Show #8083 2019-10-30 (taped 2019-08-27) Regular

Steve Moulds game 3.

Contestants

Dave Bein — a culinary director from Westwood, New Jersey

Sam Benshoof — a senior communications specialist from St. Paul, Minnesota

Steve Moulds — a playwright from Louisville, Kentucky (whose 2-day cash winnings total $54,002)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Steve! $400 $6,400 $16,800 $31,601
3-day champion: $85,603
$15,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Sam! $2,400 $2,600 $6,200 $10,200
2nd place: $2,000
$6,200
8 R, 1 W
Dave $400 $1,600 $15,800 $3
3rd place: $1,000
$14,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

COLLEGE TOWNS SPORTS TALK A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL "IO"-9 ADVERTISING CUBA LIBRO
$200 [6]
It's the L-V in UNLV
Las Vegas
Dave
$200 [2]
It's not to eat; it's to use in the on-deck circle
a doughnut
Dave
$200 [1]
European explorers, is it worth your toes & maybe your lives to go 500 mi. north of the Arctic Circle to find this path to the Pacific?
the Northwest Passage
Sam!
$200 [14]
Cat killer, or NASA rover
curiosity
$200 [16]
In the 1960s Geoffrey the Giraffe became the mascot & spokesanimal for this store
Toys "R" Us
Dave
$200 [24]
The Gulf Stream runs close to Cuba & in this Hemingway novel Santiago fishes in it
The Old Man and the Sea
Sam!
$400 [7]
This city that's home to the oldest University of California campus often ranks as the "most liberal city in America"
Berkeley
Steve!
$400 [3]
Lepidopterans excel at this third stroke in the medley relay
the butterfly stroke
$400 [11]
Hey you, not-so-law-abiding 1920s guy! Think the feds will indict you on 22 counts of tax evasion? You should!
Capone
Steve!
$400 [15]
To be verklempt is to be considered very this
emotional
$400 [17]
With the introduction of the Model T & more people hitting the road, outdoor advertising on these became more popular
billboards
Steve!
$400 [25]
In a Graham Greene novel, James Wormold is recruited by British Secret Service to be "Our Man in" this city
Havana
Steve!
$600 [9]
This city that's home to Brigham Young University was originally known as Fort Utah
Provo
Steve!
$600 [4]
A tennis player who serves & scores the first point after deuce has this edge
advantage (ad-in)
Steve!
$600 [12]
Visigoth princes of Spain, are you sure it's a good idea to invite these people to help you take power? They have their own agenda
the Moors
Sam!
$600 [23]
In sushidom, California rolls often include fish called this type of "crab"
imitation
Dave
$600 [18]
A portmanteau word, this type of paid programming is a TV ad that typically lasts 15 to 30 minutes
an infomercial
Dave
$600 [28]
Reinaldo Arenas' memoir "Before Night Falls" recounts his attempts to flee Communist Cuba, even swimming to this U.S. naval station
Guantánamo Bay
Steve!
$1,000 [21]
The main campus for the University of Arkansas is located in this city nicknamed the "Athens of the Ozarks"
Fayetteville
Dave
$800 [5]
Boxers "bob &" this to avoid getting punched in the face
weave
Sam!
$800 [13]
The foundation's kinda shaky... is a 180' tower in this Italian city a good idea? Heck, it's 1173, we have the technology!
Pisa
Sam!
$800 [26]
A permit to drive a taxi; one in a big city has sold for as much as $1.3 million
a medallion
Dave
$800 [19]
Theiconfor this product has been around for over 100 years, but she doesn't look a day over 8
Morton Salt
Steve!
$800 [29]
Oscar Hijuelos wrote a novel about the title "Kings" of this Cuban ballroom dance
mambo
Steve!
DD $1,400 [10]
Ulysses would fit right in in this city at the south end of Cayuga Lake
Ithaca
Steve!
$1,000 [8]
It's sports talk for a scheme in which players defend an area of the court, not a particular opponent
zone
Steve!
$1,000 [22]
Yo, France... between 1930 & '40, will it be worth it to spend billions of francs on this "Line" of defense? (it will not)
the Maginot Line
Steve!
$1,000 [27]
Referring to a standard of judgment, this word comes before an important "Collection" of classic movies
Criterion
Steve!
$1,000 [20]
In a 2019 Super Bowl ad, Sarah Jessica Parker's & Jeff Bridges' characters forego their usual drinks for this fancy Belgian beer
Stella Artois
Steve!
$1,000 [30]
Joe falls for a Cuban revolutionary in "Live by Night" by this "Shutter Island" author, who normally does Massachusetts
Dennis Lehane

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD GEOGRAPHIC TERMS UNDER THE... AMERICAN THINKERS BORROWED FROM OTHER LANGUAGES SOUNDS SPACEY
$400 [1]
2 species of this blood-drinking bat, the white-winged & hairy-legged, feed primarily on birds
a vampire bat
Dave
$400 [7]
Anatomical term for the place where a river empties into the sea
a mouth
Sam! Dave
$400 [3]
Stephen King novel in which Chester's Mill, Maine is sealed off from the rest of the world
Under the Dome
Steve!
$400 [9]
Phineas Quimby, who influenced Mary Baker Eddy, is best known for his theory that this type of problem is all in the mind
illness
$400 [10]
A stranded German motorist might say "Mein auto ist" this, a word we use in English for anything busted
kaput
Dave
$400 [24]
In a 1931 cartoon this Disney dog said, "Kiss me!" but has been a canine of very, very few words since
Pluto
Dave
$800 [2]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew wades in a pond at the Como Park Zoo in St. Paul, MN.) Flamingos, which can live 20 to 30 years in the wild & even longer in captivity, get their pinkish color from the food they eat, like shrimp or plankton, & at the zoo, nutritionally complete pellets that all contain a red-orange pigment similar to this one found in squash & sweet potatoes
beta-carotene
$800 [8]
It can be a line of mountain ridges or a grazing land for animals
a range
Dave
$800 [4]
Anthony Kiedis wrote this song about the loneliness of heroin addiction
"Under The Bridge"
Steve!
$1,200 [15]
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum is a neo-this ancient Greek stiff-upper-lip type, but Martha allows for more emotion
stoic
Steve! Dave
$800 [11]
A form of self-defense primarily without weapons, karate is Japanese for "empty" these
hands
Steve!
$800 [25]
In addition to 3 Musketeers bars, this corporation also owns brands like Uncle Ben's & Whiskas
Mars
Sam!
$1,200 [21]
Birds called kites include one that doesn't fly very fast; it doesn't need to as it eats only one species of this gastropod
a snail
Steve!
$1,600 [29]
Though far from the Sahara, the lakeshore at the national park called Indiana these features has some 200-footers
Dunes
Sam!
$1,200 [5]
Prince's acting oeuvre includes "Purple Rain", "Graffiti Bridge" & this 1986 film
Under the Cherry Moon
Dave
$1,600 [14]
William James popularized this -ism that judges ideas by their usefulness, now a synonym for "practicality"
pragmaticism
Dave
$1,200 [17]
A cappella means "in the style of the chapel" in Italian, but it means this to us
without musical accompaniment
Steve!
$1,200 [26]
A song by Train begins, "Now that she's back in the atmosphere, with drops of" this "in her hair"
Jupiter
Steve!
$1,600 [22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows cetacean video on the monitor.) Drone technology has allowed for amazing footage from Monterey Bay showing a blue whale gulping a bountiful feast of this, its favorite food
krill
Dave
$2,000 [30]
1 million people in Los Angeles County live in this type of area, part of no municipality
unincorporated
Dave
$1,600 [6]
A writer impulsively buys an Italian villa in this book, later a Diane Lane film
Under the Tuscan Sun
Sam!
$2,000 [13]
Instead of Christmas the family in the movie "Captain Fantastic" observes the birthday of this linguist & left-wing social critic
Noam Chomsky
Steve! Dave
$1,600 [18]
Literally French for "blow of mercy", it's any finishing stroke, especially to end suffering
coup de grâce
Steve!
$1,600 [27]
Part of the name of a Canadian province, it's a type of lox
Nova
Dave
$2,000 [23]
This Australian sea cow similar to the manatee has ivory tusks to dig up the sea grasses that make up its diet
the dugong
DD $2,600 [20]
A Montana city nicknamed "The Richest Hill on Earth" or a term for an isolated hill
Butte
Dave
$2,000 [12]
Malcolm Lowry's Mexico-set masterpiece
Under the Volcano
DD $4,000 [16]
Jonathan Edwards thought sin was restrained by God; otherwise the soul would be "a furnace of" these two things
fire and brimstone
Steve!
$2,000 [19]
From Yiddish, for "juicy", this end-of-the-alphabet word means pleasingly plump or buxom
zaftig
Dave
$2,000 [28]
In Greek mythology this daughter of Cassiopeia was chained to a rock as a sacrifice
Andromeda

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD CAPITALS

In 1865 this city named for an early 19th century British hero became a British colonial capital

Wellington

Sam! "What is Wellington" — wagered $4,000
Dave "What is GeorgeTown?" — wagered $15,797
Steve! "What is Wellington" — wagered $14,801

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