Show #8243 2020-09-23 (taped 2020-07-29) Regular

Contestants

Robert Kaine — a copy editor from Hacienda Heights, California

Lisa Grove — a writer from Los Angeles, California

Dana Hill — a book dealer and stay-at-home mom from Simi Valley, California (whose 2-day cash winnings total $44,800)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Dana $200 $1,000 $8,200 $16,400
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
12 R, 2 W
Lisa $-1,600 $400 $9,200 $18,300
2nd place: $2,000
$9,200
10 R, 2 W
Robert $1,800 $3,600 $14,400 $18,401
New champion: $18,401
$17,800
23 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 2 DDs)

Jeopardy! Round

AROUND THE USA POLITICS GETS PHYSICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT ETYMOLOGY JONATHAN SWIFTIES TV INSPIRATIONS NAME THAT PART OF SPEECH
$200 [11]
14,060-foot Mount Bierstadt is a good place to start climbing the "Fourteeners" of this western range
the Rockies
Robert
$200 [16]
During an 1858 brawl on the House floor, one representative accidentally grabbed this off the head of another, revealing him to be bald
a wig or toupée
Lisa
$200 [6]
Hautbois, literally "high" & "wood", is the origin of the name of this double-reed instrument
oboe
Robert
$200 [26]
Jonathan Swift famously observed that this food "is the staff of life"
bread
Dana
$200 [1]
Lucious Lyon on "Empire" was partly based on this rapper--should we infer that Cookie is Beyoncé
Jay-Z
Robert
$200 [25]
Remember
a verb
Dana
$400 [12]
The arch seenhereis not in Paris but in this city
Las Vegas
Dana Robert
$400 [17]
"Elbowgate" rocked Ottawa after this PM bumped a rival MP in the chest before a 2016 House of Commons vote
Justin Trudeau
Robert
$400 [7]
The name of this percussion instrument comes from the Greek for wood & voice
xylophone
Dana Robert
$400 [27]
This genre for which Swift was renowned is "a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"
satire
Lisa
$400 [2]
Washington, D.C. fixer Judy Smith inspired Olivia Pope on this drama
Scandal
Dana
$400 [24]
Thou
pronoun
Dana
$600 [13]
The Mall of America in this state has no central heating--skylights & store fixtures help do the job
Minnesota
Robert
$600 [18]
In Arkansas in 1837, one representative fatally stabbed another with this weapon named for a man killed the year before
a Bowie knife
Robert
$600 [8]
The name of this oval flute, which can have up to ten finger holes, is from the Italian
ocarina
Robert
$600 [3]
The name of Idris Elba's character on this HBO show comes from Baltimore criminals Bernard "Stringer" Reed & Roland Bell
The Wire
Dana Lisa
$600 [23]
Splendiferous
an adjective
Lisa
$800 [14]
To prevent road ice, Polk County, Wisconsin fittingly makes use of brine left over from making this
cheese
$800 [19]
In 1972 an Ulster MP slapped Britain's home secretary who told parliament that "Bloody" this day was self-defense by British troops
Bloody Sunday
Lisa
$1,000 [10]
This Renaissance-era stringed keyboard instrument sensibly gets its name from the Latin for "key" & "string"
a clavichord
Lisa
$800 [4]
Preet Bharara was reportedly an inspiration for Paul Giamatti's character on this Showtime drama set in the financial world
Billions
Robert
$800 [22]
Already
adverb
Robert
$1,000 [15]
Montgomery, Alabama, is home to the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church of this Protestant denomination
Baptist
Robert
$1,000 [20]
After John McLaurin & Benjamin Tillman traded punches on the Senate floor in 1902, the Senate voted 54-12 to give both this rebuke
a censure
DD $2,200 [9]
Whether hammered or strummed, this instrument gets its name from the Latin for "sweet song"
dulcimer
Robert
$1,000 [5]
Women's wrestling director Matt Cimber is an inspiration for Marc Maron's character on this show set in the 1980s
GLOW
$1,000 [21]
Although
conjunction

Double Jeopardy! Round

JOURNALISTS ON THE GLOBE GASES "UU" COMPLETE ME IT'S A DATE CELEBS COMING & GOING
$400 [18]
A memorial in Westminster Abbey commemorates Richard Dimbleby, this network's first war correspondent
the BBC
Dana
$400 [7]
The Libreria Acqua Alta or "High Water Bookshop" keeps its books in waterproof basins just in case this Italian city floods
Venice
Dana
$400 [6]
Absorbed into the blood slower than nitrogen, this lightest inert gas is mixed with oxygen for deep-sea divers
helium
Robert
$400 [1]
Space that has had all the air removed from it
a vacuum
Robert
$400 [19]
On March 17, 1905 this future first lady got married in New York City & didn't even have to change her last name
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert
$400 [8]
In 2019 he left "The Voice" after 16 seasons
Adam Levine
Robert
$800 [23]
He'smoved on from local newscasts in Birmingham & Chicago to become a nightly anchor at CNN
Don Lemon
Lisa
$800 [9]
Notes left at this holy site are collected twice a year & buried at the Mount of Olives
the Wailing Wall
Robert
$800 [13]
This inhaled anesthetic gas with a 5-letter name was first used for surgery in 1842
ether
Dana
$800 [2]
The name of this garment is Hawaiian
muumuu
Dana
$800 [27]
On Aug. 7, 1964 this international resolution that would prove controversial passed the House unanimously
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
$800 [17]
"I have things to prove to myself," explained Tom Brady about moving to this team after 20 seasons with the Patriots
Tampa Bay
Robert
$1,200 [24]
From 1962 to 1981 he ended CBS Evening News broadcasts with the signoff "And that's the way it is"
Cronkite
Lisa
$1,600 [11]
In 1986 this country got a new province, Flevoland, built completely on reclaimed land
the Netherlands
$1,200 [20]
Trademarked in 1930, it's the name for gases used as refrigerants thanks to their low boiling points
Freon
Robert
$1,200 [3]
A series in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly distinguishable from one another
a continuum
Lisa
$1,200 [28]
You could look it up--on April 14, 1828 this man copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary
(Noah) Webster
Robert
$1,200 [15]
Tina Fey returned in a 2020 "One-Time Special" of this sitcom; Kenneth the page is now the boss of the network
30 Rock
Dana
$1,600 [25]
(David Muir of ABC World News Tonight presents the clue.) In 2018, ABC's "World News Tonight" & I were proud to be named Best Newscast as recipients of the Radio-Television Digital News Association Award named for this legendary newsman
(Edward R.) Murrow
Lisa
$2,000 [12]
Pyongyang's Arch of Triumphwas built in 1982 to honor the 70th birthday of this first North Korean leader
Kim Il-sung
Lisa
$2,000 [22]
Harriet Brooks is sometimes credited with discovering this 5-letter element, a gas emanating from thorium
radon
$1,600 [4]
It's the genus that includes asses, zebras & related mammals
Equus
Robert
$1,600 [29]
On Jan. 10, 1776 Thomas Paine put out this 47-page pamphlet demanding independence
"Common Sense"
Robert
$1,600 [14]
A young Vince Gill turned down a chance to join Dire Straits; a less young Vince Gill replaced Glenn Frey on this band's tour
the Eagles
Dana
$2,000 [26]
A longtime newspaperman, this author of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" vanished after going to Mexico in 1913
(Ambrose) Bierce
Dana
DD $3,000 [10]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Argentina has a fertileregionbetween two rivers, the Paraná & the Uruguay, that's known by this 11-letter name, the same as an ancient Middle Eastern civilization
Mesopotamia
Robert
DD $3,000 [21]
Trapped in pockets underground where plant decomposition has occurred, natural gas is primarily this gas
methane
Robert
$2,000 [5]
This longtime opposition leader in Myanmar has been the de facto leader of the country since 2016
Aung San Suu Kyi
Robert
$2,000 [30]
This Mideast war ended on June 10, 1967 when the U.N. negotiated a cease-fire
the Six-Day War
$2,000 [16]
Emmy Rossum is no longer the oldest Gallagher daughter on this TV show
Shameless
Lisa

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN AUTHORS

Reluctant to write what became her most famous novel, she said, "Never liked girls or knew many, except my sisters"

(Louisa May) Alcott

Dana "Who is Alcott?" — wagered $8,200
Lisa "Who is Louisa May Alcott" — wagered $9,100
Robert "Who is Alcott?" — wagered $4,001

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