Show #7938 2019-02-27 (taped 2019-01-09) All-Star

2019 All-Star Games match 2, game 2.

Contestants

Seth Wilson — a private events manager from Chicago, Illinois

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

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

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

Austin Rogers — a bartender from New York, New York

Roger Craig — a machine learning consultant from Newark, Delaware

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

Ken Jennings — a writer from Seattle, Washington

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

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Team Ken $400 $2,800 $30,200 $30,738 $24,400
Monica
Team Austin $4,000 $4,800 $13,600 $13,600 $13,400
Leonard
Team Julia $4,400 $5,400 $7,800 $15,600 $7,800
Seth

Jeopardy! Round

FAMILIAR BRANDS IN SONGS RECENT BOOKS SHOOTING BLANKS A WALK IN THE PARK WHAT A CIRCUS! 4,3,4
$200 [27]
OutKast instructed, "Shake it like" this; the company said, no, don't--that can actually hurt the image
a Polaroid picture
Leonard
$200 [20]
This actress's grandmother described Southern women as "Whiskey in a Teacup", the title of her 2018 book
(Reese) Witherspoon
Monica
$200 [29]
1998 U.S. & British bombing of Iraq:Operation ____ Fox
Desert Fox
$200 [30]
Walk through the Vanderbilt Gate at 5th Avenue & 105th Street to get to the conservatory garden in this park
Central Park
Seth
$200 [28]
This name for the one in charge of the big top is also an appropriate title for Sauron
the ringmaster
Monica
$200 [26]
Emily Post says those who get these cards, typically mailed 4 to 6 months before the wedding, must get invitations
save the date
Monica
$400 [14]
This Meghan Trainor tune says, "I see the magazines working that Photoshop, we know that...ain't real"
"All About That Bass"
Seth
$400 [19]
This co-founder of CAA & onetime Disney president wrote a very candid 2018 memoir
Michael Ovitz
Monica
$400 [24]
1862 Confederate victory at a Blue Ridge sore spot:Battle of ____ Ferry
Harpers
Monica
$400 [22]
Walk through Philly's Pennypack Park, not far from Temple University, & you might see a great horned one of these birds
an owl
Monica
$400 [23]
Mario Zacchini, AKA the "human" this, once said, "Flying isn't the hard part, landing in the net is"
a cannonball
Seth
$400 [25]
McCrory's was this kind of store named for the coins spent there; John McCMcCMcCMcCMcCMcCMcCMcCroreyoppedsoreapergnage
a five and dime
Seth
$600 [13]
In "The Boys of Summer", Don Henley sings, "You got that hair slicked back" & these Ray-Bans on
Wayfarers
Monica
$600 [3]
This author of "The Kite Runner" wrote "Sea Prayer" in response to the current refugee crisis
Khaled Hosseini
Leonard
$600 [12]
Battleship nicknamed "Mighty Mo":USS ____
Missouri
Monica
$600 [21]
You can walk up Hippie Hill in this alliterative San Francisco park
Golden Gate Park
Monica
$600 [18]
Caught by his brother, in 1982 Miguel Vasquez did the first quadruple somersault using this apparatus
a trapeze
Leonard
$600 [1]
To ascertain one person's thoughts, as by telepathy
read one mind
Leonard
$800 [10]
Grey Poupon & Evian are featured in this No. 1 hit by Kendrick Lamar
"HUMBLE."
Monica
DD $1,000 [4]
This 3-named historian studied Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR & LBJ for her book "Leadership in Turbulent Times"
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Leonard
$800 [11]
1904-05 fight in the Far East:Russo-____ War
Japanese
Leonard
$800 [15]
30-mile Wildwood Trail is in this northwest city's Forest Park; William Clark visited when it was just forest
Portland, Oregon
$800 [16]
Pierrot & grotesque are 2 of the white-faced these you may see at the circus
a clown
Seth
$800 [17]
Don't do this, meaning to put the important part of a news story way down in the article
bury the lede
Monica
$1,000 [7]
Lorde was still a teenager when she wrote "Royals", which namechecks Cristal & this French vodka
Grey Goose
Leonard
$1,000 [5]
He wrote "Little Children", covered high school in "Election", then gave us "Mrs. Fletcher", whose son is off to college
Tom Perrotta
$1,000 [2]
3-winged mount of the Red Baron:Fokker ____
triplane
Seth
$1,000 [9]
Stop to enjoy the landscaping of Dumbarton Oaks park in this city
D.C., or Washington, D.C.
Seth
$1,000 [8]
In 1902 Will Rogers joined Texas Jack's American circus as a bronco rider & trick artist using these
a lasso
Seth
$1,000 [6]
A body part is in this expression meaning to pay expenses someone has run up
foot the bill
Seth

Double Jeopardy! Round

A LONG, LONG TIME AGO ART & ARTISTS AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES DATES CROSSWORD CLUES "V"
$400 [30]
This always frozen subsoil started forming around the time of Earth's first glaciation, 2 billion-plus years ago
permafrost
Austin
$400 [26]
A first century B.C. writer said of sculptor Praxiteles that he imbued this material with the passions of the soul
marble
Ken
$400 [27]
She's played a Desperate Housewife & the scheming Wilhemina on "Ugly Betty"
(Vanessa) Williams
Ken
$400 [29]
The 1993 Cherbourg dispute was between Britain & France over fishing rights in & around this island group
the Channel Islands
Ken
$400 [25]
1918 date when WWI combat officially ceased
November 11
Austin
$400 [28]
Part of a bride's ensemble(4)
her veil
Ken
$800 [23]
Erosion by glaciers created the lakes of these mountains, including Lake Garda & Lake Lucerne
the Alps
Austin
$800 [24]
Last name of the family that includes 3 generations of artists--illustrator N.C., Andrew & Jamie
Wyeth
Julia
$800 [5]
Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce & Anika Noni Rose are the singing trio in this film adaptation of a Broadway show
Dreamgirls
Austin
$1,200 [17]
The Abyssinia crisis of 1935-36 was a conflict between these 2 nations, one in Africa & one in Europe
Italy and Ethiopia
Austin
$800 [9]
2018 date on which Mark Hamill, shamrock & all, was the guest of honor at Dublin's big parade
March 17th
Ken
$800 [1]
The heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, etc.(7)
viscera
Ken
$1,200 [22]
Don't call Ayla in "The Clan of the Cave Bear" a Neanderthal--she's this kind of human that emerged later, around 40,000 B.C.
a Cro Magnon
$1,200 [14]
He worked with Giorgione on frescos in 1508, then took over as Venice's greatest 1-named painter
Titian
Ken
$1,200 [7]
The mom of TV's Huxtable family, in 2004shebecame the first black actress to win the Tony for a leading role in a play
Phylicia Rashad
Ken
$1,600 [20]
A 2012 Japan Times editorial accused China of engaging in this force-based "diplomacy" named for a type of warship
gunboat
Austin
$1,200 [10]
Until it was moved up to January 20, this was the official presidential inauguration date
March 4th
Ken
$1,200 [2]
Ear-splitting World Cup noisemaker(8)
a vuvuzela
Ken
$1,600 [21]
Pangea, one of these, formed around 300 million & broke up around 200 million years ago
a supercontinent
Ken
$1,600 [12]
Picasso saw himself & this painter as the Wright Brothers of Cubism & even called him "Wilbur"
Braque
Ken
$1,600 [6]
Maidie Norman, the maid who got offed by Bette Davis in this 1962 film, rewrote her lines so they wouldn't sound so stereotypical
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Julia
$2,000 [18]
Falklands foes Argentina & the U.K. also bicker over the South these Islands, an old name for far-off Hawaii
the South Sandwich Islands
Austin
$1,600 [11]
1926 date on which Houdini died
October 31st
Austin
$1,600 [3]
The left-hand page of a book or manuscript(5)
the verso
Ken
$2,000 [19]
This dinosaur of 100 million+ years ago got its name because its teeth resembled those of a lizard that's still around
an iguanodon
Ken
DD $3,600 [15]
In 1504 Durer tried to show perfect human forms in this pair, each holding a tree branch
Adam and Eve
Ken
$2,000 [8]
Awarded an honorary Oscar in 2018, shehas a 6-decade acting career that includes "Roots" & "The Help"
Cicely Tyson
Ken
DD $5,000 [16]
The self-proclaimed Saharan Arab Democratic Republic disputes the territory of Western Sahara with this nation
Morocco
Ken
$2,000 [13]
The Dominion of Canada was proclaimed on this date in 1867
July 1st
$2,000 [4]
An early bike or trike(10)
a velocipede
Ken

Final Jeopardy!

20th CENTURY HISTORY

Interpreting for Vaclav Havel, future ambassador Rita Klimova gave us this phrase for a smooth change of government

the velvet revolution

Ben "What is velvet revolution?" — wagered $7,800
Roger "What or who is Alex Trebek RSTLNE XBKA" — wagered $0
Matt "What is velvet revolutiondivorce" — wagered $538

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