Show #8240 2020-09-18 (taped 2020-07-28) Regular

Contestants

Herman Wilkins — a filmmaker from Los Angeles, California

Sarah Twilley — a music teacher from Seal Beach, California

Joe Velasco — a student from La Mirada, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Joe $1,000 $4,200 $9,900 $4,900
2nd place: $2,000
$10,000
15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Sarah $1,200 $4,600 $13,800 $19,801
New champion: $19,801
$13,800
17 R, 1 W
Herman $600 $1,600 $9,200 $4,599
3rd place: $1,000
$7,600
14 R (including 1 DD), 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

ALTRUISTIC ATHLETES BEASTLY BOOKS ANTONYMS POTPOURRI ADVICE FROM THE SIDELINES "ISM"s
$200 [2]
Mia Hamm scored 158 international goals in this sport & her charitable foundation is still scoring
soccer
Herman
$200 [12]
"Babar the King"by Jean de Brunhoff
an elephant
Herman
$200 [7]
This pair of antonyms is used when using a coin to make a decision
heads or tails
Joe
$200 [11]
In 2010 the Air Force Research Lab built one of the world's fastest computers using more than 1,700 of these Sony game systems
Playstation
Sarah
$200 [1]
This phrase for someone who gives unsolicited advice sounds like a person who is instructing his chauffeur
a backseat driver
Herman
$200 [5]
Classes at Columbia University's school of this include sports reporting & magazine writing
journalism
Sarah
$400 [3]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture.) The Game Changers Hall bears the name of this Chicago legend who donated $5 million to the museum; as of 2017, he was still ranked by "Forbes" as the highest-earning athlete of all time
(Michael) Jordan
Joe
$400 [13]
"Because of Winn-Dixie"by Kate DiCamillo
a dog
Joe
$400 [4]
From the Latin for "draw together", it's the opposite of expand
contract
Joe
$400 [24]
This nail-filing powder is traditionally crushed corundum, whether or not it's on a "board"
emery
Joe
$400 [10]
"Armchair" this military official is a publication using hindsight to replay famous battles
General
Sarah
$600 [14]
Britannica says this "both reached its peak & began its decline" during a series of televised hearings in 1954
McCarthyism
Joe
$600 [19]
This No. 24 driver is taking the fight to childhood cancer not only in the U.S. but in Rwanda
Jeff Gordon
$600 [16]
"Flowers for Algernon"by Daniel Keyes
a mouse
Sarah
$600 [6]
Like a certain "walk" in baseball, something not accidental is this
intentional
Sarah
$600 [25]
This man whose first name means "brave lion" designed a lion automaton in the 16th century
Leonardo da Vinci
Sarah
$600 [29]
Not Monday but this morning "quarterback" challenges the decision making in college football games
Sunday morning quarterback
Sarah
$800 [15]
From a Greek word for "pleasure", it's the belief that pleasure is the highest good
hedonism
Sarah
$800 [20]
All the kids in the first graduating class of this retired tennis great's charter school in Vegas got into college
Andre Agassi
Sarah
$800 [17]
"Misty of Chincoteague"by Marguerite Henry
a horse
Herman
$800 [23]
This pair of antonyms refers to a style of angling that helps conserve the local fauna
catch & release
Joe
$800 [27]
In 1932 Brazil's Olympic team had to sell bags of this crop while sailing to Los Angeles in order to pay for the trip
coffee
Sarah Herman
$800 [26]
This 6-letter word means to comment as a spectator, such as when watching a card game
kibitz
DD $1,000 [8]
Term for the ideas, theories & methods named for the man seen here
Marxism
Joe
$1,000 [21]
Muhammad Ali opened a youth center that teaches confidence & respect in this hometown of his
Louisville
$1,000 [18]
"The Yearling"by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
a deer
Herman
$1,000 [22]
Heterodox, meaning having unusual or minority views, has this antonym that ends with the same 4 letters
orthodox
Joe
$1,000 [28]
HBO's "John Adams" depicted an actual administration of this sticky 2-part punishment
tarring & feathering
Joe
$1,000 [9]
In New York City the Gray Panthers organization's mission statement is "activism and advocacy against" this
ageism
Sarah

Double Jeopardy! Round

PLACES OF SUBSTANCE MOVIES' LAST LINES THE APOSTLES BO, JACK NORSEMEN WORDS & PHRASES
$400 [25]
This Michigan industrial city bears the name of a river named for a "fire stone"
Flint
$400 [8]
Tobey Maguire: "With great power comes great responsibility. This is my gift. My curse. Who am I? I'm..."
Spider-Man
Sarah
$400 [6]
This apostle was not present when Jesus first reappeared after the crucifixion, so he had his doubts
Thomas
Joe
$400 [17]
Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" was inspired by this notorious Whitechapel prowler
Jack the Ripper
Joe
$400 [1]
Unlike Hägar's, the first complete Viking helmet ever found lacks these, largely an invention of a 19th century Wagner opera designer
horns
Joe Herman
$800 [27]
The Semitic word abaq, meaning "sand", gave us this word for a device that did arithmetic much faster than a sand table
an abacus
Herman
$800 [7]
It's a compound of the element with symbol Te; it's also a Colorado ski town
telluride
Sarah Herman
$800 [9]
Morgan Freeman: "I hope to see my friend & shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope"
The Shawshank Redemption
Herman
$800 [13]
Matthias beat out Barsabas in a lottery to replace this apostle who was not a good team player
Judas (Iscariot)
Sarah
$800 [18]
The first chapter of his 1910 work "Burning Daylight" mentions roulette, the Klondike & a sack of gold dust
Jack London
Herman
$800 [2]
In 2000 the U.S. & Iceland each issued a coin to honor the 1000 A.D. discovery of the New World by this man
Leif Erikson
Herman
$1,200 [26]
A delphinestrian is someone who rides this sea creature
a dolphin
Joe
$1,200 [20]
"U" oughta know that this city in Saskatchewan got its name from ore deposits of a radioactive element
Uranium City
$1,200 [10]
Guy Pearce: "Now, where was I?"
Memento
$1,200 [14]
This man wasn't one of the 12, but he has "The Apostle" for his epithet & much of the Acts of the Apostles is about him
Paul
Herman
$1,200 [19]
From 1982 to 1985 he rushed for over 4,000 yards in college before signing a baseball contract with Kansas City
Bo Jackson
Joe
$1,200 [3]
Norse games of myth included hnutukast, taking these from the carcass after a meal & throwing them at each other with intent to injure
bones
Sarah Herman
$2,000 [21]
The sensation of being creeped out by robots that look close to, but not exactly human, is called the "uncanny" this
valley
Joe
$1,600 [24]
This alliterative Maryland place is named for the color of the mica flakes found in the local water
Silver Spring
Joe
$2,000 [12]
Patricia Arquette: "Except maybe I wouldn't have named our son Elvis"
True Romance
Herman
$1,600 [15]
There were 2 Apostles with this name, so we use "the Greater" & "the Less" to tell them apart
James
$1,600 [4]
This name given to the northeast coast of North America by the Norsemen reflected the plants they found growing there
Vinland
Herman
DD $2,500 [22]
Originally a sci-fi term for a trainee astronaut, this 2-word term now describes someone not in touch with reality
a space cadet
Joe
$2,000 [23]
An area of Lebanon County in this state is called Anthracite
Pennsylvania
Sarah Herman
DD $3,200 [11]
Barnard Hughes: "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach: all the damn vampires"
The Lost Boys
Herman
$2,000 [16]
As depicted here, Jesus told Peter & this brother, another fisherman, "Follow me and I will makeyoufishers of men"
Andrew
Sarah
$2,000 [5]
The longest knowninscriptionsin this Viking alphabet is on the Rökstenen, seen here
the Runic alphabet
Sarah

Final Jeopardy!

ENGLISH POETS

An 1816 poem by him says, "That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome!"

Coleridge

Herman "Who is Lord Byron?" — wagered $4,601
Joe "Who is Byron?" — wagered $5,000
Sarah "Who is Coleridge" — wagered $6,001

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