Show #8159 2020-02-13 (taped 2019-12-03) Regular

Contestants

Brooke MacKenzie — a lawyer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Meaghan Kaplan — a transformation analyst from Alexandria, Virginia

Josh Gruenberg — a software engineer from Rochester, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Josh $3,800 $5,000 $17,200 $1,799
3rd place: $1,000
$13,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Meaghan $3,000 $6,600 $8,200 $15,200
2nd place: $2,000
$6,600
11 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Brooke $1,400 $5,000 $16,300 $17,300
New champion: $17,300
$9,400
16 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

FEBRUARY CAST OF THE TV SHOW THE CIVIL WAR JUST SAY "N.O." FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES THE HORN OF AFRICA
$200 [30]
One legend about this saint whose feast day is February 14 says he specialized in performing secret marriages
St. Valentine
Brooke
$200 [5]
On NBC... oh man, I'll try to finish but now I'm crying--Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Logan Shroyer
This Is Us
Josh
$200 [18]
About 1,500 Union soldiers received this highest award for valor, instituted by Congress during the Civil War
the Congressional Medal of Honor
Josh Brooke
$200 [6]
Avian term for someone who stays up late
a night owl
Meaghan
$200 [7]
Something ill-suited is "not my" this 3-word phrase; I prefer English breakfast
cup of tea
Josh
$200 [29]
National Geographic called the Danakil this, home to the Horn's Afar people, "the cruelest place on earth"
Desert
$400 [23]
According to annual presidential proclamations, February is this month--not "Black" anymore
African-American History Month
Brooke
$400 [4]
Time traveling on BBC America without the lead actress: Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, Bradley Walsh
Doctor Who
Josh
$600 [17]
The first amputee of the war, J.E. Hanger invented a prosthetic this that ones made today are still based upon
a leg
Brooke
$400 [9]
This gas is used by dentists as an anesthetic
nitrous oxide
Meaghan
$400 [8]
Tread carefully if doing this phrase for being careful not to anger someone (it can use the whole food item or just the shells)
walking on eggshells
Brooke
$400 [20]
Animals of the Horn include the hamadrayas, among the smallest of these big monkeys
a baboon
Brooke
$600 [24]
Baseball spring training begins each February, with players at these 2 positions the first to report
pitchers & catchers
Brooke
$600 [3]
Some special FX: Patrick Wilson & Keith Carradine, both playin' Lou Solverson, dontcha know
Fargo
Josh
$800 [21]
With Atlanta burning in their wake, 62,000 soldiers under Gen. Sherman marched 300 miles to the sea in Nov. & Dec. of this year
1864
Brooke
$600 [15]
It's the delicacy seen here
a navel orange
Josh
$600 [10]
It's a circular representation of relative percentages making up a whole
a pie chart
Meaghan
$600 [16]
The point of the Horn is the peninsula of this country that's earned a reputation as a haven for pirates
Somalia
Meaghan
$800 [26]
John Clare's poem "February" is all about thawing: "eaves in quick succession drop, where grinning" these "have been"
icicles
$800 [2]
On the CW: Camila Mendes & Cole Sprouse as teens, Robin Givens & Skeet Ulrich as grownups
Riverdale
Josh
$1,000 [22]
George Stewart called his in-depth study of this disastrous charge at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 a microhistory
Pickett
Josh
$800 [13]
It's a French phrase whose sentiment is that the rich should take care of the poor
noblesse oblige
$800 [11]
To lament a misfortune that can't be changed or corrected
cry over spilled milk
Meaghan
$800 [19]
In 1993, this country broke away from Ethiopia to become the Horn's newest independent nation
Eritrea
Brooke
$1,000 [25]
It's the big day seenherein the Crescent City onerecent February
Mardi Gras
Meaghan
$1,000 [1]
HBO gets some very robotic performances out of Thandie Newton & James Marsden
Westworld
Josh
DD $2,000 [27]
Confederate troops used a high-pitched battle cry known by this 2-word name; it may have derived from fox hunting
the rebel yell
Meaghan
$1,000 [14]
This astronomical site in D.C. is responsible for the U.S. time service
the Naval Observatory
Meaghan
$1,000 [12]
This expression means "earn a living"; in an old commercial, it was followed by "fry it up in a pan"
bring home the bacon
Brooke
$1,000 [28]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The Horn of Africa is bordered by the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean & this body of water that gets its name from a seaport on the coast of Yemen
the Gulf of Aden

Double Jeopardy! Round

3/4 OF AN EGOT RELIGIOUS FICTION TRIAL MIX HEAT STREET SE"V"EN-LETTER WORDS OPERA ZINGERS
$400 [9]
This "Divine Miss M" could still really use an "O"--that'd be Oscar--as her 2 nominations did not lead to victory
Bette Midler
Brooke
$400 [23]
Books in this series by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins take place following "the rapture"
Left Behind
Josh
$400 [15]
A minor character in "The Crucible", the real Martha Corey was tried, excommunicated & hanged for this in 1692
witchcraft
Brooke
$400 [1]
Pasta chefs know it's the common way of saying heat-induced conversion of a liquid to a gas through vaporization
boiling
Josh Brooke
$400 [25]
"Any port in a storm" is a popular one
a proverb
Meaghan Brooke
$400 [26]
Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" has lots to say to this other British queen, such as "Figlia impura di Bolena"
Elizabeth I
Meaghan
$800 [5]
Emmy "seems to be the hardest word" for this musician, but he certainly could "feel the love tonight" at the Oscars in '95
Elton John
Brooke
$800 [24]
Orson Scott Card's "Women of Genesis" series of novels includes one about these 2 sisters & wives of Jacob
Rachel & Leah
Meaghan
$1,200 [17]
On Aug. 2, 1921, 8 members of this team were acquitted of taking money to lose the World Series; on Aug. 3 they were banned from baseball
the White Sox
Josh
$800 [2]
0 Kelvin is 273.15 below on this scale
Celsius
Josh
$800 [13]
A brewski in Barcelona
a cerveza
Meaghan
$800 [22]
"Vile intruder who thou art" are the first words directed to this Mozart seducer
Don Giovanni
Brooke
$1,200 [6]
Her life story itself was on Broadway in 2019; yet still somehow this one-named superstar is Tony-less
Cher
$1,200 [27]
"The Fifth Mountain" by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho tells of the "whirlwind" life of this biblical prophet
Elijah
$1,600 [18]
In 1982 a federal jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of president Reagan
John Hinckley, Jr.
$1,200 [3]
It's the transfer of energy from one object to another by electromagnetic waves, like heat traveling from the Sun to the Earth
radiation
$1,200 [10]
Pickles or ice cream for expectant mothers, for example
craving
Josh Brooke
$1,200 [20]
This Verdi guy's joking includes suggesting the Count of Ceprano be beheaded since his head is useless on his shoulders
Rigoletto
Meaghan
$1,600 [7]
This actress still needs a Tony, so right now, she will have to settle for having a "Titanic" "EGO"
Kate Winslet
Brooke
$2,000 [19]
Seized in South America in 1960, this high-ranking Nazi was transported to Israel, where he was tried & executed
Adolf Eichmann
Meaghan
$2,000 [14]
Like the desert snake it's named for, this air-to-air missile uses heat sensing to home in on its prey
a sidewinder
Josh
$1,600 [11]
A high-ranking college officer
a provost
Meaghan
$1,600 [21]
"You inconsiderate jade" is one of the nicer things said to Polly in this 1728 "opera" that inspired the 20th c. "Threepenny Opera"
The Beggar's Opera
$2,000 [8]
He's the Oscar, Emmy & Grammy-winning rapper & actor seen here
Common
Josh
DD $7,700 [16]
During the trial of this teacher in 1925, vendors sold refreshments, Bibles & toy monkeys
(John T.) Scopes
Brooke
DD $5,400 [4]
Heat is a form of energy: the first law of this says that it can be neither created nor destroyed but can be changed
Thermodynamics
Josh
$2,000 [12]
Here's a musician, probably Handel, at this, the 18th century word for any keyboard
a clavier
Josh
$2,000 [28]
The Wagnerian dwarf Alberich calls these "maidens" "bony fish" who should "take eels for their lovers"
Rhinemaidens

Final Jeopardy!

INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE

There are reminiscences of branding cattle & lassoing steers in “Martín Fierro”, the national poem of this Western Hemisphere country

Argentina

Meaghan "What is Argentina?" — wagered $7,000
Brooke "What is Argentina???" — wagered $1,000
Josh "What is Brazil?" — wagered $15,401

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