Show #7939 2019-02-28 (taped 2019-01-09) All-Star

2019 All-Star Games wildcard match, game 1.

Contestants

Roger Craig — a machine learning consultant from Newark, Delaware

Austin Rogers — a bartender from New York, New York

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

Pam Mueller — a think tank researcher from Culver City, California

Colby Burnett — a college counselor from Chicago, Illinois

Alan Lin — a software engineer from Riverside, California

Alex Jacob — a freelance trivia writer from Greensboro, North Carolina

Buzzy Cohen — a music executive from Los Angeles, California

Jennifer Giles — a third grade teacher from Longmont, Colorado

Scores

Player	First Commercial	End of Jeopardy!	End of Double Jeopardy!	Final	Coryat
Team Buzzy	$6,400	$8,800	$17,200	$0	$15,200 Alex
Team Colby	$2,600	$2,600	$19,600	$7,600	$16,200 Pam
Team Austin	$2,800	$5,600	$15,600	$5,200	$15,600 Roger

Jeopardy! Round

WEIGHTS & MEASURES	CITIES	FROM THE "PEN" OFWEBSTER'S THIRD	YOU'RE AN ALL-STAR	GET YOUR GAME ON	GO PLAY
$200 [27] An octant is 1/8 of a circle & equal to this many degrees 45 Roger	$200 [14] The famous "shores of" this African capital city are on the Mediterranean Tripoli Alex	$200 [26] "Next to the last" (this "chapter of a book") penultimate Alex	$200 [30] Heappeared a record 18 times in NBA All-Star games, and 4 times on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Alex	$200 [29] This other term for military exercises is also the title of a 1983 film War Games Roger	$200 [23] Walter Matthau & Neil Simon both won 1965 Tonys for this play The Odd Couple Alex
$400 [21] One cable length from shore is equal to 100 fathoms, this many feet 600 Roger	$400 [22] This Texas city that celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2018 got its name on a saint's feast day even before its official founding San Antonio Alex Pam	$400 [20] "A dwelling built on a roof", fancy or not a penthouse Alex	$400 [28] Vince Lombardi was furious after these NFL champs lost a 1963 exhibition game to a team of college all-stars the Green Bay Packers Alex	$400 [24] By definition a contest in which 1 player's $5 gain must mean another player's $5 loss is this type of game zero-sum Roger	$400 [25] In 2007 this play about a real-life interviewer & a president starred Sheen/Langhella (Michael & Frank) Frost/Nixon Pam
$600 [11] This measure sounds like weight but is capacity in cubic feet divided by 100; for the giant ship Mol Tribute it's 211,000 tonnage Pam	$600 [4] Discovery Drive, Exploration Drive & Genoa Place are streets in this state capital Columbus, Ohio Pam Roger	$600 [9] Type of "scale of five tones in which the octave is reached at the sixth tone" pentatonic Pam	$600 [16] At the 2001 MLB All-Star game, Alex Rodriguez insisted that this retiring Oriole replace him as starting A.L. shortstop (Cal) Ripken Roger	$600 [19] Shakespeare used "the game is afoot" but it's more associated with this author who put it in a 1904 story (Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle Alex	$800 [12] This actor also had "The Right Stuff" to write plays such as "Fool for Love" (Sam) Shepard Alex
$800 [1] Cutting down on the zeroes, electric companies usually bill you in these "hours" kilowatt hours Alex	$800 [2] Take a stroll down the Molo Audace in Trieste & you can dip your feet in this 500-mile-long sea the Adriatic Roger	$800 [5] "Prudent only in small matters" pennywise Pam	$800 [10] Playing for the East, Bob Cousy had home-court advantage at the first NBA All-Star game, held in 1951 at this venue Boston Garden Roger	$800 [7] Paul Schrader has said this French director's "The Rules of the Game" represents all that film can be Renoir Roger	$1,000 [15] When you write clever comedies like 1672's "Les Femmes Savantes", you too can go by one name like he did Moliere Alex
$1,000 [8] In 1965 Kodak introduced the "Super" type of this film format, which brought moviemaking to the masses Super 8 (or 8 millimeter) Roger	$1,000 [3] The resort city of Baguio was once the summer capital of this island nation the Philippines	$1,000 [6] "The shaded region surrounding the dark central portion of a sunspot" penumbra Alex	$1,000 [17] Starting in 1948 this "Mr. Hockey" was named to a record 21 NHL All-Star teams (Gordie) Howe Roger	$1,000 [18] This title of Stephen Potter's book on "Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" entered the English language Gamesmanship	DD $2,600 [13] At Circle in the Square in 1975, George C. Scott earned raves as this Arthur Miller character (Willy) Loman Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

UNPHARAOHS	SHOW BIZ	TAXONOMY	IDIOMS DELIGHT	ARTS & CULTURE	TRIOS
$400 [13] Thutmose III may be the real king who unfairly refused to free the Hebrews, but it's this pharaoh in "The Ten Commandments" Ramses Buzzy	$400 [23] "You're born naked & the rest is drag" says this drag star RuPaul Buzzy	$400 [25] Sheep & goats are also members of this family along with cattle bovines Colby Austin	$400 [26] Physically or figuratively, you can come to this utensil where an important choice must be made a fork (in the road) Buzzy	$400 [28] This composer's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premiered in 1790 Mozart Austin	$400 [30] Collective name for Pavarotti, Carreras, Domingo The Three Tenors Austin
$800 [19] It looks suspicious that Ay became pharaoh upon the mysterious death of this teenage monarch Tutankhamen Buzzy	$800 [8] Sam Heughan & Caitriona Balfe play time-crossed lovers on this TV series Outlander Austin	$800 [22] Aristotle divided animals into 3 main groups according to how they moved:those that walk, those that swim & those that do this fly Colby	$800 [27] You're in charge if you're said to be occupying this place in a car the driver's seat Buzzy	$800 [24] A simile compares white skin to this ceramic material first made in China that has hard- & soft-paste types porcelain Colby	$800 [29] The law of inertia, F=ma, &the law of action & reaction Newton's Three Laws of Motion Buzzy
$1,200 [20] Legend says Psamtik III sacrificed his kingdom rather than fight when his foes brought these sacred animals, maus, into battle cats Austin	$1,200 [2] In an ad for this candy bar, a hungry Elton John fares poorly in a rap battle Snickers Colby	$1,200 [10] Taxonomically, this variety of oak tree is Quercus alba a white oak Buzzy Colby	$1,200 [3] Raally upset? You're "mad as" this moistened fowl a wet hen	$1,200 [7] In 1957's "Square Dance", this New York City Ballet founder combined classical technique with square dance calls George Balanchine	$1,200 [17] This rock band:Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce Cream Austin
$2,000 [11] Also known as Amenhotep IV, this pharaoh downplayed Egypt's traditional polytheism & instituted a single solar god Akhenaton Colby	$1,600 [5] He's Mr. Sarah Michelle Gellar Freddie Prinze Jr. Austin	$1,600 [9] Term for a large taxonomic group like Fungi or Plantae kingdom Austin	$1,600 [4] If the victory was easy, you won this 2-word way, originally referring to a jockey so far ahead he could drop his reins hands down Austin	$1,600 [6] This trumpeter composed "Blood on the Fields", a 1994 oratorio incorporating jazz rhythms Wynton Marsalis Austin	$2,000 [16] An Arkansas trio championed in the documentary "Paradise Lost":Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley the West Memphis 3 Colby
DD $4,000 [12] The Bible says Pharaoh Shishak raided Jersualem & the temple, taking the gold shields this king had made Solomon Colby	$2,000 [21] She directed Kirsten Dunst in "The Virgin Suicides", "Marie Antoinette" & "The Beguiled" Sofia Coppola Buzzy	$2,000 [18] The largest animal grouping is this phylum of "jointed feet" creatures arthropods Colby	$2,000 [15] In bridge, if the lead plays a heart, the others must as well; hence this idiom meaning "to do the same" follow suit Buzzy	$2,000 [14] Handel wrote a piece to celebrate this patron saint of music; maybe it's also her in the Paul Simon song St. Cecilia Buzzy	DD $2,600 [1] Submerged in China:Qutang, Wu &Xiling the Three Gorges of Three Gorges Dam Colby

Final Jeopardy!

BRITISH LITERATURE

A chapter of "The Jungle Book" has this double-talk title, echoing the opening line of a Brit's poem some 100 years prior

"Tiger! Tiger!"

Leonard "What is" — wagered $10,400

Jennifer "What is king king" — wagered $17,200

Alan "What is" — wagered $12,000

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