Show #8155 2020-02-07 (taped 2019-11-20) Regular

Contestants

Brenda Gant — an office manager and bookkeeper from Glendale, California

Gauravi Shah — a nuclear engineer and improv comedian from Cincinnati, Ohio

Patrick Rice — a business development strategist from San Francisco, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,199)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Patrick $2,400 $5,400 $11,000 $5,801
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
14 R, 1 W
Gauravi $5,200 $7,000 $15,400 $25,601
New champion: $25,601
$16,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Brenda $-600 $400 $12,800 $2,799
3rd place: $1,000
$11,600
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

O CANADA PROVINCE SONGS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY CARS WOMEN'S MEMOIRS WHERE'S THE BEEF? BEYOND MEAT
$200 [25]
Some familiar names in this eastern province--Annapolis, Sydney, Liverpool--but New Glasgow might help you the most
Nova Scotia
Gauravi
$200 [27]
George Michael:"____ Figure"
Father
Brenda
$200 [26]
Chrysler, General Motors & this are the "Big 3" automakers
Ford
Brenda
$200 [28]
"Fight Like a Girl" & "Unbecoming" recount women's experiences in this "most masculine" branch of the U.S. military
Marines
Brenda
$200 [15]
On a menu "beef" or "steak" this means it comes only one way--raw!
tartare
Gauravi
$200 [24]
Stick your nose into other people's business
meddle
Patrick
$400 [2]
The 5,420-foot Mont D'Iberville is this province's highest point
Quebec
Patrick
$400 [23]
Kansas:"Carry On Wayward ____"
Son
Brenda
$400 [7]
With a Latin name meaning "I roll", this Swedish automaker began rolling out its cars in 1927
Volvo
Gauravi
$400 [9]
"My Life in France" is the story of how this chef found her true calling
Julia Child
Gauravi
$400 [14]
Clara Peller famously asked, "Where's the beef?" in TV ads for this "old fashioned hamburgers" chain
Wendy's
Brenda
$400 [19]
Like Hessians in the American Revolutionary War, it's a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army
a mercenary
Patrick
$600 [1]
This province includes the Haida Gwaii island group, 60 miles off the mainland
British Columbia
Gauravi
$600 [20]
Elmo & Patsy:"____ Got Run Over By A Reindeer"
Grandma
Patrick
$600 [5]
This maker of the Impreza says that 97% of its vehicles sold in the last 10 years are still on the road today
Subaru
Gauravi
$800 [29]
Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody's record of her time as one of these performers is titled "Candy Girl"
a stripper
$600 [11]
Mmm! Here's this Southern favorite with a different type of meat in its name
chicken-fried steak
Gauravi
$600 [16]
When an egg became the most popular post on Instagram, it became popular as one of these. Perhaps you missed this one
a meme
Gauravi
$800 [3]
The Winnipeg metro area is home to more than 50% of the population of this province
Manitoba
Gauravi
$800 [21]
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince:"____ Just Don't Understand"
Parents
Patrick
$800 [6]
Headquartered in Munich, it built aircraft engines before transitioning to motorcycles & cars
BMW
Gauravi
DD $1,000 [10]
"I Feel Bad About My Neck", about the travails of aging, is by this late, great writer & director of "You've Got Mail"
Nora Ephron
Gauravi
$800 [12]
The name of this French boeuf dish, beef braised in red wine, means it's prepared in the style of Burgundy
bourguignon
Gauravi
$800 [17]
Another name for a bullhorn
megaphone
$1,000 [4]
This one of Canada's maritime provinces is highlighted here
New Brunswick
Patrick Brenda
$1,000 [22]
Pearl Jam, 1993:"____"
Daughter
$1,000 [8]
A charging bull graces the hood of the Aventador, a model of this Italian sports car
Lamborghini
Patrick
$1,000 [30]
Thisadvisor to Barack Obama wrote "Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward"
Valerie Jarrett
Patrick
$1,000 [13]
Though best known, Kobe is just one variety of this expensive beef whose name translates to "Japanese cow"
Wagyu
Gauravi
$1,000 [18]
This dark pigment determines skin & hair color
melanin
Gauravi

Double Jeopardy! Round

CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS MUSIC HALLS FRED(E)RIC(K)S OF HOLLYWOOD AWARDS & HONORS SLANG TERMS EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY
$400 [8]
In 1958 African-American activist Clennon King was sent to an asylum for trying to register at this state U. in Oxford
University of Mississippi
Patrick
$400 [6]
Ryman Auditorium, this city's country music hall, is more than a century older than Schermerhorn, its classical hall
Nashville
Gauravi Brenda
$400 [26]
Born Frederick Austerlitz, this actor was free to create his own dances on film
Fred Astaire
$400 [16]
Instituted in 1782, itwas the first U.S. military decoration
the Purple Heart
Gauravi
$400 [21]
To "make out like" this, meaning to do well, may refer not to a robber but to slang for a slot machine
a bandit
Brenda
$400 [1]
Bastet was a goddess in the form of one of these still-common domestic pets
a cat
Brenda
$800 [10]
The Congress of Racial Equality planned these 1961 trips to enforce desegregation of interstate transportation
Freedom Rides
Brenda
$800 [7]
This New York City venue a shimmering gold stagecurtainthat is said to be the largest in the world
Radio City Music Hall
Brenda
$800 [27]
This former child actor is now a busy TV director & even directed brother Ben in "Boy Meets World"
Fred Savage
Brenda
$800 [12]
After World Champion, the highest title in chess is International this; today there are more than 1,600 of them
a Grandmaster
Brenda
$800 [19]
Alliteration abounds in this 3-word phrase, a very uncomplicated game where you ring someone's doorbell & run away
ding dong ditch
Patrick
$800 [2]
Sometimes depicted as a human head on a bird, the ba was this eternal part of a human
a soul
Gauravi
$1,200 [9]
In 1828 actor Thomas Rice began playing a blackface character named this, a term later used to describe racist laws
Jim Crow
Patrick Brenda
$1,200 [23]
One of America's oldest opera houses, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia was modeled on this Milan venue
La Scala
Patrick
$1,200 [28]
With the help of makeup artist Wally Westmore, Fredric March won an Oscar in this dual role from a literary classic
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Gauravi
$1,200 [13]
The 2019 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show gave this distinction to a fox terrier, with a Havanese taking the reserve title
Best in Show
Brenda
$1,200 [17]
To garner extremely high marks in a school examination is more slangily to do this 3-letter word to "that test"
ace
Patrick
$1,200 [3]
Seen on amulets, this beetle was a sacred symbol of revival
a scarab
Gauravi
$1,600 [11]
Civil rights activism often includes VRDs, these "Drives" to help people participate in our democracy
voter registration
Patrick Gauravi
$1,600 [24]
The Palau de la Musica Catalanais an ornatetreasurein this city
Barcelona
Patrick
$1,600 [29]
Thisfunnyman improvised his way to greatness in films like "Waiting for Guffman" & "A Mighty Wind"
Fred Willard
$1,600 [14]
A silver lantern is given by the JFK Library with "The Profile in" this award to recipients who exemplify the spirit of JFK's book
Courage
Brenda
$1,600 [20]
Like the feedback type, in a "compulsion" this, you endlessly cycle through checking your social media apps
a loop
Brenda
DD $2,000 [4]
The Egyptian sun god known as Khepri at dawn & Atum in the evening was known by this 2-letter name at midday
Ra
Gauravi
DD $3,200 [22]
This discriminatory practice comes from the colorful borders on maps around areas where minorities found it hard to get loans or credit
redlining
Brenda
$2,000 [25]
A Miami concert hall is home to this symphony co-founded by Michael Tilson Thomas; its name sounds like a Dvorak piece about America
the New World Symphony Orchestra
$2,000 [30]
This actor who played a killer in "Double Indemnity" was a sweet dad to "My Three Sons" on TV
Fred MacMurray
$2,000 [15]
Damien Hirst & director Steve McQueen have won the British visual arts prize named for this 19th century British painter
J.M.W. Turner
$2,000 [18]
This numerical term for the first person to catch a certain disease now can mean the first person affected by something
patient zero
Gauravi
$2,000 [5]
With his distinctive head, hewas the god of embalming
Anubis
Gauravi

Final Jeopardy!

QUOTES ABOUT 19th CENTURY AUTHORS

This author "showed that abysses may exist inside a governess", a heroine who was a "commonplace spinster"

Charlotte Brontë

Patrick "Who is Emily Dickinson?" — wagered $5,199
Brenda "Who is Emily Brontë" — wagered $10,001
Gauravi "Who is Charlotte Brönte?" — wagered $10,201

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