Show #8136 2020-01-13 (taped 2019-11-12) Regular

Veronica Vichit-Vadakan game 1.

Contestants

Veronica Vichit-Vadakan — a librarian from Portland, Oregon

Daniel Sok — a medical student from Atlanta, Georgia

Katie Needle — a retail supervisor from Brooklyn, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $53,602)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Katie $2,000 $4,000 $10,000 $10,000
2nd place: $2,000
$12,000
17 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Daniel $1,600 $2,800 $4,400 $4,400
3rd place: $1,000
$4,400
10 R, 3 W
Veronica $2,000 $5,800 $21,000 $21,999
New champion: $21,999
$21,800
25 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

RECOGNIZING THE COUNTRY BEAUTY BRANDS GLOSSARY OF HISTORY HORROR FILMS THE TELEVISION WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED THAT'S "SOME" ENDING
$200 [15]
It'sroughly a third the size of the contiguous United States
Argentina
Daniel
$200 [22]
It's no surprise that the "M" in the cosmetics brand MAC stands for this
Makeup
Veronica
$200 [8]
Once used to authenticate documents, it's a device to leave an impression, usually in wax, or the impression itself
a seal
Katie
$200 [3]
In 1910, less than a century after this novel was published, it had its first filmadaptation with Augustus Phillips at the title scientist
Frankenstein
Katie
$200 [1]
The Sony X800G is one of these "clever" TVs with Internet connectivity
a smart TV
Daniel
$200 [4]
Sadly isolated
lonesome
Veronica
$400 [23]
About the size of Kentucky, itlooks bigger when it's not floating in the Atlantic
Iceland
Daniel
$400 [27]
Hair color products from this company include Féria, Excellence Creme & Superior Preference
l'Oréal
Katie
$400 [13]
A physical repository of historic documents; there's a famous one at 700 Pennsylvania Avenue
an archive
Katie Veronica
$400 [5]
Taking place on the eve of this invasion, 2018's "Overlord" features less-than-human Nazis
D-Day
Daniel
$400 [2]
In the 1990s the flat screen began replacing the CRt, this boxy tube
a cathode ray tube
Veronica
$400 [7]
This word means "sweetly charming"; if you don't know it, you may lose some
winsome
Veronica
$600 [24]
Multiply Texas 3 1/2 times to get the size of this North African biggie
Algeria
Katie
$600 [28]
Florence Graham said she got this pseudonym & brand name from Tennyson's poem "Enoch Arden"
Elizabeth Arden
Veronica
$600 [14]
Inthistype of manuscript, the handwritten text is supplemented by the addition of elaborateillustration
an illuminated manuscript
Veronica
$600 [6]
"Dream Warriors" is the subtitle to the third movie in this series
Nightmare on Elm Street
Katie
$600 [17]
In 1952 an Ohio man annoyed by loud ads invented the Blab-Off, an early version of this feature on your remote
the mute button
Katie
$600 [9]
Horrific & grisly, like some murders
gruesome
Katie
$800 [25]
From north to south, it'slong enough to stretch from Michigan to Florida
Vietnam
Daniel
$800 [29]
Cover Girl cosmetics is Leaping Bunny certified, meaning the company doesn't do this
test on animals
Katie
$800 [18]
Term for the cultural & artistic movement of the late 18th & early 19th c. emphasizing emotion & sentiment rather than reason
Romantic
Katie
$800 [12]
It's the last word in 6 of George Romero's zombie movie titles
Dead
Katie
$800 [20]
When CBS got FCC approval to broadcast in this in 1950, only about 2 dozen sets could receive it
color
Katie
$800 [10]
Quaker has an organic hot cereal called "Simple &" this word for healthful
Wholesome
Daniel
$1,000 [26]
The expanse of Long Island to Georgia is about the size of this troubled Asian land
Afghanistan
Daniel
DD $2,000 [30]
The website for this company begun in 1886 has links for "Shop with a Friend" & "Become a Representative"
Avon
Katie
$1,000 [19]
It's the system by which coats of arms & other family or national emblems are devised & regulated
heraldry
Veronica
$1,000 [16]
"The Burning", the debut film for Holly Hunter & Jason Alexander, was part of the flourishing horror-at-this-summer-setting genre
summer camp
Veronica
$1,000 [21]
At the 1999 Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, ReplayTV won a best in show prize for unveiling this technology
DVR
Daniel Veronica
$1,000 [11]
There's a body part in this word for flavorful
toothsome

Double Jeopardy! Round

STARCHITECTS COLONIAL AMERICA TRICKY CLUES THEIR PEN WENT SILENT WATER MUSIC I LEARNED IT ON YOUTUBE
$400 [3]
Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi pioneered the late 20th century style futuristically called "Post" this
Modernism
Katie
$400 [24]
In 1632 this colony was chartered by Cecil Calvert as a safe haven for Catholics being persecuted in England
Maryland
Veronica
$400 [11]
Until Vatican II, it was the only speech for mass communication
Latin
Veronica
$400 [16]
His whale of a tale began in New York City in 1819 & ended there with his death in 1891
(Herman) Melville
Veronica
$400 [5]
This song by Otis Redding mentions "the Frisco Bay" & "Watchin' the tide roll away"
"(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay"
Katie
$400 [1]
How to cut one of these pungent vegetables without crying
an onion
Katie
$800 [9]
Richard Rogers & Renzo Piano played with traditional notions of design with this Paris art "Centre" named for a French president
the Pompidou Centre
Daniel Veronica
$1,200 [26]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The British government's Proclamation of 1763 created what the Brits called a vast "Indian reserve" in which no colonists were allowed to settle west of these mountains
the Applachian Mountains
Veronica
$800 [12]
If you put off retiring, you could be one of these nocturnal avians
a night owl
Katie
$800 [17]
This Nobel Laureate, whom Barack Obama called a national treasure, passed away at 88 in 2019
Toni Morrison
Veronica
$800 [6]
In 2016 this British woman had a hit with "Water Under The Bridge"
Adele
Daniel
$800 [2]
How to say "I love you" in ASL, short for this
American Sign Language
Veronica
$1,200 [10]
This Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece in Pennsylvania is named for what'shappeningbelow it
Fallingwater
Veronica
$1,600 [27]
Aiming to unite the colonies for trade & security, the Albany Plan of Union was proposed by this Founding Father in 1754
Franklin
Daniel
$1,200 [13]
From 1952 to 1958 this Friday cop show aired on Thursday
Dragnet
Veronica
$1,600 [19]
This6'9" author who raised dinosaurs from the dead passed away in2008after a battle with cancer
(Michael) Crichton
Veronica
$1,200 [7]
Joe Jonas of this 4-letter group described "Cake By The Ocean" as a party anthem
DNCE
Daniel
$1,200 [4]
How to identify the differences between antique copper & these 2 "B" alloys
bronze & brass
Daniel Veronica
$1,600 [14]
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was the big star of this "worldly" 20th century style that emphasized straight lines
the International Style
$2,000 [28]
In 1612 this future husband of Pocahontas introduced a new tobacco into the colonies using seeds from the West Indies
John Rolfe
Katie
$1,600 [21]
From a word meaning "circular", it's a world revolution
an orbit
$2,000 [20]
Charlie Chaplin read this "Sister Carrie" author's poem "The Road I Came" at his funeral & served as a pall bearer
Dreiser
Veronica
$1,600 [8]
This duo's biggest hit was 1970's "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Simon and Garfunkel
Veronica
$1,600 [23]
How kids get to build a volcano, a castle & survival houses to avoid creepers in this video game
Minecraft
Veronica
$2,000 [15]
Sir Joseph Paxton was knighted for designing this glittering glass & iron structure for London's 1851 Great Exhibition
the Crystal Palace
DD $4,000 [25]
Cotton Mather supported the Salem witch trials but was more forward-thinking when he urged inoculation against this disease
smallpox
Veronica
DD $4,000 [18]
Just prior to his death in 2006, this bestselling novelist wrote a book for younger readers called "Shark Life"
Peter Benchley
Veronica
$2,000 [22]
John Fogerty sounds like he crawled out of the swamp on CCR's song "Born On" this marshy inlet
a Bayou
Katie

Final Jeopardy!

THE BIBLE

This book of the Bible ends with "fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys"

Exodus

Daniel "What is James?" — wagered $0
Katie "What is Exodus?" — wagered $0
Veronica "What is Exodus?" — wagered $999

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