Show #8275 2020-11-06 (taped 2020-08-25) Regular

Last show aired before Alex Trebek's death at age 80 from pancreatic cancer.

Contestants

Steven Jones — a 7th grade history teacher originally from Portland, Oregon

Andrew Chaikin — a musician and teacher from San Francisco, California

Burt Thakur — a project engineer from Palm Springs, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $20,400)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Burt :) $2,400 $5,600 $9,800 $0
3rd place: $1,000
$8,400
13 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W
Andrew $2,800 $5,600 $24,600 $21,601
New champion: $21,601
$25,200
28 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Steven $1,600 $3,600 $10,800 $1,800
2nd place: $2,000
$10,800
13 R, 1 W

Jeopardy! Round

DID YOU KNOW? PROSE BY BROS FOXES LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND ONE-WORD SONG TITLES "A_D" VERBS
$200 [19]
The OED dates the first recorded use of this letter to mean "kiss" back to a 1763 British letter
X
Andrew
$200 [10]
Jacob & Wilhelm, who gave us "Snow White" & "The Golden Goose"
the Brothers Grimm
Andrew
$200 [30]
Related to dogs & wolves, foxes are part of this scientific family
canine
Steven
$200 [29]
Things go south when they go here "in a handbasket"
hell
Steven
$200 [12]
This No. 1 hit by Rihanna includes the apt lyric "let it rain"
"Umbrella"
Steven
$200 [13]
Shortened a word
abbreviated
$400 [23]
Take it slow! This rain forest tree-dwelling mammal can take weeks to digest a meal & can hold its breath longer than a dolphin
a sloth
Burt :)
$400 [15]
Rod, short story collections as well as "The Twilight Zone"; Richard, "The President's Plane is Missing"
Serling
Andrew
$400 [27]
Term for a cozy room in your house, or a cozy fox burrow
a den
Burt :)
$400 [28]
A football running play, or when a plane's tracking is given to another control center
a handoff
Andrew
$400 [11]
Lorde topped the charts with this song, her first single
"Royals"
Andrew
$400 [14]
Spirited someone away, likely illegally
abducted
Andrew
$600 [22]
1980s Russia traded subs & other ships for this red, white & blue soda brand, said to briefly make it 1 of the world's largest navies
Pepsi
Andrew
$600 [18]
Twins Matt & Ross, Emmy-nominated for writing "Chapter Nine: The Gate" for the television show "Stranger Things"
the Duffer Brothers
Steven
$600 [26]
Writing about foxes? It's required that you use the adjective "bushy" to describe this body part
the tail
Burt :)
$600 [8]
I heard it this way, directly from the original source
firsthand
Burt :)
$600 [3]
Elaborate hand gestures are part of the dance that Madonna brought to the mainstream with this 1990 No. 1 hit
"Vogue"
Steven
$600 [1]
Turned away one's eyes, from the Latin for "to turn"
averted
Andrew
$800 [21]
The generic name for this cloth bag comes from the same-named Belgian town where it was first made, though the E & L can get reversed
duffel
Andrew
$800 [17]
Henry, "Roderick Hudson" in 1876; William, "Essays in Radical Empiricism", published posthumously in 1912
James
Andrew
$800 [24]
Thisspecies, also known as the common fox, is the most widely distributed carnivore on land
the red fox
Burt :)
$800 [7]
Proverbially, "Close only counts in" this game "& hand grenades"
horseshoes
Steven
$800 [4]
A song by Sia says, "I'm gonna swing from the" this, the song's title
"Chandelier"
Burt :)
$800 [2]
Aided or assisted, specifically in the commission of a crime
abetted
Andrew
$1,000 [20]
Snoop Dogg tried to rent this entire Eur. nation, Vaduz & all, for a video shoot; doable? Yes, but Snoop didn't give enough notice
Liechtenstein
$1,000 [16]
Frank, the 2005 memoir "Teacher Man"; Malachy, who wrote "A Couple of Blaguards" with his brother
McCourt
Steven
$1,000 [25]
Only about 15 inches long, the fennec is the world's smallest fox & lives in this largest desert of Africa
the Sahara
Burt :)
$1,000 [9]
The ends are left hanging in this long necktie that uses a slipknot
a four-in-hand
DD $1,000 [6]
Though quoted, the songwriters of "Eye Of The Tiger" didn't get credit on this No. 1 hit by Katy Perry
"Roar"
Burt :)
$1,000 [5]
Played piano at the soprano recital
accompanied

Double Jeopardy! Round

U.S. HISTORY WHAT'S THE GOSSIP? 20th CENTURY ENGLISH THEY DID IT GO WEST YOUNG MAN OR WOMAN
$400 [8]
In 1824 women walked off the job at a Rhode Island textile mill in what's considered America's first factory this
a strike
Andrew
$400 [25]
In the 1950s the New York Evening this newspaper became a tabloid & "National" , eventually moving to Florida
the Enquirer
Andrew
$400 [10]
"Giving me a glance of annoyance" was replaced by "giving me the" this smelly phrase
a stink eye
Steven
$400 [21]
Won a fourth term as German chancellor in 2017
(Angela) Merkel
Andrew
$400 [11]
A stroll west over the Vltava River on the Charles Bridge takes you from this capital's Old Town to the Mala Strana
Prague
Andrew
$400 [16]
In a 1985 film the "Young" this character fences against Moriarty in boarding school
Young Sherlock Holmes
Burt :)
$800 [6]
The Senate didn't ratify the Treaty of Versailles, so this G.O.P. president proclaimed peace between the U.S. & Germany in 1921
Harding
Burt :) Andrew Steven
$800 [24]
The name of the tabloid website & TV show TMZ refers to a 30-mile zone centering on this major city
Los Angeles
Andrew
$800 [9]
A twist on Defoe, "Girl" or "Gal" this for a female assistant was big pre-World War II
Friday
Steven
$800 [19]
Brought a team of nurses to the Crimean War on a mail boat
Nightingale
Andrew
$800 [26]
Go due west on land from Newfoundland & Labrador to this large province
Quebec
$800 [15]
In "Young Mr." this man, Henry Fonda plays an up-&-coming Illinois attorney
Lincoln
Andrew
$1,200 [1]
The U.S. severed diplomatic relations with this country January 3, 1961
Cuba
Andrew
$1,200 [22]
This word also used for gossip is a drinking fountain aboard ship
a scuttlebutt
Burt :)
$1,200 [3]
Borrowed from Italian & spelled all kinds of ways in English, it means "do you get me?"
capisce
Burt :)
$1,200 [18]
Won a coin flip with David Packard for top billing
Hewlett
Andrew
DD $1,000 [29]
Drive west from Maseru, capital of this country, & you arrive in South Africa--heck, drive east & you'll end up there as well
Lesotho
Andrew
$1,200 [12]
"The Young" this character "Chronicles" TV series featured the adventurer in his pre-college & pre-movie days
Indiana Jones
Andrew
$2,000 [28]
The 1970s oil crisis made this project inevitable; much of its construction was elevated out of worry for wildlife and permafrost
the Alaska Pipeline
Andrew
$1,600 [5]
In 1977 Rupert Murdoch launched a gossip column originally found at & named for this page of the New York Post
Page Six
Steven
$1,600 [2]
The OED defines it as a tune that stays in your mind "especially to the point of irritation "
an earworm
Steven
$1,600 [17]
In 1839 he showed his photos to the French Academy of Sciences
(Louis) Daguerre
Andrew
$1,200 [27]
Head west from Toulouse to reach the Franco-Spanish "country" named for this people who have a unique language
Basque
Burt :)
$1,600 [13]
This actor shakes up the Vatican as Pius XIII, "The Young Pope" in the title of an HBO series
Jude Law
Steven
DD $3,000 [4]
This 1794 uprising in Pennsylvania was prompted by a tax on liquor
the Whiskey Rebellion
Burt :)
$2,000 [23]
Famous feuding gossip columnists in the golden age of Hollywood were Louella Parsons & this alliterative lady
Hedda Hopper
Andrew
$2,000 [7]
The medium was in its infancy in the 1930s when this word came along to mean "looking good on TV"
telegenic
Steven
$2,000 [20]
Wrote "The Normal Heart", fought for AIDS research
(Larry) Kramer
Andrew
$2,000 [30]
The ferry from Wellington on New Zealand's North Island to Picton on the south one goes west across this strait
the Cook Strait
$2,000 [14]
This actor, not Peter Boyle, is the title character in "Young Frankenstein"
Gene Wilder
Burt :) Andrew

Final Jeopardy!

FAIRY TALE CHARACTERS

In French, this fairy tale character is La Petite Poucette, in Spanish, Pulgarcita & in English, this

Thumbelina

Burt :) "Who is the little duck" — wagered $9,800
Steven "Who isPuss in Boots?The Little P" — wagered $9,000
Andrew "Who is The Little Mermaid" — wagered $2,999

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