Show #8112 2019-12-10 (taped 2019-10-02) Regular

Jennifer Quail game 5.

Contestants

Shane Mangin — a strategy consultant from New York, New York

Ben Chung — a heart failure cardiologist from Chicago, Illinois

Jennifer Quail — a wine tasting consultant from Dowagiac, Michigan (whose 4-day cash winnings total $123,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jennifer $6,600 $9,200 $25,200 $26,200
5-day champion: $149,500
$25,200
29 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Ben $800 $3,000 $9,800 $19,600
2nd place: $2,000
$15,800
19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Shane $400 $3,600 $10,400 $1,200
3rd place: $1,000
$7,200
10 R (including 1 DD), 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS PINK-POURRI CELEBRITY SUPERFANS AMERICAN HISTORY 21st CENTURY COMPANIES SPEAK TO ME OF FRUITS & VEGETABLES
$200 [11]
The Daniel O'Connell monument on O'ConO'ConnO'ConnelO'ConnelletOO'ConnelletO'ConnelO'ConnelletO'ConneO'ConnelO'ConnelletO'Connellet
Dublin
Ben
$200 [18]
Scientists named a shrimp with a pink claw & the ability to emit very loud noises after this band
Pink Floyd
Shane
$200 [24]
Stephen Colbert is such a fan of this author's work, he aired his concerns with Peter Jackson about the Elves of Mirkwood
Tolkien
Shane
$200 [1]
The 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act made residents of this Caribbean island American citizens
Puerto Rico
Jennifer
$200 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue at SpaceX in Hawthorne, CA.) SpaceX was founded in 2002, with the long-term goal ofenabling humans to liveon this planet
Mars
Jennifer
$200 [6]
A pea souper is one of these weather phenomenons
a fog
Jennifer Ben
$400 [13]
The Evita Museum
Buenos Aires
Ben
$400 [26]
In the late 19th c. some U.S. states required this non-dairy product to be dyed pink so it would not be confused for butter
margarine
Ben
$400 [23]
Having grown up in Overland Park, Kansas, Paul Rudd is a rabid fan of this NFL team
the Chiefs
Ben
$400 [2]
More Frenchmen than Americans participated in the 1781 siege of this town, the last major battle of the American Revolution
Yorktown
Jennifer Shane
$400 [25]
The idea for this app was born in 2008 after its co-founders were unable to get a cab in France
Uber
Jennifer
$400 [7]
The mock salute called a Bronx cheer also has this fruity name
a raspberry
Jennifer
$600 [14]
The Anne Frank House
Amsterdam
Jennifer
$600 [27]
A gin-&-grenadine cocktail, or a member of a distaff clique in "Grease"
a pink lady
Jennifer
$600 [17]
Jennifer Lawrence had a tent set up on the set of "Mother!" where she could "keep up" with this reality TV family's show
the Kardashians
Jennifer
$600 [3]
This man's 1825 inaugural address had to compete with a traveling circus performing in D.C.
(John) Quincy Adams
Jennifer Ben
$600 [21]
As of 2008, you could find places to stay & things to do & earn money from your extra space with this company
Airbnb
Ben
$600 [8]
To select the best parts of something from what's available, like Johnny does with a box of candies
cherry pick
Jennifer
$800 [12]
Gorky Park
Moscow
Jennifer
$800 [29]
You want to receive this for a car, not for a job
a pink slip
Jennifer
$800 [16]
This director became almost as famous for taunting Reggie Miller at Knicks games as he was for making movies
Spike Lee
Ben
$800 [4]
Saying "I will make them twins", in 1889 President Harrison blindly signed these 2 states into the Union so no one knows which was first
North & South Dakota
Jennifer
$800 [19]
5 years after launching in 2012, this app was processing 1.4 billion swipes per day & had 10 billion matches
Tinder
Shane
$800 [9]
On the front of the larynx, the thyroid cartilage has a central ridge & elevation called this
Adam's apple
Jennifer
$1,000 [15]
The Coptic Museum
Cairo
Ben
$1,000 [30]
In an albino animal, a lack of the pigment melanin causes this usually colored part of the eye to appear pink
the iris
Shane
$1,000 [22]
NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton followed this "Truckin"' band to more than 850 shows
Grateful Dead
Ben
DD $1,000 [5]
Real name Mary, this "maternal" organizer of mine workers in the early 20th century was called the "Most Dangerous Woman in America"
Mother Jones
Jennifer
$1,000 [20]
A Swedish co-founder of this platform wished to "create a service that was better than piracy &...compensates the music industry"
Spotify
Ben Shane
$1,000 [10]
If you're wise to what's going on, you didn't just fall off this alliterative root-vegetable transport
the turnip truck
Jennifer

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHARK-UTERIE DOUBLE DOUBLE O OCCUPATIONALLY NAMED AUTHORS BEHIND THE MUSIC AWARDS & HONORS ALL FALL DOWN
$400 [3]
Okay, so now we've given nightmares to half of America by showing this colorful carnivore of the deep
a great white
Jennifer
$400 [30]
West Indian religion derived from African cult worship
Voodoo
Jennifer
$400 [6]
This "grinder of grain" wrote some good plays & the screenplay for "The Misfits"
(Arthur) Miller
Shane
$400 [21]
Freddie Mercury approved the use of this song in "Wayne's World" just weeks before his death
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
Ben
$400 [9]
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences gives out these awards "honoring the best of the Internet"
a Webby
Jennifer
$400 [19]
The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands on, yet St Mark's Campanilein this city, seen here, collapsed in 1902 & had to be rebuilt
Venice
Ben
$800 [4]
The "great" species of this shark with a tool in its name specializes in preying on stingrays
a hammerhead
Shane
$800 [29]
Goodbye! So long! This old-time informal synonym!
toodle-oo
Jennifer
$1,200 [8]
"Plant tender" who was trained as a lawyer & created a famous one
(Erle Stanley) Gardner
Jennifer
$800 [20]
Gloria Gaynor recorded the vocals to this No. 1 hit while in a wheelchair due to a spinal injury
"I Will Survive"
Ben
$800 [14]
This theatrical club founded by Harvard students began naming a woman of the year in 1951 & a man of the year in 1967
the Hasty Pudding
Ben
$800 [25]
In the 1860s the poles used in creating this communications link fell down when Buffalo used them as scratching posts
the telegraph
Jennifer Ben
$1,200 [11]
This alliterative type of shark sounds like it uses metal shapes to turn dough into Christmas treats--it bites very uniformly
cookie cutter
Ben
$1,200 [23]
Doc's, this type of billiards establishment, is an important setting in the novel "Native Son"
poolroom
Ben
$1,600 [5]
This "luggage carrier" wrote "Pollyanna", about an excessively cheerful young girl who's now a cliche
(Eleanor) Porter
Jennifer
$1,200 [2]
Irving Berlin gave Kate Smith this song for her radio show to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of WWI
"God Bless America"
Jennifer
$1,200 [16]
In 1992 architect Alvaro Siza won this, often called the Nobel Prize of architecture
the Pritzker Prize
$1,200 [26]
In 1871, Communards brought down a famous column in this city, butit's been rebuilt
Paris
Jennifer
$1,600 [12]
Pores called ampullae of Lorenzini give sharks a sixth sense that helps detect currents of this in the water
electricity
Ben
$1,600 [22]
Never-failing; the clue is this!
foolproof
Ben
$2,000 [10]
"The Way of All Flesh" is an autobiographical work by this "house servant"
(Samuel) Butler
Jennifer
$1,600 [1]
George Gershwin composed this 1924 piece as a 2-piano score, leaving Ferde Grofé to arrange 1 piano part for full band
Rhapsody in Blue
Ben
$2,000 [18]
A French art prize is named for this "Nude Descending A Staircase" painter; nominees get to exhibit at the Pompidou Centre
(Marcel) Duchamp
Jennifer
$1,600 [27]
In 1969 & 2017 famous trees of this type with a Native Amer. name fell in Calif.; it's bad to cut a driving tunnel through a tree
sequoia
Shane
$2,000 [15]
In a 2018 Jason Statham film, "The Meg" is this giant prehistoric shark
the megalodon
Ben
$2,000 [24]
A bugle boy, or a rhyming form of instrumental blues for the piano
boogie woogie
Jennifer
DD $4,000 [7]
Mrs, Tittlemouse, Tom Kitten & many other animal characters were created by this "artisan"
(Beatrix) Potter
Shane
$2,000 [13]
The ancient libation, revived in hip-hop culture, is honored in "Pour Out A Little Liquor" by Thug Life featuring this late rapper
Tupac
Jennifer
DD $6,000 [17]
Defenders of human rights, like Nelson Mandela & Colin Kaepernick, have won this organization's Ambassador of Conscience Award
Amnesty International
Ben
$2,000 [28]
Archaeologists debate whether this city's walls fell due to an earthquake or siege tactics, as in Joshua 6
Jericho
Ben

Final Jeopardy!

OSCAR-WINNING FILMS

The first words spoken in this 1970 Best Picture Oscar winner are "Ten-hut!" "Be seated"

Patton

Ben "What is Patton?" — wagered $9,800
Shane "What is a bridge on the river kwai?" — wagered $9,200
Jennifer "What is Patton" — wagered $1,000

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