Show #8082 2019-10-29 (taped 2019-08-27) Regular

Steve Moulds game 2.

Contestants

Anthony Giordano — a plumber from Walpole, Massachusetts

Kari Bale — a stay-at-home mom from San Jose, California

Steve Moulds — a playwright from Louisville, Kentucky (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,201)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve! $3,000 $3,400 $22,000 $32,801
2-day champion: $54,002
$17,000
21 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Kari $2,000 $3,600 $6,000 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$6,000
9 R, 1 W
Anthony $2,600 $9,200 $16,400 $32,799
2nd place: $2,000
$14,200
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ASTAR-SPANGLED BANNERLYRICAL QUIZ GARGOYLES BOOK NUMBERS TONS OF FUN COASTLINES IDIOMS DELIGHT
$200 [13]
They provide a "red glare" to the battle scene
rockets
Anthony
$200 [21]
On rooftops grotesque statues aren't gargoyles unless they serve as one of these for rain
a downspout (waterspout)
Anthony
$200 [6]
By Bret Easton Ellis:"Less Than ___"
Zero
Steve!
$200 [26]
It's estimated that some of these, literally "terrible lizards", stood about 50 feet tall & weighed as much as 85 tons
dinosaurs
Anthony
$200 [11]
This South American country has about 4,600 miles of Atlantic coastline
Brazil
Steve! Kari
$200 [1]
If you're a little crazy or foolish, you're "off your" this piece of furniture
rocker
Steve!
$400 [17]
Verse 4 says, "Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto--'In God is our'" this
trust
Steve!
$400 [22]
The singing gargoyles in this 1996 Disney cartoon are named Victor, Hugo & Laverne
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Kari
$400 [7]
"The ___ Habits of Highly Effective People"
7
Steve!
$400 [27]
Mostly copper & weighing just over a ton, it was cast for the Pennsylvania Statehouse in the 1750s
the Liberty Bell
Anthony
$400 [12]
Cities along this U.S. state's ocean coast include Astoria & Brookings
Oregon
Steve! Kari
$400 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On the interstate, it's 475 miles from Phoenix to Albuquerque, but it's only 330 miles via this bird idiom
as the crow flies
Steve!
$600 [18]
The "towering steep" in verse 2 is this edifice that was under attack by the British
Fort McHenry
Kari
$600 [23]
Some of the earliest known gargoyles are these animals on the Temple of Zeus; maybe they're the Nemean type
lions
Kari
$600 [8]
An international bestseller:"The ___-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared"
100
Steve!
$600 [28]
Buoys may be anchored in place with these that weigh 9 tons, a bit heavier than the same-named weight on a fishing line
a sinker
$600 [14]
This nation's 2,100-mile coastline extends from the Gulf of Thailand to the Gulf of Tonkin
Vietnam
Anthony
$600 [3]
To view something with skepticism is to "take it with" this bit of sodium chloride
a grain of salt
Steve!
$800 [19]
In a kids' book this phrase leads Ramona Quimby to think a lamp is called a dawnzer
dawn's early light
Anthony
$800 [24]
Paisley Abbey in Scotland added a new gargoyle likely inspired by this 1979 horror film
Alien
$800 [9]
From "The Charge of the Light Brigade":"All in the valley of Death rode the ___"
600
Anthony
$1,000 [30]
She's a hefty 70,327 tons, 963 feet long & is now a floating hotel in Dubai
the QE2
$800 [15]
This nation takes its name from the Latin Mare Erythraeum, meaning "Red Sea", the body of water the nation borders
Eritrea
Steve!
$800 [4]
It's one of these elaborate presentations
a dog and pony show
Kari
$1,000 [20]
This phrase about liberty in all 4 verses provides the title of a song by The Killers where it has a more ironic meaning
the land of the free
$1,000 [25]
The gargoyles on this Manhattan building named for an auto executive are less earthbound--they're eagles
the Chrysler Building
Anthony
$1,000 [10]
A Temperance Brennan novel:"___ Bones" (referring to the number of bones in the body)
206
Anthony
DD $3,000 [29]
3,500 years old & weighing 220 tons, one of NYC's oldest artifacts is the Central Park Obelisk known as her Needle
Cleopatra
Anthony
$1,000 [16]
It's the only Central American country without a coastline on the Pacific Ocean
Belize
Anthony
$1,000 [5]
To cause trouble or a ruckus is to "raise" this biblical person
Cain
Kari

Double Jeopardy! Round

ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY TV TAKE "TEN" GRANT WOOD AMERICAN GOTHIC
$400 [6]
Indium is named for this deep blue color
indigo
Anthony
$400 [2]
This former "Daily Show" correspondent hosts his own news satire, "Last Week Tonight"
John Oliver
Kari
$400 [15]
An apartment dweller
a tenant
Anthony
$400 [16]
Ulysses S. Grant said the story that this general had offered his sword & Grant had returned it was "the purest romance"
Lee
Anthony
$400 [30]
1.5 by 3.5 inches is the usual size of this piece of lumber; its name comes from its unprocessed dimensions
a 2x4
Steve!
$400 [22]
Gothic is common for churches &, though much less common, was used for these, like the neo-Gothic Mickve Israel in Savannah
a temple (synagogue)
Steve!
$800 [7]
Palladium honors one of these space objects that's named for Pallas Athena
an asteroid
$800 [3]
Omar Little on this Baltimore-set series was a big fan of Honey Nut Cheerios
The Wire
Kari
$800 [14]
In the U.S., it's the most popular form of bowling
ten pin
Steve!
$800 [17]
When fellow West Point cadets saw the name U.S. Grant, they mockingly called him this, after a national symbol
Uncle Sam
Anthony
$800 [29]
Despite the name, this decaying wood caused by fungal growth usually happens in moist, unventilated areas
dry rot
Anthony
$800 [23]
In 1798's "Wieland", the 1st Amer. Gothic novel, a character seems to die from this: "In a moment, the whole was reduced to ashes"
spontaneous combustion
Steve!
$1,200 [8]
Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius named this element for a thunder god
thorium
Steve!
$1,200 [4]
On a '90s nighttime soap, Heather Locklear was a resident of the apartment complex at 4616 this title street
Melrose Place
Kari
$1,200 [13]
It's an adjective meaning pertaining to the most popular British poet of the Victorian era
Tennysonian
Steve!
$1,200 [18]
As a young man, Grant's dad lived with this militant abolitionist & thought he was a man of high morals but a fanatic
John Brown
Anthony
$1,200 [28]
For easy woodcutting, strike up this 4-letter power saw that uses a continuously looping blade
a band saw
Anthony
$1,200 [24]
Beforehebecame an Oscar-winning film composer, he brought a Gothic feel to '90s hard rock
Trent Reznor
$1,600 [9]
This noble gas is named for an element discovered by the Curies
radon
Anthony
$1,600 [5]
Seen here, he plays Abe Weissman, father of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Tony Shalhoub
Steve!
$1,600 [12]
In a state of anxiety? You're "on" these 11-letter items
tenterhooks
Steve!
$1,600 [19]
As president, Grant tried to annex this Caribbean "Republic", but the Senate rejected his treaty
the Dominican
Steve! Anthony
$1,600 [27]
A froe is a woodworking tool; coopers used curved froes to cut these pieces to form the sides of barrels
staves
Anthony
$1,600 [25]
The style Collegiate Gothic began with Pembroke Hall & other buildings at this women's college outside Philadelphia
Bryn Mawr
Anthony
$2,000 [10]
Symbol Ga, this element is named from the Latin for France & maybe also the Latin for rooster (it was named by M. Lecoq)
gallium
Steve!
$2,000 [1]
Sanchez & Smith are the last names of the title duo of this Adult Swim show
Rick and Morty
Anthony
$2,000 [11]
The khayyam in Omar Khayyam means this profession
tent maker
DD $6,000 [20]
Grant said, "I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than" this one, the first in which he fought
the Mexican-American War
Steve!
$2,000 [26]
Visit Mandalay in Burma & you may come home with a table of this wood from which the city's U Bein Bridge is built
teak
Steve!
DD $3,000 [21]
This southern Gothic O'author wrote her novel "Wise Blood" about a preacher in the church without Christ
Flannery O'Connor
Steve!

Final Jeopardy!

1950s CINEMA

Objects of attention in this suspenseful film include a digging dog, a scantily clad dancer & a possible murderer

Rear Window

Kari "What The Maltese Falcon?" — wagered $6,000
Anthony "What isRearWindow?" — wagered $16,399
Steve! "What is Rear Window?" — wagered $10,801

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