Show #8269 2020-10-29 (taped 2020-08-24) Regular

Contestants

Carmela Chan — a biotech researcher from San Diego, California

Lisa Gerlach — a veterinary neurologist from West Hills, California

Scott Shrum — a digital marketing executive from Westlake Village, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,100)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Scott $1,000 $3,400 $6,600 $13,200
3rd place: $1,000
$6,600
9 R, 0 W
Lisa $1,200 $5,500 $12,400 $24,797
2nd place: $2,000
$15,400
18 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Carmela $5,600 $5,800 $19,600 $24,801
New champion: $24,801
$13,400
19 R (including 1 DD), 3 W

Jeopardy! Round

BLOCKBUSTERS NATIONAL PARKS WEAPON TYPES 4-LETTER SYNONYMS U.S. HOSPITALS A SERIOUSLY FLUFFY CATEGORY
$200 [8]
This 1975 shark-tastic film is considered the first summer blockbuster
Jaws
Scott
$200 [27]
The national park named for these "Great" mountains is shared by North Carolina & Tennessee
the Great Smoky Mountains
Carmela
$200 [30]
Tomahawk, hatchet
an ax
Carmela
$200 [11]
When preparing fish, its synonym is smoke; for healthcare, it's remedy or heal
cure
$200 [3]
Touro Infirmary & Tulane Medical Center are in this city; despite what you might think, St. James Infirmary isn't
New Orleans
Lisa
$200 [28]
An ingredient in S'mores, it gets its name from a plant found in wet areas near the sea
marshmallow
Scott
$400 [7]
Beyoncé voiced Nala in the 2019 version of this Disney film
The Lion King
Carmela
$400 [23]
For decades, Firefall at this California national park was an annual pouring of bonfire remnants over Glacier Point
Yosemite
Lisa
$400 [29]
Cutlass, falchion
a sword
Lisa
$400 [10]
Friar & brother are both synonymous with this religious title
monk
Lisa
$400 [14]
In 1986 this Minnesota clinic merged with Rochester Methodist & St. Mary's hospitals
Mayo Clinic
Carmela
$400 [19]
As you can see, the Japanese type of this breakfast item is a bit fluffier than the Yank version
a pancake
Scott
$600 [6]
Subtitled "Catching Fire", the second film in this series caught fire with moviegoers
The Hunger Games
Lisa
$600 [24]
You'll see plenty of stalactites & stalagmites at this site, a national park in Kentucky
Mammoth Cave
Lisa
$600 [22]
Compound, recurve
a bow
Carmela
$600 [1]
Before "up" it's a synonym for cheer; by itself, for a benefit
perk
$600 [15]
In 1961 California's Mount Sinai merged with the hospital known as these "of Lebanon"
Cedars
Carmela
$600 [13]
Nephoscopes measure the speed & direction of these fluffy things
clouds
Carmela
$800 [4]
The premise of this 2017 film: 4 teens are sucked into a magical video game where they meet Nick Jonas
Jumanji : Welcome to the Jungle
Carmela
$800 [25]
Francis Marion could tell you this wet type of terrain was once in the name of what's now Congaree National Park
a swamp
Lisa
$800 [20]
Bolt action; AR, also called modern sporting
rifle
Scott
$800 [2]
This verb means to shed feathers
molt
Carmela
$800 [17]
After his death in 1873, this Baltimore philanthropist left his fortune to establish a university & hospital
Johns Hopkins
Lisa Carmela
$800 [12]
Members of this group whose name stands for head, heart, hands & health help coif fluffy cows like the one seen here
4-H
Scott
$1,000 [5]
Based on a novel by Boris Pasternak & clocking in at more than 3 hours, this 1965 film was a hit at the box office
Doctor Zhivago
Carmela
DD $1,500 [26]
This drainage line runs northwest-southeast through Rocky Mountain National Park
the Continental Divide
Lisa
$1,000 [21]
Cudgel, shillelagh
a club
Lisa
$1,000 [9]
Manacle, rigid & press are all synonyms for this 4-letter word
iron
Carmela
$1,000 [18]
Fittingly, Tufts Medical Center in Boston uses this biblical parable as inspiration
the Good Samaritan
$1,000 [16]
This alliterative product sounds like a type of explosive, but actually just makes fluffy suds for you to enjoy in your tub
a bath bomb
Scott

Double Jeopardy! Round

ANTIQUES ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS SOVIET BLOC BUSTERS TRANSLATED GEOGRAPHIC NAMES SCIENCE TV "BE"SOMETHING"ED"
$400 [22]
A semainier was a tall narrow chest traditionally of this many drawers, containing linen for a whole week
seven
Carmela
$400 [17]
Not about zombies, the short story "The Dead" is found in this Irish author's collection "Dubliners"
James Joyce
Lisa
$800 [12]
In 1961 Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West as the Kirov Ballet played Paris; this dancer defected in Toronto 13 years later
(Mikhail) Baryshnikov
Carmela
$800 [26]
An Algonquian language: people of the point bay, Rhode Island
Narragansett
Carmela
$800 [8]
When it's a slow space news day, NASA TV may show a view of Earth from this, launched in 1998
the International Space Station
Scott
$800 [7]
Engaged to be married
betrothed
Scott
$800 [21]
From the Victorian era, the spoonback variety of this piece of furniture came in a comfy, slightly lower nursing version
a chair
Lisa Carmela
$1,200 [13]
In Sept. 2018 this Singapore-born man had 3 books in the top 5 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list
Kevin Kwan
Lisa
$1,200 [9]
Tito, leader of this country that's no longer on the map, chafed against Stalin & pursued a policy of "nonalignment"
Yugoslavia
Lisa
$1,200 [23]
French:wooded, Idaho
Boise
Lisa Carmela
$1,200 [1]
"How It's Made" shows the manufacture of items from pipe organs to masks for these men in the nets
goalies
Lisa
$1,200 [4]
Beleaguered is a synonym for this, whether by soldiers around your castle or by problems
besieged
Lisa
$1,200 [20]
Rene Lalique's early 20th century designs in jewelry & this medium, verre in French, are highly prized today
glass
Lisa
$1,600 [14]
He's taken us on "A Walk in the Woods" & given us "A Short History of Nearly Everything"
Bill Bryson
Carmela
$1,600 [11]
With the goal of easing relations, German chancellor Willy Brandt pursued this type of policy, from the French for "relaxing"
détente
Scott
$2,000 [24]
Spanish:Blood of Christ mountains, Colorado & New Mexico
The Sangre de Cristo Mountains
$1,600 [2]
A followup to Carl Sagan's original show, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" explored the universe with this host
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Lisa
$1,600 [5]
It's the state of a sailing ship that can't move because there's no wind
becalmed
Carmela
$1,600 [19]
Seen first from above, is a piece of furniture with both convex and concave edges, an example of this snaky adjective
serpentine
Carmela
$2,000 [15]
This "verdant" author's "The Heart of the Matter" was set in Sierra Leone, where he was once stationed in World War II
Graham Greene
$2,000 [10]
With a seasonal name, this brief period of Czech liberalization inspired by Alexander Dubcek began in April 1968
Prague Spring
Lisa
DD $3,500 [25]
Welsh:high hill, Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr
Lisa
$2,000 [3]
Focusing on the oceans, "The Blue Planet" and "Blue Planet II" are both narrated by this Brit
(David) Attenborough
Carmela
$2,000 [6]
Lacking knowledge, unenlightened; literally, it refers to a traveler who must stop because it gets dark
benighted
$2,000 [18]
Treasured Belleek ware pottery was manufactured starting in the 1850s at Fermanagh on this island
Ireland
DD $7,000 [16]
One of his most famous characters, Harry Haller, has the same initials as the author
Hermann Hesse
Carmela

Final Jeopardy!

LEAD SINGERS

The New York Times said this late Brit's multi-octave range & operatic quality made "even paeans to bicycle riding sound emotional"

Freddie Mercury

Scott "Who is the late, great Freddie Mercury? [a drawn crown]" — wagered $6,600
Lisa "Who is Freddy Mercury?" — wagered $12,397
Carmela "Who is Freddie Mercury?" — wagered $5,201

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