Show #8214 2020-04-30 (taped 2020-02-19) Regular

Sarah Jett Rayburn game 5.

Contestants

Jesse Laymon — a public policy director from Long Island City, New York

Kevin Curran — an attorney from Chicago, Illinois

Sarah Jett Rayburn — a writer and stay-at-home mom from Hutto, Texas (whose 4-day cash winnings total $89,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Sarah $2,800 $6,800 $12,500 $1
3rd place: $1,000
$12,800
16 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Kevin $400 $3,400 $13,000 $499
2nd place: $2,000
$13,000
16 R, 3 W
Jesse $3,600 $6,000 $11,200 $13,000
New champion: $13,000
$6,400
20 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W

Jeopardy! Round

CHILDREN'S LIT COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ORIGINS FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR NICKNAMES PAY RESPECTS "F"
$200 [6]
I think I can, I think I can, get you to give me this 5-word title of a Watty Piper kids' book with a never-give-up message
The Little Engine That Could
Jesse
$200 [25]
BU for short, it had a different name when it was founded, as it was then in Vermont
Boston University
Jesse
$200 [1]
John Avildsen may have been an underdog, but he won a directing Oscar for this 1976 Sylvester Stallone movie
Rocky
Jesse
$200 [26]
Born in Austria, the Governator
Schwarzenegger
Kevin
$200 [30]
At his 2018 funeral his son said he was "The brightest of a thousand points of light"
George Herbert Walker Bush
Jesse
$200 [11]
The front of a building, or any type of deceptive display
a facade
Kevin
$400 [18]
In the classic Collodi tale, he's the woodcarver who creates Pinocchio
Geppetto
Kevin
$400 [13]
In 1860 William T. Sherman was the 1st leader of this then seminary of learning & military academy, 9 years before it moved to Baton Rouge
LSU (Louisiana State)
Kevin Jesse
$400 [2]
To win a 2000 Oscar in this movie, Russell Crowe played a real blood sport
Gladiator
Sarah
$400 [23]
AKA Mr. Tepes, the Impaler
Vlad (Count Dracula)
Jesse
$400 [29]
Many funeral homes suggest keeping this to 5 minutes or less
a eulogy
Sarah
$400 [12]
This type of imprecise "logic" used by certain computers would net you a fine Scrabble score
fuzzy
Kevin Jesse
$600 [7]
Created by Hans Christian Andersen, this tiny girl fends off marriage-minded toads before meeting her one true love
Thumbelina
$800 [15]
One of the Seven Sisters, this Poughkeepsie college was founded in 1861 but didn't open until 1865
Vassar
Jesse
$600 [3]
He won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as real-life champ Jake LaMotta in 1980's "Raging Bull"
De Niro
Jesse
$600 [8]
A Keystone Star, The Little Tramp
Charlie Chaplin
Sarah
$600 [20]
Her 1997 funeral included a song with the revised lyrics "Goodbye England's rose, may you ever grow in our hearts"
Princess Diana
Kevin
$600 [19]
This 9-letter word referring to an exact copy became the namesake for a machine involving copies
facsimile
Jesse
$800 [9]
In this novel by Scott O'Dell, a girl named Karana is alone on the title isle
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Sarah
DD $1,000 [14]
In 1855 2 faculty members & 10 students began hitting the books at this now-Big Ten school less than 15 miles from Chicago
Northwestern
Jesse
$800 [4]
This Swank-y 2004 film fought its way to Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actress & Supporting Actor
Million Dollar Baby
Jesse
$800 [16]
A frequent presidential candidate, the Great Compromiser
Henry Clay
Sarah
$800 [28]
Pollen found in burial caves used by these ancient humans named for a German valley suggests flowers were laid with their dead
Neanderthals
Sarah
$800 [21]
It'scommonly used for outdoorpavingand was also the original last name of the animated Fred and Wilma
flagstone
Kevin
$1,000 [10]
One of the first novels for children was the 1765 book seenhereabout this girl whose name now means someone annoyingly virtuous
Goody Two-Shoes
Kevin
$1,000 [24]
This NYC school of design was founded in 1896 & became a division of The New School for Social Research in 1970
Parsons
Jesse
$1,000 [5]
Punchy pug Marlon Brando brawled his way to a Best Actor Oscar in this 1954 classic
On the Waterfront
Sarah
$1,000 [17]
Died in 1400, the Father of English Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sarah
$1,000 [27]
Venerating the underworld goddess Mictecacihuatl, this celebration was moved to coincide with All Saints' Day & All Souls' Day
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
Kevin
$1,000 [22]
When something's done & cannot be altered, it's this 2-word French term
a fait accompli
Sarah

Double Jeopardy! Round

NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY TOOT SUITE WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR? TOTALLY AWESOME '80s TV BROKEN ENGLISH
$400 [10]
The 2012 film "Red Tails" tells the story of the WWII African-American flyers known as these airmen
the Tuskegee Airmen
Jesse
DD $300 [30]
There's a bassoon solo in the Rimsky-Korsakov suite named for this woman who told great stories
Scheherazade
Sarah
$400 [15]
The Tigris River flows through this capital
Baghdad
Jesse
$400 [25]
The first "W" in WWE, where Kofi Kingston & No Way Jose wrestle with issues
World (World Wrestling Entertainment)
Kevin
$400 [5]
In 1980-81 the eyes of Texas--& apparently, everyone else--were on this CBS nighttime soap, No. 1 for the season
Dallas
Jesse
$400 [17]
At the blackjack table, don't hit on hard 17 or you'll probably do this synonym for "break"
bust
Kevin
$800 [6]
William Penn created Pennsylvania as a refuge for religious minorities, like this faith of his
Quakers
Sarah
$400 [26]
Ferde Grofé's suite named for this Arizona landmark has trumpets mimicking crickets
the Grand Canyon
Sarah
$800 [11]
In troubled Venezuela, many have scoured the polluted waters of the Guaire River in this capital in search of anything of value
Caracas
Jesse
$800 [16]
The "A" in the disease AIDS
Acquired
Sarah Jesse
$800 [4]
Ken Levine & David Isaacs penned "The Boys in the Bar" & "The Last Angry Mailman" episodes of this sitcom
Cheers
Sarah
$800 [18]
Numbers that have been summed & cars that have been wrecked beyond repair have been this
totaled
Kevin
$1,200 [7]
This Wild West frontiersman got his name on a state capital in 1864
Kit Carson
Kevin
$800 [27]
When the L.A. Phil did Prokofiev's "Scythian Suite", it used several flutes but only one of these highest-pitched woodwinds
a piccolo
Kevin
$1,600 [13]
A tributary of the Rhine, the Aare River wraps around this city on three sides in a canton of the same name
Bern
Jesse
$1,200 [20]
The "F" in FISA, authorized in 1978
Foreign
Sarah Jesse
$1,200 [3]
The song "Kiss" says, "You don't have to watch" this ABC drama "to have an attitude" but many did watch those Carringtons
Dynasty
Kevin
$1,200 [19]
An appliance that's not working is "on the" this German first name
Fritz
Jesse
$1,600 [8]
The public was intrigued when this man's November 1963 8mm film footage was shown on TV in 1975
Zapruder
Kevin
$1,200 [28]
In the 1950s Chico O'Farrill's "Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite" featured this "avian" saxophonist tootin'
Charlie "Birdman" Parker
Sarah
$2,000 [14]
This capital of Laos lies on the Mekong
Vientiane
Jesse
$1,600 [21]
In AT&T it's what the "T&T" originally was short for
Telephone & Telegraph
Sarah Jesse
$1,600 [2]
Not Hawkeye but this "M*A*S*H" tentmate became the title character of an '80s drama
Trapper John
Sarah
$1,600 [23]
A fissure between friends, or a valley formed between 2 faults
a rift
Kevin
$2,000 [9]
"Message from Mrs. Madison. She sends her love to Mrs. Wethered" was Dolley's follow-up to this inventor's 1844 message
Morse
Jesse
$1,600 [29]
"Mercury, The Winged Messenger" in this Holst suite brings some high-pitched frivolity
The Planets
DD $5,600 [12]
Of the 4 capitals that stand on the Danube, 3 start with a "B": Bratislava, Budapest & this one further south
Belgrade
Jesse
$2,000 [22]
The "L" in the drug LSD
Lysergic
Kevin
$2,000 [1]
Sheplayed a dazzling array of characters on her show that earned the FOX network its first Emmy nomination
Tracey Ullman
Kevin
$2,000 [24]
This synonym for "hernia" can also refer to a break in a pipeline
rupture

Final Jeopardy!

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Copywriter Keith Goldberg wrote this question in 1999 for a financial services company; they're still using it

What's in your wallet?

Jesse "What is What's in your wallet?" — wagered $1,800
Sarah "What is Have you done" — wagered $12,499
Kevin "What is What ca" — wagered $12,501

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