Show #8209 2020-04-23 (taped 2020-02-18) Regular

Contestants

Tim Latham — an accountant from Boston, Massachusetts

Molly Bierman — an engineering program manager from San Francisco, California

Sharon Lawson — an administrative assistant from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $19,601)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sharon $4,200 $2,800 $3,400 $6,400
3rd place: $1,000
$10,200
14 R, 2 W (including 2 DDs)
Molly $1,000 $2,600 $8,400 $8,400
2nd place: $2,000
$6,600
13 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Tim $3,400 $7,400 $20,200 $21,200
New champion: $21,200
$20,200
21 R, 0 W

Jeopardy! Round

GIVE US A DATE FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES STOCK SYMBOLS PENNSYLVANIA GEO HAIRSTYLES ENDS IN "LL"
$200 [29]
1929: Dressed like cops, Capone gang members line up Bugs Moran's guys against a wall & take them out in a "Massacre"
February 14th
Sharon
$200 [27]
Home of a famous tire yard fire, this memorable TV town is where the Simpsons live
Springfield
Tim
$200 [28]
This food company gets a special K for its symbol
Kellogg
Molly
$200 [30]
The 3 original counties were Bucks, Chester & this one, also the name of the state's largest city
Philadelphia
Tim
$200 [9]
The cooler way to abbreviate this hairstyle associated with reggae music is to use the second syllable
dreadlocks
Tim
$200 [26]
It's seen front & center on a Jolly Roger flag
a skull
Sharon
$400 [19]
1845: Thoreau pursues extreme independence & moves into his cabin at Walden Pond
July 4th
Molly
$400 [25]
On this show, the title character slayed them, she really slayed them in Sunnydale, California
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Molly
$400 [12]
Companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average include Verizon (VZ) & this credit card company (just V)
Visa
Molly
$400 [24]
Pennsylvania's central location on the Eastern Seaboard may be the source of this official state nickname
the Keystone State
$400 [8]
Short on the top & sides & long in the back, this hairstyle might be better known than the fish with which it shares its name
a mullet
Sharon
$400 [15]
This type of ring-shaped coral island can be found in the Pacific Ocean
an atoll
Sharon
$600 [11]
1997: Bill Clinton is inaugurated for the second time
January 20th
Molly
$600 [18]
A young Clark Kent struggled to find his way in Smallville, a town in this Heartland state
Kansas
$600 [5]
It's the 2-letter stock symbol for the company that uses the slogan "Imagination at Work"
GE
Tim
$600 [13]
In 1954 the towns of Mauch Chunk & East Mauch Chunk were joined & named after this 1912 Olympian
Jim Thorpe
$600 [7]
With Miss Spector in the middle, this1960s musical group brought in a trend of giant beehives
The Ronettes
Sharon
$600 [22]
Popular during the Depression, this genre of comedy film includes such classics as "Duck Soup" & "My Man Godfrey"
screwball
Molly
$800 [10]
1941: The minesweeper USS Condor sights a Japanese submarine, 4 hours before a pivotal moment in history
December 7th
Tim
$800 [17]
If you write about "Murder, She Wrote", include that it took place in Cabot Cove in this New England state
Maine
Tim
$800 [4]
You can paint the town red or any color you want with this company, SHW
Sherwin-Williams
Sharon
$800 [14]
Espy House, in the southern town of Bedford, served as Washington's headquarters during this rebellion in 1794
the Whiskey Rebellion
$800 [2]
Typically short with the hair cropped evenly across the uppermost part, it's also slang for an aircraft carrier
a flattop
Tim
$800 [21]
It's the once popular old-school style of tires seen here
whitewall
Tim
$1,000 [6]
1605: Gunpowder plotters pick this day to blow up Parliament--but are foiled
November the 5th
Sharon
DD $1,800 [16]
The Log Lady & the late Laura Palmer were residents of this fictional Pacific Northwest community
Twin Peaks
Sharon
$1,000 [3]
GLW is the stock symbol for this New York-based company that formerly had "Glass Works" in its name
Corning
Tim
$1,000 [23]
These mountains in the northeast are the site of many resort facilities
the Poconos
Tim
$1,000 [1]
For black women natural hair cropped short is known as a TWA, short for teeny-weeny this
an afro
Sharon
$1,000 [20]
It can mean to reside, or to linger over
dwell
Tim

Double Jeopardy! Round

EVERY BODY CHARACTERS IN BEATLES SONGS FROM THE SANSKRIT LITERATURE DRAW ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR FRENCH GIRLS
$400 [3]
In babies, this, AKA the patella, is soft cartilage; it doesn't form into bone until between the ages of 3 & 5
the kneecap
Molly
$400 [1]
This song mentions "a girl with kaleidoscope eyes"
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
Tim
$400 [26]
The name of this physical & spiritual training discipline is from the Sanskrit for "union"
yoga
Sharon
$400 [27]
All published in the 1950s, 7 books make up this series by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
Molly
$400 [29]
Here'show Diego Velazquez portrayed this Greek fable master
Aesop
Sharon
$400 [30]
One of the richest women in the world, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is an heiress to this French cosmetics company
L'Oreal
Molly
$800 [5]
Both humans & giraffes have 7 of these bones in the neck to hold the head aloft
vertebrae
Tim
$800 [2]
This Beatles song introduced "to you the one and only Billy Shears"
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Sharon
$800 [25]
Sanskrit for "weighty", today it means a teacher
guru
$800 [16]
Patricia Highsmith gained fame with her first novel, about 2 men who meet as "Strangers" here
on a train
Tim
$800 [28]
Here comes the Sun King; this ruler seenherein aportraitby Hyacinthe Rigaud
Louis XIV
Tim
$800 [23]
Christine Lagarde is the first female head of Europe's equivalent of the Federal Reserve, the ECB, short for European this
Central Bank
Tim
$1,600 [7]
Cardiac contraction is termed systolic & cardiac relaxation gets this adjective
diastolic
Molly Tim
$1,200 [10]
This title woman "picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been"
Eleanor Rigby
Molly
$1,200 [9]
The name of this national monetary unit is from Sanskrit for "stamped silver"
a rupee
Sharon
$1,200 [14]
Published in 1893, "Catriona", also known as "David Balfour", was Robert Louis Stevenson's sequel to this novel
Kidnapped
$1,200 [13]
Goya painted several pictures of his muse, Doña Maria, known as the "Black"this noble title
The Black Duchess ( The Duchess of Alba )
$1,200 [18]
Life was rosy for Marion Cotillard when she won an Oscar for playing this other Frenchwoman in a 2007 film
Edith Piaf
Sharon Molly
$2,000 [6]
During swallowing, this flap of cartilage prevents food from entering the trachea
the epiglottis
Tim
$1,600 [22]
Vera, Chuck & Dave are the imagined grandchildren in this song
"When I'm Sixty-Four"
Sharon
$1,600 [8]
Perhaps ancient women of India wore upala rings; that Sanskrit word gave us this precious item
opal
Molly
$1,600 [15]
Roughly 1,100 years after it was written, this Old English poem was first published in 1815--in Denmark
Beowulf
Molly
$1,600 [24]
Here'sa portrait of this guy who was known for his "Art of War"
Sun-tzu
Tim
$2,000 [20]
In 1858 she heard the Virgin Mary tell her, "I am the Immaculate Conception" at a grotto near Massabielle
Saint Bernadette
DD $3,000 [4]
Bile aids digestion by breaking up large molecules of fat; it's stored in the gallbladder but made by this organ
the liver
Molly
$2,000 [11]
Nancy ran off with Dan, the rival of this guy from "the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota"
Rocky Raccoon
Tim
$2,000 [12]
In English, the title of this manual could be translated as "rules of pleasure"
the Kama Sutra
Tim
$2,000 [17]
In 1930 this "Main Street" author became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Sinclair Lewis
$2,000 [21]
Thisearly 19th century German author and thinker received more than 20,000 surviving letters; here he is with one of them
Goethe
DD $5,000 [19]
About this French novelist, Elizabeth Browning wrote, "True genius, but true woman!"
George Sand
Sharon

Final Jeopardy!

STATESMEN

The first Asian to accept the Nobel Peace Prize was the prime minister of this country who in 1967 renounced use of nuclear weapons

Japan

Sharon "What is Japan?" — wagered $3,000
Molly "What isVietnamS. Korea?" — wagered $0
Tim "What is Japan?" — wagered $1,000

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