Show #8015 2019-06-14 (taped 2019-03-13) Regular

Contestants

Becky Reisig — a document management system administrator from Fort Collins, Colorado

Eric Larson — an executive producer at an events agency from Long Beach, California

E.J. Wolborsky — a freelance project manager from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $54,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
E.J. $1,200 $5,200 $13,000 $12,499
3-day champion: $66,700
$16,000
21 R, 8 W (including 1 DD)
Eric $2,400 $5,000 $5,600 $8,001
2nd place: $2,000
$8,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Becky $1,200 $1,200 $4,000 $950
3rd place: $1,000
$4,000
11 R, 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

DADS & DAUGHTERS 2-LETTER WORDS REMEMBER THE 1990s? "O" IS FOR OPERA BIG TOP JOBS MEERKAT MANNERS
$200 [5]
He's the proud dad seen here
Billy Ray Cyrus
Becky
$200 [22]
This biblical word is often found before "& behold"
lo
Eric
$200 [3]
Pentagon employee Linda Tripp secretly recorded phone calls with this friend who discussed an affair with an older man
Monica Lewinsky
E.J.
$200 [2]
A moving scene in Ambroise Thomas' opera "Hamlet" includes the funeral procession of this character
Ophelia
Becky
$200 [28]
This job title comes from akros, Greek for "highest"
acrobat
E.J.
$400 [29]
A meerkat at the San Diego zoo served as an animator's model for this character in "The Lion King"
Timon
Becky
$400 [6]
At age 8, shelearned that her biological dad was in Aerosmith
Liv Tyler
Becky
$400 [23]
The 2013 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association included a paper on "The Social Meaning of" this word
eh
Eric
$400 [4]
This magazine was launched in 1995 with a cover showing Cindy Crawford dressed as our first president
George
Becky
$600 [13]
Opera composer Christoph Gluck wrote that this instrumental segment should prepare people for the play's plot
the overture
Eric
$400 [27]
Tramp & Auguste are 2 different types of these performers
clowns
E.J. Becky
$600 [20]
A meerkat scans for predators in this posture, a term for a guard against surprise attack, and also a type of big robot "X-Men" foe
sentinel
Eric
$600 [7]
Quincy Jones is dad to this actress, who once sang backup for Maroon 5
Rashida Jones
E.J.
$600 [24]
"Clumsy" in language, castrated in fact, it's a type of draft animal
ox
Eric
$600 [16]
On July 15, 1997 this designer was killed outside his Miami Beach mansion, an event remembered in a 2018 TV event
Gianni Versace
E.J.
$800 [14]
Richard Strauss' "Elektra" has a big recognition scene between the title character & him
Orestes
E.J. Becky
$600 [1]
People, not dogs, had this loud job of calling out attractions on the midway
a barker
Eric
$800 [19]
The lives of the Whiskers family on "Meerkat Manor" were filmed in this desert that occupies most of Botswana
the Kalahari
E.J. Becky
$800 [8]
At age 7, sheappeared as an extra in the movie "Parenthood," directed by her dad
Bryce Dallas Howard
Becky
$800 [25]
As an adjective, it denotes huge self-interest, like in describing an entire decade
me
E.J.
$800 [17]
Bringing gifts & astronauts, in 1995 the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with this Russian space station
Mir
Eric
DD $1,000 [12]
Spoiler: Eurydice dies in Monteverdi's 1607 opera named for this protagonist
Orpheus
Eric
$800 [10]
Desultor is an old term for someone who does this while 2 horses are running
jump from one horse to the other
E.J. Eric
$1,000 [21]
Meerkats don't ever want to deal with a day of this wolf-like predator, which also feeds on carcasses
a jackal
Becky
$1,000 [9]
Thisactress is the daughter of a Grammy-winning musician
Zoë Kravitz
E.J.
$1,000 [26]
Dutch for "yes"
ja
E.J.
$1,000 [18]
In the late '90s, this toy from Bandai helped you attempt adulting by raising a digital pet
Tamagotchi
E.J. Becky
$1,000 [15]
Unfinished at his death, his "Tales of Hoffmann" had to be completed by somebody else
Offenbach
E.J.
$1,000 [11]
Dangerous skills include fire-eating & this, requiring the ability to relax your esophageal sphincter
sword swallowing
Eric

Double Jeopardy! Round

TRUTH OR DARE N.Y. TV TRIPLE-A RATED ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST JACKET COMMUNICATION IN & AROUND ASIA
$400 [9]
In 1850 Sojourner Truth asked this fellow abolitionist in Faneuil Hall, "Frederick, is god dead?"
Frederick Douglass
Eric Becky
$400 [14]
Did the rich prep school kid kill that guy? For 20 years, cops like Jerry Orbach said, yeah, probably, on this NBC show
Law & Order
E.J.
$400 [23]
Cosmetic for the eyelashes
mascara
Eric
$400 [1]
Someone's dead & there's a party & that's all we can say about the plot of this long James Joyce novel
Finnegan's Wake
E.J. Becky
$800 [27]
A popular 21st c. communications device was named for this fruit because of its color & the buttons resembling seeds
a BlackBerry
E.J.
$800 [28]
More than 1,700 miles from its origin, the Amur River flows into this ocean
Pacific
Eric
$800 [10]
Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World, in the Roanoke colony in what is now this state
North Carolina
E.J. Eric
$800 [15]
Heplays Detective Jake Peralta on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Andy Samberg
Eric
$800 [22]
Here's this fruit that's popular in sorbet and juice
papaya
E.J.
$800 [2]
In a Steinbeck tale Jody Tiflin kills a buzzard that's come to feast on his "Red" one of these that just died
pony
E.J.
$1,600 [25]
The Chinese Comm. Party's publicity dept. was once called this dept., a more negative word for getting the message out
propaganda
E.J.
$1,600 [6]
Built to commemorate a visit by George V, The Gateway of India overlooks the harbor in this Indian city
Mumbai
E.J.
$1,200 [11]
Sojourner Truth adopted her new name in 1843, the year Adventist founder William Miller said this would happen
the Apocalypse
Eric
$1,200 [16]
Think back... back to a simpler time, a time spent with family, watching this actor play NYC ad exec Don Draper
Jon Hamm
Eric Becky
$1,200 [19]
Working with attorneys, they may interview witnesses or draft documents
paralegal
Eric
$1,200 [3]
Susie in this Alice Sebold novel is already in heaven, but she watches her murderer covering his tracks
The Lovely Bones
E.J.
$2,000 [26]
In the early 2000s 2 software developers sold the file-sharing program Kazaa & then built this video chat product
Skype
E.J.
$2,000 [8]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) 4 big countries almost meet in the heart of Asia--China & Russia share a 31-mile border that also separates Mongolia &this country
Kazakhstan
Becky
$1,600 [12]
Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks, Sojourner helped integrate this public transportation in Washington D.C.
streetcars
E.J.
$1,600 [17]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) In Manhattan in the '70s, a stretch of 42nd Street between 7th & 8th Avenues was known as this, the title & setting of a Maggie Gyllenhaal HBO show; note the "2" in 42nd Street
The Deuce
E.J.
$1,600 [20]
John Barth has a novel called this, about a professor who takes time off from work
Sabbatical
E.J.
$1,600 [4]
Tolstoy wrote "The Death of" this alliterative man whose life had been "most simple and most ordinary"
Ivan Ilyich
E.J.
DD $3,000 [24]
In the debate between oralism & manualism, this 2-word type of communication, Thomas Gallaudet was a manualist
sign language
Eric
DD $3,000 [7]
Sights in this capital city include the lovely silver pagoda & the ghastly Tuol Sleng Museum
Phnom Penh
E.J.
$2,000 [13]
In 1587 Virginia Dare came to the New World in utero in an expedition sponsored by this man
Sir Walter Raleigh
Becky
$2,000 [18]
On Netflix & in NYC, Natasha Lyonne dies over & over again on this series
Russian Doll
E.J.
$2,000 [21]
Givenchy had a perfume called this adjective that means excessively high
extravagant
$2,000 [5]
Addie is the "I" who not only passes away but decomposes in this Faulkner novel
As I Lay Dying

Final Jeopardy!

MEDICAL NEWS 2018

For the first time, the FDA approved a drug for the treatment of this, though there hadn't been a new case in 40 years

smallpox

Becky "What is polio" — wagered $3,050
Eric "What is smallpox?" — wagered $2,401
E.J. "What is polio?" — wagered $501

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