Show #8255 2020-10-09 (taped 2020-08-04) Regular

Kevin Walsh game 2.

Contestants

Sabreena Merchant — a sports writer from Los Angeles, California

Brian Semel — an associate producer originally from Armonk, New York

Kevin Walsh — a story analyst originally from Williamstown, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,300)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $4,800 $11,400 $23,800 $27,600
2-day champion: $42,900
$22,800
28 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Brian $1,000 $2,600 $5,200 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$8,200
9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Sabreena $1,600 $3,400 $6,600 $5,201
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
14 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Jeopardy! Round

WHERE AM I? NUMBERS OF THINGS SNAP, CRACKLE OR POP THE WORK'S ORIGINAL LANGUAGE TELEVISION "BEE" GOOD
$200 [18]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m in America’s hometown where the Pilgrims landed in 1620 and where legend has it they stepped upon this stone as they disembarked from the Mayflower
Plymouth Rock
Sabreena
$200 [11]
Added in 1971, No. 26 of the 27 amendments to the Constitution set this at 18
the voting age
Kevin
$200 [29]
Tony Stark did one in "Endgame" to destroy Thanos & his armies
a snap
Kevin
$200 [30]
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich"
Russian
Kevin
$200 [4]
"The Morning Show" on Apple TV+ stars her as longtime anchor Alex Levy
Jennifer Aniston
Sabreena
$200 [1]
This flying disc from Wham-O got its name in part from a comic strip
a Frisbee
Kevin
$400 [19]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) We’re at the birthplace of the first atomic weapons, this city in northern New Mexico whose name means “the cottonwood”
Los Alamos
Kevin
$400 [12]
The 9 Greek goddesses known as Muses included Melpomene & Thalia, patrons of these 2 types of drama symbolized by masks
tragedy & comedy
Kevin
$400 [28]
Mello Yello or Orangina
pop
Kevin
$400 [24]
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
French
Kevin
$400 [5]
Southfork Ranch was the residence of the Ewings on this nighttime soap
Dallas
Kevin
$400 [2]
This tree is aka F. sylvatica
a beech tree
$600 [20]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m in this city, south of Los Angeles, that’s been running its prestigious Grand Prix since 1977
Long Beach
Kevin
$600 [13]
This septet includes the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World
Sabreena
$600 [16]
In 2019 Spain's prime minister called this kind of parliamentary election
snap
Brian
$600 [25]
Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
Latin
Kevin
$600 [6]
Freddie Highmore has directed episodes of this medical drama on which he plays the lead
The Good Doctor
Brian
$600 [3]
In "Paradise Lost", he's Satan's No. 2
Beelzebub
Brian
$800 [21]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m at the Children’s Hospital of this state, the primary training site for pediatric students of the Baylor College of Medicine
Texas
Sabreena
$800 [14]
It's the number of squares on a checkerboard
64
Sabreena
$800 [17]
Also called craze, it's the network of fine broken lines in the glaze of ceramics
crackles
Sabreena
$1,000 [27]
"Pippi Longstocking"
Swedish
Kevin
$800 [7]
Capeside was the setting of this series with James Van Der Beek in the title role
Dawson's Creek
Kevin
$800 [9]
It's 3/8 bison & 5/8 cow
beefalo
Kevin
$1,000 [22]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) I’m at this premier U.S. art and design college in New England, a leader in attracting extraordinary creative people since its founding in 1877
RISD (the Rhode Island School of Design)
Brian
$1,000 [15]
Hesiod said this beast had 50 heads, not 3, & Hercules' final labor of 12 was to bring it from the underworld up to the surface
Cerberus
Kevin
$1,000 [23]
Roy Lichtenstein was known as a creator of this type of art
pop art
Kevin
DD $1,800 [26]
Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"
German
Kevin
$1,000 [8]
On Amazon Prime's "Hunters", he plays Meyer Offerman, who leads an elite group of Nazi hunters
Al Pacino
Brian
$1,000 [10]
"We build we fight", says the official website of the U.S. naval construction force nicknamed this
Seabees
Kevin

Double Jeopardy! Round

MODERN WORLD BEFORE & AFTER OXFORD ALUMNI CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS THE DOCTOR WILL "C" YOU NOW BILLBOARDTOP 40 HITTITES
$400 [1]
"Eternal" slogan for the homeland of Marvel's Black Panther & his favorite mall retail clothier
Wakanda Forever 21
Sabreena
$400 [6]
A Rhodes scholar, he's the only U.S. president to have attended Oxford
Clinton
Kevin
$400 [21]
The mother church for Christian Science is located in this city next to the Mary Baker Eddy Library
Boston
$400 [15]
Found in the liver, it helps make vitamin D; hope you have a lot more good than bad!
cholesterol
Sabreena
$400 [16]
Madonna touched No. 1 on the Billboard Top 40 "for the very first time" with this 1984 song
"Like A Virgin"
Kevin
$400 [24]
The Hittites entered history in the 2nd millennium B.C. in Anatolia, today the Asian portion of this nation
Turkey
Brian
$800 [2]
Harley Quinn, Deadshot & crew & those aspirational things they want to accomplish together
Suicide Squad goals
Kevin
$800 [7]
While both were at Oxford, Benazir Bhutto introduced this recent British prime minister to her future husband Philip
Theresa May
Brian
$800 [22]
Begun in the 12th century, Wells Cathedralhas the distinction of being the first in England built entirely in this style
Gothic
Brian
$800 [11]
Red blood cells must take things one at a time passing through one of these tiny blood vessels, which can be .008mm
capillaries
Sabreena
$800 [17]
"Hey Ya!", by this duo, spent about 30 weeks in the Top 40 in 2003 & 2004
OutKast
Sabreena
$800 [27]
Reliefs show the Hittites with the wheels on these vehicles moved from the back to the middle, so a third warrior could ride
chariots
Kevin
$1,200 [3]
It's the term for when Skeletor's enemy, you know, that Masters of the Universe guy, condescendingly clarifies to women
He-Mansplaining
Kevin
$1,600 [9]
Cameron & Tyler, these twins who famously sued Mark Zuckerberg, were on the rowing teams for Harvard & Oxford
the Winklevoss twins
Kevin
$1,200 [23]
In Italy the Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista houses this sacred burial cloth
the Shroud of Turin
Kevin
$1,200 [12]
When looking at areas of thickened skin on your feet, these are larger & more shapeless than corns
calluses
Sabreena
$1,200 [20]
"Rockstar", by him featuring Roddy Ricch, topped the Billboard charts in July 2020
DaBaby
Sabreena
$1,200 [28]
In Hittite mythology, Ubelluri held up the Earth, just like this Titan
Atlas
Sabreena
$1,600 [4]
Numerical phrase for unflinchingly honest, especially with regard to the British/French conflict that lasted from 1337 to 1453
Keeping it One Hundred Years' War
Sabreena
$2,000 [10]
Seriously, this actor who gets big laughs as "Mr. Bean" earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Oxford
Rowan Atkinson
Kevin
$1,600 [25]
If you visit this New Mexico town, stop by the San Francisco de Asis Church, a favorite subject of painters
Taos
$2,000 [14]
This rubbery tissue at the ends of long bones is also called gristle
cartilage
Kevin
$1,600 [19]
ABBA had 14 songs on the Billboard chart, but only this disco-themed one made it to No. 1
"Dancing Queen"
Brian
$1,600 [29]
Written soon after a king died of this disease, a prayer named for it asks, will it "never be eliminated from the land of Hatti?"
the Plague
$2,000 [5]
Put your hands together & make noise for this term for a shade-filled retort to Nick Carter & his '90s band
Clap Backstreet Boys
Brian
DD $3,000 [8]
We assumehewas wearing a different kind of robe when he received his undergraduate degree in 1910
Lawrence of Arabia
Brian
$2,000 [26]
The Church of All Nations stands at the foot of this mount from which Jesus made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem
the Mount of Olives
DD $4,000 [13]
Hermes' wand, this symbol of the U.S. Army Medical Corps, is a staff with 2 serpents coiled around it
the caduceus
Sabreena
$2,000 [18]
"Weird Al" Yankovic made a foray into the Top 40 with this Michael Jackson parody
"Eat It"
Kevin
$2,000 [30]
Most of what we know about the Hittites comes from clay tablets found at Bogazkoy bearing this wedge-shaped writing system
cuneiform
Sabreena

Final Jeopardy!

BOOKS OF THE 1950s

A special edition of this 1953 novel came with an asbestos binding

Fahrenheit 451

Brian "What is Invisible Man?" — wagered $5,200
Sabreena "What is Brave New World?" — wagered $1,399
Kevin "What is Fahrenheit 451?" — wagered $3,800

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