Show #7956 2019-03-25 (taped 2019-02-04) Regular

Contestants

Mara Taylor — a retired attorney from the Bronx, New York

Ryan Ermey — a journalist from Washington, D.C.

Dave Scatena — a chemical engineer from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $4,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dave $2,000 $4,800 $14,000 $18,600
2-day champion: $23,200
$14,000
18 R, 1 W
Ryan $2,000 $2,000 $400 $400
3rd place: $1,000
$8,000
12 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Mara $1,200 $-600 $4,300 $7,799
2nd place: $2,000
$3,400
12 R (including 1 DD), 7 W

Jeopardy! Round

LET'S HEAD NORTH CRAYOLA COLORS IS IT SCIENCE? SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER WINE WOMEN IN SONG
$200 [20]
Going north from Florida on I-95, it's the third state you'll enter & soon you'll reach Fayetteville
North Carolina
Ryan
$200 [11]
Naturally, this holiday has a shade in the red family & the green family
Christmas
Dave
$200 [9]
2 things described as "not" this science: give the ball to Kevin Durant & to lose weight, burn more calories than you eat
rocket science
Ryan
$200 [5]
24 hours earlier
yesterday
Ryan
$200 [1]
A 2018 cheating scandal rocked the wine world, causing 23 people to lose the title "master" this wine steward
sommelier
Dave
$200 [18]
"And here's to" this Simon & Garfunkel woman, "Jesus loves you more than you will know"
Mrs. Robinson
Mara
$400 [21]
China is on the northern border of this 2-word peninsular nation, about 80% of which is covered by mountains
North Korea
$400 [12]
Flower-named purples include lilac, orchid & this, the state flower of Illinois & Rhode Island
violet
Mara
$400 [10]
A 2016 web article for the magazine this -ology Today addressed the "Is it a science?" debate & said yes
psychology
$400 [6]
In radio communication, "message received & understood"
roger
Ryan
$400 [2]
This filmmaker has a line of wines called Director's Cut
(Francis Ford) Coppola
Dave
$400 [19]
She sing, "Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got, I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block"
J.Lo (or Jennifer Lopez)
Dave
$600 [22]
South Bend is in northern Indiana; North Bend, near Coos Bay, is in this coastal state
Oregon
Dave
$600 [13]
This gem's name precedes "white" in the name of a Crayola color
pearl
Mara
$600 [25]
Chemistry sure is; in fact, it's this 4-letter kind of science dealing with things that can be observed & measured
hard science
Ryan Mara
$600 [7]
According to a proverb, it's "the best teacher"
experience
Dave
$600 [3]
You say shiraz, I say this French name for a red wine & a red wine grape from the Rhone region of France
Syrah
Dave
$600 [28]
Hey there, the Plain White T's promise her "that by the time that we get through the world will never ever be the same"
Delilah
Mara
$800 [23]
Every year since the turn of the 20th century, this geog. feature "of balance" has moved 6" toward North America
the north pole
$800 [16]
Hues in the orange family with edible names include clementine, peach & this dish that pairs elbow pasta with cheddar
macaroni and cheese
Ryan
$800 [26]
National Geographic says this medieval effort to make gold is "usually dismissed as mystical pseudoscience"
alchemy
Dave
$800 [14]
It's the Japanese name for Japan
Nippon
Ryan
$800 [4]
Kathryn Borel's wine trip memoir is titled this, a term for wine that has the taint of the stopper
Corked
Ryan
$800 [29]
The title girl in this Knack hit who made Dough Fieger's "motor run, my motor run" became a star in the real estate world
(My) Sharona
Ryan
$1,000 [24]
The 3,500-foot Beinn Dearg can be found in Scotland's northern these, living up to the name
the Highlands
Dave
$1,000 [17]
This green named for a trifoliate plant is perfect for St. Patrick's Day
shamrock
Ryan Mara
$1,000 [27]
A 2005 court decision called intelligent design "a religious view, a mere re-labeling of" this -ism, not science
creationism
Ryan Mara
$1,000 [15]
In 2017 Monopoly gave the boot to the boot, the thimble & this contraption designed to move outdoor loads
the wheelbarrow
Mara
$1,000 [8]
A type ofglassis named for this white wine-making French region near Germany whose name rhymes with "glass"
Alsace
DD $3,200 [30]
In 2018 the woman who was immortalized in this 1958 hit by schoolmate Buddy Holly passed away
"Peggy Sue"
Ryan

Double Jeopardy! Round

BABY BOOMER SOONER NONFICTION SINGLE-CONSONANT WORDS 1960s AMERICA THEY COME IN PAIRS -"GRAM"S
$400 [8]
This actor/director was born in Duncan, Oklahoma in 1954 & was already in Mayberry by age 6
Ron Howard
Dave
$400 [5]
In 1861, 3 years after he published a famous book on this title subject, Henry Gray passed away from smallpox
anatomy
Mara
$400 [1]
To line up
queue
Mara
$400 [18]
On Jan. 15, 1967 the vast L.A. Memorial Coliseum had 35,000 empty seats for the first of these games
the Super Bowl
Ryan
$400 [13]
Isotoner says you can keep warm while texting with its Smar Touch pairs of these
gloves
Dave
$1,600 [23]
Sometimes called an arteriogram, this procedure uses X-rays & contrast dyes to image blocked arteries
an angiogram
Mara
$800 [9]
Born in Vinita, Oklahoma in 1950, this psychologist coached Oprah during a lawsuit & she made him famous
Dr. Phil
Dave
$800 [7]
Based on interviews with more than 50 survivors, Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember" details this tragedy
the sinking of the Titanic
$800 [2]
French term for a woman's male escort
beau
Mara
$1,200 [20]
A Naval Academy graduate, hebecame the USA's first man in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight
Alan Shepard
Dave Ryan Mara
$800 [14]
2 stars that are close together & orbit around a common center are called a double star or this other 6-letter type
a binary star
$2,000 [24]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows Koko on the monitor.) A few apes have shown some skill at language--the gorilla Koko used sign language to communicate, while Konzithe bonobo became a whiz with these graphic symbols that represent words
lexigrams
Mara
$1,200 [10]
Though she's repped Massachusetts in the Senate since 2013, she was born in Oklahoma City in 1949
Elizabeth Warren
Dave
$1,200 [3]
A variety of color, or an old word for a shout, paired with "cry"
hue
Mara
$1,600 [21]
A May 1963 "Children's Crusade" helped civil rights as cops' treatment of kids in this Ala. city shocked the nation
Birmingham
Dave Ryan Mara
$1,200 [15]
They're often found in the hands of a flamenco dancer
castanets
Mara
DD $2,100 [25]
In 1959 Western Union began this service that included sweets with the message
candygram
Mara
$1,600 [11]
S.E. Hinton was born in this second-largest city in Oklahoma & set "The Outsiders" there
Tulsa
Dave
$1,600 [4]
2 Freudian parts of the mind
the id and the ego
Dave
$2,000 [22]
This woman's 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique" helped launch second wave feminism
(Betty) Friedan
Mara
$1,600 [16]
Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina is the site of a large monument dedicated to this pair
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Dave
$2,000 [12]
Before representing Okla. in Congress, pro football HOFer Steve Largent played for this West Coast team
the Seattle Seahawks
Dave
$2,000 [6]
How Frere Jacques would customarily say, "See ya!"
adieu
Ryan
DD $4,400 [19]
In 1964 D.C. residents were allowed to vote for president for the first time, going 85% for this man
Lyndon Johnson
Ryan
$2,000 [17]
In an Edward Lear poem, this pair "dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon"
the owl and the pussycat

Final Jeopardy!

FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION

Operating for only one week a year, a train line to this city moves over half a million people a day

Mecca

Ryan "What is Peggy Sue & LBJ?" — wagered $0
Mara "What is Mecca?" — wagered $3,499
Dave "What is Mecca?" — wagered $4,600

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