Show #8150 2020-01-31 (taped 2019-11-19) Regular

Contestants

Audrey Koh — a professional taste tester from Oakland, California

Matthew Leonard — a client services coordinator from New Haven, Connecticut

Michelle Paul — a managing director from Newark, Delaware (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Michelle $3,600 $4,800 $10,200 $12,222
2-day champion: $30,122
$9,600
15 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Matthew $0 $1,600 $3,200 $0
2nd place: $2,000
$6,000
9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Audrey $1,600 $3,400 $-2,600 $-2,600
3rd place: $1,000
$1,400
11 R, 6 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

SYMBOLS @ % "&" * >
$200 [3]
On the Great Seal of the United States, the eagle grasps this symbol of peace in its right talon
an olive branch
Matthew
$200 [1]
About 1,600 smaller islands surround the main one of this nation that's 90 miles south of Key West
Cuba
Audrey
$400 [26]
The occupy Wall Street movement helped popularize the populist phrase "We are the" this
the 99%
Audrey
$400 [24]
A classic reader featured "Fun with" these 2 siblings, along with their dog Spot
Dick & Jane
Audrey
$400 [19]
A footnote in Richard Feynman's Caltech lectures scolds these versifiers who say science reduces the stars' beauty
poets
Michelle
$400 [25]
The People's Choice winner for best TV Comedy of 2018 was this show set in a prison
Orange is the New Black
Michelle
$400 [4]
One symbolic representation of Christ is as the paschal type of this animal
a lamb
Michelle
$400 [23]
No visit to Iceland would be complete without a visit to the "Bay of Smokes", this capital city founded around 874
Reykjavik
Michelle
$600 [22]
In 2018-19 James Harden of this team led the NBA in usage, the percentage of plays he's involved in on offense
the Houston Rockets
$600 [7]
Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except" these 2 things
death & taxes
Michelle
$600 [10]
You can get "Lost" in the footnotes & notes on the footnotes in "S.", a novel conceived by this sci-fi writer-director
J.J. Abrams
Michelle
$600 [13]
In 2019 Jason Bateman won an Emmy for his direction of this series & Julia Garner won for playing Missouri local Ruth Langmore
Ozark
Matthew
$600 [8]
Gary Anderson designed 3 chasing arrows as the symbol for this; the negative space on the inside resembles a pine tree
recycling
Audrey
$800 [16]
A small trading town until the 19th c., this city on the Huangpu River now has a pop. of 20+ million, kidnapped sailors aside
Shanghai
Matthew
$800 [17]
In the dystopian Netflix show "3%", kids in the slums of this largest Brazilian city are competing to join an offshore paradise
São Paulo
Audrey
$800 [5]
It's the traditional name of the British dish seen here
bangers & mash
Audrey
$800 [11]
A 2016 papal footnote caused a ruckus by saying some divorced Catholics can have "the help of" these, such as communion
the sacraments
$800 [20]
In 2019 the Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance went to "Tequila" by the duo of Dan + him
Shay
Audrey
$800 [18]
Long a symbol of communism, this pair represents the union of worker & peasant
hammer and sickle
Matthew
$1,000 [15]
What a pyramid scheme! The landmarkherein this ancient Mayan city was dedicated to Kukulkan
Chichen Itza
$1,000 [6]
The government contacts about 110,000 people to get this monthly figure, 3.6% for Oct. 2019
unemployment
Matthew
$1,000 [2]
In 1949 Billboard added this new music category to replace what had been called Race Records
R&B (Rhythm & Blues)
Matthew
$1,000 [12]
Gibbon's notes in "Decline and Fall of" this include a burn on an ancient historian, "Ammianus is so eloquent, that he writes nonsense"
the Roman Empire
Michelle
$1,000 [21]
With superheroic effort at 2019's NAACP Image Awards, he bested Michael B. Jordan--again--as Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
(Chadwick) Boseman
Audrey
$1,000 [9]
Because of his days as a sailor, the founder of this department store used a red star as its symbol
Macy's
Michelle
DD $2,800 [14]
This waterway extends 51 miles from Limón Bay to a second bay whose name would kinda give it away
the Panama Canal
Matthew

Double Jeopardy! Round

SPECIES NAMES 14-LETTER WORDS LITERARY FESTIVALS HISTORIC PLEAS WORLD TRANSPORTATION REAL-LIFE CELEBRITY SUPERHEROES
$400 [10]
Macropus rufus is this color kangaroo
red
Matthew
$400 [1]
The action of changing a lowercase letter into an uppercase one
capitalization
Michelle Matthew
$400 [15]
This California city is home to Litquake, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019
San Francisco
Michelle
$400 [6]
In 1860, after anti-abolitionists broke up a meeting, this thinker & ex-slave delivered a plea for freedom of speech in Boston
(Frederick) Douglass
Audrey
$1,200 [9]
This U.S. interstate passes through 8 states on its 2,400+ mile journey from Santa Monica to Jacksonville
I-10
Audrey
$1,200 [12]
I, this '90s figure skater, called 911 & gave mouth-to-mouth to an 81-year-old woman who collapsed in a bar in Portland
Tonya Harding
Michelle
$1,200 [16]
The annuus in Helianthus annuus, the sunflower, implies it lives up to this number of years
one
Michelle
$800 [2]
Buildings & roads are part of this, the set of features needed for running a city
infrastructure
Michelle
$800 [18]
The Tennessee Williams & the Saints & Sinners LGBT Literary Festivals are both held in this southern city
New Orleans
Michelle
$800 [7]
An 11th c. chronicle says Lady Godiva pleaded with her husband to lower the people's taxes; he said okay, if you'll do this
horseback ride naked through the town
Audrey
$1,600 [5]
Carrying 5,000-plus passengers, one of the largest cruiseliners, the "Harmony of the Seas" is operated by this company with a sea name
Royal Caribbean
$2,000 [4]
Before playing Gibbs on "NCIS", he sledgehammered the window of a burning car & pulled 2 teens to safety
Mark Harmon
$2,000 [24]
The gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, is named for one of these cave-dwelling creatures in Greek myth
a cyclops
$1,200 [3]
Someone in this profession of the man seen here, from the Greek for "ancient", often works with an archaeologist
a paleontologist
Audrey
$1,200 [19]
Each year the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada hosts the national gathering for poetry named for this rustic job
cowboy
$1,600 [23]
Lycaon, son of this Trojan king, begs Achilles, "Be merciful and spare me"; Achilles kills him
King Priam (or "Pree-um")
Audrey
$2,000 [11]
In 31 hours South Africa's blue train travels in luxury between these 2 cities, the administrative & legislative capitals
Cape Town & Pretoria
Audrey
DD $2,200 [17]
Pandalus borealis, the deepwater prawn, is also known as this directional shrimp
northern (**north)
Michelle
$1,600 [13]
If you have this condition, you see distant objects more clearly than near ones
farsightedness
Michelle Matthew
$1,600 [20]
Louisville's Gonzofest is not about Muppets; it celebrates the writing of this native son
Hunter Thompson
Audrey
$2,000 [22]
He asked for mercy from Chester Arthur, arguing that he increased Arthur's income from $8,000 to $50,000 a year
Charles Guiteau
$2,000 [14]
Adjective for a space probe designed to travel between earth & Jupiter, for example
interplanetary
Matthew Audrey
$2,000 [21]
One of the largest book festivals in Europe is held in Poland & named for this author of "Heart of Darkness"
(Joseph) Conrad
Matthew
DD $4,000 [8]
Chief Joseph met Teddy Roosevelt & pleaded with him to allow this tribe to return to its ancestral home
Nez Perce
Audrey

Final Jeopardy!

FRENCH TOWNS

Legend says local farm wife Marie Harel & a priest from Brie created the famous product of this Normandy village

Camembert

Matthew "What is Cheese?" — wagered $3,200
Michelle "What is Camembert?" — wagered $2,022

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