Show #8146 2020-01-27 (taped 2019-11-19) Regular

Contestants

Cheyenne Simmons — a baker and entrepreneur from Albany, New York

Sarah Frontiera — a graduate student from Santa Monica, California

Heather Nelson — a middle school math teacher from Lake Oswego, Oregon (whose 1-day cash winnings total $7,799)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Heather $2,200 $6,200 $13,400 $11,201
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
20 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Sarah $1,200 $3,600 $20,000 $26,801
New champion: $26,801
$17,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Cheyenne $1,400 $1,200 $11,200 $3,700
3rd place: $1,000
$11,200
12 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

BUDDHIST TEMPLES NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLES PHRASE HISTORY PUBLIC TELEVISION INSPIRING WOMEN THE 2019FORBESGLOBAL 2,000
$200 [26]
The Buddhist Shingon Toji Temple overlooks Nachi Falls, the tallest waterfall in this country
Japan
Heather
$200 [11]
"The Whiteness of the Whale"
Moby-Dick
Cheyenne
$200 [13]
The alliterative "more" this "for your buck" was popularized by a 1950s Secretary of Defense
bang
Heather
$200 [6]
Watch this PBS show & guess how much grandma's old postcards might be appraised for
Antiques Roadshow
Heather
$200 [1]
American Airlines Captain Beverley Bass was piloting one of the 38 planes that were diverted to Newfoundland on this date
September 11th
Cheyenne
$200 [18]
With $4 trillion in total assets, the ICBC, the Industrial & Commercial Bank of this country, tops the list
China
Cheyenne
$400 [27]
In 1968, the Byodo-In Templewas built without nails in Valley of the Temples Memorial Park in this U.S. state
Hawaii
$400 [12]
No lie: "The Beautiful Child Rescues the Puppet"
Pinocchio
Heather
$400 [14]
A 1918 song title said this "Is Hard To Find"
A Good Man
Sarah
$400 [7]
I say, old chap, it's time for "A Question of Sport", a quiz show on this network since 1970
BBC
Heather
$400 [2]
Haben Girma, who advocates for disability rights, was the first deaf blind person to graduate from this law school
Harvard
Heather
$400 [19]
Uber didn't make the 2019 list, but this competitor just squeaked in at No. 1,949
Lyft
Heather
$600 [28]
72 symbolicstupasencircle the top levels of the Borobudur Templecomplexon this island, Indonesia's most populous
Java
Sarah
$600 [23]
By Dickens: "Knitting"
A Tale of Two Cities
$600 [15]
Marshall Field's Chicago department store popularized the expression "The customer is" this
always right
Heather
$600 [8]
Norm Abram earned his spot on the debut of this renovation show 40 years ago by having a minuscule scrap pile
This Old House
Heather
$600 [3]
Pioneering environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas is known as the woman who saved this Florida "river of grass"
the Everglades
Heather
$600 [20]
The most profitable on the list is this technology company that passed $1 trillion in value in 2018
Apple
Heather
$800 [29]
Atemplein India has a tree descended from this five-letter tree important in the life of Buddha
the Bodhi Tree
$800 [24]
1883: "Pieces of eight"
Treasure Island
Sarah
$800 [16]
1970s Budget Director Bert Lance got people saying "If it ain't broke", this
don't fix it
Heather
$800 [9]
Real programs on this type of TV seen in "Wayne's World" include "The Mr. Science Show" & "Cast Iron TV"
public access
Sarah
$800 [4]
India's first female prime minister, she helped shape the country's constitution & society
Indira Gandhi
Sarah
$1,000 [22]
Jamie Dimon is head of this financial services company, the largest in the United States
JPMorgan Chase
$1,000 [25]
From a Verne work: "Boldly Down the Crater"
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Heather Sarah
$1,000 [17]
John Donne's 1624 "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" is the source of the phrase "No man is" this
an island
Heather
$1,000 [10]
The CBC's "Road to Avonlea" made a star of this actress named Sarah who played young Sara Stanley
Sarah Polley
$1,000 [5]
Thisglamorous Vienna-born actress invented a device that contributed to the development of GPS and Wi Fi
Hedy Lamarr
Cheyenne
DD $2,000 [21]
These 2 6-letter aircraft makers topped the Aerospace section on the list
Boeing & Airbus
Heather

Double Jeopardy! Round

THE MIDDLE AGES WRAP IT UP! AROUND THE WORLD DANGEROUS COLORS HIT MUSIC OF TODAY "M___T" PROMISES
$400 [13]
This "dark" pandemic ravaged Europe between 1347 & 1351
the Black Plague
Sarah
$400 [26]
At Subway the signature wraps come wrapped in one of these
tortilla
Heather Cheyenne
$400 [8]
Not only is it the world's smallest ocean, it's also the shallowest
the Arctic
Heather Sarah
$400 [19]
The use of cinnabar as ared, like in Degas' "Combing the Hair", is quite toxic, as it contains this liquid metal
mercury
Heather
$400 [6]
In 2019 adult contemporary fans sure wanted to know "Girls Like You" from this Adam Levine band
Maroon 5
Cheyenne
$400 [1]
Something adopted by a group as a representative symbol
a mascot
Cheyenne
$800 [14]
In this medieval literary work, Judas is found in the lowest circle of hell being gnawed on by Satan
The (Dante's) Inferno ( Divine Comedy )
Sarah
$800 [27]
The househerehas this type of veranda that extends around the sides of the house
a wraparound
Cheyenne
$800 [9]
In 2019 this airline used employees as guinea pigs on a 19-hour flight direct from London to Sydney
Qantas
Heather
$1,200 [21]
Used in"The Arrest of Christ", Naples yellow contains both antimony and this heavy metal once common in house paint
lead
Heather
$800 [7]
This band was "Only Human" as a hitmaker in 2019, its humans being Kevin, Joe & Nick
the Jonas Brothers
Sarah
$800 [2]
Sail holder
a mast
Sarah
$1,200 [15]
According to legend, he was blown off course around 1000 A.D. & landed on the North American continent
(Leif) Erikson
Heather
$1,200 [28]
According to Luke 2, Mary "brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in" these
swaddling clothes
Sarah
$1,200 [10]
A specialty of Goa, India is feni, a potent liquor made from the fruit of the tree that produces these kidney-shaped nuts
cashews
Heather
$1,600 [22]
Leonardo da Vinci used a black powder made from carcinogenic sources like coal tar & named for this element
carbon
$1,200 [16]
In 2019, Garth Brooks & this fellow country star seenhereteam up to hit "A Dive Bar"
Blake Shelton
Heather
$1,200 [3]
Your point is this, of no practical value
moot
Cheyenne
$1,600 [24]
Before Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800, he was dubbed king of these people
the Franks
$2,000 [29]
One of Christo's temporary works of art was the wrapping in fabric of this oldest Paris bridge
the Pont Neuf
Sarah
$1,600 [11]
The name of this people of Kenya precedes "Mara" in the name of a national reserve loaded with lions
Masai
Cheyenne
DD $2,000 [20]
Copper sulfate helped produce Scheele's this color, which gave some Victorians arsenic poisoning from wallpaper
green
Heather
$1,600 [17]
He surprised people at the 2019 VMAs by performing "Panini" over the very expected "Old Town Road"
Lil Nas X
Cheyenne
$1,600 [4]
As an adjective it can mean active in combat, or aggressive about a cause
militant
Cheyenne
$2,000 [25]
In Medieval Europe, some women wore a clothheaddresscalled this, still used today by some nuns who wear a traditional habit
a wimple
Sarah
DD $4,000 [30]
This 4-letter seaweed that wraps up sushi is actually a type of red algae
nori
Sarah
$2,000 [12]
"B" aware that this 19-mile-long strait splits Turkey into western & eastern portions
the Bosporus
Sarah
$2,000 [23]
Prussian blue contained this poison that's also found in the seeds of apples
cyanide
Sarah
$2,000 [18]
The album "Beerbongs & Bentleys" topped the Billboard 200, going pillar to him
Post Malone
Cheyenne
$2,000 [5]
From the French for "clumsy", it means unskillful
maladroit

Final Jeopardy!

POETS

A Dartmouth dropout, he received 2 honorary degrees from Dartmouth--in 1933 & 1955

Robert Frost

Cheyenne "Who is Whitman?" — wagered $7,500
Heather "Who is Thoreau?" — wagered $2,199
Sarah "Who is Frost" — wagered $6,801

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