Show #8122 2019-12-24 (taped 2019-10-16) Regular

Contestants

Drew Limon — a wine technician from Napa, California

Barbara Hall — a transit operations specialist from Vancouver, Washington

Robin Miner-Swartz — an editor and consultant from Lansing, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Robin $1,600 $2,400 $11,600 $7,799
2-day champion: $27,400
$11,600
18 R, 4 W
Barbara $-800 $2,400 $11,200 $6,700
3rd place: $1,000
$15,200
15 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Drew $4,200 $1,700 $7,700 $7,700
2nd place: $2,000
$10,200
15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SANTA ON THE MAP FILL IN THE BANKS A CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLAGE HAVE A COW THE ROLES OF MORGAN FREEMAN METAPHORS
$200 [19]
This Southwest U.S. state capital lies in the Northern Rio Grande Valley at about 7,000 feet above sea level
Santa Fe
Drew
$200 [16]
JP ___ Chase or ___ Stanley
Morgan
Drew
$200 [11]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Omni Parker House in Boston MA.) Arriving on November 19, 1867 for a U.S. reading tour, this author practiced "A Christmas Carol" in front of the mirror here, now named for him
(Charles) Dickens
Robin
$200 [6]
After creating Elsie the Cow, Borden Dairy introduced this bull to sell glue
Elmer
Robin
$200 [1]
1989:Hoke Colburn, a chauffeur
Driving Miss Daisy
Robin
$200 [26]
John Gay in "The Beggar's Opera" calls it "the knot that sacred love hath tied"
matrimony
Robin
$400 [20]
Home to a lively nightlife & popular with artists, Santa Cecilia is a district in this most populous Brazilian city
Sao Paulo
Barbara
$400 [17]
Mutual of this city bank
Omaha
Barbara
$400 [12]
In English, it's "O Christmas Tree"; in German, it's "O" this
Tannenbaum
Robin
$400 [7]
The Swiss company Alpen Schatz has been making these noisy items for 250 years
cowbells
Drew
$400 [2]
1994:Red Redding, a lifer at a Maine prison
The Shawshank Redemption
Drew
$400 [27]
A white one of these animals is a metaphor for something too expensive for its owner to take care of
an elephant
Drew
$600 [21]
The Santa Lucia River provides much of the drinking water for this capital of Uruguay
Montevideo
Barbara
$600 [18]
Goldman this son-in-law to Goldman
Sachs
Robin
$600 [13]
Inspired by "A Christmas Carol", the movie "Scrooged" starred him as a venal TV executive
Bill Murray
Robin
$600 [8]
One day a year this restaurant chain offers free chicken if you dress like a cow
Chick-fil-A
Drew
$600 [3]
2014:Vitruvius (voice only)
The Lego Movie
$800 [29]
Completes the title metaphor from a 1986 hit song, "The Future's So Bright..."
I Gotta Wear Shades
Barbara
$800 [22]
At the S.E. tip of Italy, Santa Maria di Leuca has been called the "City Between Two Seas", the Ionian & this one to the north
the Adriatic
Drew
$800 [24]
In the name of TD Bank, T is this city & D is dominion
Toronto
$800 [14]
O! American clergyman Phillips Brooks wrote the words to this Christmas carol after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land
"O Little Town of Bethlehem"
Robin
$800 [9]
This term for an idea that cannot be criticized refers to a Hindu belief about an animal
a sacred cow
Robin
$800 [4]
2013:Archie, visiting Sin City with 3 old, old pals
Last Vegas
Barbara Drew
$1,000 [30]
Jefferson likened liberty to one of these that must be "refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"
a tree
Robin
$1,000 [23]
Santa Cruz is a port & the chief city on the island of Tenerife in these Atlantic islands
the Canary Islands
$1,000 [25]
HSBC stands for these 2 Chinese places Banking Corporation
Hong Kong & Shanghai
Robin Barbara
$1,000 [15]
"A Christmas Carol" says, "However & whenever we part from one another, I am sure we shall none of us forget poor" him
Tiny Tim
Drew
$1,000 [10]
Seen hanging from the neck of zebu
a dewlap
$1,000 [5]
2009:Nelson Mandela
Invictus
Drew
DD $2,500 [28]
Arthur Conan Doyle called this city the "great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the empire are... drained"
London
Drew

Double Jeopardy! Round

IT'S NOT GOOD TO BE THE KING THE SPHERE OF SCIENCE FROM O TO O CELEBRITY COUPLES 1990s BESTSELLERS META-FOURS
$400 [6]
Following conflict with Parliament, this English king was beheaded in 1649
Charles I
Robin
$400 [24]
The hawk owl is unusual for producing almost perfectly spherical ones
eggs
Barbara
$400 [9]
7,300 square miles in area, it's the smallest of the Great Lakes
Ontario
Robin
$400 [1]
2011 was busy for Rachel Weisz & this Bond actor; the pair starred in "Dream House" & got married
Daniel Craig
Barbara
$400 [14]
In 1993 this author came along with his first Alex Cross novel, "Along Came a Spider"
James Patterson
Robin
$400 [19]
In "Jersey Boys" Frankie Valli, lead singer of this group, narrates the section of the play dubbed "Winter"
the Four Seasons
Drew
$800 [7]
He was beheaded in Paris in 1793
Louis XVI
Robin Drew
$1,200 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. On a sphere, the shortest route is described as this, a term preceding "dome" in a Buckminster Fuller structure
geodesic
$800 [10]
To exceed one's previous best effort is to this "yourself"
outdo
Robin
$800 [2]
This Real Housewife of Beverly Hills is Mrs. Harry Hamlin
Lisa Rinna
Barbara
$800 [15]
John Feinstein gave a behind-the-scenes look at playing this sport professionally in "A Good Walk Spoiled"
golf
Robin
$800 [20]
Teresa of Ávila & Ignatius of Loyola appear in Gertrude Stein's libretto for the opera titled "Four" these "in 3 Acts"
Saints
Barbara Drew
$1,200 [8]
Bela I of Hungary died ignominiously when this furniture symbol of his royalty collapsed, mortally wounding him
his throne
Robin
$1,600 [27]
Not a Dirty Harry movie, magnus force makes soccer balls curve due to this resistant force acting on 1 side of the spinning sphere
drag
Drew
$1,200 [11]
A long piece of classical music for singers & an orchestra
an oratorio
Robin
$1,200 [3]
He & Miley Cyrus became close while filming "The Last Song"; the couple married in 2018 but split in 2019
Liam Hemsworth
Drew
$1,200 [16]
Terry McMillan could breathe a sigh of relief after this 1992 novel made its way up the charts
Waiting to Exhale
Barbara
$1,200 [21]
Formed in 1977, this Marxist British post-punk band took its name from a group infamously led by Mao's widow
the Gang of Four
Drew
$1,600 [29]
This Zulu leader was slain by his half brothers in Southern Africa in 1828
Shaka Zulu
Drew
DD $2,000 [25]
In 1543 the world revolved around this man who wrote "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"
Copernicus
Barbara
$1,600 [12]
Often used in soups, it's a pasta shaped like grains of rice
orzo
Barbara
$1,600 [4]
Eva Mendes has 2 daughters with this longtime boyfriend, her co-star in "The Place Beyond the Pines"
Ryan Gosling
Barbara
DD $2,000 [17]
The author of this 1996 "Novel of Politics" was listed as anonymous
Primary Colors
Barbara
$1,600 [22]
In "Good Omens", this biblical group was updated a bit for the times with a new member: Pollution
the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Robin
$2,000 [30]
Bavarian King Louis II, also known by this German version of the name, mysteriously drowned soon after being declared insane
Ludwig
Barbara
$2,000 [28]
On Aug. 15, 1934 this craft with "sphere" in its name took 2 men 3,028 feet underwater, a record that stood for 15 years
a Bathysphere
Barbara
$2,000 [13]
Early Shakespeare poems & plays were sometimes printed in this format about 5x7 inches, smaller than a quarto
octavo
Robin
$2,000 [5]
Sofia Vergara & this hunky husband co-star in Hulu's "Better Ruins Everything" commercials
Joe Manganiello
Barbara
$2,000 [18]
"Fear of Fifty" was "A Midlife Memoir" by this "Fear of Flying" author
Erica Jong
Robin
$2,000 [23]
You could say T.S. Eliot's masterpiece known as "The Four" these gives you quadruple the number
the Four Quartets

Final Jeopardy!

HISTORIC AMERICAN CITIES

Damage from Hurricane Matthew in this city in 2016 revealed a plot of colonist graves from perhaps as long as 430 years ago

St. Augustine, Florida

Drew "What is Houston?" — wagered $0
Barbara "What is Richmond?" — wagered $4,500
Robin "What is Tampa?" — wagered $3,801

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