Show #8162 2020-02-18 (taped 2019-12-04) Regular

MacKenzie Jones game 2.

Contestants

Caitlin Drinkard — a musician from Hamtramck, Michigan

Rex Wessel — an information security engineer from Alburtis, Pennsylvania

MacKenzie Jones — a program development director from Tulsa, Oklahoma (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
MacKenzie $2,200 $4,000 $12,400 $12,400
2-day champion: $38,800
$13,600
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Rex $1,600 $2,000 $4,000 $2,599
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
17 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Caitlin $1,600 $3,400 $5,400 $2,799
2nd place: $2,000
$5,400
12 R, 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

3-WORD CITIES SHE MARRIED THAT ROCK STAR BUCKETS ARCHITECTURE THE 20th CENTURY CONTRONYMS
$200 [16]
Before it was renamed in 1804, this Haitian capital city was known as Port-Republicain
Port-au-Prince
Rex
$200 [1]
Christie Brinkley, in 1985
Billy Joel
Caitlin
$200 [8]
In 1957 the first KFC bucket was designed by this founder's first franchisee, Pete Harman
Colonel Sanders
Rex
$200 [19]
Tinyhouses, usually 400 square feet or less, often have one of these open upper spaces for the bed
a loft
Rex
$200 [6]
Stations using this sensing technology installed on Britain's coast in 1938 detected German bombers a few years later
radar
Rex
$200 [25]
It can mean to take away a car or to get your car back
repossess
Rex
$400 [17]
It's the full name of the English town nicknamed "The Home of the Bard"
Stratford-upon-Avon
MacKenzie
$400 [2]
Linda Eastman, in 1969
Paul McCartney
MacKenzie
$400 [9]
In 1785 "Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" defined this phrase as "to die"
to kick the bucket
Caitlin
$400 [20]
Connecting buildings or parts of a house, this covered passage, open on the sides, is so named because it allows wind to pass through
a breezeway
Caitlin
$400 [7]
Formulated by the Allies at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, this organization was established in Geneva in 1920
League of Nations
MacKenzie Rex
$400 [27]
When you model, you do this to create a pose; for a stagehand, it means to take down a set
strike
MacKenzie
$600 [18]
This city was named in 1565 by the Portuguese, who mistook its bay for the entrance to a river
Rio de Janeiro
$600 [3]
Valerie Bertinelli, in 1981
Eddie Van Halen
MacKenzie
$600 [10]
"The Bucket List" starred these 2 Oscar winners, known for playing God & Satan in other films
Jack Nicholson & Morgan Freeman
Caitlin
$600 [21]
Vital to holding up an arch is this block, top & center, that's placed last
a keystone
Rex
$600 [13]
Celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring was among Aug. 9, 1969 victims of the murderous gang controlled by this man
the (Charles) Manson family
Caitlin
$600 [28]
When doing this to a regular tree, you remove branches; while doing it to a Christmas tree, you add ornaments
trim
Caitlin
$800 [23]
Once the capital of a Sinhalese kingdom, Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is today the legislative capital of this island country
Sri Lanka
Caitlin
$800 [4]
TV personality formerly Sharon Arden, in 1982
Ozzy Osbourne
Rex
$800 [11]
Orchid bees fly into bucket orchids & deliver the materials that help in this reproductive process
pollination
Rex
$1,000 [26]
Renewed interest in the buildings of ancient Rome & Greece shows in this style of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Neoclassical
MacKenzie
$800 [14]
In 1909 a toy company chose the slogan "Goodbye" to this other 2-word toy, "Hello, Billy Possum"
a teddy bear
Caitlin
$800 [29]
You can do this to a meal by adding parsley or to a paycheck by deducting money
garnish
Rex
$1,000 [24]
In Arabic the name of this major port city & seat of Tanzania's government means "abode of peace"
Dar es Salaam
Rex
$1,000 [5]
Shannon Tweed, finally, in 2011
Gene Simmons
MacKenzie
$1,000 [12]
TheBWE, or bucket-wheel this, is capable of moving 12,000 cubic meters ofsoilper hour
excavator
Rex Caitlin
DD $2,600 [22]
This British style of architecture was us here d in beginning with the reign of Henry VII
Tudor
Rex
$1,000 [15]
In 1956 it was g'day for the Olympics held here, the first held in the Southern Hemisphere
Melbourne
MacKenzie Rex
$1,000 [30]
As a verb, this piece of hardware can mean to affix something to the floor or to speed away, like in a race
bolt

Double Jeopardy! Round

SPEAKING VOLUMES CHEMISTRY TV-POURRI THAT USED TO HAPPEN? RELIGIOUS IDIOMS "V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME
$400 [14]
"The Last Lion", a biography of this British PM, appeared in 3 volumes in 1983, 1988 & 2012
Churchill
Rex
$400 [6]
It's the only chemical element that weighs less than helium
hydrogen
Rex
$400 [19]
"A Million Little Pieces" is a tale of addiction & recovery; this ABC show is a drama featuring the Saville family
A Million Little Things
$400 [9]
High car ownership, the interstate system & fear of strangers all led to the decline in this form of free highway travel
hitchhiking
Rex
$400 [1]
If you put up with a lot, you have "the patience of" this Old Testament man from the land of Uz
Job
MacKenzie
$400 [24]
Name of the family that had a 300-year run of royal rule starting in 1613 with Czar Michael
Romanov
MacKenzie
$800 [15]
Here's a revelation--it's the seventh & "Last" book in the Narnia series
The Last Battle
$800 [7]
Equal to the protons in its nucleus, this is 26 for iron
the atomic number
Rex
$800 [20]
"Everybody Dies" was the 2012 series finale of this Hugh Laurie show
House
MacKenzie
$800 [10]
Quick cut & rough cut used to be literally true when this movieprofessionalphysically sliced up thefilm
an editor
Caitlin
$800 [2]
A tornado is an example of this seemingly divinely caused event that can't be stopped by humans
an act of God
MacKenzie
$800 [25]
Due to the TB that would eventually kill him, this "Sea Gull" playwright moved to the resort of Yalta in 1899
Chekhov
MacKenzie
$1,200 [16]
The most recent edition of this lexicon in book form was published in 20 volumes in 1989
the Oxford English Dictionary (the OED )
MacKenzie Rex
$1,200 [8]
Another word for a state of matter, it precedes "transition" to describe a change of a substance such as from liquid to gas
phase
Rex Caitlin
$1,200 [21]
There are Jawas, bounty droid IG-11 & Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon in this Disney+ show that debuted in 2019
The Mandalorian
Caitlin
$1,200 [11]
"Duck &" this was actual 2-part advice in case of nuclear attack to 1950s kids from the Federal Civil Defense Administration
cover
Caitlin
$1,200 [3]
One who's nearing the end of life is knocking on this, as in a 1973 Bob Dylan song
heaven's door
MacKenzie
$1,600 [27]
You remember his brilliant pawn sacrifice on the 14th move of the 10th game of the 1995 match against Anand
Kasparov
Rex
$1,600 [17]
After it was serialized in a magazine, his "Madame Bovary" was published in 2 volumes in 1857
Flaubert
MacKenzie
$1,600 [22]
This Skinnygirl made headlines recently when she announced she was leaving "The Real Housewives of New York City"
Bethenny Frankel
MacKenzie
$1,600 [12]
With smoke-filled rooms & favorite sons, these used to be dramatic affairs but the last multi-ballot one was in 1952
nominating conventions for the parties
Rex
$2,000 [5]
Someone who descends quickly from public approval has undergone this religious-sounding tumble
a fall from grace
Caitlin
DD $3,000 [26]
This scientist who worked with dogs also showed how the flow of the stomach's digestive juices is controlled by the vagus nerve
Pavlov
MacKenzie
$2,000 [18]
In the 11 volumes of Will & Ariel Durant's "The Story of Civilization", "The Renaissance" is followed immediately by this "R" period
Reformation
MacKenzie Caitlin
$2,000 [23]
From 1984 to 1989, shewas the Allie of "Kate & Allie", & we bet she could give you contestants a run for your money, too
Jane Curtin
$2,000 [13]
Big offices used to have pools of mostly female workers to do typing & this job of taking dictation in shorthand
stenography
DD $3,000 [4]
Something bad that later turns out to be good is one of these at first hidden signs of favor
a blessing in disguise
MacKenzie

Final Jeopardy!

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY

This West African country of 12 million doesn't border the 1,200-mile-wide gulf of the same name

Guinea

Rex "What is Chad?" — wagered $1,401
Caitlin "What is Senegal?" — wagered $2,601
MacKenzie "What is Gambia?" — wagered $0

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