Show #8217 2020-05-19 (taped 2020-03-10) Regular

Contestants

Jackie Wong — a consultant and figure skating analyst from New York, New York

Tiffany Vicars — a consultant pharmacist from Louisville, Kentucky

Ben Scripps — a television director from Cadillac, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Ben $3,000 $6,000 $20,400 $19,358
2-day champion: $38,158
$20,400
25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Tiffany $400 $2,000 $4,800 $3,300
3rd place: $1,000
$4,800
9 R, 2 W
Jackie $3,200 $2,600 $7,000 $4,399
2nd place: $2,000
$6,000
12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

BILLS, BILLS, BILLS TV IN 2020 STILL STANDING IN EUROPE COOL BEANS WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME THE WRITER'S CREATION
$200 [1]
In 2006 Warren Buffett began giving annual gifts of a billion-plus to the foundation of this couple, reaching $2.6 billion in 2018
the Gates (Bill & Melinda)
Ben
$200 [13]
The brick-building challenges are tough & host Will Arnett just might knock it all down on this toy brand "Masters"
LEGO
Jackie
$200 [19]
The sculptor Phidias supervised this building's construction beginning in the year 447 B.C.
the Parthenon
Ben Jackie
$200 [8]
This "organ"ic bean can be used to make red beans & rice
a kidney bean
Ben
$200 [17]
Adjective meaning "perceived by ear" & a type of facial hair
beard & heard
Tiffany
$200 [21]
The Baker Street Irregulars lend a helping hand
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ben
$400 [2]
This science guy made an impassioned appearance on "Last Week Tonight" to warn that our planet's on fire
Bill Nye
Jackie
$400 [12]
In the spinoff "9-1-1: Lone Star", Rob Lowe responds to emergencies in this state capital
Austin
Ben
$400 [15]
Paris' Sainte-Chapelle was built in 1248 to house this holy headgear of Jesus
the Crown of Thorns
Tiffany
$400 [9]
Though this bean gets its more common name from Peru, it's also called the Madagascar bean & down south, butter bean
a lima bean
Ben
$400 [18]
A carnivore's quest & a menacing declaration
meat & threat
$400 [22]
Shawshank Prison, a place of redemption
Stephen King
Ben
$600 [3]
Thisveteran British actor has appeared in the "Harry Potter" and "Pirates" franchises
Bill Nighy
Tiffany
$600 [4]
Bruce Wayne is missing & Ruby Rose dons the cowl as this title CW superhero who's no mere girl
Batwoman
Jackie
$800 [20]
The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the bridges that traverse this central waterway of Venice
the Grand Canal
Tiffany
$600 [10]
Ahoy! AKA a Yankee bean, this small white legume is big in Boston baked beans
a navy bean
Tiffany
$600 [27]
Gorgonzola for one & multiple ganders
cheese & geese
Ben
$600 [23]
Buffalo Bill (the serial killer, not the showman)
Thomas Harris
Tiffany
$800 [6]
In 2013 "Killing Jesus" by Martin Dugard & this pundit topped the bestseller list
Bill O'Reilly
Ben
$800 [5]
You have to be "the best of the best of the best" at Navarro College to perform this sport "on mat" on a Netflix reality show
cheerleading
Jackie
$1,000 [25]
Once Europe's tallest office tower, the Witte Huis, or White House, survived the 1940 bombing of this Dutch city and major port
Rotterdam
$800 [11]
The pods are in your favor with high-protein edamame, green these, picked fully grown but pre-full maturity
soybeans
Jackie
$800 [28]
To totally confuse someone & pancake batter baked in a special iron
baffle & waffle
Ben
$800 [24]
It does not end well for the conch shell that represents civilization
William Golding
Ben Jackie
$1,000 [7]
From this Bill Watterson comic strip: "In the past, you've been a remarkably poor judge of what your mom cares about"
Calvin and Hobbes
Ben
$1,000 [16]
Walton Goggins is an available single dad, not a mythical creature, on this CBS sitcom
The Unicorn
Ben
DD $1,600 [14]
Built in the 9th century, the castle named for this European capital looks out upon the Vltava River
Prague
Jackie
$1,000 [29]
The low point between 2 wave crests & time off for a soldier
trough & furlough
$1,000 [26]
"The Firm" of Bendini, Lambert & Locke
John Grisham
Ben

Double Jeopardy! Round

BILLS, BILLS, BILLS GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK HISTORIC HOMES THE LORD DEALS WITH THEE, BIBLICALLY DINO-TOPIA "A" BEFORE "E"
$400 [18]
A bipartisan 2018 criminal justice reform bill, the First Step Act eases up the federal rule known as this "and you're out"
three strikes
Jackie
$400 [23]
In a duet, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga sing, "and I seem to find the happiness I seek, when we're out together dancing" this way
cheek to cheek
Jackie
$400 [1]
Damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Beauvoir, the Miss. home of this Confederate pres., had to undergo a major restoration
Jefferson Davis
Ben
$400 [6]
"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon" him, "and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh"
Adam
Jackie
$400 [13]
In addition to its 3 huge horns, this dinosaur had spikes surrounding its sometimes nearly 10-foot-long skull
a triceratops
Tiffany
$400 [7]
The world federation for this Olympic martial art is headquartered in Seoul
taekwondo
Ben
$800 [19]
S.922 was "protecting" this international military alliance "Skies Act of 2019"
NATO
Ben
$800 [24]
"Thanks For The Memory" became his theme song after he & Shirley Ross introduced it in "The Big Broadcast of 1938"
Bob Hope
Ben
$800 [2]
You might recognize the Eldon, Iowa house seen here from this famous 1930 painting of a farm couple posing in front of it
American Gothic
Ben
$800 [12]
"And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto" this man
Moses
Jackie
$800 [14]
"Jurassic Park" fans will surely know of this small, fast dinosaur with a hugeclawon each foot
a velociraptor
Ben
$800 [8]
In 2001, they walked this way as new inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Aerosmith
Tiffany
$1,200 [20]
In 2019 H.R.596, this peninsula's "Annexation Non-Recognition Act", passed in the House 427-1
Crimea
Jackie
$1,600 [27]
"Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's" this
fall in love
$1,200 [3]
Her home in Glen Echo, Maryland doubled as a headquarters for the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Ben
DD $1,000 [26]
"And God blessed" this man "and his sons, and said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth"
Noah
Ben
$1,200 [15]
This dinosaur with a spike tail & plated back was once thought to have 2 brains due to an enlargement in the spinal cord
a stegosaurus
Jackie
$1,200 [9]
It's another name for the Irish language
Gaelic
Ben
$1,600 [21]
Signed into law in 2019, S.252 gave the Army rank of colonel to this Kansas senator who ran for president in 1996
Bob Dole
Ben
$2,000 [28]
Ella Fitzgerald sang, "It's only" this item "sailing over a cardboard sea"
a paper moon
$1,600 [4]
Many believe the 160-room San Jose, California "Mystery House" built by the heiress to this rifle company is haunted
Winchester
Tiffany
$1,600 [29]
"And" he "went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden"
Cain
$1,600 [16]
Brontosaurus comes fairly early alphabetically in dinosaur names, & it was once classified by this name that's even earlier
an apatosaurus
Ben
$1,600 [10]
Modeled after the "Iliad" & the "Odyssey", it's the national epic of ancient Rome
the Aeneid
Ben
$2,000 [22]
In 2017 Rep. Ed Royce sponsored H.R.3364, "Countering America's Adversaries Through" these measures "Act"
sanctions
DD $2,200 [25]
It became Etta James' signature song & Beyoncé sang it at an inaugural ball for President Obama
"At Last"
Ben
$2,000 [5]
Built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II, this 70-room Rhode Island mansion has been called the "grandest of Newport's summer 'cottages"'
The Breakers
Tiffany
$2,000 [30]
"The Lord spake unto" him, "saying, take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man...out of the midst of Jordan"
Joshua
$2,000 [17]
Diplodocus was a type of this, meaning "lizard foot"
sauropod
$2,000 [11]
Several evergreen trees go by this name, Latin for "tree of life"
arborvitae
Ben Tiffany

Final Jeopardy!

ADVENTURE NOVELS

In this novel the surname of a pastor, his wife & 4 sons is not given in the text; the title was meant to evoke a 1719 novel

The Swiss Family Robinson

Tiffany "What is Gulliver's Travels?" — wagered $1,500
Jackie "What is 20,000 leagues under the s" — wagered $2,601
Ben "What is ?" — wagered $1,042

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