Show #8256 2020-10-12 (taped 2020-08-17) Regular

Kevin Walsh game 3.

Contestants

Barbara Giesser — a neurologist originally from the Bronx, New York

Michael Zannettis — a medical writer originally from Astoria, New York

Kevin Walsh — a story analyst originally from Williamstown, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $42,900)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Kevin $4,200 $7,000 $22,600 $20,000
3-day champion: $62,900
$21,400
27 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Michael $-1,054 $946 $4,746 $3,035
2nd place: $2,000
$10,600
16 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Barbara $-400 $200 $3,000 $1,500
3rd place: $1,000
$3,000
7 R, 4 W

Jeopardy! Round

THEIR BAR OR BAT MITZVAH FRANCE BEHIND THE VOICES 8-LETTER WORDS FURNITURE COLORFUL LIT
$200 [21]
Brooklyn's Kingsway Jewish Center is where this future politician & Vermonter was bar mitzvahed in 1954
Bernie Sanders
Michael
$200 [6]
This should be familiar--the French tricolor flag, flown since 1830, features these 3 colors
red, white & blue
Michael
$200 [10]
Before he was on "This is Us", actor Chris Sullivan said, "Guess what day it is?" as this animal on GEICO commercials
the camel
Kevin Barbara
$200 [1]
Once it meant a young knight; today it means an unmarried man
bachelor
Michael
$200 [29]
This low upholstered seat was introduced to Europe from an empire; now it's used to mean a footstool
an ottoman
Michael
$200 [16]
"Anne of ____ Gables"
Green
Kevin
$400 [22]
At his 1954 bar mitzvah he sang for 4 hours; Paul Simon was there & must have been impressed
Art Garfunkel
Kevin
$600 [8]
Don't miss the tiny railway in France's national park named for these mountains that border Spain
the Pyrenees
Kevin
$400 [11]
Charles Martinet says, "It's-a me!", the catchphrase of this video game character
Mario
Kevin
$400 [2]
It can mean reactions to an idea, or distortion caused by a loop in a sound system
feedback
Michael
$400 [26]
Get it right: a podium is something you stand on; I sit at this, a 7-letter word for a reading desk
a lectern
Kevin
$400 [17]
Marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes: "A Study in ____"
Scarlet
Kevin
$600 [23]
Long Island's Congregation Sons of Israel is where this future gay activist & San Franciscan was bar mitzvahed in 1943
(Harvey) Milk
Kevin
$800 [9]
Your year in this region in the south of France might include passing through its lavender fields
Provence
Kevin Barbara
$600 [12]
Pitchwoman Joyce Gordon also informed millions of telephone callers, "The number you have reached is" these 4 words
no longer in service
Kevin Barbara
$600 [3]
Verb meaning to raise a body in the air & keep it afloat, as if by magic
levitate
Kevin
$600 [27]
A song said this timepiece was "too large for the shelf, so it stood 90 years on the floor"
my grandfather's clock
Barbara
$600 [18]
By Erik Larson, about "Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair": "The Devil in the ____ City"
White
Michael
$800 [24]
On Dec. 3, 2019 she celebrated her 40th birthday, her bat mitzvah & her new Netflix comedy special "Black Mitzvah"
Tiffany Haddish
DD $854 [7]
Officially celebrated since 1880, festivities for it include a parade from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde
Bastille Day
Michael
$800 [13]
Frank Simms tried to sound like a mix of Barry White & David Lee Roth when saying "Oh yeah!" in ads for this drink brand
Kool-Aid
Kevin
$800 [4]
A large army unit made up of brigades & regiments
division
Kevin Barbara
$800 [28]
The popular Boston style of this chair originated around 1830
a rocking chair
$800 [19]
A children's classic: "Harold and the ____ Crayon"
Purple
Kevin
$1,000 [25]
This future Facebook executive had a symbolic bat mitzvah "twin", a girl in the Soviet Union, where Jews were oppressed
(Sheryl) Sandberg
Michael Barbara
$1,000 [15]
During the French Revolution, the royalists were the supporters of King Louis XVI & this dynasty
the Bourbon
Kevin
$1,000 [14]
Actress & singer Marni Nixon is known for dubbing this other actress' singing in "West Side Story"
Natalie Wood
Kevin
$1,000 [5]
An orthodontist may fit you with this external component of braces that sometimes comes with a chin strap
headgear
Kevin Michael
$1,000 [30]
Now synonymous with wardrobe, this type of cupboard was once used to store weapons
an armoire
Barbara
$1,000 [20]
"Forever in ____: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood"
Blue

Double Jeopardy! Round

FESTIVALS OF LIGHT ANCIENT HISTORY ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER CAT'S ENTERTAINMENT I'LL TURN IT UNIVERSE
$400 [6]
The lights seenhereare part of the celebration of this holiday in Tel Aviv
Hanukkah
Michael
$400 [10]
From the Latin for "sword" comes this word for arena fighters of ancient Rome
gladiators
Michael
$400 [3]
An organ of sense & a long, distinct period of history
an ear & an era
Kevin
$400 [1]
Meowth is a feline one of these "Pocket Monsters" in games from Nintendo
a Pokémon
Michael
$400 [23]
The wheel is being turned to open this space
a vault
Kevin
$400 [18]
This communication method is the "R" in FRBs, bursts of energy from billions of light years away now found to repeat in patterns
radio
Kevin
$800 [7]
Thiscity comes alive at night during its yearly Vivid Light Festival
Sydney
Kevin
$800 [11]
In 279 B.C. the Celts attacked this sacred site in Greece on the slope of Mount Parnassus; should have seen that coming
the Oracle at Delphi
Michael
$800 [4]
A small, flat portable computer & a fight between 2 armies
a battle & a tablet
Kevin
$800 [2]
GSN's "Meow Mix Think Like a Cat Game Show" had challenges like "The Fast and the" this pun
Furriest
Kevin
$800 [24]
A novel by David Leavitt is a real this; that's its title, about a job assisting a classical pianist
a page turner
Barbara
$800 [19]
One of the smallest of these space peewees is van Maanen's Star at roughly 10,000 miles in diameter
a dwarf star
Michael
$1,200 [15]
Thumbs up for this Chinese city's light festival featuring spectacular drone formations above the casinos
Macau
Michael
$1,200 [12]
Ranging from about 2600 to 1000 B.C., its 3 major kingdoms are termed the Old, the Middle & the New
Egypt
Kevin
$1,200 [5]
A person reaching you by phone & a place in a house to store wine
caller & cellar
Barbara
$1,200 [17]
Mike Myers' feline outfit for this film was partly made from yak hair
The Cat in the Hat
Kevin
$1,200 [25]
Before the steering wheel caught on, Americancarsof the 1890s were steered by turning this device, like on a boat
a tiller
Kevin Barbara
$1,600 [21]
Amounting to 5 times the mass of regular, visible matter, it was long theorized but first directly detected in 2006
dark matter
Kevin
$1,600 [16]
At Frankfurt's Luminale Festival, a bridge over this river becomes a light show canvas
the Main
$1,600 [13]
Darius III was the last king of the Achaemenid Dynasty of this mighty empire
the Persians
Michael
$2,000 [9]
A performance by a single musician & a single newspaper piece
recital & article
$1,600 [28]
This girl-powered supergroup gave us the album "Doll Domination" in 2008
The Pussycat Dolls
Michael
$1,600 [26]
Back in 1903 "The Great Train Robbery" had this basic movie move, turning the camera from side to side
a pan
Michael
$2,000 [22]
A "Dyson" hypothetical this 6-letter structure is built around a star by an alien species & named for a late physicist
a sphere
Kevin
$2,000 [14]
It's the name for the pyramidal stepped temples of Babylon that may have inspired the story of the Tower of Babel
ziggurats
Barbara
DD $2,800 [8]
To hit the books & the condition of old books left unread for years
study & dusty
Kevin
$2,000 [27]
If your last name is Turner, chances are your ancestors shaped wood on this 5-letter device
a lathe
Kevin
DD $5,000 [20]
To find this zodiac constellation, look for Spica, its brightest star; it marks the sheaf of wheat the maiden holds
Virgo
Michael

Final Jeopardy!

WORLD LICENSE PLATES

Around 2010 the state license plate for Michoacan, Mexico featured these insects

monarch butterflies

Barbara "What are grasshoppers?" — wagered $1,500
Michael "What are the cricket and the ant?" — wagered $1,711
Kevin "What are cockroaches?" — wagered $2,600

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