Show #7922 2019-02-05 (taped 2018-12-05) Regular

Contestants

John Fowle — a landscaper from New Orleans, Louisiana

Jade Ryan — a student from Gainesville, Florida

Will Dawson — a tour guide from Washington, D.C. (whose 2-day cash winnings total $55,002)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Will $2,200 $3,000 $21,400 $15,599
3-day champion: $70,601
$21,400
27 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Jade $200 $1,800 $4,600 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$4,600
10 R, 3 W
John $3,400 $7,200 $13,600 $1,000
2nd place: $2,000
$13,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

TV: WHO PLAYED 'EM? HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES FROM B TO C THE 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT FAR OUT, MAN GIRL SCOUT COOKIES
$200 [7]
"Old" Christine on "The New Adventures of Old Christine" & Selina Meyer on "Veep"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Jade
$200 [1]
Term for the edge of western U.S. settlement; Alaska is called "the last" one
frontier
Will
$200 [6]
The "B" in ICBM stands for this kind of missile
ballistic
Will
$200 [20]
The first plague was the turning of the waters of Egypt into this
blood
Will
$200 [14]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows the Pacific Ocean on the monitor.) A spot in the Pacific is so remote that world space agencies use it as a dumping area because there's little chance of endangering humans; it's named Point this after a literary captain whose name means "no one" in Latin
Point Nemo
$200 [12]
The Girl Scouts' version of this graham cracker campfire classic is a favorite
s'more
Will
$400 [8]
Elizabeth Jennings on "The Americans", & "Felicity"
Keri Russell
Will
$400 [2]
Some of New Zealand's first colonists were convicts from the penal colony in this nearby land
Australia
John
$400 [27]
Also a simple programming language, it means unoriginal or mainstream in modern slang
basic
Jade
$400 [21]
The third plague was these parasitic arthropods that also plague kids in the classroom
lice
Will Jade
$400 [15]
King Kong is the "king" of this remote island
Skull Island
Will
$400 [13]
Trefoils are also called this, a type of "bread" traditionally loaded with butter
shortbread
John
$600 [9]
Lena on "Splitting Up Together" & Pam on "The Office"
Jenna Fischer
Will
$600 [3]
Rob Ford, on the left, was a controversial Toronto mayor; brother Doug was elected premier of this province in 2018
Ontario
John
$600 [28]
It's a cockroach's least favorite acid
boric acid
Jade
$600 [22]
In the seventh plague, this rained "upon the land of Egypt", breaking "every tree of the field"
hail
Will
$600 [17]
While on your way to the galactic center, you have more than 18 quintillion planets to explore in this game
No Man's Sky
John
$600 [16]
Peanut butter sandwich cookies get this hyphenated name, also heard during a square dance
Do-si-dos
John
$800 [10]
Gemma on "Sons of Anarchy" & Peg on "Married... With Children"
Katey Sagal
Will
DD $1,000 [4]
In the 1930s Leonard Howell established this religion in Jamaica
Rastafarianism
John
$800 [29]
Adjective meaning related to the countryside, especially its pleasant aspects
bucolic
John
$800 [25]
In the eighth plague, swarms of these covered the face of the Earth, darkening the land
locusts
Will
$800 [18]
In the first "Star Trek" movie, the crew meets this wandering probe; the real ones were launched in 1977
Voyager
John
$800 [23]
They're the refreshing bestsellers seen here
Thin Mints
Will
$1,000 [11]
Chloe on "Don't Trust the B----in Apartment 23", & "Jessica Jones"
Krysten Ritter
Will
$1,000 [5]
"A kingdom trusted to a school-boy's care" was written about this 18th century British prime minister the younger
(William) Pitt (the Younger)
John
$1,000 [30]
He wrote more than 90 stories examining the complexities of 19th century French society
Balzac
Jade
$1,000 [26]
Passover gets its name from when God passes over the Israelites' homes, sparing them from this final plague
death of the firstborn
John
$1,000 [19]
This Longfellow poem takes you away to Acadia, to a "distant, secluded...little village of Grand Pre"
Evangeline
$1,000 [24]
Savannah Smiles are named after the city where this woman was born in 1860
Juliette Gordon Low

Double Jeopardy! Round

SCIENCE FICTION SUCCESSION CLASSIC MOVIES IN 3 SENTENCES THE L.A. PHILHARMONIC AT 100 EXPRESS YOURSELF SUNNY "D"
$400 [5]
"World War Z" is Max Brooks' history of a global war in the near future against these
zombies
Will
$400 [14]
In 1896 the perhaps less skilled Alfred Austin succeeded Tennyson in this literary post
poet laureate
Jade
$400 [1]
Witch crushed to death. Victim's sister also killed. Killer sent to Kansas, not prison
Wizard of Oz
Will
$400 [9]
In 1779 he came home to Salzburg & wrote his 32nd symphony; in 2003 the L.A. Phil played it to open its new home, Disney Hall
Mozart
Will
$400 [21]
It can mean to tangle up or to growl viciously, especially with the teeth bared like an animal
snarl
Will Jade
$400 [26]
This Texas city, "The Big D", has an average of 234 sunny days per year
Dallas
Will
$800 [20]
The richest man on Earth travels through space with a beautiful woman at his side in Kurt Vonnegut's these "of Titan"
sirens
John
$800 [15]
He replaced the irreplaceable Steve Jobs as Apple CEO
(Tim) Cook
Will
$800 [2]
A snow globe falls from a hand. Xanadu makes news. A sled goes into an incinerator
Citizen Kane
John
DD $1,000 [10]
Site of the 1st outdoor recording by any symphony orchestra, this amphitheater in the Hills is the Phil's summer home
the Hollywood Bowl
Will
$800 [22]
This word that means to put into words begins with a part of speech
verbalize
Jade
$800 [27]
In 1926 the city of Seabreeze became part of this Florida beach city
Daytona Beach
Jade
DD $1,000 [19]
As well as playing in the "Dune"s, this sci-fi author penned "The White Plague", about a mad scientist's quest for revenge
Frank Herbert
Will
$1,200 [16]
He was next up after Anthony Kennedy sent himself to the bench from the Supreme Court bench
(Brett) Kavanaugh
Will Jade
$1,200 [6]
Cary Grant mistaken for a spy. He proposes between 2 giant heads. A train enters a tunnel
North by Northwest
Will
$1,200 [11]
In 1970 Frank Zappa said, "Zubin, hit it!" & the Phil played Zappa's "200 Motels" at this university's Pauley Pavilion
UCLA
Will Jade
$1,200 [23]
To prevaricate is to do this; trust me
to lie
Jade
$1,200 [28]
Soak up the sun on Jumeirah Beach in this wealthy emirate, but probably not in a bikini
Dubai
John
$1,600 [4]
"The White Dragon" is one of Anne McCaffrey's novels about this alien planet & its sentient flying reptiles
Pern
$1,600 [17]
Whitelaw Reidsucceeded Horace Greeleyas editor of this New York "T"--not Times
the Tribune
Jade
$1,600 [7]
A knife fight at an observatory. A cliffside drag race. A shooting at an observatory
Rebel Without a Cause
Will
$1,600 [12]
The Phil has a flute chair named for this "Moon River" composer who started out on flute in a Sons of Italy band
(Henry) Mancini
Will
$1,600 [24]
To signal to action, or to cue an actor from offstage with a forgotten line
prompt
John
$1,600 [29]
Seen here is a prisoner's hut on this tropical island, part of French Guiana
Devil's Island
Will
$2,000 [3]
Part slavery memoir, part time-traveling fantasy, this Octavia Butler novel has a title that's a synonym for family
Kindred
$2,000 [18]
After Richard III quit horsing around, this man was the new king
Henry VII
Will
$2,000 [8]
A marshal gets married. A train arrives right on time. A bride shoots a man in the back
High Noon
Will
$2,000 [13]
The Phil's first tour kicked off in this seat of Kern County, California, better known for country music
Bakersfield
Will
$2,000 [25]
To imitate, or to deride; it was done to Jesus, according to Luke 22:63
mock
Will John
$2,000 [30]
The "cold" season in this country on the horn of Africa has lows in the 70s
Djibouti
Will

Final Jeopardy!

THE 19th CENTURY

In his autobiography, Buffalo Bill Cody remembered this venture as "a relay race against time"

the Pony Express

Jade "What is gunfight at OK Corral?" — wagered $4,599
John "What is the Ideterod?" — wagered $12,600
Will "What is the transcontinental railroad" — wagered $5,801

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