Show #7959 2019-03-28 (taped 2019-02-04) Regular

Steven Grade game 2.

Contestants

Kenji Shimizu — a biomedical engineer from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Sarah von Oeyen — a librarian from Troy, Michigan

Steven Grade — a sports industry consultant from Atlanta, Georgia (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steven $5,400 $8,200 $27,000 $35,601
2-day champion: $57,201
$24,200
30 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Sarah $800 $5,200 $9,200 $9,200
3rd place: $1,000
$9,200
11 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Kenji $400 $2,800 $17,800 $27,001
2nd place: $2,000
$14,400
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

MOVEABLE FEASTS? FILM DIRECTORS WE WOULD HAVE ALSO ACCEPTED... NAME THAT NOVELIST! THE WESTERN U.S. PUT A "RING" ON IT
$200 [8]
These game-day cookouts are named for the rear door of a pickup truck
tailgates
Steven
$200 [1]
John Wayne spends years looking for his niece in this western often called director John Ford's masterpiece
The Searchers
Steven
$200 [20]
It's okay to say "What is a diadem?" instead of this word for a small semi-circular crown
a tiara
Kenji
$200 [6]
"When one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that"
(Oscar) Wilde
Sarah
$200 [9]
3.25 million cubic yards of concrete went into this dam in the western United States
the Hoover Dam
Kenji
$200 [18]
On a state postal abbreviation to get this act of taking out an apple's seeds
coring
Kenji
$400 [11]
In 1935 Mickey Mouse was the first cartoon character to appear on these meal containers for kids
lunch boxes
Kenji
$400 [2]
Perhaps tired of his old office job, in 2018hebranched out as the director of "A Quiet Place"
(John) Krasinski
Steven
$400 [23]
In addition to this pseudonym, for the author of "1984" we would accept Eric Blair--that's what his mum named him
George Orwell
Kenji
$400 [7]
"'There's not been a direwolf sighted south of the wall in two hundred years"
(George R.R.) Martin
Steven
$400 [13]
A Montana memorial to the Native American participants of this battle was dedicated on June 25, 2003
Little Bighorn
Steven
$400 [19]
On a state postal abbreviation to get this act of taking off an apple's skin
paring
Steven
$600 [14]
Unlike the rest of us, Yogi Bear pronounces this outdoor basket meal with 3 syllables
a picnic
Sarah
$600 [3]
Tim Burton cast this mother of his children as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd"
Helena Bonham Carter
Steven
$600 [29]
Holy See is a perfectly fine response to use instead of this name for a small European country
Vatican City
Steven
$600 [10]
"Much as I liked Antonia, I hated a superior tone that she sometimes took with me"
(Willa) Cather
Steven
$600 [21]
If you're "standin' on a corner in" this city in Arizona, head 20 miles west to see a 550'-deep meteor crater
Winslow
Kenji
$600 [25]
On a pole similar to a mast to get this word for practice boxing
sparring
Sarah
$800 [15]
Kogi, the food truck that started a trend in L.A., has a quesadilla made with this, Korean fermented veggies
kimchi
Steven
$800 [4]
Thisactress/filmmaker got an Oscar nomination for her direction of the 2017 film "Lady Bird"
(Greta) Gerwig
Steven
$1,000 [28]
We would accept "the First" after this 18th century Russian czar, but "the Great" is much more descriptive of him
Peter
Steven
$800 [12]
"Once a Garp, then an Arp, now only an Ar; she knew he was dying. He had just one vowel and one consonant left"
John Irving
Kenji
$800 [22]
In 2013 the govt. officially said this "numeric" military facility in Nevada existed, but aliens...not yet. Not...yet
Area 51
Sarah
$800 [26]
Put "ring" on a word meaning fuss (perhaps about nothing) to get this, meaning full of love
adoring
Steven
$1,000 [16]
The food carts that always seem to bump your elbows on airplane aisles are also called these, like streetcars
trolleys
Sarah
$1,000 [5]
This alliterative Italian won Best Director for his work on "The Last Emperor"
(Bernardo) Bertolucci
Steven Kenji
DD $1,000 [17]
"Tonight's lecture--a slide show about pagan symbolism hidden in the stones of Chartres Cathedral"
Dan Brown
Sarah
$1,000 [24]
A monument marks the spot where this "colorful" 2-word object was driven into the ground on May 10, 1869 in Utah
the golden spike
Sarah
$1,000 [27]
On the end of a small bay to get this protective layer
covering
Kenji

Double Jeopardy! Round

THING 1 & THING 2 CELEBRITY SIBLINGS FICTIONAL MEMOIRS FOR THE BIRDS LETTER PERFECT DIET LAND
$400 [13]
As the name implies, this sealing base of paint should be thing 1 on your dry wood before the color coat
primer
Steven
$400 [3]
Singer Wynonna & actress & activist Ashley
Judd
Steven
$400 [16]
Chiyo is the young woman who tells of her life as a Japanese hostess in Arthur Golden's novel "Memoirs of a" this
Geisha
Sarah
$400 [14]
Birds are unique in having these, the obvious characteristic that distinguished them from all other modern animals
feathers
Steven
$400 [8]
In NBA fandom nicknames, this letter comes in front of players "Rose" & "Wade"
D
Steven
$400 [15]
The Noble Diet, or Assembly, of this country was held at times in Buda & Pest
Hungary
Steven
$800 [18]
Pulling off the highway to change a tire? Put on your hazard lights, then thing 2 you should do is engage this on your car
the parking brake
Sarah
$800 [4]
Melissa of "The Prairie" & Sara of "The Talk"
Gilbert
Steven
$800 [17]
Will Ferrell "co-wrote" this anchorman's autobiography "Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life & Other Musings"
Ron Burgundy
Steven
$800 [20]
Birds do it, bees do it, it being this act that fertilizes flowers; hummingbirds & honeycreepers are noted for it
pollination
Steven
$800 [9]
It comes before "22" in the name of a raptor produced by Lockheed Martin
F
Steven
$800 [21]
This empire's Regensburg Diet of 1663 was "The Everlasting Diet"--officially ending with the end of the empire in 1806
the Holy Roman Empire
Kenji
$1,200 [19]
This liquid, ingredient No. 2 in a household task, was invented because older dyes made cotton fabric harsh & stiff
fabric softener
Steven
$1,200 [5]
Last name of the acting sisters seen here
Fanning
Steven
$1,200 [2]
First published as a memoir, "Go Ask" this girl is a fictional account of a 15-year-old girl's troubles with drugs
Alice
Steven
$1,600 [30]
A native Brazilian word is the source of the name of this tropical bird that has a large, brightly colored beak
a toucan
Kenji
$1,200 [10]
This letter in a timezone abbreviation refers to a royal observatory at the prime meridian
G
Sarah
$1,200 [24]
Since 1947 this Asian country's diet has consisted of Houses of Representatives & Councillors
Japan
Steven
$1,600 [25]
If thing 1 is to plant your garden, the 2nd thing to do is add this 5-letter material such as cedar chips or river rock
mulch
Steven
$1,600 [6]
The late David of "Kill Bill" & his brother Keith, who plays the president on "Madam Secretary"
Carradine
Sarah
$1,600 [1]
In the '70s, Clifford Irving fooled quite a few people with his fake memoir of this billionaire
Howard Hughes
$2,000 [29]
Appropriately, the sacred type of this bird was sacred to ancient Egyptians
an ibis
Kenji
$1,600 [11]
16th c. scholar Gian Giorgio Trissino is "the father of" this letter that is used to start the Savior's name
J
Kenji
$2,000 [22]
1809's Diet of Porvoo brought this northern country under the control of Russia
Finland
Kenji
$2,000 [28]
When you make a roux, after the butter is melted, add this as the next ingredient
flour
Steven
$2,000 [7]
AC/DC's Angus & Malcolm
Young
Steven
$2,000 [26]
Ernest J. Gaines wrote the "Autobiography" of this "Miss", a 110-year-old former slave
Miss Jane Pittman
DD $4,000 [27]
Sailors have long been superstitious about killing this bird, as reflected in a 1798 poem
an albatross
Steven
$2,000 [12]
Until the 1780s English printers used a letter that looked like a lowercase "f" for this letter
S
Kenji
DD $5,000 [23]
Traveling on foot, this reformer missed the Diet of Augsburg in 1518 but got a horse & wagon & made it to the one in Worms
Martin Luther
Kenji

Final Jeopardy!

FAMOUS PHRASE ORIGINS

One theory says a phrase for euphoria comes from plate No. 9 in an 1896 meteorological "atlas" of these

clouds

Sarah "What are the stars" — wagered $0
Kenji "What are clouds?" — wagered $9,201
Steven "What are clouds?" — wagered $8,601

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