Show #8076 2019-10-21 (taped 2019-08-26) Regular

Contestants

Ryan Bradley — a TV animation marketing executive from West Hollywood, California

Mononita Nur — an aerospace engineer from Huntsville, Alabama

Daryn Firicano — a clinical representative from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 2-day cash winnings total $21,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Daryn $2,600 $4,200 $9,600 $4,799
2nd place: $2,000
$16,200
21 R, 4 W (including 2 DDs)
Mononita $-400 $200 $7,200 $199
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Ryan $1,800 $5,800 $14,200 $9,199
New champion: $9,199
$14,200
20 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

MUSICAL LEGENDS STARTS & ENDS WITH "P" QUOTABLE NOTABLES CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH? OUR HOME & NATIVE LAND
$200 [19]
Mexcan-born guitarlegendseen here
(Carlos) Santana
Ryan
$200 [13]
It's a person's style of handwriting; a doctor's is stereotypically poor
penmanship
Daryn
$200 [22]
Archimedes was referring to this simple machine when he said, "Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth"
a lever
Ryan
$200 [17]
If you're having trouble remembering these 2 national colors of Canada, think of the flag
red & white
Ryan
$200 [24]
We like the pool, but now it's time for some bubbly in our J-500 one of these that "defines the hot tub experience"
a Jacuzzi
Daryn
$200 [30]
Musician Ravi Shankar
India
Daryn
$400 [16]
On Sept. 25, 1970 she recorded "Me And Bobby McGee"; on October 4 she died
(Janis) Joplin
Ryan
$400 [12]
At the 2018 Indy 500 Scott Dixon's crew won the challenge named for this break for service
pit stop
Mononita
$400 [15]
F. Scott Fitzgerald warned that using this punctuation mark "is like laughing at your own joke"
an exclamation mark
Daryn
$400 [18]
Canada's motto is "a Mari usque ad Mare", translated as "from" this "to" this
sea
Daryn
$400 [29]
We have this directional exposure--it's great for the solar panels & Architectural Digest says it's best "for bright light all day"
southern
Ryan
$400 [28]
President to some, not so much to others Nicolás Maduro
Venezuela
Mononita
$600 [6]
Bob Hope gave this crooner his big break & his stage name in 1949 when he was performing under the name Joe Bari
(Tony) Bennett
Daryn
$600 [9]
Ogden Nash called this root vegetable "an anemic beet"
a parsnip
Daryn
$600 [23]
From this place, George Washington wrote his soldiers were unfit for duty because they were "barefoot and otherwise naked"
Valley Forge
Ryan
$600 [20]
Whether it's silver or bigleaf, Canada's national tree is this
the maple
Ryan
$600 [11]
I'm so glad we got rid of our old countertops & went withthis7-letter type of igneous rock
granite
Daryn Mononita
$600 [26]
The whiskey-wanting Greta Garbo
Sweden
Ryan
$800 [4]
This country crossover star's Top 40 hits included "Rhinestone Cowboy" & "Wichita Lineman"
Glen Campbell
$800 [8]
On a Vegas-set reality series, Rick Harrison buys, sells & appraises items of historical value in this kind of establishment
a pawn shop
Daryn
$800 [14]
This French microbiologist said, "Chance favors only the prepared mind"
Pasteur
Mononita
$800 [21]
This rodent became a national symbol in 1975
the beaver
Ryan
$800 [10]
We've got an extra sink & plenty of storage between the kitchen & dining room in the "pantry" named for this worker
a butler
Ryan
$800 [27]
Painter with a pipe dream René Magritte
Belgium
Daryn Mononita
$1,000 [1]
Thiscomposer & bandleader was one of the most popular musicians of the swing era
Duke Ellington
Daryn Mononita
$1,000 [2]
The main building block of coral is this tiny organism
a polyp
Daryn
DD $1,600 [7]
In the 1940s this British novelist said "The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world"
George Orwell
Daryn
$1,000 [5]
The national anthem "O Canada" was first sung in 1880 here, Canada's only walled city
Quebec City
Ryan
$1,000 [3]
This French phrase meaning "following" is used to describe a bathroom that connects to a bedroom
en suite
Daryn
$1,000 [25]
Nobel Peace Prize winner F.W. de Klerk
South Africa
Mononita

Double Jeopardy! Round

BAN THAT BOOK! ACCENTS GAME OF CLONES AMERICAN HISTORY THE GENDER-FREE OPTION "T" BIRDS
$400 [1]
A book about George, who takes the new name Melissa, earned some bans but also one of these Greek-letter awards AKA the Lammys
the Lambda Award
Mononita
$400 [6]
A 2019 survey ranked this island nation as having the sexiest accent; nearby Australia ranked fifth
New Zealand
Ryan
$400 [28]
Using cloned DNA worked out just super-duper in this 1993 film... well, for its producers, not its characters
Jurassic Park
Daryn
$400 [23]
"Insure domestic tranquility" & "secure the blessings of liberty" are lines from this historic document
the Constitution
Daryn Ryan
$400 [14]
One suggestion for this chess piece: deputy sovereign
queen
Daryn
$400 [30]
It's the tropical bird seen here
a toucan
Ryan
$800 [2]
This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mononita
$800 [7]
In Latin America, this word of thanks is pronounced with a soft "C"; in most of Spain, the "C" is said as a "th"
gracias
Daryn
$800 [27]
This man returned to the "Star Wars" universe in animated form, voicing Mace Windu in "The Clone Wars"
Samuel L. Jackson
Mononita
$800 [15]
In the 1760s these 2 surveyors marked the boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania
Mason and Dixon
Daryn Ryan
$800 [16]
We could call this "parental" computer component a primary circuit board
a motherboard
Ryan
$800 [29]
In 1784 Ben Franklin panned the bald eagle as a U.S. national symbol, preferring this bird instead
the turkey
Ryan
DD $1,400 [3]
Forget the love story--Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago" was banned in the USSR until 1987 because of its portrayal of this commie faction
the Bolsheviks
Mononita
$1,200 [13]
Ewan McGregor called the Midwest accent he used for this TV show based on a movie the hardest one he'd ever done
Fargo
Ryan
$1,200 [26]
Sarah, Helena & Cosima were but some of the "Clone Club" played by this actress on "Orphan Black"
Tatiana Maslany
Mononita
$1,600 [8]
In 1868 the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 to impeach this man
(Andrew) Johnson
Daryn
$1,200 [17]
You can use this 6-letter term rather than Latina or Latino
Latinx
Ryan
$1,200 [22]
This small duck shares its name with a bluish-green color
a teal duck
Mononita
$1,600 [4]
Due to its alleged obscenity, in 1957 U.S. Customs seized 520 copies of this Allen Ginsberg poem printed in England
"Howl"
Ryan
$1,600 [12]
Scouse, the accent for this port city on England's West Coast, comes from lobscouse, a sailor's dish
Liverpool
Mononita
$1,600 [25]
This author was able to revive the character Duncan Idaho when he introduced clones called ghola in "Dune Messiah"
(Frank) Herbert
Daryn
$2,000 [10]
In 1863, George McClellan's military career was over, but this General George was on hand to defeat Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg
Meade
Daryn
$1,600 [18]
How about "synthetic" or "artificial" instead of this hyphenated adjective
man-made
Mononita
$1,600 [21]
This swan is named for its low-pitched call
a trumpeter swan
Ryan
$2,000 [5]
The 1722 novel "Moll Flanders" by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness
Daniel Defoe
Mononita
$2,000 [11]
It's another word for an Irish accent
a brogue
Daryn
$2,000 [24]
Later featured in "Game of Thrones", this veteran British actor starred as a cloned mad scientist in a 2008 BBC sitcom
Jonathan Pryce
DD $5,000 [9]
Woeful economic conditions helped reduce immigration from 4.2 million the decade before to less than 700,000 in this decade
the 1930s
Daryn
$2,000 [19]
To describe those who came before us, these "bears" are less patriarchal than these "fathers"
forebears
Daryn
$2,000 [20]
Scarlet is one species of this songbird
the scarlet tanager

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. CITIES

Named for the ore once mined there, this city at an altitude of 10,152 feet is home to the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum

Leadville

Mononita "What is Red Rocks?" — wagered $7,001
Daryn "What is Golden, CO" — wagered $4,801
Ryan "What is Golden?" — wagered $5,001

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