Show #8170 2020-02-28 (taped 2020-01-06) Regular

Contestants

Meredith Moore — a server from Knightdale, North Carolina

Susan Hill — a pet sitter from Halifax, Massachusetts

Aaron Goetsch — a law student from Macomb, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Aaron $800 $5,400 $16,600 $17,001
2-day champion: $41,801
$17,000
24 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Susan $200 $1,800 $8,500 $7,000
2nd place: $2,000
$11,000
12 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Meredith $800 $600 $7,000 $5,200
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
9 R, 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

ART, FLEMING SPORTS UPSETS EXPLORERS SPELL IT LIKE THE BRITS WE CAN BE HEROES JUST FOR ONE DAY
$200 [16]
Full-figured women were celebrated by this painter, born June 28, 1577 of Flemish parents
Rubens
Susan
$200 [5]
At the 2009 U.S. Open, Juan Martín del Potro knocked off this reigning world No. 1 Swiss player in 5 sets
Federer
Aaron
$200 [17]
A city named for Sieur du Luth sits where he negotiated a treaty with the Sioux in what is now this state
Minnesota
Aaron
$200 [26]
Hermione, our tickets to a play the West End have arrived! Tonight we're off to the...
T-H-E-A-T-R-E
Aaron
$200 [11]
Miep Gies "fetches and carries so much" food for the family, wrote Anne Frank, hiding in the secret annex in this world capital
Amsterdam
Aaron
$200 [10]
We elect to inform you that Nov. 3, 2020 falls on this day of the week
Tuesday
Susan
$400 [22]
In 1649 Frans Hals got philosophical painting this "cogito, ergo sum" thinker
Descartes
Aaron
$400 [4]
On the arm of this quarterback in Super Bowl III in 1969, the Jets beat the heavily favored Colts, 16-7
Joe Namath
Aaron
$400 [18]
When Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole in 1912, he found this country's flag left 5 weeks earlier by Amundsen
Norway
Aaron
$400 [27]
Your singing is lovely, Georgina; win "Britain's Got Talent" & Simon Cowell might hand you one of these for 250,000 pounds
C-H-E-Q-U-E
Meredith
$400 [14]
In 1983 Stanislav Petrov prevented nuclear war by not trusting word of the launch of 5 of these ICBMs named for Amer. Rev. militia
Minuteman
$600 [8]
If tomorrow's today is Wednesday, then this is the day after tomorrow's yesterday
Wednesday
$600 [23]
In 1450 Haarlem's Dieric Bouts depicted "The Fall into" this place of suffering
Hell
Aaron Meredith
$600 [3]
In a college baseball upset, the Bulldogs of Fresno State took the 2008 College World Series from the Bulldogs of this school
Georgia
Aaron
$600 [19]
After conquering Cuba, Panfilo de Narvaez was tasked by Charles V to take this nearby peninsula
Florida
Susan
$600 [15]
michaeljfox.org spends 88 cents of every dollar on research programs to fight this disease; be a hero too & donate a buck
Parkinson's
Aaron
$800 [7]
Seurat spent this "Afternoon on the Island of la Grande Jatte"
Sunday
Aaron
$800 [24]
In 1563 Pieter Bruegel the Elder spoke the language of art with a rendering of this structure mentioned in Genesis 11
the Tower of Babel
Aaron
$800 [2]
Do you believe in miracles? Mike Eruzione & the U.S. men's hockey team beat the Soviets at the Olympics in this year
1980
Aaron
$800 [20]
Sent to Africa in 1841 as a missionary, this Scotsman eventually started exploring the place, presumably
(David) Livingstone
Susan
$800 [13]
Heather Heyer won the Ali Humanitarian for Social Justice Award after losing her life protesting Neo-Nazis in this Va. city in 2017
Charlottesville
Meredith
$1,000 [6]
In a nursery rhyme, Solomon Grundy "died on" this day (but still had yet to be buried in the next line)
Saturday
$1,000 [25]
Last name of the real guy who gave us "The Garden of Earthly Delights" & of the fictional guy who solves murders in Los Angeles
(Hieronymus) Bosch
Aaron
$1,000 [1]
2019's ESPY Award for Upset of the Year went tothis25-1 underdog, the first heavyweight boxing champ of Mexican ancestry
Andy Ruiz Jr.
$1,000 [21]
The island of Van Diemen's land, a name associated with Australian penal colonies, was renamed in 1855 for this Dutch explorer
(Abel) Tasman
Aaron
$1,000 [12]
An outstanding chef and an outstanding human, heand his team served 3.6 million meals to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
José Andrés
DD $2,800 [9]
Traditionally, this is the first full day of the Paschal Triduum, leading up to Easter
Good Friday
Aaron

Double Jeopardy! Round

HISTORIC PEOPLE ON TV BODY PARTS HIGHER EDUCATION GEOGRAPHY TRANSPORTATION STARTS & ENDS WITH B MONSTERS INK
$400 [18]
In an HBO miniseries, Paul Giamatti was president & accounted for as this title guy born in the 1700s
John Adams
Meredith
$400 [26]
In addition to removing waste products, this pair of organs converts vitamin D from an inactive to an active form
the kidneys
Aaron
$400 [14]
Home of the Redhawks, Miami University is in this state
Ohio
Aaron
$400 [8]
With modern braking systems, this special car at the end of a train is now virtually extinct
caboose
Meredith
$400 [6]
It's the business end of a fishhook
barb
Aaron Susan
$400 [1]
In "the Hyperion Cantos", the shrike impales victims on a tree of thorns like the real-life shrike, this kind of creature
a bird
Meredith
$800 [17]
Thisformer Disney child star is seenherearound the time he rolled as the King of Rock in the TV movie "Elvis"
Kurt Russell
Susan
$800 [27]
This, AKA the thighbone, has been shown to resist compression forces of up to 2,500 lbs. but please don't try that at home
the femur
Aaron
$800 [11]
Santa Fe Community College is in Sante Fe, N.M.; Sante Fe College is in this city home to the Univ. of Florida
Gainesville
Aaron
$800 [9]
Motorhomes come in three letter classes. Class "B" is also called a camper type of this
a van
Aaron
$800 [7]
A short promotional statement found on a book cover
blurb
Susan
$800 [2]
Lewis Carroll warned that this poetic monster had "jaws that bite, and claws that catch"
the Jabberwock
Susan Meredith
$1,200 [16]
In the series "Da Vinci's Demons" Leonardo capers about in this capital of Tuscany
Florence
Susan
$1,200 [28]
This nerve-filled innermost layer of a tooth--& sorry, this might hurt a bit--is removed in a root canal procedure
pulp
Aaron
$1,200 [10]
The oldest in Kentucky, a university in Lexington bears this name that sounds like Dracula might have been an alumnus
Transylvania
Susan
$1,200 [23]
Joan Collins & Christie Brinkley were on the last regular passenger flight of this supersonic transport
the Concorde
Aaron
$1,200 [20]
This title film creature was based on an actual 1950 police report about a mysterious gelatinous mass found in a field
The Blob
Meredith
$1,200 [3]
These guards of Azkaban feed on human happiness--how monstrous!
the Dementors
Susan
$1,600 [15]
On this series Jonathan Rhys Meyers was a slimmer, sexier King Henry VIII
The Tudors
Meredith
$2,000 [13]
Oakland University isn't in California, it's in this state's cities of Auburn Hills & Rochester Hills
Michigan
Aaron
$1,600 [24]
The name of this iconic scooter brand is Italian for "wasp"
Vespa
Susan
$1,600 [21]
This type of restaurant/bar makes its own beer & serves it on the premises
a brewpub
Meredith
$1,600 [4]
"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" mentions one of these Jewish automatons made of clay
a golem
Meredith
$2,000 [19]
Robin Weigert played this alcoholic Old West frontierswoman on "Deadwood"
Calamity Jane
DD $4,000 [12]
Founded in 1853, Washington University isn't in D.C. or Washington State but in this city on the Mississippi river
St. Louis
Aaron
DD $2,500 [25]
The vehicle of choice on the Oregon Trail was this wagon with a type of flat land in its name
a prairie schooner
Susan
$2,000 [22]
An Old Testament Philistine god & a New Testament devil, his name means "lord of the flies"
Beelzebub
Susan
$2,000 [5]
H.P. Lovecraft called this chief of his nightmares a blend of octopus, dragon, and other human forms
the Cthulhu

Final Jeopardy!

THE CIVIL WAR

The Chicago Tribune called Clement Vallandigham, an anti-war Ohio Democrat, a "traitor" & a "hissing" one of these creatures

Copperhead

Meredith "What is a [something crossed out] snake in the grass?" — wagered $1,800
Susan "What is a snake?" — wagered $1,500
Aaron "What is a Copperhead?" — wagered $401

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