Show #8281 2020-11-16 (taped 2020-09-09) Regular

Andy Wood game 1.

Contestants

Andy Wood — a writer originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan

Kelly Hogan — a clinical trial project manager from Laguna Hills, California

John Bussard — a Marine aviator originally from Ringoes, New Jersey (whose 1-day cash winnings total $26,200)

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
John $3,800 $9,800 $24,200 $7,200
2nd place: $2,000
$23,200
27 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Kelly $1,600 $3,800 $7,000 $500
3rd place: $1,000
$7,000
13 R, 4 W
Andy $2,600 $3,800 $20,400 $26,799
New champion: $26,799
$10,200
16 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

A 20th CENTURY DECADE MASKS DAM BUILDING IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS WOMEN IN MUSIC ALL "IZE"
$200 [7]
The first humans land on the Moon
the 1960s
Andy
$200 [9]
"Who Was That Masked Man?" is a book about this title character from radio, TV & movies
the Lone Ranger
Andy
$200 [18]
Called "Gujarat's Lifeline", the Sardar Sarovar Dam in this country still took 56 years to complete
India
Kelly
$200 [6]
In 1764 this school, then called Rhode Island College, became the 7th college chartered in America
Brown
John
$200 [16]
This "Girl On Fire" performer chose her last name in reference to the piano & because "it can open so many doors"
Alicia Keys
John
$200 [1]
To make a partisan matter out of something, maybe by dividing Democrats & Republicans
politicize
John
$400 [10]
Joseph McCarthy is officially censured by the U.S. Senate
the 1950s
Andy
$400 [27]
Writer Johnston McCulley created this masked vigilante with a Spanish name that means "fox"
Zorro
Kelly
$400 [23]
This civilization built some of the oldest dams still in use, including the Proserpina Dam at Mérida, Spain
the Romans
John
$400 [17]
This college cited Woodrow Wilson's "racist thinking & policies" as it took his name off its School of Public & Intl. Affairs
Princeton
John
$400 [19]
"I Will Survive" indeed; in 2020, 40 years after her hit, this singer was back on top, winning a Grammy for Best Roots Gospel Album
Gloria Gaynor
Andy
$400 [2]
To get used to a new environment, particularly its temperature
acclimatize
John
$600 [11]
World War II begins in Europe
the 1930s
John
$600 [28]
Hereare some of the masks of these Mexican wrestlers
luchadores
Andy
$600 [24]
Now in danger of failing, the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River created the world's largest one of these by volume, 43 cubic miles
a reservoir
John
$600 [15]
Dartmouth's Geisel Medical School is named for this writer & his wife; though he was a "Dr.", he was not an M.D.
Dr. Seuss
Kelly
$600 [20]
In 2015 Rolling Stone named her & Ike No. 2 on their list of the Greatest Duos of All Time
Tina Turner
John
$600 [3]
Term for milk that hasn't been heat-treated to kill microorganisms
unpasteurized
John
$800 [12]
The Soviet Union is dissolved
the 1990s
Kelly Andy
$800 [29]
This Dumas novel suggests that the prisoner is actually the twin brother of Louis XIV
The Man in the Iron Mask
John Andy
$800 [25]
In the 1950s Switzerland's Mauvoisin Dam became the world's tallest one, replacing this American one
the Hoover Dam
Kelly
$800 [14]
Here's Handsome Dan, who became the mascot of this school in 1889
Yale
John
$800 [21]
With more than 100 million albums sold, this "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" singer is among the top-selling country artists of all time
Shania Twain
Kelly
$800 [4]
To appoint someone as a sheriff's assistant
deputize
Kelly
$1,000 [13]
ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, is built
the '40s
John
DD $2,000 [30]
In this French novel, a singer named Christine longs to see beneath the mask of the title character
The Phantom of the Opera
John
$1,000 [26]
The Guri Dam near the Guyana border was built to ease this South American country's dependence on oil
Venezuela
Andy
$1,000 [8]
Part of Penn, this business school once had the goal of its grads becoming "pillars of the state"
Wharton
Kelly
$1,000 [22]
This frontwoman for the Go-Go's has also had solo hits like "Mad About You" & "I Get Weak"
Belinda Carlisle
John
$1,000 [5]
To do exercise that increases oxygen intake, perhaps to a Jane Fonda workout video
aerobicize
Andy

Double Jeopardy! Round

A BUSY BODY JEOPARDY!WORLD TOUR ALLUSIVE TITLES FURNITURE STUFF FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES THE CELEBRITY'S BOOZE
$400 [6]
It's just 3 to 4 inches long & seems to be gradually disappearing through evolution, but when it gets blocked, it can still kill you
the appendix
John
$400 [13]
We wish you a merry isthmus as we travel from Las Tablas to Los Pozos in this Central American country
Panama
Kelly
$400 [18]
John Steinbeck lifted the title of this novel from "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic"
The Grapes of Wrath
John Kelly
$400 [11]
Names for stools include counter, bar & this 3-letter synonym for bar
a pub stool
$400 [23]
A Latin word for "grace" or "favor", it means free of charge
gratis
Andy
$400 [1]
This actress offered Drew's Blend, a pinot noir
Drew Barrymore
John
$800 [7]
The thinking part of the brain, it accounts for about 85% of the brain's weight
the cerebrum
Andy
$800 [14]
We'll start in Irkutsk, go past Lake Baikal, then up into the Arctic Circle; all are a part of this Russian region
Siberia
Andy
$800 [19]
Thomas Gray's line "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" gave this Thomas an 1874 novel title
Thomas Hardy
Kelly
$800 [12]
The king mattress named for this U.S. state measures 72" wide by 84" long
California
John
$1,200 [25]
An Italian grandmother gives this command when it's time to eat
mangia
John
$800 [2]
Haig Club whisky added some Posh Spice to its recipe, relative-ly speaking, after this soccer star became a partner
(David) Beckham
Andy
$1,200 [8]
The trochlea, a spool-shaped surface in this bone, articulates with the ulna, & that's no joke
the humerus
Kelly
$1,200 [15]
We've landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport for a stay in this capital; we hear one night there makes a hard man humble
Bangkok
John
$1,200 [20]
Milton's "Unless the almighty maker them ordain / His dark materials to create more worlds" inspired the title of a trilogy by him
Philip Pullman
Kelly
$1,200 [28]
This alliterative "bookcase" with glass or wooden doors is named for a type of British lawyer
a barrister
John
$1,600 [26]
Excessive sentimentality or chicken fat--this Yiddish word means both
schmaltz
John
$1,200 [3]
He must have worked up a thirst starring in "Two Guys, a Girl & a Pizza Place" & "Deadpool", as he invested in Aviation Gin
Ryan Reynolds
Andy
$1,600 [9]
Blockage of these neck arteries that bring blood to your brain can lead to stroke
the carotid artery
Andy
$1,600 [16]
We'll head out of Regina, hit Moose Jaw, then head up to catch some northern pike at Wollaston Lake in this prairie province
Saskatchewan
John
$1,600 [21]
This Shakespeare play provided Agatha Christie with "by the pricking of my thumbs"
Macbeth
John Kelly
$1,600 [29]
Two sets of double letters end the name of this smallish sofa
a settee
Kelly
$2,000 [27]
Instead of calm or nonchalance, try this French phrase that means cold blood
sang froid
John
$1,600 [4]
"Drink You Away" was part of this singer's "20/20 Experience"; he might suggest his Sauza 901 Tequila for the task
Justin Timberlake
DD $5,000 [10]
Chronic alcohol drinking is a big cause of this disease, but it can also occur due to obesity or hepatitis C
cirrhosis
Andy
$2,000 [17]
Head from Mongo to Koro Toro, then cross the northern border of this landlocked African nation into Libya... or maybe not
Chad
Andy
$2,000 [22]
Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" takes its title from this man's poem "The Second Coming"
(William Butler) Yeats
Kelly
$2,000 [30]
This free-standing cupboard has an Italian name
credenza
Kelly
DD $8,000 [24]
Borrowed from German, this 5-letter word means an intense but nonspecific anxiety
angst
Andy
$2,000 [5]
Strip away his credit as "Magic Mike" & he was still born & bred to be part of Born & Bred Vodka
Channing Tatum
John

Final Jeopardy!

18th CENTURY AMERICANS

One eulogizer of this man noted, he "was able to restrain thunderbolts & tyrants"

Benjamin Franklin

Kelly "Who is George Washington?" — wagered $6,500
Andy "Who is Franklin? [Andy drew a kite with string below a lightning bolt]" — wagered $6,399
John "Who is George Washington?" — wagered $17,000

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