Show #7996 2019-05-20 Regular

James Holzhauer game 23.

Contestants

Adam Stone — an associate professor of political science from Marietta, Georgia

Jenny Gibbs — a handywoman and gardener from Charlottesville, Virginia

James Holzhauer — a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 22-day cash winnings total $1,691,008)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
James $7,200 $12,000 $49,229 $89,229
23-day champion: $1,780,237
$32,000
37 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W
Jenny $1,200 $1,800 $4,600 $8,801
2nd place: $2,000
$4,600
11 R, 3 W
Adam $3,400 $4,200 $4,200 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$4,200
10 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A DEGREE IN LITERATURE MURPHY, BROWN LET'S GO TO THAT SPORTS THING HAMMER TIME STOCK SYMBOLS THE DOUBLE L WITH YOU
$200 [30]
"'M.D.' means that" this character "was a proper doctor and knew a whole lot"--including animal language
Dr. Dolittle
James
$200 [22]
California's 39th governor, from 2011 to 2019, he was also the 34th
Jerry Brown
James
$200 [12]
Rodeo is featured at the Calgary this, a term for a frenzied rush of cattle, & that's no bull
a stampede
Jenny
$200 [2]
The implement used in this athletic discipline is actually a metal ball attached to a wire & a handle
the hammer throw
Jenny
$200 [29]
For its stock symbol, this company whose brands include Tide & Bounty gets a PG rating
Procter & Gamble
Adam
$200 [28]
It takes this community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town
a village
James
$400 [23]
Preacher Elmer Gantry earns his B.D., or bachelor of this, a quality he lacks
divinity
James
$400 [21]
In "Dreamgirls" this funnyman showed off his musical side playing soul singer James "Thunder" Early
Eddie Murphy
James
$400 [25]
A long-distance public road race as well as a baseball term for scoring a bunch of runs to make up a deficit
a rally
James
$400 [24]
A tiny one of these in the ear is called the malleus or the hammer
a bone
James
$400 [17]
For all of your in-house projects & repairs, this company comes to you in HD
Home Depot
James
$400 [27]
When talking about the U.S. federal budget, it's 1 followed by 12 zeroes
trillion
James
$600 [15]
The title of the novel "The Paper Chase", made into a movie & TV series, refers to a diploma from this Harvard institution
Harvard Law School
Adam
$600 [20]
Abraham Lincoln called this man's efforts at Harpers Ferry "peculiar", ending "in little else than his own execution"
John Brown
Jenny
$600 [18]
The 2019 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships included (probably) the last race for this all-time great, a bronze in downhill
Lindsey Vonn
James
$600 [19]
This song contains the lyric "I'd hammer out love between my brothers & my sisters all over this land"
"If I Had A Hammer"
James
$600 [16]
We're wild about this 3-letter stock symbol for Harley-Davidson that's also a nickname for their bikes
HOG
Adam
$600 [26]
Count 'em up! There are 3 of these in the correct response, & 24 in the entire clue
syllables
James
$800 [14]
Mary McCarthy graduated from this women's school in New York State in 1933 & wrote "The Group" about women who did too
Vassar
Jenny
$800 [13]
He's a creator of "Glee" & "American Horror Story"
Ryan Murphy
James
$800 [11]
In 2021 we'll go down to the water & check out the best-of-13 chase for this oldest international sports trophy
the America's Cup
Adam
$800 [10]
Hammerfest in this Scandinavian country claims to be the northernmost city in Europe
Norway
James
$800 [7]
HLT is Hilton; H by itself is this hotels corporation
Hyatt
James
$800 [9]
Causing aversion, like a spray that fights off bugs
repellent
James
$1,000 [5]
In this author's "Brideshead Revisited", a father says of his son's univ. degree, "No use to me. Not much use to you either"
Evelyn Waugh
James
DD $1,000 [4]
Among the items she lost on the Titanic were crates of ancient artifacts that she had acquired for the Denver Museum
Molly Brown
James
$1,000 [1]
A bonspiel is a meet where teams from various clubs compete in this Olympic sport; a molson or 2 may get consumed
curling
Adam
$1,000 [3]
The first of his name, this13th-century English king was called the Hammer of the Scots
Edward
James
$1,000 [6]
Appropriately, the stock symbol for Sotheby's auction house is this 3-letter verb
BID
Adam
$1,000 [8]
Sheep fat used to make candles
tallow
James

Double Jeopardy! Round

ART SCHOOL OF FISH NEW TO THE SCRABBLE PLAYERS DICTIONARY A SHAPELY CATEGORY A PRINCE AMONG MEN "O" THE PLACES YOU'LL GO THE MONTHLY MOVIE TITLE
$400 [29]
The title subject of Henri Matisse's 1914work, these popular pets were introduced to Europe in the 1600s
goldfish
Jenny
$400 [30]
This opposite of smiley
frowny
James
$400 [24]
As an adjective, this word means star-shaped; as a noun, it's a space rock
asteroid
James
$400 [26]
This name of Romanian prince Vlad, who impaled his enemies, comes from the Latin word for "dragon"
Dracula
Adam
$400 [28]
Have a magical time at this oldest British university where you can see filming locations from the "Harry Potter" movies
Oxford
Jenny
$400 [18]
Oliver Stone co-wrote this 1989 film with Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, the movie's subject
Born on the Fourth of July
James
$800 [4]
E.S. Hardy's 19th-century depiction of this Hans Christian Andersen character is seen here
the Little Mermaid
Adam
$800 [22]
Long awaited by players, this very common 2-letter word of approval
ok
James
$800 [23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a photograph with flare on the monitor.) The shape of a flare in photographs is based on the shape of this camera lens opening
an aperture
Jenny
$800 [25]
In the Sutras he gave up being a prince on his journey towards enlightenment
Buddha
James
$800 [27]
You can go lots of places flying out of this busiest airport in the Midwest
O'Hare (in Chicago)
James
$800 [17]
In 1990 Sean Connery could have sung, "We all live in a non-yellow submarine" in this film, but thankfully, did not
The Hunt for Red October
James
$1,200 [3]
Shades of Spielberg--John Singleton Copley's scary 1782paintingis titled "Watson and"this beast
a shark
Adam
$1,200 [21]
This 6-letter word for your BFF
bestie
James
$1,200 [5]
It's the snaky 10-letter word for a zig-zag pattern
serpentine
James
$1,200 [7]
You could call Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, by this title, also the name of a popular video game series
prince of Persia
James Jenny
$1,200 [13]
You're headed to this island region of the Pacific that includes Melanesia, Micronesia & Polynesia
Oceania
James
$1,200 [16]
4 women of the 1920s take to an Italian villa & have the time of their lives in "Enchanted" this
April
Jenny
$1,600 [2]
A Winslow Homer has this weather condition in the title--thefisherman& his halibut catch are threatened by a bank of it
fog
Adam
$1,600 [20]
This spicy pepper sauce, also known as rooster sauce
sriracha
Jenny
$1,600 [11]
Called "the decider" in Dungeons & Dragons, anicosahedron diehas this many faces
20
James
$2,000 [9]
Charlemagne had a son with this name who found he had "Magic To Do" in Italy
Pepin
Jenny
$2,000 [12]
Step on, up or down the Potemkin Stepsin this city
Odessa
James Adam
$1,600 [15]
An all-star cast including Meryl Streep gathers for a funeral in this 2013 adaptation of a Pulitzer-winning play
August: Osage County
Jenny
$2,000 [1]
This Frenchman, who inspired the Impressionists, painted some controversial works, & hisfish were unorthodox too
Édouard Manet
Jenny Adam
$2,000 [19]
Thiscute canine, a cross of a toy breed & a hound dog
a puggle
James
$2,000 [10]
In TV & movies, the shape of the screen is measured by this 2-word term--standard HDTV is 16:9
aspect ratio (or display ratio)
James Jenny
DD $9,812 [8]
In the mid-19th century, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg helped restore this Austrian line to prominence
Habsburg
James
DD $10,617 [6]
Pack your bags for this city, Japan's third-largest & the first in Asia to host a World's Fair
Osaka
James
$2,000 [14]
In 1964 Burt Lancaster played a general attempting a military takeover of the government in this film
Seven Days in May

Final Jeopardy!

NAME THE FRENCH AUTHOR

"I am making myself liable to Articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July 1881 regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense"

Émile Zola

Adam "Who is ?" — wagered $4,199
Jenny "Who is Zola?" — wagered $4,201
James "Who is Emile Zola?" — wagered $40,000

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