Show #8106 2019-12-02 (taped 2019-10-01) Regular

Contestants

Mohammed Ali — a physician from Bear, Delaware

Joanna LeRoy — an attorney from Boston, Massachusetts

Alex Damisch — a data scientist from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Alex $1,800 $4,800 $5,600 $7,349
3-day champion: $33,549
$8,000
9 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Joanna $3,800 $4,800 $8,400 $5,599
2nd place: $2,000
$8,400
15 R, 2 W
Mohammed $1,000 $1,800 $9,800 $2,799
3rd place: $1,000
$10,800
12 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

I WON'T BE IN TODAY TV PEOPLE 2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST MILITARY JARGON & SLANG 5 CLICKS SPECIAL "OP"s
$200 [29]
To her teachers in Stockholm: I'm starting a strike to protest climate change, then sailing to New York; try me on sat phone
Greta Thunberg
Joanna
$200 [6]
Jenna Bush Hager has a big wine glass to fill replacing Kathie Lee Gifford as co-host of this show's 4th hour
TODAY show
Mohammed
$200 [30]
Here'sa view passengers can't get--taken from high above SFO--this facility
San Francisco Airport
Mohammed
$200 [27]
The "Band-Aid" is Vietnam-era slang for this important member of a combat unit
a medic
Alex
$200 [22]
In McMurray's diagnostic test, feeling a click in the wrong place can indicate a meniscal tear in this joint
the knee
Joanna
$200 [18]
A general disposition to expect the best
optimism
Joanna
$400 [28]
From her, in 1921: I'm traveling to get presented with a gram of radium by President Harding, but I'm available on cell! Au revoir!
Marie Curie
Joanna
$400 [5]
On "Dead to Me", Linda Cardellini befriends this "Married...with Children" actress at a grief support group
Christina Applegate
Joanna
$400 [26]
The giant waveherewas captured on the east side of this island of about a million people where big waves are a way of life
Oahu
Joanna
$400 [9]
"Chest candy" means these
medals
Joanna
$400 [21]
It's Internet content designed to get you to navigate to a website where you may possibly be disappointed
clickbait
Joanna
$400 [17]
It's from the Latin for "favorable"; when it knocks, open the door
opportunity
Joanna
$600 [25]
From Billy Clanton, October 26, 1881: Got a dental appointment... with this killer dentist
Doc Holliday
$600 [4]
This children's character played by Bob Keeshan wasn't Australian; he was named for the large pouches in his coat
Captain Kangaroo
Joanna
$600 [1]
The grand prize winner shows a village on this largest island.Buildingscolored according to their function are helpful in a snowy landscape
Greenland
Joanna
$600 [12]
Onboard a U.S. Navy ship, "pollywogs" turn into "shellbacks" when they've crossed this geographic line
the equator
$600 [15]
Ray & Tom Magliozzi were known as Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers, when they hosted this long-running NPR radio show
Car Talk
$600 [16]
Adjective meaning ostentatiously lavish
opulent
Mohammed
DD $1,000 [11]
In 1913, from this Jr. capitalist: Working from home in my new mansion, at 102 feet the tallest house yet built in New York City
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Mohammed
$800 [3]
As a series creator & actor, hehas cast himself as the righteous Jesse Gemstone as well as the crass Kenny Powers
Danny McBride
Joanna
$800 [8]
Vultures can soar gracefully for hours & are classified, along with hawks & eagles, as these, from the Latin for "to seize"
raptors (*birds of prey)
Mohammed
$800 [13]
Common term referring to the means by which a significant other breaks up with a service member by mail
a Dear John letter
Alex
$800 [23]
Heard by the musicians, click tracks use this device to keep tempo in a song
a metronome
$800 [19]
A musical work not as serious as "Rigoletto"; "Babes in Toyland", for example
operetta (*light opera)
Alex
$1,000 [10]
From him, around 1400: Fynishd wrytng my "Tales" & am off to finde a prufreadur; myghte take a whil
Chaucer
Mohammed
$1,000 [2]
The alla prima art technique allowed this man who passed away in 1995 to complete a painting in 30 minutes on PBS
Bob Ross
Joanna
$1,000 [7]
Adapted to their alpine home, these wild goats with distinctive horns survey their domain
ibexes
Alex
$1,000 [14]
Ejecting from an aircraft & using a parachute is called "hitting" this fabric
the silk
$1,000 [24]
The "X"-factor of this South African language is 18 different clicks
Xhosa
Alex
$1,000 [20]
It's a branch of physics, or the way a situation looks in the public eye
optics
Alex

Double Jeopardy! Round

LAFAYETTE, IT IS THERE POP QUIZ LITERARY WORKS OF THE 1820s LINGUISTICS WHAT A DISASTER! THE ELECTORAL COLLAGE
$400 [9]
New Orleans' Lafayette Square is just south of this district AKA the Vieux Carre, naturellement
the French Quarter
Alex Mohammed
$400 [15]
Look what you made me do, you alliterative British singer! I can't stop humming your 2019 single "Dancing with a Stranger"
Sam Smith
Mohammed
$800 [24]
2 characters in her novel "The Last Man" are portraits of her late husband & of Lord Byron
(Mary) Shelley
Joanna
$800 [23]
George Lakoff argues that these figures of speech like "He's at the peak of health" are fundamental to how we see the world
metaphors
Joanna
$1,200 [21]
The book series about this "Scenario" includes "Retirement" & "Politics"
The Worst-Case Scenario
$1,600 [20]
This word for a voting district is from Latin for "surrounding area"
precinct
$800 [8]
Lafayette, Alabama has an 8-foot bronze statue of this native son & 1930s & '40s heavyweight champ
(Joe) Louis
Mohammed
$800 [14]
A band references its own name in the lyric "counting" these, "one for sorrow, two for joy"
crows
Joanna
$1,200 [22]
Hepublished many novels in the decade, including "The Pirate", set in the Shetland & Orkney Islands
Sir Walter Scott
$1,200 [10]
Trilling is a synonym for verbally doing this with your Rs rrrrrrrepeatedly
rolling them
Joanna
$1,600 [17]
Before it described an accident, "contretemps" was a word for a false thrust or pass in this sport
fencing
$2,000 [16]
The Commonwealth Electoral Bill of 1924 made voting in federal elections compulsory in this country
Australia
Alex
$1,200 [7]
Lafayette, Louisiana is home to the Live this Society, whose members are trees with girths of 8 feet or more
Oaks
$1,200 [13]
On 2019 album charts Khalid was neighbors with this similar-named artist's "Father of Asahd"
DJ Khaled
Mohammed
$2,000 [4]
"Konrad Wallenrod" from 1828 is an epic poem about a Lithuanian prince fighting this invading German crusading order
the Teutonic Knights
$1,600 [1]
As in saying the word "cough", a glottal stop is a speech sound made by closing these & releasing them
the vocal cords
Alex Mohammed
$2,000 [3]
How bad can this Italian word be if it describes abottlefor Chianti?
fiasco
DD $2,800 [19]
This electoral change didn't come to Switzerland until 1971, 51 years after it came to the United States
female suffrage
Alex
$1,600 [6]
Anobelisknear Lafayette, Indiana memorialized this 1811 battle where William Henry Harrison gained fame
Tippecanoe
Mohammed
$1,600 [12]
Real name Melissa, with albums like "Supa Dupa Fly" she's the 1st female hip-hop artist in the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott
DD $4,000 [18]
Jane Webb Loudon wrote the 1st novel about one of these creatures, including the line "'Weak, feeble worm!' exclaimed Cheops"
a mummy
Alex
$2,000 [2]
"Schleicher's Fable" was written by a linguist in 1868 in P.I.E. or Proto-this, the ancestor of tongues from Hindi to English
Indo-European
Alex
$2,000 [5]
Located entirely within Norfolk, Va., the Lafayette River meets the Elizabeth River just below the anchorage area called these Roads
Hampton
Mohammed
$2,000 [11]
Nirvana was Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl & this bassist
Krist Novoselic

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC LISTS

"Why does not the Pope... build the basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money of poor believers?" is one of these

Luther's theses

Alex "What are Luther's Theses?" — wagered $1,749
Joanna "What is?" — wagered $2,801
Mohammed "What is Luther's List of Comp" — wagered $7,001

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