Show #8069 2019-10-10 (taped 2019-08-13) Regular

Contestants

Geoff Duncan — a freelance programmer and musician from Seattle, Washington

Cara Moretto — an actor from New York, New York

Jessica Garsed — a librarian from Augusta, Maine (whose 3-day cash winnings total $52,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jessica $1,200 $4,000 $7,600 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
15 R, 3 W
Cara $800 $2,400 $5,500 $200
2nd place: $2,000
$8,000
15 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Geoff $4,800 $8,000 $24,800 $33,399
New champion: $33,399
$16,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A JOB IN TV DOUBLE "Z" WORDS 20th CENTURY NOVELS BOLD STRATEGY COTTON LET'S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR 'EM
$200 [1]
In 2019 Conan O'Brien cut a half hour from his TBS show but kept this sidekick
(Andy) Richter
Cara
$200 [6]
To silence something, like a dog
muzzle
$200 [16]
A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Cara
$200 [30]
Starving in this type of standoff, a Portuguese town threw the last of its bread over the walls & asked the foe, "Need more?"
siege
Geoff
$200 [29]
Here's Gandhi sitting at one of his favorite tools, the charka, one of these
a spinning wheel
Jessica
$200 [21]
In 1892 baking powder salesman William Wrigley began throwing in 2 packages of this with each can, which worked out okay
chewing gum
Cara
$400 [2]
For years, Petri Hawkins Byrd, working in this job, has handed documents to Judge Judy
bailiff
Geoff
$400 [7]
It can be a low story or balcony between 2 other floors in a building or theater
mezzanine
Jessica
$400 [17]
"A House Divided" completed Pearl Buck's trilogy that began 4 years earlier with this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
The Good Earth
Cara
$400 [11]
To try to stop the American offensive in the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, the Japanese used this "divine wind" tactic
kamikaze
Jessica
$400 [28]
In 1794 he was granted a patent for his cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Geoff
$400 [22]
In 1927, 4 years after starting a movie company with his brother, he decided to go all-cartoon
Walt Disney
Jessica
$600 [3]
The mother of this "Black-ish" actor is scorekeeper when he hosts "To Tell the Truth"
Anthony Anderson
Geoff
$600 [8]
To drink quickly & with great enthusiasm
guzzle
Jessica
$600 [18]
A line from this novel: "Name's Joad, Tom Joad"
The Grapes of Wrath
Jessica
$600 [12]
A feigned this move--ooh, you're too strong! We're afraid! Let's run!--helped William the Conqueror to victory at Hastings
a retreat
Geoff
$600 [15]
This title creature from a 1922 tale with cotton fabric in his name also has thread whiskers & ears lined with pink sateen
The Velveteen Rabbit
Cara
$600 [23]
In 1996, one year after its founding, Auction Web moved more than $7 million in merchandise & in 1997 got this new name
eBay
Geoff
$800 [4]
With this French-named front of the house job, Marino Monferrato keeps diners happy at "Hell's Kitchen"
maître d'
Jessica
$800 [9]
You've got 2 sets of double Z's in this 7-letter word! The exciting quality of an energetic personality
pizzazz
Geoff
$800 [19]
This novel by Garcia Marquez tells of the Buendia family in the mythic town of Macondo from the 1820s to the 1920s
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cara
$1,000 [14]
Gen. von Manstein convinced Hitler to attack France in 1940 through this wooded area also in Belgium & Luxembourg--it worked
the Ardennes
Jessica Cara
$800 [26]
Weevils know that cotton comes from little pods called these
bolls
Jessica
$800 [24]
Created to show girls they could be anything they wanted to be, this toy debuted--to some skepticism--at a 1959 toy fair
the Barbie doll
Jessica
$1,000 [5]
Guillermo Rodriguezis much more than just a security guard on this late-night talk show
Jimmy Kimmel
Cara
$1,000 [10]
It's stone flooring of marble or granite set in concrete & polished to a smooth surface
terrazzo
$1,000 [20]
Nadsat, the fictional language in this book, is from the Russian suffix that means "teen"
A Clockwork Orange
Jessica Geoff
DD $2,400 [13]
An "and" is in the middle of this strategy used by the Romans to foster feuds among smaller entities they were trying to rule
divide and conquer
Geoff
$1,000 [27]
Edison's patent for his first light bulb mentions testing carbonized cotton threads as a possibility for this component
a filament
Geoff
$1,000 [25]
Last names of William & Arthur, who partnered in 1903, 2 years after William drew a blue-print of an engine on a bicycle
Harley and Davidson
Jessica

Double Jeopardy! Round

THEY SAID NO! 4-LETTER PLACES TECH TALK OLD PHRASES THE "NIGHT" WATCH BOOKS GOING BACK IN TIME
$400 [1]
Director Danny Boyle was offered a knighthood for his work on the London Olympics held in this year, but said no
2012
Cara
$400 [26]
This Italian island honors Napoleon with an annual mass on May 5, the anniversary of his death
Elba
Cara Geoff
$400 [25]
In engineering the Rockwell test, measuring this, involves pressing a steel ball or diamond point into a surface
hardness
Cara
$400 [6]
This Scottish phrase meaning "old long since" is used of times remembered with fondness
auld lang syne
Geoff
$400 [11]
Billy Bob Thornton played coach Gary Gaines in this film; the TV show of the same name had Kyle Chandler as coach Eric Taylor
Friday Night Lights
Cara
$400 [16]
Garry Wills' 1992 "Lincoln at" this place examines an event sixscore & nine years previous
Gettysburg
Cara
$800 [2]
American James Watson took an honorary knighthood, but this British partner turned the real thing down
Francis Crick
Jessica
$1,200 [28]
Founded in the 11th century, this capital lies at the head of a fjord
Oslo
Cara
$800 [24]
Air traffic controllers know airmets are in-flight advisories about changes in this
weather
Cara Geoff
$800 [7]
The "Aeneid" is the source of the phrase "Beware of" these "bearing gifts"
Greeks
Geoff
$800 [12]
A group of dropouts are trying to get their G.E.D.s in this film starring Tiffany Haddish & Kevin Hart
Night School
Cara
$800 [17]
The New Orleans Advocate reported a "flood of books" for this event's 10th anniversary, including "Cooking Up a Storm"
Hurricane Katrina
Jessica
$1,200 [3]
There would be no Sir Ziggy Stardust after this rocker turned down knighthood, saying, "I seriously don't know what it's for"
David Bowie
Jessica
$1,600 [29]
Niger is to the west & Sudan to the east of this African country
Chad
Geoff
$1,200 [23]
Aerospace experts are familiar with nanometers, these tiny fractions of a meter
billionths of a meter
Geoff
$1,200 [8]
Mercutio says "a plague o' both your houses", but often people say this other "P" word instead of "plague"
pox
Jessica
$1,600 [14]
Bounty hunter Robert de Niro is escorting bail-jumping accountant Charles Grodin to L.A. in this 1988 comedy
Midnight Run
$1,200 [18]
It's the title town where 2 former Texas Rangers live in the 1870s in a classic novel by Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove
Cara
$1,600 [4]
This 2013 Nobelist with a boson named for him didn't want to be a knight, saying the whole system is too political
(Peter) Higgs
Geoff
DD $8,000 [27]
This capital of Hyogo Prefecture on Honshu is all the rage in beef
Kobe
Geoff
$1,600 [22]
The "data" type of this activity is looking for patterns; it's also what people do to get bitcoins
mining
Geoff
$1,600 [9]
Modification made tunics practical for work; one tweak allowed mobility & gave us this phrase meaning "to prepare for action"
to gird your loins
Geoff
$2,000 [15]
This Clark Gable-Claudette Colbert screwball comedy was the great sleeper film of 1934
It Happened One Night
Cara
$1,600 [19]
"I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear", begins 2000's "Fever 1793", about an epidemic of this disease
yellow fever
Jessica
$2,000 [5]
In 1918 this man refused a knighthood, saying King George V had betrayed the Arabs by not granting independence
Lawrence (of Arabia)
Geoff
$2,000 [21]
Your auto mechanic knows the PCV filter provides positive ventilation of this engine housing
the crankcase
Jessica Geoff
$2,000 [10]
This biblical prophet "come to judgment" is someone who has given some sage advice
Daniel
DD $2,500 [13]
1967 film in which Sidney Poitier clarifies, "They call me Mr. Tibbs!"
In the Heat of the Night
Cara
$2,000 [20]
His 1815 novel "Guy Mannering" begins in the year "17--" with Guy visiting some ruins in Dumfries
Walter Scott
Geoff

Final Jeopardy!

ENGLISH HISTORY

In 1600 a royal charter authorized it to set forth to "parts of Asia and Africa" in search of "trade and traffic"

British East India Company

Cara "What is East India" — wagered $5,300
Jessica "What is the Virginia Company?" — wagered $7,599
Geoff "What is the British East India Company" — wagered $8,599

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