Show #8153 2020-02-05 (taped 2019-11-20) Regular

Contestants

Justin Joseph — a voiceover artist from Los Angeles, California

Paige Hermansen — an English professor from Amherst, Massachusetts

Travis Gaylord — a management consultant from Wynnewood, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,002)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Travis $1,200 $4,600 $11,000 $17,201
3-day champion: $37,203
$10,200
15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Paige $2,600 $3,800 $8,600 $15,000
2nd place: $2,000
$8,600
16 R, 4 W
Justin $1,600 $3,600 $6,400 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$12,400
16 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

WORLD LEADERS NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES STATE SONGS NICKNAMES TEXTING ABBREV. MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA
$200 [18]
He reigned from 1066 to 1087 & one of those years should really help you
William the Conqueror
Paige
$200 [26]
In 2007 Rupert Murdoch bought this newspaper that was started by Charles Dow in the 19th century
The Wall Street Journal
Paige
$200 [15]
Its state folk song is "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On"
Washington
Travis
$200 [25]
In the 1980s a Californian won the contest to nickname Seattle, with this entry out of Oz
the Emerald City
Paige
$200 [6]
F2F:Let's get together this way
face-to-face
Paige
$200 [12]
(Hi, I'm Bill Ritter from New York's ABC7 [He presents from Queens, NY].) Philip Johnson designed the soaring towers of the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in the futuristic Googie style which fit perfectly inthis1997 film that featured them
Men in Black
Justin
$600 [1]
He led from 1799 to 1814, took an unwanted vacation, returned & then was gone for good in 1815
Napoleon
Travis
$400 [23]
Marca, a Spanish sports daily, reports on this sport in particular
soccer
Paige
$400 [5]
Appropriately, it has a state bluegrass song, "Blue Moon of" itself
Kentucky
Travis
$400 [28]
The grand scale of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C Major earned it this nickname, after the chief Roman god
Jupiter
Justin
$400 [7]
JK:Only a joke
just kidding
Justin
$400 [13]
(I'm Anne Elise Park with TXA21. [She presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas].) George W. Bush's Oval Office is one setting for the movie "W.", directed by this man who entered Yale the same year as Bush
Oliver Stone
Paige Justin
$800 [2]
Nicknamed "Uncle", this Communist was a leader in Vietnam from 1945 to 1969
Ho Chi Minh
Travis
$600 [19]
MT for short, this magazine for car enthusiasts celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2019
Motor Trend
Travis
$600 [11]
Maryland's state song "Maryland, My Maryland" is sung to the tune of this Christmas song
"O Tannenbaum"
Justin
$600 [27]
Thismatinee idol & grandfather of actress Drew had good looks & an aquiline nose, which got him the nickname "The Great Profile"
John Barrymore
Travis
$600 [8]
ROTFL:You've made me hysterical
rolling on the floor laughing
Paige
$600 [14]
(Hi, I'm Betty Davis from Local 10 [She presents from Miami, FL].) Miami Beach's Carlyle Hotel was a setting for this 1996 comedy starring Robin Williams & Nathan Lane
The Birdcage
Paige
$1,000 [3]
Popular in 37 A.D., this man whose name means "little boot" was sent walking 4 years later
Caligula
$800 [20]
In 2010 this mayoral name began appearing above "Businessweek" on a magazine that's been around since 1929
Bloomberg
Justin
$800 [4]
In the lyrics of Vermont's state song, "these" title lofty peaks "are my home"
the Green Mountains
Travis Paige
$800 [9]
OT:Not pertaining to the issue at hand
off-topic
Paige
$800 [21]
(I'm Robert Hadlock from KXAN [He presents from Austin, TX].) The state capitol appears in 1982's "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" which starred this late actor as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd
Burt Reynolds
Justin
DD $1,200 [17]
In 2003 it all came crashing down around him, including his statue on April 9
Saddam Hussein
Travis
$1,000 [24]
Atlanta's top newspaper has this hyphenated name
Journal-Constitution
Travis
$1,000 [16]
Wyoming's second state song, official since 2018, mentions this 4-letter river named for strong gusts in the area
Wind
$1,000 [10]
YBS:I'm trying to warn you
you'll be sorry
$1,000 [22]
(Hi, I'm Chris Tanaka from Cleveland 19.) In "A Christmas Story", the hugeboxmarked "fra-JEE-lay" (actually, that's "fragile") contains this alliterative 2-word award
the leg lamp
Paige

Double Jeopardy! Round

A COLORFUL CATEGORY ON THE MEDITERRANEAN SHOW TUNE RHYMES THE "IDE"S OF FEBRUARY GENETIC DISORDERS AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES
$400 [1]
Avoid the sting of this creature named for its coloration
yellowjacket
Justin
$400 [16]
Politically, this country is divided into 14 provinces, including the city of Damascus, which is considered its own province
Syria
Travis
$400 [6]
In "The Music Man" there were "copper bottom tympani in horse platoons... double bell euphoniums & big" these instruments
bassoons
Travis Paige
$400 [20]
On February 24, 2019 hundreds of bicyclists showed up for Portland, Oregon's "Worst Day of the Year" this
Ride
Paige
$400 [23]
Unusual bleeding after vaccinations & swelling & warmth in joints are symptoms of this blood-clotting disorder
hemophilia
Travis Paige
$400 [28]
Joanne is her first name; she has no middle name but Kathleen was added for literary purposes in honor of her grandmother
J.K. Rowling
Justin
$800 [2]
These sea discolorations that can be caused by Karenia brevis can kill fish & be toxic to humans
red algae (red tides)
Travis
$800 [17]
Listen, sweetheart, Casablanca in this country isn't on the Mediterranean, but Nador is
Morocco
Travis
$800 [8]
Evita rhymes, "All through my wild days, my mad existence, I kept my promise, don't keep your" this
distance
Paige
$800 [12]
Spike Lee was among the stars sitting here at the February 17, 2019 NBA All-Star Game in Charlotte
courtside
Justin
$800 [24]
Treatment for this tremor-causing malady first described in 1817 may include freezing small areas of the brain
Parkinson's
Justin
$800 [22]
Perhaps in an act of "Civil Disobedience", this transcendentalist reversed the order of his first & middle names
Thoreau
Justin
$1,200 [3]
Hurricanes & Dolphins both played home games in this now-demolished venue
the Orange Bowl
Travis
$1,200 [10]
This island that boasts Messina but not Loggins is always getting the boot
Sicily
Paige
$1,200 [13]
In "Cats", "Every streetlamp seems to beat a fatalistic warning, someone mutters & the street lamp gutters, & soon it will be" this
morning
Justin
$1,200 [7]
On Feb. 3, 2019 the slogan "There's enough money when no one steals" gave Nayib Bukele this type of win in El Salvador's election
a landslide
Justin
$1,200 [25]
Duchenne MD--MD short for this--is an inherited disorder that affects about 1 in 3,500 male births around the world
muscular dystrophy
Paige
$1,200 [21]
This author who grew up in Oxford, Mississippi added the letter "U" to his last name
Faulkner
Paige
$1,600 [4]
Formed in 1952, the U.S. Army's special forces are also known by this name
Green Berets
Justin
$1,600 [18]
The ancient city of Carthage is in this country that borders Algeria & the Mediterranean
Tunisia
Travis Paige
$1,600 [14]
In "Spamalot" the Lady of the Lake sings, "Do not fail, find your" this one word
grail
Justin
$1,600 [9]
Port Townsend, Washington experienced a king one of these on February 23, 2019
the tide
Travis
$1,600 [26]
Marguerite Johnson was a singer when she took this stage name & used it when she wrote poems like "Still I Rise"
Maya Angelou
Paige
DD $3,000 [5]
Here's this mountain range mentioned in the opening of "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
the Blue Ridge Mountains
Justin
$2,000 [19]
60 miles up the coast from Tel Aviv is this city, Israel's main port
Haifa
DD $3,000 [15]
In "it's The Hard-Knock Life", Annie laments, "No one cares for you a smidge, when you're in" this place
an orphanage
Justin
$2,000 [11]
Because it took the life of Portugal's king & his heir apparent, a February 1908 assassination is known as the "Lisbon" this
Regicide
$2,000 [27]
New Yorker Nathan Weinstein fittingly changed his name to this & eventually moved out to Hollywood
Nathanael West

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN HISTORY

At Harpers Ferry, John Brown & his rebels were defeated by troops commanded by this man who 2 years later led a rebel army himself

Robert E. Lee

Justin "Who is Hamit" — wagered $6,399
Paige "Who is Robert E. Lee" — wagered $6,400
Travis "Who is Robert E. Lee?" — wagered $6,201

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