Show #8152 2020-02-04 (taped 2019-11-20) Regular

Contestants

Nipun Tulshian — an investment analyst from New York, New York

Kathryn Flucht — an accounting student from Canton, Michigan

Travis Gaylord — a management consultant from Wynnewood, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Travis $1,600 $2,200 $5,000 $5,201
2-day champion: $20,002
$5,000
12 R, 2 W
Kathryn $-800 $1,600 $2,400 $1
2nd place: $2,000
$5,400
11 R, 5 W (including 2 DDs)
Nipun $2,200 $2,600 $5,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND OHIO WHERE DOES IT HURT? GIVE US ONE LETTER IRRITABLE OWL SYNDROME MONUMENTAL TELEVISION IN THE ENVIRONMENT
$200 [26]
Toledo is a major port on this Great Lake
Erie
Travis
$200 [12]
Dermatalgia
skin
Kathryn
$200 [10]
Type of shirt that proverbially suits you to this letter
T
Travis
$200 [21]
Like others, this owl familiar of Harry Potter perished in "Deathly Hollows"
Hedwig
Kathryn
$200 [18]
A Milwaukee statue of Henry Winkler's "Happy Days" character is rhymingly called "The Bronze" this
Fonz
Travis
$200 [28]
It's the name in common to Paris' subway & Washington, D.C.'s rail system
Metro
Travis
$400 [27]
Walsh University & the Pro Football Hall of Fame both opened in this city in the 1960s
Canton
Nipun
$400 [15]
Hepatalgia
the liver
Kathryn
$400 [20]
Let's pull this unit of acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity at the earth's surface
G
Travis
$400 [22]
This owl named for its shrill cry gets very irritable when it is mobbed by the songbirds it normally preys on
a screech owl
Kathryn
$400 [3]
A statue in Salem, Massachusetts honoring this 1960s sitcom has the main character riding a broomstick
Bewitched
Travis
$800 [4]
It's another name for a winemaker
a vintner
Nipun
$600 [11]
30 miles of historic byway in Ohio are dedicated to this 19th century planter; the area includes some of his original nurseries
Johnny Appleseed
Nipun
$600 [14]
Odontalgia
teeth
Kathryn
$600 [7]
Chess notation for the piece that can move exactly one square in any direction
K
Nipun
$600 [25]
It's safe to say Woodsy Owl would be peeved if you did this; he did ask us to "Give a hoot" & not to do it
pollute
Travis
$600 [19]
This Kansas "City" that attracts western-loving tourists has a life-size statue of Marshal Dillon from "Gunsmoke"
Dodge City
$1,000 [8]
It can mean the countries of eastern Asia, or to familiarize yourself with your surroundings
Orient
Travis
$800 [1]
Through a narrow valley known locally as "The Flats", the Cuyahoga River divides this metropolis
Cleveland
Travis
$800 [9]
Arthralgia (these parts, whether hinge or ball-&-socket)
joint
Nipun
$800 [5]
It begins 2 Mexican states but is the only letter not present in the names of the 50 U.S. states
Q
Travis Kathryn
$800 [24]
Mr. Owl never does quite figure out exactly how many licks it takes to get to the center of one of these lollipops
a Tootsie Pop
Kathryn Nipun
$800 [17]
Complete with carved Johnny, Johnny Carson Park is in this L.A. suburb, the longtime home of "The Tonight Show"
Burbank
Nipun
$1,000 [2]
It's your Ohio newscaster audition: pronounce this seat of Allen County, & remember it's not said like the city in Peru
Lima
Nipun
DD $1,000 [13]
Myalgia (these parts)
muscles
Kathryn
$1,000 [6]
In 1927 Ford introduced its next generation of cars, the model this
A
Kathryn
$1,000 [23]
When Winnie the Pooh & Piglet go to see Owl's tree house in this forest, the wind knocks the tree over
the Hundred Acre Wood
Kathryn
$1,000 [16]
A statue of this Jackie Gleason character graces the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal
Ralph Kramden
Travis

Double Jeopardy! Round

APOSTOLIC NAMES NEWER WORLD HERITAGE SITES HELLO! ADMIRABLE ADMIRALS TL;DR I ALSO COMPOSE FILM MUSIC
$400 [8]
The OED lists "traitor" as a definition for this biblical name
Judas
Kathryn
$400 [22]
UNESCO mentioned the picturesque & romantic movements when it added this English "district" beloved by Coleridge
the Lake District
$400 [2]
This greeting is a shortening of Hebrew for "Peace be with you"
shalom
Nipun
$400 [7]
In 1864, Admiral David Farragut's forces sealed off this Alabama city, one of the last major southern supply ports
Mobile
Travis
$400 [13]
1,200+ pages? Gimme the gist of this novel...the French invade Russia, m-hm ...500 characters?! ...Prince Andrey Bolkonsky...got it!
War and Peace
Nipun
$800 [16]
Ludwig Göransson won Grammys for composing "Black Panther" & co-writing this 2018 Childish Gambino song
"This Is America"
Kathryn
$800 [11]
As luck would have it, an oft-injured NFL quarterback with this apostolic name retired before the 2019 season began
Andrew
Nipun
$800 [12]
In 2019 UNESCO added Vatnajokull National Park, which contains Iceland's largest this... for now
a glacier
Travis
$800 [19]
The OED spells this Australian greeting with an apostrophe
g'day
Nipun
$800 [6]
After his victory at Manila Bay in 1898, he was given the rank of Admiral of the Navy
George Dewey
$800 [15]
This 17th century adventure opens in La Mancha & about 800 pages later, its title guy renounces chivalry as foolish & dies
Don Quixote
Nipun
$1,200 [17]
Anyone who has seen "Birdman" can guess that its composer Antonio Sanchez is mostly known for playing these instruments
drums
$1,200 [1]
This apostolic name is also a game of flashing red, blue, yellow & green lights
Simon
Nipun
$2,000 [27]
In 2018 UNESCO added Ivrea, an industrial commune near Turin where this Italian company made typewriters, not cooking oils
Olivetti
$1,200 [20]
Unlike a more popular synonym, welina means "greetings" in this language but does not mean "goodbye"
Hawaiian
$1,600 [5]
Admiral Yi Sun-shin, who repelled multiple Japanese invasions in the 1590s, is this country's national hero
Korea
Travis
$1,200 [14]
Dickens' tale of a seemingly endless lawsuit is contained in the 900+ pages of this "homely" novel
Bleak House
$1,600 [26]
This man has composed music for some of the movies he's directed like "Flags of Our Fathers" & "Mystic River"
Clint Eastwood
$1,600 [10]
In a Seuss tale a boy with this apostolic name had 500 hats
Bartholomew
Kathryn
$1,600 [21]
This 2-word Spanish greeting means "what's happening"
que pasa
Nipun
$2,000 [4]
This admiral's tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery calls him the "Father of the Nuclear Navy"
Hyman Rickover
Nipun
$1,600 [18]
Formerly imprisoned in a château, our hero first spots the island in this title around 1/5 of the way through the 1,000 pages
The Count of Monte Cristo
Nipun
$2,000 [25]
In the 1930s this Russian composed "Peter & the Wolf" & scored the movie "Alexander Nevsky"
Prokofiev
DD $2,000 [9]
The Spanish Diego is the equivalent to this apostolic name
James
Kathryn
$2,000 [24]
Also a dance, this word is commonly used as a Swahili greeting
mambo
Kathryn
DD $3,000 [3]
On July 30, 1588 Admiral, Howard left this city's harbor to meet the Armada; 32 years later, another ship set sail from there
Plymouth
Nipun
$2,000 [23]
Nearly living up to its name, this novel by David Foster Wallace boasts nearly 1,100 pages, including 10 on the disassembly of a bed
Infinite Jest
Kathryn

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD MAMMALS

A drawing of it by John Hunter, naturalist & governor of New South Wales, published in 1802 labels it Ornithorhyncus paradoxus

a (duck-billed) platypus

Kathryn "What is the kiwi" — wagered $2,399
Travis "What is a platypus?" — wagered $201
Nipun "What is a kangaroo" — wagered $5,200

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