Show #8064 2019-10-03 (taped 2019-08-07) Regular

Contestants

Kate Allison — a public defender from Spokane, Washington

Raghuvansh Ramaswamy — a quality engineer from Cambridge, Massachusetts

Kevin Boettcher — a university administrator from Binghamton, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $49,401)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $1,200 $1,600 $5,600 $10,001
3-day champion: $59,402
$10,000
15 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Raghuvansh $0 $600 $5,000 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
13 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Kate $2,000 $1,400 $4,600 $9,200
2nd place: $2,000
$4,400
9 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

FOOTWEAR HUNDRED "P"ERCENT SHIFT THE STRESS GO WEST YOUNG MAN SONG ROYALTY & NOBILITY
$200 [25]
There's no mistaking this type of footwear heard here
tap-dancing shoes
Raghuvansh
$200 [9]
100 this means 50% alcohol
proof
Kate
$200 [7]
To absorb nutrients internally & a condensed literary collection
digest
Raghuvansh
$200 [21]
...over Westminster Bridge & you'll arrive on the north bank of this river
the Thames
Kevin
$200 [26]
At 12 Mozart wrote "Bastien und Bastienne", one of these composed in German, not Italian
an opera
Kevin
$600 [1]
Gene Chandler:"___ of Earl"
Duke
Kevin
$400 [24]
In the 1960s Gucci dressed up these lazy-sounding shoes by adorning them with a metal horsebit
loafers
Kate
$400 [8]
The 100th of these begins, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands"
Psalms
Kate
DD $600 [6]
To express disapproval & something that you can see & touch
object & object
Kate
$400 [14]
...30 miles from Grand Junction, Colorado & you'll be in this state
Utah
Raghuvansh
$400 [22]
Teenaged Michelangelo sculpted the "Battle of" these horse/men hybrids
Centaurs
Raghuvansh
$600 [3]
In 2016 the Smithsonian began a Kickstarter campaign to help conserve these iconic shoes from "The Wizard of Oz"
the ruby slippers
Kevin
$600 [10]
In 2018 Bellerive Country Club hosted the 100th edition of this, one of golf's 4 major championships
the PGA Championship
Kevin Kate
$600 [5]
To say no & a social loser (there's a band of All-American ones)
Rejects & reject
Raghuvansh Kate
$600 [20]
...with your eyes from your veranda on West Maui to this island that sounds like a veranda
Lanai
$600 [13]
In 1628 28-year-old Oliver Cromwell was elected to this, which probably came to regret letting him in
Parliament
Kevin
$800 [2]
Originally worn by Plains Indians, these soft shoes get their name from a Native American language
moccasins
Kate
$800 [11]
Crow Fair, Montana's largest Native American event, is this type of big chatty gathering; the 100th was in 2018
a powwow
Kevin
$800 [4]
To assign someone to a particular task & a minor part of the whole
detail
$800 [15]
...a few miles from Feldkirch, Austria, cross the border & you'll be in this tiny principality
Liechtenstein
Raghuvansh
$800 [12]
Young Tom Edison developed trouble with this at an early age, possibly as a result of mastoiditis
his hearing
Kevin Raghuvansh
$1,000 [19]
Last name of Tony, the Italian-American cobbler who began making army boots before moving on to western boots
Tony Lama
Raghuvansh
$1,000 [16]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an equation on the monitor.) When you add up the first nine of these positive integers, you get 1002 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 = 100
prime numbers
Kevin
$1,000 [17]
To dismiss a theory as incorrect & a reduction in the price of an item
discount
Raghuvansh
$1,000 [18]
...from Nunavut into this adjacent territory
Northwest Territories
Raghuvansh Kate
$1,000 [23]
Admitted to the bar in 1800, Richard Rush was only 33 when President Madison appointed him this in 1814
Attorney General
Kevin Raghuvansh

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE WORLD IN 1819 FUN FACTS AUTHORS: BORN & DIED 2 LETTERS, SECOND IS K BASEBALL MANAGERS LOVIN' THE SPIN I'M IN
$400 [24]
The University of Virginia was founded on 1,000 acres near the Blue Ridge Mountains with this man as its first rector
Thomas Jefferson
Kevin
$400 [23]
The boys from Delta House didn't make it, but a party for 3,700 wearing these garments took place in Queensland in 2012
togas
Kevin
$400 [22]
This "little woman" was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1832 & died in Boston in 1888
(Louisa May) Alcott
Raghuvansh
$400 [18]
You can get a Whopper Jr. there
BK
Kate
$800 [25]
One of the smallest Major League players ever, Miller Huggins managed this 1927 team, perhaps the greatest of all time
the New York Yankees
$800 [7]
When you stop spinning, a fluid called endolymph in your head still spins, moving the tiny hairs here, causing dizziness
in the ears
Raghuvansh
$1,200 [8]
Sometimes called the 1st U.S. immigration law, the Steerage Act required all arriving ships to present this "list of...the passengers"
a manifest
Raghuvansh
$800 [12]
If you know how I can get a chance to play with one of these super fun dogs, I'm all ears
a corgi
Kevin
$800 [2]
Dublin born in 1882, he died in Zurich in 1941
(James) Joyce
Raghuvansh
$800 [17]
This all-American form of approval dates back to around 1840
OK
Kate
$1,200 [5]
Discovered in 1967, this type of neutron star spins rapidly
a pulsar
$1,600 [9]
In 1819 this bank employee won a Supreme Court case that pitted him against the state of Maryland
James McCulloch
$1,200 [3]
An Arizona man urged bored teens to go outside & do this & it went viral; in Spanglish, it's called #basurachallenge
to clean up trash
Kevin Raghuvansh
$1,200 [15]
"Go Tell It On The Mountain" that he was born in New York in 1924 & said adieu in France in 1987
James Baldwin
$1,200 [19]
"Today I didn't even have to use my" this, so "it was a good day" for Ice Cube
my AK
Kevin
$1,600 [6]
Spiral grooves in a gun barrel spin a bullet to stabilize its flight; the grooves & the process of cutting them are called this
rifling
DD $2,000 [10]
Shelley's poem "England in 1819" calls him "an old, mad, blind, despised and dying king"
George III
Raghuvansh
$1,600 [1]
Fact: Fun can be had in this Missouri town, "The Live Music Show Capital of the World"
Branson
Kevin
$1,600 [13]
His story began in Salem, Mass. in 1804 & ended 60 years later during a trip to New Hampshire with Franklin Pierce
Hawthorne
Kevin
$1,600 [20]
It was the former stock symbol of the company now listed as KODK
EK
Kevin
$2,000 [16]
This instrument seenheregot its name from Foucault, the pendulum guy
a gyroscope
Kevin
$2,000 [11]
Sir Stamford Raffles landed on this diamond-shaped Asian island & began buying land to set up a trading operation
Singapore
Raghuvansh
$2,000 [4]
Popping some champagne for fun? This brand named for a founder & his great-grandson-in-law sells the most
Moët & Chandon
DD $4,400 [14]
The "Winds of War" carried this author from his birth in the Bronx to his death in Palm Springs, California in 2019 at age 103
Herman Wouk
Kevin
$2,000 [21]
Canada Post says to put this provincial abbreviation on your postcard to your friend in Regina
SK
Kate

Final Jeopardy!

PHRASE ORIGINS

The OED's first citation for this phrase referring to a region of the U.S. is from a Durant, Oklahoma newspaper in 1936

Dust Bowl

Kate "What is the dust bowl?" — wagered $4,600
Raghuvansh "What is the Midwest?" — wagered $4,999
Kevin "What is the Dust Bowl?" — wagered $4,401

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