Show #7937 2019-02-26 (taped 2019-01-08) All-Star

2019 All-Star Games match 2, continuation of game 1.

Contestants

Ben Ingram — a business technology integration consultant from Lake Wylie, South Carolina

Seth Wilson — a private events manager from Chicago, Illinois

Julia Collins — an administrator of a female-centric website from Wilmette, Illinois

Austin Rogers — a bartender from New York, New York

Roger Craig — a machine learning consultant from Newark, Delaware

Leonard Cooper — a graduate student at Brown University from Little Rock, Arkansas

Ken Jennings — a writer from Seattle, Washington

Matt Jackson — a digital fundraising professional from Washington, D.C.

Monica Thieu — a Ph.D. student in psychology from New York, New York

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Team Ken $37,500 $40,003 $24,000
Ken
Team Austin $6,800 $8,000 $6,800
Austin
Team Julia $11,200 $0 $11,200
Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANCIENT AGRICULTURE JUST THE FACTS LAKES & RIVERS LEADERS "INTER" LAUGHING
$400 [26]
This robust New World crop descended from teosinte, which only had about a dozen kernels per ear
maize
Roger
$400 [27]
The House of Representatives convened in 2019 with Kevin McCarthy in this post
House Minority Leader
Matt
$400 [28]
Lake Wakatipu in this country was used as a backdrop in the "Lord of the Rings" movies
New Zealand
Matt
$400 [29]
Time for follow the leader:19. Hayes20. Garfield &21. him
(Chester) Arthur
Seth
$400 [30]
A group action to get a substance abuser to seek help
intervention
Seth
$400 [25]
Taking over "The Tonight Show" gig in 2014, this comedian quipped, "I'll be your host...for now"
(Jimmy) Fallon
Roger
$800 [14]
Used to break up the soil, it evolved from the prehistoric digging stick & was improved in the 18th century with a moldboard
a plow
Roger
$800 [8]
The 2 Asian apes are the orangutan & this arboreal one
the gibbon
Roger
$1,200 [19]
Boundary Lake is shared by North Dakota & this Canadian province
Manitoba
Matt Roger
$800 [2]
Walter Reuther ran this union's GM department from 1939 & the whole union from 1946 to 1970
United Auto Workers
Roger
$800 [24]
Safety Paul Krause holds the NFL record with 81 of these
interceptions
Matt
$800 [5]
The Festrunk brothers were the "Two Wild & Crazy Guys" played by this pair on "Saturday Night Live"
Steve Martin & Dan Aykroyd
Matt
$1,600 [17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an irrigation model on the diagram.) To irrigate farmland, the Persian empire built qanats, tunnels that tap into this underground source, from the Latin for "water-bearing"
aquifer
Matt
$1,200 [7]
Tothenearestthousand, the heightin feetof Mount Everest
29,000
Matt Roger
$1,600 [20]
The Amazon River begins not in Brazil but with headwaters in this western South American country
Peru
Roger
$1,200 [4]
Comic songs & sounds were his forte as 1940 bandleader of the City Slickers
Spike Jones
$1,200 [23]
Around 1950 these devices became common to talk to NYC apartment dwellers
intercoms
Roger
$1,200 [6]
"Sexy French Depression" is one of her musical numbers as Rebecca on "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
(Rachel) Bloom
Seth
$2,000 [15]
Deuteronomy 8:8 promises a land not of milk & honey but of this salad dressing "and honey"
olive oil
Roger
$1,600 [9]
Shakespeare's shortest play is this twisted yarn with twins both named Antipholus
The Comedy of Errors
Seth
$2,000 [21]
The Iberian peninsula's second-longest river, it flows into the Mediterranean southwest of Barcelona
the Ebro
Roger
$1,600 [1]
Viktor Orban is the anti-immigrant leader of this European country
Hungary
Matt
$1,600 [22]
Some think that the electric car will abolish ICE, short for this traditional type of engine
internal combustion engine
Matt
$1,600 [10]
Manuel, Polly & of course, Basil were denizens of this wacky British TV establishment
Fawlty Towers
Matt
DD $4,000 [18]
The Romans made sure to plant legumes, which increase yield by returning this element to the soil
nitrogen
Matt
$2,000 [12]
Maynard Jackson's 1973 election as the first black mayor of this state capital was seen as a sign of "The New South"
Atlanta
Matt
DD $8,500 [13]
During monsoon season, this river in Cambodia reverses its flow, flooding the Tonle Sap River & Tonle Sap Lake
the Mekong
Matt
$2,000 [3]
In 2003 Liberians were happy that life was blah as this brutal leader turned over power to Moses Blah
(Charles) Taylor
Matt
$2,000 [16]
From the Latin for "fought to the death", this adjective is used of fighting with a group
internecine
Roger
$2,000 [11]
On "The Carol Burnett Show", he was Eunice's husband Ed & often got the giggles in sketches with Tim Conway
(Harvey) Korman
Seth

Final Jeopardy!

EUROPEAN ARTISTS

His seldom-used last name reflects his birth near the mouth of a river that flows from the Alps to the North Sea

Rembrandt van Rijn

Leonard "Who is Rembrandt" — wagered $1,200
Julia "Who is Michaelangelo?" — wagered $11,200
Monica "Who is Rembrandt?" — wagered $2,503

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