Show #8208 2020-04-22 (taped 2020-02-18) Regular

Contestants

Sharon Lawson — an administrative assistant from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Michael Torman — a funeral director from Paw Paw, Illinois

Gary Patent — a screenwriter and actor from Los Angeles, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,801)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Gary $1,400 $4,200 $8,800 $201
3rd place: $1,000
$8,000
17 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Michael $1,600 $3,000 $9,800 $17,601
2nd place: $2,000
$9,800
12 R, 2 W
Sharon $-800 $1,800 $15,200 $19,601
New champion: $19,601
$13,800
17 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

A MARRIAGE MADE IN LITERATURE EARTH DAY AT 50 EPISODES OF THE SITCOM THE CRIME OF THE DECADE WHAT SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT IS THIS? ADJECTIVES
$200 [15]
Anna Oblonsky is the maiden name of this title character
Anna Karenina
Gary
$200 [28]
Nat Geo is honoring the 50th anniv. of Earth Day with a special about this activist who has a special bond with chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
Gary
$200 [9]
"Stewie Kills Lois"&"Lois Kills Stewie"
Family Guy
Michael
$200 [5]
5 burglars are busted at the DNC's office at the Watergate
the 1970s
Sharon
$200 [24]
The type of roadhouse called a this joint lent its name to a coin-operated music machine
a juke joint
Sharon
$400 [29]
Sorry, language nerds: the OED allows modifications like "very" on this 6-letter word meaning "one of a kind"
unique
Michael
$400 [25]
When Romeo marries Juliet, these 2 families are joined in matrimony & later, tragedy
the Montagues and the Capulets
Gary
$400 [27]
A theme of Earth Day 2018 was ending plastic pollution; one suggestion is when you order a soda, say, "no" this "please"
a straw
Michael
$400 [10]
"The Show Where Lilith Comes Back" & "Murder Most Maris"
Frasier
Gary Michael
$400 [4]
The NSC goes around Congress to sell antiaircraft missiles to Iran in the Iran-Contra Affair
the 1980s
Gary Sharon
$400 [6]
In Mexico, it's a bar; on Tatooine, it's also "an ideal spot to hire a starship's crew"
a cantina
Gary
$600 [21]
A homophone of a grain, it's an adjective meaning funny in an understated way
wry
Gary
$600 [18]
Creepy! In order to get closer to Lolita, this man with a double-talk name marries her mother Charlotte Haze
Humbert Humbert
Sharon
$600 [26]
Earth Day reminds us that in 2020 nations are expected to bump climate change commitments to the agreement of 2015 made in this city
Paris
Michael
$600 [13]
"Leap to Faith" & "The Worst Possible Use of Free Will"
The Good Place
Michael Sharon
$600 [3]
The Unabomber commits his last murder & is caught with bomb parts & detailed journals of his crimes
the 1990s
Michael
$600 [7]
If you encounter a meat & three establishment in the American South, the "three" refers to these
the side dishes
$800 [20]
This 2-syllable adjective in a Thomas Hardy title means "frenzied"
madding
Sharon
$800 [16]
The title of this Daphne du Maurier novel refers to the first Mrs. de Winter; the second Mrs. de Winter is obsessed with her
Rebecca
Gary
$800 [22]
The first Earth Day took place in 1970, inspiring this act in the same year that sought to keep our skies free from pollution
the Clean Air Act
Gary
$800 [11]
"Secret Shopper" & "Cloud 9 Academy"
Superstore
DD $1,000 [1]
The kidnapping of Charles & Anne Lindbergh's baby
the 1930s
Gary
$800 [8]
Raw bars traditionally serve live, uncooked these
oysters (shellfish, clams)
Michael
$1,000 [19]
Sartorial means belonging or referring to this profession
tailors
$1,000 [17]
This 1966 novel is about the first marriage of the character Mr. Rochester from "Jane Eyre"
Wide Sargasso Sea
$1,000 [23]
In 2010 Earth Day brought about a tree-planting initiative named for this uppermost section of a forest's trees
the canopy
Sharon
$1,000 [12]
"Love is All Around" & "We Want Baxter"
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
$1,000 [2]
Leopold & Loeb kill Bobby Franks for an "intellectual" thrill
the 1920s
Gary
$1,000 [14]
There's an alloy in this word for a type of casual restaurant, French for "brewery"
a brasserie
Michael

Double Jeopardy! Round

OTHER BRITISH ISLES YOU KNOW THE DRILL MUSICIANS' NICKNAMES AT REST IN WASHINGTON, D.C. PHENOMENA "DEE" DEE, DEE-DEE-DEE
$400 [18]
You'll find the Isle of Skye in the Inner these
the Hebrides
Sharon
$400 [19]
Twist & counterbore are types of these spinny, pointy drill parts that make the holes
bits
Gary
$400 [1]
"The Boss", & before that, "the Doctor"
Springsteen
Gary
$400 [30]
At Washington National Cathedral: this president & his wife Edith
Wilson
Gary
$400 [10]
This "super" stellar phenomenon--a big bang, so to speak--comes in 2 main types: thermonuclear & core-collapse
a supernova
Gary
$400 [28]
The Sami of northern Scandinavia have trained these animals to pull sleighs, just in time for Christmas
reindeer
Gary
$800 [14]
Foulness Island off the Essex coast was almost completely flooded by a giant 1953 storm surge in this sea
the North Sea
Michael
$1,200 [16]
This word follows "drill" in the name of the workshop device seen here
a press
Sharon
$800 [3]
"Yeezus"
Kanye West
Sharon
$800 [29]
At St. Paul's Rock Creek Cemetery, writer Gore Vidal and this longtime host of "Meet the Press"
Tim Russert
$800 [9]
This "super" phenomenon, a lack of electrical resistance, occurs in certain materials below about -425 degrees F.
superconductivity
Sharon
$800 [27]
Do this to "yourself" & you make up for a bad performance; do it to Grandma's ring & you get it back from a pawnshop
redeem
Sharon
$1,200 [13]
The island of Anglesey, AKA Ynys Mon, is the largest that's part of this U.K. country
Wales
Sharon
$1,600 [15]
Use a hammer drill to cut through this hard building material named for the bricklayer or stoneworker who constructed it
masonry
Sharon
$1,200 [4]
"Slowhand"
Eric Clapton
Sharon
$1,600 [20]
At Oak Hill Cemetery: journalist & Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee & this woman who owned the Post
(Katharine) Graham
Gary
$1,200 [7]
In 1816 one of these natural phenomena in Asia affected the weather & made it the "year without a summer" globally
a volcanic eruption
Michael
$1,200 [26]
Ah, my little black-capped one of these is the state bird of Massachusetts
chickadee
Michael
$1,600 [2]
The Scottish isle of Bute lies in the inlet called this "of Clyde"
the Firth
Sharon
$2,000 [25]
This word for a type of simple hand drill is a homonym of a word meaning to foretell
auger
$1,600 [5]
"The Prince of Darkness"
Ozzy Osbourne
Michael
$2,000 [21]
At Prospect Hill Cemetery: William with this last name who owned the house where Abraham Lincoln died
Petersen
$1,600 [8]
Sure the northern lights are awesome, but check out thesouthern lights, also known as the Aurora this, seen over places like Tasmania
australis
Sharon
$1,600 [23]
This type of singer regales us with simple folk or story songs
balladeer
$2,000 [12]
The monastery on Holy Island produced the illuminated biblical manuscript called the Lindisfarnethese
Gospels
Sharon
DD $2,200 [17]
Archaeologists in Pakistan found neolithic bodies showing that drills were used to fix these more than 7,000 years ago
teeth
Sharon
$2,000 [6]
"The Prime Minister of Funk" or "Doctor Funkenstein"
George Clinton
Michael
DD $3,000 [22]
At the Glenwood Cemetery: Emanuel Leutze, who famously painted "(George) Washington" doing this
crossing the Delaware
Gary
$2,000 [11]
These creatures started mysteriously falling from the sky in Dubuque, Iowa on June 16, 1882
frogs
Gary
$2,000 [24]
A 2011 measurement says this part of the Pacific Ocean reaches 36,070 feet down
the Challenger Deep
Sharon

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD ELECTIONS

In 2014 this democratic nation broke the record for total turnout in a single election with more than 500 million voters

India

Gary "What is Russia?" — wagered $8,599
Michael "What is India?" — wagered $7,801
Sharon "What is India? :)" — wagered $4,401

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