Show #7958 2019-03-27 (taped 2019-02-04) Regular

Steven Grade game 1.

Contestants

Steven Grade — a sports industry consultant from Atlanta, Georgia

Amy Kroll — a quality control specialist from Rockville, Maryland

Emma Badame — a digital marketing manager from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $12,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Emma $1,400 $4,200 $10,600 $5,400
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
10 R, 1 W
Amy $800 $400 $5,200 $5,200
3rd place: $1,000
$5,200
7 R, 1 W
Steven $6,800 $10,800 $21,600 $21,600
New champion: $21,600
$21,200
32 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

HE WAS SENATOR & PRESIDENT HAIRSTYLES I'M WALKIN' HERE! THE ELEMENTS GETTING AN EDUCATION SET IN THE CITY
$200 [6]
His nickname "Tricky Dick" dates back to the 1950s California campaign that put him in the Senate
Nixon
Steven
$200 [18]
Animal name describing hair in braids on each side, occasionally accented with ribbons
pigtails
Steven
$200 [7]
Sci-fi TV fans have somehow schismed into factions called this word plus -kers & also -kies
trek
Steven
$200 [26]
Naturally occurring copper is a mix of 2 of these variants, Cu63 & Cu65
isotopes
Steven
$200 [16]
EMBA is short for executive this, for working professionals who are continuing to improve
master of business administration
Steven
$200 [1]
As of 2019 its "Med", "Fire" & "P.D." were all serving
Chicago
Steven
$400 [10]
Though the Senate failed by one vote to de-president him, his later return to the body was met with flowers & applause
(Andrew) Johnson
Steven
$400 [22]
Hail, this 6-letter cut seen here
Caesar
Steven
$400 [9]
You're "out of" this walkin' word if you're not in rhythm or up on current events
step
Amy
$400 [27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA.) The Falcon 9 is 230 feet tall & weighs 1.2 million pounds, so its retractable landinglegs have to be immensely strong; they're made of carbon fiber surrounding a honeycomb of this light but strong metal, atomic number 13
aluminum
Steven
$400 [17]
Here it's a school building for athletic activities; in Germany, it's a school for students getting ready for college
a gymnasium
Amy
$400 [2]
"This Is Us"--remember when Jack covered up with a Terrible Towel?
Pittsburgh
Amy
$600 [8]
This Ohioan found the Senate "far more to my liking than" being pres. could be; scandal & death in office followed
Warren G. Harding
$600 [23]
Combed in points around the forehead, this short cut is named for a type of sprite
a pixie
Steven
$600 [11]
By moving so very smoothly, NBA legend Drexler earned the rhyming nickname Clyde this
the Glide
Steven
$600 [28]
This element is usually found as a diatomic molecule making up about 21% of Earth's atmosphere
oxygen
Steven
$600 [19]
In 2015 some college athletes started getting a stipend labeled COA, for "cost of" this, showing up to class
attendance
Steven
$600 [3]
The heroine of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was gonna make it there after all
Minneapolis
Emma
$1,000 [15]
This New Yorker & future president joined the Senate in 1821 & soon led the fight against imprisonment for debt
Martin Van Buren
$800 [24]
From the French for "to swell", this '60s hair style used teasing to give a puffed-out look
a bouffant
Emma
$800 [13]
It's not in the Bill of Rights, but you really should take a morning this 14-letter bit of light exercise
a constitutional
Emma
$800 [29]
Selenium has the atomic number 34, meaning it has 34 of these in its nucleus
protons
Amy Steven
$800 [20]
The youngest of the USA's 5 service academies, it was established in 1954
the Air Force Academy
$800 [4]
Law & justice with "The Practice" & "Rizzoli & Isles"
Boston
Steven
DD $2,400 [12]
Though he served Penn. in the Senate from 1834 to 1845, he supported pro-slavery Southern positions; he didn't get better as pres.
Buchanan
Steven
$1,000 [25]
This longish bob cut shares its name with a thick carpet big in the 1970s
a shag
Emma
$1,000 [14]
Proverbially, if you acted on stage, you did this to "the boards"
trod
Steven
$1,000 [21]
In 2005 this D.C. university's Walsh School of Foreign Service opened its first foreign campus, in Qatar
Georgetown
Emma
$1,000 [5]
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" & "(Thi$)"
Las Vegas
Steven

Double Jeopardy! Round

TENTH DOCTOR ALLONS-Y FILL IN THE TONY-WINNING PLAY TITLE CALLED OUT IN SONG IRISH PEOPLE?
$400 [3]
The Tenth Amendment says that powers not delegated to the federal government belong to them
the states
Steven
$400 [19]
This Greek's oath says doctors should avoid "seduction of women or men"
Hippocrates
Steven
$400 [23]
Let's go to this palace & see the beautifulgardenst here
Versailles
Steven
$400 [1]
1968:"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ____ ____"
are dead
Steven
$400 [2]
This Detroit rapper had a "Warning" for Nick Cannon:"Think I'm scared of you? You gonna ruin my career, you better get one"
Eminem
Steven
$400 [14]
This Irish marksman sounds like the rebound of a bullet off as surface
Rick O'Shea
Steven
$800 [6]
In bowling you get 2 extra rolls if you start the tenth of these with a strike
frame
Steven
$1,200 [21]
Helen Taussig is remembered for her work treating babies that were born this unusual color
blue
Emma Amy
$800 [24]
Though there's a statue of him, Cyrano wasn't actually from this Dordogne town & missed out on its wine & cute squares
Bergerac
Emma
$800 [4]
1979, about John Merrick:"The ____ Man"
elephant
Steven
$800 [5]
Knowing how to roc-a-fella with "Takeover" in 2001, this rapper went after Nas having "a 1 hot album every 10 year average"
Jay-Z
Steven
$800 [15]
This Irish musician tuned up just like an oldtime jukebox requiring 5 cents a play
Nick O'Lodeon
Amy
$1,600 [27]
Referring to harvest time, Messidor was the tenth one of these in France from 1793 to 1806
the tenth month
Steven
$1,600 [22]
This 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner gained fame for building a hospital in Africa
Albert Schweitzer
$1,200 [25]
Allons-y to this northwest French region whose name sounds sorta like the island across the Channel
Brittany
$1,200 [7]
2015:"The ____ Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
curious
Amy
$1,200 [8]
Nick Lowe rhymed, "Do you remember" this '80s singer? "He had a big fat hit, it was ghastly"
(Rick) Astley
Steven
$1,200 [16]
Catherine was her birth name & she wielded a whip with a specific number of cords
Cat O'Nine-Tails
Emma
DD $3,000 [9]
In 1585 Flemish mathematician Simon Stevin's work "The Tenth" introduced this numbering system to Europe
the decimal system
Steven
$2,000 [29]
Due to this Brit's work in antisepsis, mortality in one hospital ward went from 45% to 15% in the 1860s
Joseph Lister
$1,600 [26]
The duchy of a historic Eleanor, this beautiful region of southwest France added "Nouvelle" to its name in 2016
Aquitaine
Steven
$1,600 [12]
1981, set in Vienna:Peter Shafer's "____"
Amadeus
Emma
$1,600 [10]
After Neil Young's "Southern Man", this band replied, "A Southern man don't need him around" in "Sweet Home Alabama"
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Amy
$1,600 [17]
It's the popular tropical houseplant seen here, as well as the possible name of an Irishman
Phil O'Dendron
DD $2,600 [20]
This doctor made flaked cereal a thing when he started giving it to his sanitarium patients, including Mr. Post
(John Harvey) Kellogg
Steven
$2,000 [28]
Images of "blue" spring to mind as we head to this colorful region that contains the French Riviera
Côte d'Azur
Emma
$2,000 [13]
2002:Edward Albee's "The Goat, or Who is ____?"
Sylvia
Emma
$2,000 [11]
"I praise the day that brings you pain", sang Morrissey after losing a lawsuit to the drummer in this band of theirs
The Smiths
Steven
$2,000 [18]
I was in tears after watching another sensational emotional work by this imaginary Irish playwright
Mel O'Drama

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD WAR II

In 1943 millions of matchbooks were distributed in the Philippines with this 3-word quote to boost morale

"I shall return"

Amy "What is I shallretunreturn?" — wagered $0
Emma "What is we are winning" — wagered $5,200
Steven "What is I shall return?" — wagered $0

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