Show #8143 2020-01-22 (taped 2019-11-13) Regular

Contestants

Lau Mehes — a youth substance use prevention worker from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

John Cuevas — a slot floorperson from San Marcos, California

Dennis Coffey — a bartender from Old Orchard Beach, Maine (whose 3-day cash winnings total $51,203)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dennis $1,200 $2,000 $14,500 $399
3rd place: $1,000
$13,200
14 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
John $2,400 $4,400 $15,200 $29,001
New champion: $29,001
$14,800
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Lau $1,200 $3,800 $200 $400
2nd place: $2,000
$200
12 R, 6 W

Jeopardy! Round

AIRPORT ATTRACTIONS RUNNER-UP RUNNING MATES LAYING THINGS M TO M BEHIND THE MUSIC OOTD YE OLDE JOB FAIRE
$200 [12]
In anex-terminal, designed by Eero Saarinen, the TWA Hotel has 500-plus ultra-quiet rooms with views of this airport's runway
Kennedy Airport
Dennis
$200 [1]
John Edwards
(John) Kerry
Lau
$200 [9]
A design of your initials on your stationery
a monogram
Dennis
$200 [17]
In 2011 this singer said, "'Born This Way' is my answer to many questions over the years: Who are you? What are you about?"
Lady Gaga
John
$200 [2]
This slightly flared skirt of the 1960s is named for the letter it resembles in silhouette
A-line
Lau
$600 [28]
Mark Twain was among those who worked as a devil, an apprentice in this profession
printing
Lau
$400 [23]
Here'sthe 25-ton yellow submarine that docked at John Lennon Airport in 2005, in this city where it all began
Liverpool
Lau
$400 [5]
Joseph Lieberman
Gore
John
$400 [10]
Contraction used to address the Queen in England
ma'am
John Lau
$400 [18]
At the beginning of "Bad Guy", you can hear this young star removing her Invisalign braces so she doesn't lisp as she sings
Billie Eilish
Lau
$400 [3]
The feather type of this "snake" scarf gets the press but you can wear one in pleated silk or fur, too
boa
Lau
$800 [27]
Proverbially, you have to pay this strolling musician who plays a small wind instrument
the piper
Lau
$600 [13]
The "Spirit of Haida Gwaii", the jadecanoegreets you at the airport serving this most populous city in British Columbia
Vancouver
John
$600 [6]
Edmund Muskie
Humphrey
Dennis John
$600 [14]
Time to dial up a response upon hearing one of these
a modem
John
$600 [19]
Unarmed civil rights protesters were killed on Jan. 30, 1972, the "Sunday Bloody Sunday" that inspired that song by this group
U2
Lau
$600 [4]
These tight-fitting, 3/4-length pants named for an Italian resort were hip, & on hips, in the '50s, '80s & again in the 2000s
capri
John
$1,000 [26]
This term for a villain's minion may be from a Middle English word for horse handler
henchman
$800 [22]
In disarray after airport security? Mitchell International, serving this Wisconsin city, has aplacefor you to get sorted out
Milwaukee
John
$800 [7]
Jack Kemp
Bob Dole
Dennis
$1,000 [16]
A whirlpool off Norway's coast, or a tumultuous state of things
maelstrom
John Lau
$800 [20]
In concert, after playing this song that begins, "Don't go changing, to try & please me", Billy Joel said, "& then we got divorced"
"Just The Way You Are"
Dennis
$800 [11]
A monk's habit inspired this draped collar that can be pulled over the head & worn as a hood
a cowl
$1,000 [21]
We appreciate the indoor service dog reliefareaat the airport for this charmed city; the fire hydrant's a nice touch
Baltimore
$1,000 [8]
Bob Dole
Gerald Ford
Dennis
DD $1,200 [15]
I declare this Latin word to mean a suspension of activity
moratorium
John
$1,000 [24]
After she said, "They tried to make me go to rehab & I told them no no no", her producer told her, "We should turn that into a song"
Amy Winehouse
Lau
$1,000 [25]
1940s Mexican-American men helped popularize this rhyming ensemble associated with jitterbug dancing
a zoot suit
Lau

Double Jeopardy! Round

EARTH HISTORY WAYS TO SAY GO AWAY! POUND! SAND! LOCK HIM UP! TV SPIN-OFFS A HIGHER ROYALTY
$400 [26]
Leading to the first animals, this element began to build up in the atmosphere 2 BYA as a product of photosynthesis
oxygen
John
$400 [16]
A punny way to say go away is "Make like a tree and" do this
leaf
John
$400 [21]
French novelist George Sand had several lovers, including this Polish-French pianist & composer
Chopin
John
$800 [15]
One of Alcatraz' most infamous inmates, he served time in Chicago's Cook County jail & in Atlanta before his arrival in 1934
Capone
Lau
$800 [7]
"Mayans M.C."--the M.C. stands for Motorcycle Club
Sons of Anarchy
Lau
$800 [9]
In 1698 Peter the Great wanted his wife, Eudoxia, to become an ex-this & forced her into a nunnery
a czarina or empress
Dennis
$800 [25]
Land plants are about 450 mil. years old, but evolution didn't bring us these colorful seed-bearing parts until about 130 MYA
flowers
John
$800 [27]
You can say "Hit the road!" or "hit" these, which roads were once often made of
the bricks
John
$800 [22]
As an editor in London, Ezra Pound helped to publish this man's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
(James) Joyce
Dennis Lau
$1,200 [12]
In 2018, after he was transferred to a West Virginia prison, this infamous Boston mobster was murdered
(Whitey) Bulger
John
$1,200 [5]
"Schooled" , starring AJ Michalka as Lainey Lewis, now a music teacher
The Goldbergs
$1,200 [8]
My title is this, & I am funky, but in Japanese, it's kōshaku
prince
Lau
$1,200 [1]
The event of 65 million years ago that took out the dinosaurs is reckoned as the fifth of these mass die-offs
extinction events
John
$1,600 [17]
2-word phrase also meaning "push the boat out into the water"
shove off
Dennis
$1,200 [20]
Readers got Ezra Pound's views on art, poetry & philosophy in his "Guide to" this, oddly spelled starting "K-U-L-C-H"
Culture
John
$1,600 [13]
This "Robinson Crusoe" author was pilloried (literally) & jailed for libel in 1703
(Daniel) Defoe
Dennis Lau
$1,600 [4]
Set in Seattle, "Station 19"
Grey's Anatomy
Dennis John
$1,600 [10]
This German title comes from the Latin word Caesar
kaiser
Dennis
$1,600 [2]
One theory estimates that life on Earth began 3.5 billion years ago near these volcanic openings in the seabed
(alkaline) vents
Dennis Lau
$2,000 [19]
Wordsworth began a poem not with "Scram, thou fond presumptuous elf", but this more old-fashioned 6-letter word
Begone
$1,600 [23]
He dedicated his poem "The Waste Land" to Ezra Pound, "il miglior fabbro" ("the better craftsman ")
(T.S.) Eliot
Dennis
$2,000 [14]
He served as Illinois governor from 2003 to 2009; in 2012 he began serving time at a low-security prison in Colorado
Blagojevich
John
$2,000 [6]
"Bindi: The Jungle Girl"
Crocodile Hunter
John
DD $2,000 [11]
That's thepopeputting the crown on Charles V, so this must be the titlehe'sreceiving in 1530
the Holy Roman Emperor
Dennis
$2,000 [3]
Around 300 million years ago, almost all of Earth's continents came together to form one supercontinent known as this
Pangea
John
DD $2,500 [18]
In this 2017 horror film, Lakeith Stanfield delivers the 2-word title line
Get Out
Dennis
$2,000 [24]
Jules, not George, was a pseudonym that Ms. Sand used while writing for this newspaper of Paris, not Seville
Le Figaro

Final Jeopardy!

U.S. TERRITORIES

Of the 5 inhabited U.S. territories, this is the only one where cars drive on the left

U.S. Virgin Islands

Lau "What are the US Virgin Islands?" — wagered $200
Dennis "What is Guam?" — wagered $14,101
John "What are the US Virgin Islands?" — wagered $13,801

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