed on Scipio, who kicked these north African foes out of Spain
the Carthaginians
Will
$1,600 [11]
To cheat on your spouse; it can also mean to double-cross someone
two-time
Morgan
$1,600 [24]
Derg Downfall Day in this country celebrates freedom from a Communist regime that killed Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Will
$1,600 [15]
"American Sniper" is the top-grossing movie directed by an octogenarian, this man who's also an actor
Clint Eastwood
Will
DD $3,000 [5]
From 1931:"It was Wang Lung's marriage day"
The Good Earth
Susan
$2,000 [28]
Scientists identified the MT1 receptor as the part of the brain where this hormone helps you fall asleep
melatonin
Will
DD $2,000 [20]
These leaders of groups of 100 men were divided from senior to junior grades
centurions
Will
$2,000 [13]
The title of a 1936 book, this 3-word nickname for the U.S. Supreme Court ceased to apply in 1981
nine old men
Morgan
$2,000 [25]
Often an occasion for an August getaway, in Italy Ferragosto is the Feast of this, Mary's entrance into heaven
the Assumption
Will
$2,000 [16]
Critics were "Breathless" with anticipation in 2014 for this French octogenarian's 3D film "Goodbye to Language"
Jean-Luc Godard
Will

Final Jeopardy!

THE U.S. SENATE

An 1890 resolution by Senator Aldrich was killed by this, the very technique it sought to limit; a 1917 rule set some boundaries on it

the filibuster

Susan "What is the filibuster" — wagered $2,000
Morgan "What is filibuster?" — wagered $10,001
Will "What is the fillibuster" — wagered $601

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