Show #8063 2019-10-02 (taped 2019-08-07) Regular

Contestants

Bill Sikov — a medical oncologist from Providence, Rhode Island

Julie Triba — a quality assurance analyst from Washington, D.C.

Kevin Boettcher — a university administrator from Binghamton, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $23,000)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $2,800 $3,600 $15,200 $26,401
2-day champion: $49,401
$12,400
23 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Julie $0 $1,800 $10,800 $4,800
3rd place: $1,000
$10,200
10 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Bill $7,200 $5,600 $13,200 $21,610
2nd place: $2,000
$11,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

TV OR NOT TV UNTRUE DETECTIVE THE WORKING DEAD RANGER THINGS THIS IS "SU" THE NOT-SO-GOOD DOCTOR
$200 [28]
Steve Carell began hanging around this TV title place in 2005, then transferred to "Anchorman 2"
The Office
Kevin
$200 [30]
This Agatha Christie detective has a secretary named Miss Lemon who is so efficient she is "nearly the perfect machine"
Hercule Poirot
Kevin Bill
$200 [29]
What he called "waist overalls" have stood the test of time (as blue jeans) since he came up with them in the 1870s
Levi Strauss
Kevin Bill
$200 [27]
In 1933 the Ranger was the U.S. Navy's first purpose-built one of these, but had trouble launching planes in rough seas
an aircraft carrier
Kevin
$200 [16]
The next score wins in this 2-word overtime
sudden death
Julie
$200 [7]
Surgeon/gambler William Palmer was hanged in 1856; he poisoned his wife & brother for the payout from these
life insurance
Kevin
$400 [21]
On a break from her TV "Friends", she was full of Grace in "Bruce Almighty" in 2003
Jennifer Aniston
Kevin
$400 [10]
In a series starting with "The Beekeeper's Apprentice", young Mary Russell teams up with this British sleuth
Sherlock Holmes
Kevin
$400 [11]
Its founder William died in 1857, about 40 years before it sold the first toothpaste in a tube & 70 before merging with Palmolive
Colgate
Kevin
$400 [26]
Seen here is the first photo of this body by a U.S. spacecraft, snapped by Ranger 7 just before impact in 1964
the Moon
Bill
$400 [17]
To break up a plot of land into several building lots
subdivide
Kevin
$400 [3]
Serbian psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic was indicted for war crimes in the aftermath of the breakup of this country
Yugoslavia
Bill
$600 [9]
He played college football stars L'Carpetron Dookmarriot & Bismo Funyuns on TV & won an Oscar for writing "Get Out"
(Jordan) Peele
Bill
$600 [8]
Introduced in 1930, this junior detective heroine has more than 200 volumes that detail her adventures
Nancy Drew
Kevin
$600 [20]
In 1882 Frederick Pabst started tying these around the necks of his beer bottles
blue ribbons
Julie
$600 [12]
The New York Rangers play home games in this arena
Madison Square Garden
Kevin
$600 [25]
The apex, or a big political meeting
summit
Kevin
$600 [4]
In 1910 Walter Dew of this London police force caught wife-killer Dr. Hawley Crippen in Canada after a transatlantic chase
Scotland Yard
Kevin
$800 [1]
A year after playing Julia in TV's "Top of the Lake", she became an onscreen aquamom
Nicole Kidman
$1,000 [22]
She's the heroine of Sue Grafton's beloved alphabet series
Kinsey Millhone
Julie
$800 [18]
Last name of E.I., who founded his company in Delaware in 1802
du Pont
Kevin
$800 [13]
In 2018 at age 97 Betty Reid Soskin was the oldest NPS ranger, serving at a park named for this heroic female symbol of World War II
Rosie the Riveter
Kevin
$800 [24]
5-letter word meaning smoothly polite
suave
Kevin
$800 [5]
Nicknamed the "Angel of Death", this Nazi doctor fled to South America after World War II
Mengele
Bill
$1,000 [2]
In 2001 he tried to save the world as Will on "Alias" & later became a guardian of the galaxy (albeit in raccoon form)
Bradley Cooper
Bill
DD $2,400 [15]
Robert B. Parker wrote "Perchance to Dream" as a sequel to this novel featuring Philip Marlowe
The Big Sleep
Bill
$1,000 [19]
The name of this man who passed in 1947 can be found on the Kentucky bourbon formerly known as Old Tub
Jim Beam
Kevin Bill
$1,000 [14]
This atom spy was listening to the "Lone Ranger" radio show when nabbed by the FBI in 1950; they picked up his wife later
(Julius) Rosenberg
Bill
$1,000 [23]
As anadjectiveit refers to a pouting child; as a noun it's the one-person wagon seen here
sulky
Bill
$1,000 [6]
The 1788 Doctors' Riot in New York occurred when physicians were suspected of this crime due to their dissection needs
grave-robbing
Bill

Double Jeopardy! Round

NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL GOVERNMENT & POLITICS PART-TIME WRITERS THE NEAREST OTHER NATIONAL CAPITAL THE 17th CENTURY A NAME LIES WITHIN THE WORD
$400 [17]
Written at a time when the cathedral was in disrepair, his "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" inspired Paris to save it from ruin
Victor Hugo
Kevin
$400 [22]
In April 1973 H.R. Haldeman & John Dean were among 4 top presidential aides forced out over this scandal
Watergate
Kevin
$400 [11]
This action star co-wrote the "Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding" with Bill Dobbins
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Kevin
$400 [24]
To Ottawa, Canada
Washington, D.C.
Bill
$400 [3]
Taking over for Elizabeth I after her death, he told parliament he was "an old and experienced king"
James I
Kevin
$400 [23]
To seize a plane by force, perhaps while greeting Mr. Nicholson
hijack
Kevin
$800 [20]
Thanks to quick thinking during the devastating 2019 fire, this most sacred relic, said to be worn by Jesus, was saved
the Crown of Thorns
Bill
$1,200 [12]
In 2019 this Iowa senator succeeded Orrin Hatch as president pro tempore
(Chuck) Grassley
Kevin
$800 [7]
While running "Top Chef", this Indian-born woman wrote "The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs"
Padma Lakshmi
Julie
$800 [16]
To Canberra, Australia
Wellington, New Zealand
Julie
$800 [2]
In 1633 he was charged with heresy for believing "the sun is the center of the world"
Galileo
Julie
$800 [19]
Singing that's done sans band or any instruments
a cappella
Bill
$1,200 [21]
During the Reformation, these French Protestants raided the cathedral & destroyed statues that they considered sacrilegious
the Huguenots
Kevin
$1,600 [26]
In 1965, Harry Truman looked on as President Johnson signed this program into law
Medicare
Bill
$1,200 [8]
Beatrix Potter's estate asked this actress & "Sense & Sensibility" screenwriter to pen new Peter Rabbit stories
Emma Thompson
Julie
$1,600 [4]
To Rabat, Morocco
Lisbon, Portugal
$1,600 [15]
Add 3 letters to the title held by Tokugawa Ieyasu to get this type of regime he began in 1603 that would last for over 2 centuries
a shogunate
Bill
$1,200 [13]
This 8-letter money-holder is thin, flat & bendable
a billfold
Kevin Bill
$2,000 [25]
From a Native American word, it was the term for Republicans who supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in the 1884 election
the Mugwumps
$1,600 [9]
Long after she was Winnie Cooper on this show, Danica McKellar wrote the book "Girls Get Curves" about geometry
The Wonder Years
Julie
$2,000 [6]
To Tokyo, Japan
Seoul, Korea
Bill
DD $1,800 [1]
Around 1612 in Virginia, John Rolfe began growing this "brown gold"; soon the colony started shipping it to England
tobacco
Julie
$1,600 [14]
A longshoreman or a dockworker could tell you this word for the job of one who loads a ship
a stevedore
Bill
$2,000 [10]
James Lipton wrote "An Exaltation of Larks", about animal group names, before he hosted this Bravo acting show
Inside the Actors Studio
Julie
DD $4,000 [5]
To Paris, France
Brussels (Belgium)
Kevin
$2,000 [18]
Opaque & grayish, this substance from whale guts has long been used in perfumery
ambergris
Kevin

Final Jeopardy!

ANIMAL AKAs

It's also called the czar fish

sturgeon

Julie "What is the" — wagered $6,000
Bill "What is a sturgeon?" — wagered $8,410
Kevin "What is the sturgeon?" — wagered $11,201

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