Show #8081 2019-10-28 (taped 2019-08-27) Regular

Steve Moulds game 1.

Contestants

Steve Moulds — a playwright from Louisville, Kentucky

Diana Smith — a scheduler/planner from Memphis, Tennessee

Kris Prue — a customer service representative from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $37,600)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kris $1,600 $4,800 $7,200 $13,400
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
14 R, 4 W
Diana $2,000 $5,000 $10,600 $14,000
2nd place: $2,000
$11,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Steve! $1,600 $4,400 $17,400 $21,201
New champion: $21,201
$15,600
21 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE 2019TIME100 DELIVER THE LETTER POP & ROCK MUSIC "C"IENCE HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!
$200 [11]
"When our country needed someone to untangle Russian election interference, he served again"
Mueller
Steve!
$200 [21]
A 2.0 GPA
a C
Steve!
$200 [6]
This "Hotel California" band first came together to back Linda Ronstadt at a concert at Disneyland
the Eagles
Steve!
$200 [1]
Both the cerebrum & this, with a name meaning "little brain", are composed of 2 hemispheres
the cerebellum
Kris
$200 [15]
A Celtic tradition of using hollowed-out turnips with candles inside led to these distinctive & larger Halloween gourds
jack-o-lanterns
Kris Steve!
$200 [26]
This candy "melts in your mouth, not in your hand"
M&M's
Diana
$400 [12]
This actress "is primed to be one of Marvel's next big leaders at a time when women are breaking ceilings in all spaces"
Brie Larson
Steve!
$400 [22]
Have a grand time with this Roman numeral for 1,000
M
Steve!
$400 [7]
Oddly, female rapper Megan Pete calls herself "Megan Thee" this word for a male horse
Stallion
Kris
$400 [2]
This term is also used to describe the tiniest lymph & bile vessels
capillaries
Kris
$400 [17]
It's said these 2 colors trace back to the festival of Samhain, one representing death & the other the autumn harvest
orange & black
Kris
$400 [27]
"Nobody better lay a finger on" this crispety, crunchety candy bar I've been saving
Butterfinger
Diana
$600 [13]
Mitch McConnell wrote of the "impartial jurisprudence" of this successor to Anthony Kennedy
Kavanaugh
Steve!
$600 [23]
Friends of the King of Rock 'n' Roll sometimes called him by this single letter
E
Steve!
$600 [8]
In 2019 this 5-letter rap & R&B artist had the "Juice" to be nominated for Best New Artist at the VMAs
Lizzo
Diana
$600 [3]
Theseclouds, whose names begin with "C-U", were identified in 1802 & are associated with nice weather
cumulus
Diana
$600 [18]
The first time the White House was decorated for Halloween was in 1958, when she, Ike's better half, hung owls & goblins
Mamie Eisenhower
Diana
$600 [28]
These "Everlasting" jawbreakers sold under the Wonka label change colors & flavors as you eat them
Gobstoppers
Steve!
$800 [14]
Robert Downey Jr. called this Egyptian-American actor a "testament to hardworking immigrants raising their kids right"
Rami Malek
Diana
$800 [24]
The setting of an adjustable lens aperture is a this-stop
f-stop
Kris
$800 [9]
In 2019 Madonna performed at but did not compete in this international song competition
Eurovision
Kris
$800 [4]
This connective tissue is largely made from collagen
cartilage
DD $1,000 [19]
This no-hands Halloween game may be related to the Roman celebration of the goddess Pomona
bobbing for apples
Diana
$800 [29]
"At work, rest or play, you get three great tastes in" this galactic goody
Milky Way
Diana
$1,000 [16]
The chimpanzee research she began at age 26 in Tanzania "ended up changing behavioral science forever"
Jane Goodall
Kris
$1,000 [25]
It comes before "-value" to indicate the strength of evidence in some experiments, or before "-hacking" if data are manipulated
P
Steve!
$1,000 [10]
This Jackson Browne album about life on the road was recorded onstage, backstage, in hotel rooms & on a tour bus
Running On Empty
$1,000 [5]
Larger than a pebble, this rock type used in roads tops out at 256 mm in particle size
cobble
$1,000 [20]
This 20th century performer's museum in Scranton, Penn. features an online seance every Halloween
Houdini
Steve!
$1,000 [30]
"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't"; better get one of each of these just to be sure
Mounds & Almond Joy
Kris Steve!

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORY ON FILM GREEK ISLES THE 20th CENTURY PEN NAMES EXERCISE CROSSWORD CLUES "Y"
$400 [10]
Watergate security guard Frank Wills played himself at the beginning of this 1976 film
All the President's Men
Steve!
$400 [20]
Today mostly an archaeological site, Delos is the legendary birthplace of this Greek god of the sun & music
Apollo
Kris
$400 [5]
This president submitted his draft of the covenant for the League of Nations on February 14, 1919
Wilson
Steve!
$400 [18]
In England the gravestone for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson mentions this pen name in parentheses
Lewis Carroll
$400 [16]
Many consider cast iron to be the original type of this gym weight that has an attached handle; now "ring" in!
a kettlebell
Kris Diana
$400 [15]
Seinfeldian term for "etc."(4-4-4)
yada-yada-yada
Kris
$800 [4]
In "American Made" it's the 1980s & Tom Cruise is flying guns to these Nicaraguans battling the Sandinistas
the Contras
Kris
$800 [21]
Astatuein a museum on island of Cos depicts this native son & "father of medicine"
Hippocrates
Steve!
$800 [9]
After Bobby Thomson's 1951 "Shot Heard 'Round the World", this team won the pennant! This team won the pennant!
the Giants
Steve!
DD $1,200 [19]
A perfect spy could tell you it's the pen name of the British novelist born David John Moore Cornwell
John le Carré
Diana
$800 [17]
Contrology is the former name of this exercise discipline created by & named for German gymnast Joseph
Pilates
Diana
$800 [14]
Avian slang for a convict(8)
a yardbird
Kris
$1,200 [3]
(Woody Harrelson delivers the clue.) In a new historicalfilmI play Admiral Nimitz, who made the decision to defend this island, also the title of the movie, leading to a U.S. victory that turned the tide of the war in the Pacific
Midway
Steve!
$1,600 [23]
Skorpios was once owned by this Greek shipping magnate & it's where he & Jackie married in 1968
Onassis
Steve!
$1,200 [8]
Made when she was 23, Meret Oppenheim's 1936 furry teacup is a landmark of this art movement
Surrealism
Kris Diana
$1,200 [25]
Erika Leonard wrote "Twilight" fan fiction under the name Snowqueens Icedragon & the "Fifty Shades" books under this name
(E.L.) James
Steve!
$1,200 [28]
This Chinese martial art has been called "meditation in motion"; balance is important in its series of fluid movements
tai chi
Diana
$1,200 [13]
Adjective for workmanlike service(6)
yeoman
Diana
$1,600 [2]
Among this 1995 Oscar-winning film's less historically accurate moments--the Battle of Stirling Bridge is fought in a field
Braveheart
Kris
$2,000 [24]
The famous "Winged Victory" statue of this island was discovered in 1863
Samothrace
Kris Diana
$1,600 [7]
Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, carried a fly whisk, a symbol of wealth, indicating you kept your horses safe from these flies
tsetse flies
Diana
$1,600 [26]
She's from Antigua, but longtime New Yorker writer Elaine Potter Richardson uses the pen name this island Kincaid
Jamaica
Steve!
$1,600 [29]
At a CrossFit gym, AMRAP stands for this, & the higher the number, the better
as many reps as possible
$1,600 [12]
A real busybody(5)
a yenta
Diana
$2,000 [1]
Luc Besson's "The Messenger" set during the Hundred Years' War, is subtitled, "The Story of" her
Joan of Arc
Steve!
DD $3,000 [22]
For 200 years the Knights Hospitaler ruled this island that was formerly occupied by an over 100-foot-tall colossal statue
Rhodes
Steve!
$2,000 [6]
He became king of Spain in 1975 & helped the country transition to democracy after Franco's dictatorship
Juan Carlos
Kris
$2,000 [27]
Since 1930, titles credited to this Nancy Drew author have included "The Bungalow Mystery" & more recently "Crime at the Chat Cafe"
Carolyn Keene
Diana
$2,000 [30]
This alphanumeric fitness regimen uses "the advanced science of muscle confusion"
P90X
$2,000 [11]
Mighty ash tree at the center of Norse creation myths(9)
Yggdrasil
Diana

Final Jeopardy!

19th CENTURY AMERICA

Before its official opening on May 24, 1883 Emily Roebling became the first person to cross it in a carriage

the Brooklyn Bridge

Kris "What is the Brooklyn Bridge" — wagered $6,200
Diana "What is the Brooklyn Bridge?" — wagered $3,400
Steve! "What is the Brooklyn Bridge?" — wagered $3,801

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