Show #7954 2019-03-21 (taped 2019-01-30) Regular

Contestants

Stephanie Strong — an audiology student from Chicago, Illinois

Kate Becker — a hospital administrator from Albuquerque, New Mexico

Jonathan Lindeen — a senior finance manager from Denver, Colorado (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,001)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jonathan $3,800 $8,200 $14,200 $26,801
2-day champion: $48,802
$15,600
19 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kate $0 $2,800 $13,400 $26,400
2nd place: $2,000
$14,800
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Stephanie $2,400 $4,600 $13,000 $11,000
3rd place: $1,000
$13,000
17 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

DICKENS WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME TV DOCTORS COIN STAR INVENTED IN THE 1800s SUIT UP RHYMES WITH ALL
$200 [2]
Scrooge starts seeing ghosts following the death of this character
Jacob Marley
Stephanie
$200 [10]
Neil Patrick Harris was just 16 when he began playing this TV doctor, also aged 16 at the start of the show
Doogie Howser
Stephanie
$200 [12]
This type of bird swims in a lake under a star-filled sky on a Canadian commemorative coin that glows in the dark
a loon
Jonathan
$200 [1]
By African-American dentist George Grant, a wooden one of these that "elevated" the game of golf
a tee
Kate
$200 [20]
Without the pressurized interior of this suit, AKA an EMU, your blood would boil in a vacuum
a spacesuit
$200 [25]
Sloppy, illegible handwriting
scrawl
Stephanie
$400 [3]
Justice prevails as the villainous Bill Sikes accidentally hangs himself near the end of this novel
Oliver Twist
Kate
$400 [11]
Dr. Wilson was the long-suffering best friend of this sarcastic limping master diagnostician
House
Kate
$400 [13]
This country's 1-centavo coin has 5 stars on the back & Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral on the front
Brazil
Stephanie
$400 [6]
In the 1830s by Samuel Colt, this type of gun
the revolver
Jonathan
$400 [21]
The average weight of a full suit of this in the 15th century was 65 pounds
a suit of armor
Kate
$400 [26]
A cozy compartment for a horse in a stable
a stall
Stephanie
$600 [4]
It's not fully depicted in "A Tale of Two Cities", but it's the implied method of execution for the heroic Sydney Carton
by guillotine
Jonathan
$600 [17]
Jane Seymour played this title medicine woman practicing her craft in a frontier town
Dr. Quinn
Stephanie
$600 [14]
Introduced in 1988, Australia's 2-dollar coin depicts a traditional Aboriginal man & this constellation
the Southern Cross
Jonathan
$600 [7]
In 1865, his railroad sleeping car
Pullman
Jonathan
$600 [22]
Wearing this is a synonym for being naked
your birthday suit
Jonathan
$600 [27]
To examine extensively & then make any needed repairs
overhaul
Kate
$800 [5]
An evil dwarf, Quilp pursues little Nell & her grandfather but drowns in the Thames in this "Old" work
The Old Curiosity Shop
Stephanie
$800 [18]
In his youth, this actor, who played Dr. McCoy, wanted to be a physician himself
DeForest Kelley
$1,000 [16]
In the 1980s Israel's 5-shekel had 2 stars on the reverse & a double one of these horns of plenty on the obverse
a cornucopia
Jonathan
$800 [8]
The Kodak box camera, invented by him
Eastman
Stephanie
$800 [23]
This London suit is so identified with fine men's tailoring that the Japanese word for a business suit is sabiro
Savile Row
Kate
$800 [28]
To cast one of these over things is to give them a gloomy atmosphere
a pall
Jonathan
$1,000 [30]
In "Bleak House" the half-mad alcoholic Krook dies this odd way, bursting into flames without apparent cause
spontaneous combustion
Stephanie
$1,000 [19]
On public TV, an opinionated medico in a Cornish village isn't "Doc Ellingham" but "Doc" this first name
(Doc) Martin
Jonathan
DD $1,400 [15]
The stars allude to fireworks on a2-pound cointhe Royal Mint issued in 2005 to remember this plot on its 400th anniversary
the Gunpowder Plot
Jonathan
$1,000 [9]
Don't fear his reaper, patented in 1834
Cyrus McCormick
Kate
$1,000 [24]
A combination of trendy broad-shouldered jackets with balloon-leg trousers worn in the 1940s
a zoot suit
Jonathan
$1,000 [29]
A city's disorderly spread outward into surrounding areas
(urban) sprawl
Kate

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE ARTS MYTH-POURRI 3 CONSECUTIVE CONSONANTS TRAVELING 18th CENTURY NICKNAMES THE SPORTING "NEW"s
$400 [7]
This Rodin sculpture depicts a pensive nude man sitting on a rock, chin resting on his hand
The Thinker
Stephanie
$400 [12]
Pan Gu, in myth the 1st Chinese man, cracks a giant one of these from inside & holds up the sky to protect the earth
an egg
Stephanie
$400 [2]
You do this to different watches to match the time
synchronize
Kate
$400 [21]
The Marangu route up this Tanzanian mountain is known as the "Coca-Cola route" for the drink available along it
Kilimanjaro
Stephanie
$400 [1]
Blamed for France's near bankruptcy, this 18th century queen came to be called "Madame Deficit"
Marie Antoinette
$400 [26]
In 1962 this MLB team lost an amazing 120 games
the New York Mets
Kate
$800 [8]
In 2019 visitors to the Rijksmuseum can observe as conservators restore this 1642 Rembrandt masterpiece
Night Watch
Jonathan
$800 [13]
Zeus assumed Amphitryon's form to seduce Alcmene, resulting in the birth of this heroic demigod
Hercules
Jonathan
$800 [3]
An underhanded plot, like a pyramid one
scheme
Jonathan
$800 [25]
Tell Napoleon King's Cross just surpassed this as the busiest stop on London's Tube
Waterloo (Station)
Jonathan
DD $600 [20]
Shunned by his faith, Revolutionary War gen. Nathanael Greene was paradoxically called "The Fighting" this
Quaker
Kate
$800 [27]
Since 2001 these NFLers have finished first in their division 16 of 18 times
the New England Patriots
Stephanie
$1,200 [9]
This basic ballet movement, a knee bend, gets its name from the French for "to bend"
plié
Jonathan
$1,200 [14]
In Norse myth Jormungandr is a Midgard serpent who will kill this beloved god at Ragnarok
Thor
Jonathan Stephanie
$1,200 [4]
To dismiss from the army, or to shoot a firearm
discharge
Kate
$1,200 [24]
The last locale of Anthony Bourdain's "Parts Unknown" to air was this historically immigrant-filled "Side" of Manhattan
the Lower East Side
Kate
$800 [17]
This president was "The American Cincinnatus", after a Roman who answered the call to leadership but preferred farming
George Washington
$1,200 [28]
Fans of this "United" English soccer club may enjoy the same-named brown ale after (& before, & during) a game
Newcastle
Jonathan
DD $2,000 [10]
The title character of this drama by Henrik Ibsen is bored by her marriage to Jorgen Tesman
Hedda Gabler
Jonathan
$1,600 [15]
After her marriage to Jason goes south, this sorceress weds King Aegeus
Medea
Jonathan
$1,600 [5]
Proverbially, you "pull yourself up by" them to get by without any help
bootstraps
Stephanie
$1,600 [22]
Spots not to miss on a visit to this city include Grumari Beach, about 24 miles west of Ipanema
Rio de Janeiro
Stephanie
$1,200 [18]
This national poet of Scotland was dubbed "The Bard of Ayrshire"
Robert Burns
Kate
$1,600 [29]
Representing this city's Pelicans, "The Unibrow" Anthony Davis was MVP of the 2017 NBA All-Star game
New Orleans
Kate
$2,000 [11]
This Czech composer was in the New World when he wrote his "New World" symphony & "The American Flag"
(Antonin) Dvorak
Kate
$2,000 [16]
Actaeon pays a "deer" price for spying on this twin sister of Apollo while she's bathing
Artemis
Stephanie
$2,000 [6]
A potion to arouse feelings of love & desire
an aphrodisiac
Kate
$2,000 [23]
For a huge annual tomato fight, travel to this Spanish Mediterranean port also famous for other produce, sweet oranges
Valencia
Jonathan
$1,600 [19]
A British empire builder was called "Clive of" this Asian land & was known there as Sabut Jung, or "Daring in War"
Clive of India
$2,000 [30]
Last name of Cleveland Browns great & pro football Hall of Famer Ozzie
Newsome

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN AUTHORS

Alfred Hitchcock wrote, "It's because I liked" his "stories so much that I began to make suspense films"

Edgar Allan Poe

Stephanie "Who is ?" — wagered $2,000
Kate "Who is Edgar Allen Poe?" — wagered $13,000
Jonathan "Who is Poe?" — wagered $12,601

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