Show #8181 2020-03-16 (taped 2020-01-15) Regular

Contestants

Sid Katz — a retired school psychologist from Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Sarah Schmitt — a podcaster and stay-at-home mom from Columbus, Ohio

Jessica Babbitt — a personal stylist from Austin, Texas (whose 3-day cash winnings total $71,598)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Jessica $1,800 $4,000 $12,000 $24,000
2nd place: $2,000
$11,600
18 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Sarah $600 $3,800 $5,400 $5,400
3rd place: $1,000
$5,400
10 R, 2 W
Sid $1,000 $3,600 $18,400 $25,874
New champion: $25,874
$18,000
21 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

CLUES ACROSS AMERICA THAT'S WHAT I'M WALKING ABOUT X MARKS THE MIDDLE SPOT RECENT EVENTS THE WOMAN OF THE CENTURY RADIO ACTIVE
$200 [26]
(Hi, I'm Eric Perkins from KARE 11. [He presents from U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.]) In the first sporting event at Minneapolis' U.S. Bank Stadium, Chelsea played AC Milan in this sport
soccer
Sid
$200 [21]
"V" is for these 2 British Columbia cities that host annual World Partnership Walks to fight global poverty
Vancouver & Victoria
Jessica
$200 [11]
You ain't just whistlin' this, once slang for a $10 bill
a dixie
Sid
$200 [1]
In 2018 the skies got tougher for emotional support animals, like Dexter, this kind of bird rejected by United Airlines
a peacock
Jessica Sarah
$200 [6]
Billie Holiday
the 20th century
Sid
$200 [16]
This singer seenheregot a lot of radio play in 2019 with "Never Really Over"
Katy Perry
Jessica
$400 [27]
(Hi, I'm Alicia Vitarelli from 6ABC. [She presents from Franklin Fountain in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.]) After the stock market crash of 1929 Dreyer's created a flavor of chocolate ice cream with nuts & marshmallow & gaveit this name
Rocky Road
Sarah
$400 [22]
The March for Babies is sponsored by this organization founded in 1938 to stamp out polio
the March of Dimes
Jessica
$400 [12]
Job of one who cleans up rich people's messes, like Ray Donovan
a fixer
Sarah
$400 [2]
In 2019 a new buttermilk batter helped this chain sell out of its chicken sandwiches in just 2 weeks
Popeyes
Jessica
$400 [7]
Pocahontas marries & dies
the 17th century
Jessica
$400 [17]
This apathetic Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber title precedes "when I'm with my baby, yeah"
"I Don't Care"
Sarah
$600 [28]
(Hi, I'm Lee Goldberg from New York's ABC7. [He presents from Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.]) Plymouth Church in Brooklyn was once a stop along the underground railroad; often the next leg was on a northbound ship up this river, to Albany, & then on to Canada
the Hudson
Sid
$600 [23]
The NDSS, the National this Syndrome Society, has held its Buddy Walks since 1995
Down Syndrome
Sarah
$600 [13]
A short, proverbial saying, or Mr. Gorky
maxim
Sarah Sid
$600 [3]
Love it or hate it, thisNHL mascot seenherewas introduced in 2018
Gritty
Jessica
$800 [9]
Joan of Arc
the 15th century
Jessica Sid
$600 [18]
This 8-minute Led Zeppelin song from 1971 is a mainstay of classic rock radio
"Stairway To Heaven"
Jessica
$800 [29]
(Hi, I'm Deborah Knapp with KENS 5. [She presents from the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas.]) The Witte Museum has an extra-small horse-drawn carriage given by P.T. Barnum to this man when he was 26 inches tall; he got the largeroneafter he'd grown to 40 inches
Tom Thumb
Sid
$800 [24]
In 1985 APLA, this Project Los Angeles, held the first walk for it, raising nearly 7 times the goal amount
the AIDS Project
Jessica
$800 [14]
Bending a limb, & maybe posing as you do
flexing
Sid
$800 [4]
This game involving scavenging was first announced at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards but didn't become available until 2017
Fortnite
DD $1,000 [8]
Anne Boleyn
the 16th century
Jessica
$800 [19]
In the '60s the first 2 Top 40 Hits for this group had the word "Surfin"' in the title; No. 4, "Surfer"
The Beach Boys
Sarah
$1,000 [30]
(I'm Jerry Andersonfrom WTOL 11. [He presents from Fifth Third Field in Toledo, Ohio.]) Since 1987 the Toledo Mud Hens have been a farm team of this American League team located about 60 miles to the northeast of Toledo
the (Detroit) Tigers
Sarah
$1,000 [25]
The AHA's Heart Walk raises money "to save lives from this country's No. 1 and No. 5 killers, heart disease and" this
stroke
Sid
$1,000 [15]
A link, or the core of a situation
nexus
Sid
$1,000 [5]
Carlos Ghosn, disgraced head of this car company, made a dramatic house arrest-break in Japan & fled to Lebanon
Nissan
Sarah
$1,000 [10]
Catherine the Great
the 18th century
Sid
$1,000 [20]
Mishearing "Life In The Fast Lane" as "flies in the vasoline" led to a line of a hit in 1994 for these "aviators"
the Stone Temple Pilots

Double Jeopardy! Round

NORTH KOREAN GEOGRAPHY A NOVEL PASSAGE RODS & COHNS SHAKESPEARE MEANS SOMETHING ELSE ARCHITECTURE HISTORY RADIOACTIVE
$400 [11]
The ancient capital of the legendary Tangun Dynasty that founded the Korean state; today it's a city of over 3 million
Pyongyang
Sid
$400 [17]
"And now, gentlemen, it's one for all and all for one. That's our motto, and I think we should stick to it"
The Three Musketeers
Sarah
$400 [16]
Maggie May know that in 2016 this rocker was knighted for his services to music & charity
Rod Stewart
Sarah
$400 [6]
Claudius uses these to mean rumor-mongers, not a ring-in or time's-up device you press on a game show
a buzzer
Jessica
$400 [1]
Around 1793 amateur architect William Thornton won the design competition for this domed D.C. edifice
the Capitol Building
Jessica
$400 [26]
Oh, K...one isotope of this silvery metallic element, atomic number 40, is radioactive
potassium
Jessica
$800 [12]
Kangwon Province faces the East Sea, better known to us by this national name
the Sea of Japan
Sid
$800 [18]
"The report spread of a wonderful Yahoo, that could speak like a Houyhnhnm"
Gulliver's Travels
Sarah
$800 [22]
Marc Cohn mentions W.C. Handy & "the ghost of Elvis" in his song "Walking In" this city
Memphis
Jessica Sid
$800 [7]
In home renovation it means hired by the general contractor; in "King Lear", it means promised in marriage
subcontracted
$800 [2]
In the 1880s Richard Hunt designed the pedestal for this 305-foot-tall monument in New York City
the Statue of Liberty
Sid
$800 [27]
For some isotopes, this is just a few milliseconds, but isotope 243 of americium clocks in at 7,370 years
a half-life
Sid
$1,200 [13]
Your map showing Mount Mantap may be out of date; in 2018 this manmade event shifted or perhaps even collapsed it
a nuclear test
Sid
$1,200 [19]
"On a mental ward. Miss Ratched's ward! The reekerputions will be... devastating!"
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jessica
$1,200 [23]
Here's this man from Queensland in hisprimein the 1960s
Rod Laver
Sid
$1,200 [8]
In "Antony and Cleopatra" this word doesn't mean an available motel room; it means one's leisure time
vacancy
Jessica
$1,200 [3]
One of Frederick John Kiesler's lastworkswas the Shrine of the Book, completed in 1965 in this country
Israel
Sid
$1,600 [14]
North Korea borders South Korea, China & this country whose leader met Kim Jong un for the first time at a 2019 summit
Russia
Jessica
$1,600 [20]
"Now, Mr. Earnshaw did not understand jokes from his children: he had always been strict and grave with them"
Wuthering Heights
$1,600 [24]
He told TV viewers that science fiction is "the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable"
Rod Serling
Sid
$1,600 [9]
In "Cymbeline", it means something like "free use"; nowadays it refers to a sports team or the right to open a fast food outlet
franchise
Sid
DD $2,000 [4]
Bernini meant for his design of the colonnades in front of this basilica to represent the encircling arms of the church
St. Peter's
Sid
$2,000 [15]
NK's longest river is this 500-mile one that served as a strategic goal for U.N. forces during the war in the 1950s
the Yalu
Sid
$2,000 [21]
"Mother died today. or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure"
The Stranger
$2,000 [25]
This onetime communist-hunting lawyer is a malevolent presence in "Angels in America"
Roy Cohn
Sid
$2,000 [10]
In modern life this 8-letter word means "not having a romantic partner for the evening"; in "Richard II" it means "without end"
dateless
$2,000 [5]
Not black eyeliner but stained-glass windows & pointed arches exemplify this architectural style begun around 1130
Gothic
Jessica

Final Jeopardy!

MOVIE MUSICALS

Water pressure issues in Culver City, home to MGM, impacted the filming of an iconic scene in this 1952 movie musical

Singin' in the Rain

Sarah "What is The Wizard of Oz" — wagered $0
Jessica "What is Singin' in the Rain" — wagered $12,000
Sid "What is Singin in the Rain" — wagered $7,474

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